ALASKAN MAKES FAST TRIP BY AIRPLANE
Eager to return to Alaska, Hakon Christensen, pilot, occupying a Waco, left the factory at Troy, Ohio, Saturday and sat down at
Fort Dodge, Iowa, at 4:40 p. m., the same day.
He left Fort Dodge at 7:15 a. m. yesterday and arrived here after 11 hours of flight, excluding pauses at Belle Fourche, S. D.; Billings and
Butte, Mont.
He is going to Cantwell, a rail point on the Alaska railroad, 175 miles north of Anchorage and 50 miles from Mount McKinley. His
northern route from Seattle will include Prince George, Hazelton, B. C; Telegraph Creek, Juneau or Whitehorse. The weather encouraging, he will leave here at 6 a. m. Christensen's chief aerial effort is the transportation of miners from the railroad to the free gold camps. He has been flying in the north for five years; before that at Eagle Grove, Iowa, for a few years.
He has another Waco at Cantwell, finding the ownership of two essential because of the difficulty of obtaining parts.
After picking up a weather report, Robert McKee left Mamer-Shreck's hangar in his Curtiss Robin, formerly of Spokane, yesterday afternoon for Seattle, from where he came the evening before. While he handles a plane with the skill he displayed on motorcycles, he uses other transportation for long journeys in behalf of the Mergenthaler Linotype company, for which he is a trouble shooter.