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'/or Matanuska, Wasilia, Houston,
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SEWARD'S rUPlic LIBRARY,
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If one desires to gain a glimpse of
what a battle front looks like, or
is, the point'just'behind the fir- j
ing lines, where the grefct machinery
of war is in full operation let him
journey out to’ the end of steel and
apart a day observing the great con
structive machinery of the A. E. C.,
in full operation. It is here the trains
are ‘ delivering thousand tons of sup
pUeft, foodstuffs and railroad build
ing material and where the work of
distributing to the many stations out
in “No Man’s" Laiuf,M proceeds rhy
thmically and perfectly. Colonels,
Majors, Captains, Sergeants and
Corporals as representd in the vari
ous bosses, are moving at^nit; crews
are unloading freight cars, and as th'
vast collection of materials, ead
sorted and marked for destination
leave the cars and pass through th'
big warehouses they' find their waj
to sleighs drawn by 4 and 6 horses;
and the big tractors, which snort anc
grumble as they smash . their waj
though the snow and seem to elbov
their way into the firing line.
"" Moving The.«Mail
. Up at the station four fine percher
ops are chainping on the bit and eag
er to be off (o the north. They ar
hooked to the hig green sleigh witl
MU. S. Mail” printed on the sides, an'
on which reposes, swathed in heav;
duck tarpaulins*and lashed firmly
several tons of mail. This is to fini
its way to the farthest reaches of the
north—to Nome,' along the Yukon and
Mb tributaries, Point Barrow and the
far places penetrated only by the
men of the bulldog breed who afe
rspying out the land and yiiscovering
other Measures that will in years to
cifcnd' supply tonnage tor the railroad
and Happiness to the brave men whe
unearth thetn. A man swathed in fui
parka' and the elastic step of the mer
of the trail, slips into the _ driver^
seat, and with .', .bells jingling^ and
emanating from the nostrils of
his steeds ^ he heads into the myster
ious northl ifie mail must go through
on schedule, and none but a man who
has guided a prancing four or six
through the deep twilight of an Al
askan witter knows what the trip
may entail. Boreas may threaten and
send his withering breath down from
the iwtH >&d whip the snowdrifts
into eddies and defy man to advance,
but tire mail goes through. A few
n&eg out he meets returning teams.
The load has the right-of-way, and
here is where the first skirmish with
snojg ofccuhk The snow lies several
feet deep along the well-beaten trail
and tie light team plunges in, some
times almost to their backs and
ftoinder their way out again onto the
i^idMi. There are big drifts, well
knxhrif tothe drivers, where “section
moors’* am stationed to shovel out if.
* &K W&rMto filled a cut These
£Z*wg*fccflJb (‘track walkers0 and
trafl-huilt up where heavy
trt«on,%|s»aiffly with rough l«ck,
dough* fjftirrow.
: ' Serif’s Four Shirts.
_ The inspection party is nosLcfeP^d*
ant upon spy, means of transporta
tjnn avAHsble,' which is generally a
dei^4»*whby**» Hg-fcdwea. It
ftey prepera
tionr4tfr tlhut ttindisiidt fb the. face
of the trtese peeping down from
the' n*fth. PSrkair hre dhg hp and the
process ^tafmntoF wp prpceds. The
;6rst°Miltthw>>cagH>c* dlge into his
daanagh- bag Ata emerges with four
shirts, three pairs at trousers, a pair
of big mittens, s fur cap, "Aretica”
and a parks, dam fuily' awathed'in
S-rXa WaHmA' W ^k
Uhe Hitepty Da&pty end F. A. An-'
sen has* "two ^ degrees on Fatty Ah
ijjgjjaLf
> s^Maa gf Activity.
It by Bepresentttive
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through ooreaty toet * .*&&■ ***&. i
tom Anna hi Atari*. hW &, j?’4|
b* news to him,to ,
capping »rth |&§
construction il tet ft $K* .4**'
once broken with j^w^ emn^on
proceeds unimpaired. . Poeltibly.^Mr.
Madden hed in view the lake front in
his home city of . Chicago about a
‘‘qttarter to March.” . -
' This is daring railrcfad pioneering,
and to the Alaskan Engineering com
mission falls the honor of laying the
foundation for railroad building in
any part of the world . in cold lati
tudes. In choosing between the lms
aii of swamps and their attendant
difficulties in wagon transportation,
plus a moist surface, saturated with
the waters of the melting snows and
operating when frpsen surfaces of
fer a solid roadbed for getting up
supplies and the ground contains the
minimum of moisture, Colonel Mears
and his staff have by one stroke sup
plied the key $o one of the most am
bitious projects yet suggested, build ,
ng a railroad to the shores of Ber
ng strait and tunneling into, Siberi.*
—a project now receiving consider
don by those who are looking to th
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levelopment of Russia.
Building ridges.
A little farther on the praties
luiet is broken by the rhythm*
winding of a pile-driver, setting *
ient pilings for a long trestle. AgaiT
he material of which Alaskan, rail
•oad builders are made asserts itself
V young engineer with transit set if
Erecting thSVork and a braw Scot if
npervising the driving of pilings. B;
he time the grade approaching thr
restle is ready, the bridge will bf
’siting to receive its rails.
A little farther on is a snug camr
f tents or log houses and stores o'
upplies. These are the station con
ractor’s camp's , getting ready to
he big work to be begun within a
ew days or in’ spring as the case re*
luires. Men are snaking up logs with
torses, and maybe up on a hillside in
tonations of blasts tell that nature is
yielding to the conquest of man.
Sartorial Embellishments.
