The Nome nugget., 1933-05-20
TELLS OF INTERESTING EXPERIENCES ON TH0t SAND
 MILE DOG TRIP
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Cont inued from Page Onel g. rf what were at one time the finest liver steamers in the world. and recalled to mind the days Of their magnificence and strength. ! Buildings. warehouses, docks .all in sta!e of senile and decay, how evr, the spirit of the oldtimer is istill there. Charley Beckland who has been operating the N. c. Store has severed his connection and is to linstitute trading venture of his own at Kotlik. Dick Negus, Tom Johnson, Jim Smith, all residents for the past 35 years are still 1 carrying on with apparently the same optimism and adventuresom spirit that brought them to Ala ska in the nineties. The genial l Herb Johnson, Commissioner and 1 Postmaster, together with his bride of last summer, think St.. Michael the finest place in Alaska. l MT. .Wallen, the choolteacher, is completing his fourth year of service with the Territorial school, his good wife sends her greet ings to all her former Nome fri ends.
 On the way to the Yukon stopped overnight at the shelter
 cabin maintained by the Road Commission at Pt. Romanoff about i35 miles from St. Michael. It contained a floor of solid ice, which on my return about May l had, by the alchemy of nature, progressed or degenerated (take your choice) into an oozy mass of mud It would be a decided im- provement. if the Road Commis- sion has the necessary funds, to place floor in this shelter cabin.
 At Chenelink had the pleasure of short visit with Lusy Petrie, the Government nurse and teacher. ,Mrs. Petrie is the former Lucy Fredricks, daughter of Captain jFredericks. for many years trad CT at Andreasfky. Otto Poulty, Eson of Captain Poulty of early 1 Yukon river fame also resides
 here. An abandoned wireless station is also close by.
 I My next stop was at Kotlik where I visited the Kameroff fam fly who have resided here for many years, engaged in trapping, fishing and trading. -Kotlik was for some years the location of Brunnell's trading post. but the since the dea h of Al Brunnell the family has resided in Nome. l Proceeding up the Yukon and ihearfng a bunch of yelping dogs I Iturned off and up a slough. Com ing to the center of the disturb lance, made out the towering patriarchial figure of Tom Gray, former Nomeite, who has resided lon the Yukon for the past twenty lyears. He is full of years but in lexcellent health and sends regards to all his old time friends.
 At Hamilton, which seemed to be quite a thriving village, I en- Icountered another Nom cite, MT. Holmgren. He left Nome aIbou 1918 having served in the fire department for some time prior to taking up residence on the Yu- kon. He was in spite of his ad- vanced years, busily engaged in
 completing : power scow with (which to pursue his fishing during the coming season. enjoyed a home cooked dinner and an even ing of radio at the home of George Butler, Manager of the N. O.. Go. store George and his charming wife are the proud parents of four sturdy youngsters, all of them native sons and daughters.
 1 Mir. Butler is enthusiastic over his section of the second division and says that if there is a de- pression is must be around the we'll known corner that we hear so much dbotu.
 Alec Kashevinikoff, playmate of my boyhood, has lived in Hamil-