The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1922-04-13

or more TO look around IN the
Land of the Midnight Sun.
According to the original plans. the presidential
party will go by special train to the Pacific coast,
probably alightng at San Francisco Seattle will
be port of CALL Thence the route will be through
the Inner Passage and to Alaska Presumably
Juneau, the territorial capital will be visited Ac
cess to the government railroad, practically
completed, can be had either at Seward its south
ern terminus, or at Anchorage on Cook Inlet The
road runs from Seward straight north TO Fair
banks, about AGO miles. MayfOwer the presiden-
tial yacht is likely to be sent through the Panama
canal to be Of service somewhere along the coast.
wonderful vacation trip worth the while even
of the President of the United States of America
And the President is known to be lover of the
beautiful and jestic in nature and loyal friend
OF our national parks and of such scenic enter
prises as the National Park-toParh highway In
cdentally an effort is being made to get the Pres
dent to visit on this trip one more of the nation
al parks and the proposed Presidents Forest"
on the North Rim of the Grand canyon.
In Alaska-"The Frozen North" we used TO
call 1.-THE President will have chance to see
various things that are far out Of the ordinary
There isn't space here to catalogue Them but here
are few that any man would be glad to see
At ketchikan a stream plunges through the CEN
ter of the town. And in the stream is salmon-run
where millions of salmon are to be seen making
Incredible leaps to ascend the rapids.
Juneau is the Alaskan capital. There the Presi-
dent can take an automobile and drive IL miles
right to the edge of Mendenhall glacier It'll be
summer weather. He pick flowers by the
way. He'll see vegetable gardens strawberry beds
and wheat fields surrounded by giant forests and
overtOpped by peaks white with everlasting snow.
OF course the President will strike somewhere
the fukon-one of the great rivers of the world
and grandy scenic for the greater part of its 1900
miles,
The President Is likely to run across a big herd
nfrAnn
Alaskan peninsula. There now about 225OOO
of these "Cames Of the Frozen North" One of
these days we are likely to be eating reindeer meat
instead OF beef; several thousand carcasses are
to be shipped in from Nome this year.
The seal rookeries on the Pribilof islands should
be worth seeing; there were 552718 of these curl
Gus animals according to the seal census of 1920
and they increasing although Uncle Sam takes
more than $4,000 skins a year.
1t is to be hoped that the President visits the
new Katmai National monument-eThe Valley of
Ten Thousand Smokes" Katmai volcano ON the
Alaskan peninsula blew its head off during tbree
days in June of 1912. covering all Alaska with a
thick coating of dust. The explosion left a crater
$500 feet deep and eight miles around with lake
at the bottom. Close by is valley several miles
long, from which shooting up thousands of
steam jets some of them thousand feet high
1t is sample of earth In the making Some dav
these steam Jets may cool off enough to become
geyserS ike those or the Yellowstone In tho
meantime, cooking is easy in Katmai
If the President travels on the government roll
road to the gap in the steel he will have glorions
view of Mount Mckinley, one of the great moun
tains or the world and the central feature of tho
100 square miles of Mount Mckinley National
park. 1t rises 10000 feet above sea level ana e.
most impressive 1t is a wonderful preserve of
Alaskan wild game-caribou, bighorn moose dear
add bear-which live and breed there in immense
numbers. At present this park is inaccessihIe but
the government railroad will touch the new ans,
boundary line established by a recent act of con
gress. Then there Will be rush of tourists-verv
few Of whom will reach Mount McKinley's GLACIER.
covered summit.
So Alaska has the markings of mighty interast.
ing vacation trip for the President and his Marty
But don't get the idea that the Presidents trim
Is wnoily ana solely vacation pleasure trip For
the truth Is that 1t is a combination of Measure
and business; IL it breaks ffty-ffty, the pleasure
angle Is In luck For Alaska is one of tha adnin-
istrations problems" And the President Is ra
ported to think the Alaskan problem important
enough to warrant frst-hand information.