The sleigh overtakes the party, and
with a sock pinned across his nose
.and swathed !h robes, the chief en
gineer settles down for a ten-mile
ride, despite the "quickness" of the
fit of his nether garments, which re
fuse to allow his legs to fold up nbr
mally, and his five shirts that give
him a Jack Dempsey chest measure
ment The sock arrangement is an en
gineering achievement of F. A. Han
sen. . /
It is dinner time at the next supply
headquarters. Already the mail sleigh
hah received its relay of horses and is
speeding away northward. Another
relay is awaiting the inspection
party. From the cramp and chill of
riding in the wind one ffeli like Geo
rge Ade's description of a sleigh ride
—Put both feet into a bucket of ice
wafer, jingle a couple of cowbells tad
yeU like sin. ' ,
.. . Amusing Incongruities. ^
Having not been supplied with such
luxuries as vafete, the inspection |«r
ty itake turn about *tpeeUgg?:ih*eh
other . With the M W the AWtod
dishwasher toper after Ujrw to taken
nffjthe chief until he »pihw.i*e (Jpok
“Sfftte” to proportion with tip .per-,
ka jud s$ck ‘'fr’Kia face and his mus
tache coated ^Htii,'f»at Ip,resembles
nothing so much as a baby walm^ ox
a calf who has^had- bis mussle in q.
pail of prilk. Bdt the ludicrous ask
able* everyone to fogget the hard
ships, and % cup't steamfeg eWfo,
something always.on hand at ri^tix*
—soon banishes the frost The tri*
angle sings outride ind within a .few
-moments ■ big, rosy-dbsdked- men bo
gin slipping into their splices at the
table, tip chief 'and Us assistant
among them..
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(Getting' Acquainted. , ■'
“Who is Hie pleusarit. tittle 9UI
guy?” asks » man at your e&riT.lf
you leave .the table, “sad. the big
JeasWillanT with him?”
“Next to the biggfet noise od tfr
cornmiarion ,”he is informed.
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, Mutters affecting everyone from the*
an atmosphsre such as rifU between
an;affieer of the imy and i la; men
wh»4they have'found him to be n#
human as the most of them.
.Again everything is checked up and
flaws’ in the system a * tight. But all
is running AroothTy and1 Everybody is
“railroading.”
Valley of a Thousand Wonders.
We are now getting into the valley
of the thousand wonders—the upper
reaches of the .Susitna and Gbulitna;
rivers, stretching away for fity miles
and flanked op both sides by soenic
beauty that will lure thousands to
Alaska once its joys, become general
ly knwon.
The sun is still too far south to
penetrate the east aide of the valley
and is late in finding the snow-cap
ped peaks the West Meant ’ Mc
Kinley, the “silent throne from1 which
*t has ruled alone forever and a day,”
.rusts its proud head upward into
ie very heavens. The hills are bath*
1 in a deep purple haze, fading oft
ito shades that defy ' the artist’s
rush to duplicate or the prosaic to
ascribe. There are robin-egg blues,
elicate tints of lavender, flashes of
•imson with the uppfer firmament
:ved and caressed with soft dove
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nts, blending softly into a hack*
round of gray sty. A thread of gold
?giris creeping the south slopes
f the great monarch of American
ountains, and as if by witches’ ma
lic the peak becomes bathed in a ha
o of gold reaching upward to kiss
he purple canopy, hanging just
hove. Another cycle of the earth’s
is crown of wonderful gold, a scene
nsurpassed in the world and one
vorth braving Arctic blizzards to be
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As the light steals northward other
| peaks become great nuggets in a back
1 ground of lavender and blue .and the j
I landscape becomes a fairyland of j
wonder and bewildering ecstasy. .
, Overcoming Hazards. * !
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We are nearing Hurricane Gulch,
traveling along an undulating plateau
passing returning sleighs. A mile
farther on we run into the tail end of
a train of sleigbs waiting for the big
tractor to smash its way out of a
little grief, encountered when a side
slope skewed one t^ead off the packed
surface and'the big monster struggl
ed for footing with which to drag its
eight tons of freight over the knoll.
The wind is getting a full sweep of
the landscape and is hurrying as if to
make* up time lost in getting out of
Hurricane Gulch and on its way to
the southward. We ralght smash -a
way around with the fight sleigh and
Within another half hour be sitting
snuggly In superintendent Secrestfs .
office, but fhdre ie no passing the
“buck” so Hansehf' dismounts and
helps s^re the probelm of getting
the caravan to moving. Despite his
many layers of*-gent’s furnishings
Boreas finds vulnerable spote in the
chief’s armor and takes ffenefish
light in pMyin$“M-boy” arimnd bis
rite. The Ttemb bte a frteen toe ah*
ids nose feels like a Boston - gfadb
Mujh.
isSUVity* Ifrfhggests.
j From beneath die sockon hia nose
somethhy- like “Lead on tfcDuffH'
comes & muffled ; tones from the.;
’chief and wf are off for Hurricane
Giflch, thiee miles away. The snow is
like said and the going stiff, and be
fore waare ushered into the precincts
of a hot stove we mostdropdd^n
350 feet int^ the gulch and negdtiAte
the same distance on the other aide.
It is dark and no onedesires either
conversation dr sdenery; yea find tot
trail by* feeling fhr the hard spots
and , making "ot die stakes along
the rout* AB**W X**f
near dis&liifee* dh joy I A recurrence
of die dlft^en w* drove to town
for tot mid with a mule that missed
on three cylinders and finally crowd
ed around
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LAUNDRY
That shirt yog wait btupjdsroi;
That woolen underwear.
That table and bed linen.
That dainty piece of lingerie. v ...
The “Eddies" and Baby's clothes.
AH these tilings we know how to wariL
Wb call for and deliver all laundry. ;
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We are not boasting when we.
say that we make and serve
GOOD COFFEE
Fifty or more Seward People
v eat our tasty huffckes every dbyC
The mafer: sis , need in every
article webake are of the finest
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