The Alaska daily empire., 1917-10-09
AMONG THE TOTEM POLES IN ALASKA
Quebec, Ont. Chronicle)

Quebec Ont. ChrOn1Cle)
 Attu Island, Alaska is farther West of San Fran cisco than that city is of Passport, Maine. To the average American Canadian the very name IS synonymous with gold and glaciers but of the coun- try he knows less than that of any other spot on the continent He doesn't realize that Alaska contains fiords equal to those of Norway that Alas ka contains more than two hundred immense and unmatched glaciers, some of them near neighbors to summit forms the eastern end of chain of living and dead peaks thousand miles or so long NOT does he realize the climatic variations that are to be found colder than that of St Louis the warmest months or San Francisco and Juneau are of identical record and yet Point Barrow, it's northern fringe, IS 3Oo miles within the Arctic Circle and has no sun for forty days out of every year.
 Leaving Vancouver in comfortable ear canadian nr morning his first view of the typical and wonder fully beautiful scenery of the solemn fiord country Seymour Narrows ushers him into smooth. island dotted waters that lead to Alert Bay where he may fty-foot totem poles and modern hospital by the cedar lodges of the kwatius.
 At evening time Queen Charlotte Sound is reached and for the first and only occasion during the trip the vessel rides water while the whale spouts in the offng and the basking shark lies in the last sunshine.
 River Inlet, Namu, Bella Bella Mbank Sound. the ship northward. Morning brings Swan son Bay, where there is immense mill turning
 At the mouth of the skneena fleet of salmon boats is encountered and passengers leave for many points on the river, which is navigable for miles
 Cape Fox marks the southern point of Alaska and soon Ketchikan is reached modern town soldly planted the most difficult of hy ground. Copper has made Ketchkan, but the tourist will be in terested in the vanishing Indian and his bas- kets than in the advancing miner.
 Wrangel NarrOws is fascinating and pulseless shadowland, where the vessel goes too slowly through the widening channel to break the reflection of the midnight in the solemn northern waters. At the end of the passage glaciers sighted for the first time. These huge and aweinspirng ice monuments are characteristic of Alaska. In Sumdum Bay hun dred more may be along the walls. The seen cry is of the widest description and the pungng bergs keep the ford roaring like some vast foundry of the gods Farther north the Taku Glacier stretch es mile along Taku Bay, the largest of forty-five ice streams emptying their gorgeous colored bergs in the path of the steamer
 At the bottom of sheer 5000 foot mountain, Juneau has ensconsed itself the capital of Alaska and is wellbuilt city, although there couldn't be found naturally level spot which to place a sin gle large building. The tOwnspeOple up-todate, phenomally healthy and entirely despite the rush created past of the district and it's present de- pendence gold mining.
 After leaving Juneau there is allday trip up Lynn Canal to Skagway the end of the journey and the best-known town in Alaska. In the old days of 9S Skagway the door through which all trail hitters struck for the gold fields. taking line the present line of the White Pass Yukon Railway. The Canadian Pacific steamers remain long enough for the passengers to take the road far White Pass, up to WhitehOrse. if a sufficient number wish to explore the dizzy peaks the terrible gorges and sounding glaciers of the north country. The round trip from Vancouver takes nine days.