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City Official Paper
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NOME, ALASKA, AUGUST 6, 1915.
The stand taken by Sam Gnmpera in
regard to the system of Federal In
spection of public transportation fa
cilities can hardly fall to receive the
endorsement of all who have taken cog
nizance of the number of fatalities oc
curring yearly on the various marine
transportation systems of the coun
try; a large portion of which could
undoubtedly have been averted by n
little more active system of govern- 1
mental Inspection. The system as it
stands is presumed to he the govern
ment's guarantee to the traveling public
that the various marine ‘ transportation
lines upon which they may be com
pelled to journey are as nearly safe as
tl orough Inspection and watchful care
can make them, yet, scarcely a. month
passes hut some catastrophe occurs,
resulting in the death of several or
many persons, the primary causes of
which are directly traceable to the in
adequacies of the inspection system.
The latest example is furnished by the
sinking of the giant lake steamer East
I. nd within a stones throw of the start
ing point and which resulted in the
drowning of nearly a thousand passen
gers. While the active causes of this
great disaster have not been conclu
sively determined as yet. it Is clear
iha! oxi>ert opinion and at least one
official investigation hoard is convinced
that a i»art of the responsibility rests
upon the steamboat inspection ser*
vice. The coroner's Jury empaneled to
fix the responsibility for the death of,
those many hundred people, without
hesitation, fixed upon the steamboat!
inspectors as at least partially respon- j
sible, and as n result of the findings of .
that body two of the lns|>eetors for the!
lakes distinct were placed under arrest, j
While It is little to he doubted that
they will ultimately be cleared, as Is
usually the case, through the full
v.elght of the department which they
Rervo being exerted in their behalf in
order to conceal as far as possible the
departmental short comings, the fact
ihat the Inspectors were among the f
ft,-st arrested, following a careful in- v
Yestimation. Is nmplo evidence that the n
inquisitorial body had uncovered suf- I
tlrtent evidence to support the belief I
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hut they were at least guilty of eon
ributory negligence. However, one
loos not need to tlx upon the Eastland
’or examples of the Inadequacy and
reneral inefficiency of the system, for
he history of marine fatalities of the ■
vast decade or two is replete with evi
Icnces that the system Is little more
:han what Qompers has declared it to
> ; scarcely more than palliative and
jy no means effective in safeguarding
;he lives of the traveling public. Ai^
other most significant point lh the ■
gieat Jabor leader's denunciation la
tiat relating to the vital dependence .
>|aced by the department on individual
■stlmate.s. While it is the duty of mar
ne Inspectors, if we rightly remember. ,
« conduct their Investigations In ,
ouples and through a comparison of
heir findings arrive at definite con
•luslons, it is fully realized by those
ivho have observed the methods of in
ipeotion, that the ruling is observed
more often in the breach than in the
performance. Anyone who has wit
nessed an Inspection of a large vessel
cannot hut arrive at the conclusion
that a large portion is of a purely pre
functory nature, unless they doubt the
evidence of their own eyes It seems
to he one of the main faults of the
system that too much is taken (X
gianted after a ttiflins examination,
thereby allowing all manner of vital
defects to he overlooked. Hardly a
man who has sailed the oceans for any
length of time hut will tell of ships
being granted the right to go to sea
with a burden of human lives, by care
less or obliging- officials, when the of
ficers and crew Tmth knew that the
vessel was far from seaworthy but
dared not say a word for fear of being
blacklisted. This has happened so
often that it has become a matter of
little remark. And yet, it is on me
thods which permit of such things
that the public are compelled to rely
for the proper safeguarding of their
lives. Examples of the utter ineffi
ciency of the present system, or its
method of application, may he multi
plied ad infinitum hut one need not
look further than the constant reports
of people losing their lives in sea fa
talities through a lack of proper life
boats or the absence of life preservers
This tale has become a matter of.such
frtquent repetition that one cannot hut
realize that the methods of the marine
inspection department are either crim
inally negligent or that there is an ut
ter lack of efficiency somewhere in the
system.
ALASKA
NOTES
Cordova is now thp “Copper City” of
the United States, as it leads in the
value of ore shipped to the smelter.
