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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1913.
EUROPE AND THE PANAMA-PACI
FIC EXPOSITION.
Whether Great Britain and Ger
many will take part officially in the
Panama-Pacific International Exposi
tion, to be held at San Francisco in
1915, is still uncertain. James D. Phe
lan, former mayor of San Francisco,
who has returned from Europe, where
he went as a representative of the
United States, is hopeful that public
sentiment in those countries will ov
erturn an alleged agreement to boy
cott e exposition. He reports that
the chairman of the semi-official Per
manent Expositions committee of
Germany, who reported against par
ticipation, has been forced to resign,
which is significant of a change in
sentiment. An independent commit
tee of intending exhibitors has been
formed both in Germany and in Great
Britain, Herr Ballin, president of the
Hamburg-Ameriean line, being at the
head of thd committee in Germany,
and Lord Strathcona being at the
head of the committee in Great Brit
ain. The Board of Trade in England
is still investigating the matter and
convassing the manufacturers who
are members. The board first decided
not to participate, but dissatisfaction
caused the subject to be reopened.
Mr. Phelan says the foreign office
gave him to understand that if the
Board of Trade changed its mind, the
government would not stand in the
way of participation.
There have been assertions and ae- j
nials that the attitude of Great Brit-,
ain and Germany was due to the favor j
shown American coastwise shipping
in the Panama canal tolls. Mr. Phe
lan makes t' e direct statement that
their attitude grew out of the Panama
canal tolls. T learned through con
fidential diplomatic sources,” he says,
"that the foreign offices of the two
governments had made an agreement i
not to participate in the proposed j
world’s fair. This tvas because of the |
dissatisfaction felt by these tw.o great
maritime nations against the canal j
toll discriminations in favor of Amer
ican coastwise shipping.” ;
Nevertheless, those countries will j
probably he represented, unofficially, i
if not officially, for they are coming :
to understand (which was not clear;
to them at first) that it is to be a
real international exposition and not
a second-rate affair, and that many i
opportunities will be presentecf to:
study the probable changes in trade;
routes which will follow the comple
tion of the ccnal.
Russia and Greece have declined-;
the invitation to take part. Mr. Phe
lan is happy to report that Spain will
be well represented.. This is as it
should be, for Spa'n was the pioneer
in Panama and California and the dis
coverer of the Pacific ocean. Mani
festly there will be profound interest
in the exhibit of Spain, especially if
it is illustrative of the part she took
in the early history of the Western
hemisphere.
DISHONEST. “NEWS” SERVICE.
Dishonesty in journalism recently
has received a very severe shock in
England because of the efforts of
Reuter’s news and advertising agency
to corrupt the news columns of Brit
ish newspapers.
Reuter’s is the European ally of the
Associated Press, which for years has
been and still is one of the most
dangerous of all American monopo
lies.
In a circular recently issued Reu
ter’s recently informed British papers
patronizing the agency that it had
suggested to advertisers that it would
undertake to get advertisements in
to the news columns of papers serv
ed by it. The immediate result was
a terrific uproar on the part of such
papers as the London Times, the Mail,
the Evening News and other'publica
tions; and Reuter’s agency was forced
to call in and repudiate its circular.
These newspapers cut the service
of the Reuter’s agency down to a
few hundred words per day, and serv
ed notice on the agency that the old
line of demarcation between news and
advertisements would have to be re
spected^.
The ’ecline of the Associated Press
in America in rec nt years, and the
rise of the United Press can be at
tributed to the same dishonest pol
icy of corrupting Lhe news columns
of American newspapers.
The people want news printed as
news.
The newspaper patron who buys a
newspaper, but who may not be an
advertiser, buys it for the news and
such other matter as may be of in
terest to him.
Honest advertisers, too, are just as
jealous of the integrity of the news
and editorial columns of newspapers
as are any other class of newspaper
readers.
They pay the price for whatever ad
vertising space they occupy.
They understand that the people
know what is and what is not adver
Using, and they want to be honest
with the people in such advertising
as they do, for they know if they give
out the impression that they are not
honest in this respect, the people will
not believe what they say and will
be inclined to shun them.
A dishonest advertisement is likely
to mean a dishonest bargain.
Any newspaper or news agency
which does not draw the line between
news matter and advertising matter
is not honest. It is gross fraud on
the public to print as news matter
of an advertising character, and
which is paid for as advertising mat
ter.
Re.er’s agency will find that it does
not pay to attempt to perpetrate this
mean fraud on the public.
The Associated Pre s has been slow
to learn the lesson.
And what- is the result?
