THE LATEST DOPE .ON THE TRANSPORT:
'Die "Amy and Navy Register", under date of
March 31st, 1923,carries the following news item that is-a? interest to
Chilkoot Barracks folksi • • • . ..
" The transport Grant has been substituted for the St.Mihiel.
The Grant will*go as far as San. Prancisco, a:id after a stop-over of
' .'.two or'three lays will sail for Honolulu. Passengers on the Grant
making the trip tor Alaska will transfer to the transport Canbrai
at San Prancisco* The following i3 the schedule for the Caiubrai:
■- Leave San'Prancisco Hay 25th, -arri ve Seattle May 28;.'h,~
leave May 31st; arrive Se'vard June 4th,-leave June 7th: ar
rive St,Michael June 12th,-leave June 15th; arrive June 22nd
* • - in Seattle;-leave’June 24th; arrive San Prancisco June 27th.
The stop at St.Michael is only tentative, and imy be changed at a
later date. Ice and weather condi tions in St.’ Michael Bay nay be
•such as to -make this part of the trip inadvisable."
The above' itinerary,.it .will be. seen,makes no mention of
.j^* a'"stop of the transport at .Chill;oot Barracks* But since Post Head
quarters has had .intimations that the C ambit ai has a half-cargo of
* supplies for ..this post, it- is: very like3.y that the routing clerk
for the transport* ;jast fell into the common error of supposing
•• r. *that(the now defunct-)* Fort Ufa*H4.Seward was located at Seward City,
and when he wrote ’down- Seward .on his^ trusty typewriter thought that
he was arranging for a landing place for the* Chilkoot Barracks car
go* It is sure a pity that,the. explorers,purchasers,pioneers,etc.,
of Alaska used up so few of the millions of names that men have
adopted f.or their families,-but some day the folks in the States,
•especially routing clerks,MAY learn.that Fort Wm.H.Seward,Seward
"City jf, and Seward Peninsula, all of which are in Alaska,-are widely
.OH, Yes,-very widely-separated places.
But the fact remains . that the '‘Canbrai" will very prob
•ably stop at Chilkoot'Barracks,-for how qould the Coal Brigade get
its Spring Training else?
"B* COMPANY TO LEAVE ANCHORAGE: •
Another interesting article in the ,\my papers
• , • was that published in the' "Amy and Mc*;;y Journal” of March 31st. It
,stated that .the V/ar Department,wishing to reduce the nunber of troops
in Alaska,had ordered 9th Corps Area Headquarters to withdraw Com
pany "B'^now located at Anchorage, fron the territory. "B” will go
... out to the States on the transport, for station at Vancouver Barracks,
Washington*
* : This arrangement .will, lev-e only ”G” Company, late of
Fort Gibbon,at the city to the Westward Rumor has had it that one
‘•.of the companies -here at Chilkoot Barracks is also to be sent to the
States,-but .nothing official in confirmation 'of this report has as
* >$, yet been received.
WE '(YONDER DID HE TAKE IT:
The SOURDOUGH to the CAPTAIN, M*C.:
"Doctor, rwhat* s good for a bad headache?"
THE OBTAIN',M.C. to the SOURDOUGH: •
"Why, Spotty,-take three hundred end twenty four milli
grams of DIIilEIHYLAIilNOPHET/i-DlliS JHYLPYRAZOLONE"
Well, he wanted free advice, —ajid he get it-.