CONCRETE HUTS
TO BE FASHION
FOR ESKIMOS
NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—The move
ment to modernize the Eskimo bj
providing him with concrete huts ir
place of his picturesque snow "igloos”
as suggested by an official of th<
United States Bureau of Fisheries
would be the death of the denizen oi
the icy North, in the opinion of Wilhj
almur Stefasson, the Arctic explorer
Not only is the Eskimo devoted to his
age-long habitation as the South Sea
Islanders are to their traditional gart
of flower garlands and fresh smiles
but he is far healthier, warmer and
more comfortable in his domed man
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sion of snow blocks than he could be
in a modern concrete house.
The statement that the natives of
the Prybiloff Islands were about to
discard their snow huts for modern
concrete huts, finding the gales of the
Bering sea too strong for the former,
upon which the story of the intended
change of Eskimo habits was based,
Mr. Stefansson characterized as too
silly for discussion. The explorer,
talking at his headquarters at the
National Geographical Society build
ing here, said that the Prybiloff Is
landers had never lived in snow huts
but in wooden huts and that further
north, where the natives do live in
snow houses, it would be next to im
possible to convert them to any other
kind of a dwelling.
,5‘Their igloo serves as a home for
two or three weeks. Then they build
a new one. Because it is new it is
clean and sanitary. It is as warm
and comfortable as your library. A
candle gives as much illumination as
three electric lights, because of the*
intense whiteness of th snow. The
I snowhouse will stand under any con
ditions. In all, the igloo is as com
fortable a home as a man could wish.
“The concrete hut, like the wooden
hut, must be uncomfortable and un
'snnitary. Wherever the natives have
changed from the snow to the wooden
home there has followed pneumonia
and typhoid and a tremendous increase
in the death rate.
"The Eskimos are a migratory race.
Contact with civilization has effected
them and they are dying off. They
must soon be extinct and the concrete
hut but hastens that extinction. The
Eskimos are like the gypsies. Try to
keep a gypsie in a house of concrete
and see what happens.
"Still, the Eskimos might be convert
ed to the concrete hut,” went, on Mr.
Stefansson, smiling. "If it becomes
the fashion. Should concrete homes
become fashionable, all Eskimos
would soon be living in them. Human
nature is the same the world over.
Let soma one introduce the wearing
of furs, as a fashion, in the Zulu Is
lands, and the natives there would
wear furs. Women wear furs in Cal
ifornia and Florida, where the climate
is just as hot as on the Zulu Islands.
So you see, you never can tell.”
REMOVING ALL SIGNS
OF RECENT WORLD WAR
NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—The war is
over for New York. Workmen are
now pulling down the great white
“Victory Arch” at Fifth avenue and
23rd street, erected that America’s
victorious legions returning from
France might march beneath it in
triumph. The “Weloome to Our Re
turning Soldiers” signs are being re
moved from the municipal buildings.
Orders have been given for the remov
al from the parks of the many “Wel
fare Huts” and other temporary edi
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flees erected by soldier welfare or
ganizations.
The big wooden battleship still
“floats” in the center of Union
Square, her Quaker guns dominatingj
the reaches of Broadway and Fif
teenth street but is being used solely
for peace-time recruiting for the
navy. There is no indication when
she will be scrapped as obsolete.
The R. N. W. M. P. will dispatch a
party from Dawson on or about the
first of the year for Fort McPherson.
The expedition will be in charge of
the veteran navigator of that trail,
Sergeant Dempster. He will take with
him Constables Brine, Tyack, and
Beasley. The four men left Dawson
for Halfway House, ahout 25 miles
below Dawson, to get the police dogs,
which will be used on the long tra
verse. It will require some time to
harden the men and the dogs for the (
trip, and after their arrival short I
daily jaunts will be the order. The
party will carry mail for McPherson, |
Arctic Red River and other posts of'
that quarter.
Scarborough Pictures that please at
prices that are right Over Cordova
drug store. Phone 140—3 rings.
Delicious mince pie at the City
Bakery. 13-tf
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Your eyes fitted. Compound and
stigmatic lenses replaced. See Ob
borne.
SIBERIAN FUR COMPANY
C. Leen, Mgr.
NOTICE TO TRAPPERS
We Buy All Kinds of Furs
Honest Prices Paid
We make up all kinds of Furs, also
do remodeling. We also do Tan
ning and Mounting. Fourteen
years’ experience.
Next to Hegg’s, on C Street
Telephone 190
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