Seward daily gateway., 1923-06-16
New Steamship Alaska In Seward Today
Prominent Seattle Society Women Beaten and Robbed
Appointments of New Liner
 Alaska are Most Luxurious
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" with a modern bathroom, all of the plumbing being of the very latest de- sign. All of the rooms on the upper deck have both hot and cold running water.
 Quite the most distinctive features of the palatial vessel are the public rooms, the Social Hall, Smoking Room and the Dining Saloon. The Social Hall has windows on three sides of the Beclawat design, which is entirely new on this coast, and they can be raised and lowered as desired. This large room is harmoniously decorat- ed in a Colonial design, in soft tones. The room has baby grand piano, with an Aeolian Piano player. The Brussels carpet can be quickly taken up, disclosing a smooth maple floor for dancing.
 The grand stairway from the social hall to the saloon deck and the contin- uation of that stairway into the din- ing saloon below have two attractive paintings of typical Alaska scenes, the work of Rev. E. P. Ziegler, of Cor doya. who also painted the murals in the city ticket office of the company at Seattle.
 The dining room is covered with in terlocking rubber tile. The tables are arranged to seat five or six and each table has an art lamp in the cen- ter. connected by concealed electric wiring. By daylight this airy room is flooded with sunlight through the round glass ports, usual to steamships while al night a square frame of stain ed glass closes against each port and an electric light behind diffuses a soft and colorful light into the room.
 Tn fact. the whole lighting effect Of the social rooms and staterooms is one of the distinctive features of this vessel. While the women have their social hall and music room the men are not overlooked. They have their smoking room aft, on the upper deck. It is furnished in Flemish Oak, chairs and sofas being deeply upholstered in bronze art leather. The skylight is of stained glass and again the electric lighting effect at night is striking.
 Connecting with this is the usual ships bar, with the added convent ences of a sanitary barber shop and modern bathroom with an expert at tendance in charge.
 These are merely passing refer ences to some of the features of this new steamship, named Alaska, built for Alaskans by an Alaskan company. It is manned and officered by men known generally to Alaskans-Capt. J. G. Nord being the master: Oscar Johnson, chief engineer; Arthur Payne, chief steward, and E. E. P. Morgan, purser, all of whom will be very glad to welcome their friends on board during their stay in port, or up- on their return.
 It is vessel that Alaska can well take pride in and for that reason it should be inspected by all who see in it's coming the dawn of a new era of prosperity in the northland
 At the launching of this ship on Apr 18th. she was sponsored by a native daughter of Alaska, Miss Frances Novel;, daughter of the company's agent at Juneau, in the presence of large gathering. Many men have have been employed since that date rushing the work of interior decora- tion, so that the steamship would be in a position to sail on schedule June g.