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MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1910
THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS.
Former President Taft’s reference
the other day to the ex-president’s
club of the United States, and his
forecasting that there will he a new
member elected to that club this year,
leads to the inquiry as to how great
a membership the ex-presidents’ club
ever reached in the United States.
Reference to the records shows that
it was during the administration of
Abraham Lincoln that the member
ship was the greatest, the number
reaching five. These were Van Buren,
Tyler, Fillmore. Pierce and Buchana.i.
During the administrations of John
Adams. Hayes, and Taft there was a
single member, while during the ad
ministration of Madison, John Quincy
Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Pierce,
Garfield, Arthur, Harrison, McKinley
and Roosevelt the membership was
two, or the same as at present.
The ex-presidents’ club numbered
three members during the adminis
trations of Monroe, William Henry
Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fill
more, Jackson, Grant and Cleveland,
though during Cleveland's second ad
ministration there were four members
he being one of them, being both pres
ident and an ex-president. His is the
only case where a president having
been defeated for re-election was
again elected after an interim.
During the administration of Bu
chanan there were four members,
ihey being Van Buren, Tyler, Fill
more and Pierce.
The senior Adams lived twenty-five
years after retiring as president, that
being the longest period that an ox
president has lived. Van Buren and
Fillmore each lived twenty-one years
and Madison and John Quincy Adame
each lived nineteen years. Jefferso 1
lived seventeen years after retiring at
president, and so did Tyler.
Washington lived two years, Mon
roe six, Jackson eight, Polk five
Pierce twelve, Buchanan seven,
Johnson six. Grant eight, Hayes
twelve, Arthur one, Cleveland eleven
and Benjamin Harrison eight years
Win. Henry Harrison, Zaechary Tay
lor, Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B,
Hayes, and Wm. McKinley died in of
fice.
It is interesting to note the reli
gious affiliations of the presidents.
Washington, Madison, Monroe, W.
Henry Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Pierce
and Arthur were Episcopalians; John
Adams, John Quincy Adams, Fillmore
and Taft were Unitarians; Jackson,
Polk, Buchanan, Lincoln, Benjamin
Harrison, Cleveland and Wilson were
Presbyterians; Van Buren and Roose
velt, Reform Dutch; Jefferson, while
a believer in Christianity, was non
sectarian, and is classified as a Lib
eral; Garfield was a member of the
Disciples church, and Grant, Hayes
and McKinley were Methodists.
Johnson’s wife was a Methodist,
and he was a believer in Christianity,
but he had no church affiliation.
Charles E. Hughes, who may be
come president, is a Baptist, and if
elected he will be the first Baptir.t
reaching the presidency.
Twenty-one of the presidents were
lawyers: one was a planter and one
a farmer. Two are classed as sol
diers; three as statesmen, and one,
Roosevelt, a public official.
In early life one was a surveyor,
two were tailors, one a farm hand,
five were teachers, fourteen lawyers,
two soldiers, and one a publicist. Nine
never attended college and the others
were college bred.
i nree ot the presidents, Arthur,
Cleveland and Wilson, were sons oi
clergymen. Johnson's father was a
church sexton and town constable.
Grant’s father was a tanner. The
fathers of Washington, John Adams,
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson,
Van Buren, Folk, Taylor, Fillmore.
Fierce, Lincoln, Garfield, and Benja
min Harrison were planters or far
mers, while the father of Wm. Henry
Harrison was a statesman, a signer
of the Declaration of Independence;
and the father of John Quincy Adams
was a lawyer and former president of
the United States. The elder Adams
lived one year after his son became
president. Tyler’s father was a Jur
ist; Buchanan’s, Hayes’, and Roose
velt’s fathers were merchants and Mc
Kinle.v’s_an iron manufacturer.
Tyler, Fillmore, Benjamin Harri
son and Roosevelt were twice married.
Buchanan was a bachelor through life
and Cleveland a bachelor when elect
ed. Cleveland and Wilson married
while In the White House.
At his death John Adams was the
oldest of the ex presidents, his age
being ninety. Garfield was the young
est to die, his age being 49. The
elder Harrison was the oldest man to
be elected president, he having reach
ed the age of 68, and died after serv
ing one month in office. Roosevelt
was the youngest man elected presi
dent, his age being 42.
