Northwest History. Alaska. Science. United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: Alaska; Tourists; Visitors; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th Century; Anchorage; Fairbanks; Metlakatla; Pacific; Yukon; Skagway
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/102159

C. OF C. Alaskan Trip Lengthened C. OF C. ALASKAN TRIP LENGTHENED-- Members of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce Alaska Business- Friendship Cruise party from June 5 to June 20 will see virtually at of the scenic spots of the territory; Thomas M. Pelly, chairman of the excursion committee, announced yesterday. A sixteen-day cruise instead oi the usual twelve-day excursion will make it possible to stay longer in the towns visited as well as adding extra ports of call at Skagway, Sitka and Metlakatla. To Visit Matanuska The steamship Aleutian will stay at Seward two days, one of which will be spent in side trips to Anchorage and the Matanuska project on the Alaska Railroad, and in fishing in the Russian River. From Skagway, cruise members will follow the original "trail of '98" over the mountains to Lake Bennett in the Yukon Territory. Group Will Split Forty members of the Seattle delegation will leave the main group at Seward and go by special train to Anchorage, Matanuska, Mount McKinley and Fairbanks. They will return to the Coast in the Richardson Highway and complete the trip on the steamship Yukon, arriving in Seattle four days later than the The Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff, curator of the Territorial Museum at Juneau, has been invited to meet the group at Sitka, join the cruise and lecture on the history of Alaska during the voyage from Sitka to Juneau. One hundred reservations have been made to date for the excursion, Pelly said.