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The
Gate-way
Route of
Comfort
Service
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 pos^ble
facility for comfortable winter travel by means of a
Thoroughly Equipped Stage and Automobile Line
For full information apply to
C. W. CASH
Supt. Mail Service Dept.
WHITEHORSE. Y. T.
-OR
A. F. ZIPF
Traffic" Manager
612 Second Ave., SEATTLE. Wash.
Whits Pass & Yukon Route!
TIME TABLE Na 38.
Morday, Wednesday and Friday
So. 1, Ji. Bound
1st CUu
H:30 a. in. Leaves
11:03 a. m. "
11:43 a. m. "
12:40 p. m. "
2:20 p. iil. "
4:50 p. m. Arrives
I ;ri
SKAGWAY
WHITS PASS
LOO CABIN
RENNHTT
CARIBOU
WHTESHORSE
Nob 2, S. Bouna ■
1st Cl*>«s
Arrives 8:50 p. m. j
I,wire* 3:20 p. m.
" | 1:30 p. m.
■ I I
" 12:50 p. m. |
" 10:48 a. m.
" 8:00 a. m.
Pa*«fngrr» most be at depot la time to have Baggage In
»pect#d end checked. Inspection Is atopped 80 ■Inutfw before
leaving time of traine. 4^ "' ' —
150 poanda of baggage will he checked free with each full
fare ticket and 75 pounds with each half fate ticket.
Relieves CATARRH of
the
BLADDER
and all
Discharges in
HOURS
Each capitilc bear* (be
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THE
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Electric Lights
Rooms Single or en Suite
Baths on each floor
Famous for its Home Cooking,
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Buttermilk from our own daW
Fresh Eggs, etc
Rates $3.00 Per Day and Up
Well Lighted. Large Sample
Rooms for Traveling Men.
H. S. PULLEN. Ptop,
Skagway. Alaska
FIRE INSURANCE
ON DWELLINGS
AT LOWEST RATES FOR
THREE
YEAR
POLICY
HN GOOD STRONG COMPANIES
REGISTERED IN
ALASKA
AND REPRESENTED BY
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LICENSED AGENT AT SKAGWAY
STAGECOACH DAYS
Travel Often Spelled Misery Be
fore We Had Railways.
TALE OF A WINTER JOURNEY.
Discomfort* and Hardship* That Had
to Be Ertdured by the Pauenger* In
•n Old Style Trip Aorosa the Alle
gheny Mountains In 1846.
How traveling Is metamorphosed
these days, to be sure! Yet some men
"fond of handling the ribbons" and
some women who "want to see the
scenery at their leisure" still regret
"the spanking bays and rocking stage
coach of the past"
Cere is the way the Allegheny moun
tains were crossed in 1840:
"It was midwinter when we arrived
at Wheeling, and as the stagecoach
was to start at 5 o'clock in the morn
ing no one thought of going to bed, so
we took our way through the frozen
streets to secure through tickets to
Philadelphia. It was pitch dark and
bitter cold — the damp, penetrating
weather that reaches the very marrow
of our bones.
"The little den, called by courtesy
the office, was filled with passengers
as damp, cold and ill natured as our
selves. There was a handful of coal
burning in a small grate, and around it
were grouped the round shouldered,
unsympathetic people who were to be
our fellow passengers. They glanced
at us and closed up all the open space
near the fire, as if to say: 'You don't
get in here, we can tell you. You have
no right to travel in our coach, any
way!'
"At one side stood a table, and on it
was a coffee pot and cups, some sau
sages frozen stiff and an unattractive
loaf of bread, over which presided a
tall darky, who leaned against the wall
fast asleep. We were told that we
could get a good breakfast twenty
miles away from Wheeling.
"At the appointed time the heavy
old coach came up, and we all clam
bered in and stowed ourselves away
pell mell. A short way from town
there was a long hill, up which tho
horses toiled, so this gave us all time
to settle down for a quiet nap. One
snore after another announced their
success: in a few minutes six out of
the nine passengers were oblivious of
their misery.
"Not being sleepy, I studied the snor
ers. A large fat man opposite me had
a short, angry snore. He snored so
loudly that he woke himself up and
glared about him Impudently, as
though he hoped they wouldn't make
that noise again!
"The old lady who was crusnmg me
up in the corner snored deeply and con
tentedly.
"Some one off In a dark corner had a
genial way of joining in as though he
snored merely to oblige the passen
gers; but the grand musician of the
company sat opposite me. I never
heard anything approaching him either
for quality or compass. It was a back
action snore that began in a bold agi
tato movement, suddenly brought up
with a Jerk and ended with a whistle.
"The whole band was in full play
when we stopped with a tremendous
Jerk, and everybody woke up with oaths
or 'Pshaws!' over a bad Jolt The sum
mit gained, there was a sharp crack of
the whip, the horses started, and ev
erybody was jerked violently back
ward. Soon the chorus began again,
however, and I joined in till the coach
came to a full stop at tho table where
the horses were to be changed.
"Stiff and sleepy and cramped from
sitting so long in one position, the sun
now rose and came in at all sorts of
places, waking and blinding every
body. What a discontented lot we
werel And we all hated each other!
"At last, breakfast—ah, hot coffee,
ham and eggs and buckwheat cakes!
The meal was not half over before we
were a band of brothers. We could not
do enough for each other. All was har
mony and peace."
Nor was that all, for they drove into
a severe mountain storm and intense
cold, darkness; tho horses fell on the
icy roads; the stage rocked wildly In
the wind and nearly blew over. Twen
ty-four hours of this, a driver frozen
stiff and assisted down from the box.
