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=YOKOI ROUTE =
The
Gate-way
Route of
COMFORT
SERVICE
SAFETY
To Yukon. Territory, Atlln District, Imterlof Alajka.
During the winter season ot 1917-18 our regular train ser
vice win be maintained No rtk aad South B*unU betweon Skag
way and Whltehorsa, trains leaylag both terminals on Tuesdays
and Fridays. ^
WINTER STAGE SERVICE
Our through Mall, Passenger aad Freight Serrlce will be
operated between Whltehorse tad Dawson, affording ©redy pos
sible facility for comfortable w?at«r trarel by tneana of a
THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED STAGE AND AUTOMOBILE LINE.
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c. W. CASH
Supt. Mail Service Department
WH1TEH0RSE. Y. T.
A. F. ZIPF
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6)2 Second Ave., SEATTLE, M ash
White Pass & Yukon Koute
TIME TABLE No. 40.
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Xo l( X\ Bound _
1st Class
8:30 a. m. I.eaves
11:03 a. m
11:45 a. m
12:40 p. m. "
2:20 p. m. "
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2:20 p. m.
1:80 p. in. j
12:50 p. in. j
10:48 *. m.
8:00 ». m.
Passengers must be at depot Id time to hare Baggage in-'
spected and checked. Inspection is stopped 80 minutes before
leaving time of trains.
150 pounds of baggage will be checked free with each full
fare ticket and 73 pounds wJtis each half fare ticket.
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WILLIAM J. ROBINSON
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PREFACE.
Prior to my arrival in Eng
land the idea of participating <n
the great tear hail never entered
nig head. I icent abroad on busi
ness, ami I expected to return
to this country as soon as my
work teas completed. It seemed,
though, that fate decreed other
wise. I had been in England a
good many times before, and in
France and Belgium, too, for
that matter. My father was a
sea captain, and I was born
aboard his ship. In fact, I lived
the first six years of my life on
shipboard. This last trip across
the Atlantic made the twenty
third time for me, so I was quite
at home in the British isles. Al
most before I knew it I had tak
en the step that was responsible
for the most terrible yet won
derful experience that ever came
to inc.
In telling my story I hare tried
to take the important events and
set them down in chronological
order. I have endeavored also
to link them together so as to
make it possible for the reader
to folloic me through the princi
pal happenings during my time
of service. Many of the more
sordid details of this great war
/ have been obliged to leave out.
I have dwelt neither on the hor
rors of war nor yet on the glory,
but I have tried to picture the
daily routine of the fighting
man's life as it really is.
CHAPTER I.
Sent to tlic Front.
EXACTLY one week from a certain
Juv wlien I landed in England
from the I'nited States I was
, notified that my jolt was gone, as the
, cow puny that 1 represented was in
the hands of receivers.
I was disappointed, of course, but
tried to look at the thing philosophical
ly and to make the best of It. I bought
• my ticket for home, but as the boat
on which I intended sailing did not
leave for several days I proceeded to
enjoy the remainder of my stay in
England.
Things were certainly moving at that
time. Very soon I was as enthusiastic
as any of them, und In London I made
inquiries as to whether 1 could Join
the army.
I was told that I would have no dif
ficulty at all. but on second thought I
decidi 1 to let well enough alone. The
day before I was t<> sail from Liver
pool 1 hesitated again and talked it
over with an army otlicer. He was so
nice about explaining everything to me
that I decided that 1 might do lots of
worse things than to see a little of
the biggest scrap the world had ever
known.
'1 Hit I Ul^Ul 1 muu«ui uuvut ,.v
ter sotue more nnd came to the concln
1 sion that if they would take nie Into
a cavalry regiment I would have a
1 try at it. The next morning 1 enlisted
and was made a trooper in the Fifth
Dragoon guards. That same afternoon
I was ou my way to Aldershot, but
had I known what I was going to go
through 1 don't think 1 would have
i been so light hearted as I was. In the
! evening I was fitted out with my en
' tire kit and informed that from now on
I was a soldier.
i I was assigned to a bed In tlie bar
racks, and from that time my trou
1 bles commenced. I was In with a
, crowd of old soldiers, men who bad
served from two to twenty years in
the army, and. while they were very
decent chaps, they seemed to resent
, the fact that a "civie" had been pushed
. in on them. I was at once christened
"Tank," and I believe they found a
' few other things to call me too.
I The next morning at 5 o'clock the
k sergeant came around and dug me out.
