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Show BJ In Crowded New York. BBJ Packing o( the poor population of BBJ Now York city Is shown by tho fact BBJ that the most thickly settled tenement BBJ' houso blocks have Increased In popu- BBJ latlon 34 pur cwnt In the lust five BBaL NO OVERC0AT8 IN ALASKA. Army Officer Says It Is Not Safe to Wear Them There. "You do not find nnyono wearing overcoats In AlnBka, oven In tho wln cr," said MaJ. F. M. M. Ileall, recently recent-ly returned fiom thnt territory. "Tho principal thing to bo careful about Is keeplns tho head, hands nnd feet warm. In that part of Alaska whoro I havo been tho only land transportation Is by dog sleds nnd to follow them one hns to drop into n dog trot bcsldo tho sled. "An ordinary suit Is plenty thick enough to kcop you warm ami an overcoat In dangerous In that tempor-nturo. tempor-nturo. Trotting alongside a slod wearing wear-ing nn ovorcoat would make you por-splro por-splro nnd tho bitter cold would freeze tho perspiration. "Tho men thero wear a fur cap that covers ovory part of tho head and faco except tho eyes nnd thero Is only a llttlo pcep-holo for them. Wool-lined Wool-lined mitts nro worn on tho hands and moccasins with woolen stockings on tho feet" MaJ. Beall has been threo years In Alaska, commanding Fort Gibbon, tho garrison consisting of two compnnlcs of tho Third United States lnfuntry. Ho Is now on Ioao of absence "Fort aibbon Is 000 miles up tho Yukon rlvsr and 7C mllen south of the --'- ------ r r arctic clrclo," ho said, "and tho rlvor Is frozen up most of tho year. In that tlmo dog sleds nro usod, but when the rlvor opens steamers como up frequently. fre-quently. Sometimes tho rough characters charac-ters traoling around tho country tnko possession of a river steamer and It's part of our work to rcstoro order and recapture tho steamer. "Tho chlot work of tbo soldlora at Fort aibbon Is to keep tho tolograph linos going." |