Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-06
Sickness Unlikely
on Trip to Alaska

| for the chains OF islands along the
shore ar" continuous and the course is
! land locked The most chronicalIy
ocean-shy person in the world could
make this trip. for there is no chance
Of sea sickness. and one scarcely gets
a stones throw from land.
But the wonder of the trip Is the
scenery The ocean has here eaten into
the coast range. The shore Is what
remains of the towering mountains
that have survived. The islands are
prectpitous cliffs that rise like stu
pendous rock built castles that have
fallen into decay and been overrun by
nature. The channels are narrow and
deep and placid. mirroring the border
| land Erandcurs. Every bit of land is
covered with forest. 1t is like the
world famous ford region of Norway,
but on scale of much greater mag
nificence There is no call for moving
from a steamer chair to get the four
day panorama Mt Its best.
The trip to Skagway. however. Is but
an introduction to Alaska. The trip
along the Alaskan coast is but just
started. There is the next lap of 500
| miles by the open to the Prince
William sound region. and to Seward.
from which the new railroad is to
start. This region is the. greatest
snow and glacier field in all the world
outside the polar areas.
The mountains still crowd the coast
line. eliminating in Mount St Elias.
W h c h rises
Mild Climate more than co.
Contends With Ice. near1v four
miles, direct from the waters edge. Of
| fering one of the most stupendous
| spectacles from the sea that is to be
| seen anywhere in the world. The warm
| winds from the Pacific, moisture laden.
| blow up these mountain slopes and pre-
| cipitate the water they carry, in the
| form of snow. On many of these slopes
there is a snowfall a hundred feet deep
| every year. Its accumulated masses
| push constantly into the valleys below
and into the sea. There is blanket
of 1t in this region that is 500 miles
long and 100 miles wide. a climate
that is as mild as the Atlantic coast
line of the United States contends with
these descending fields of ice, and they
are mostly melted before they reach
the waters edge. Some fast-moving
glaciers of great thickness push their
noses into the water and breed innum-
cradle icebergs that are short lived in
these warm waters of the Japan cur
| rent Great barriers of crystal ice rear
themselves as bars to many a valley
otner"1se qulet coNeS are turned into
amphitheaters where the breaking of
ice cliffs and the falling of great frag-
ments rival the cannonading of great
armies in battle. And the tourist still
sits in his steamer chair and need
make no further exertion to see the
show at its best
Then there is that peninsula and
string of islands that reach out to the
west and south from Alaska-the Aleu-
tians. Attu. the last of these islands,
is much nearer Toxic and Picking than
| II IS the new railroad Uncle Sam is
| building. The whole group is inhabit-
| ed by Monaghan Americans, the only
| people Of their race on the soil of the
| western hemisphere. The tip OF this
| land is further west of San Francisco
than any point in Maine is east of that
| point So far to the west does this
American soil extend that on a June
day the evening sun is still shining at
Attu when the morning sun of the next
day has arisen in Maine
But the wonder of the Aleutian Is