The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-06-13
PROMINENT N. " ZACH SMAN TO CRUISE ALASKA.
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Commodore L. Waugh Is Leaving June Y for Trip
 in Northern Waters

One of the countrys best known yachtsmen and a prominent resi- dent of New York City is coming to Alaska this month for cruise of northern waters He is Vice. Commodore Leuman w. Waugh of the New York A. C. Yachting De- partment. His boat has already been shipped north and he is leav- ing June IT for the north.
 Clarence E. Lovejoy writing in the New York Times of Commo- dore Waugh's trip has this to say.
 A sturdy 28-foot motor cruiser, Creek last winter, is going places this summer never before visited by white men and yet will stay in United States waters At the wheel will be one of New York's best known power yachtsmen, Vice-Com- modore Leuman M. Waugh of the New York A. C. Yachting Depart ment The first officer will be his son, Donald B. Waugh, sopho- more in the Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery.
 Far up north, beyond where the Aleutian Islands make out toward Siberia, beyond Bristol Bay, even beyond the Ahklun Mountains, up near the Boring Sea, Commodore Waugh is going to cruise the un-. charted KuskCkwin River, second largest in all Alaska. He will poke his little ship into rivers as yet un- named, up toward the Yukon, and will mccs adventure a-plenty.
 This is the tundra region of Alaska, and in the swamps and marshes the tide recedes in places from five to forty miles. His boat, designed by William Atkin and built by Dawn Cruisers, is of modi- fled Vee construction, with a bot tom partly flat so that it cannot tip on it's beam-end even if the tide rushing out of cove at a 10-knot speed leaves it high and dry.
 A Hobby fer Years
 Commodore Waug.., when ashore, is Dr. Waugh, famous orthodontist and member of the Columbia Den tai School faculty. For years he has been paying summertime visits to strange people and studying their teeth. A couple of years ago he took his then 34-foot skiff cruiser, Nanu, from New York up to the sub-Arctic, even to Cape Chidley, the northern headland of Labrador, in order to observe the Eskimos.
 In previous years he served on active summer duty as a reserve officer of the United States Public Health Service and cruised on the Coast Guards Northland in Alas kan waters.
 Dr. Waugh believes the primitive Eskimo on his native diet has the largest jaws, best teeth and least dental cares of any race. As he adopts white mans food and mode of living there is a deterioration. When he heats store" food instead of chewing rough, gritty, uncooked meals he quickly looses the ability to use his teeth on raw hide in making boots. harness, clothing. etc. That's the reason for Commo- dore Waughs cruise this year.
 Craft Already Shipped
 He shipped his boat on the Dol lar liner President Taft last month. This week she is being unloaded at Seattle where she will be trans shipped on the Indian Service steamer North Star for Good News Bay, an arm at the mouth of the Kuskokwim River where there is a settlement of a Government school teacher and thirty or forty inhabi- tants.
 The Commodore and his son will leave New York June IT by train, will fly from Seattle to Fairbanks, via Juneau, and then by a char tered plane to Good News to take possession of the yacht on June 27 and start the cruise.
 First they will head up the Kus-