Northwest History. Alaska. Science. United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1936
• Subjects: Alaska; Tourists; Visitors; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th Century; Balfour; Donaldson; Pacific; Yukon; Ketchikan; Kodiak; Nome
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/102135

Heavy Alaska Tourisyt Wave Reaches Here HEAVY ALASKA TOURISTS WAVE REACHES HERE Aleutian Inaugurates 'Totemland Cruises' Today Followed by 4 Other Sailings This Week By E. J. DALBY Inaugurating the, "Totemland Cruises." nine-day voyages. 2,500 miles all together, and also the start of the heavy seasonal tourist movement to various sections of the north, the big passenger liner Aleutian, of the Alaska Steamship Company sails today at 9 a. m. With her departure there starts a week crowded with passenger sailings since she will be followed tomorrow by the Victoria, for Southeastern Alaska; the Mt. McKinley, Wednesday morning for Southeastern and Southwestern calls: the Cordova at noon the same day with the American Boy Cruise Party, for Southeastern Alaska and the Yukon, regular Southeastern-Southwestern liner, Saturday morning,) Besides these passenger ships the Derblay is tentatively scheduled to sail Friday at 5 p. m. with general cargo for Ketchikan. Juneau, Cordova, Seward, Seldovia and Kodiak Island cannery calls. The Totemland Cruises will be every ten days out of Seattle, the sailings being alternately Monday? and Fridays up to and including August 28. Meanwhile sailings over the weekend showed a heavy ment and full p Dellwood cleared for Nome Friday and the Alaska for Southw and Southeastern ports Saturday. Arriving Thursday, the Alaska brought in 237 passengers, a heavy southbound list, and a, cargo o canned salmon and fresh and fro en fish. PARTHENIA DUE TUESDAY Bringing cargo from the Unite Kingdom and a heavy consignment of bananas from Central America the Donaldson liner Parthenia will arrive to Balfour, Guthrie and Company, tomorrow. After discharging here she moves to British Co lumbia for further discharge and ti start loading return items. Coming back to Seattle July 16, the Par- tin D will SHEPABD LINER COMING With an inward cargo of 1,000 tons from the East Coast the Shepard liner Wildwood will a the General Steamship Corporation tomorrow. The carrier stow a capacity return load of lumber and general at Seattle, Everett, Tacoma, Olympia and the Columbia River.