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It is well known that the man who knows most about Alaska is the
one who comes on a tour here for a week or two. The first thing that most
of those* authorities do on reaching the outside is to write a hook meant to
direct Washington how to govern the white and colored savages who live
here. As a rule the worst offenders are those* wise individuals who are given
to scribbling in colleges and who know less about the practical things of
the world than a tot of squawking kids.
One such gentleman must he* this “Professor” Martin of Wisconsin
university if he is quoted correctly in the story published in this paper
yesterday. He came to Alaska, presumably, during the holidays and we are
told that he went back and “convinced the new Alaska railroad commission
that the harbor in Passage or Portage canal is quite as good for ocean steam
ships as Resurrection hay.”
Just think of that; The great professor “convinced” the men who were
appointed by President Wilson and who had conu* north for no other purpose
than to find out those things for themselves, lhe members of the commis
sion are all engineers who have gained the confidence of the government and
have excelled in their profession to a noteworthy extent, but it took the
professor to convince them although they had looked into the matter them
selves.
Is it possible that this man Martin has been misquoted? Was it he who
told the story about his convincing the commission or was it this anonymous
Washington correspondent who is making the professor look like an ass?
But the people of Seward have learned something by this story. They
have learned that outside Resurrection bay there is a Bear of a glacier that
might slip down a quarter of a mile any old time and cover the path of ocean
going steamers. Just think of that! There is a glacier hanging over our heads
like the sword of Damocles and before we know it down it will come and shut
oft the supply of canned cream and nosing professors.
This eminent professor paid us one compliment, however, when he said
our glaciers were live ones and the Portage bay variety is dead. In another
place Martin says he discovered the Portage bay route. At least he is j
quoted as saying so and it is really hard to believe that a man who ever got
far enough inside the walls of a university without being thrown out could
make any of those remarks. But he is quoted as saying so, and we wish him
joy of his discovery. It is only to In* hoped that while he is surveying Portage
bay again some of its glaciers will come to life suddenly while he is looking
up at it. It would take a whole glacier to knock the rot out of him and his
kind.
ALASKA NOTES. finally succeeded, and came >ut by the
_ ! way of Vladivostok, via Japan and
It i> said Dawson has taken alto- across the Pacific to San Francisco,
pet her 300 prisoners of war allowed and from there to Seattle.
to furnish their own sustenance if - "
able, and are only required to report Long distance telephone booth at
twice aady. If they are without funds ^he Branch.
thtv are locked up. ‘ .
_ A great many people outside and
inside Alaska are now anxious to get
Harry liuhro. the Alaska prospect- ^ ^ ^ fan g[ the place where
or who was last fall reported to have ^ gm.ernmgnt radroad wdl be. To
been drafted into the army while visi- „ _._j
save writing letters you could send
ting his old home in Russia, is back _,
the Gateway, either your own read
in Seattle. He reports that when the ‘
copy or get another.
war started he offered nimself for * .
sendee against the (ictmans, to ploj*e \*ost water motor wash machines
his father, but was refused by the ,|t Brown & Hawkins. -Quality first.”
army officers. He had trouble in se- ______
curing a passage from Russia, but Meet me at The Branch.
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SMASHING IN 1
THETRENCHESj
j VIVID DESCRIPTION OF THE
MANNER OF EUROPEAN
FIGHTING.
(By The Associated Press.)
LONDON, Jan. 6.—-Miseries of life
in the trenches are vividly pictured in
a story written by an English soldier
who is on the Belgian frontier. He
enlisted as a private but later was
raised to an officer. Thus he has had
i an opportunity to see the war from
different angles. His story follows:
It isn’t the danger that affects one
in the trenches’ but the hardships of
cold and damp. Bullets from snipers
—the Germans have lots of these cut
night and day—whizz about your ears
continually, and occasionally sharpnel
makes one tuck one’s head down, but
one gets so used to the firing that—
although it may sound incredible—it
soon becomes far less noticeable than
city traffic, for instance.
At night sometimes an outburst of,
artillery or wild rattle of musketry at
an imaginary night attack wakens,
one stiff, sore, frozen and full of
strong language from fitful dreams,
which mainly concern them-selves
with steak, pudding and huge fires at
home.
