; LK — ^ ^
THE
(Home Daily Nugget
an independent newspaper
Published daily except Sunday by
NONlfc PUBLISHING CO.
E. C. DIVINE
UEO. 5. MAYNARD
M)le Owners and Publishers
CHAS. SANDFORD, Editor.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
(Id advance.)
Nome Daily Nugget, 1 mouth... .PS.®®
Nome Daily Nugget, 6 month*. .%l*M
Nome Dally Nugget, 1 year.**#.06
Nome Weekly Nugget, 1 mouth...60c
Nome Weekly Nugget, 1 year...*6.09
NUGGET MINING AND DREDGING
MAGAZINE,
ciasutd Annually In October.)
Price per ..**°
Price per copy, mailed.Me
Rate* for advertising spaee I* any
of the above pubUcatloas will be made
known on application.
PHONE MAIN d6.
Kntoreo as second-class matter Feb
2t, lto), at the PoatotHce at Nome,
Alaska, under the Act of Congress of
y .uvti 1. 1N7H. i
Copy for regular advertisements
must be i* by 19 o’ciook on tbs day of
publication.
1 . 1. 1 1 i "
City Official Paper
NOME, ALASKA, SEPT. 10, 1916.
To the majority of those who have
resided in Nome for any length of time
the great necessity for a safe harbor
for the coastwise shipping is doubtless
clearly apparent. The needs in this
respect have been forced on our atten
tion year after year through the con
stant destruction of property and the
general crippling of coastwise traffic;
both effects being produced in the ma
jority of cases solely through the ab
sence of a proper refuge for the smaller
vessels and lighters employed in hand
ling the local and coastwise commerce.
Year after year we have witnessed the
wrecking of vessels, the beaching and
destruction of lighters and the Jeopar
dizing of hundreds of lives during the
sudden and long enduring storms
sweeping with constant regularity over
Bering sea during the open season.
Season by- season shipping has been
compelled to suffer a tremendous toll
of losses through the tying up of light
ering and coast traffic for long periods
ail of which could have been avoided
or greatly minimized through the me
dium of a small harbor or breakwater
Owing to the absence of records it is
impossible to even approximate the
sum total of the injury' and damage
inflicted during the years since Nome
became a commercial entity but that
the gross volume is great is indicated
by tlie report recently delivered to the
Chamber of Commerce by the Alaska
Lighterage Company in which it is dis
closed that the expense borne by that
concern during the past twelve years
for repairs to floating equipment alone
average the sum of five thousand dol
lars per year. This is but one item of
the immense losses that have occurred
for tlie one and only reason that there
was no adequate shelter for the lighters
and small vessels employed by that
company. To this must also be added
the heavy losses occasioned by the
overturning of loaded lighters in the
surf and the consequent loss or damage
to merchandise together with a dozen
or more other items of expense inci
dent to handling cargoes on the open
beach. According to the records of the
life saving station, which are far from
complete owing to the Imperfect rec
ords kept prior to 1906, there have been
total of one hundred and seventy ma
rine disasters within a distance of six
miles from Nome since the station was
established while the property loss in
volved represents a sum in excess of
forty-five thousand dollars,
in four-fifths of the cases the exist
ence of a safe harbor would have obviat
ed all possibility of loss At the pres
ent time the coastwise commerce of
this section averages the sum of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars per
annum and there Is visible a steady
and considerable Increase each suc
ceeding year. About two thousand
tons of cargo is annually disposed along
the coast from Golovin to 1’olnt Hope
every pound of which Is jeopardized;
not while In transit as much as when
being handled in the open roadstend In
front of Nome. After leaving the Nome
coast the coasting vessels are compar
atively safe as the great majority of
the ports on the northern and eastern
shores afford some slight shelter to
shipping. The danger lies principally
at Nome. As this port is the center
of the shipping Industry of the entire
Seward peninsula section, the point
from whence Is drawn the supplies of
practically seven-eighths of the peo
ple of the territory and, as the distri
bution cannot be effected save through
the medium of the sea, the overwhelm
ing need for adequate protection for
the coastwise traffic must he apparent
to the most casual observer.
