Last fall Supt. Gen. E. Pulham made the assertion that before the winter was over he would break all previous records of fast travel between White Horse and Dawson and last night he arrived from the latter point in a W.P. & Y. Route stage that made the heretofore unprecedented time of 3 days and 10 hours.

Although the early part of the season on the winter trail offered many obstacles for rapid traveling Mr. Pulham did not lose his nerve but went ahead with his work and under his management the W.P. & Y. Route has furnished a regular, rapid and easy, even luxurious, means of reaching the Klondike capital from the northern terminus of the railroad.

For doing this work Mr. Pulham has had every facility that money could procure, and in addition has had the assistance of an exceptionally competent staff of assistants. This end of the line has been well and closely looked after by Assistant Supt. H. Wheeler, while the stage drivers employed have acquired skill through years of experience in the north.

The fastest round trip on record between White Horse and Dawson was that made by Driver Jack McMillan who returned here a few days ago after an absence of only 8 days and 2 hours.

The management of the W.P. & Y. Route have made special efforts this season to meet the requirements of the interior transportation business. Although their contract only calls for a five day service hardly a day has passed since the road got in good shape but that one or more stages have not left White Horse and a like number arrived.

From four and a half to five days are usually consumed on a single trip unless the weather happens to be bad, when it requires a little more time.

The result of this policy of the W.P. & Y. Route has been that they have secured most of the passenger traffic and even those who have gone on other stage lines at reduced rates of fare have kicked themselves, so to speak, before the end of their journey was reached, for the reason that it had taken from a week to ten days longer to make the trip in much less comfortable conveyances, and their extra expenses for the additional time spent on the road have more than equalled the difference of fare between the independent lines and that of the W.P. & Y. Route.