The cold is really horrible. One
never eea es shivering. At night the
soles of one’s boots freeze, and one is
awakened by icy feet and forced to
get up and stamp till the blood con
sents to circulate once more. Day
light brings some respite but the
whole time one is forced to muffle to
the eyes, and such things as Balaclava
helmets, thick gloves, comforters,
cardigans and wooly waistcoats can
not be too numerous. I can scarcely
button my coat over my numerous
raiment and still I perish.
Washing and shaving are practical
ly impossible. Officers and men leave
the trenches like miners coming up
from a pit, but somehow that does not
worry us. The idea of washing in
such cold is too awful, for it is im
possible to restore the circulation in
a narrow crowded trench and in the
dug-outs there is jusc room to lie j
down. They are now beginning to
serve out coal and coke,—just in time.
There would have been wholesale
frostbite otherwise.
The water in the machine guns
freezes and they have to be nursed
back to action in front of fires. Rifles
get frost-bitten and sometimes are
ruptured by the sudden shock conse
quent of being fired. This is rather
welcome, however, for the wood from
a derelict rifle burns beautifully.
The water bottles freeze, too, and
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Clearance Sale of Men's Clothing!
We have at this time on hand one of the finest lines
of mens suits that has ever been brought to Seward. An
ticipating a big rush from the Interior over the Seward
Iditarod Trail we laid in a larger stock than we would
have under ordinary conditions.
We still have a couple of dozen of these suits on hand
and more coming. On the last mail we received notice
from the Stein-Bloch factory that they had shipped us
another large shipment of high grade clothing and in or
der to have room for the goods when they arrive we are
forced to get rid of the stock on hand. To do this we are
going to cut the prices lower than clothes of this grade
have ever been sold in Seward.
Beginning Monday, January 4th, we are going to of
fer every suit in stock at the following reductions. These
prices are for cash only and if you can use a high grade
suit at a low price
DON'T OVERLOOK THIS SALE!
All $45.00 Suits and Overcoats, Now $35.00
All 40.00 Suits and Overcoats, Now 30.00
All 35.00 Suits and Overcoats, Now 27.50
All 30.00 Suits and Overcoats, Now 25.00
All $21.50 and $25.00 Suits, Now 17.50
All intermediate priced suits reduced accordingly.
Come early while the selection and assortment of fabrics
and sizes are complete.
Just Received
A complete line of up to date hats in the latest Stetson
and Hardeman blocks
Now On Display
THE MINER’S STORE
FRANK J. COTTER, Manager
Phone Adams 131 “Don’t Forget the Parcel Post” Seward, Alaska
have to be thawed out. Water is a ere end of our present battalion pod
nuisance. It has to be fetched by tion to the other. Last w o( k th(
night by fatigue parties from farms trouble was mud wet, viscid, mud foui
and villages in the rear, a process or five inches deep, that squelched
which takes sometimes two or three round one’s boot tops and got plaster
jlours ed over everything up to one’s hat.
It is extraordinary how ingenious My boots weighed tons. I his week
the men are in contriving things for the frost has laid the mud and t he cold
their comfort. They cut little fire- is our enemy.
places in the side of the trench, lino We spend a few days in the trench
them with tin from ammunition boxes os and then a few days in reserve in
and top them neatly with chimney3 the villages in the rear. The reliev
made of bully-beef tins. They buiM ing, of coarse, has to be done at night,
elaborate rifle racks and make them It is an eerift job. \ou march along
selves snug cubbyholes to sleep in, as noiselessly as possible to within
roofing them with material from near- half a mile of the rear, where you arc
by ruined farmhouses, piled over with met by a guide and taken in single
oarth fde through an interminable winding
The food is plentiful ami good. The communication trench, full of roots
crying need is for milk and Iruil. a"d mud, never more than three feet
1'ienty of tobacco and cigarettes are "i.le at the top and about eighteen
to be had. There is a dearth of things mehes at the bottom. The i at a sort;
to read, and it is considered rank Piccadilly Circus in the rear of the
treason to light a lire with a piece of «*•“«"* linc-thc companies branch to
lh°ir various posts and are in until
newspaper. J ./ . .
