FAIRBANKS AGOG
Plenty of Northland Color at Annual Ice Carnival
CROWDS THRONG STREETS
Scenes From Gold Rush Days Shown; Fete Closed at Midnight With Farewell Ball.
Fairbanks, Alaska. March 8.—UP)— All the glory and the color of the continent's last frontier swirled beneath brilliant electric flood lights tonight at the height of the annual ice carnival.
The northland — old and new-mingled In this modern city. Hard-bitten prospectors, students from the University of Alaska, dog team mushers, bankers, pretty women and red-coated royal Canadian mounted police from Dawson, Y. T., milled about the streets.
Dog teams trotted past long lines of automobiles and airplanes roared overhead, their wings coloring to the flash of fireworks breaking In the
zero-cold air as the three day celebration approached Its close. Few Bet Against Allen. Crowds gathered to talk of Johnny Allen's spectacular dashes in the great dog-team derby. Little money changed hands on the derby after the Ruby musher's dogs sped through the
first 30-mile lap of the 90-mile event In what old timers said was record time.
Hotels were jammed. Restaurants and resorts suspended closing hours.
Scenes from the old rush days, prospectors mushing over Chilkoot pass, primitive Indian life, striking effects in ice and snow were reviewed
by the crowds. Contrasting strangely were a long line of Indians In their robes and another line of smartly marching cadets with gleaming rifles.
Flags flew from all the buildings. Japanese lanterns were strung across the streets.
Rainbow For Throne.
Before the rainbow, ice throne of Miss Alaska, a bridge was built connecting the city with a garden island. On one end was a life-sized reproduction of a dog team chasing a rabbit, with the musher in a parka carrying a sign, "Dawson or Bust." Overhead hung two huge flags, one Canadian, the other United States, side by side as emblems of friendliness. The carnival formally closed with a farewell ball with the prizes being
awarded at midnight. All the contestants in the carnival events—the Scotch costumed curling teams, the ice hockey players, the mushers, and
others—gathered for the prizes. Midnight marked the end of the queen's rein and Miss Virginia Berg, 18, born in Alaska, was due to return
to her home at Anchorage. She represented the government's land settlement colony at Palmer in the Matanuska valley.