Seward daily gateway., 1925-09-12
INTERESTING NEWS FROM M'kINLEY PIX. CORRESPONDENT
(By Special Gateway Correspondent)


 MCKINLEY PARK, Alaska, Sept S.-(By MaiD.-A prospector leaving here a few days ago for his winter camp on the, Kantishna, had his winters outfit loaded on his basket sled, to which was attached four small wooden wheels, which will be abandoned when the snow line is reached. The addition of wheels en- abled the dogs to walk right along with the outfit.
 Mrs. Judge Vinal, of Healy, was a recent visitor at Mckinley Park. It was Mrs. Vinal's first visit to the Fairyland of Alaska, and she was greatly pleased with what she found. The Judge and Mrs Vinal are old timers of the Kuskokwim country where they own a large section of dredging ground, and are the sort of people of the North that one likes to know.
 
 Miss Mamie F. Clark, who recent ly returned from visit with friends at Hot Springs, away down on the Tanana, will handle the reins at the little schoolhouse at Healy, the com ing winter (unless it happens the school will be at the coal mines this winter) and teach the lassies and laddies there are sermons in stones and good in everything" Miss Clark was principal of graded school outside for several years, and ranks among the highest as an in- structor.
 Very shortly about twenty-five or more horses will be offered for sale at auction at Talkeetna. Those be- longing to the Road Commission now working in the Park are to be sent down for sale.
 Maurice MOrinO of the Mckinley Inn, recently had the levels taken for a foundation where a new building will be put up as an addition to his Inn. The site of the new improve ment will be about 200 feet back of his present building, and when completed next spring will accom- modate 60 additional guests, and will be equipped with wash rooms and baths. The horse barns will short ly be torn down and rebuilt on the bench below where one of his cabins was burned last winter A consid- erable change will be made the con- ing season regarding tourist travel, which was very unsatisfactory the past season from their standpoint, and was the cause of much com plaint from them MT. Morino has acrew of men at work clearing the brush and trees from the land just east of the railroad in accordance with an understanding he has with the railroad and location of the new depot. He will make a trip outside the coming winter and bring in two carloads of saddle horses in anticipa- ton of next seasons tourist travel MT. and Mrs. Way of Fairbanks, greeted friends here while on their way Outside. Mir. Way was a form CT ranger here in the Notional Park, and has been called to Washington, D. C., on business.
 coat of paint preparatory to being erected along the new highway now being built into the National Park. They are green in color. The build ings of the Road Commission at the depot have been given a bath or two of green paint.
 Lieut.. Mackie, and his accomplish ed bride (nee Miss Queenie RusselD have taken up their home at McKin- ley Park, where Lieut.. Mackie is connected with the Park Service. He is an aviator of note and was to have piloted a ship to Nome last winter during the time of the epidemic He is bringing to the Park Service a fund of new constructive ideas that will add greatly to the service, and especially needed as tourists are a very critical bunch, many of whom visit all the National Parks in the United States before coming here.