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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mithode. irrata to pelure, n A a 32X ^ 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 288 THK ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN. March 5, 1898. IIIEKK is alwiiys soiiuthiiij^ attractive about frontier life. To the (KwIIit of the town it is a life of fresli air and recreation. To tlie e.\|)erienceil pros- pector it lirin^s the zest of frevdoni and tile keen delij;lit of coiuiiierini; an ini- coiKjueraiile nature. And even the counterfeited dasiies into this life which the |)ii(<toifrapli brinijs to the study table and the eveninv; lamp are whiffs of fraji;rance as spicy as they are wekmie. Tlie edijes of Anurica have for many years furnished .Ameri- cans with a limited measure ol deli;.;ht in natine's more rujj;i;ed moods, but it has remained for a late popular movement to discover that we possess a veri- table wonderland upon our Northwest border. Alaska has been a field for missionaries and an object of summer excursions for sonic years, but when tiie Klondike rush of '97 was fairly on, not one man in a hundred who set out for the country knew oui;ht of tlie land, and not one news- pa|)er reader in a thousand who followed the telei;r.iphic chronicle of those lively events li.id any conception of what the Skaiju.iy and Dyea trails were in reality. The illustrated publications of our land have seen the \alue of the photoijr.iph in picturini; to the thousands of "shut-ins" the realities of this newly famous land, and possibly no recent movement of lar^e bodies of men have been so minutely chrystal- ized into jewels of the photoij- rapher's art ;is has been this last nish to a newly heralded jjold field. The rush of '4<> is and will always remain a story highly colored by the imaijination. 'i'lie camera was not ready then, as it is to-day, in every w.ilk of life to c.itcli ,Liid hold forever the colli truth of hum.m movements. The p.encil was the jjreat jiictiirin^i; agent of that day. Hut in this newer and greater rush, throii;irii a strongly Ruariled >;atew;iy of Nature's own Iniildinjj into a treasure house reserved to this aj^e and ),'ener.iiion, the camera has come as a stronger writer of histoy tli.in all the special corre- spondents in the land. No war correspondent on tlie edife of a battle ever caught .NOKIII KM) OK "world" cut OFI- oN SKACUAY TRAM. so clear ;i ijlimpse of the combatants, or sent home to a wait- inyr public a more true anil unbiased a( count of events, than has this child of later day science- the cimera. .As views of frontier life alone the accompanyimi; illustrations would possess ;i keen interest to the great reading public. Hut they come to the reader with a double reiisli when they picture the life along the main avenue into a fairy-land of to- d;iy, whose discovery has set a worlil to talking, and has thrown in motion an army ol men. These \iew s were taken after the winter of '97-'y8 had set in, ;ind show the gre;it trails just as the tirst rush into the Klon- dike w.is halted by the coming of the snow king, F-verything was against the prospector in his passage through Nature's doorwav. lie found no ueicome at this entrance to a land of gold, and the closing of this first chapter of the story of the Klondike was desperately sad. Lack of prep- aration before starting handi- capped him, the roughness of the trails Wore him out, and the nuiltitude of nien ;ibout him in- tensilied his discomfort. The story of '98 will read in a very different m.iiiner. Men have Icirned to prepare more jiroperly fortius journey, and the brain of m,in has devised, and the li.ind of m.in fashioned, great iniprovemcnts in this doorway. The photogr.iiilier will note these iniprovemcnts with delight, for no other agent lijis done more to bring about these improvements tli.in has the cuiiera. The difference between written ;md pictorial descriptions of places we have not seen, especi- ally when the pictures are the cieatioii of .111 .ipparalus that cannot lie, might be compared not inaptly with the difference between the g.inies of checkers and chess. According to I'ills- biiry, the fanvuis expert of the game of chess, checkers is the more ditlicult of the two, for said he, in che.ss a man can .v.v both .attack ;md defence, while in checkers he can witness them only with the eyes of the mind. To the prospective argonaut of the Klondike reliatile pictures of the new land of gold iiiust be doublv welcome itnd useful, for they serve to arm his mind with a cle.irer, more complete, knowledge of the diflicullies he must expect to en- counter — .iiid surmount, if the stuff of success is in his mental or moral make-up. y\, J, Hi.irniK.N, Jr. March 5, 1898. THE ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN. 289 lAsI AM I.M iiN III! MIIHMl; II 111., ^K Aia A\ lUAll. aid in Men more lid the 1, and , \rreat IT way. Ic these lit, for tiiire to .'iiients 163750 LAYINti I'OINDAI'IONS I'OK SAW-Mll.l. NKAK SIIKKl' C.^.MI' ON DVKA TRAIL.