Sixteen of the presidents were of
English descent, eight of Scotch or
Scotch-IrUh, one Welsh and two
Dutch. Wives of Tyler. Benjamin
Harrison and Woodrow Wilson died
In the White House.
Most of the presidents had military
experience, the exceptions being the
two Adams, Madison, Van Buren.
Polk, Fillmore, Johnson, Cleveland
Taft, Wilson. Washington, Monroe,
and Jackson were Revolutionary sol
diers. Jackson, the elder Harrison,
Tyler, Taylor, and Buchanan of the
War of 1812; Lincoln of the Black
Hawk war; Taylor, Pierce and Grant
of the Mexican war; Grant. Hayes,
Garfield, Arthur, Benjamin Harrison
and McKinley of the Civil War and
Roosevelt of the war with Spain. John
Adams and Jefferson signed the Dec
laration of Independence, and Wash
ington and Madison were signers of
the Constitution.
The first act of Cleveland after
taking the oath was to kiss the open
Bible, his lips touching verses from
five to ten. Inclusive of the 112th
Psalm. Garfield’s first act was to
kiss his mother.
MR. LANE AND MR. PINCHOT.
It will come as a surprise to many
Westerners that Franklin K. Lane.
Secretary of the Interior, has incurred
the displeasure of Mr. Pinchot.
Possibly no man in times of peace
has drawn to himself, in any large
section of the country, more bitter
animosities than has Mr. Pinchot iti
the Rocky Mountain States and Alas
ka. As Secretary of the Interior, Mr.
Lane has also been severely censur
ed by the West because of his appar
ent approval of the Pinchot so-called
conservation policies.
In an open letter addressed to Mr.
Lane Mr. Pinchot says:
“Your plan to turn the natural
resources of Alaska over to a bi
partisan political combination em
bodied in the Pittman Bill, now be
fore Congress, which bill you have
been diligently trying to get pass
ed, if passed would open the way
for a destruction of our whole sys
tem of National Conservation.”
The Alaskan coal situation furn
ishes the most striking illustration of
what Mr. Pinchot calls "our whole
system of National conservation.” In
furtherance of this policy, the coal
lands of Alaska were withdrawn from
entry by President Roosevelt in the
year I90t> “in aid of legislation.”
The legislation proposed was the
establishment of a Federal leasing
system and in order that this system
might embrace all of Alaska's coal
lands a campaign was entered upon
looking to the confiscation of the
rights of Alaskan coal claimants who
had invested their money in an effort
to develop the coal mines in accord
ance with the then existing Land Of
fice regulations.
1 nis was accomplished and the
Alaska Coal Leasing Act has now
been the law for two years. No leases
have been granted and no coal has
been mined under its provisions.
Those who are familiar with coal
mining operation have no hope that
any suDstantial development will ever
take place under its requirements.
It is believed that leases will be
applied for by those who know how
to make money by selling stock, no
matter whether the mining of coal
can become profitable under its pro
vision or not.
Ten years of "our whole conserva
tion policy” in Alaska has resulted in
the abandonment of the work already
in progress at the beginning of thi3
period and the complete tying up of
Alaska’s coal resources.
Mr. Lane has undertaken to deal
with a practical problem in a prac
tical way. He has failed in the trust
which Mr. Pinchot (?) conferred, and
is advocating the home rule principle
for Alaska control, a principle which
is the bulwark of our government.
If Mr. Lane can effectually destroy
the policies which have thus hamper
ed Alaska’s development he will win
the enthusiastic approval of all Alas
kans and the commendation of all
other patriotic American citizens who
have any knowledge of Alaskan con
ditions.—Mining Congress Journal.
• DJD YOU WEIGH YOURSELF?
In many public places we see a sign
“Did you weigh yourself today?”
So we are minded to ask, "Have
you weighed yourself today in rela
tion to your job, and if so, how did
you size up with the requirements?”
The story of any successful man’s
life is the story of mind development,
courage, industry, enthusiasm, pa
tience and determination. It is en
tirely and solely up to YOU, whether
you will remain a follower or become
a leader, whether you will be a men
tal cripple or an intellectual giant.
