The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-05-19
r. F. Latimer Returns To Casslar
From Enjoyable Trip Around World

Returning to the Cassiar from a
trip around the world. R. T. Lati-
mer took passage On the Hazel B
No. Tor Telegraph Greek Tuesday
evening. He had arrived in Wran-
gell that morning on the Princess
Louise.
After spending sixteen years in
the Cassiar Mr.. Latimer last Sep
TENDER sold his roadhouse and store
at Dease Lake and went to STAN
ford, Connecticut, 10 visit a sister,
whom he had not seen in many
years. He then returned to Van
couYer Tor time, but deciding 10
follow out his original plan Of a
European tour, crossed the continent
and sailed from New York for the
Mediterranean. His ship touched at
Marseilles and Naples and he went
sightseeing in those ports and at.
Pompeii then on TO Egypt where he
disembarked at Alexandria. Taking.
the train TO Cairo, where he visited
the pyramids he then went TO Port
Tewfik at the lower end Of the Suez
Canal
Port Tewfik, a French possession,
is headquarters for employees Of the
canal company, their families and
the various consulates. Although
neutral ground it is walled in by
iron gates, the same as is Port Said
at the head of the canal, and
Egyptian police stand guard outside
the gates.
Made of filled in land, Port Tew-
fix is a beautiful place. says Mr..
Latimer. A sister, making a cruise
from China aboard her yacht, net
him here aud he enjoyed his first
visit with her since they had gone
their separate ways from their home
in Toronto eighteen years ago.
While staying at Sinai Hotel at Port
Tewfik Mr. Latimer found that a
fellow guest at the hotel was an
aviator named McConaehie who in
recent years made several plane
trips into the Cassiar. On one Of
them he flew over Telegraph Greek /
aud dropped ballot baxes TO be used
in a British Columbia election.
McConachie, originally a mill
man, had taken on five year con-
tract with the American Shelter
and Refining Company as superin-
tendent of the mill division Tor
treating ores in what is said to be /
the old King Solomon mines in
Arabia.
He also met a brother Of Con-
stable J. Boys, on duty for several
years in Telegraph Creek. The
brother was on his way to Ceylon
and was in Port Tewfik but an
hour SO that it was quite a eoinci- |
denee that in that time he should /
meet a friend of his brothers from
far off northern British Columbia.
Mr.. Latimer at Port Tewfik
boarded a freighter the Glen Beg, /
of the Glen Line. Twelve passengers |
all English, were aboard, mostly /
people in rubber or tin mines.
Steaming through the Red Sea, and /
Mr.. Latimer emphasizes that due
to the intense heat and humidity, /
steaming is more than a nautical
term, their first stop was at Col
ombo and then Penang and Port
Snetnam, the latter shipping point
for rubber planters. He enjoyed ex-
tensiTe sightseeing trips at Singa-
pore and saw where Singapore pine
apples were canned, the same that he
had gotten in the Cassiar shipped
in the original hardwood boxes.
The freighter, loaded with NUM-
tions, machinery and military sup
plies, left the reglar traffic route
at Singapore and went to Selangor, |
the base for a British fort. War yes
sells lay in port and intense activity
prevailed.
Seven American destroyers lay at
anchor when the Glen Beg called
in port at Penang Latimer said a |
British ship, an ordinary tramp yes
sci of probably 10000 tons, which
had been burned lay off the bar at
the entrance of the port. 1t was be
ing salyaged by japanese who were
cutting it to pieces with acetylene
torches for munitions.
At Hong Kong the Glen Beg an