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TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1»16
THE TASK AT PANAMA.
Gen. Goethal’s recent report on the
history of the Panama canal slides
stated that failure to take steps
against them was largely due to the
opinion of advisory geologists that
they would not be a menace. He him
self now thinks that enlarged exca
vations will safeguard the canal’s fu
ture. He proposes to spend ten or
twelve months in clearing away the
aides of the cut at certain points near
Culebra and to remove 10,000,000
cubic yards of earth there—a consid
eral amount as the whole original ex
cavation required for Culebra cut was
but 100,000,000 cubic yards. Never
theless the president has done well
to ask the National Academy of Sci
ence to appoint a commission of three
geologists, three geophysicists, one
seismologist, one physicist and three
engineers to go to Panama and study
the whole problem with the utmos^
care. President Van Hise, of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, is to be chair
man of the commission. These men
will give such a study to the whole
problem as it has never had before.
Gen. Goethals has described the work
of the government geologists as hasty
and inaccurate; and, of course, the
•’innumerable plans for treating the
slides * * * suggested by interested
and patriotic citizens throughout the
country," to which Col. Gaillard once
sarcastically referred, were only ama
teur schemes. It may now be possible
to devise a scientific and permanently
effective plan of operations.
OUR REGISTRY UAW.
The ship registry act ot August
18, 1914 , provided that any foreign
built vessel owned by an American
citizen, or by American citizens or
corporations, was eligible for Ameri
can registry for foreign trade An
effort was made in the Senate to re
quire that 90 per cent., and finally
76 per cent., then 66 2-3 per cent.,
and finally 61 per cent., of the stock
of any corporation owning vessels
seeking American registry should at
all times be held by American citi
zens. Successively the proposed amen
dments were voted down until the
51 per cen. provision was reached,
which was carried. But .after the bill
had been in conference, the Senate
receded from all of its amendments,
and so the bill was passed as it came*
from the house. It was pointed out,
during the debates on the bill alike
by Republicans and Democrats, that
foreign-owned ships masquesadlng
as American, because in law owned
by an American corporation, but in
fact owned by aliens, might cause
the government trouble. ,'NevertJie
less, the bill was not safeguarded
so as to require that the ownership
of vessels admited to our registry
should be unquesionably and bona
tide American.
We are not able to say that the
ships of the American Transatlantic
Company are in fact owned by aliens.
Ten or twelve foreign built ships
purchased by that American corpor
ation have been admitted to registry.
That registry at first was refused by
the commission of navigation, who
could not find satisfactory owner
ship. But secretary of State Lans
ing declared that, under the law,
American registry could not be de
nied to foreign built ships owned by
an American corporation, and so
American registry was granted to the
-THE
EMPRESS
TO-NIGHT
2 Show*—at 8 tad 9:20,sharp
PROGRAM
PATHS WEEKLY NEWS
TILL DEATH DO US PART,
Two-Part Drama Featuring
Kathlyn Williams.
THE PROFESSOR'S RO
MANCE,
Sydney Drew In a Fine Com
edy
Hie Call of the North, 5-Act
Feature, Thursday.
. ?5r. liu) I Qp.
fleet of the — .uerican Transatlantic
Company.
Great Britain does not accept as
bona fide American the ownership
of these vessels, has blacklisted them,
threatened to seize them, and has
seized three of the*. Without await
ing the formality of the British prize
courts these three ships have been
requisitioned by the British govern
ment, and the state department
and the government of the United
States are left floundering around
-in precisely the mire that senators
had pointed out would follow the
the enactment of the ship registry
law without providing for the bona
fide character of the American own
ship of vessels seeking our registry.
As the law now is Japanese ships
may be sold to an American corpor
ation and these Japanese owners
paid for them with the stock of the
corporation. In law the vessels
would be American owned, and en
titled to American registry. In fact,
they could be owned, commanded,
officered and manned by Japanese.
In the same way ships owned by
citizens of any other country could
be brought under American registry.
—Chicago Herald.
The Senator has- not been heard
from for so long we suggest that a
relief expedition be organized.
What freezes our cerebellum near
the edges is how "Honest John”
could spend seven years in Cordova
and the city still remain so prosper
ous.
Coal is reported to be $40 per ton
in Rome! We merely call the editor
of the Star’s attention to this fact,
so that he might prove himself a
friend to the poor Italian by advising
them how the price can be lowered.
Three tons of freight arrived on
the steamer Northwestern for Valdez
merchants last night. At 75c per ton
this would amount to $2.26—nearly
enough to pay "Honest John’s” wages
at what he estimates himself to be
worth.
