The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 31, 1940, Page 20

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT EDITION JUNEAU, ALASKA, SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1940. FOURTH SECTION PAGES 1 TO 8 s Others See EDITORS PEN JuneauIsa City of FULL REPORT OF JOURNEY Territory Is Publicized by [ National Editorial As- sociation Visitors Alaska received millions of words of free publicity—(most of it good; <ome bad)—as a result of the visit to the Territory last summer of 275 members of the National Edi- torial Association. The Association came to Alaska for its annual convention, travel- ing on the steamer Aleutian, which left Seattle June 13. The editors, most of them representing small town weekly newspapers, spent two cruising along the Alaska and traveling weeks coast McKinley National Park and Fair-| banks. Juneau's welcome included a lun- cheon at the Baranof Hotel arrang- ed by the Chamber of Commerce. Northbound the editors spent a full day here, visiting the Alaska Ju- neau mine, the Territorial Museum The vis- inland to Mt.| | This view on upper Main St | | decorated brings from $1.50 to $3.00. | Moccasins cost from $2 up. Baskets | six inches across and as deep, cost $2 and up. |kets cost from $5 to $6, and up to | $10. | “I was told that it was an Indian It was sed me village and a CCC camp The only thing that surp of typical homes in the Capital City. Some of the larger bas- | Us TOURIST TRAVEL Homes | % gan, Minnesota and Wisconsin in | the spring of 1935, have comfort- able homes which are well furnish- , |ed. When the first settlers arrived |there was much hue and cry that |the soil was no good, the climate | was not right, the season too short, | the rainfall came at the wrong time |of the year, etc. The farmers were | quick to conclude that nothing could |be grown and if they did manage to raise a crop they would have no market where it could be sold. “In 1936 when the first veget- able gardens matured around the | hastily constructed homes, many {of these earlier indictments were forgotten because it was actually |proved that garden produce and |small grains could be grown and matured during the short season. ‘lakon from the reiief rolls in Michi= | Lu Liston photo. reet, Juneau, shows a group you to hire him for farm work? ™| Males Aplenty Miss Mae Bashore, in the West| “The U. S. Tucker, a destroyer, Schuylkill (Pennsylvania) Press and |Was in Skagway for Pine Grove Herald: |and aboard were about 90 R. O. T. C. boys from the Universities of Wash- Alaskan Hospitality Lisktom 4 alit . [ 91 believe 1 have: fibglectea to| nSton. Ofegon anc Cauigeas ¢ their summer cruise. mention the extreme cordiality and E @ |say the young girls on the tour, as hospitality of the residents of this laad weare vishing ¢ Ny haye 1 well as the home girls, had plenty i 5 o |of bids at the big dance given that Needless to| Thousands Visit Territory the occasion | Cr e like the farmer who puis electr lights in his hen house to induce | the hens to lay two eggs per day. Rhubarb and Pansies “At Skagway, they told us one stalk of rhubarb would be sufficient for two pies, and that potatoes some- times weighed twenty pounds. Through sheltered Alaskan waters, the Campbell Church vacht Westward and her sister ship Caroline, pictured | above, cruise with charter parties. 68 - - i why they didn’t put tar on the road and he said he didn’t know. Said that proposition had been a big dis- | cussion for years, | “And you should see the thousands and thousands of small round stones lying around where the glacier has receded. That's where I loaded my ka Waters Juneau Gains Repufation As Convenfion Cify; Five Bring 800 V Conventions and goodwill tours | brought more than 800 visito j.yum.m in 1939, giving 3 |capital a reputation as a cc city which will continue as further isifors II! _3? = | chairmen of the General Federation | of Women's Clubs arrived on May 20 in the course of an Alaska criise. The annual Scattle Chamber of Souns tBEE Tnke 1 1040, Commerce goodwill tour to Alaska s { brought 147 visitors on May 30. The First and most elaborate of the |y (tonned