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PROGRESSIVES NOT
BENT ON ROOSEVELT
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NEW YORK, May 11. — That the
Progressive party will not insist on!
the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt
himself if the Republicans will name
at Chicago a candidate who stands
for Progressive principles and is able
to put them through, is the statement
issued by George W. Perkins today j
after a meeting of the executive com-'
m it tee of the Progressive National j
committee. Coming as it does after
the meeting it is assumed that this
statement is a declaration which i
amounts to a repudiation of all the
assertions that the Progressives are
working merely for the benefit of
Roosevelt. It is regarded as the most
important political announcement for
several months and it is expected to;
have the effect of causing a trimming
of the sails of all the leaders of the
two Republican branches for the com
ing work in the convention.
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A Lesson For The
Young Americans
Any Man Knows How to Die But Few
Know How to Fight.
By WILLIAM CL SHEPHERD
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
BERNE. May ;>.—‘*My son and his
regiment knew how to die but they
didn’t know how to fight.”
The English father who said this ot
his dead soldier son who had been
trained only three months paints a
picture of the plight of the average
American if the United States were
plunged into war and needed millions
of troops quick.
It’s all right to know how to die,
they say here in Switzerland, but it’s
better to know how to fight. By
fighting you lessen your chance of
dying. A soldier hasn’t got any right
to die, unless there’s nothing else left
for him to do.
Fighting today is an exact science.
Read a book of military instructions.
It tells you every last thing a soldier
ought to do, in every poesib'e contin
gency. Master militarists have work
ed it all out and put it down. Swiss
citizen-soldiers know how to do
twenty different things in a pinch, be
fore they resort to dying. They know
how to die too if it comes to that.
How long does it take a Swiss
youth to learn how to fight instead of
die?. How long would it take an
American youth to learn the same
thing ?
Just one hundred and fifty-three
day's!
Of forty-eight years, a Swiss citi
zen-soldier gives half a year to learn
ing how to be one of the best soldiers
in the world.
In all this time he is forced to fire
only 1,000 shots. He does fire more,
it is true, because his 1,000 shots
teach him that sharp shooting in the
open air is more fun than kelly pool
shooting in a smoko filled room.
Switzerland is full of shooting
clubs. One hundred and forty-three
days in camp and the firing of a rifle
1,000 times in twelve years and you’ve
got your crack Swiss private soldier.
Two hundred and thirty-eight days,
taken out of a lifetime, makes a cor
poral. A sergeant is made in 282
days and a lieutenant spends 402
days, out of his entire life, to learn
his job. A captain of forty-eight
years has put in 588 days, altogether.
These periods of learning and ex
perience are spread over a long
stretch of time.
The first bit is sixty-five days.
When you’re twenty years old, you
go into a military school for that
time.
You don’t give up your job to do it,
either. Let your boss try to give your
job to somebody else while you’re
gone, po matter whether you’re a
bank clerk or a farm hand; he’ll go
to jail if your job isn’t open for you
when you come back.
What’s more, if he has any pride
at all, he’ll pay your wages while
you’re gone. Let his neighbors find
Seward Buildings
More Phan Stated
It was estimated yesterday that the
buildings going up in the city of Sew
ard and those to be started soon would
be worth more than one hundred
thousand dollars when completed but
after a more careful bit of thinking
it is found that this estimate is al
together too modest. As an example
of what was overlooked, it may be
stated that the work being done by
the Seward Electric Company alone
will mean an expenditure of nearly a
third of $100,000, The new building
is now begun ami will be an ornament
and a credit to the city. It is figured
that the work being done altogether
by that company will cost a sum be
tween $25,000 and $30,000. It is safe
to say again that the total work now
proceeding in the city or just about
to begin, in the building line alone,
will represent a sum hardly less than
$200,000.
DAUGHTER OF OLD,
OLD FAMILY WEDS
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
NEW YORK, May 2. — Miss Kate
Schermerhorn, whose ancestors set
tled in New York in 1636, will be
married here today to Jno. Matthews,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Mat
thews, of this city and Windham.
Miss Schermerhorn is the daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. John Egmont
Schermerhorn, and the granddaughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Amos Cot
ting. She is a descendant of the fam
ous Dutch Schermerhorn family which
settled in New York in 1636, and is
the sister of John Egmont and Amos
Cotting Schermerhorn.
HARDEST WORKING
CABINET OFFICER
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
WASHINGTON, May 2. — In the
few spare moments he has had re
cently Secretary of War Raker has
divided his reading time between
Mexican history* and “Tom Sawyer.”
Incidentally, Baker puts in more
hours on the job than any other cabi
net man.
