The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-06-04
WRITES OF FAMED LAND
OF the MIDNIGHT sun
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firing energy of Father Duncan, who
came among them as boyish mis-
sionary many years ago and with
whose help they have reached their
present high standard of civilization.
Their officers and their teachers are
all of their own kind and it is said
to be well worth ones time to study
the model government thus carried
on. The author of THE Apostle of
Alaska" a story dealing with Father
Duncan and his followers, was
aboard our ship and to him we are
indebted for many pleasing remin-
iscences of Metlahkatla Island.
Pausing at Ketchican only long
enough to discharge freight, we pro-
ceeded to Juneau, small town of
some fifteen hundred inhabitants
seeming literally TO hang from the
sides of the mountains. We found
very good accommodations here, the
hotel being steam heated and electric
lighted, and the rates comparing very
favorably with those of hotels in
similar sized towns of our own states,
or, as they say here, down below"
Across from Juneau are the small
connecting towns of Treadwell and
Douglas, which owe their existence to
the Treadwell mines, which mines
operate the largest stamp mills in
the world After the ore is blasted
it is crushed by the continuous
pounding of some $50 stamps, and
is then carried through other pro-
cesses of washing, smelling and re-
fining. Some two thousand people
live here in connection with these
mines. At Treadwell proper the
owners of the mines maintain board
ing houses where food is furnished
In connection with this is a library,
a natatorium, a bowling alley and
an opera house, all of which are
supported by an assessment of one
dollar per month from each men,
Der. This entities him and his fam
lily to all privileges. Once a week
at least some form of entertainment
is provided at the opera house. An
assessment of one dollar and a half
per month entities each family to
any required medical advice and also
hospital privileges.
1t is difficult to know just when
to sleep here, for were one to gauge
his sleep by darkness he would OBJ
tain but little. They tell a story on
one of our party-a Minnesota girl
who, about to retire, decided to
write a letter. Upon finishing her
letter she glanced casually out of
doors, and, with her thoughts pre-
on her letter or distant
friends, completed her toilet for the
morning and proceeded to join her
party in their usual before breakfast |
climb up the mountains. She soon
however, that her friends |
had all retired and that the bright |
daylight was not the morning light |
but Alaska twilight. Darkness reigns |
here at this time of the year from |
near ii O'Clock at night to 2 o'clock |
in the morning.
About June 81 we aim to be at |
Fort Yukon on the Arctic circle. |
There we will watch the sun as it |
encircles the globe, never leaving our
sight from one days end to another. |
The weather is comfortably warm |
spring seeming to be as far advanced |
as in Seattle. No fires are needed |
but we generally wear our spring |
coats when out of doors. In fact |
one marvels at the warmth of the I
atmosphere, when hanging over us, |
as if endangering our very windows |
are snow capped mountains within |
a few feet of an ice-cold mountain !!
stream is to be found a spring of |
boiling water.
AS in childhood days we used to
repeat from our favorite author:
q remember, l remember, the fir
trees tall and high,
| used to think their slender tops