again southbound a conventicns was the 25th annual| weel later | conference of Rotary | District No. 101. from Washington, Oregon, TIdaho. | British Columbia and Alaska attend- ed the three-day session from May 19 to 21 | While the Rotarians were holding | i:\(-mum.s. 86 officers and executive | huge bridge that spanned the chan- | nel or waterway that separated Ju- | neau from the town of Douglas. We | crossed 1t on our way to the Men- denhall glacier. | “We had been brought down the road that ran close to the sea in | many spots. It wound its way around ledges, at the foot of high cliffs, and sometimes across picturesque bridges and through verdant vege- tation. The road was graveled al- Wi where it was not paved. Leav- International Some 200 dclegates On June 7 the Los Angeles Cham- ber of Commerce tenth annual good- will tour to Alaska brought 130 | Southern Californians to the eity. | Editors from 234 small dally and weekly newspapers of all parts of , {the United States were Juneau's | guests June 16 and June 26. They | werc members of the National Edi- | torial Association, whose 54th an- | nual convention was a cruise to Al- | aska. Busy Year | Already in 1940 Juneau has been the meeting place of the Alaska or- ganizations affiliated with the Mari- time Federation of the Pacific which held a convention here the week of January 9. The Territorial Convention of the Democratic party was held in Ju- neau the week of January 16. ‘1‘(‘(‘\(11.\ ]\fx‘(f;w(::(«x:ih ;:v ?):?1(5"‘\3 few hours | Was that the CCC boys we > leathery | seen people so genuinely glad 0|, om0 gome of these young m-;d‘d"'l see any), but the veracity of pockets. Sure, I wanted 'em for|ing the valley of the Mendenhall southbound faced Indians who seemed to be|welcome a group of strangers as W | jies parely caught the boat . . . |the Alaskans has been above re- |souvenirs. And I didn't throw 'em | glgcier we were taken through| OR the calendar for next Sep- Every Editor Writes ‘u;\,\-'w,h‘mv from fifty to seventy years (])::s‘0:;)\.4:}(3:;}ll\:\'l}(;:;‘nn;cl)rimv.::‘;:n )g\l:(:: “Lake Spenard is a pretty rpmrl!proth ,m l bvlwvvv it }!V1~ 1woru away, either; I shipped 'em home.| mountain passes and returned over tember is the annual convention of Almost every editor, after he got|%' &€ A D3 ihiiss enll oA o S D |spot and we saw youngsters in “;’h°l“(‘]‘ pangis iRy ould COBIDINEE 1tie | an entirely different route. We pass- | the Alaska Department of the oo o hls EynobrIlEs yrote Misers| wdntre ls<a [SmalL E K Rl WHIKGE o8 o e | SLIMILE: S Eeratuhlly; (ke Lo in- |1 i fl“‘y""" A et be2ielY Pickle Grader |ed through beautiful parks nestling | American Legion, for which the ies of articles on his Alaska trip {chikan known by $he- same DAmE| " S Cisoming oy on hang | clined to believe that this swimming | & 5“::“ g "“"‘“13 oan, 4o \fl"‘"b““’ “Then, when the ore is crushed | at the feet of mountains, over grassy | Alford John Bradford Post of Ju- ¢ Following are excerpts from a few 'as the town Like sl At s | e al b fiod Mhievorana | o8 - staged (hy (the enterprising | & PO! "‘Qf«“‘k“ s0 “]“‘U"I:lf ish." to powder, it is run out on what |lands that looked like Towa mead- neau will be host September 4 to 7. of the accounts which have found it is steep “”“(““”"“ DT B at thoihl W Ll s Shamber, Of damarce for its effect | s SL* e gl emberville | they call tables and is carried along | ows, and into picturesque portions| " b thelr way- backito) e Emplre: | Eeveral steap TalLs D et it 2| on the party as we are sure the wa- | (Ohio) Leader: by water. I can't properly explain | of the coast that the part of the mines he had Ruth Willard Robinson, in Public | fish struggle. It flows through the TreNCE IR A L ) [ter in the lake was very cold.” | “We were in the party going to | this thing to you, but the table is| An Iowan at the Mine Fiaitad: sk tattere tha’ cotliors wEk Spirit, Hatboro, Pennsylvania: main part of the city. Tt is said Here in this far outpost of the| Nellie E. Kroh, in The Keith Coun- Mendenhall Glacier. This glacier | constantly moving back and forth,| “Back to Juneau we were given |crushing rock ore, and that