Northwest History. Alaska, United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: Alaska; Fairbanks; Nome; gold rushes; Rex Beach; Jack London; Portland Chamber of Commerce; Alaskan business; Alaska Territorial Chamber of Commerce; cigarettes; clothing style; territory; the United States; Dan McGrew; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Barton; Cocked Hat; Pacific
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/92146

Hairy-Chested Chawin' Men Harder To Find In Alaska. Hairy-Chested Chawiri Men Harder to Find in Alaska BY FRANK W. BARTON That he-man of the good old days who raged through the Fairbanks and Nome gold rushes took what he wanted from the earth and his fellows and was immortalized by such writers as Rex Beach and Jack London is like the old gray mare, Portland Chamber of Commerce members had to admit sadly yesterday. He ain't what he used to be. And so another illusion gets knocked into the proverbial cocked hat. Report Tells Story The revelation came when copies of a report on Alaskan business, prepared for distribution by the Alaska Territorial Chamber of Commerce, was handed out at the members' forum of the Portland chamber. This report showed that consumption of good, old, honest eatin' tobacco is falling off alarmingly there. In the past 12 years shipments of that commodity, guaranteed to put hair on the chest of your worst weakling, has dropped from 79,489 pounds to 25,901 pounds, the effeminate cigarette, the report showed. Consumption of cigarettes during the 12 years more than doubled, jumping from 42,457,000 to 89,621,000. Clothing Style Changed The report brazenly admitted another fact which had heretofore not been whispered beyond the confines of the territory, so far as known here. Your one-time hard-boiled Alaskan is now wearing silken undergarments. Shipments of these articles from the United States to the land of gold and cold in 12 years were valued at $896 But, worse and more of it, strong man who wanted the gold and got it in spite of everything the north could do has taken drinking milk. More than 5,000,000 pounds of that commodity were in ported to satisfy the thirst of the sourdoughs in the year 1935, the last covered in the compilation. Even the sugar shipped into Alaska now is "refined," the report indicated. Shades of Dan McGrew!