Cordova claims to be the most eco
nomically conducted city in the ter
ritory. Valdez is perhaps the most
extravagantly administered. Three
councilmen and the mayor who have
persisted in over-riding the wishes of j
the taxpayers, have cost the city over j
$2,000, with nothing yet to show for
the money. *
PERORATION ON ALASKA
IS A CLASSIC
William D. Boyce, publisher of the
Saturday Blade, of Chicago, who was
a member of the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce party which visited Alas
ka in the summer of 1914, immedi
ately following his tour of the north
ern territory published a book set
ting forth his impressions and views
of Alaska. The following is what
might be termed the peroration and
is produced here because it is enti
tled to rank among the classics.
"And now reluctantly my pen and
Alaska part, but not forever. How
can I forget this big, poor, rich ter
ritory? So long as I can secure the
public ear through my pen and voice
will I try to heltf Alaska to her own,
so long will I advocate making Alas
ka a colony of the United States in
stead of a territory. This country of
contradictions with the Arctic ocean
on one side, and the warm Japan cur
rent on the other; this far north
country of perpetual spring and win
ter; this country of glaciers and of
strawberries; this land of the mid
night sun and sunless midday; this
country of highest mountains and
deepest Bea; this country of longest
rivers and fairest flowers; this coun
try of wildest animals and tamest
seals; this country where the rein
deer gets fatter in the winter than in
the summer; this country of richest
mines and poorest transportation;
this country of bravest men and low
est outcasts—may you some day be
intrusted to work out your own sal
vation as you alone can do it, with
Uncle Sam lending you a helping
hand.”
GOOD PROGRAM
AT THE LIBERY
The following program is on at
the Liberty Theatre tonight.
Old Enough to Be Grandpa—The
Plying A and American Film Com
pany presents William Grawood and
Vivian Rich in Old Enough to Be
Grandpa. A gorgeous farce drama
from a Mutual Movie; some film.
Nipped—a Domino film in two
parts entitled, Nipped, a plot in which
an American Secret Service man hears
the Japanese plotting and a Japanese
girl falls in Iota with an American
artist, and there the trouble begins.
Taken in Mexico.
Patty’s Jonah Day—a Keystone
comedy in which Patty is taken away
as a murderer, and Patty’s reading of
“Three Weeks" and saying “Gee!”
gets him into trouble. Roscoe Ar
buckle in the title role, a laugh from
start to finish.
...-Kodak Junpliefi at tnc_Vald«
TRTIN6 TO HUSH
OP THE MATTER
Parent of Would-Be Murderers Sayt.
Eldest Son Insane—Would
Send Other Out of Country.
CHICAGO, Jan. 18.—Millionaire
Updyke, father of the two young men
who were arrested yesterday for con
spiring to murder him and their sis
ter because they believed their parent
was about to change his will, in or
der to leave his millions to their sis
ter, is endeavoring to have the mat
ter hushed up.
The parent has declared that his
oldest son has been mentally unbal
anced for years and will agree to his
being confined in an asylum if the au
thorities will permit of the younger
son being sent out of the country.
The younger son, who is only 20
years of age, is declared by his father
to tiave entered the conspiracy for the
purpose of becoming acquainted with
the plans of his insane brother in or
der that they might be frustrated,
but this claim is not bourne out by
the notes taken by the stenographers
who reported their conversations for
the police.
APPRAISER REPORTS ON
GUGGENHEIM ESTATE
I
NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—The tax ap
praiser of this city has reported that
the estate of the late Benjamin Gug
genheim, who was one of the victims
of the Titanic disaster when that lin
er was sunk in mid-Atlantic when she
collided with an iceberg, is valued
at two million six hundred thousand
dollars.
EXAMINE PUPILS
OF PUBLIC SCUODL
!
Valdez School Board Has Arranged
j
j for Monthly Examinations to
Be Made by Physician.
The members of the Valdez School
Board haye announced that there will
be a regular monthly inspection of
the school children instituted by the
board and that Dr. E. C. Dalton has
been appointed examining physician.
Dr. Dalton states that the exami
nation will be confined to eye, ear,
throat and nose and for contagious
diseases unless parents of the chil
dren request further examinations.
The object of the monthly exami
nations of the children will be made
to prevent the spreading of conta
gious diseases and of notifying par
ents of the pupils of any incipient
ailments from which their children
may be suffering.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Jack Johnson is in town from the
Ramsay-Rutherford mine.
