The Alaska daily empire., 1922-04-12
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Three Men in Alaska Await
Arrival of Coast Guard
Cutter Algonquin.
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SEATTLE, April 12.-While the
Coast Guard cutter Algonquin, Capt.
w. T. Stromberg. is outfitting at the
Bell Street pier for her annual cruise
IN Boring Sea and Aleutian waters, a
lone white man on tiny Attu Island,
500 miles from the jumping off place,
is beginning to count the weeks I'M
til next June when the cutter will
make her yearly visit to the rocky
isle. He is J. w. Walker, former
Coast Guard man. now engaged in
trapping and trading.
On the Samichi Isles Is miles from
Attu are two white men, one named
A. B. Somerville and the ether named
Williamson, who are equally isolated.
Somerville has a permit allowing him
to raise blue foxes in the Semichi
group
Learn Old News
When the Algonquin makes the dis
tant isles in June, these three white
men will learn for the first time that
President Harding's armament con
ference actually was held, that it re-
suited in treaties and that the treat
les were ratified by the Senate. They
will also learn for the first time that
the Irish free state Is a reality, that
the Republican majority in main was
cut down in a recent election, that
Charles of Hapsbury is dead, that
Marshal Joffre visited America. The
lone whites of the farthest isles
didn't learn until last summer that
Harding had been elected President
the previous fan.
Attu Island is 1926 miles west of
Unalaska and 2,450 miles from Sc
attic. In a way the plight of the
three white men this year is not as
severe as it was last year. They had
to wait n long time last year to learn
who won the Dempsey-Carpentier
fight and they waited in an agony
Of suspense. The suspense was al
most too much, they said.
The Algonquin the 'Haida. the
Mojave and the Unalga will form the
Bering Sea patrol, including the
Pribilof patrol against pelagic or
open sea sealing. They will visit
remote islands and communities in
Boring Sea, Alaska Peninsula and
Aleutian waters. They will carry
mail to the codfishing fleet, act as
floating courts in the remote waters
and communities and provide medi-
cal care for all who need it.
Stromberg Veteran
Captain IStromberg is a veteran OF
the northern patrol, this being his
eighth season in that duty With him
on the Algonquin are Lieut.. j. III,
Cornell. executive officer; Lieut.. 81.
60 j. E. Whitbeck, navigation Off
Ger; Lieuts. q. 81 H. G. Bradbury
and l. W. Buckalew, deck officers;
Lieut.. F. II. Young, senior engineer
officer; DIR. F. B. Nather, assistant
surgeon, United States Public Health
Service. The warrant officers are
Boatswain p w. Patterson. Machinist
A. B. Pinkham, Gunner ]. II. Earle
and Carpenter o. Wiley.
The Algonquin is one of the crack
vessels of the Coast Guard Service.
Her speed is II knots, and for years
she has covered the northern patrol
with an efficiency that has won high
praise.
The cutter serves as a benefactor
and friend of the natives of the re-
mote Aleutian villages. Captain
Stromberg says that the chief need
suits and other garments, if clean
and mended. will be received by the
cutter for distribution in the isolated
villages. No hats or shoes, however,
are needed