WOULD MEET DEAR MEAT
SITUATION WITH DEER MEAT
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
ST. PAUL, Minn., May 1. — Beef
has become dear meat and Minnesota
officials would meet the situation with
deer meat. W\ T. Cox, state forest
er, would have Minnesota farmers
raise deer to bust the beef trust. He
says it would be no trouble at all to
raise deer for venison. They are
self supporting, grazing on even the
poorest land. They rapidly increase,
each doe bearing two fawns annually.
They mature in half the time steers
require, he says.
out he didn't and they’ll cut him dead.
The next year, when you’re twenty
one, you’ll troop off in the summer to
a military camp where you’ll spend
eleven days and every summer after
that, for 10 summers, you'll spend
eleven days in camp.
By this time you’re thirty-two years
old and, at that age, you pass out of
the regular army into the landw ehr.
You’ll do eleven days every four
years, until you have served an addi
tional twenty-two days. So you’ve
served in all, 153 days.
All this time, from the day you left
the military school when you were
twenty, you’ve had your rifle, uni
form, field kit and ammunition hang
ing up on a handy nail at home,
ready to take dow*n and march off
with, if the call to arms was sound
ed.
He’s a better man than you are,
Mr. Average American Citizen and
you’d admit it if you walked the
streets of these Swiss towns. You’d
know how* to die, in a pinch; but any
, man knows that. This fellow knows
how to flfht
GERMANS FIGHT LIBEL PROCEEDINGS
TO RESTORE APPAM TO BRITISH
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Photo, by American Proas Association.
April IS was set some time ago as the date for the* libel proceedings against the former British steamer Appam. now lying
oft Newport News V;t„ In charge of a Oerman prize crew. The arrival of the Appam In American waters, after her
capture bv the German sea raider Moewe. create*! a sensation Lieutenant Berg, commanding the Moewe and fighting
the attempt to reiurn her to her original British owners, asserts that the Appam was In an unseaworthy condition when
•he nut into Hampton Hoads on Feb 1 and he had a right to seek refuge In an American port. He reported a few day.
ago that the ves.el was le iking badly with four feet of water In her hold Berg say. .he was damaged by going ashore
off Pnkkar Urjon hist bef «r<* her egpture hv the German raider Moewe j
NEWS NOTES
A newspaper of Bremerton called j
the Searchlight in its issue of April
28 gives an account of a visit of John
E. Ballaine and an address given by
him to the Spanish American War
Veterans. In speaking of Mr. Bal
laine the Searchlight describes him as
“a member of the Alaskan Railroad
Commission."
Bill Dewett, who has been saddled
with the name of “Wild Bill” by his
friends, has arrived in the city from
the Kenai district.
Mr. and Mrs. van Cam pen have ar
rived at Quartz creek and will return
to Seward about the 21st when they!
will go to Green Island for a hunting
trip.
Dr. Baughman and Ben Swesey will
leave soon on a tour of game inspec
tion all over the district.
Society Item: crank Youngs en
tertained informr.llv at his residence
last evening.
Mayor Myers and Councilman
Torrey will stf.rt out next Sunday to
hunt bears at Chisel creek. Threw i
formidable brutes have recently been
sighted there.
It is rumored that a house will soon
be constructed next to the Ballaine
residence for William C. Edes, chair
man of the Engineering Commission.
When the Gateway reporter went J
to a local lawyer today, told him the j
cable was down and that news of some
kind was very desirable the lawyer
suggested copying the idea of Mark
Twain when he worked on a paper
in a small town and got a farmer to
drive a load of hay in through every
entrance to the settlement. Mark
came out that afternoon with an ac
count of the rush to the local market,
anti showed where seventeen loads
had entered “our fair city."
Lieutenant Mehaffey of the Alaska
Road Commission will return to Val
dez on the Evans. While here he
went diligently into matters connected
with wagon roads in the district but
an outline of what may be done will
be impossible until the fate of the
road appropriation asked for has been
decided.
The matter of having a wireless
station placed at the entrance to
Resurrection bay was brought to the
! attention of William C. Edes this
winter at Washington and the sug
gestion may yet bear fruit, but a long
■ delay is looked for. Of course, the
matter is outside the province of Mr.
Edes altogether.
UNCLE SAM STARTS
SAFETY FIRST EA HI If II
WASHINGTON, May 1.—Climbing
aboard a special 12-car, all-steel
train, Uncle Sam started out from
Washington today to show his people
how he provides “safety first” for
them in their food, drink, homes, work
and play.
M. F. Leopold of the Bureau of
Mines, Department of the Interior,
was in charge of the train, which
started out over the lines of the
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
railroad on the first lap of its jour
ney, with Philadelphia as its first
destination. The train will first
cover the lines of the B. & 0. then
head westward over other trunk lines.
Exhibits from almost every bureau
in the government service were
aboard. Models and charts from the
Public Health Service, showed how
disease is prevented, how food and
water are watched over and how
working conditions are regulated to
safeguard life and health.