Every position presents numerous op
portunities for personal development
and the material with which men
may develop.
. A "lightweight” is alright in his
own class, but he seldom does any
thing outside of it.
Even in his proper division, a light
weight is seldom successful unless he
carries a good, stout "punch” in eith
er glove. On the other hand, a man
may weigh a few hundred pounds
physically, and still be more interest
ing than important.
Of course an employer feels an in
terest in the style of clothes a man
wear$ and his ability as a social mix
er, for such things bear directly on
business success, but the big thing
which overshadows the rest? is this:
How much do you weigh, mentally?
Have you initiative, creative ability,
vision, imagination—nerve?
Have you plenty of "pep”? Do you
:ry to do a little more or a little bet
:cr work today than you did yester
lay, or last week?
Or do you continually "shoot at the
Block,” kill time, watch the man In
the front ofl!&, worry about the heal,
and do Just enough work to get you
by?
Are you an 18-kar»t staller, or a
(julck-thlnklng. rapid-moving live
wire? Weigh yourself!
At the risk of being trite, we call
the attention of every man to this sen
tence of sound logic: “The fellow who
never does any more than he gets paid
for never gets paid for any more than
he does." It doesn’t take long to spot
the clock watchers In any organiza
tion.
If any member of an organization
does not give his organization the best
he has in him. then he is not an Ideal
member of the group. Your best
means just that—not pretty good, nor
good enough, but best—and to deliv
er it you have to keep hustling about
60 seconds every minute.
Of course it can be done.. Every
body is pulling for you to come thru
a winner. Are you coming, or are
you going to quit on the stretch?—
Ford Magazine.
HORSE NINE DAYS
DOWN IN SHAFT
My horse, Barney, nlnteen years n;
the Golden North, well known In Daw
son and Grand Forks In early days,
and since 1902 better known In the
Fortymile district, dropped, while
grazing, through the roof of a shall
which was sodded over. He fell to
a depth of nine feet on ice and water.
The water was nineteen inches deep
Barney stood there slightly cramped
for nine days and nights before being
discovered, and then came out on i
steep incline without assistance,
strong and pert. Her was very fat when
imprisoned, hu*. now is quite lean,
and the skin on his legs from the
knees down is dead and all will peel
off. He has a few bruises on his head.
He went in head-on.
I think he is the only horse now
living that started out for the North
in '97.—Ex.
Gennun Bombs Destructive.
The bombs dropped by the German
Zeppelins in their raid on He-genr.
Street were said to have been partic
ularly destructive, but Jack Blake
says he will bet a thousand dollars
they will never have the slightest ef
fect upon any concrete chimney he
constructs. If you need your flues
filled call on Blake. He dees all kinds
of cement work. tf
An up-to-date line of cook stoves
and ranges at Mea/Vs. tf
GENERAL RUSSKY.
Aaaignad to Taka Charge of Rue
aiana Oppoaing Von Hindenburg.' '
j Candy Kitchen !
f E. W. HUNT—In Owl Drat Sure. f
j FOUNTAIN DRINKS *
[ HOT-—-COLD i
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 108
free aad Accepted Maaaae
Regular Communications first Wed-1
uesday In each month In McKlnleW
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
F. M. BROWN, W. M. I
ED WOOD, Secretary.
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I. O. O. F. No. 6
Meets every Monday evening In Mc
Kinley Hall at 8:00 o'clock.
Visiting members cordially Invited t(
attend these meetings.
C. C. RUDOLPH, N. G.
T. G. QUINN, Sec.
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When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON. PROP
SlRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Aye, Seward. Alaska
Who’s Back of
“DRY’S”
FOES OF LABOR
Supply Prohibitionists
With Funds.
By Whldden Graham.
The Anti-Saloon League and other
prohibition organizations spend at
least two million dollars annually in
their agitation for sumptuary laws.
Where does this money come from?
Prohibition professes to he a move
ment in the interest of the working
classes. Did the corporation owner;:
who are putting up the funds for the
drys ever do anything in the interest
of labor?
