The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-11-01
NOT ENOUGH chicken
Returned KIondiker Nho Cans
Get Sufficient of It
WlCHITANS AT DAWSON
Joe GondoIfi Rich; Al Clark to
be Fire Chief--Mr Kroenert

II think I shall remain here in wich-
tia with the folks" said James slayden
yesterday. "as long as the chicken holds
out. I cant get enough chicken. I
haven't had any for three years"
singularly enough poultry does not
thrive at Dawson, where Mr.. slayden
now lives.
of course It may be a joke" Mr.. Stay
den continued. but the boys at Dawson.
up under the Arctic Circle. where in the
summertime the sun goes down at 1890
p. m. and comes bobbing up promptly at
30 a. m, that is, four hours later, say
that the chickens don't go to roost be-
cause it doesn't ger dark, and just nat
urally peter out At all events, you will
never appreciate just how good chicken
is until you are deprived of it for years.
7 was raised on Kansas chicken, and I
have gone without it.
Mr.. Slayden went into an explanation
Of some of the queer manifestations OF
the long days and the long nights Ok
KIondike year. a subject usually neglect
ed by returned travellers, and he also
brought word from three well known
Wichita men. Joe Gandolfo, Mr.. Kroe-
merit and Al Clark.
OF the long summer day IN that lsti-
tude ne said: ''The sensation of an OBJ
nque sunset and an oblique sunrise al
most in the same place, and the continu-
Gus day is not only curious. it is also
decidedly annoying. I VIII explain why.
The sun comes up on a slant and takes
an interminable time TO get in full view;
then II will circle in the heavens and
finally set in the same slow, siding way
and after it has set you know that it IS
only skimming along Just under the nor
izon. About 10 o'clock at night you viii
take out your watch while the sun IS
shining brightly, and say: We'll, it is
about time to go to bed And then you
viii pile in, after darkening your cabin
as well as you can. Like as not. along
about II O'Clock some neignbOr who is
having the same experience as you are,
viii knock at the door and announce that
he has come for an evening call, apollo
getically remarking that 1t isn't sundown
vet anyhow. II you know him well, you
win fire him out dar5en the cabin again
and crawl in with q sort Of guilty feeling
an American mas Of sleeping in daylight
Now you can't counterfeit night by dark
ening a cabin. You can darken It only
comparatively. The result is very try
ing on the eyes IN summer and makes
them have 4 smarting sensation far from
pleasant. What few chickens are there
will roost at sunset and get up with sun
rise, and there may be something in the
story Of the arrangement wearing them
out In the morning you get up and you
know the sun has been UP hours before
you, and you don't feel right about it,
I'm the winter you have another sensa-
ton which affects a different sense-that
OF hearing. For two months at Dawson
we have continual night. That is, the
sun doesn't show himself at all For
few hours in every twenty-four you can
do very well without light, but the rest
Of your day you work by either the rays
OF a candle OF kerosene. One day I ex-
perienced, the thermometer Esprit Their
mometers are used, for mercury would
freeze went down to 2 degrees below
zero. The silence Of intense cold in the
far north Is unspeakable. It is actually
painful to the ear. We often say down
here that It is calm Here we do not
know what a calm is. There It is calm.
dead. motionless calm. You viii not hear
a sound. The air Is completely still OF
course It IS fearfully cold, but it IS not
so bad as one would think. and you sub
scribe to the theory, more than ever If
you are a Kansan, that it is the wind
which makes cold cold. However. It is so
cold that leather shoes, such as we wear
would freeze the feet off you. No matter
how big pair Of shoes You might slip
on over an infnity Of socks. freeze your
feet would in spite OF you All Of US
in winter wear wooden socks. German
socks and moccasins which come up over
the ankles and are very. comfortable. Our
little boy would 20 out to play in the
ward bundled nn securalv in the dAad nt