SAWED OFF
ITS HEAD
BOLD BOSTON SEA CAPTAIN MUTILATES
F16URE HEAD OF THE OLO FRIG
ATE CONSTITUTION
The figurehead which was pfaced on
the frigate Constitution is uow at the
Naval academy in Annapolis. It is 11
figure uf Andrew Jackson, and con
nected with it is a curious incident.
The original figurehead of the Con
*tltution was a figure of Hercules.
This was destroyed by a cannon ball
at Tripoli, and then a figure of Nep
tune was envied. This also came to
grief, and at the time the vessel was
rebuilt there was no figurehead ex
cept n billet
At the time the u?-w ship was finish
ed Captain Jes.xe Duncan Elliott of
Hagerstown. .Md.. who had distinguish
ed himself in the battle of Lake Erie,
was iu command at the Boston navy
yard. Captain Elliott was an enthu
alastlc Democrat and an ardent ad
mirer of President Andrew Jackson.
The president had lately been In Bos
ton and had boon most hospitably re
ceived. and Captain Elliott conceived
the Idea of placing a figure of the
preaideut at the provr of the Constitu
tion, believing that It would give the
people of Boston much pleasure. The
nary department gave him permission,
and so a wooden figure of "Old Hick
ory" was put In position on the ship.
This act raised a storm of dissent
In the Hub, and Captain Elliott was
threatened with a coat of tar and
feathers. The excitement was intense,
and the language was virulent. Hand
bills denouncing the act. denouncing
the president and Elliott were circulat
ed In the streets, and the newspapers
took up the cry. and In this day and
generation the partisan violence and
vituperation which raged In New Eng
land are Inconceivable.
On a dark night in July the deck of
(ihlD w*9 iuvarietL ?"<! -
scarry was ciose at oaud, The head of
Jaekson wns snwed off and taken
away. New Kuglnnd was delirious,
and for u tliue the perpetrutor of the
act was unknown to the public.
Six months later one Samuel W.
Dewey, a Boston sea captain, took the
dissevered b<-ad tn a bag to the secre
tary of the navy at Washington and
avowed himself as the criminal. That
official was amazed at the man's au
dacity and asked him If he did not
know that he would be severely pun
ished. Dewey calmly replied that he
had considered the matter and had as
certained that the legal penalty was
slight and could not be applied until
he was convicted by a Jury in Essex
county, Mass.
"And If you think a Jury In that
couuty," he added, "will punish a man
for cutting off the head of Andrew
Jackson you are welcome to try it."
The secretary went to the White
House for Instruction, while Dewey
was detained. General Jackson laugh
ed heartily at the whote Incident and
forbade the man's arrest Before this
Captain Elliott had provided a new
head for the figure, and the wooden
statue of Jackson that Is now at An
napolis was at the prow of the vessel
for forty years.
Captain Elliott's last voyage ou the
Constitution was from the Mediterra
nean to Ilumpton Roads In 1838. Here
he was removed from command be
cause of charges of severity to the
men aud of having Incumbered the
berth deck of the ship ou the home
ward voyage with Jackasses for the
Improvement of the breed In the Unit
ed States. The Constitution finally
went out of commission for active
service at Portsmouth. N. H.. after a
career of nearly fifty-eight years In the
service. In 1SG0 she was transferred
to Annapolis for the use of the mid
shipmen.
When the civil war began her posi
tion there was deemed unsafe, and she
was sent to the New York navy yard,
in 1S03 she was returned to Annapo
lis. where she remained until 1S71,
when she was taken to Philadelphia,
where she was again rebuilt. In 1S7S
she was used to transport exhibits to
France for the Purls exposition of
1S7S, and her career at sea finally
ended in 1SS1. The centenulal of her
launching was celebrated at Boston In
1S97. where she was built.- Baltimore
Sun.
The Pack Train Restaurant will serve
wine with dinner orders, free in plac*
of tea or coffee. Come oa ooys.