The United Press today is serving
510 afternoon newspapers of conse
quence in America, as against 450 af
ternoon newspapers served by the As
sociated Press, and newspaper men,
like the public, know the difference in
the general character and reliability
of the service.—Seattle Sun.
CABLE STILL DOWN;
LAND LINE ALSO
Excepting for a Few Private Wireless
Messages No News Received
From the Outside.
The United States military cable is
still down near Sitka and up to the
time of going to press nothing had
been heard regarding the cable re
pair ship Burnside. As the vessel had
undergone $250,000 worth of repairs,
it is thought that the ship was in
shape to start out immediately to
splice the break in the cable.
The Canadian line, belonging to our
cousins across the border, is also
out of commission, as the recent heavy
snowfall has broken the line in a
million places—more or less. The Ca
nadians spend most of the time re
pairing breaks in their line and when
the cable is out of commission news
paper men in Alaska spend consid
erablee time swearing at the govern
ment, the Burnside and the elements,
while the rest of the time is spent
in figuring on how we will be able
to pay the Canadian tolls at the end
of the month.
me came une duiii Dy me unit
ed States War department from Seat
tle to Alaska is made of American
^able. It was the first American-built
cable. The congress of the United
States, when it passed the appropria
tion for the cable, tacked on a pro
visio that it must be of American
manufacture. The War department
was therefore compelled to take a
brand of cable never tested before and
paid a price at which the Trenton
Wire company lost nothing. They
were the only bidders. English cable
is considered the best made, as the
manufacturers of England have had
years of experience. The Valdez ca
ble was made by a concern which had
never manufactured cable before and
went into the business for the sole
purpose of securing the one order.
Since that time American manufac
turers have entered the field of ca
ble manufacture and a much better
cable is now furnished.
A very complete line of Xmas Art
Leather Ooods is shown at the Val
dez Drug Store.
MILK—MILK—MILK
Frith Milk and Cream
VALDEZ DAIRY
Telephone order* to Phone 187
GARGOYLES OF NOTRE DAME.
The** Grotesque Forms Were Cut by
Frampton, an Englishman.
Perjiaps few cathedrals at home
or abroad possess on their exterior
so many curious grotesques as docs
Notre Dame, and scarcely any visi
tor to Paris leaves that fair city
without being more or less impress
ed by them.
Probably the majority, if they
have a thought at all upon the sub
ject, put these down as part and
par,cel of the original fabric, which
dates from 11G3. But sucli is not
really the case. The majority are
comparatively modern and, curious
ly enough, were not carved by
French craftsmen at all, but by an
Englishman named Frampton, a
clever artificer who has long since
gone to his rest.
About the middle of the last cen
tury a then well known London con
tractor named George Myers obtain
ed the commission to build a large
mansion near Paris for a member
of the Rothschild family. In its
erection he employed on the spot a
large number of English workers,
whom he 6ent from London for that
purpose. Frampton was one of
them.
About the same time that prince
of continental architects, the late
Viollet le Due, was engaged on the
r.enovation of the exterior of Notre
Dame. When the Rothschild work
was completed the architect in ques
tion, whose attention had already
been attracted by Frampton’s skill,
offered the latter a position among
the cathedral staff then at work
there.
This perhaps was the more readi
ly accepted, for during his sojourn
in that country Frampton had taken
to himself a French wife. Almost
the first thing he did in the em
ploy was to produce a new grotesque
in place of a mutilated old gargoyle,
and Viollet le Due was so pleased
with the spirit thrown into it that
he kept Frampton upon that par
ticular kind of work.—Harry Sterns
in the Guardian.
Changed His Taste.
The Empress Eugenic, wli^m Na
poleon 111. chose to share his
throne, had a ready wit. A dis
tinguished senator on being asked
what he thought of the speech in
which Napoleon had declared his
marriage intention to the deputies,
replied:
“A fine speech—excellent! But I
prefer the sauce to the lish,” mean
ing that Napoleon’s words were bet
ter than his choosing of a bride.
Some weeks later, at a dinner giv
en at the Tuilerics, this senator
was seated next to the empress,
who, observing that after having
been helped to the turbot he declin
ed the sauce, said to him, smiling
roguishly:
‘‘Monsieur, 1 thought it was the
sauce you liked and not the lish.”
With rare presence of mind the
senator hesitated but a moment.
“A mistake, madame,” he said,
“for which 1 am now trying to make
amends.”
The Microscope.
There is good reason to believe
that the magnifying power of trans
parent media with convex surfaces
was very early known. A convex
lens of rock crystal was found by
Layard among the ruins of the pal
ace of Nimr.ud. And it is pretty
certain that after the invention of
glass hollow spheres blown of that
material were commonly used as
magnifiers. The perfection of gem
cutting shown in ancient gems,
especially in those of very minute
size, could not have been attained
without the use of such aids to the
eye, and there can be little doubt
that the artificers who could execute
those wonderful works could also
shape and polish the magnifiers best
suited for their own or others! use.
