Seward daily gateway., 1926-02-12
INTERESTING (|'l DATA
 CONCERNING TOURS FOR COMING YEAR, GIVEN BY R.R. MAN
EPHEMERAL REPORTS CONCERN, ING MOUNT MCKINLEY ERUP' TIoN. TANNED OUT TO BE A GREAT ADVERTISING STUNT.


 One of the most glorifying inter views the Gateway representative has
 had for a long time which will be of interest to all concerned was the re- mort given 4b9yY IT. B! eMcGrath, we'll
 known tourist agent for the Alaska
 Railroad. MT. McGfathF Was profuse < inshis statements that Alaska was fast vanishing frbm the standpoint of 1so- lation and coming forward to point of "See Alaska First" than ever be- fore in it's historge That his report
 is one of authenticity rather than opilionated can readily be vouched for.
 Mr., MeGfathz said that the tourist
 business of Alaska the coming sum-
 rnefz viii zbe a tremendous increase
 over former -Years.-The- consensus ol
 opinion. after interviewing all the tour
 ist agencies on the Pacific Coast, is
 that Alaska's tourist travel will only
 be limitedzby the facilities offered by
 summer passerger steamers running
 to this pon.P 2 At3this early date, most of the California agencies that book
 tourists to Alaska are making reserVa-
 tions for the coming summer, which
 iso most grat tifyingJ news. According
 to- MT. ,lhcGrath othere is little doubt
 but that Alaska will witness larger
 winter booking. He gives Alaska about three years to make this declaration show nseIf.seds prfF1o-
 Tho eolds gag still reigns supreme
 turnout the agencies, who have never before, been interested in Alaska that
 winter, travel to, Alaska offers the tour ist no equivalent to that of summer -ryb5o oaaga5glfie5fes an7 seem Surprised to know fhaF atsiss possible to flag ship in Seattle and come to'sevard ln one , of tho most commodious staterooms ] ond nalatial steamers that can be or , fered in any other part of the Worla' 3 as far as carlns Ill
 , is+s ss conoerned.g When they hearo tbe ll2ska RaiIpsdEE runs turnout the , winter months, they stood aghast' ana I in stentorian tones exclaimed thelr , snrnrise and lack of knowledge or the 3 North. aSasiA i u;+, the recent trip of MT. McGrath } +o the States. it was also learned that f5ere i" are 6 T ~posgiBfftfes of a Pasadena -,rcrr+s+-e Corporation entering into the u Alaska field. erecting hotels ell along the 3 Alaska Railroad and organlllzlng III sSs- ! tenn oof chain Haveling, 1 allowing tnelr , nations 9he opnrmity of an unllm- : tied stopover privilege, emulatlng Una. !. nracticed1 d1e1b5yyb 1byy bthe2 White Pass out Of , skagway away ina S their Atlin tours, Which 5 in turn would q mean declueo HIT { movement .coEefethe present sysle" of nracticaliy n5h-stop trips. Such an {, organization would mean the e1penal- n, < +uro of several, Hundred thousand dol ! lars, ando a. permiapnent4 ar le year-rouno ln , dustry would be established penen' : cigat 4to aiftA1aska,s as1 it would include both summer and winter tours.
 In, speaking rtaa of of others coming in do- ! ing their bit in fostering the tourist trade in Alaska, I fNlgg NgpMcGrath ? Nc iF sad: arh nawlv organized Alaska Gla-
 9 o;or Tours II Corp. F is doing splendid ad- vertising. After spending ten days
 with, .thaa uon. a campaign of general information on Alaska, l belleve they
 are assnred of al great booking fol { their first yearls hunting parties. , talRaa t to. several e thousand schoo {, teachers -att atts atie scalifornia c0nVen'iol
 ond fonnd fhem the most interesting , prospects .of, all, l also notlceu' 'n" turnout ny tip there was a constan 2 question as to the, truth of MT. Frees assertion: g that the Alaska Rallroa' { was going teshe abandoned. lhous ands of people Treeaaddo5 reeaadd the utteranoeS, o E the California congressman salu MI ' McGratha1" and Yeryr few of them VII 2 ever see, his ,retractiont
 "The Lomen brothers reindeer Wer' E the talk of the Pacific Coast towns 7 No one of Alaska products could hav' gained moteratse4ntion 4l than the team { of theses animals that visited praclc ally all the larger cities on the coast The streets of Frisco and Los Angel es were janannfsf by grown-ups as vel asSchildrens all anxious to get thei
 first glff1pse epf Atl1e, steeds of Santa
 g~sLossAageles papers devoted con
 siderable space to the eruption of Mt