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The if Comfort
Gate-way I igpl J Service
Route of . Safety
To Yukon Territory, Atlin District
Interior Alaska
During the winter season of 1916-17 our regular train service will
be maintained North and South Bound between Skaguay
and Whitehorse, trains leaving both terminals Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays.
WINTER STAGE SERVICE
Our Through Mail, Passenger and Freight Service will be oper
ated between Whitehorse and Dawson, affording every possible
facility for comfortable winter travel by m^ans of a
Tho'oughly Equipped Stage and Automobile Line
F or full information apply to
A. F. ZIPF
—OR— Traffic Manager
612 Second Ave.. SEATTLE, ^ash.
C. W. CASH
Supt. Mail Service D.:pt.
WHITEHORSE. Y. T.
Whits Pass & Yukon Routs
TIME TABLE No. 38.
Mordiij, Wednesday and Friday
Now 2, 8. Bound
1st Class
SKAGWAY Arrives 3:50 p. m.
WHITE PASS Leaves 2:20 p. ni.
LOO CABIN " 1:30 p. m.
BENNETT " 13:50 p. in.
CARIBOU " 10:48 ft. m.
WHITSHORSE " 8:00 a. m.
Passengers mast b« at depot it time to have Baggage In
spected and chewed. Inspection Is stopped 30 minutes before
leaving time of trains. « ■
150 pounds of baggage will be checked free with each full
tare ticket and 75 pounds with eiich half fare ticket.
No. 1, N. Bound
1st Class
8:30 a. m. Leaves
11:05 a. ni.
11:45 a. ni. "
12:40 p. m. **
2:20 p. in.
4:50 p. ni.
Arrives
Relieves
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GOING ON WHEELS
From the Ancient Chariot to the
Modern Motorcar.
EVOLUTION OF THE VEHICLE;
The Crude Cart* Umd In the Early
Age» by the Romaria Were Followed
by Carrlagea—Then Came Covered
Coachee With Door* and Wlndowa.
From the forked limb of t tree to
the automobile has the Solution of
the vehicle expanded. For hundreds
of years the chariot relgiffd supreme,
and, bearing a fair resemblance to It
even In this day, crude forms of carts
on two wheels are to be seen in India,
China, Ceylon. Mexico and other coun
tries. In China centuries ago the mon
ocycle was In great, favor. This odd
vehicle, much like .the .modern wheel
barrow, Is still In geriend use In many
parts of the country and Is propelled
by man power.
Among the two wheeled vehicles In
popular use In the Asiatic world may
be mentioned the "ekka," largely used
in northern India, and the famed Jln
rlklsha of Japan. The Romans first
established the use of carriages as
private means of conveyance, and with
them these vehicles attained a great
variety of form as well as of orna
mentation.
In all ages the employment of wheel
ed vehicles has depended largely, upon
the condition of the roads on which
they were to be used, and the building
of great highways, such as the Appian
way by Claudius In 313 B. C., as well
as many others, greatly facilitated the
development of carriage traveling
amoug the Romans. In Borne as well
as In other large cities of the empire
it became necessary to restrict travel
in carriages to a few persons of high
rank owing to the narrowness and
crowded condition of the streets. For
the same reason the transport of goods
along the streets was forbidden be
tween sunrise and sunset For long
Journeys and to convey parties the
"reda" and "carruca" appear to have
been mostly used.
During the empire the carriage which
appears in pictorial representations of
public ceremonials Is the "carpentum."
It is very light, with two wheels, some
times covered and generally drawn by
two horses. If a carriage was drawn
by four horses they were yoked abreast
amoug the Greeks and Bomans, not in
pairs, as now. From th© Roman "car
ruca" are traced the modern English
name "carriage,"' the French "car
rosse" and the Italian "carrozza."
The "slrpea" was a very ancient form
of vehicle, the body of which was of
osier busketwork. It originated with
the Gauls, by whom it was named
"benna," and was employed by them
for the conveyance of persons and
goods In times of peace and baggage
and supplies In time of war.
On the Introduction of the feudal sys
tem throughout Europe the use of car
riages was for some time prohibited as
tending to render the vassals less fit
for military service. Men of all grades
aud professions rode on horses or joules.
Horseback was the general mode of
traveling, and hence the members of
the council, who at the diet and on
other occasions were employed as am
bassadors, were called "rlttmelster."
In this manner also great lords made
their public entry Into cities.
Covered carriages were known In the
beginning of the fifteenth century, but
their use was confined to ladles of the
first rank, and it was accounted a re
proach for men to ride In them. For
a long time they were forbidden even
to women, but by the end of the fif
teenth century they were being em
ployed by kings and princes in long
journeys and later on state occasions.
The first time that ambassadors ap
peared In coaches on a public official
occasion was at the Imperial commis
sion held at Erfurt in 1613. Soon after
this coaches became common all over
Germany, notwithstanding various or
ders and admonitions to deter vassals
1 from using them.
Carriages seem to have been used to
some extent at quite an early period in
France, for there Is still extant an
ordinance of Philip the Fair, issued in
1294, by which citizens' wives are pro
hibited from using them. It appears,
however, that about 1550 there were
only three carriages In Paris—one be
longing to the queen, another to Diana
of Poitiers and the third to Rene de
Laval, a very fat nobleman who was
unable to ride on horseback.