Unappetizing.
A war veteran went back to the
small town home of his boyhood to
attend a banquet given by the old
boys. The diners were all men fie
had known as youngsters. lie ex
pected them to talk over old times.
Instead, one talked incessantly
dtoout hiB bad liver, another dis
coursed on his weak heart, a third
had a lot to say about his kidney
trouble, and so it went. When the
veteran returned to his home he
was asked how he enjoyed the ban
quet. “Banquet!” he replied, show
ing vexation. “It wasn’t a banquet;
it was an organ recital.”—Buffalo
Commercial.
A Possibility.
Old Nancy Doane was noted for
the. striking originality of some of
her expressions. One day she was
talking about the utter inanity of
another old woman in the neighbor*
hood, and she said:
“I never see her beat! She’ll lop
down in a cheer, an’ there she’ll set
an' set an* set, doin’ absolutely
nothin' for hours an’ hours, day
aflor dav. Ton my soul, I ab’d
’think <ho\l mildew!”
Copyright Hart Schaffher 8c Marx
.. .OUR LINE OF....
Holiday Goods
Isjthe largest ever
shown in town.
There is*no‘better Xmas Present
for a Man than
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Fine Suit or Overcoat
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We are showing all the latast
Styles and‘Colors.
WE ARE [SOLE AGENTS
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Madcap Princesses.
Tlio three princesses at the court
of Louis XIV. delighted in prueti- ;
cal jokes and were for ever in some
scrape or other. One night at Tri- !
anon they procured a petard and
exploded it beneath the window of j
monsieur's bedchamber. Once when ;
the court was at Marly the odor of :
an exceedingly pungent tobacco 1
was wafted to the king’s nostrils as
he was on the point of retiring to j
rest, which, upon inquiry being
made, was found to proceed from
the apartments of Mine, de Char
tres. where she and her sister were
smoking pipes borrowed from the
Swiss guard.— From II. Xoel Wil
liams’ “A Hose of Savoy.”
Women and Bank Checks.
“F.verybody has heard the story
of tin" woman who thought she
could draw checks regardless of the
state of her bank account as long
as the checkbook held out,” said a
Xew York bank ollicial, “and every
bank has its stories about women
depositors and their careless meth
ods, but we received a check recent
ly which was unique. It was signed
‘Truly yours, Clara.’ It was part
of a department store deposit. We
sent it back and learned that a
short time before the same woman
had signed a check ‘Yours affection
ately.’ ”—Xew York Tribune.
Rochdale Clothiers.
Rochdale, England, laid the foun
dation of its prosperity in the reign
of Edward III., when a body of
Flemish emigrants took up their
abode there and introduced their
craft as clothiers. Rochdale in the
time of Queen Elizabeth had be
come so famous for its woolen man
ufactures that the “aulnagcr,” the
official appointed by the queen to
measure all woolen cloth made for
sale, had to appoint a special deputy
'here to keep pace with its manu
facture and set' that, the crown waft
not robbed of its duties.
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Light and Power
Since the organization of the
. Valdez
Electric
Company
Valdez consumers are getting
electric current at a reduction of
forty per cent in rates. .
Support the new company and
keep rales down to bedrock.
Office inJC upper Block
Phone |S7
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Don’t neglect your^kealth on the trail.
The VALDEZ DRUG CO.
is prepared to fill your medicine kit
with the purest and best of drugs,
medicines, and surgical bandages.
TAZLINA HILL ROAD HOUSE
is open for freight and accommodations for the new
strike at Nelchina—Horses on hand at all times.
JAMES L. SIMPSON.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST!
Phone 92 IFeurteen years'in
Office in Whaling building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
F. BUTTERWORTH
'Civil Engineer end
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Kes. phoue. ihv
DR. GERMAN
Phon. ,» THE DENTIST
i Wet* rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
9 u. tn.. to 6 p. m.. 7 i>, in., to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment AM work guaranteed
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORN F.Y-AT- LA \V
Offices WhII Street
Phone 3i VALDEZ
E. E. RITCHIE
LAWYER
FHONK'ise Valdez, Alaska
JOHN LYONS
ATTORNEY ATJLAW
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Attention.
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Valdez, Alaska
Reports on Mines
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Contractor and Builder
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Estimates Furnished
WORK GUARANTEED
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Free and Accented Masons
Regular Communications Hrst Wednesday ia
each month in McKinley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
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