While London newspapers have not
hesitated to criticise the United States
for what Is described as a “commercial
attitude toward the war." it appears
that Great Britain has had an eye to
the main chance herself. By holding
up American shipping Great Britain
has been able to replace In various
neutral countries. By withholding Am
erican cotton from Germany, England
has forced Germuny to withhold dye
stuffs from America. The announce
ment Is now made from London that “a
considerable Increase in the output of
dyestuffs has finally been effected by
the British Dyes Company.” It is stat
ed that the board of directors of this
company, formed with capital aid from
the British government to manufacture
dyes and thus supply a demand that
before the war depended on Importa
tions from Germany, have decided to
acquire or build much larger works.
British export figures tell the commer
cial side of Great Britain's war ever
more strikingly. The total value of ex
ports to the United States consulate
I general, the first six months of 1915
|was *70,616.024, against *65.R77.8R1 for
the similar period last year. In other
words, England in six months under
wnr conditions Increased her exports
to the United States about $5,000,000
compared with six months under peace
ful conditions.—Thomas F. Taigan in
Leslie’s.
UNLUCKY FOR KAISER.
Among the evil influences afn:
the kaiser, not least must he the fact
that he Is William II. and not Will'
I.
A long list can be muile of unfortun
ate monarchs who were the second of
their respective official names. The fol
lowing is a striking list of our own En
glish history:
Ethelred II (The Unready), weak and
unfortunate.
Edmund II (Ironside), murdered.
Harold II, killed at Hastings.
William II, (Rufust, killed by acci
dent.
Henry II, died of grief.
Edward II, murdered.
Richard II, murdered.
Charles II. unlucky and disgraceful
reign.
James II, deposed.
George II, died suddenly.
French history shows similar instan
ces:
Phillip II, troubled reign. Englands’
first naval victory scored aginst him.
Charles II, (The Bald) poisoned.
Francis II, diedf in eighteenth year
after troubled reign of seventeen
months.
Henri II, killed in a tournament.
Napoleon II, deposed after reigning
fifteen days.
From German history:
Frederick II, twice excommunicated
by Pope Gregory. Conspired against by
his own- son. Died at war witli the
pope.
Frederick 11 ,(The Great) of Prussia.
Waged three great and disastrous wars
to win and retain Silesia.
Frederick William II, of Prussia. Post
Alsace and Porruine to France.
The ease of Francis 11 of Germany
is suggestive. After a series of defeats
by France, resigned the German crown
und was very successful as Francis 1
of Austria.
Other cases:
James II, of Scotland. Kiled by burst
ing of cannon.
Phillip 11 of Spain. Not the least of
his misfortunes was bis marriage to
Mary I of England.
Uoleslaus 11 of Poland. Dethroned.
Augustus II of Poland. Attempted to
distinguish himself in war, hut was de
feated and dethroned by Charles XII. of
Sweden. After Charles’ death was re
stored and resigned quietly and pros
perously.
Albert 11 of Austria, "The uncrowned
emperor.”
These lists are not exhaustive, but
the question may be asked: Can we
extract from the aggregate records of
earthly kings, a sufficient number of
fortunate No. 2’s, to make the halnnoe
even ?
Allowance should be made for the
fact that kings, from their elevated sta
tion. live somewhat precarious lives,
and for the other fact that a strong X '
1 will sometimes leave his throne to an
ineflicient No. 2. This latter is perhaps
a consideration of great importance.
On the other hand, the old occultists
believed' that there was some inherent
malignancy in the number No. 2. itself
They held it to be a number qf trouble,
death, enmity, contention and unhappi
ness. How strangely this seems to he
borne out in the histories of kings we
have partially shown: and those learn
ed in such matters will easily recall
other instances.
VOLUNTEER ARMIES.
