ALASKA OPERATOR TO
TRY FOR WORLD’S
_ RECORD
Withia the next few weeks Fair
banks may have tr.e distinction of
having the fastest telegraph operator
in the world. William Gilpin, "Big
Bill” as he is more familiarly known,
will compete for the world’s record,
under service conditions, and he be
lieves and his friends believe that he
will be able to break the record. Sev
eral weeks ago, while holding the reg
ular efficiency test on the signal corps
system, and without trying to make
a record, Mr. Gilpin came so near
breaking the record that the idea of
trying for it presented itself to a num
ber of the men.
Today Operator Gilpin and Motyka,
formerly of the wireless station, and
now on his way to Valdez for service,
hold the record for Alaska. Under
the direction of Master Signal Elec
trician Robert E. Loghry, these oper
ators competed for this record several
weeks ago. Strict service conditions
were imposed, the matter to be trans
mitted being handed to Operator
Motyka at the wireles station by Ser
geant Ijoghry while Gilpin received at
the city telegraph office.
The rules imposed were the same
ns those that apply in national tour
naments, and Gilpin’s record for re
ceiving was 47.8 words, of five let
ters each, per minute. The copy
that he turned out was faultless,
without erasure or inaccuracy of any
kind. As the standard efficiency rec
ord of the system is 35 wards, he
beat this by almost 13 words. The
world’s record is 51.G words per min
ute.
Regarding his contemplated try for
the world’s record Mr. Gilpin says
that he has every confidence that he
will be able to beat it, as he had no
difficulty in "getting" 47.8 words
per minute, and could have got it
I faster if Mr. Motyka had been able
I"to send faster.
In the last test Motyka’s sending
was perfect; so beautifully timed and
spaced that other operators listening
declared it as perfect as a musical I
composition. Motyka, who is in his
early 20’s, according to Mr. Gilpin,
has the making of a world beater and
within .a few years will be heard of
far and wide.
The date of the test for record time
will lie announced later. It will take
place shortly after Mr. Motyka starts
doing duty at Valdez.—News Miner.
THAMES SIGHT SEEING
STEAMERS IN WAR
SERVICE OF TIGRIS
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LONDON—American tourists who
in pre-war days boarded fussy little
sight seeing, •paddle-wheeled steamers
almost under the "Dig Den" tower oS'
parliament may be surprised to learn
that these steamers are now doing
sterner duty on the distant Tigris.
Early in 1916 a fleet of small, squat
packets, about one fifth the sie of or
dinary American river packets, turned
their noses down the Thames for the
first time and headed for the Persian
Quit.
The day was a big' event to river
habitues but the general public knew
nothing about it.
Kuch craft was in command of a
naval officer and crew.
Where tourists once sat on the up
per deck benches of the diminutive
craft enpoying the scenery of the
Thames soldiers and war material to
I ,j *im unking the little boat :• •'.ice
a i :t'l * is war juipose.
FIRST AMERICAN NEWSPAPER.
The first newspaer published in the
Northwestern territory was the Sen
tinel, published at Cincinnati, Novem
ber 9, 1783. A local historian says: “A
wheelbarrow would have moved till the
types, cases and stands which the
pioneer establishment contained.” The
paper had its home in a little garret
on Front street, near the river. Sev
eral years ago the Historical society
at Cincinnati paid $148 at an auction
sale for a copy of it. The first news
paper published in Indiana territory
was the Western Sun at Vincennes,
the first issue appearing on the Fourth
of July, 1804. In 1807 yie Sun print
ed a bound volume of the "laws of
Indiana Territory,” the paper on which
the book was printed being brought by
pack horses from Georgetown, Ky. In
1823 the postmaster general reported
that there were 598 newspapers pub
lished in the United States and of
these Ohio had 48 and Indiana 12.
OUT OF DOORS
JLEEPMC
Again the iconoclast is out with his
ax and another and very popular med
ical idol has been smashed—namely,
sleeping out of dors, the Homeopath
ic Envoy states. It was great while
it lasted, but apparently it is now on
the way to the scrap pile of medical
science, where sooner or later all that
brand of science is cast. Sleeping out
of doors is all right for those who live
out of doors, like travelers in remote
regions, soldiers in active service and
the like, but it has been at last real
ized that for those who live in houses
the going out of a warm house to the
often bleak, or damp, air of the out
Is very often hurtful. The same is
true of sleeping with wide open win
dows, which is all right in certain
states of the atmosphere, but as an
Invariable rule It is an error. In noth
ing is common sense more needed
than in medicine and "health culture':
nowhere else is it oftener lacking.
t FAMILY MAN
"Notice—I understand there are a
few old, long-tongued rattling women
and some half raised men telling that
I have deserted my family and run
off with another woman. 1 want to
say that it is a lie and the people
that are talking this are more apt to
do than than I am. You can find me
at the Jeffries and Jones livery barn
at all times. . H. 1*. Jeffries.”—Ken
net te (Mo.) Tribune.
SOLDIER GIVEN AN
ANAESTHETIC FOR WOUNDS
NEW YORK—Small bottles of an
aesthetic are now being placed in the
kits sent to soldiers of the British
army in France by the Vacation War
Relief Association. A spraying appara
tus is attached to the bottle so that
the wounded soldier may apply the
liquid to his wound quickly.
This produces local anaethesia
which continues for three hours and
releases the soldier from p.ain while
awaiting the arrival of an ambulance.
1'se of this particular anaesthetic Is
said to have been authorized by the
British army medical service and by
Russian hospitals.
SOMETHING NEW.
Just arrived on the last boat over
500 of this seasons’ latest styles and
patterns, the most beautiful line of
woolens ever arrived in Nome. Wc
invite you to see these samples wheth
er you buy or not. If you wish to
take advantage of this offer order be
fore the 30th of August, in order to
have order arrive on last boat.
We also make alterations, and we
do cleaning, pressing and repairing.
We appreciate your patronage. Yours
to please.
NOME TAILORING CO.,
Next door to Segerstorm * Hagen,
Jewelers.
You can keep your friends outaido
posted by having the Nugget mailed
*« them for 50 cents per month.
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