'LUNCH HOUR
IN WALLSTREET
VTlicu <*ie descends upon Wall street,
I'lther from the Broadway slope of
Trlult.v church or Troni the Nassau
street hill, at noontime any week day
the air Is fraught with many coufllct
iujj odors of the kitchen. From over
zhe roars of the clamoring curb folk
way dowu In the valley of Broad street
there arises from a score of- cookeries
and "handouts" a decided smell of the
stewpot blended with the ever glori
ous onlou. From the eaves of the New
York Stock Exchange come the more
pretentious fragrance of spiced meats
and strong coffee. From the basement
and attic alike, from cloud tickler and
antiquated frame house as well, come
all sorts of fuming evidences that the
meu of affairs are eating. To realize
what this luncheon hour means to
, Wall street one must stop to think of
the thousands of pereous who are In
that small district of the city at this
particular part of the day. Hundreds
of restaurants meet the rush with
their doors flung wide, aud their keep
ers have grown rich upon nickels and
dimes that fall Into their tills like a
mighty rataplan during those brief
hours of midday. Men have grown
rich and retired to palatial mansions
In the suburbs selliug cup custards and
! "sinkers" to millionaires, stenogra
1 phers, clerks and bankers alike during
j the busy hour or two at noon. Thou
! sands of pounds of meat, countless
j Systers and clams, barrels of gravy,
I unaccountable gallons of coffee and
' tea and tons of bread are consumed
I every day In a very brief period of
time, and here, of all other places, the
foreigner has found Justification for his
criticism of Americans for fast eating.
?Pittsburg Dispatch,
i
Babies In the East.
In Cypress, at the important date of
the first tooth appearing, friends gath
er. singing songs, while the child is
bathed in water and boiled wheat
Afterward thirty-two of the boiled
grains are strung on a thread and
stitched to the baby's cap. which, of
course, promptly produces the safe cut
ting of the other teeth.
A pretty custom prevails on the Lsle
DAMES AND DAUGHTERS.
The Duchess i?f Bedford has shot
115 partridges In a single day.
The c<>-;tutno and diitiuondH worn by
Mrs. Muses Fin ley at the bull of the
Veiled Prophet ut St. Louis were val
ued at $68,000.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt will have a
private tutor this winter, u Miss
Young. brought to Washington from
Oyster Bay with the family.
To help orphan children Mrs. Orren
T. Holt, a society lady of Houston,
Tex., picked cotton for three days and
made $100, having been offered $10 a
pound by a firm of cotton brokers.
Miss Ella Yates, at Carrol, 111., found
u box of bright dynamite caps and
prepared to make a necklace of them.
When she tried to pierce one with a
knit tint; needle It exploded, and her
hand was torn off.
Miss Rose Fitzgerald, daughter of
the mayor of Boston, has the finest
private collection of autographs In
Massachusetts. Included In the collec
tion are the signatures of eminent peo
ple from all parts of the world, among
them a number of foreign rulers.
The youngest mountaineer who ever
set foot on the Jungfrau summit In
Ida Llechti. She Is only ten years
old and Is the daughter of the Jung
frau railway manager. She was born
and raised among the Alps and learned
to climb like a goat when hardly more
than an Infant
Mrs. Richard B. Chew, who origi
nated the Teddy bear to sell at one of
the D. A. R. fairs several years ago,
is an original and accomplished wo
man. She Is a graduate in law and
also a great worker In the charity cir
cles of Washington, her home. Her
mother is the nearest living relative
to the late Barou Springer.
Horse on Them.
The wooden horse was standing be
fore the beleaguered city.
, "That seems a heavy beast," remark
ed Paris to Hector, surveyiug it criti
cally. "Of what weight would you
say It was?"
"Troy weight, of course," answered
Hector. Whereat envy turned Paris
greeu.? Harper's Weekly.
of Rhodes, for there, on the eighth day
from birth, the Infant, after a flnal
bath of wine and myrtle. Is tenderly
laid In a cradle surrounded by lighted
tapers while a child approaches, touch
es Its lips with honey and says. "Be
thou as sweet as this honey."? Los
Angeles Times.
SOME RARE
COPPER COINS
That some of the rarest and most
valuable of the United States cents,
particularly those dated 1799 and 1804.
owe their scarcity to the fnct that Ful
ton built the steamboat Clermont Is
the theory held by some coin collectors.
