The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-17
ITEACHER WRITES
 .0F HER TRAVELS
 !. IN FROZEN ZONE
How It Feels Riding Behind Team of Dogs With Ther-
 mometer 50 Below.

Team of Dogs With Ther-
 mometer 50 Below.
 Travel behind a dog team in Alas ka with the thermometer DO degrees helow zero is described by Miss Mar
 ,a+ Keenan. superintendent of schooI. at Fairbanks, in a letter 10 G.,,rasentatiys G Addison T. Smith or Tdaho Miss Keenan, made the trap f,or, Fadr1,a ulxs < to Nenanar the ne" town of the Gcve1nnnent ratlroan td-l ID Alassa. Her letter follows: ,..
 GA winter in the Far North is xar,ad and uiuue experience. rms morning the mercury stopd at o4 ne- low. which in itself makes some un ference in the way you move ana ac,, To run school under electric hgnI ah day long and thermometer ae oo pc Now requires several shifts Tn scnooi rnanassnent not in the worKs on peu- .poev5 However. I keep myself In readiness to make the grand 1llpllop any moment and get along pre''s
 ..Ny holiday vacation was the req NZAuOx4. O4 ~A40 &AAA@~e@A-~~~.eNO~- Heara % chAperanod the high school party that night tiHa1 o'clock in the morning ana . then wont home to get ready to start earw inSthe morning. Long peIore dayiixht II heard Come. gee there, Rob. come, gee! Don't you circle that pole or you and will go to the mat. . And I knew that the 'Malamute k1d' fan,ous dog musher of the North was mi In front with his long sled ana 1a rnalaxnute dogs I was all ready except tho last outer wraps. These Sou do not pufton until the last mo- ment for fear of perspiring, and mois- kure is the dread of the trail nad pn all my own. wraps. fur coat, TUT aeezdnxs. fursoaps, etc Over all these went Malamute's big coonskin coat. then \, was wrappedf in fur sled robes and a foot warmer placed at my IeeL
 .Tho sled was 16 feet long and 1z 7nches vide To my amazement IL went over bumps like Q worm Upon inquiry I WAS told that it was made of hickory, tied together with moose hide throngs, and cost just $10O plus 80 more. My respect for the turnout rose with the price. The dogs are part, wolf, part dog. They watch fhem drink while they arc little. If they lap with their Tongues they let them live; If they drink like horse or. wolf they kill. them as they are too wild for domestic purposes
 .~Thers. is tradition in tho north that . dog understands but one lam sruage-prcfane; and they had all told anA that the Kid would get me there, hut F must be prepared to not be shocked at; his language replied that I was hiring dog mu6her,, not q courier so he could not shock me. As we started was not SO sure about that,sfor he ripped one fearful oath, followed it with another in the next breath, paused a moment and got out the first ward, of s.ancthersi e@
 "Here he seemed to bite down and awal1ow the rest of ii, and from that snomenkh his language might have been the court language of France. So even an Alaskan dog musher knows thing or two even If 1t did take a moment totrealize what he was doing. I for gave that for the sake of the tribute of the remainder of the four days I spent on the trail with him.
 "It is 77skmiles down the Tanana River to Nenana, and we made it each way 1uHIWC Q2yS 1u0 I1I6L ul8HI Iuc Ohio roadhouse sheltered us. It Is a funny place, kept entirely by men. Every one said it was the incest place On the trail {. It 1t was the best I kept wonderipg what the others were like. T founds out Being the only lady in the crpRd of A., of course, I occupied the apartment de luxe. It consisted of a. space separated from the rest of the main room by thin muslin stretcASd over frame about eight feet high. and burlap over the muslin about five feet up.
 .x.I.Was SO sleepy went to sleeI with men, men. mon on three sides playing black jack, talking trails ane ff1ushfng. ono man complaining tha, some fone had stepped on his socks aildabr oaxeHs them and some one con Isoingflaim with the opinion that. one was snpts a real ssourdough, until he could jump his socks seven times jump meaning. to. turn them round when the heels wore through. threw my three pairs Of woolen hose out with ths request that they be added to the collection on the rack over the stoye--a woven. wire rack for drying hand and footwear of the trail. slept. obvious of the fact that steam t4TOIu QIyluB SInOkC ITOII many pipes and germs from every where poured in like an invading ar my. F s..9Zs" : eyec ~
 The next day we arrived in Ne lnana. and entertainment began a once: also it. never ceased. the zentir, time I was there. The town is onl, six. months old. but it has better places of entertainment in some re spectss now than Fairbanks has. Tn, town is we'll laid out and we'll built nothing looks like it just happened The homes have electric lights, stean heat and hot and cold water
 "Ope of the interesting trips wa. Cut3to the Nenana Mission for the na lives It twas established by BishoI Rowe about 12 years ago, and is som, achievement, considering it's location It consists of school, hospital, dormi tory,s Sss.. laf ...s
 l. took. off nay hat mentally to tn, minister. nurse, matron and teacher who constitute the staff-may thei reward be great in the final reckon ing, though their faces looked hk, tileyswere getting some of it in thi world. He that loseth his life shal find it.f f@e,,.
 We came home by the river trail 'onsthe ice where the river ran straigh and, cutting across bends through tn, forest. It Is the old trail used by tn, stampeders of the early day and wa indescribably beautiful The prini Sn%I ~A IA fl 4 n