Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-04
QUIT KIDDING, SAYS WRITER ON
 CALF. PAPER
NEWSPAPER MAN BUYS TOTEM POLES AND WILL ERECT ON
 LOS ANGELES CORNER
Trail Is Not a Highway
Believes Interior Is Not Vet Ready for Tourist Travel, But Says 1t Is
 "A Fine Country"

With a pair of six foot totem poles under his arms, F. G. Mccoy, writer for the Los Angeles Examiner, who has been making a tour of this region on a special assignment, staggered down to the steamer Alaska last even ing from the Alaska Shop, and accord ing to MT. Mccoy, upon his arrival at his old home town, together with a much larger totem which he purchas- ed in Juneau, from 75,000 to 100000 citizens of Los Angeles will daily view these same totems which will be erect ed permanently on one of his corner business blocks, valued at S300,000 Pretty soft for Alaska totem poles, one rises to remark.
 To Give Away Data
 MT. Mccoy said he also was going to have a pamphlet printed in which will be found correct data and infor- nation relative to Alaska. The history of the tOtems will be published in the literature and on the two totems pur- chased in this city, the words, "Pur- chased at Seward, Alaska" will be stamped upon brass plates. T am a strong booster for Alaska and think it is the most wonderful country l have ever visited" Mr. Mccoy stated to a Gateway representative, but
 Rioht from the Shoulder
 T really believe you folks should not advertise the Richardson highway as a highway but as mountain road for we people in the States, when one speaks of highway, think inn mediately of a paved, macadamized, or an oiled road, so when we come North, carrying this thought with us, and ride over the long, bumpy Rich ardson trail, the impression gained is not for the best.
 Not Ready for Tourists.
 Tn my opinion, with all due credit, I do not believe the Interior is ready for tourists yet. The automobile trail
 
 cially on the older travellers, and tho the accommodations are good, they are not good enough for the people who will be travelling with increased numbers each year. These people on an average look for comfort when touring, and then again as was in our in Eyoi irho orIy +o remain there a number of days long CT than our party desired for the party wanted to visit other places on the railroad prior to departing from Seward for the States on the steamer Alaska. During all of our trip over the trail we never once caught a glimpse of our grips
 Doesn't Want to Be knocker
 For goodness sake, brother, be sure and tell them I am not a nnocker, after what have just said!" MT. Me Coy exclaimed in all seriousness, flor I am a booster for Alaska and you will see this when my story is pub lished in the Examiner
 Tourists Have Brains
 Another thing, some of the people of Alaska should know, and that is that the people who are visiting your beautiful country must have had brains to accumulate the where-with. all to make trip to your country. Yet I found on every hand up here that we were being continually kidded about ice worms and other things. It really would surprise you to know how many of your visitors leave the country with the idea that ice worms are really fact. Alaska is but a iron tier country and this kidding of the tourists should be stopped. Over ir Anchorage one of the members of the party wanted to know if Mt. Mckinley