Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-06
GIVES ILLUSTRATED LECTURE
 ON EXPERIENCES IN ALAsl

highly interesting illustrated lecture on the Land of the Midnight Sun was GiS- en Monday evening at the Central Baptist church by Mrs. Frank J. Burdlck of Woonsocket, R. l., who spent four years in Alaska. The lecture was given under the auspices of the church Sunday school and the attendance was large.
 The slides, over 150 in number, were beautifully colored. Mrs. Bu-dicx was presented to the audience by ames L. Case. In part she said:
 confess that it was with a little sinking feeling at the heart that on June 5, 1908, I boarded a steamer for Alaska. Our destination was Fairbanxs. at that time a camp of 5000 or 5000 people, a little farther north than Nome but inland from her nearly 1000 miles. 1 longer. Wonderful sunsets lasting from 8 to 10 or Il. While away on the north ern sky a peculiar white light, which was l explained when we arrived at Dawson for there we found no night at all. The sun sank behind hill for about an hour, | but it was as broad daylight as the mid dle of summers day. It did seem 1 strange to see someone sitting his his 1 house at or in the morning reading without a light. We arrived at Fair banks at midnight, July Gth. The sun was shining as brightly as at midday and yet every store was closed, the shades were down at the windows, the dogs lay asleep in the streets and the sound of our foot steps was fairly startling It l seemed like a deserted village.
 1 We found two good hotels, fine fire department, police protection, steam heat, electric lights, two greenhouses, an up- | to-date modern school, daily news by cable and wireless and forty miles of rail- road running from Fairbanks 10 the min 1 ing creeks. / We found the Fourth of July entertain ments lasted for several days, so we par | ticipated in the gala scene on one of the principal streets.
 Saloons? Oh, yes, we had them. But
 the dance halls and gambling dens of pi- l oneer days were a past feature. A strange 1 country indeed. Garden vegetables we found growing luXuriantly and we learned l that only a few feet under them was per petually frozen ground. It was rather disconcerting until you got used to it, to
 have to pay from 75 cents to $I.25 a pound for tomatoes, s1.00 to s1.50 apiece for cucumbers and $1.O0 pound for cantaloupes. Other vegetables were chap
 CT, but nothing could be had under 25
 cents as that was the smallest piece oi
 money in the country. It was always
 spoken of as two bits, four bits, six bits
 and a dollar.
 we nave lONely spring weather dDOul
 ahe middle of April and from the middle
 of May to the Middle of August, not u,t
 moment of darkness. Gardens are plant
 ed the first week in June. Sometime!
 we have lovely warm weather all througl
 September. One of the jokes up there ii . to tell a new conner that they can pian
 lettuce in the morning and eat it befor, night. They can, as they have DO nigh l for three months.
 The Fairbanks boys each year pla,
 the Dawson boys a series of baseball
 games, beginning June 22nd, at mid : night On the stroke of twelve photog raphers take snap pictures of the game The fortunate spectators sit in a wir net inclosed grand stand, while those O the bleachers build smudge fires lnde
 the seat and fan the air Was boughs { , keep off the mosquitoes, which it seem, would rather eat them than watch tn 2 hottest game
 One beautiful morning in October, m l. first winter in the country I started fo l. the school two blocks away where I ha
 a class, with an unlined cravanet+e coa