GOV. RIGGS IS
GIVEN BOOST
BY WRITER
A writer in the Christian Science
Monitor of Boston gives the following
human interest story of Governor
Thomas Riggs, Jr., of Alaska:
“I want to see the governor.”
The tone was hurried, eager, in
sistent. The speaker was a small boy
of possibly ten years, in blue overalls,
barefooted, hatless. He had come
swiftly into the governor’s office,
whose door stood open in friendly
fashion, and made his request, or
rather demand, of the governor’s sec
retary.
The secretary rose from his desk
and came forward. “What do you
want to see the governor for?”
“I want to show him this paper.”
The tone was still tense, positive.
“Let me see it.” The secretary
took the paper and glanced over it.
"All right. Go in.” He opened a door
into an inner office, and the boy
marched sturdily through, the paper
under his arm.
Anyone who knows Governor Riggs
of Alaska can easily vision what took
place in that inner office. Without
doubt Governor Riggs took the small
boy on his knee, asked him what he
wanted, gravely read the item in the
paper the boy wished to show him,
and very possibly discussed it with
him as man to man.
For Governor Riggs, “Tommy”
Riggs, as he is called throughout
Alaska, is an exceedingly approach
able. democratic, kindly individual.
His office in a big. homelike—though
rather shabby—house in Juneau, has
no uniformed, buttoned or braided
servitors 10 guaru ci,iimuvv vw
demand credentials. In pleasant
weather the door stand open. One
enters an ordinary hall, with rooms
to the right and left. On one side
busy clerks attend to the great amount
of business that must be done here; on
the other is a pleasant, parlor-like
■waiting room, in which is the gov
ernor’s secretary. One part of this
room has been partitioned off for the
governor’s private office.
An Extremely Worldly Executive
No doubt Governor Higgs has a par
ticularly soft spot in his heart for
small boys, because of two little fel
lows of his own, lads with flaxen curls
--at least, at the age of curls—apd big,
blue eyes. They look like twins. But
upon the day when they^were form
ally introduced they were nearing the
executive mansion somewhat hurriedly
and excitedly, because, a few paces be
hind. and trying to keep up with their
eager steps, was their father, bearing
two overflowing ice cream cones.
When boys and ice cream cones are
"nearing favorable conjunction,’ as
the astrologers would say, it does not
do to stop and ask questions, espe
cially about such an unimportant mat
ter as age. So the surmise of twin
ship was never verified.
Though only the plain, kindly citi
zen in manner and surroundings,
Governor Riggs has weighty matters
to handle. Within that unpretentious
office in Juneau the affairs of almost
an empire are dealt with. Alaska is
about one-sixth the size of the United
States. It is three times the size of
France. It is larger than Norway,
Sweden and Finland. It has resources
incredibly rich. ' It is young, lusty,
eager to do. The people are ambi
tious. The^ know what a wonderful
country is theirs. There is much
work to do, important work. Sound
judgment, vision, steadfastness to
ideals, are required of the man in that
executive office in Juneau to develop
Alaska on broad, constructive lines.
Governor Riggs is well fitted by
knowledge of the country for the
work. He has been for years associ
ated with one task or another that
has had to do with the affairs of the
territory. He was one of the ap
pointees of President Wilson on the
Alaskan engineering commission,
which laid out the route of the gov
ernment railroad from Seward to the
Interior. A well-known newspaper .
man very accurately pictured the task
that, confronted Governor Riggs and
his associates when he wrote at the
time of their appointment:
A Country of Vast Resources
“Imagine a country possessing more
than 26,000 miles of sea coast front
age and an area approximately one
sixth that of the United States.
Imagine it in point of population and
exploitation and resources, in but lit
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