The Cordova daily times., 1917-03-07
IN THE BAD DAYS.

Every once in while we are given to understand that Alas ka is again the megh owing to the work of Frank Capen ter great magazine and book writer who toured Alaska years ago for syndicate of the leading newspapers and magazines the purpose of gathering material for series of
 articles upon Alaska and Aaskns These stories often and are universally good Mr. Carpenter gets close to actual facts as writer can day and he tells his stories with little establishment His work will result in good to Alaska
 There's one story Frank Carpenter took out of Alaska with him. and which he has not written yet We have been expect and fearing for two and that fear has gotten on our nerves to beat Mr. Carpenter to it and relieve ourselves the strain upon system, we will tell the story and get it over With
 Frank Carpenter and his daughter went out from Fair banks by way of Nome We met him here In August went out the trail to Corova and decided there to make the side trip to Anchorage the railroad The boat Cordova that evening" and heard that Mr. Carpen ter was passenger her to Anchorage and he heard that the writer also be of the Anchorage passengers Frank the purer and asked him to locate him in the stateoom with the writer "who of Alaska's oldest editors and of whom he could gain lot of valuable information of Alaska while the boat feeling her toward Anchor age''hats what the steward of the boat told us later.
 In those days were not entirely reformed. We had been bOne dry for until bones began to ache with the rouh and had had hard trip the trail and likewise dry trip Just reached Cordova boatoad of Blue Ribbon beer drove into town We arrived by land and the beer by water We dry and the beer and the
 little blue ribbon the neck of each bottle set the bottles off in fine shape We met lot of fellows we knew in Corova and they introduced Miss Blue Ribbon and e for her amber appearance There wasn't time during stay put all the supply decided to take along with toward Anchorage the little Blue Ribbon that remained in Corova
 and ordered lowed boat and stored in what time wa was somewhat ne we we ea know tow staeroom The stevedores had stored all could of the Blue Ribbon berth and it so near breakfast time we decided not worth while dsrobng so managed o c up into the beer infected berth and there fell asleep In the dawn of the morning after awakened to find our staeroom exclusively The baggage of Frank Carpen ter and his portable typewriter which he works with as he travels were all In fact there way of telling that he had ever been occupant of that particular staeroom We remembered that he was to be in staeroom and bere seeing in the bottom berth when arrived However, we were busy all the Seward arranging fearangmg our cargo that didn't miss company to
 speak of and enjoyed the trip immensely Just we got into Seward the steward told of the abdcaon of rights pertain Ing to that particular sateroom connected with Frank penter:
 He came to me before up the morning after we left Corova and he sad For Gods ake give me another state room That who in carload to the room before he arrived and not only filled all the space in his bed and on the foor but bed full of it. In the early morn he board and climbed into his berth and went to sleep those bottles just if they had been eerown feat ers-why, that man crazy-give another room quick wouldn't take chance of sleeping in that another night for all the wealth of Alaska
 lie dldnt We always felt sorry for that for we could have made it interesting for him, sure-beng in the spirit.-Fairbanks News Miner