Seward daily gateway., 1925-10-15
ROBINSON CRUSOE
 OF ALASkAPAYS SEWARD A VISIT
FRED SCHILLER, ONE OF BES KNOWN CHEFS IN ALASKA
 HERE ON VISIT.
IS IN THE STEAMER SERVICE
Resident of Fairbanks and Nenana Past Two Years-Like to
 Remain In Seward.


 has catered to the wants of Alaskans from the tip of the Panhandle dis trict, to the fringes of the Arctic, during the last twenty-five years, ar rived in Seward last evening from the Interior, where he has been em- ployed all summer in the service of the Alaska Railroad river steamer service as head steward on the Gen. eral Jacobs. He will remain in Sew ard until Monday, when he plans to return to Fairbanks, where he and Mrs. Schiller have made their home for the past two years. While in Seward, MT. Schiller is a guest at the Hotel Van Glider.
 Mr. Schiller said after looking Se- ward over this morning, providing he could obtain work here, they would perhaps move to the coast, but things were pretty fair Inside and he is more or less reluctant to make move.
 The Interior weather has been ideal all summer and is still so, the storms and recent rains in this dis trict having not reached farther North than around Cache Creek. Last month a light snow fell in the Fair banks regions, but since that time not even a frost has fallen. The rivers are still clear of slush ice, and steamers could be operating yet 1 for considerable period, he be- | lieved. Coming down the railroad, | the last two days, at Broad Pass, the train ran hru heavy snow sorm. The first frost was struck at Curry l (Dead Horse) Rain began falling yesterday at noon at Anchorage, and continued so all the way over the mountains, extending to the coast In comparison to the Fairbanks dis tric, where a heavy rain falls in Sew ard and along thecoast, in the Tn terior a good drizzle is considered a heavy rainfall, Mr. Schiller remark de. TT
 l The oldtimer and his wife will be recalled perhaps, by many Alaskans as being adorned with the title o1 the MT. and Mrs. Robinson Crusoe ot Alaska, due to their three years res idence on fox ranch on Middleton Island Mail reached them but once a year on the island, outflung fal out in the Pacific Ocean, off the Al askan coast, and the only human be ings they saw during their isolation were those aboard the revenue cut ters which occasionally dropped an chor in good weather off the rug ged and dangerous shore line, tht island having no harbor of any kind
 The river traffic was exceptionally good the past season, MT. Schiller said last evening, many tourists talk ing the opportunity of voyaging o1 the second largest naavigable rive in the U. s. All spoke highly of tht inland trip and enjoyed the man. unusual sights which constantly un raveled before their eyes. The olt mining and fishing camps, and towl scattered down the river, was tn source of much interest to the trav elers.
 The present trip to Seward is MI Schiller's second but his first ove the railroad, between Anchorage an
 the coast. All summer, while CT
 gagged on the river steamer, he hear
 the travellers praising the remarkabl
 scenery on this division, so havin
 the opportunity to make the journe
 to Seward, decided to come. Mrs
 Schiller is remaining in Fairbank!
 From what he could glimpse thr
 the rain, the scenics appealed to hir
 likewise, but darkness. settled abou
 the time the train started to eros over the first hump, so he feels a
 though he missed the best part { ! the trip. However, he will take
 all in upon his return Monday,