The Nenana news., 1922-02-07

| by the people of Neraha on Sunday under the auspices of the Nenana l Commercial Club. in honor of the arrival of the First Through Train from the Coast, on the Government railroad, was a success in every particular and reflects much credit on the various committees appoint ed to arrange the various details, and on Nenana Igloo, No. F, Pio- neers of Alaska, which organization turned out in body and contribut- ed in very large measure to the success of the celebration.
 The train was about half an hour behind schedule time in reaching Nenana and it's distant approach was heralded by long blast of the fire whistle, which was the signal for the populace to gather And when the big locomotive, with string of modern passenger coaches and the combination diner and ,h- servation car "Nenana", pulled in to the station, about the biggest crowd that ever gathered together in Nenana was there to greet it. The turnout was remarkable in view of the fact that cold and disagree able weather prevailed at the time. the temperature being a dozen de- grees below zero at noon, with fairly strong breeze blowing.
 The crowd was both large and representative. There were present: Mayor Tom Smith and members of 1 the City Council; President J. K. Bowen and members of the Nenana Commercial Club; President Joe O. i Connor and members of Nenana Igloo, No. IF, Pioneers of Alaska; Superintendent and Mrs. A. B. Phil lips and the children of Franklin K. Lane School; Dictator Ali Ekeland and members of Nenana Lodge, No. i 1193, Loyal Order of Moose; Miss Wright and the members of the teaching staff and the children of ] St. Marks Mission, the entire popu- lation of the Indian village and all of the rest of the population of the community.
 i The cold weather brought out a liberal adornment of winter clothing including furs of all kinds, parkas, mukluks and caps, and the appear ance was striking. Joe Nadon, who ', is a well known oldtimer of the North, appeared as prOspector, making camp after long mush ov
 CT the trail. He wore parka fringed with wolf fur, carried a pack on his back, with axe, snowshoes, gold pan, 1 frying pan, sourdough pot and about dozen grouse and ptarmigan at tached to it. He also carried a rife and a "bug" of sourdough make. Jacob Olson, another oldtimer, and ! veteran of two wars, was attired in much the same manner. He was on i skis and carried rife and freshly killed rabbit. Both of these features were staged to give "color" to the moving pictures of the celebration.
 Peter Steil, Alaska representative of the Pathe News, was stationed on platform near the foot of A street, from which point of vantage he filmed the proceedings, including the arrival of the many dog teams.
 Immediately. after the train was brought to halt near the foot of A street, the railroad officials, head ed by F. A. Hansen, engineer main | tenance and construction, were es- corted to a place near the movie mans camera, where Mayor Smith, acting for the city, and Dr. Bowen, for the Commercial Club, under the auspices of which organization the | celebration was arranged, welcomed them to the city. Immediately after ward, M. J. Cooney, clad as a typi- cal dog musher, with his crack dog team, and Miss Hazel Iceland, as passenger, drove up in front of the big locomotive, bringing the sleigh to halt smartly across the bows of the engine, where the young lady, native daughter of the Golden North, alighted. This feature repre- sented the passing of the old and the coming of the new order of things in Interior Alaska. Miss Tee