The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-22
FOUR HARVARD
! B0YS5EE ALASKA
FIRSI;;lN JUNEAU
Limp Into Channel This
Morning Aboard 81
foot YaWI Craft

On the last leg of leisurely sum-
mer cruise in Alaskan waters, the
Lands End, 38-foot yawl out of
Marblehead Mass, limped into Ju-
neau harbor this. morn 'lg, her gas
line broken and her batteries sadly
in need of charging. Aboard were
four young men. three of them
sophomores at Harvard University
and the fourth what his compan-
ions described as slightly delayed
freshman" c. S. Read, of New York,
who also is to be found on occasion
in and around the environs of Cam.
bridge and Harvard Square OF the
other three, Henry Loomis. owner OF
the Lands End, halls from New
York, while John Parker and Law
renee Morgan are the 1899 dele
gates from Boston's Back Bay to
the congress of Alaska's summe
high life.
Bearded Faces
AS the Lands End drl.Led around
the Alaska Juneau rock dump, her
canvas Tapping idly in an unusu-
ally dead calm. the bearded faces
of LOOMS and Parker could be seen
all the way up at the A.A.T. hangar,
for all four boys have left their
faces strictly alone, except for an
occasional wash, since they put out
from Seattle on July 8. The boat
was shipped overland from Boston
LOOMS, Parker and Morgan are
h a n d S ON ~ and appropriately
bearded. but Mr.. Read, the delayed
freshman, has given up trying and
has concentrated on a pair of the
handsomeSt side-burns seen in these
parts in many year So luxur-
liant were the assembled whiskers
that when the crew walked up South
Franklin Street little while later,
in the company of an Empire news
man-who had appointed himself
as a one-man reception committee
Tony the barber rushed from his
shop, shaving mug and brush in
hand, and put on an act that would
have made a Coney Island barker
look like an amateur. The last seen
of Tony he was standing in front of
his shop, looking wistfully at the
field of retreating boards, and nom
chantly plastering his own chin with
lather.
Are Good Shippers
The Lands End, which has been
in a good many corners of the
world, has been cruising up through
the Icy Straits and Yakutat area,
down to Sitka and around through.
the channels into Juneau. The boys
are all good shippers, but at one
point their charts rather puzzled
them. 1t seems that they were try
ing oget their bearings and con-
Sulting chart, discovered that they
had sailed three miles up a glacier.
Those charts really ought to be
corrected" opined Loomis. Read
merely smiled, as though sailing up
a glacier were an everyday occur
ence.
For First Mail
I At this point, just as the discus
sion was getting really heated on
the tricks of glacier sailing, Mr..
Morgan rolled sleepily from his bunk
and inquired What hop" He was.
still In Alaska, the others explained.
The boys then decided to put on
some store clothes and look the town
OVER also to storm the post office
for the first mail they have re-
ceived all summer. cash check and
leave their batteries at Warmers
machine shop. Food, too, was on
the program, and Loomis, who looks
as though few extra pounds would
MT hurt him, was delighted when.
told that he could actually buy
fresh milk in Juneau.
So they set off up South Frank
- $500