The Eddy Current

KLONDIKE COUNTRY.

The Steamer City of Columbia to Leave New York for Alaska.

New York, Nov. 8.-The steamer City of Columbia, which leaves this city for the Klondike gold region, via Cape Horn, on Dec. 1, was visited yesterday at her dock, foot of East Ninth street, here, by over 5000 people, half of whom were women and children. Nearly all of the 300 men and women already booked for the passage visited the steamer, besides a large number of invited guests. Among the latter were H. A. Herbert, former secretary of the navy; Gen. H. V. Boynton, D. C. Carmichael of Philadelphia, the venerable ex-Secretary Nicholas Biddle, C. P. Huntington and D. O. Mills and a delegation of seventy-five business men and bankers of Philadelphia, who are interested in the project of sending out the Columbia. Sixty of the passengers already booked are females, and the major portion of them are married women. There are a few widows among them. Thirty-five of the women are chaperoned by Mrs. H. S. Gould. The youngest passenger will be a boy of 7 years, who will accompany his mother to the far north. Three hospital nurses and five physicians are among the passengers. The men in the party include six lawyers, one banker and twelve Yale students, who have abandoned their studies for the perils of the Klondike. The passengers come from all over the country and Canada.

The City of Columbia will be in charge of Capt. Wm. C. Barker. It will reach Seattle in April, and on the way to the Horn will stop at several South American ports.