Dee. 22, 1916. 
MANCHESTER BROTHERHOOD 
TaLK ON ALASKA BY J. WILDER 
FarRBANKS At MEETING ON 
Monpay EVENING. 
J. Wilder Fairbanks, who earlier 
in the season lectured on “A Ride 
for an Empire,” gave an instructive 
lecture on “Alaska” before the mem- 
bers of the Men’s Brotherhood in the 
Manchester Baptist church vestry on 
Monday evening. Nearly 70 were 
present. In the absence of Rev. A. 
OS. Warner, Arthur Walker, the vice- 
president, presided. 
“Since the purchase of Alaska by 
the United States,” said Mr. Fair- 
banks, “the sun has not set on Amer- 
ican soil. The city of Seattle is tne 
real geographical center of the United 
States. It is equi-distant from East- 
port, Me., and the tip of the Aleutian 
Islands. We purchased Alaska from 
Russia in 1866 for $7,200,000 as a 
favor to the Russian government. 
Russia was our only friend during 
the Civil War. When England and 
France stood ready to recognize the 
rebelling states as a republic Russia 
had fleets of gunboats waiting off 
the harbors of New York and San 
Francisco to lend aid if we needed it. 
As a return Secretary Seward took 
Alaska off Russia’s hands at a sum 
which seemed enormous in those 
days. He was severly critized for 
the step, but previous to the discovery 
of gold in the Klondike Alaska had 
exported to the United States $84,- 
60,000 in products of the territory. 
tn the 10 years following the dis- 
covery of gold in the Klondike 
$250,000,000 in gold alone was taken 
from the ground.” 
Mr. Fairbanks’ lecture was_illus- 
trated by stereopticon views. He be- 
gan with a sketch of country along 
the route of the Canadian Pacific 
railroad, showing views of Winnipeg, 
the great shipping center of the grain 
and cattle district of the Northwest. 
The grain fields of Saskatchewan and 
Alberta were shown and the city of 
Calgary, Alberta, was the subject of 
a brief sketch. Mr. Fairbanks took 
his audience on a trip up the side of 
ene of the immense glaciers, which 
he said “even Dr. Cook could not 
scale.” ; 
The speaker said that previous to 
1840 Daniel Webster had declared in 
the U. S. Senate that there was not a 
harbor on the Pacific coast. He ex- 
hibited views of Seattle harbor and 
of Puget sound. He declared that 
all the shipping of the world could be 
sheltered in Puget sound at one time. 
The port of Seattle is located 150 
miles from the Pacific on the sound. 
While San Francisco may. remain the 
financial center of the Pacific coast, 
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would always be the commercial cen- 
ter for the trade of the Orient and of 
the speaker believed that 
Alaska. He explained how the Paci- 
fic shipping followed the Japanese 
current up under the Aleutian Islands 
and down the coast instead of direct- 
ly across. A steamer from China can 
make the port of Seattle, unload her 
cargo and it will reach New York by 
rail before the same steamer could 
have reached San Francisco by con- 
tinuing on her course. 
The speaker visited Alaska a num- 
ber of years ago and the views did 
not show the changes that have taken 
place in the last decade. Views of 
Juneau, Skagway and the beautiful 
glaciers were shown. Vegetables 
grown in the town of Skagway were 
pictured and photographs taken at 
midnight were reproduced. Bits of 
the railway between Juneau and 
Skagway were interesting views. 
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government railway which he said 
would open up new fields of gold and 
coal for development. Pictures were 
shown of the fisheries and the seal 
islands. 
“At the time of the Klondike rush 
people asked how the land would hold 
all the men who were going there. 
Alaska has an area of 650,000 square 
miles, equal to nearly the entire terri- 
tory east of the Mississippi in the 
United States. If all the inhabitants 
of the globe were to move to Alaska 
to live there would be less than 30 
people to the acre. There is just as 
much gold there as ever, but to get 
it you have to do just what you do 
anywhere else—work hard for it. 
The majority of people are better off 
here in New England than they 
would be up there.” 
Refreshments were served after the 
lecture. 
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