Harry Whlttemore, of Seward,
well-known to a number of Valdez
people, was a passenger on the North
western last night returning home
from a trip to the States.
Capt. A. E. Lathrop of Cordova,
who operates a string of Empress
theatres in the Alaskan coast towns,
was a through passenger on the
Northwestern last night for Seward,
and will return on the same boat.
Pete Cushman came in from Wort
man's last night and reports the road
in good condition with the exception
of a short distance close to town. He
is contemplating moving his family
into town in order that his little
daughter may attend the Valdez
school.
The high price of copper has caus
ed - many of the claims in this dis
trict, which were allowed by their
owners to revert to the government
after several year# assessment work
had been performed, to be relocated.
Several prospectors left yesterday
morning for Knight’s island where
they will put their stakes on ground
which they have been watching for
several years.
Will Serve Silver Tea.
The deaconesses of the Congrega
tional church will serve a Silver Tea
in the lecture room of the church be
tween the hours of 2 and 5 o’clock on
Thursday afternoon, to which all are
cordially Invited. t
Valdes Drug Company have a flnc
EVOLUTION OF A WORD.
"Hypocrit*” Was One* th# Till* of a
Pantomime Actor.
Do you know what a hypocrite Is?
Why, lie la a person who uses the
eburrb as a cloak to cover graft aud
greed aud all inauuer of evildoiug. At
least that is what be was In,the days
of our fathers More recently lie has
taken ou another color, a different kiud
of cloak. He need upt be a dissem
bler merely In tbe mutter of religion
Hypocrisy may be practiced lu friend
ship. In culture, tu philanthropy. It
goes a degree further even tbun that,
for the hypocrite may deceive himself
as well as bis fellow man.
But bow did the word, which is ob
viously a compound of "hypo." meaning
“under." and the very familiar "critic"
come to mean a person who deceives
either himself or other people? This
question suggests a second one: What
Is a critic?
Tbe Greek verb from which the noun
was derived meant originally to an
alyze. separate or judge. So tbe critic
came to be one who had been set apart
or Judged worthy to plead a cause or
present an argument. At one stage of
his evolution the critic was a person
who recited the works of the great
dramatists. He was an actor—who did
not act. Tile gestures were supplied
by a mail trained for that purpose, who
went through a sort of pantomime,
while the real interpreter of the part
gave the melodiously lutoued words.
The pantomime artist was a “hypo
crite" because he played an under part
to the “critic." Later, when the speak
ing and acting were done by the same
person, he was called the "hypocrite."
Now any one who plays a part not his
own Is practicing hypocrisy.—St Louis
Globe-Democrat
ANCIENT MEALTIMES.
When They Roe* at 5, Dined at 9 and
Supped at 6.
Tbe change In mealtimes is evi
dent-ed by the old rime:
To rise at live and dine at nine.
To sup at five and bed at nine.
Will make a man live to ninety-nine.
But one suspected that the change
is in the names of the meals rather
than In the hours. Our ancestors
would have termed our luncheon din
uer and our dinner supper. It is a
curious fact that in some of the Ox
ford colleges, where the founders made
allowances for the meals of the stu
dents, a much larger sum Is allotetl
for supper than for dinner, implying
that the former was the more sub
stantlal meal. Taken at 6 or 6 o’clock.
It was really "early dinner."
. Some particulars of the mealtimes of
our ancestors may be found in William
Harrison’s “Description of England,’
published in 1587:
“With us the nobility, gentry and
students do ordinarily go to dlnuer at
11 before noon and to supper at 5 or
between 5 and 0 at afternoon. Tbe
merchants dine and sup seldom before
12 at noon and « at night, especially
in London. Tbe husbandmen dine also
at blgb noon, as they call It, and sup
at 7 or 8, but out of the term in our
universities the scholars dine at 10
As for the poorest sort, they generally
dine and sup when they may, so that
to talk of their order of repast it were
but a needless matter.”—I-ondon Citron
tele.
Melbourne, ■ City That Planned.
There is and always has been a great
amount of public spirit in Melbourne,
due. In large part, to the Scotch ele
ment that has predominated from the
beginning. "The first citizens, led by
Scots, as a rule, set to work with mag
nlflcent faith In the future. A city was
planned worthy of being tbe capital of
10.000.000 people, and the public build
Ings were designed on the same gener
ous scale. The soil on tbe site was
deep and rich. That suggested tree
pluming, and most of tbe streets are
today relieved by handsome foliage,
and the parks which ring the city
round have trees worthy of the forests
of Europe. Tbe avenue of elms in
Fltzruy gardens certainly represents
that tree at its best.—Bishop H. K.
