The Alaska daily empire., 1916-07-13
KICK ON NORTHERN
 WEATHER
Tourists Protest Because There Is No Rain in North; Too Much
 Sunshinel
HAD HOT TIME ON TRIP

Hang it all doesn't it ever rain around here?'
 Eastern pleasure seekers who ar- rived back from the North this morn ing on the Pacific Coast Steamship Company's liner City of Seattle, hurl- ed these words at Capt. John F. Blain, assistant manager and other officials of the company who went out on Pier D to greet them, says the Seattle Times of last Friday. Captain Blain will recover He is used to shocks.
 While Seattle and other Puget Sound cities were experiencing much weather" the past month, pleasure seekers who arrived on the City of Seattle were living in the midst of sunshine and flowers, with cloud less sky overhead During all the three weeks the pelasure seekers were gone from port, Southeastern Alaska had only two days of rain, while the interior Yukon had none.
 Seventy pleasure seekers who jour. neyed all the way tO old Fort Yu- kon inside the Arctic Circle came back to the States on the City of Se- attle. convinced that the truth is not in the man who speaks of the North as a land of ice and snow. In fact. a number of these tourists kicked on the unbroken summery weather they encountered everywhere, even inside the Arctic Circle.
 Strip in Midnight Sunshine
 When the pleasure seekers were at old Fort Yukon, watching the mid night sun. all the men first discard ed their vests. Then off came their coats. The fair ones in the contin- gent of midnight sun eNcursiOnists sought all the shady spots on the river steamboat in which they trav. eled down the Yukon river, and piled their fans. They also had to attire themselves in real summer raimenL throw their hats into the discard and get out parasOls
 There's such a thing as too much of a good thing" said many of the tourists. We like summery weather and sunshine and all that but var lety is the spice Of life and the whole time we were gone, there was noth. ing but sunshine more sunshine and then some more sunshine. They call California the land of sunshine Bah! It's got nothing on Alaska. We bathed. drenched and drowned in sunshine even inside the Arctic Cir cle."
 The midnight sun excursionists ar rived at old Fort Yukon June 22 on one of the White Pass & Yukon Routes river steamboats The crowd of pleasure seekers sat up all night watching the sun as it completed its circuit without going below the hori. zon. All agree that it was one or the greatest and most impressive spectacles imaginable. we'll worth the long trip North. But when the sun had made its rounds and started off on another days journey, many Of the pleasure seekers began looking for a cloud.
 Daylight All the Time
 The tourists experienced the usual trouble of those who go North m summer. They never knew when to 20 to bed as 1t was daylight every hour of the twenty-four.
 While Seattleites were kicking at the recent rains, the pleasure seekers were hlChllb OSN""'N '' didn't rain.
 Harry Brandt. general agent of the Pacific Coast Steamship Companys passenger department arrived home on the City of Seattle from three weeks tour of Southeastern Alaska ports. He returned with his face tanned and brOnzed Brandt. how ever luxuriated in tue warmth and sunshine and when he ran into one day of rain at Wrangel and another near Prince Rupert he also did some Kicking"
 Everybody in Southeastern Alas ka. Brandt reports, has worn a straw hat or a Panama hat and gone with
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