They believe that thousands of the old
time large copper cents went toward
making the copper boiler for the pio
neer steamboat
This theory would explain the mys
tery that has long puzzled coin collect
ors as to the reason for the almost to
tal disappearance of the cents of the
dates mentioned.
The first cents struck at the United
States mints at Philadelphia were of
large size. The copper blauks, or
plai/chets. were Imported from Eng
land. being sent over In kegs.
Copper at this period was a scarce
article in this country. With the ex
ceptlon of the small quantity pra
duced at the only copper mines then
known In the United States, those at
Granby, Conn., nearly all the metal
used here came from England.
Builders of steam engines lu those
days were of the opinion that boilers
constructed of lrou were unsafe and
Impracticable, and as. a eousequenee
boilers were made of coppcr, all the
boilers that came from England being,
It Is said, constructed of that metal.
Fulton was likewise of the belief that
copper was the only fit metal to bo
used In boilers.
It Is therefore possible that, finding
a scarcity of metal with which to con
struct the boiler of the Clermont, he
finally resorted to the most convenient
source of supply, which happened to
be the large United States copper
cents. Of course the cost of such a
boiler would represent a large sum,
but It Is on the records that the steam
frigate Fulton, launched In 1815, the
year of the Inveutor's death, had a
boiler entirely constructed of copper,
which alone cost the largo sum of $23,
000.
That the supply of cents of this pe
riod was large enough to meet such a
demand is also likely enough. From
1793 to and Including 1795 1,000,033
cents were coined and In 1796 974,000
were struck.
(300 IN POIZES
Ti) BE GIVEN AWAY CHRISTMAS
gem, very fine blue, cut from rough
stone called Fine Blue Jagersfoniein
extraordinarily brilliant, weighing i
karat, and in its beauty resembles a
drop of sparkling water. ?
3 Ladies' 14k Gold Watches, 25-year
Boss 15 Jewels, Waltham cr Elgin
Movement.
3 Gentlemen's 14k Gold Watches, 25
year Boss 15 Jewels, Waltham or
Elgin Movement.
0 Gentlemen's Sterling Silver Toilet
Sets.
1 Lady's Nuggett Bracelet.
1 Lady's Nugget Brooch.
1 Pendant Baroque Pearl Pansy Rea
With each $1.00 purchase between
now and Christmas, will be given a
ticket on the above goods.
Make Christmas selections now, we
will put them aside in our vaults for
you. All our lines are full and com
plete and it is to your advantage to
select from complete assortments. Let
us help you this year the same as we
have always helped you before. Good
judgment and careful consideration
wa9 never expended to better advan
tage than in the selection of this year's
stock.
P. E. KERN.
Gold and Silversmith.
,
AT THE SEATTLE
The Jefferson arrived today with a
, fresh shipment of draught Rainier and
Mult Rainier, a Special Tonic for the
i Siok Conavalescent and nursing
[ Mothers. Guaranteed under the Pure
i Food and Drugs act. Yours truly, as
I ever. Poor little
i 246- Herman.
SKAGWAY CHICKENS FOR SALE
I Chickens for sale. Home grown
; fryers and roaster dressed to order.
250 Mrs. P. W. Snyder.
Headquaters for Milling and Commercial Men
Slillfe STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS
Pack train Saloon
9 SHEA A PATTEN, PROPS.
Broadway arul 6tk Avenue, Skagjvay , Alaska
MOORES WHARF CO.
Terminus W. P. & Y. Route
All South Bound Steamers Arrive end Depart From This Dock
REGULATIONS 1905
Warehouse* open for delivery of merchandise from 8 a. m. to 3 P. m.
Perishable# ONLY delivered on Sunday or at night.
?11 frtlght shipments destined southbound must be accompanied by a
Shipper's Manifest (papers can be obtained at the U. 8. customs
office) and must be delivered before 5 p.m. No freight will be re
ceived on wharf aftrr this hour.
BAGGAGE ? Tolls will be collected on Checked Baggage Onlt. No
charge for bags and grips when unchecked.
