"CHRISTMAS SHIP" IS LATE Alaska Children Sad—Irregularity In Mall Service.
JUNEAU. Alaska, Pec. 23.—Children of southeast Alaska are bemoaning the fact that Christmas mail from the States will be at least two
days late this year. The steamer City of Seattle was to have been the last "Christmas ship" arriving with holiday cheer before Christmas.
Canceling of mail contracts by the government has resulted in such irregular service, it is said, that the territorial of defense has taken up the matter with authorities at Washington. Governor Thomas Riggs Jr. also is in Washington trying to secure better postal facilities for the territory.