Show RUSH EONS TODAY First Steamer for Cape Nome I this Season I 1I 1 THOUSANDS READY TO START i i i i Twentyfive Steamers Arc Scheduled to Leave Seattle in May for the Nome Gold Fields Nearly 6000 Persons Have Already Engaged Passage for the First Sailings Tho Average Charge for Passengers is 990 Each and for Freight 40 a TonHarvest for Steamships Seattle April 2DThc formal rush I to the gold fllds of Cape Nome will be Inaugurated tomorrow when the steamer Jeanie of the Pacific Whnl I Ing company the first steamer to start I on the trln this year la scheduled to sail providing she arrives In the meantime I mean-time from San Francisco This vessel I I Will lake eighty passengers and 100 I tons of freight from this port and expects I I I pects to bt one of the first to reach Nome when the obstructing Ice has I broken up CROWDS WAITING TO GO For the last several weeks people have been arriving here by the hun dreads to get ready to make the northward north-ward trip and have lllled all the hotels to such an extcnt that It has been I dlfllcull for transient travelers to get J accommodations The steamship offices of-fices have been crowded with applicants I appli-cants for bertha and freight room and many of the companies have been refusing re-fusing passengers for several weeks It is conservatively stated that there arc not more than 200 tickets available on all time steamers that aro scheduled to leave hole In May and most of the j frolghl room has all been fold This j means that all those wishing to go to Nome except those who secure the few I berths lett must wall until the June I sailings unless they embark on sailing I sail-ing craft whlcJi are leaving this port at the rate of two a day and have I been doing so for the last week I TWENTYFIVE SHIPS Twentyfive steamships are scheduled sched-uled to leave here for Nome in May two promising to get away the 1st seven time 10th three the 151 h onetime one-time nth two tho 10th live the 20th ono the 21th two the 25th one the 30th and one the Cist The vessels to pal the 20lh hav > booked 1075 passengers I passen-gers and IUOO tom oC general mr chrndlfic This will probably be Lime liveliest day ot the year as several vessels will also leave that day for Skaguay 1 NEARLY COOO PASSAGES ENGAGED I The most conservative estimates of I the raffle to Now this jvar based on actual returns show that oSn persons per-sons have already engaged passage for the first sailings of the twentyfive steamships and that these vessels II have already contracted for L5225 tons of merchandise in their cargocw Taking Ta-king thu average charge of S lO per passenger mini 10 a ton for freight and It I Is Keen that l the steamships willet will-et a total gross revenue during the next month of l5GloOO The opera I toys of fourteen of the vessels state I I that they Intend to make four trips I each to Nome during tho season five j will make three trips each and the remaining six one trip each The net I roirlKlered tonnacr6 of the steamers ie sail next month Js 25031 ions or a quarter of the entire tonnage departIng depart-Ing for Alaska last year The valuo of the freight booked for the May saIlings sail-ings estimated at 100 a ton which Is a conservative flfure will be J522500 |