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Title: On the "White Pass" pay-roll
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Graves, S. H
Subjects: White Pass and Yukon Railway Narrow gauge railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Lakeside Press
Contributing Library: Scott - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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ER IV COMMODORE WILLIAM ROBINSON To prevent any misunderstanding it maybe explained at once that this is our oldfriend Stickeen Bill in a new aspect—thatsall. He came from the good old State ofMaine, where the men are all web-footed, andbesides that, he was understood to have acousin who had married a Purser, or other sea-faring person. Anyhow, Bill took to waterlike a duck as soon as the track reached Sum-mit Lake, or rather as soon as the ice on it(which was six feet thick) was too rotten tobe safe for his horses. Besides getting our construction materialforward from rail-head at the Summit, Bill,in the spring of 1899, was the general man-ager of the Red Line Transportation Com-pany, as he designated the very excellentservice which Heney organized to fill the gapbetween the end of the railway and Bennettbefore our line was finished. By this servicehe carried forward from the Summit an im-mense number of passengers and hundredsof tons of freight, including material, engines, (86) .
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Commodore William Robinson and boilers for a number of large steamersbuilt at Bennett that spring. As soon as the ice on Summit Lake be-came rotten, in the spring of 1899, StickeenBill blasted out a channel six miles longthrough it, which he navigated with a 20-foot gasoline launch, towing a home-madeaffair which he had nailed together out ofboards and which he called a dory—whathis passengers called it is unfit to print. Billwas the sole crew of the combined fleet, andthe boys used to say that he took all thepretty women with him on the launch whilehe towed the m^ale passengers behind in the dory, However this may be, he managedto deliver them all safe at the far end of Sum-mit Lake to his stage line, which ran fromthere to Bennett after the ice got rotten. His channel through the Lake was, ofcourse, full of big cakes of ice which he hadblasted loose in making the channel, and heused to navigate his launch through thesewith as many turns and twists as a dogin a fair. Thus the dor)-

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