The first coach in England was
made in 1555 for the Earl of Rutland
by Walter Rippon, who also made a
coach in 155C for Queen Mary and In
15C4 a state coach for Queen Elizabeth.
By the beginning of the seventeenth
century the use of carriages and
coaches had become so prevalent in
England that in 1601 the attention of
parliament was drawn to the subject,
and a bill "to restrain the excessive
use of coaches" was introduced, which,
however, was rejected.
In regard to carriage construction, It
would seem that glass windows or
hinged and completed doors were un
known prior to 1650. Public carriages
for hire, or hackney coaches, were In
troduced into London in 1C25 and rap
idly grew in popularity. Notwithstand
ing the opposition of the king and
court, who thought they would ruin
the roads, they grew to number over
300 by 1650. In Paris they were in
troduced during the minority of Louis
XIV. by Nicholas Sauvage, who lived
in the Rue St Martin at the sign of
St. Fiacre, from which circumstance
hackney carriages in Paris have since
been called "flacres." By 1694 there
were over 700 of these conveyances in
London.—Argonaut
TEN YEARS
AFTER
By SADIE OLCOTT
Algernon Witney was a romantic
youth. His mother was the very oppo
site. She was a hard beaded, matter
of fact woman. When Algy was grow
ing up there lived near by the Wlt
neys a family of Bentons. They were
wealthy, while the Witneys were in
moderate circumstances. Alma Benton,
an only child, was about Algy's age,
and the two children were playmates.
Alma was a delicate child and was
very much petted. When Algy reached
an age to think of marriage his mother
noticed that he and Alma were begin
ning to look upon each other in a dif
ferent light from what they did as
children. One day she said to her son:
"I wish you to understand that on no
account will I consent to your marry
ing Alma Benton."
"Why not, mother?"
"That I don't care to tell you. If you
see her ten or fifteen years from now
you will know without my having told
you."
Algy was somewhat surprised at his
mother's objection. The Bentons being
wealthy and Alma being the sole heir
to their property, he had supposed that
his mother, who seemed to have a keen
eye to pecuniary advantages, would
have urged rather than opposed the
match. Alma was just the kind of
girl to please a youug man of nine
teen. All her motions, her words, her
acts, were subdued. Even her laugh
was delicate. Despite his mother'a
warning, Algy lost his heart to her.
There was another girl in the neigh
borhood that Algy met occasionally,
but did not fancy at all, whom he
reckoned his mother would be pleased
to see him marry. Martha Bonfleld
was next door to homely, but she was
barely sixteen, and some girls when
passing from childhood Into woman
hood are like a grub changing into a
butterfly.
Martha inherited from her mother a
good deal of hard sense. But this was
lost on Algy. The pink and white com
plexion, the coral lips of Alma were
quite enough with him to outweigh all
the common sense of a dozen girls.
But when Martha's red hair and
freckles were considered the compari
son was especially odious.
There was trouble for the young lov
ers on both sides of the house. The
Benton family were as much opposed
to the match as the Witneys. They de
signed their daughter for a rich hus
band. A taste for riches is a growing
taste—the more we have the more we
want.
The upshot of it all was that Alma
was dominated by her mother. Her
lover had the manliness to choose for
himself. But since the girl he wanted
would not marry him without her par
ents' consent he was obliged to content
himself without her.
Several years passed. Alma Benton,
under her mother's leadership, made a
matrimonial campaign ubroad, but
came back to America unmarried. Al
gernon Witney after her departure
found nothing to remember about her
any more than a figure painted on
china, and, though he struggled hard
to make himself believe that he was
heartbroken, he was finally convinced
that, though he could never love again,
he was not suffering.
Meanwhile Martha Bonfield's hair had
turned from its original dull red to au
burn, and her freckles had disappear
ed. When Witney felt bored he used to
go to see her for an evening's chat
Some of his romance had evaporated,
and he was entering upon an age when
a career Interested him. When he fell
Into romance Martha shut up like a
clam; when he talked in a practical
rein she occasionally said something
that struck him forcibly. One day he
said to his mother:
"Mother, I have always believed tnat
you would like to see ine make a match
with Martha Bonfleld. I hare decided
that if Martha Is willing I am ready
to accede to your wishes."
"Nonsense! You're not going to ac
cede to my wishes at all. You have
discovered that there's something In
Martha that you want."
This turned out to be true. Algernon
Witney, without fortune, married
Martha Bonfleld, without a cent Wit
ney became Interested in money mak
ing, and in his wife he found a good
manager, who was interested In money
saving. The two got on together well
enough till they saved enough money
to work with, then began to accumu
late a fortune.
Ten years passed. A good deal may
happen in ten years. The Witneys
were now well to do and paid some at
tention to socinl life. One evening
when at a function Witney was intro
duced to a Mrs. Hetherington, a
scrawny woman of about thirty, whose
scantily covered collar bones did not
deter her from wearing a decollete
costume. Witney was about to move
on to avoid getting tied up with this
unprepossessing bunch of skin and
bones when she said:
"Algyl"
He looked at her, vainly trying to
place her.
"Can it be that you have forgotten
me, Algy?"
Heavens! Could this be Alma Ben
ton, the woman he had loved? The
cheeks were hollow; the teeth, once
white, though fragile, were interspers
ed with gold ones or braced with gold
bands. But this was nothing to what
she said when she began to talk of
former times. It was all—well, he
called It horrible.
She had married a man for his
money!
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