Daily Colonist (1897-08-15) by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: British Columbia; Newspapers
Published: 1897-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

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VICTORIA DAILY CQLQISriST SUNDAY AUGUST 15 1897

Some Scenes and luciilents Atteiul-ing the Loading of the Big Steamer.

€reat Crowds Visit the Dock and Impede Work—Accident to a Miner.

No Bteainer baa ever carried from a :i'acilic Coast port a larger or moro aUangely iissorted freight of uieu anci their beiontiinga than will the big 3,000,-ton carso eliip Bristol when she CBBta oU' her lines this morning, bound for Skag-•way Bay.

To say that every foot of accommodation aboard is occuiiied is liackiieyed, and at the aaine time gives but a very inadequate idea ot the situation. She is lull up—from the bottom of the lowest ireight hold to the promeuado deck. Men and horsea and outlits are piled iior upon tier eix nuigea hi^h, and the tlioasanda of tons of cargo are Bifted in between wherever an inch of space is Jonnd available.

There will be more than uOO men on board during the trip, and (luita as many iovr-footed servants, while the great majority are provident and liave ^yuh ihem clothing and provisions suflicieut to last them a year at least. Only those who have outfitted large armies of men can realiae what this means.

For Jays past the Bristol has been the greatest object of interest in the city, to Victorians nb much as visitors. And aa Ihc loading of the immense ship haa pro-trussed constantly growing crowda iiave eniploved tliemselvea by getting in the ■way of the scorea ot busy men making her rcaiiv for departure and at the same time foMiiing their own opinions aa to the way in which she has been made jeady for her momontous trip.

Yeaterdav witneysed the climax, with Ibc whiirvea and the tliorouglifarea leading to them literally n'ivo with people and amateur and professional photographers galore incidentally taking each others pictures over and over again aa fragments of the interesting thront;.

Fortunate were those who had gone aboard before the crush became bo pro-jionnced. The others were deprived of the opportunity of satisfying themselves na to the scrupulous cleanliness of the ship, or of gazing down the great wella to see the tiers of horaes and men rising one- above the other until they stood jinoii each others' heads six deep.

"In a wav the constantly shifting pro-raonade of aik'litsecra yesterday was very like that which inv.uiably hai.s the ail-vent of the circua—and, too, the many decka of the Bristol were not unlike in several reapects the workinj? teuta nf some great travelling show. The horses, the men sleeping here and there and everywhere, so long ag they were not stepped upon, the folded canvas, and the general air of novelty and suppressed excitement—all had a fl ivor of the circus, despite the fact that the picturesque miners are a very dill'er-ent class from the average sort of circus folk.

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