' He took me down to the stables and
| put me in with a bunch of rookies who
' weren't any happier than I was. We
| were then instructed In the gentle art
of grooming a horse. I couldn't seem
| to do anything light, and they didn't
hesitate to tell me so either.
| Then we were marched down to a
. breakfast of bread, bacon and tea, but
J we had as much as we wanted. I felt
| a whole lot better after eating. Break
» fast over, we had room inspection, and
)as soon as that was over we who were
rookies were marched down to the rid
Slng school and handed over to the ty
rant who ruled there.
J 1 had at pec ted to tiud horses all sad
i died, and it certainly was quite a shock
» to learn that we got our saddles only
r* when we had earned them. In other
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FOURTEEN
MONTHS
™&$R0NfT
An American Boy'$
Baptism of Fir«
By WILLIAM J.ROBINSON
Copyrlfht, Uttlc, Brows ft Co.
Tha most graphic account of the
great war that ha* yet been written
cornea from tha pan of a twenty-two
year-old Boston toy, who has Just re
turned from Franca, where as dragoon
guardsman, dispatch rider and motor
car driver he served fourteen months
under the British flag. Out of thirty
one motorcycle dispatch riders he «M
one of four survivors.
words, we had to pass the bareback
test before we even felt a saddle.
There were no loug explanations as to
how a thing should be done. We were
told once and In as few words as pos
sible. Then we had to do It
After we had mastered the art of
vaulting on a horse's back we got the
"walk march," then the "trot march."
Then we had to drop the reins and ride
with folded arms, and so It went until
12 o'clock, when we got an hour's rest
It was the same thing In the after
noon.
All one could hear was the rid
ing master ringing his command*:
"Walk, march. Trot, march! Halt!"
And every once In awhile h«'d yell:
"Hollow your backs! Hollow yonr
backs! You're not driving a cab now.
That's a horse you're on. He's got a
I Wai Christened "Y«nk," lind They
Found Other Things to Call Me.
bead and tail and leys and everything.
Why, I wouldu't trust you blighter* to
drive my duck to water. There Isn't
one of you who could ride a table,"
etc. We were dismissed at 4:30 and
told that tills was our routine for eT
ery day until we had passed out and
earned our saddles.
I don't think I was ever so tired In
my life as 1 was that night, and I de
cided to turn In rlgbt aftei' ?upper.
That shows how much I knew about e
barrack room. After supper all those
who couldn't get permission to go oat
seemed to blauie it on ine, for I was
battered around until they were tired
of it, and when I finally got into my
bed I was in a pretty bad way.
I soon found out that it was futile
to try to got even. Such an attempt
only made mntter« worse, and the only
thing to do seemed to be to grin and
bear it. The next morning we went
dowi to.rwliiiL'^sclinol qgalu and had
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tbe same old drill nlF flay, except fhat
In the afternoon they turned us around
go that our backs were toward the
horses' heads and made Us tide that
way the rest of the day.
As I was crossing the parade ground
In the evening a fellow who was In
my room asked me how I felt. I told
him In two words.
"Well," he said. "If you want to be
let alone you do as I tell you. Tonight
when you go Into the room pick out
the biggest man you can tlnd and don't
9ay anything, but Just walk up and
paste bim with all your might. You
may get licked, and you may not, but
you won't have much trouble after
ward. whichever way It comes out."
Well, I didn't know whether I'd have
the nerve to do it or not, but the more
I thought about It the more I thought
be might be right 1 hadn't passed
through the door to the barracks be
fore the kidding started again, and I
knew what would follow.
80 I screwed up all the courage I
had, and, seeing a big chap who was
making a lot of talk, 1 swung as bard
as I could and let him have it. I
won't say anything about what hap
pened to me, but the nest afternoon I
found I'd been unlucky, as usual. The
mau i had picked was a heavyweight
champion of the British army in South
Africa during the Boer war! Things
were much better after that, though,
and I made some mighty good friends
amour' those fello'v.s
(Continued Tomorrow) [
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OINTMBNT falls tQ eure Itching,
m»ni|a Bleeding or Protruding Piles.
First application glrea relief. 50c.
P. II. Palmer, barber iu White
horse, and well knoyrSr automobile
chauffeur, accompanied by Lis wife,
left on the Jefferson, Saturday for
a tr'p to the State#.
M. L Hunt, who has been in
charge of the men's furnishing de
partment of Taylor, Drury & Pedlar,
of Whitehorse, was a passenger
leaving ou the Jefferson bound for
Vancouver. . j :
T. II, Kerruish, formerly foreman
of several mines near Whitehorse
and an experienced engineer, was
a visitor In Skagway last week and
departed on the Jefferson for a va
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