ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD BUILDING
DEDICATED NEW YEAR EVE
Special Correspondence.
New Year’# eve the Arctic Brother
hood, Camp Juneau No, 32, opened
their big new hall and natatorlum
with a grand Inaugural ball to which
the residents on Oastlneau channel re
ceived Invitations.
The completion of this project ter
minated the up hill fight which the
camp had been waging since last May,
when the project was started. At that
time a few of the leaders in the
acmp, which numbered about fifty
members, subscribed $1,100 to start
the construction of a building, which
has cost nearly $26,000. Of this sum
subscribed nearly $800 was paid for the
the building site, leaving a balance of
less than $400 to start actual construc
tion work.
That the work has been completed
In such a short time speaks well for
the soundness of the original plans as
la/d down by the builders. Upon the
strength of the project the local camp
has grown until at present there are
about 376 members, which will be In
Increased by 60 within a slort time
when the members of Camp Treadwell
consolidate with Camp Juneau.
The building occupies an ideal spot.
It Is three stories In height, and will
be fitted up as a first class athletic
club, gymnuslum and bath.
The basement floor is taken up with
the heating plant and storage rooms,
the rest of the space being taken up
with the dip of the main swimming
tank.
The main entrance is spacious and
well arranged, stairways from there
making all parts easily accessible. On
the right of the main entrance is the
office of the manager, a dressing room
for children, which la fitted with
shower baths, a modern massage room,
several shower baths and lavatories,
all arranged across the front of the
building.
The feature of the building is the
large swimming tank, located on the
main floor. It Is, 30 to 80 feet In size
and ranges from a depth of 3 feet at the
front end to S feet at the back or deep
end.
It is so arranged that the water will
constantly renew Itself, the warm
water blowing In near the top of the
tank and the overflow being taken from
the bottom of the tank by an arrange
ment of siphons, the colder water be
ing carried away, leaving the warm.
The tank Is wood with white tile sides
and the floor around the tank Is edged
with tile for a distance of one foot
back from the edge.
The dressing rooms are arranged
along tne sides of the tank, special
attention having been given to their
spaciousness and arrangement.
Ascending a flight of steps from either
side of the building, the balcony floor
Is reached. A built In balcony reaches
clear around the tank, over the dress
ing rooms and spectaors who wish te
view the swimmers, or for spectators
to swimming carnivals which may be
arranged.
On the front end of this floor Is a
cozy and modern little reading, writing
and lounging room, which will be lav
ishly furnished and which will contain
all of the lutest magazines and other
leading matter. Adjoining this room
is u handsomely appointed kitchenette
where the malamute stew will he
boiled ofr the members.
Ascending still another flight of
stairs the main hall Is reached: This
room Is 60 by 80 feet and Is the largest
hall In Juneau at present. It has been
finished with a hard maple floor the
entire space of this floor has been
given over to dancing and athletic
sports. An orchstra stand capable of
holding eight pieces has been arranged
over the entrance about sLx feet above
the floor. This room is surrounded
with a balcony hung from the rooi
beams by means of Iron rods the front
end being an Inclined balcony with a
seating capacity of several hundred.
Dressing rooms and lavatories are lo
cated under the Inclined balcony.
The lighting system Is specially ar
ranged, hundreds of small lights being
distributed In such a manner that no
shadow is ever cast on the floor, giving
the light the general effect of sunlight.
Lights have also been arranged for
special decorative use. A monster
exhausting fan has been mounted In
one corner of the balcony which is
guaranteed to renew the entire ait
supply of the hall In less than three
minutes.
Otis and Qllpatrlck had charge ot
construction working under Instruc
tions froh the building committee, con
sisting of John B. Marshall. Harold H
Post, Clark Smith, A. C. Ingram, Grover
G. Winn. Tom Radonich and Fred E
Bradley. To these men is rue the
vigorous campaign for funds which has
been carried on and to them Is due
the credit for the successful comple
tion of the project.
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ODDS AND ENDS FROM
THE BATTLE FRONT
On the lawn In front of a French
villa occupied by a German general
and his staff lay an English gas bomb
that had exploded three days before.
Beside It lay another gas bomb that
had fallen without exploding. Both
had been brought In from a nearby
field where they had originally fallen.
Around the unexploded bomb soldiers
walked with a circumspection that
amounted to deference. Over the sec
ond they bent as over a posy and sniffed
at It appreciatively.
The general, bareheaded and with
both hands thrust deep Into his coat
pockets, came down the steps of the
villa and out on to the lawn. He had
been through a good deal for a week,
his task being to help hold the English
back at a crucial point. Now the
strain was over and he was In a mood
to take an interest In the lighter side
of life—such as the contents of gas
bombs,
"Pretty soon." he said, scrupulously
transferring the German gender to his
labored English, “pretty soon we open
her and study what Is Inside. For some
days we have been too busy."
Outthinking *he Enemy.
The remark was characteristic of a
German’s solicitude to analyte what
hurt him. Having found out Just what
It was and why and how It hurt, he
mutters "Die Schwelnerel," and sets
about making something that will
make the original means of devasta
tion seem a nursery toy.
At the Invitation of the officers quar
tered In the villa 1 conscientiously
smelled the fragments of the gas bomb
that had exploded three days before,
with the result that I have no desire
to smell one that Is any fresher. Mani
festly you may break, you may shatter
the gas bomb If you will, but the scent
of what It once held will cling to It
still.
It Is not that the odor was so much
nauseating as everpowerlng. In othei
words, It was not so much a foul smel!
as an effective smell. It sent a shud
der of weaknes over the whole body
md that sensation was accompanied
by intense prickling. A sore feeling
cmained In the nose und throat for
an hour, and a kind of subconscious
ness of the odor lasted much longer
than that.
All'es’ Appall'ng Loa»*».
The English and French have paid
a heavy price for the slight gains the
offensive won them. Their losses are1
| appalling, and by all accounts the
heaviest losses were Inflicted by the
German machine guns. All along the
line I hear from prisoners reports of
'eighteen left out of two hundred"
"we went In two hundred strong and
came out with fifty living"—"I and my
1 comrade there are the only ones left of
our squad"—and so on. It is terrible.
One French battalion (which means at
least a thousand men) lost all but four
of its officers, and all but 108 men. One
French regiment was annihilated, the
I commander himself saying that 2,000
men fell on the field. The rest were
j taken prisoner.
One day a German officer came In
! with the report that in a space fifteen
bWessIeT
TO RAISE MONEY
Fairbanks business men have of
fered to raise half of the 11,600 neces
sary to remove the log Jam In the
Tolovana river. Delegate Wlckersham
has promised to introduce a bill In
congress to secure the money to re
imburse the Fairbanks and Brooks men
for their expenditure on the navlga
tlon Improvements. The Fairbanks
i men realize they will have to make a
fight to secure and keep the business
cf the new camp as goods can be sent
in from Bampart at about the same
coast as from Fairbanks.
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hundred yards broad and 200 yards
deep where an attack had been thrown
back eleven hundred dead lay.
The number of wounded Is equally
overwhelming. One afternoon I was
riding through a French town whore
the streets are steep and Irregular and
I passed a prefecture or some other
government building which stood per
haps twenty feet below the roadway.
Thus I was able to look down Into the
courtyard of the building—a court, 1
should think, that was 75 feet long
and 60 feet wide. What I saw there
was startling. The place was packed
with French prisoners, but not a sol
dier’s cap nor a hair of any man's head
was visible, only an expanse of white
bandages. It was as if a heavy snow
had covered every head.
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