During the month of May the produc
tion of the Bonanza and Jumbo mines
amounted to 11,500,000 pounds of ore,
the value would be $1,932,000. With a
stimulated market the output of these!
mines has been steadily increasing and
they nre now handling their capacity,
which means that the June shipments
were worth more than $2,000,000.
Harry K. Nolan, a merchant of Mut
anuska. a town on the line of the gov-I1
ernment railroad in Alaska, plans an*'
Innovation in a freighting boat to carry
his supplies to his store from Ship
rreek. Although there is a shallow
slough that comes within a mile of his [.
store which is navigable to boats of
shallow draft on the flood tide, boats
already in operation of propellor or f
sternwheel type have had a good deal
if trouble with snags and the shallows,
so Mr. Nolan expects to build a flat- ;
mat and equip it with an aerial prn
lellor like those used on aeroplanes.
The dead and practically air dried
sidles of A. L. Dominy and Thus. Boyd
'ere fmvjd recently in separate but
dJoining cabins near the mouth of
lootalinqun river about 80 miles above
lootniinqua post. Joe Brewer, a pio
tcer prospector and trapper who makes
tis home ten miles up the river from
5wlft creek, where he has a mink
•anch, mads the gruesome discovery,
laving been requested by the police to
nak'e search for two men. neither of
whom had been seen since they left
jere together, but each in his own
*oat, on the 31st of August, 1913,—
IVhltehorse Star.
Secretary Redfield of the Department
if Commerce has announced his appo
rtion to the idea of the Alaska legls
ature controlling the fisheries in Al
iska waters. He declares that the gov
ernment Is better able to take care of
lie industry and his statement Is taken
o mean that the federal admlnistra
lon will from this time forward insist
>n directly looking after the fishing in
erests. No definite statement has been
node as to the opinion of the secretary
in the taxing of the fisheries people,
[t is thought likely that the owners of
•annerles have entered a protest
igalnst the taxation irqposed on the
ndustry by the legislature in the ses
sion just ended.
The government Jail at Petersburg
has been strengthened and repaired
for the fall tiade.
Albert Pea ice. an employee of th«
government, was drowned at Ragie
river, near Anchorage, a few weeks
ago.
Seven angora goats were landed at
Haines on the last trip of the Hum
boldt and were taken to Klukwan to
see if they prove, a success.
The 19th anniversary of the discov
ery of gold on Bonanza creek, tributary
of the Klondike river, will be celebrated
in glorious Fourth of July manner at
Dawson. August 17th. The Whitehorse
baseball team has been invited to at
tend.
An interesting feature of the new
license law passed June 29th by the
Prince Rupert council was that where
in it was ordained banks shall pay an
annual license of $200 each. As there
are five hanks there It will Increase
the city’s revenues materially.
They say that a roster of the em
ployees of the railroad commission at
Anchorage reads like the roll call of a
regiment of Serbian reserves. A recent
letter from the new town asserts that
a plain American has to hog for work
enough to earn the price to get a plate
of beans.
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Robert TV. Service, the well Unwn.
Yukon writer, who left the territory
three years ago, since which he served
aa a correspondent in the Balkan war
and then went to Paris and married a
French girl and settled down there to j
write, has given up the g lnd of making
copy and gone to the front.
C. TV. Swank, auditor for the Alaska
[.umiw & Rox Company has been ap
pointed receiver for the company,
which was declared bankrupt by Judgd
Jennings, He will attempt to make a
satisfactory settlement of the accounts
if the company.
Capt. R. O. Crisp, former commander
>f the ill fated United States revenue
’Utter Tahoma, who has been In charge
>f the coast guard exhibit at the Pann
na-Paclflc exposition, has been ap
siinted inspector of life-saving service
if the Pacific Coast division, with his
lendquarters in San Francisco.
J. C. Hayes, superintendent of road
i nstruction for Southeastern Alaska
as begun work on the roads in the
icinity of Juneau, and some of the
apers to the south express a fear that
will end near Juneau.
Vietint Cards at tha Ni*«aat Office
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It will act as a laxative in the
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