The Cordova daily times., 1917-01-25

has been steadily engaged on the Pa cific coast, Captain Hunter has be come thoroughly familiar with the en tire coast line from Panama to Poin
 Barrow and across the Pacific to Ja pan~and China and other parts of the Orient
 His son, Captain Alfred T. Hunter in command of the Northern Pacific is but 35 years of age. and thus car be referred to as the juvenile skip per" of the Pacific coast. At the same time has has already acquired a re putation for efficiency in the handling of that palatial liner. Like his father he started his seafaring caree when he was but sixteen years old, and his first trip was as quartermaster on the | Umatilla.
 In 1898 he joined the Dolphin as second mate, in those days a li- cense for that rank not being neces- sary With the advent of 1900 he shipped on the Charles E. Moody, eighteen months after joining the Louisiana for similar period. Dur ing these three years of "windjam- mer" life he was engaged in trading with Australia, Hawaiian islands and the west coast of Mexico.
 Early in 1903 he signed on the s. S Fremont, 10000 ton cargo car rier of the Boston Steamship Com pany. From Puget Sound the Ire mont piled to China, Japan and the Philippines under the command of Captain Thomas Garlick, who at pre- sent is the genial skipper of the big Hill liner Minnesota Hunter was fourth officer.
 At the close of 1905 he was trans ferred to the Hyades of the Boston Towboat Company, affiliated with the Boston Steamship Company. The Hyades, now owned by the Watson Navigation Company, was then run ming from Seattle to Vladivostock and in less than two years Hunter had obtained his papers and was her first officer.
 During 1907 he went to the Shaw nut sister to the Fremont, and un- der Captain E. V. Roberts, he made several trips from Tacoma and Seat tie to the Orient In 1908 she left Se- attle for New York via Cape Horn, followed by the Fremont (steamed through the Strait of Magellan), both ships having been sold to the 18th milan canal commission. The boats were rechristened Ancon and Cristo- bal. respectively, and are now in the fleet of the government owned Pana- ma Steamship Company. At the time they first went east they were used in carrying cement and government employees to the canal zone. Hunter was with this vessel for nine months in this service, at the end of which he was called to New York and ac- cepted the position of first officer of the then building s. s. Beaver. This was early in 1910 and just before the close of the year saw the appearance of this commodious steamer on the Pacific coast, followed by the recent ly ill-fated s. s. Bear. These two mag nificent steamers were the property of the San Francisco & Portland Steamship Company.
 When the Beaver arrived at San Francisco under command of Captain William Kidston, Hunter was trans ferred to the Korea, then one of the Pacific Mail liners. He served as sec, ond officer for one trip, rising to chief officer and serving under such | well known shippers of that craft as Sandberg, Saunders, Fischer and last but not least, Nelson, better known by his writings as Yankee Swanson Hunter remained with the Korea un til August 2S, 1914, when he accepted the position of chief officer of the Great Northern, sister ship to tho Northern Pacific, and both of which
 were building at Champs in Phila delphia.
 Hunter left for his new post imme diately and came out with Captail A. Amman through the Panama cana
 in 1915. arriving at San Francisco
 then the Exposition City, on the earl.
 morning of February 12. The ship o
 which he is now commander followe,
 two months later and on June IA las
 year he took charge of her bridge.
 In all these nineteen years of SCI
 life, a great deal of which was spen
 in the waters through which hi father was guiding ships, he has onl worked a few months on one in whicl his father was the captain, and tha was while on the Dolphin.
 And now in 1917. the Northwestern } has been chartered by the flask
 Steamship Company to the San Frar