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AS IT WERE
An Eskimo truck driver in a town
not far from Seward recently render
ed a bill to a customer thus:
“10 goes, 10 comes at 50 cents a
a went, §5.”
Chinese is spoken by about four
hundred million people, not including
American babies.
Salt will keep grease from smoking
hut it takes spanking to stop a boy.
A reformer is a man who consid
ers a good time a bad time and a bad
time a good time.
Time ciires all things by killing
them.
Classified Advertising
FOR RENT—Three room cottages,
furnished; J. Eamon, Sewards tf
OLD PAPERS for sale at the Gate
way, two large bundles for 25c; or
one for 15c; fine for building the
fires these cold mornings. tf
FOR SALE—Oak Dining Room Set;
consisting of buffet, chairs, and ta
ble; call at Seward Grill. 12-1-tf
Three room cabin for rent; See Mrs.
Cooper. tf.
FOR SALE—Fifty thousand letter
heads to satisfied customers.
MAKE THEM SHOUT When pepole
talk about you or your Business.
Your getting the publicity—the
Advertising which counts—What
are you doing to make the people
of Seward and vicinity talk about
your Business. Gateway Pub. Co.
I ALASKAN TRIP
DESCRIBED BY
SEWARD VISITOR
A copy of The Morning Herald,
published in Uniontown, Pa., was re
ceived by The Gateway thru John
B. Sterling of Masontown, Pa., who
will be remembered by Sewardites as
having made his headquarters in Se
ward while on his big game hunts
in the Kenai country. Following is
the article as it appeared in the east
ern paper, written by Mr. John Sterl
ing:
By JOHN B. STERLING.
MASONTOWN, Pa., Nov. 23.
The old veteran school teacher,
my school mate of years gone by,
John W. Williard, has asked me to
write something about my trip to
Alaska, the country that belongs to
the United States, but as yet little
known by the vast majority of the
people of the states. It was pur
chased from Russia some 40 years
ago for the sum of a little over seven
million dollars.
We left Uniontown on August the
4th. Mr. Charles V. Hoover and son,
Thomas Hoover, Attorney M. M. Hop
wood. Mrs. Sterling and myself and
were later joined by Charles V.
Hoover, who met us at Seward, Alas
ka. We took the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad to Chicago, and the
Canadian Pacific from there to Van
couver, British Columbia. The scen
ery along the Canadian Pacific rail
road as it crosses the Rocky Moun
tains is grand. beyond description,
and at places of interest along the
way the train makes stops that the
passengers may see the sights. At
one point on the summit <?f the
Rocky Mountains the waters divide;
one part going to the Atlantic Ocean
and the other part to the Pacific
Ocean. At one place in going down
the. mountains the train makes a
complete figure eight. The train
left the states in North Dakota, go
i ing through British Columbia and
landed us at Vancouver. Vancouver
is a beautiful city and takes great
pride in showing its visitors the nice
flowers, shrubs, and places of inter
est in the city. From Vancouver we
took a boat to Seattle, Wn. Seat
tle has a population of about 350,000
and I think the cleanest city I was
ever in without any exception. They
take great pride in keeping it clean.
Some years ago I used to grow flow
ers and shrubs, but never as large
as those I saw in Seattle, dahlias
twice as large as those grown in our
home state, double hybiscus, gladio
lias, etc. It was at this place we
saw the big airship Shenandoah sail
| over the city flying very low and one
1 could distinctly see the propellers
and letters and words, U. S. Navy,
Pacific Coastwise Jerviee
^ADMIRAL LINE
IH.F.ALEXANDER. PRESIDENT!
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
S. S. ADMIRAL WATSON
Sails From
SEATTLE
Dec. 10
Jan. 7
Arrives
SEWARD
Dec. 18
Jan. 15
South From
SEWARD
Dec. 21
Jan. 18
Calling at all regular S outheastern and South
western Alaska ports in eluding Seldovia and
Kodiak.
Telephone Main 81 Res.. Madison 40
STEAMSHIP STARR
S. S. STARR SAILS JANUARY FOURTH
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MADI80N 73*. 8EWARD, ALA8KA
painted on its side. Seattle has one
of the deepest and best harbors in
the world. Ships of all sizes can en
ter and depart from it; but at times
it is dangerous on account of the
heavy fogs that hang over the har
bor. From this place we took the
Pacific Steamship line, Admiral
Evans, for Seward, Alaska. There
are two steamship lines that make a
business of carrying passengers and
freight to and from points in Alaska;
namely, the Pacific Steamship line
and the Alaska Steamship Co. Of
these the Alaska line seems to have
larger boats, but you are well
taken care of on either line, and
given three good meals a day, and
fruit carried to your stateroom ev
ery morning sufficient to last you
through the day. This is all includ
ed in your fare of about $80 to $160
from Seattle to Seward and return.
The price is governed some little by
the stateroom and the location on
the boat. Both lines follow what is
known as the Famed Inside Pas
sage. As they only go out in the
open sea at one or two places all
the way from Seattle to Seward,
Alaska, a distance of 1800 miles,
passing through what was formally
known as Hells Gate entrance to Se
ward; but after President Harding
made bis visit to Alaska it was re
named the Harding Entrance, and
so painteu on the rocks along the
shcre line. Upon reaching Seward,
we found it a beautiful little city
of about 2b00 inhabitants, situated
on Resurrection Bay. It will be re
membered that Seward is whert; or
one of the places that our round rbe
wcrld fueis landed. At this place
we wore met by our outf::j:s that
were to take us in to the big gaum
country, hunting, Henry Lucas and
George Nelson.