the dust “Here we began to get a new that when L)?v salmon a running” | United Slmr.s_ exists a dem:x‘l"ncy ty News, Ogallala, Nebraska: Hs about 13 miles from Juneau. It washing the ore down to the lowest | the choice of viewing the gold mines | was so thick he couldn't see any- ook’ at Alaska, as all kinds of com- [one can walk dry-footed across the | of which we in the States hLllP‘ “On the whole, summer comes to | is the only glacier in the world where | end. In other words, it is like the lor spending a little time about town | thing, -and that the noise was so modities from a baby's high chefir|stream on the backs of the fish. dream. As the purser on our boat|Alaska just as it does to the rest of automobiles can go within a “stone's grader at the pickle plant — only | waiting the noon meal or banquet | deafening he couldn't hear anything, to a Packard car—snow white, at|I have some doubts about lh«j au- | explained—you cannot judge an Al-|the hemisphere, save in a shorter;thmw" 0_! it. different.” that the administration there was and all the result he achieved J:us; that—were loaded into the hold. Air-[lhl‘““l'm' of izome Of the stite-|askan by his clathes Ho may be | more intense. period, the days being | “The ride to the glacier isn't very | Frank Jaqua, in the Humboldt, |to furnish us. As my pal had been | to get dust, all over himself and his plane parts went in, pieces of ma- ments made above. However, I have very ccarsely dressed in rough|so very long near the Arctic Cifcle. intéresting. 1-mean-that the road | (Iowa) Independent: |at the mines while T was at the|clothes and a fine headache That chinery, crated furniture, and boxes |given them as they were given to!clothes, yet may be richer than a|The growing plants get a double dose 'is made of gravel and the dust is| “A majority of the tourists were |glacier, I asked him what hethought | ______ - and boxes of foodstuffs. |me. What I am in doubt about is Park Avenue pent house resident.|of sunlight in a given period, much- terrible, I asked the bus driver impressed while in Juneau, with the of what he had seen. He replied | (Continued on Page Two) « Look, said we, ‘they have to | the two-year cycle of the Sock-Eyes' And everyone calls everyone else by | ——— SN Tl = o i hcaati Pl S0 s DR 2 get things from Seattle!’—discovery and the fi cle of the Kings | ais or her first name.” | number one for a paif of ‘Chee-| Profits From Trolling E. H. Hanway, in the Casper (Wy-| » chakos (Alaskan for tenderfoot).| “We were told that a majority of oming) Tribune-Herald: | And we began to wonder what it |the boats fished or trolled, we cal’ “Speaking of the Territory, there would be like to wait weeks for the |it, for King Salmon from forty to|!s much clamor in Alaska to have Shidar TR e R L &S AR S 53 R RS . things you wanted, as a matter ot}si\;;;anl hundx’;‘gr T]ilx:t '()rrr()'r:“::'; ::‘rim;filso ifig?‘ivmgfil:;if:dmofi Every member of the National | . . [ largest city in Alaska i about i Steerage Passengers jand equipped put out for the fish-|voice in wlf-gnvnrnmr‘m Visitors :Ev:st:na‘ed[i\(s::cl:::: m:::;:fi: | lllOlS (‘lvs,’(”"r"l“n S (’pl)rt 'l‘ g(’ ( est | same size o Woodstock “Also conting aboard: -up forward, | N8 BToutids Reaching. thelr. des we urged to have thelr Congress-| of o yriter, 8o the NEA offer- | . i Like most cities located on ti b’ the testage TAmngers! Phis buAtnthey . ancher, bait their | men approve such measures but they | o4 five cash prizes, the largest | |/ .~ | water front, its treets rise up on a e ska for the sum-|Dooks and proceed to fish ppreciate that they have a 10mg| gagg gor the editer writing the 5 i > steep grade from the shore back, P “”‘,“:k‘f‘ Al“s O und can. |Huge bundies of frozen smelt wer | ight to win the Congress to thelr| peo” oo "Co orticles about Al- | while euch: cross street is about three mer to work in the mines and en- | oy iy (e jce box (every ship| ¥y of thinking. With Slighly| g, ang publishing them in his storles bigher than the one B '}Te\mnn? 6 fyron e has an iced hold) to serve as bai.