Daily Brill Carries Commuters, Mail, Baggage to Palmer
INTERURBAS BRILL SERVICE IS GROWING WITH THE COLONY

The busiest center in Anchorage every morning is the Alaska Railroad station immediately preceding the departure of the Anchorage-Palmer Interurban Brill.

Established with the coming of the Matanuska colonists, the interurban has become a real institution, and is carrying almost capacity loads every day. Many days every seat in the car is occupied both going and coming.

Going out from Anchorage at the same time is the daily mail, including the copies of the Daily Times going to subscribers throughout the valley and at way points, and numerous express shipments. One end of the ear is set out for the accommodation of the mails and the express matter. All kinds of merchandise, from groceries to clothing, meats and a hundred and one other things comprise the daily. shipments. Anchorage merchants are enjoying a steady trade with Palmer and vicinity. The North Pole Bakery is shipping an average of 150 loaves of bread to Palmer each day. When the camp was first opened the bakery shipped as high as 500 loaves daily. As the camps of the, colonist project are getting under way and installing more equipment they are doing more baking with their own equipment.

The Brill has become an indispensable link between Anchorage and Palmer, and while serving these two points also serves the intermediate towns of Eklutna and Matanuska.

The residents of all the communities served are highly appreciative of the news service, which was instituted by General Manager O. F. Olson of the Alaska Railroad. The colonel plans to improve the service in the district, he states, in every way possible as the development of business justifies.

The interurban is in charge of Clarence Olsen, conductor, with Logan Stipp as motorman.

A notable phase of the travel on the interurban is the number of colonists included among the passengers. Gradually they are fitting into the general scheme of things and taking their place in the picture of Alaska life and becoming real Alaskans, with all their hopes and ambitions pinned to the future of Alaska.

July 10th, 1935