AN ESKIMO BOY’S IMPRESSIONS
OF SEATTLE AND ITS STREET CARS
Life is not dull In Seattle. Life in
Seattle Is one wild adventure after an
other. A man's life Is never safe. But
no one has that to fear. We live ill a
sort of a crazy Fairyland tilled with
marvelous things.
• George Porter has discovered us. He
is exploring our Fairyland. To appre
ciate Seattle, you've got to see it
through ills eyes. Prepare for adven
ture!
But first you must know who George
Porter Is. and why lie finds Seattle
wonderful.
George is half white, and half Kski
mo. Mis father Is a l' S. weather ob
server. now stationed at Seward. Alas
ka George was bohn on Herschell
Island, In the Arctic ocean IS years ago.
The whalers came and wintered
there. Nothing else happened worth
recording. You might call a walrus or
a polar bear hunt exciting An Arctic
storm might stir your pulse. But these
things bored George to extinction.
When George was in he was sent to
fur-off-I'nalaska, one of the outermost
of the Aleutian islands, and there for
seven years he attended the Methodist
mission, the Jesse Lee home conducted
by Ur. urid Mrs. Newhull.
1 tssneaosmrTnesotiu,death. u ooh Li
Last summer he returned to lior
senell island uiiu shipped aboard the
gusuime schooner Kivira, Cap 1. 'fed
Peterson. The Llviru was caught m
the Arctic ice. The Beattie whaler Bel
viuere look George ott, and Capt. Col
lie, taking a tauey lo the clierublc
luccd George, brought him iu Seattle
i p lo ihe point «i reaching Seattle,
a week or two ago, George was bored
stiff.
"George saw on lirsi o\r. an oL-tong
box, as big us a house, set on wheels
on a truck. The box had windows
along Ihe side and uoors al toe end,
and llioiu were people inside. A pole
reuched from the roof of the box to a
Wile overhead.
"A mail in the front end of li.c box
turned a crunk, auu the blame tiling
begun lo move! George couldn't ligure
il out. There were a lot of these boxes.
"Capt. Cottle explained to George
that lie could ride in a box for a nickel.
George tried it. Tile box went like the
wind. The man in front could start
or stop it any time tie wanted to,
"George hung on for dear life. The
sweat of fear was on his brow. 1 tut
he liked ii so well he spent two-bits for
street car rides.
"Believe it or not, there are on the
streets of Seattle boxes that go around
without horses or reindeer pulling
them.”
Automobiles are sort of baby street
cars, only' they don’t run o:i rails
They go faster than street ears, though.
| George Is afraid of them. When he cros
| ses Second ave., he waits and waits
| for a lull in the truffle. Then lie runs
| as fast as he can.
Bven a cautious young man like
|
George takes awful chances when
crossing Second ave.
The first night Captain Cottle took
| George to a hotel. They stepped Into
a steel cage, and what do you suppose
I happened then’’
The cage, with them and another
Irnnn Inside, shot upwards llckety-spllt'
By and by It stopped, and they got
'out. They went Into the most beauti
ful room George had ever saw it had
a gold bed.
it as dark at first, but the captain
pulled off some magic stuff, and the
room was flooded with light He show
ed George how to do It. It's easy when
I you know how Von lust push hut
I ton.
; The captain told George he’d better
i wash up. and then they'd go down
stairs and eat. He showed George
how to turn on the taps at the wash
stand George turned one of the taps,
and—you won't believe this, but it's
gospel truth—piping hot water flowed
Into the bowl.
Now what do you know about that
It can't be explained
While George was getting ready for
dinner, Captain Cuttle talked business
to a little box on the wall George just
laughed. He knew the captain was
trying to fool him
George, helng tired,sat down on the
steam radiator—but not for long. Blob
her Is the popular fuel for heating on
Herschell island
They had a lovely evening together
—George nnd the captain Next dnv
and every day since George has been
left pretty much to his own devices
He Is employed on repair work on
board the steamer Chicago and nights
he sleeps on the Belvlderc
On his first adventure alone tie en
countered the Smith building George
had never seen In the North n building
more than two stories high He looked
until he got ni crick In his neck He
counted the stories—42!"