The wharf gate will be closed to tho ublic when steamer is n earing
dock and will be opeoed only wher aasengers have disembarked,
Wharfage Tariff can be had on application at office on dock.
P. 0. Box 175. C. E. WYNN-J0HN80N, Genl Mgr
&BATED AND LIGHTED FINE SAMPLE ROOM
BY ITS OWN PLANT POR DRUMMERS
mbite Pass fiotel
P. D McMillan, Manager
Cargest and best appointed Hotel in tbe Yukon
CHO.CE BAR STOCK WMItbOKt, V. C.
RATES MODERATE
It is very simple to I
, have a Bank Account
LJ I/I even if you do live in
Dd.nKlrlg Alaska.
We have hundreds of customers living in Alaska
who send all of their deposits to us by mail. If
you would like to keep your money in the
Oldest Bank in Washington, write us about it.
Dexter Horton & Co,, Bankers,
S E A T T L E
Capital and Surplus, $1,000>000.00
oimp
Pullet! Rouse
Foot of Sixth Avenue
Most elegantly furnished bouse
in Alaska
Every modem convenience
Electric lights? Hot and cold
wa'er? Telephones
Porcelain baths on every floor
" Board and room by the dry week
or month
Table supplied with cream and
butter from our own Jersey
Dairy
mrs. fi. S. Pulkn
Proprietress
Established 1897
Phil Abrahams
Real Estate
BROKER
Collections
NOTARY PUBLIC
52 FOURTH AVE., SKAGWAY
We have a large stock
Lomney's Gaudy
Peter's Ghoeolates
Also every kind of
Fresh Nuts
Dont' Forget the Number. 428,Brdw'y
Tony Dortero's
Having completed reliable arrange
ments for an adequate supply of the
be&t
jtritish Columbia Coal
for the coming winter we offer for
Skagway Coal Consumers, Coals at
following prices;?
Wellington (Departure Bay)
Run of Mine $12 per ton
Wellington (Lidysmith)
Selected Lumps f 13 per ton
Anthracite (Banff B. C.)
Chestnut Size $20 per ton
Prices abovd arc on wharf and in bulk
or sacked and for cash. Delivery $1.00
per ton extra.
SHAW & JOHNSON
Phones 11 or 100 Skagway, Alaska
(T
SPECIAL SALE Of
ALASKA VIEWS
Bcfflnnlnc Monday. November
25th. and ending January Int.
1P08. wcwlll sell 8x10 views at
23c each and 5x7 at 15c. $1.50 per
dozen. N.\17 Views Ji.OU each.
Velo.x I'ost Cards Ave for 25c,
This beautiful set of pictures
consist of Towns. Water Kails,
Glaciers. W. P. 3fc Y. R. Views,
steamers, and Old 189S Trail
and l'loneer Scenes of early
days. It will do you good to
look them over.
We solicit your patronage
DRAPER &G0.
Skagwav, Alaska
PHONE 83 P. O- BOX 235
^ J)
There's Vigor and
Strength
in every drop
COMPANY
8eattle, Wash.
Drink it at
The
Pack
Train
Salaefi
SHEA & PATTEN
Proprietors
CONTINENTAL
DISTRIBUTING CO.
Distributors
SEATTLE
Only One "BROMO QUININE," that is ?
LaxaUve firomo Quinine g .
Cures a Cold in One Day, Gripin 2 Days *
A. Bloom TELEPHONE 34
E. Kohach FREE DELIVERY
THE M0N0GRAM
BLOOM & KORACH. Proprietors
I
WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS
We carry a Full line of Bar Supplies Direct Importers
Depot for A. B. C. Bohemian St. Louis and Seattle Bottle Beer
CENTRALLY LOCATED
BEST ACCOMMODATIONS
New Home Restaurant
MRS. MARY BERNHOFFER.IMnnager
Best 25 Cent Meals in the City
[FIFTH AVENUE, NEAR BROADWAY
GoocLClean Beds From 25 Cents Up
BATHS IN CONNECTION]
ELECTRIC
LIGHTS
Our Service is Always The Best
Our Rates as Low as the Lowest
^ CALL ON US fOB PRICES - _
V. I. HAHN, Supt.
Railway Building Skaguay