When the demand for social re
form legislation grows so strong that
State legislatures and Congress must
deal with It, the Prohibition question
is always pushed to the front as an is
sue of the day. Have you any idea
why this happens?
Many of the big moneyed men who
are boosting Prohibition have always
opposed organized labor. Do you sup
pose that they would give up so lib
erally if they didn't think that they
are choking off legislation that might
give their employes a square deal?
The Prohibitionists tell the people
that drink Is the cause of poverty, low
wages, long hours, child-labor, bad
housing conditions, etc. Of course
this isn’t true, but doesn’t it look as
though they are afraid that the work
rs will And out the real cause of thesi
evils?
When an attempt was made in the
New York State legislature at its re
cent session to amend the labor laws
so as to allow cannery owners to work
their women employes longer hours,
were in many instances the same men
who voted for prohibition. Does this
fact suggest anything to you?
Prohibition is essentially class leg
islation, as the rich employers can im
port liquors from “wet” states or for
eign countries for their own use. Have
you noticed any of the corporation
magnates who denounce as "class leg
islation” laws to promote the welfare
of labor, say anything aguinst depriv
ing the working classes of a harmful
pleasure?
Hundreds of thousands of men
would be thrown out of work if the
i’robitionists had their way. Thif
would make more competition foi
jobs, and help keep wages down, It
this why the big employers are keep
ing the Prohibition agitation alive"!
Autocratic Kussia suppresses tin
sale of liquor us a war measure. Fret
America is asked to take a similai
course in time of peace. Will fifteen
million American workers submit ti
the dictation of the petty czars of tht
Anti-Saloon league?
The Prohibitionists say that if tlit
workers are forced into giving up al
cohollc beverages they will becomt
more efficient and able to work hard
er? This would be a fine thing foi
the employers, who would make big
ger profits, but what does organizer
labor think about it?—Adv.
MRS. JEANNETTE RANKIN.
Montana Woman Saaks Congrsss
Nomination Against Ssvan Man.
WOULD HAVE
AVENGED SINKING
YOUNGSTOWN. O.. Oct. 21!.—
Charles Kvans Hughes came out more
holdly today In a speech on the ques
tion of the Luietanta than at any oth
er period of the campaign. He em
phasized what he believed to be the
right? of Americans i.i relation to
this war and in ans»v»ring McAdoo’u
challenge to say what he would have
done in the Lusitania case he decla.
ed that he meant what he said at
Louisville—he would have made good
his warning to Germany.
This is taken to m mn that he would
have declared war anti the general
opinion is that he has fallen into the
trap laid for him by McAdoo and lia
allenated the pro-German vote finally.
For some time back, the papers
state, the pro-German vote has not
been sure for the Republican candi
date because of the support of him
by Roosevelt, who is regarded as the
most rabid pro-Knglish statesman
ever appearing on a platform, and
Hughes’ declaration now in relation
to the Lusitania incident is supposed
to mean that he is making no effort
to secure the pro-German support.
H R. EMPLOYES
BE COMPENSATE!]
Word was received todav by tin
Engineering ('o.nmi.slon from Secre
i'tary Kane that the Workman's com
Ipensation Act has been extended t(
Vhe employes of the government A1
liska railroad and the commission h
\mpowered to put the act into effeel
. We. This i leant mat workmen or
\e road will receive certain conipen
• lion, according to the kind of i
, 'y. for injuries received while work
on the railroad’.— Gateway.
Till an Leopold who has beei
kited with the' store of S. Blun
I for a numbei” of years, left oi
wuneda for tf*ie States. He ex
V return in f the spring and en
1 business hiere.
IHeated /Rooms, 50c, 75c aiui
l at title Arizona. tl
v ~i—
v S. K eaves the Valdez dock
\saiR ing days. See adv.
W
Jed, a new line of Toilet
perfumes. Owl Drug Co
Notire.
‘■lan’s Auxiliary. Pioneer#
'will give a dance at Eagle#
nksgivlng night. Novembet
tt
’ ion notices, both quartz and
for sale at the Prospector of
Furnished rooms at Mrs Oaland’s
rices reasonable. '
! Malted Milk, hot and cold, phos
iates of all kinds, and hot drink.
