| Show Alaskans Do Not Live as Eskimos Eskimos' They Have Everything We Do in U. U S. S Correspondent Corrects Some Impressions of Land to Be Traversed by New Government Government Govern Govern- ment Road i I t I cf I I I 44 I ir i- i J r r E t I i k I I I I I I I c cf f By E E. E O. O SAWYER JR Special Correspondence SEWARD Sl Alaska Juno June 5 How How I do we wc live 11 up hero here Do we crawl I IUlO our Ice block igloos when the lie I long winter comes and subsist on I blubber Do we go about attired in inthe inthe inthe the skins of oC seals and sea and i polar bears bars and with spears in our I I hands bands No reader no ito You Yon are thinking i I of the Eskimos who hio live hundreds I I of miles to the thc north of or us liS I But Dut you ou are aro not to lo be he blamed Those who have o rushed in here herc from the states as a's as soon as the government government govern govern- ment meat announced that work would begin begin begin be be- gin on its railroad possessed pos the same opinion of or this coun conn tr try If It this Is the view vie that prevails prevails pre pre- vails valls in the states let mo me change ito it o We hiv live In regular houses Just as asI I you OU do The They even have furna furnaces s In them kitchen ranges the best furniture furniture fur fur- obtainable and pianos talking machines and anti telephones Gaze down own a street in Seward and but hut for the mountains in tn the background you ou cannot tell whether It is ts a suburb sub urb of or Chicago or San Francisco It I 1 is made JI UP ii of oC pretty bungalows of the latest designs ns I A row of bungalows In Seward Alaska and Mise Anna Anra Nelson who was born In the territory Both pictures look American enough do they not The only ice in Seward today is owned by hy the iceman and the tho ice lee II cream manufacturer They charge a cent a pound for it in small quantities ties In Iii tho the winter we have skating during January and February but the ico probably is thicker on the lakes of or Wisconsin and null Minnesota 1 For a long time Seward boast boasted eel II the most modern modem row of or residences in tn Alaska Of or late several more I modern residences have been erected I In tn Juneau hut but Seward expects to again take the tue lead because of or the I boom occasioned by the tho selection of oC I tI l this place as ns the terminal of or the thc new government railroad which will willi tap the coal fields of or Alaska And if iC you OU look in the hack back yard I of some of or these homes which have front porches regular windows andI and I stained roofs you will see a little vegetable garden absolutely no different Ill dir I ferent than the one you have In your our own back hack yard rard The flie best hard wheat flour costs 55 5 per pounds condensed milk is a case butter hutter two o pounds for 75 5 cents eggs three dozen for 1 Not so h bad lIl The average summer temperature here JR Is 50 degrees above today todDY it happens to be Cl Gl In the shade In Inthe Inthe Inthe the winter the thc average is 30 degrees above Once in a great while it gets I down to lo zero Last winter the coldest coldest cold cold- est recorded was C G above e I COlli-I The only great difference between this titis country and yours is 15 that this isU Is Isa i ia a U new land new to the people and anti I new flOW in history The Tue forest topped hills are still full of oC game birds and I fish are so 60 plentiful that thai a snag I hook on a pole is ts an easier way war to catch them thom than by using bait Bear Dear are not scarce either cither And further unless you follow tollow well beaten trails you ou can travel for days without meeting meetIng meet- meet Ing lug man or finding a n trace of or his having been that wa way before you Oll |