Ify»u would underst • i .I la- foldings,
just cmagine yourself gazing tt a sky
scraper seven miles high'
George drifted into the Liberty
theatre. At tl st he thought tin- pi* -
tines were "magic liintren" pi« : ures.
They had magic lantren shnw< nt the
Mission at T’nalnska Hut when the
people on the screen moved he tl. light
they wore real people. Now he doesn’t
know what to think.
Patrolman \nderherg met Georgo
and Introduced him to the men at the
central fire station on Seventh ave.
One of them took George f(i > ride
around the block in the chief’s into.
Thev traveled 4a miles an hmu
fine night he got lost in Phin ! \ .
Two men said to him "Have v.« i t
any money'”* George said "I h no
money,’’ and ran awry and threw hb -
self Into the arms of •, policeman The
officer piloted him hack to First rive
This was a terrifying adventure
George has beep told that then* on
machines which flv in the air like Mr!-.
But you can’t fool him now He knows
he’s being kidded TCX
ALASKA NOTES
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(From Our Exchanges.)
The record high water price for sock
eye salmon of 40 cents each was paid
by many Fraser river canneries on
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• Sept. 9. and those fishermen who were
lucky enough to catch any made a
good thing out of it
A bogus five dollar til 11 lias made its
appearance at Ketchikan, contrary to
tiie statutes in such eases made and
prov ided.
The Yes Hay hatchery near Ketchi
kan has shipped five million salmon
eggs to Puget sound, where the process
of Incubation yvill be completed and
, the young fry liberated.
Tin* warehouse of the kuiu Island
Packing Co. cannery at Port Heaneiare
burned recently destroying a large
amount of fishing gear, nets, etc., and
1 about x.000 eases o* salmon.
The Pacific Const company is now
shipping large quunitios of their l'.lack
Diamond briquets to liritisli Columbia
ports, where they are sold at prices $1
a ton higher than the home market.
Henry HrenUey, a Fairbanks boy,
shot himself. He was examining a gun
when the thing went off The charge
struck him in the leg, and the doctor
says that unless complications set m
Hie members may be saved.
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The three members ol' the Alaska
engineering Commission iiuve been
over ttie Copper River and Northwest
ern railway, and twu of them hav*
been into the itering river coal Helds
and also over the route between Chitina
and Fairbanks. As these men are ob
serving, experienced and conscientious,
it is safe to assume that their report to
President Wilson will be favorable to
tlie construction o' a trunk line that
will connect with the present railway
at Chitlna and also for a branch line
into the Bering river coal Helds. A sim
ilar conclusion was reached by the
Alaska Railroad Commission, and the
people of Cordova are content in the
absolute confidence that the real con
ditions and facts arc such that a result
of the knowledge obtained by the Fn
l gineering Commission cannot other
I than redown to the great advantage of
i Cordova and the Copper River country
And in saying this we have no wish
to disparage the claims of the great
domain to the westward in that con
| iiectlon vve also look to see the c on
I structlon of a railroad from Seward
| through the extensive mining and min
eral belt that runs into the Matanusita
coal lienis, i lie sum ul $iiu(UUU.UOU 14
suiliclelil ii'i lahwa) construction mat
will open up vast ler in»r> ana j**suui*
u« leading lium L»<> L li Cordova and
Sewurd, with possible a brunch inter
li'om Valdez and an extension into ine
great huskukwim country . We are
conlident that Hie lmul annouiieeinent
Hum Washington will come as an up*
predated hut not unexpected
gilt to the patient people »f
the Copper liner section oi Alaska.
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mouH Atherton bourbon whieKeye, bn
tilleu spring I9UH* I9U5, bought in oond
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government by the bottle or gallon.
Strictly fresh eggs and poultry at
Prossers Harness Snop. Phone Black j.
100 TONS OF FLOoR.
Breae only 5c. North Pole Bakery
«nd Anvil bakery.
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NOTICE.
Can your eyes follow a cannon ball
flying through space. Harold Allen
land Harry Haggerty a close second at
the Roller Rink Races, Monday Jan. 18.
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