| more than 60000 population in the| gun newspaper. | Tieee of tnp shaders, who have . Lol lewe bovs. PisE 8180 {0r & oot |While the crew is fishing, Every: | Ceritory, half of them. belng In-| “"Firct pitze of §300 was won by lited Seattle will know whet T mean; T o, A o ony gokl is still|one: I believe, knows what smelt| lians, its area is mearly one-flfth| Charies F. Renich of the Daily [ ¥es, even if you have been no far- ‘l")“o"ll“li'(v*"}z‘:tv”;mrs o e Ya.|2re « - - When a fish is hooked 1 | f that of the United States . . .| gentinel, Woodstock, Ilinois. | | ther than Galens, Iinos, you will ken gold l-usl\," is hauled unceremoniously aboarc To the Glacier Other winners were: Second, | | understand. . . Bea Alcorn, in The Republican- by the small windlass at the but “Our party was driven about 12| w, F. Twombly, Chronicle, . . . Bulletin, Rawlins, Wyoming: of the pole. There is no sports | niles to our first glimpse of the| Reading, Mass, $150; third, In discussing these cities, both “There is a general feeling among;‘ma".Sh'p i;xrn. Iz_ls’fl process of | Viendenhall glacier. Not as large as| Elisha Warner, Press, Spanish | those we visited and those we did the ‘White residents p there’ thay|SOmE [¥L that 1s-all ... he Columbia, or many other glac-| Fork, Utah, $75; fourth, C. S. | | not, it should be stressed that cities too much is being done for the In-| ~“I got to figuring out the profi| ers Alaska it, nevertheless, COvers| gpeck, Leader, Pemberville, | in Alaska in general are not unlike dian. In many instances govern- on catching a fifty-pound King | 1 large area v(lespnie its being said| Qhio, $50; and fifth, Mrs. Lee cities in any part of America, under ment agencies supply free lunches |Salmon. A couple of them woulc | ‘0 be a ‘dead’ glacier and receding| Rountree, Daily Eagle, Bryan, | similar circumstances. They are truly 4 while the white children in then-}fumiSh a week’s wages for the ay- | nstead of moving forward. | Texas, $25. | American cities, inhabited by Amer- own schools, must either pay or go|erage. man. The way they wer: “The busses had been standing Following are a few brief ob- ican people, and these cities have without . . . |tossed out and the number therc|in the sun for some little time be-| servations from Editor Renich’s | | all or most all of the types of insti- About Jobs | seemed to be in each boat, they must | ‘ore the arrival of the boat and| first-prize-winning series of ar- | | tutions that are common in the “The acute situation growing out|not be hard to catch if you are it | when loaded with about 20 passeng- | ticles, | | States generally, especially in our of the universal belief that Alaska |the prover place. rs, the discomfiture of the inside e cities along the Pacific Coast, from has a job for every man is being| “Pardon me for digressing from heat was almost to a point of suf- By CHARLES F. RENICH | where a large share of the people in solved temporarily by many CCC |this subject, but it sheds a little focation as ventilation came only | pypiisher, Weodstock Daily Sentinel ;Alaskn have imigrated. camps. So many young men drifted |light on what one of the officials from a small window in the front| poyr days spent in the interior of | | This means that there are church« up there without any money that|of the Matanuska Valley Associa-’of the car. Several passengers al-|alaska was just enough to bring| es, lodges, hotels, taxis, water and their care became a problem to the tion told me about the difficulty |most passed out before the glacier |y, me a realization of what a vast| | sewage systems, electric light and little communities. . . |of hiring men in that vicinity. He | was reached. Stepping out of a tor-|country 1 was visiting and how | | power, telephones, newspapers, ras a “We had approached this great|said: ‘When a young man can hire |rid bus to view a mountainous ice-|rifling would be any attempt T| dios and all kinds of business houses wonderland expecting to be disap-|an old boat and go out and clean'pack. was quite a contrast . . . might make to describe it | | and residences, just as we have them pointed, for each and every person up from $2000 to $4,000 in two “Homes in the city are built on | In