Seward daily gateway., 1925-06-20
L. A. TOURISTS
 PRAISE TRIP ON
 ADMIRAL LINER
LAUD SEWARD; SCENERY MAG NIFiCENT; ENJOYED BRIEF VISIT TO VARIOUS POINTS NEARBY.
IRE MAKING FOURTH TRIP


 Depart for the Interior, Returning
 To Coast Over the Richardson
 Hehway-say They Will Be Back
 In Alaska Next Year.
 The pleasant task of interviewing the most charming of Alaskan boost CTS, MT. and Mrs. Alois L. Gardner, of Los Angeles, was the happy op- portunity presented to the Seward Gateway representative few days ago, prior to the departure for the Interior, of the California travellers, who will return to the coast from Fairbanks via the Richardson High way When asked what they thot about Seward, Mir. Gardner said, Il must say that the people of Sew ard are fine and they certainly treated us as though they were glad we visited them and the hearty welcome received will ever be re- membred. My sincere wish is that many of our people of the States would avail themselves to make the trip to your Alaska. I know they would revisit you again aDd again. Mrs. Gardner and myself both trust Alaska will be shortly served with an air mail service from the States, and that a wave of prosperity will sweep over your wonderful commu- nity"
 Last Years Trip.
 In detail, the following conversa- tion with the prominent Californians, is related: "One often hears the ex- pression, will wonders never cease" this term may well be applied to an Alaskan trip and well may I say so, as having made the Southeast ern Alaskan trip in June, last year, accompanied by my wife. On this trip we went to Whitehorse and Lake Atlin and enjoyed to the full est extent the pleasures of seeing the wonderful scenery of natures grand gifts to us all. The trip was fur ther made pleasant, by the excellent treatment of the officers and crews of the Admiral line vessels, all of whom went out of their way to make our trip interesting, comfort able and pleasant.
 Planned Trip Last Fall.
 Upon returning home from the All askan trip last summer, We later, in the fall, began planning our 1925 trip to Alaska We were consider ing our annual vacation to three months and by unanimous agree ment, between us, we decided to tour Southwestern Alaska this year. So arrangements were made with the Pacific Steamship company at Los Angeles; the itinerary included, from Los Angeles to Seattle, thence to Kodiak, Chignik, and return to Seward The splendid trip on the Admiral Evans was enjoyed inn mensely by us. To our great sur prise we discovered many of our old friends among the officers and crew of the Admiral Evans. These included Pilot Kilseth, formerly on the Admiral Rogers; Mir. Blaine, ef- ficient purser, formerly on the S.S. Queen, and two of the porters who were on the Rogers, previously. These, with the stewardess, Mrs. Blair, and other members of the crew staff, made more or less of a happy family reunion.
 After our departure from Juneau we steamed smoothly along amid, Literally hundreds of islands on one side, and on the other passing tow ering, snow-capped mountains and ranges. Each inlet, bay or rocky prominence, seemed to excel in gran deur, those already passed. The glaciers were overlapping in their massive beauty. Our maps showed that on the trip, between Seward and Kodiak, we passed some g glaciers wonder how many Alaskans real ize the value of their gorgeous seen cry and what a truly big asset this is. Of course many of these gla ciers can not be seen from the yes sells passing. We were enraptured with the Columbia glacier in whicf waters we steamed thru thousand; of ice bergs, large and small. The Captain, MT. Graham, ran his yes c al ta fe}e af ahnff