' Hunt's.
| Don’t Torget the Clearance Sale al
le Owl Drug Co.
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Banquet Steel nanges, plain and
!11s1hm$ tops, at Mead’s. tl
For first-class meals and good serv
s at reasonable prices try the Mer
'ants' Cafe. tl
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Subscribe for the Prospector.
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-New Heaters from $12.50 up,
ood Stoves, Pipe, Cooking Utensils
d Wash Boards at Rudolph’s. tl
Jonathan Apples, Concord Grapes,
sabas, Crabapplee, Cranberries,
aches, Etc., at the Keystone Pro
ce Co. 3t
Fox’s fresh Crab Cocktails at the
ive-Whitley Co. tf
When you want something good to
t try the Merchants’ Cafe, open all
gtat. , tl
LADIES ATTENTION!
This store was never so well pre
pared to serve the ladies as it is
this season.
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New lines arriving on every boat
consisting of:
Ladies’ Sergo Dresses.
Ladies’ Winter Coats.
Ladies’ Raincoats.
Ladies’ and Children’s Underwear.
Ladies’ and Children’s Hose.
Ladies’ and Children’s Hankerchiefs.
Ladies’ and Children’s Sweater Sets.
Tennis Flannels.
Zephrs.
White Muslins.
Bed Sheets.
Pillow Slips.
Table Linens and Napkins.
White Bed Spreads
A Large Line ol Other Articles too
Numerous to Mention.
These goods are priced at Seattle
prices and we will be pleased to
have you call and inspect our
lines, even if you are not ready
to purchase.
S. BLUM & CO., Inc.
GOOD GOODS
PROFESSIONAL FAROS.
DR. S. WICKES MERRITT .
Office. over Vnlde. Drug Co.
Phone ’IS McKinley Street
Contract Surgeon, IT. S. Army
A. A. Surgeon, U S. Public lleallh Serv
(Marine Hoapital)
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years In Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms In Whaling Building
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORN BY S-AT-LAW
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Office Oppoal(« Coart Hoaae
I'hoae 34 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYON A iS K HITCHIB |
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Oflier, la Whaling Bnlldlng
Phone ISI VALDEZ. ALASKA
ASA C. BALDWIN
CIVIL ENGINEER
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
McKinley Street opposite V. M. Store.
Valdez, Alaska
LOCAL BREVITIES
We offer—
10,000 shares Sweepstake at market.
6.000 shares Teikhell (Sold.
5.000 shares Alaska-Hotuestake.
Alaska lnv. Co. 2t
A Big Shipment.
Just received, a fresh line of Haas
Candies, the kind you like, at Levy &
Ross.’ t*
Canaries, Singers and females, fln
|est stock, now is the time to buy. Mrs.
jDepuy. k24
George Bittel Missing.
Information wanted of the above
party who left home (New York
City) in 1898. His mother and fain
ily are watching and waiting for him.
Address CHRIS BITTEL. Box 323,
Aibauy, New York. k()ct26
A new line of women’s sweaters,
cap and cap sets at E. Winters'.
Anything in nugget and ivory jew
elry at Valdez Drug Co.
A. H. Miller, superintendent of this
division for the Bureau of Education
was a passenger on the Alameda for
Cordova after spending several days
1 in town.
10 BE NAMED
WASHINGTON, I). C’„ Oct. 23.—
Acting Secretary of the Navy Rooce
velt today announced that one of the
superdread noughts authorized by the
congress for the coming year would
hear the name of Washington, in
honor of the state < f Washington.
>lav Mean Subs Again
BERLIN, Oct. 23 —Th. Lokal Au
zeige-r publishes a re,tort that Brit'sc.
merchantmen have been ordered to
arm themselves and the paper says
that if it >s true t’ca! it will mean a
renewal of the submarine in a wore
form than ever.
The Best Place an Valdez to ^
Stop at'fs the
Arctic Hotel
Wira, Light Rwau-Thc Hmn *f Cishrt
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Rita By th* Masth
PHONE 133 MRS. STUNG. Pr**
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passenger*
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdes
ED. WOOD. Proprietor
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
Genet al Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE.
STORAGE.
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance