Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1883 — Sitka Showers. [ARTICLE]

Sitka Showers.

After the scattered villages and trad-ing-posts along the shores of the archipelago Sitka came upon us like a vision of metropolitan splendor, says a letter in the St. Louis Glo'je-Democrat, and the town full of mossgrowu and weath-er-beaten houses was quite impressive. We wandered continually up and down its winding streets and dilapitated sidewalks, and strolled out the graveled path that leads down the beach and through the woods to the rippling waters of the Indian river, and qever wearied of Sitkan scenes. It rained constantly, but none of us minded that, since Alaska rain has a cheerful, steady, all-the-year-round pattern that even a stranger gets accustomed to in a little while. Gossamer cloaks and rubber shoes are full dress in Sitka, umbrellas bob contentedly up and down the street, and no one dreams of foregoing any outdoor pleasures for the rain. Hard as it may pour, there is not the dampness to be felt that one experiences in other climates, and although we live on shipboard, and keep stateroom windows and doors wide open, neither shoes nor kid gloves have any .refactory claminess about them when it comes to putting them on in the morning. Clothes will dry hung under 9 shed or an .awning, no matter hard the rain may be falling within a few feet of them, and there are many paradoxes and puzzles about this wonderful climate of Alaska.