•• ,i 1 each man of the relieving force stands
The trenches stretch in a practical
. .ii r ,i... „,.r ik.‘ brh-'nd another of that to be relieved
ly unbroken line from the sea re Inc
cast frontier, not in groups of isolated The waiting is a dreadful business.
Vide pits, but in what are rea !y series It seldoms takes less than three to
of small towns linked together by nar- five hours to effect the complete
,ow communicating trencher, each , change. Everything is dead st.l' ex
battalion occupying its own little ccPt *
town, which may be anytnV..T from ^ * >°a the ***** are awake'
half a mile to two miles leng. and a Pa>'s thc s,lghtest atuntlon u j
hundred yards or so deep. j t..f ni.
From behind the firing trenches is The men exchange pleasantries in ,
2 wild labyrinth of intersecting coin- hoarse whispers and the jfhcciM ex
Riunicating trenches, support trenches, change news and explain the spcnid
,lug outs for staff and officers, points of the position. Finally, when!
kitchens and so forth, though of the last man has been placed, the. ord
course some are more elaborate than er to change places is passed down.
The new’ men step up to the little fir
lt takes about an hour to go from ing platforms and the relieved n.en
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step down into the trench and file out
silently into the night. Then al*
through the night half the men and
officers are on guard, while half rest.
By day there are only sentries he»v
ana there along the line.
A. pathetic sight in the rear of aM
1he trenches is the occasional plain
wooden crosses marking the grave of,
some victim of sniper or shrapnel bul- j
1: t. Many arc ornamented with a^
regimental badge and a simple in-(
s;ription laboriously printed in pencil:
others are quite plan.
1 bagged my first German yestei
iay, and a curiously primitive feeling
of elation it is to shoot one. He had]
the hardihood to stand up working in
a trench only 250 yards away, so that
f could see him from the waist up. I •
spent this morning banging away at
another working party, but could not
see with what result.
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through a great press service. You
may not get all the details but you
get all of which a knowledge is
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1915, January Fifth, Our II H
Anniversary ol Business in Seward
TTTK wish to thank the public in general for their liberal
j\ patronage in the past and trust our business meth
ods have been such as to merit their greater con
fidence in the future. We are most optimistic for Sow aid
in the year 1015. We predict a wonderful improvement
in a business way. We predict the selection of insur
rection Bay as the Ocean Terminus of the Government
Railway by President Wilson, not later than February 10;
that actual construction work will begin not later than
April 1st; that Seward will have a population of 5000
people by December 30th; that real estate in Sewaid will
advance fully 300 per cent by September 1st, and that our
business will increase accordingly.
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COAL MM'S AND COLD MINER’S SUPPLIES
Doors &. Windows Gasoline Rifles
Lang’s Ranges Gas Engine Oil Shot Guns
I XL Parlor Floaters Marine Engine Oil Ammunition
Gasoline Stoves Valve Oil Fishing Tackle
Cook Stoves j Elaine Oil | Giant Powder
Camp Stoves Floor Oil t,al,!i
Air Tight Heaters Unseed Oil | Fu*® ,,
Oil Stoves Cup Grease j Bench Forges
Alcohol Stoves Paints j Blacksmith’s Coal
Spark Plugs I^acqueret Paint j Bellows
Jump Coils Asphaltum Paint j Wheel Barrows
Batteries Brushes Cutlery
Granite Ware Varnishes Fireclay
Aluminum Ware 1 Turpentine Fire Brick
Asbestos | Japan Lime
P& jj paper Denatured Alcohol Cement
Mahhoid Rooting Coal Tar | Glass
Tar Paper Lamps Rope
Deafening felt Lanterns Mercury
Weatherstrips Tents I Seine I wine
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO. S
Steamers Alameda and Mariposa sail from Seattle
every eight days tor Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova,
Valdez and Seward.
S. S. DORA leaves'Seward 15th of each month for Cook Inlet points and Dutch,ltarbor.
Regular freight service tor Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar,
Valdez, Latouche and Seward
Freight Steamers sailing from Seattle each month: S. S. Seward. 5th;
S. S. Latouche, 15th; S. S. Cordova, 25th
(S. S. Seward carries Explosives)
49*Right reserved to change this schedule without noticed#
F. B. TRACY, General Agent C. B. GUPTILL, Agent
Hotel Seward
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