So, on the following dry we lull
(M’s. Hoover and Mrs. Sta ling, re
maining in Sewrard) on tre Covorr
metu la.noad, for Mile Twenty
Three, winch is near the pin * where
•he Russian government built the
read to and stopped for the want of
funds, but, wTas pushed on to Fair
banks a distance of about 4 CO miles
when we bought Alaska from the
Russian government for the sum of
a little over seven million dollars.
But back to Mile Twenty-Three. H
w'as at this place we left the railroad
and took a small boat down the
Kenai River to Lake Kenai, the home
of our guides. This river is very
swift and dangerous as numerous
rocks are hidden in the water. No
one, unless he is very fiyniliar with
the river should undertake to pilot
a boat down it. The water is so
swift that no boat can go up it. Up
on reaching Kenai Mountains to hunt
the wild sheep. Here is where we
had our hardest hunt. I had been
told by Dr. Hopwood and other big
game hunters, that the mountain
sheep wrere the hardest of all big
game to get, but, I was skeptical
about this until I tried it for my
self. They say on the most rugged
and highest peaks of the mountains
and cannot be approached unless you
get the wind in your favor, and very
rarely come down in the low land,
until the mountain peaks are cover
ed so heavy with snow that they
are forced to come down to get
something to eat but, we were suc
cessful in getting some fine speci
mens and a bear each.
We then went farther down the
lake to the moose country, and got
the moose in a few days, as they
were not nearly as hard to get as
the mountain sheep. After getting
the moose, we took our boat on down
the Kenai river to the town of Kenai
situated on Cooks Inlet, which is
said to be the second most danger
ous water in the world. They have
had a tide at this place of 50 feet or
more. Going down this river we
each got a fine specimen of the bald
eagle. They pay a premium on this
bird in Alaska, as they are so nu
merous they destroy large amounts
of the small game, especially the
lambs of the mountain sheep.* I re
member some time ago about a great
howl set up in Congress by one of
our representatives that our national j
bird would become extinct if there
was not something done to protect
it, evidently this man never took a
trip down the Kenai river, or he
would not be alarmed about the fu
ture supply of our national emblem.
At the town of Kenai, we were held
up for seven days before we could
get a boat up Cooks Inlet. This in
let was discovered by a Dr. Cook
and so named, not the Dr. Cook of
North Pole fame. We finally secur
ed a boat and started for Anchorage, i
a town on the government railroad.
This part of the trip I never wish
to take over again, I would not have
missed it for any money, but would
not go through it again for the whole
of Alaska, much as I think of Alas
ka. The crew were all sea-sick but
three of us, and the officers of the
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA
ROUTE SCHEDULE
Vessel—
Alameda.
Northwestern_
Alaska.. ..
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
Dec. 13th
Dec. 20th
Dec. 27th
Scheduled
Arr. Seward
Dec. 2Cth
Dec. 27th
Jan. 3rd
Scheduled
Sail fm Seward
Dec. 20th
Dec. 27th
Jan, ore
NOTE—Ships in above schedule sail from Pier Two, Seattle, at 9:00
a. m. each sailing date and will call at Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau M
Cordova, Valdez, Latouche and Seward, both north and southbound, 7®
Northwestern and Alameda will also call at Petersburg both ways.
Steamers leave Seward at MIDNIGHT on sailing dates shown.
Steamer Redondo is scheduled to saial from Seward December 6
and 13 for Seldovia and Halibut Cove.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
PHONE MAIN 125 SEWARD, ALASKA
REAL SERVICE
That is one feature that must be offered by
any enterprise that is genuinely interested in the
growth and development of a community; and it is
the constant aim of The Alaska Railroad to at all
times render such service as will aid most materially
in the healthy growth and consistent development
of the Territory.
The Alaska Railroad operates year round
freight and passenger service between Seward, An
chorage and Fairbanks and over the Chickaloon and
Chatanika Branches. For timetables, descriptive
literature, etc., write
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
McKinley park route
ANCHORAGE ALASKA
Special week.end tickets (one and one-third actual fare) on sale at
all ticket offices
boat, but fortunately I was one of
the three. The water would dash
over the top of the boat, but we final
ly reached Anchorage and returned to
Seward, where we were met by Mr.
Hoover, better known as Charles V.
Hoover. We all then took the train
up to Fairbanks, and started out to
hunt the caribou.
Most people do not know that Fair
banks is farther north than Nome,
and that our government has a rail
road to this far-northern town. The ^
caribou is easy to get as there are
great numbers of them. We saw not
less than 25 of them along the rail
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KENAI
i
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
DAY OR TRIP. TELE
PHONE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MILE TWENTY
Louis Bell, owner
Swedish American Line
“Only line between America and
Sweden." Direct over the Atlantic
and the North Sea in Large, Mod
ern and Comfortable steamers.,'
Frequent sailings.
Christmas Excursions to Swede©
and Finland
S. S. STOCKHOLM—From New
York December 2; from Halifax
December 4.
S. S. DROTTNINGHOLM—From
New York December 10.
Also Earlier Sailings
For further information and res
ervations apply to
WAYNE BLUE, ♦
Agent for Seward, Alaska
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