The daily Alaskan., 1921-04-14
Spent Many Months Travelling In
 Europe
Mrs. Rupu2zi and Miss Della Tells
 Interesting Story of Journey .-

! two thousand mile trip through parts of the good United States Of America and Europe, she eagerly .... uraestturngly said the best peo- ..., q c- u.e- were Alaskans in gen. ,ral and eN-SNagwayites in 0articu- lar: and the best city or town she saw was Skagway. Miss Rapuzzi de- clares there are no skies so blue. no air so pure and inyigoratins, no peo- pie so wholesome as our. own; in short: There's no place like home. :. There seems to be, said Miss Eapuzzi, a certain brotherhood, un- named and hard to define, yet which all cX-Alaskans consider themselves 10 be. by diving right, charter mem- bers of. We were very agreeably surprised to receive a telephone call from Andrew Stevenson, in Chicago, who had learned through the Cana dian Pacific office of our presence in the city. and who lost no time in get ting iu communication with Us. MT. stevenson called at our hotel that day and took us to luncheon. The following day Mr. and Mrs. Steven son Set aside as Skagway Day, derol- ing the entire day to us. They call ed at our hotel in the morning in their MarmOu car and personally conducted us over what seemed to us must be all of Chicago with lunch con at their beautiful home on Sher- iuau Road.
 In New York, at the Pennsylvania hotel. where Mr. Stevenson had made reservations for us by wire, We found that Alaskans are regard rd in the states as Americans are re- garded iu Europe. On registering and mquiriug if there was q reserva- ton Tor us the clerk informed us there Was. I asked him the price of the room, and was informed it was Sl2.u0 per day. l remarked that perhaps that was little high for us, 70 which he replied. Why, what do .ou care for the price; You're from Alaska aren't yOu?' We never reg .srored from Alaska again. All over Europe We found it the same. It "us. of course, impossible to hide o.r identity and the spirit of Get 5de-Nmcrican-dollar' prevailed wher- ever We went.
 I've sailed from, New York on the White Star liner. Celtic, January 3. The first night out was very rough, although not sufficiently so to make either my mother or in the least uncomfortable. The weather Contin- upd t0 become more ideal each day and when We reached the Mediter- raucan it was one continuous ideal. l found that the blue of the Nedit- crrauuau is no misnomer. Can you imagine sailing through that blue water, Gs smooth as plate glass, sit ting on deck all day bathed in sun shine. and in the middle of January? ] Ion January II, we sighted the frs. land since leaving Boston. It was Azores, This is a very pretty little town with houses all painted white and surrounded with green lawns. On account of cholera in town we were not allowed to gC ashore. From Azores it is two days tu Gibraltar. where We arrived al 7:u0 p. m.. the 10th. We anchored
 ia the harbor and next morning wen
 ashore in tenders. Gibraltar is | queer little town inhabited by queer
 little brown people. The streets art
 queer little narrow ones lined witt
 Etun shops. Leaving Gibraltar a 'Js"0 pm. the 17th, after a very ho day ashore we took up the last le( of our southward journey. At 11:3(
 a. m., the goth, We sighted the is
 land of Sardinia and arrived at Ma
 pies at 4:3O ?. m. Here we me
 our first Customs Inspector, who like our poor relations. have beer
 with us ever since. We have me all sizes, colors and ages of Customs
 Inspectors, including our own George Miller. I believe the latter was the least troublesome, while the French were the most.
 Naples does not appeal to either my mother or myself. Of course The Bay of Naples is all and more than We had heard. The sunsets were beautiful, but if one becomes loo much enthralled with the setting sun, there is danger of some adven- tur0us NeopOlitan sneaking up and . walking away with ones watch. . Architecturally Naples is the most nnmteresting city we saw. Naples . is Heather Chinee'. It was in Ma pies that we became acquainted with , a hotel custom which will sound