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must also purchase stoves, tents and sundry camp neces- 

 sities. 



Our first few meals consisted mostly of ham and eggs. 

 We reveled in the first good bath since leaving Nome, 

 enjoyed the almost forgotten luxury of sleeping in a real 

 bed, read stacks of letters from home and interviewed 

 Dick Lane, manager of the railway, in regard to sending 

 us on our journey as soon as possible. There were also 

 the trophies of our Arctic hunting and our caribou heads 

 to be packed and shipped by the next steamer; and in 

 connection with this duty we made the acquaintance of 

 the new game warden. Dr. Baughman. Mrs. Klein- 

 schmidt and her two attractive children had been await- 

 ing their wandering Ulysses at Seward during the sum- 

 mer, with the intention of returning to Seattle on the 

 "Abler," but these plans were changed and while Cap- 

 tain Kleinschmidt went back on the schooner his family 

 retm-ned on one of the regular steamers. 



We were now delayed for several days by repairs nec- 

 essary on the Alaska Central Railroad. This highway of 

 transportation, on which about six million dollars had 

 been spent by the promoters to construct seventy-two 

 miles of track, was described in its present condition as 

 "two streaks of rust." It had been bankrupt for some 

 years, and now a citizens' committee was operating gas- 

 oline motor cars for twenty-nine miles of its length, 

 paying no rental and charging sufficient tariff only to 

 keep even with the running expenses. Tickets were 

 issued in the form of receipts for "Donation to Gasoline 

 Fund." Tozier, the engineer and superintendent, was 

 now repairing the bridge across Resurrection River, about 

 three miles out of Seward, where a jam of logs had come 

 down the stream and weakened one of the sections. 



