"Floating Coffins" To Alaska
The Anderson had been acquired by Daniel Bachhelder Jackson (1833–1895) who was organizing the Washington Steamboat Company. Starting in about 1890, Eliza Anderson was laid up on the Duwamish River during the financial crises of the early 1890s, and would have rotted away there except for the discovery of gold in the Yukon Territory. Gold seekers were willing to book passage on just about anything that floated, and the owners of various dubious craft seized their chance. By this time, Anderson had been tied up for quite some time, and had been functioning not as a steamboat but a roadhouse and gambling hall.
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