There seems a curious misapprehen
sion of what Gen. Wood meant when
he made the statement that the volun
teer system for an army In emergency
had always been a failure. Thus the
New York Blobe and Commercial Ad
vertiser finds in the utterance "some
thing of the contempt which the reg
ular army man of|pn feels for the citi
zen soldier." The same newspaper goes
on to say: “Volunteers should, without
doubt, be men trained before any crisis
comes, but there is a strength and de
votion in a volunteer army that cannot
exist among soldiers forced into ser
vice by draft or conscription. Thhse
who remember Gettysburg and Appro
matlox may be pardoned if they be
lieve that the volunteer army still has
its place in the life of our people."
The curious obliquity in this is that
the army of the type which Genet
Wood advocates is merely an army
made up of "volunteers,” "trained be
fore any crisis comes.” The whole
regular army of the United States
and our entire organized militia is vol
untarily enlisted. The illustration is
singularly wrong also for the suffi
cient reason that the armies which
confronted each other at Gettysburg
and at Appomattox had thousands of
conscripts or drafted men serving, not
as volunteers but under compulsion.
Further than this, if any one can seel
any difference in strength and devotion
between the soldiers in Europe who are
volunteers and those who are con
scripts, tie must have remarkably keen
vision. The efficient armies of con
tinental Europe are practically all eon
scripts, and the English army is the
only one made by voluntary enlistment.
Jiut General Wood had no suggestion
of conscription. All that he was sug
gesting was that the country permit a
few thousand more volunteers to enter
its military service, there to be trained
before any crisis comes. What General
Wood stated to have been a proved
failure was the reliance of this coun
try for defense upon volunteers called
into service without preliminary train
ing.
EFFICIENT PUBLICITY.
Publicity—either an art or a science
in its present development —has many
students and few masters. It is rec
Our Smaller
sized dredges
with buckets
from V/i foot
capacity to 5
.foot oapacity.
lead all others.
W# design,
buKd, Install
and operate for
a period of 30
days.
Dredges de
signed and
built to suit
sorrdiiions
under whtdh t
they afle to
operate
Double Flume, Screen Conveyor, Type of American Gold Dredge.
Manufacturer
of light powor
drills capable
of sinking 5 in.
holes 50 feet
deep.
• i
Our special
design fin0 gold
saving .devices
installed on
dredges of the
flume type.
Write for
prioes and
particulars
AMERICAN DRED8E BUILDINB & CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
I 503-504 PIONEER BLDG. B. BERNARD, Manager 8EATTLE, WASH
ugniaed that suceeoa in business of al
most any kind is dependent in large
measure upon llie ability 10 attract the
attention of the public to the business
concern and to the goods in which it
deals. As the matter of publicity gets
down to the scientiiic basis, as. it is
rapidly doing, and the efficiency experts
get to the handling of its problems, one
of the tlrst questions naturally taken up
is that of the relation of the cost of
certain forms of publicity to the re
turns—the economic end of the prob
lem.
Theater managers of Brooklyn, N. Y„
eighteen in number, have been study
ing the problem from this end. Their
conclusions are interesting to all stu
dents of publicity and should be to all
who are themselves making Invest
ments In publicity. After careful con
sideration of the cost of all lines of
service these Brooklyn managers have
decided to drop entirely blllboaid ad
vertlsing and to divert the entire ap
propriation heretofore used for that
form of publicity to the Increased use
of the advertising columns of the news
papers.
Here is one Item from the statistics
assembled to guide their deliberations:
The expeditures for 2,500 eight-sheet
poster displays for a week, they found,
would buy approximately fifteen col
umns of newspaper space. With those
figures before them, it required no fur
ther argument to convince them where
they would get the best values for
their money, and the conclusion was
promptly reached.
The billboard and the theatrical busi
ness have been inseparably connected
In the past, and it was difficult to con
ceive of the possibilities of a divorce
between them: but It has come in
Brooklyn and it will come elsewhere
through the application of ideas of
economy and efficiency to the publicity
problem. The best returns from the
investment are found from newjpaper
advertising.
