A trip to Alaska and the Klondike in the summer of 1905 . azed long from my windowas in a trance, into the soft stillness of midnight,before I lay down not so much for sleep as for restand to hurry the approaching morrow. I know that poor beds are sometimes conduciveto early rising, but that was not the case at theFifth Avenue, where everything was first-class atone dollar fifty per day, with fifty cents extra forvery satisfactory meals. The next morning while waiting for the freebus to convey us to the station where we were totake the train to White Horse, the clerk of the hotelentertained us
A trip to Alaska and the Klondike in the summer of 1905 . azed long from my windowas in a trance, into the soft stillness of midnight,before I lay down not so much for sleep as for restand to hurry the approaching morrow. I know that poor beds are sometimes conduciveto early rising, but that was not the case at theFifth Avenue, where everything was first-class atone dollar fifty per day, with fifty cents extra forvery satisfactory meals. The next morning while waiting for the freebus to convey us to the station where we were totake the train to White Horse, the clerk of the hotelentertained us by telling an incident which happenedin the gold rush time in Skagway. A speculator has imported five hundred chickensand penned them in a tent ready to be sold at fivedollars apiece, the retail price of a chicken in the night they were visited by dogs of the Alas-kan breed, crafty, sly and hungry. In the morningnot a feather of the five hundred was to be dogs were in a good meal, and the speculatorout about twenty-five hundred w >-<P o wa o wo Si J < 17} CHAPTER VI. The trip from Skagway was made on the famousWhite Pass and Yukon narrow-gauge railroad, adistance of one hundred and eleven miles to WhiteHorse. It is the best-paying road in America,having paid for itself before it was finished. AtWhite Horse, boat travel is resumed, so that thiswas the only railroad travel I experienced afterleaving Seattle, till my return. There were only five passengers, and we soonbecame one select party; Mrs. H. and her littledaughter, Dolly, going to join her missionary hus-band at Circle; Miss. L., who is identified with thehospital work of the Episcopalian Mission at Fair-banks; Major F., inspector of the Governmentposts; Professor Georgeson, representing the Gov-ernment agricultural department of Alaska, whomI had met in Sitka, and myself. It required two engines to take us to Summit,the highest point of the pass, but from there on wasdown grade. Just b
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