We do It now in six hours in a com
fortable bed, in a warm, well lighted
car. Some "modern imps" are mighty
good angels.
Our chief loss has been Xe great
cheerful, roaring open fires that people
had in those days. The domestic vir
tues began to decay when people were
reduced to sitting around a hole In the
wall or a gloomy metal register, with
out armchairs, stories, songs, grand
parents and little children roasting ap
I pies or popping corn—friends and stran
gers dropping in and getting a warm
welcome, a place in the circle and
what Spaniards call "the love of the
I fire."—Baltimore News.
Quite a Chang*.
Twenty-flve years ago a young hus
band's wife went away for a two days'
visit. When she returned he met her at
the depot and embraced her and kissed
her. The other day she returned from
a two weeks' visit. lie met her and
said, while he took a chew of tobacco,
"Well, did you have a good time?"—
Kansas City Star.
Never let your mirth, jubilation
pleasures dull your sympathy for the
sorrow, suffering, sickness or indigence
of other people.
CUR GOLD PIECES
They Once Figured In an Odd
Way In the Jewelry Trade.
WENT INTO THE MELTING POT.
Their Common Use For Manufacturing
Purposes Alarmed Unolo Sam, and
He Quiokly Cured the Evil by "Pep
pering" the Coins With Iridium.
An old time manufacturing jeweler
tells how the United States govern
ment stopped some forty odd years ago
the melting up of twenty dollar gold
pieces by persons who wished to use
the metal in the manufacture of gold
jewelry.
In those days It was the custom of
many of the jewelry makers to use
these coins Instead of buying fine gold,
as a matter of convenience. Bo they
went to a bank and got twenty dollar
gold pieces enough, or ten dollar ones, for
that matter, to supply sufficient metal
for the work In hand. The gold pieces
being 22 carats fine, 24 carats being
absolutely pure gold, It was not diffi
cult for the jewelers to melt them up
and add the necessary alloys to pro
duce the degree of fineness desired for
the jewelry they were going to make.
"However," says the jeweler, "It
was not long after this practice be
came more or less general that the
government authorities began to won
der what was becoming of the twenty
dollar goid coins. They began missing
the ten dollar ones, too, but the dis
appearance of the former was by far
the more rapid. The officials did not
think that the people of the country
were hoarding the gold, because most
of the smaller coins remained in cir
culation. So a quiet investigation was
begun, and it was not long before It
was discovered that the makers of.
gold Jewelry were melting them up
for trade purposes.
"Having found the cause, it was not
difficult for the officials to effect a cure.
They did it by 'peppering' the twenty
dollar coins with iridium, which is
not altogether unlike black emery In
the crude state, requiring a heat of
3,542 degrees P. to melt it Gold, on
the other hand, can be melted at 1,913
degrees F. From this it is easy to see
that the unsuspecting manufacturer,
molting up gold pieces at the temper
ature required, got a number of un
melted specks of Iridium In his metal
when he let it cool. This made trouble
when the metal was worked up.
"At the time this was Deing aone
there was a great vogue for fine Etrus
can work In solid gold, which required
a perfectly smooth surface in order to
be produced properly. Imagine the dis
may of the jewelers, therefore, when
they found the much needed smooth
surface dotted here and there with lit
tle pepper-like specks of iridium. To
leave them in meant that the decora
tive work could not be done properly,
and to take them out meant leaving
the piece pockmarked with tiny holes.
It was not long before the gold pieces,
whether ttoey contained iridium or not,
were eyed with suspicion by the man
ufacturers, who then secured their
metal from other sources.
"Another way in which iridium caus
ed some trouble for the gold jewelry
trade had Its birth in the assay office.
While it was not often the case, it was
not a rare thing up until about ten
years ago to And a sprinkling of iri
dium in the fine gold purchased from
the government nssayor. While this
might possibly have been avoided by a
little more care on the part of the per
sons who had charge of preparing the
scrap metal for refining, it was gener
ally regarded in the trade as acciden
tal. It happened because the clips and
filings that were turned in for refining
by the makers of gold pens contained
tiny bits of iridium, which because of
its hardness is used for tipping the
pens. This does not happen any more.
"Twenty dollar gold pieces figured in
another interesting way in the old days
in the jewelry trade, but in a way that
affected the trade much more indirect
ly than directly. Knowing that a good
price could be had for scrap gold from
the refiners, the gold probably finding
an ultimate purchaser in the jewelry
trade, unscrupulous persons had sev
eral ways of obtaining this scrap and
still leaving enough of the coins to pass
them on unsuspecting tradesmen and
banks that were not careful enough to
weigh them when they were tendered.
"One way of doing this was to 'strip'
a coin by putting it into an electro
chemical bath, getting thereby a slight
residue of gold on a copper plate, which
was afterward melted and the metals
separated. This method was not very
popular, as it had a tendency to dis
color the coin.
"One of the most successful schemes
was the use of a specially prepared
male and female die. The diameter of
the die was about one one-thousandth
of an inch smaller than the diameter
of the coin, and it was so made that
after the resultant rim of metal was
cut off the milled edges remained. Tho
gold thus obtained from a single twen
ty dollar coin was probably worth
about 50 cents, and the coin itself, to
all appearances, had not been tam
pered with. When the practice was
discovered the banks Installed scales
on which they weighed gold coins
before accepting them."—New York
Times.
An Unlucky Number Seven.
Wife (during the spat)-I wasn't anx
ious to marry you. I refused you six
times. Hub—Yes, and then my luck
gave out.—Boston Transcript.
When a man falls back on oaths he
declares himself out of arguments.
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