Don’t forget the big epecial eat# at
Holt’s Cash Store.
School Supplies. See our window.
Lomen Bros.
WE CAN OO IT.
For first class work and prompt da
livery phone Main 151 and tha Paopla'a
Steam Laundry will call and gat your
laundry,
W. J. WILLIAMSON. Prop.
DREAM THEATRE
TONIGHT
Comedy
WHIFFLES AN DTHE DIA
MOND.
Feature.
THE
EMBEZZLER
2—Parts—2. j
BRONCO BILLY PUTS ONE
OVER.
MRS. LA CLERQ, Pianist.
ADM. 25c
EAGLE HALL
SATUROAY AND 80NDAY
DUSTIN FARNUM
In an Adaption of
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
FaFmoua Novel
SOLDIERS
—OF—
FORTUNE
6 Parts 6
2 Shows: 7 p. m. and 9 p. m.
OLLIE BOURRET, Pianist
ERNEST BERGGr£N, Violin
ADMISSION, 26 cents
r WTT ROWE
TRANSFER AND FREIGHTING
? 1 1
---:-;
Dealer in all kinds of Lumber
Hay and Grain
|| Horses For Sale |
< ► <
i Board of Trade |
I . ~ |
$ A Resort for Gentlemen *
l 3fta taraut Blfflard and Poof Room In CKasfta. t
«*V%^N^AA/WW> ^V^VWVWVW A
RUSS DOWNING, FROI* X
I
Established June 1900
Alaska Banking and
Sale Deposit (ompaay
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL ....$126,000
PAID UP CAPITAL. 50.000
A General Banking Businaaa Tran
sacted.
|*4*4*4.«4»4*4T4Xia.»4*4
\ \\
• Subscriptions V,
received for all
> ■ S
f Magazines and papers • •
Lowest club rates
l IS
■ At the Rexall 8tore Only < »
BUTLER-MAUROSCO
i <«
:i
***4*4d4»»*4*4* 4*4*4*4*4*e
4aM>44<48^i4B4«B8^«NH4^«4^4r44^ 4
Chas. W. Reed
Machinist 6 Blacksmith
Uasoline Engines, hoists
Boilers, Pipe and Pipe
Plttings
No. 5 Front St.
Miners & Merchants
Bank of Alaska
NOMK, ALASKA
Capital - - $100,C:j
Gold Dust Purchased
aud Assayed
I BOARD of TRADE ij
Restaurant
and i;
LUNCH COUNTER ; |
--— f«*ga——gcgoci , >
F. A. Daniels, Prop. |
■ T T11111 ft ft I iTl
fifties ||
Cafe . ||
i i j |
• ■ OPEN DAY AND NIQHT. ! I
Next Door to Pacific CoM
Storage flarket ! 1
I CHEAP JOHN STORE I
I Clothing of Buffalo, N^Y. * Th!'"* °' !*“ Celebr*ted Herman A WMe ■
Jl *o fit and fashion, some of our <>. n',anu *cturep is ther* when it comes I
I of these suite on. W, have a .welM;^^ dd"* * 'nod*1 with °*» I
| oxo. Cb«P John, clothing .,,^7; g b°ddpi'nt-th«t will take y.ur I
change. A fine a..0rtm.nt of thTlItllt vti , »XP#C‘ W#“*’• »" «* I
•r. here, the new German goo. .til‘ a f R#C°Pd' *nd *»•<**- I
8 ■‘•P '"•rch, JU,t imagine how .wart. I
I L. SEIDENVERQ, Prop. I
5************^ZZZ£77777,
* MOONLIGHT WATER ♦
+ The Purest Water in all Alaska *
| A=ataass- !
| A.D.POTEET I
SUBSCRIBE TOOAY FOR
THE NOME OAILY NUGGET
ABO GET THE REAL NEWS