recent years we have all heard | all around us. The only point is who had visited Alaska gave glow- months fishing, what chances have | the steep siopes, and well kept lawns | . less sm;j that Uncle Sam’s | they are fewer and farther apart. ing accounts of the beautiful scen- | — - |arid flower gardens are plainted in|Mor¢ O "8 E B G 7 i ; ; . Woodstock Sentinel cut » ery, of the magnificence of the snow ¥ {small patches. The city is workfingin:::o a"po:_‘“lgg‘eyea:f"m‘f :)':my‘ Editor Charles F. Renich of the Woodstock, IlL, Daily Sentinel is shown as he went Feiit capped mountains, of the mirror- Gre()tln S |to modernize itself and its smrPS;\“‘.,h “spreading out waatwaid o aboard the steamer Aleutian at Seattle. Left to right, Renich, Mrs. Renich, Mrs. Mosh- I have been asked many times like waters, of the cordiality and A g | reflect their progressive owner-|\ * S e 1o the Pacific Coast| ©r and A. H. Mosher of the McHenry, Ili., Plainleader. about Nome—well, I only answer friendliness of the residents there, |ships . .. . e 1l : S — il T TR SRR L L o |that we did not visit Nome and at ders to be seen “We were amazed: sb the smhount|2nd Ve dre now being told that| 2 : 7 4 p : once my questioner looks at me of She. Gy ; A . . : o e mo more mew lands to | cultral possibilities and many other | economic problems involved, T sup- | that country which seemed to bel jyapoay os much as to say: * fii.pfif"}fiw";,‘j‘fic;‘;‘fn;;‘“ whish Z{”.a‘:,::efm:"‘,,a:h;oi,fgw:zl&;fi";g conquer. Until my recent trip to|proper governmental activities pose it operates in the “red,” just|waiting for someone to come and ’c‘m;l d ‘_;u i o ‘;‘Com:‘fioms“t&;{e c?;; % : ik i g s A Alaska T agreed with this thought, vays thought of Al-|like almost everything that Uncle |take it. A P e “We “yeve of the opiion that it B tEason to. Impc_vund lt. el harness‘bm T have changed my mind. There uk“a!e 0}(1:;/0 i,‘:wc'z;\:.;;:“ qu)lrl its | Sam handles, but in this case I I'm not going to try to write s«)ou visited? r:“,; "g,‘.f,‘spg“’{,;;‘:“’;’;e,“;::’;f;“tfi‘;{ e;:mr(?grh{) 1‘7‘;;;2 ;;lg:;&?g b’:,nim:::hs a vast country to our northwest | fisheries, its gold mining and as the |can’t see how it can be otherwise.|story about those events. I know ev;";;ze h‘“"lg"’;‘";:) };“x“"e‘zm': o5 i : 5 Rapadidic # """ |which has room for millions of | home of skimos, 1 didn’t see Regardless of the financial 1osses | nothing about them, except . what we ything al ¢ BaA beeps fiid yeas, stenlliiely s of it if it were available to this part |\ crican people therein to live free, | an m;m!:eof ):,11","‘,,\” there, al. |now involved, T believe that Uncle | heard e in thoss days and have | Alaska, and it is only natural that There are not enough superlatives | of the country. {happy and prosperous lives, Much | thy y e s hould' dontintai-50 boreed ¢l o : e people should wonder why we did is| - . S, | though T admit they do inhabit parts Sam should continue spread out|since read in books. We have all| # 2 in_the English lsngusge fo. ade How High? can be done to advance this objec- | f; " and crate in Alaska until that |g y tur 3 not visit Nome as well as Fair- ; describe all that we saw.” 2 P Ve ¥, TR | arther north than where I went, |and operate ir 8K at | seen many pictures on the screen .. .. gpoou Sitk ‘l"fl“‘“k i A _“It was surprising to the exCUr-|yjye whenever our government un- | Territory has had a chance to de- | supposed to tell the story of Alaska | ajoced gway, Sitka, and other ll:\‘:’:l)] m‘:i:c:elfée;]?_ 9 ol 3:‘“‘5"‘ from western United 5‘2“;:‘; dertakes to carry ouf a properly Mt { velop into a prosperous future. Pi-|or the Klondike and the experiences mxalisa:?n'fi:';‘sn“‘m names are fa- B 50 (LA ‘ at no‘hxgher elcvatmn_ l:‘_;‘“ -““__ conceived plan for the economic de-| Railroading on the Alaska line is nancially it has already indirectly |of those days s - «As we filed down the gangplank !