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SEWARD. ALASKA. SATURDAY. JANUARY 30. 1915.
NEWS NOTES FROM GATEWAY. MARCH 1. 1915.
There is a steamer just landed. It is impossible to mak.* headway
through the crowds on the wharf. Men with packs on their backs are hurry
ing to put up tents on the baseball ground, along the beach and the railroad
tracks as far out as the end of the bay. The noise of hammering is deafening.
Brown & Hawkins are looking for a dozen assistants that can sell pots and
pans and J. I*. Graef is offering a dollar an hour for men to make stove pipes.
The beastly whiskey sign is gone and an apartment house is going up as fast
as fifteen dollar a day carpenters can do it. The Alaska Electric company
has increased its capital to a hundred and fifty thousand. There were six
fights on Front street yesterday and it tried the seven new patrolmen to the
limit to keep the peace. The Bank of Seward has employed a uniformed door
keeper to keep the customers in line. The Seward. Overland and Coleman
hotels have put up great circus tents in their backyards and the price of a
hunk is up to a dollar and a half. The four restaurants have cut out the
kitchen partitions but cannot find waiters at seven and a half a day. Fourteen
new gasoline boats have arrived to carry passengers and freight around the
bay. The city council passed an ordinance yesterday at a special meeting re- I
quiring pedestrians to keep to the right on the sidewalks. Another ordinance
passed its first reading to compel drivers of teams not to exceed a walk dur- (
ing the busy hours of the day when the streets are crowded. Eighty five new
buildings are going up but the three recently established saw mills cannot
supply lumber enough for many others. The post ofTice has been raised to
an office of the -th class with provision for ten more assistants. A shooting
affray took place this morning between two men who fought over the only
bit of be#ch on which there was room to erect a tent. The Whitehead Realty
company sold lot 23 in block 8b yesterday to the Brown Manufacturing com
pany for seventeen thousand dollars cash. Eighteen mechanics arrived on
one of the three steamships today to renovate the railroad building to make
them suitable for headquarters for the construction engineering force.
The Palace. C ommerce. Northern. Terminal and Branch raised “the price” !
to two bits straight for mixed drinks because bartenders are scarce, but the
other houses have decided to cut out the mixing if Jack will. Amongst the new
businesses started during the week were three moving picture shows, fifteen
restaurants, thirteen second hand clothing stores six hotels and lodging
houses, nineteen real estate firms, ten tailors and two preachers. The Miner’s
store has begun to build out to the street in the rear. The Seward Commercial
company is letting a contract for a new story. The Carstens Packing company
has purchased the Rudolph ranch for seventy five thousand.
Word has been received from a reliable source that the surveying opera
tions now proceeding above the trestle are for the laying out of a site for a
military fort. W. R. Hearst has purchased the Gateway and B. M. Stone is
on his way to Honolulu.
The two jewellry stores have been purchased by a gentleman who is said
to be an agent of Tiffany’s. The Alaska Pharmacy will move into the Jones
building when the first floor is ready. Three construction locomotives are
expected to arrive on one of the eight steamers due next week.
Amongst those who have sold their places for big prices this week are '
S. L. Cowell, W. \V. Butts, hr. Pagget, Gus Borgen, Mrs. Gordon Hettel, j
George Phelps,.Mrs. Martin and a few others whose names are not remem
bered. Most of them will re-establish themselves in other parts of the city
but at leant three of tham will taka in the Saw Francisco Exposition and
Europe, maybe. Harry Hoben has brought in a fine “Buick" auto truck.
The former site of the Pioneer hotel w ill be used for a new office building.
The Ellsworth mill has it is rumored, been purchosed by the government
which will use it for testing the ores of the district free of charge. Thirteen
hundred men have been employed by the government at Seattle and will
be shipped north as soon as space can be found on the steamers. Good night!
EXPLAINS BRITISH
NAVY’S POSITION.
Officer Answeres Charges That Fleet
is Doing Nothing.
LONDON, Jan. 26.—The query, so
often asked in the papers “what is the
navy doing ?”is beginning to make the
navy people angry. The following is
a semi-official answer by an admiral:
“It is aggravating to hear the un
thinking person imply that we are do
ing nothing. Herr Ballin, manager of
the Hamburg-Amerika line, asys we
are lurking in our harbors. Let me
say that from the first of August to
the middle of November my ship has
sailed 17,000 miles, and we have never
been very far from the grand fleet.
