pacific navy yard employees
TO PRESENT VI EWS ON WAGES
IF NOT NOW SATISFIED
Pacific News Service, Wash. Bureau.
WASHINGTON.—Representatives
of the government employes of navy
yards and naval stations on the Pa
cific coast if dissatisfied with the
schedule of wages for 1917, will have
an opportunity of presenting their
views at a hearing beforo Assistant
Secretary Franklyn K. Roosevelt ot
the Navy Department, to be held at
the departments offices In Washing
ton the department has announced.
Mr. Iloosevelt has charge of all
questions affecting the wages and em
ployment of laborers and mechanics
at all the navy yards and station i,
and according to the announcement.
I the completed schedule of wag03 for
I the calendar year 1917 will not be
| adopted until all employes have been
gi\en full opportunity to present i
ttnir views In regard to the wage j
sc: les recommended by the respee'ive j
naval wage boards. i
The employes of the Portsmouth ]
and Newport yards have been assign- I
cd the first hearing date, February 6, j
anil the other stations of the country |
will be heard at various dates between
that time and December 19 when tho j
Pacific Coast yards the Naval Aca
demy and Indian Head employes will
be heard at the same time, closing the
hearings.
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SECRETARY DANIEL’S ANNUAL REPORT
FAVORS ADDITIONAL FACILITIES
FOR NAVY ON PACIFIC COAST
WASHINGTON.—The forthcoming
annual report of the secretary of the
navy will be devoted in large part to
an explanation of the urgent need of
additional docking facilities on the
Pacific and Atlantic coasts, according
to rumors emanating from reliable
sources close to the Navy Department
heads.
It Is expected, however, that Secre
tary Daniels will defer making defin
ite recommendations as to the loca
tion of new docks and the enlarge
m«nt of existing docks until the nn'-il
commission headed by Heal Admiral
llclm, has reported to the Navy Do- j
paitment and to Congress on the "ne
ctrsity, desirability and advisability"
o1, establishing new naval yards and
stations and re-equipping existing
yards. I
Necessarily, the conclusion of Ad
miral Helm's commission, which i3
now on the Pacific Coast, may be "x
pected to have considerable weight
with the head of the Navy Department
and the members of the naval com
mittees of Congress respecting the
relative advantages of existing yards
and the need of new establishments.
The conditions respecting the docking
naval vessels have been changed ma
terially by the appearance on the list
ol fighting ships of the battle cruiser
type, with a length of 900 feet and
draft of 34 feet, dimensions that rail
for larger dry docks than any of "he
navy now completed. It is Imprac- |
ticnble to increase the length of dry ]
decks already’ built, and it Is main
tained that there should be at !en«t
two of these big drydocks at a navy
yard in order that the fleet in time of
war may not be dependent upon one
dry dock that may be occupied for a
considerable period by a single ship
requiring extensive repairs. There
fore there promises to be some in
teresting and important recommend
ations to Congress during the cotn'ng
session on this subject.
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POLLUTION OF STREAMS
AND BAYS KILLING
THOUSANDS OF FISH
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Pacific Newi Service, Wash. Bureau.
WASHINGTON.—Tens of thousands
of flsh are being killed at the mouths
of streams and in bays on the \t
lantic seaboard by water polution as
the result of large cities emptying re
fuse into the water, according to an
investigation conducted recently by
the government flsh experimental
steamer "Fish Hawk,” the United
States Bureau of Fisheries has an
nounced.
The Fish Hawk found the waters In
the deeper portions of the rivers
heavily charged with sulphite gas
which is caused by the salt vegetable
matter, tanning and other such pro
ducts, carried in suspension, being
precipitated when the fresh water
meets the 3alt water of the bays or
the ocean, and these precipitates fall
ing to the bottom are decomposed.
The ga8 set free is the cause of the
fish, mortality.
RECORD PRODUCTION
OF BEET SUGAR
FROM YEAR’S CROP
Pacific News Service, Wash. Bureau.
WASHINGTON.—A record sugar .
production from the largest acreago
and tonnage of beets ever harvested
in the United States is indicated by
preliminary returns from neurly all
the operating beet sugar factories in
the country, according to a statement
issued by the Department of Agri
culture.
During the current season 918.800
tons of sugar was produced from
beets, the report states. The harvest
ed area is estimated at 6SO.OOO acres,
and the beets used and to be used for
sugar at 6,671,000 tons. The sugar
production exceeds that of 1915, the
highest preceding crop, by more than
44,000 tons. The best sugar made In
1915 amounted to 871,220 tons.
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CHINA ENLARGING FACILITIES FOR
GATHERING AND DISPOSING OF
HER BIG CROP OF HEN FRUIT
Pacific News Service, Wash. Bureau.
WASHINGTON.—An opportunity of
reducing the high cost of food is
area in a report from Consul General
Cunningham Hankow, China, to the
State Department, In which It Is
atated that Hankow and Its environs,
one of the greatest egg-producing re
gions In the world, is enlarging its
means for gathering and disposing of
Its millions of eggs. Washington of
ficials declare that importation of
eggs into the United States in In
creased quantities this winter may he
expected, due to the American short
age and expected great Increase in
pi ices.
Eggs are the most plentiful during
the spring months In Hankow, the
report states. During October the
price of fresh eggs Is approximately
IB,000 cash per pioul of 133 1-3 Ihs.
U. S. HARDWARE
OUTSELLS OTHERS
IN LITTLE PERU
Pacific Newa Service, Wash. Bureau.
WASHINGTON.—Peru is the one
country of thlB hemisphere where
American hardware outsells all its
rivals, the Department of Commerce
has announced as the result of an
investigation of hardware markets.
Sines the war started the Importation
of American hardware has Increased
almost fifty per cent into that country.
Peru’s total Imports of hardware In
the normal year of 1913 were valued
$1,(17,007, of which the United
► ' • •
States furnished $1,040, 749. The
nearest rivals were England. $852,257.
and Germany, $479,964. American
manufacturers have had a decided ad
vantage over their old competitors
because of conditions brought about
by the war, and have Increased their
aales to Peruvians tremendously de
spite the fact that Peru's consutnpMve
capacity has been curtailed.
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As the average number of eggs of
picul is about 1,500 the cost per egg
is 10 2-3 cash or less than one-half
cent United States currency.
During the year 1916 Hankow ex
ported to Chineso and foreign ports
over 16,197,000 pieces of fresh whole
eggs, valued at $53,531 gold. This Is
in addition to 12,347,867 pounds of
frozen egg exports valued at $462,716
gold during the same period and large
quantities of eggs used by the natives
of the Hankow district and sold to
ft reign factories for the manufacture
of albumin and other egg products,
the report states.
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NOTICE OF MARSHAL’S SALE.
Public notice Is hereby given, That
under and by virtue of a special writ
of execution Issued out of the District
Court for the District of Alaska, Sec
ond Division, in Cause No. 2678, en
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3 1-2 and 4 and 5 on Twin Mountain
Creek, and lot 22 In block 15, and im- j
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