“’" was reached in the 470 ;nn: velopment of this empire. different from what we are used (0| repaid many times over every BOlRERE R o ree. when e went b AL he answer is, of course, very {he first impression was that the vzl:ymexyn;finf;:gfi:kiefia‘i’: ¥ a1t Should Be Opened Up i Thg Eeates. § o e S e e been tnvested there, aska on this trip 1 had some vislons | 40P Nt ‘-‘:;P"fl}‘: people of Ketchikan, with the ex- . % _| It is not the cold that is holding g our readers * . . of those tough joints, zambling dens, | . ove d, fa tl i.egflon of m:c 1ndian.s,ware in look, ;:fi: brei:emx'?:;rei;htvfff“é:?.‘":,f pack Alaska’s growth and develop- | Member, S ToEiMed by fi’.‘" ?"Vl“ When the immense area of Alaska |dance halls with their faro qames,’:‘;:;enn:”:?;;- ::grp:;ll‘:a’yv.. a thou- speech and dress exactly like those e ity s o ask the ment. Not at all, but to my mind, ernment, has train schedules Which ys considered its roads and trails |wild women and two fisted men Sl o ward, e tourists was heard t it s the ‘st here is | it attempts to follow, still it is all fHdada s A s ta . 4 Sl ol the farthest point west we traveled in the States. conductor’ ‘How high is sea level, s the simple fact that there is Pl % s mrtab'c‘flw ndecd sparse and inadequate. | which I supposed I would find al- by boat. “The only difference is the ever- up here’?” 50 much that should be done which | P d Dbt make you comforiéh®iys as been s that “darkest Al-|mest everywhere, but I must con-| ° : present Indian women with their| “The question most generally ask- only the government can do, to open :‘_‘ w"':h'm‘ much “?”f{”’ ‘“ 5“‘?" rica” with its vast uninhabited areas, | fess that I didn't find them any-| ome can be reached by steamer souvenirs. These women sit flat ed by visitors is whether the Mat-|UP this country for settlement by 4 ; Ti time of departure or ar-|pag only one district with less roads |where and that wasn't because I Fomb Sel-:zrd or by airplane from o the sidewalks usually, with their| Patsy Ann, Juneau’s offic- |anuska project is a success. Of |the masses seeking opportunity to :"l“u‘n "vev o dining cars. ]"; per square mile than Alaska. didn’t look. They just aren’t mcre\N““ “‘t"e‘~ but tourists do not visit wares spread about them. They| ial greeter, meets all the |those we interviewed, the question|€XPand their own future. D e e o o] Bt B any more [ Nome becaine 3rig oo Gar. sl are coppery or black, with heavy.| boats and is the last to leave |W%as unanswered. From all appear-| Alaska needs hundreds of miles | Gurry”or Mt ‘;xcx ’“l“‘?‘},;;y‘lw_l | Most of us old timers remember S e as to attract them. straight black hair. They seldom| the gangplank at sailing. |ances the colony is a thriving farm-|of passable motor roads which only | yhere O e ey B ved at | 2bout those exciting days of the dis- | We visited Juneau twice, both go-| Mot e , speak. They have totem poles, large| mpuoh beginning to “how |ing community. scattered over 100 |the government can build. To MY | reqeonable ent meals are scrved A | covery of gold in the Alaska and |ing and recurning. It is located in| A Juneau citizen did not speak and small, but ran mainly to moc- the effects of |.,1; he |%auare miles of the valley and nest- (mind, this is only the first step of |~ T Yukon Territories, the thousands of | the southeastern panhandle, has a|well of the winters at Nome. “No- casins, beaded articles and baskets | ki e‘:‘ » a9 .aze. she 1yeq among rugged, picturesque a comprehensive program which | Ml 2 gold seekers who went out rrom!pupumum\ of 6,000 or 7,000 people, body stays there in winter, it's too weven from mative grasses. They| Mever fails to put in an ap- |mountains with live glaciers visible [should also include cheap hydro-| Uncle Sam owns the railroad, to- every part of the United States hop- | about the size of Woodstock, and is | d cold. Even God goes out know héw to charge too. A totem pea.mnce when asteamer |far away at the upper end. electric power, encouragement and gether with the hotels at which we |ing to strike it rich and bring back |the largest city in Alaska. Reader, on the last boat,” was his com- whistle blows, development of Alaska’s vast agri- |stopped. I know nothing about the home their share of the wealth of |please fix this in your mind — the 4ment. pole a foot long and fairly well “All of the colonists, who werel