We are playing our own game, not the
Germans. The unthinking ask why
we do not go in and attack Kiel, Wil
helmshaven, Cuxhaven and Heligo
land. Not much. We have our own
plans, and the Germans are certainly
not going to lure our splendid fleet in
to their mine-infested areas and under
their fortresses, with the added dang
er of submarines.
“We are not out to fight fortresses. |
We are after their ships. Guns are
put into ships so they can be moved ;
about, and the Germans are not in- j
creasing their efficiency by remaining I
under the protection of their forts, j
We are adding to our efficiency every
day, taking every opportunity for the
practice of gunnery, the use of tor
pedoes, and also battle tactics, practi
ing under every condition of weather.
As things stand, the seas are clear for
British trade. Let those who say we .
are doing nothing imagine what would |
happen if we were really doing noth- |
ing. What would become of our is- i
lands in that event ?
“Our time will come to get into the j
limelight. Meantime, we are content !
to watch and wait.”
GERMANS AND FRENCH
EXCHANGE THE SMOKES.
PARIS, Jan. 28.—A scene in one of
the military hospitals is thus describ
ed by the Figaro:
In the military hospitals in Ger
many as in France they distribute
cigars and cigarettes to the wounded
Germans and French often find them
selves together in the same room. The
Frenchman prefers the cigarette; the
German the cigar. They like to ex
change. But upon what basis? And
how to make each other understand?
They do some curious contortions with
the fingers.
“One cigar,” explains the French
man, “is worth five cigarettes.
The German "replies with his
fingers:
“Two cigarettes for your cigar.”
It finally ends in this agreement.
The German will give the Frenchman
three cigarettes for one cigar, and
this is tariff which is now established:
one cigar—three cigarettes.”
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Second Ave. at Pine St. SEATTLE
1915, January Fifth, Our Th!YI II
Anniversary of Business in Seward
WK wish to thank the public in general for their liberal
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 Seward
in the year 1915. We predict a wonderful improvement
in a business way. We predict the selection of Rossur
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 Seward will
advance fully 300 per cent by September 1st. and that our
business will increase accordingly.
SEWARD COMMERCIAL COMPANY
The Coleman
FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. GEO. SEXTON, PROP.
Electric lights. Electric bell. Modern bat h rooms. Kates reasonable.
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ALASKA ELECTRIC COMPANY
S. M. GRAFF, - President and General Manager
FURNITURE AND HARDWARE
COAL IWKfR’S AND GOLD MINFR’S SLPFLIES
Doors & Windows
Lang’s Ranges
I XL Parlor Heaters
Gasoline Stoves
Cook Stoves
Camp Stoves
Air Tight Heaters
Oil Stoves
Alcohol Stoves
Spark Plugs
Jump Coils
Batteries
Gn.nite Ware
Aluminum Ware
Asbestos
P iSc B Paper
Malthoid Roofing
Tar Paper
Deafening felt
Weather Strips
Gasoline
Gas Engine Oil
Marine Engine Oil
Valve Oil
Elaine Oil
Floor Oil
Linseed Oil
Cup Grease
Paints
Lacqueret Paint
Asphaltum Paint
Brushes
Varnishes
Turpentine
Japan
Denatured Alcohol
Coal Tar
Lamps
Lanterns
Tents
PHONE BLACK 4
Rifles
Shot Guns
Ammunition
Fishing Tackle
Giant Powder
Caps
Fuse
Bench Forges
Blacksmith’s Coal
Bellows
Wheel Barrows
Cutlery
Fire Clay
Fire Brick
Lime
Cement
Glass
Hope
Mercury
Seine Twine
J. L. GRAEF
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO. =
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 DutcIHIarbor.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar,
Valdez, Latouche and Sew ard
Freight Steamers sailing from Seattle each month: S. S. Seward. 5th;
S. S. Latouche, 15th; S. S. Cordova, 25th
(S. S. Seward carries Explosives)
Right reserved to change this schedule without notice*^
F. B. TRACY, General Agent C. B. GUPTILL, Agent
Hotel Seward
W. A. M'NEILEY, P«or.
MODERN CONVENIENCES
RATES $1.00 TO $2.50 PER DAY
HOT AND COLD WATER BATHS ELECTRIC LIGHTS
The Bo rgen Grocery
Staple and Fancy Groceries
Handles the Best Canned Goods from the Pacific Coast—Best
Treatment to Everybody and Prices Right—Goods
Delivered to All Parts of the City
GUS BORGEN, Proprietor
Phone Main 134 Clayson Building, Seward
Pioneer
Hotel
F. B.^CANNON, Prop.
Knik
Alaska
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