Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-09-19
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL NEWS
SOME INTERESTING DETAILS

In Connection With the Recent Canadian
Northwestern Trip of DR.. and Mrs, Bowen
and Mrs. Dowley-The Picturesque Cana
dian Rockies, the Glaciers and Curious Alas
kan Towns Continuous Clear, Delightful
Weather.
The recent trip, already noted, tax
en- by DR.. and Mrs. Bowen and Mrs.
Dowley across Canada and into Alas
ka, had, of course, many interesting
details, some of which Brattleboro
people, especially her stay at homes,
may enjoy hearing. They left here
Flly ID, returning September 10 and
airing all this time, while Brat
ieboro was uneasily enduring a
cold, gray, wet-eyed nightmare of
a summer, they were reveling al
most continuously in clear, cool, eX-
hilarating air and sunshine. Passing
over the journey through eastern Can
ada as too familiar to warrant descrlp
ton. the real wonderland opens at
Bantf, the gateway of the mount
aims and the loveliness of the seem
cry deepens at Laggan where the first
glimpse of glaciers is obtained. AT
Laggan the travellers climbed the
mountains to see three lakes in the
clouds, n of the most beautiful
sights of the trip, Field, another stop
ping place, is the basin of the mount
aims and in the great glacier fields.
Snow lay in patches on the mountains
and snowballing was engaged in. yet
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The grandeur of the scenery and the
brilliancy of the wild flowers seen in
the Canadian Rockies is said to be
far greater than anything the mount
aims of our own country can show,
Seattle, which was visited both on the
outgoing and home coming journeys,
gets great praise as the typical west
ern city-bright. energetic, vigorous
among a host of imitators of the East.
Alaska was visited at exactly the right
season to escape the usual fogs as was
also, later, the Yellowstone region to
escape the dust. The Alaskan scenery
was magnificent. The party passed
through a lovely archipelago of islands,
thickly wooded and rich in mines.
Canning factories, to supplement the 4
salmon fisheries, were everywhere. Sit
ka, .Alaska's capital, is the most in
teresting, but Juneau the most pro- .
gressive and thriving of Alaskan cit
es, In Sitka is an old Greek church
of quaint and historic properties, and
the Indians who squat in sotlid lines
along the streets with their wares are a
picturesque feature Of the place, They
will only accept silver money in their
business, and that they understand
thoroughly, although ignorant and
suspicious of other kinds. The mis-
sion schools established by Sheldon
Jackson for the IndianAhere were Wis
tied. ketchikan and Fort Wrangell,
an old military post. now virtually
abandoned, We're subsequently visited
and some curiously marked graves and
poles were seen: though the
place for totem poles, in large and va
ried assortment, is at Kassa-an Bay.
they journeyed to Skag-
way and the summit of the White
Pass, to the disputed territory of Great
Britain and the United States: then
down to Sitka and Glacier Bay, where
The glaciers were seen at a distance,
six miles being the nearest approach
possible since the earthquake of 1900;
before which. visitors could 90 to
~one-fourth mile.
After again visiting Seattle and 9th
er western cities they went from Spo-
a into the Yellowstone region Wis
ted Minneapolis, St. Paul and Chi
went by steamer to Mackinaw.
Up the st. Croix river to Sault Ste
Iarie-a beautiful sail-and back by
all to Mackinaw then. by boat again.
Buffalo; toNiagaraiFalls and Brock
,ort. n. Y, Mrs. Bowen's old home,
eturning home from there, {
The party consider the route taken
~ them one of the most enjoyable the {
ointment offers, and 10 every way de, {
idedly worth taking for a pleasure |
rip. '