Hoss in Dallas News.
The Blind Man's Lantern.
. A blind man In K boots (a Caucasian
village) came back from the river one
night bringing a pitcher of water and
carrying In his hand a .lighted lantern
Some one meeting him said: “You’re
blind. It’s all the same to you whether
It’s day or night. Of what use to you
la a lantern?" “I don’t carry the lan
tern In order to see the road.” replied
the blind man. “but to keep some fool
like you from running against me and
breaking my pitcher.”
Not ■ Gay On#.
"Do .you believe all men are gay de
ceivers?" asked Mrs. Twobble.
“No. Indeed," answered Mrs. Dub
walte. “There’s Mr. Dnbwatte, for In
stance.”
“Tear
“In bis efforts to deceive me be even
goes so far as to shed tears.’’—Birming
ham Age-Herald.
Antagonists.
How many who have deemed them
selves antagonists will smile hereafter
when they look back upon the world’s
wide harvest Held and perceive that in
unconscious brotherhood they were
helping to bind the selfsame sheafl
Hawtbome.
No Eseape.
Bella—1 understand ypnr sister mar
ried a struggling young man? Out—
Ten; be struggled hard, but he couldn’t
get away from her.
Man la an imitative creature, and
whoever la foremost leads the herd.—
Schiller
-S. BLUM & CO.->1
CLEARANCE SALE
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T*S too good an opportunity to
miss. The prices are ^educed to ,
make it worth while for you to
buy now.
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Men’s Cravenette Overcoats, $20 value, now - $10.00 1
Men’s Cravenette Raincoats were $15 & $20, - $7.50
Heavy Blanket-lined Canvas Coats, $5 & $6 quality, now $2.50 ,
Men’s Smoking Jackets, $4 & $5 quality, now - $2.50
Corduroy Coats at half price. .
Buckskin-lined Corduroy Vests, $5 quality, now - $2.50
Moleskin blanket-lined Teamster’s Overcoats, fur collar, 1
were $15, now - - - $10.00
I
All Boys' Suits and Overcoats at
.... 25 per cent off. ....
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25 per cent off on
Ladies’ Furs
Children’s Furs,
Men’s Fur Collars.
Reduced to
Men’s Stock Ties - 25c 1
Silk Mufflers - 50c
Way’s Knitted Mufflers 25c i
Men’s Dress Shirts, $1.50J and $2.00 quality,
now .... 75c 1
Men’s Negligee'Shirts, $1.50 to $5.00 quality,
now - One-half off 1
Boss-of-the-Road Mackinaws, in blue, brown
and gray, $5.00 quality, selling now for $2.50
Malone Mackinaws, were $6.00, now - -$4.00
S. BLUM & CO.,
_GOOD GOODS_
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National University.
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years in Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms in Whaling Building
DR. GERMAN
„ THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug Store. Of
fice hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m., 7 to 9 |
p. m. Sunday by appointment.
All Work Guaranteed.
E. C. DALTON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone'42
Alaska Avenue Valdes, Alaska
DONOHOE & DlMGND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
oner OnnwHe Court Houae
Phone 34 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEY S-AT-LAW
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Office* In WlAling Building
Phone 101 VALDEZ- ALASKA |
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“back” a good plan, a good
idea, a good business ven
ture or a good mining pros
pect ; otherwise a good many
of today’s successful busi
ness enterprises would still
be mere dreams.
Advertising has teouaht
about a majority of the In
troductions of the man with
riie idea, the man with a
prospect, or business to the
man with the dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 168
Free and Accepted Maataa
Regular Communications nrst Woa
nesday in each month in McKinley
Halt Visitors always welcome.
A. 13. GRIGSBY, W. M.
ED. WOOD, Secretary.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HQUSE
GEORGE SEXTON, Vsos.
S'lRICTLY FIRST jp L ABS
Fourth Ave, Seward* Alaska
Arcade Cafe
OPEN UNTIL *P.M.
We Serve Corona Coffee
Strictly Fresh Eggs.
Jack Caltin Prapriakt
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
General 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
.a.^-a.A ^a >»»>»«»« ..
“Shamrock
CAPT. TIM MARCUM
Salta for Port Wells, Portage J
Bay, Granite Mine, Satnrday 3
at 9:00 a. m., from the Vat- j
dec Dock Company’s Rook- 3
For Ellam&r. Landlock Bar,
ud Fid algo, every Wedaee- 3
day, 9:00 a. m., from Val- >
des Dock Company** Dock.
For Rates, Apply on Boat.
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