Volume 4
THE CKILKOOT POST
An unofficial periodical printed without expense to the 'J.S,
/ridgy. July 18. 1924 __
No- 29
"ONE FOND FARE’JELL"—
The freighter "Cordova", having unloaded a cargo of dynamite, docked
yesterday afternoon at Haines to become tlie "private yacht" on which twenty
nine soldiers who had completed their foreign service are now cruising the
^nsiae Passage en route to Seattle# Aside from the troops there a^e no other
passengers and the homeward-bound soldados will have the whole boat to romp
over. Corporal "Deacon" Dunbar, as connanlen of the outgoing detachment, has
been assigned a private stateroom.
A large crowd were gathered ot the dock to *gid the departing ones
farewell. Major and Mrs. Maddox, as well as the company and staff officers,
were at the gang plank to give a parting handshake. Several of Company F s
non-commissioned office.-3 aid a large number of "bucks" were at drill when the
boat whistled for the dock, and, having been excused, came over in a hurry
still wearing their side arms.
"How come?" asked 0 le of the departing. "Are we so bai you’ve got to
put us aboard with your belts on?"
The last departing "Cootie" to go aboard was "Growler', the Airedale
pup, brother of "Pedro", "Peculiar" and "Singles". Growler, in his palatial
dog crate, was hoisted from the dock by the cargo boon. He is being shipped
to Texas, There he will take up ranching.
PICNICERS FROLIC BY WATERS OF LAKE BENNEH:
More than one hundred persons from Haines -and Chilkoot Barracks made
the trip to Lake Bennett last Wednesday, part of the Haines and Skagway Pres
byterian Church picnic* The party from here left on the regular Wednesday trip
of the harbor boat for Skagway, the departure being at 6:00 a*m*, however, to
suit the schedule of the picnicers, instead of the usual hour of ten* At Skag
way all boarded the special train run by the 'finite Pass & Wukon Ay, the most
scenic an done of the most historic railroads in America.
For about two hours the train wound a serpentine course up^vard toward
the snowy summit of V .. White Pass, the gateway of the Wukon* Ihe route
lay along ledges chiseled by dynamite in the mountain sides, high above the
tumbling Skagway River, a mere thread so far below*
Around a bend swept the train. Claciers hung precariously on the moun
tain wall above* A huge rock was pointed out '7hich years ago had fallen upon
a construction crew when the road was bein* built; beneath it they still are
entombed, the price of civilization’s onslaught against the mountain*
Ahead one saw a high, 3teel bridge, its beams and sections looking
from the distance like a filmy spiderweb; over it, and through^a tunnel passed
the train* Two flag3 floated over a little station, those of wreat Britain and
of the ^nited States. The party hai crossedthe border, enterel the short stretch
of British Columbia which separates Southeastern Alaska from Yukon Territory.
At Log Cabin a few enthusiastic fishermen detrained to cast for gray
ling and trout* flie main party, however, continued through the woo led valleys
to Lake Bennett, beside the blue waters of which the picnic was spread.
The chill of the glacial lake had no terrors "“or Lt* W-aMaster, the
^isses Loving or the nurses from the 1 ^ . Haines Mission. With the lieu
tenant playing the role of a jovial young Heptune, the young ladies mentioned
disported themselves as festive Nereids in the mountain waters. Meanwhile Bill
Beitinger, the able quartermaster of the good ship Fornance, captured single
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