WANT INTERIOR j
MAIL SENT BY
WAYOFSEWARD
That the Nenana Commercial Club
has already launched a campaign for
the purpose of having the winter
mails routed via Seward and the
Broad pass, and the abandonment of
the present route from Chitina to Fair
banks, is made evident by a letter
written recently by Rev. R. J. Diven,
secretaray of the club, to J. L». Mc
Pherson. manager of the Alaska bureau
of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce,
in which Mr. McPherson is urged to
use his influence to have the mail
> route changed. The plea for the
change is one of a number which the
Nenana organization advances as a
progressive program for the develop
ment of the Interior of Alaska.
Ab the letter la far too long to be
reprinted in full, that portion refer
ring to the mail is quoted alone. It
follows, as it recently appeared in the
Nenana News:
“To make a long story short, Mr.
McPherson, we regard our Alaska
mail service as a disgrace to the na
tional government, ample evidence
supporting the judgment. Please rub
that in where it will do the most
good. There is another matter we
must now bring up, though we shrink
from doing so because of the feelings
of a neighbor who always has been
dear to us and who Is now quite near
to us. But we feel sure our neigh
bor will adjust himself to the change
and probably at last will like it quite
as well as we. We refer to the
desire to have the mail for this dis
trict re-routed via Seward and Anchor
age and Broad Pass. By next fall
there will be but seventy or seventy
five miles of a gap to be spanned by
a very passable trail for reasonably
quick hauling of mail. Notwithstand
ing the additional thirty-six hours from
Cordova to Seward—and that is allow
ing ample running time for the steam
ers—the mail for all this region
should easily reach its destination,
that way, at least two days ahead of
the best that is being done over the
Fairbanks-Chitina route. We await
the pleasure of those who have au
thority to order the change.”
BLIND SPOKANE BOY
IS BRIGHT STUDENT AT
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY
SEATTLE, Feb. 5 (by Associated
Press).—Blindness and partial loss of
hearing proved obstacles, but not in
surmountable ones, in the career of
Lyle von Ericksen, a 19-year-old Spo
kane boy enrolled as a freshman at
the University of Washington. When
grades were announced for the full
quarter Von Erisksen stood near the
top of the class, and in Spanish re
ceived the highest grade given by the
University in that course, according
to school authorities. He finds his
way to all classes without difficulty,
is an expert wrestler, and enters into
many school activities.
Von Ericksen has been blind for
twelve years, the result of scarlet
fever. Effects of the disease also left
him almost without hearing, but he
found, after experimenting, that wads
of cotton saturated with peroxide of
hydrogen acted as artificial ear drums.
He received his preliminary educa
tion at the State School for the Blind
at Vancouver, Wash.
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
HAS AMERICAN LEGION
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 5 (by As
sociated Press).—UniYersity of Utah
<Post of the American Legion has been
established by former service stu
dents attending the institution. The
new post claims a membership of four
hundred.
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Regular Sailings Between Seattle,
Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez,
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FROM SEATTLE— SAILS SOUTH—
JAN. 20. ALAMEDA JAN. 2S
JAN. 30. ALASKA FEB. 8
FEB. 10. ALAMEDA FEB. 18
FEB. 20. ALASKA FEB. 28
FEB.29. ALAMEDA .MARCH 8
Frequent sailings of freighters carrying explosives.
This schedule subject to change without notice.
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Alaska—Washington—California ALASKA ROUTE
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WE8T BOUND SOUTH BOUND
LEAVE CORDOVA LEAVE CORDOVA
FEB. 13. WAT80N ...FEB. 20
Three Sailings per Week from Seattle for San Franofseo, Los An
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Trains leave Chitina for Kennecott Tuesday and Friday.
Trains leave Kennecott for Chitina Sunday and Thursday.
Trains leave Chitina for Cordova Tuesday and Friday.
Dining Car in Connection with all Regular
Passenger Trains between Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received and delivered at Cordova
Wharf from 9 a. m. to 5 p m., except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot office
one hour before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER Superintendent
FRANK BURNS, TICKET AGENT
THE NORTHERN CLUB
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