Devices with which the Coast Guard
1 Service saves lives and property along
the seaboards and on the Great Lakes
form another exhibit. Included are
model life boats, rapid-firing guns for
throwing life lines to ships in dis
tress, the breeches buoy and wireless
outfits.
Complete exhibits of the Bureau of
Mines of its apparatus for saving
lives in the mines are also aboard.
How the Forest Service of the De
partment of Agriculture has minimiz
ed the life losses in hitherto great
calamaties in the vast timberlands is
demonstrated. This exhibit also
shows how 1,200 towns and cities se
cure their water supplies from the
forests, and what is being done to
safeguard and prevent contamination
of these water sources.
First-aid-to-the-injured devices and
their application are shown under the
auspices of the American Red Cross,
while the Interstate Commerce Com- j
mission has three model cars fully J
equipped with all known and approved
safety devices.
Millions of dollars worth of proper
ty have been saved by warnings sent
out by the Weather Bureau, it is
claimed, and the work of this branch
of the Department of Agriculture,'
with its apparatus for determining
! weather conditions, is elaborately
shown.
The reclamation service, War amr
Navy department also are represent
ed.
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V CAK1» PARTY AT *
❖ CHURCH VERY NICE ❖
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The party at St. Peter’s church last
evening was very well attended and
very pleasant. Refreshments were
served and bridge and five hundred
were played. The first prizes for
bridge, for ladies and gentlemen
respectively, were won by Miss Sylvia
Sexton and Mr. W. M. Sauers. The
only prize for live hundred was won
by Mrs. Ennis.
LADIES THANKFUL FOR
ASSISTANCE GIVEN
The ladies of the Hospital Helpers
express, through their president, Mrs.
Thomas Ward, the greatest apprecia
tion for the assistance given to make
the hospital dance last Saturday so
great a success, financially and soci
ally. Several ladies donated various
nice things. Although all the reports
have not been turned in the sum of
$150 has been received up to date.
The expenses were $50.50. The presi
dent herself, it may be said, was the
moving spirit in the affair.
DAWN OF ELECTRICAL
ERA ON RAILROADS
The Gateway has just received a
publication produced by the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St Paul Railway, which
is a worthy record of the coming of
electricity as the great motive power
on railroads. The book is beautifully
gotten up and its illustrations and
written matter combine the most in
teresting and pretty facts with the
great fact that electricity has become
king. In the illustrations one can see
the power wires strung through
j glorious scenery, over rugged moun
' tain peaks as well as through fertile
valleys. The book is really about the
best ever produced on that or any
similar subject.
CHEAPER TO PAY
RENT THAN TO MOVE
(Special to Gateway by United Press I
ST. PAUL, Minn., May 1.—It’s' go
ing to be cheaper to pay rent than
to move, in St. Paul, after today.
Transfer men materially raised the
transfer rates on all subjects. It’s
“on account of the war,” they say.
Harness and other equipment has
| been advanced in price by the war,
say the transfer men.
FORMER NOME SNIP
SINKS WITH CREW
First July Fourth
Where City of j
Seward Now Is
Now that the people of Seward are
talking again of a celebration for the
Fourth of July the thoughts of a few
people here are turning back to the
first celebration of the national holi
day in Seward. Only four persons
who were here then are here yet ^
Quite a few others took part in that j
original celebration, and it was ori- j
ginal in more senses than one, but all
the others have gone away.
George Phelps was one who was |
present. He with two others landed
here thirteen years ago and George
will celebrate the thirteenth annivers
ary of his arrival next month. The
only other people who were here at
that time and who are here still are
Colonel Revell, Mrs. Revell and Fred
Laubner. Mr. Phelps came with his
two partners from Valdez in a row
boat and took six weeks to make the
trip. The charts at that time were
very few and poor and the journey
was rather a serious undertaking but
they arrived all right and went into
the Kenai lake district prospecting.
At that time the railroad was being
proposed and Fred Lauhner was here
for the railroad people. Colonel
Revell was building his house on his
homstead at the head of the bay. A j
few others were here and amongst i
them was a man who had brought in
a stock of beer, liquor and cigars to
be ready for the first start of the rail
road work. Time nassed and the wnrU
did not begin and around came the
Fourth of July. It discovered the
citizens in a tent near the beach and
in that tent also was the stock of
aforesaid beer, liquor and cigars, ami
there and then was the Fourth cele
brated for the first time in what
might, perhaps, be called a safe and
sane manner by a stretch of the
imagination.
A $2,000,000 M O R G A X
COLLECTION OF MINIATURES
TAKEN FROM ART MUSEUM
NEW YORK, May 1.—The $2,000,
000 Morgan collection of miniatures is
to be withdrawn from the Metropoli
tan Museum of Art today It has
been on exhibition for the last two
years.
It is a representative collection,
containing, with only a few exccp- ,
tioris, the work of the best miniature
painters from the time the work be
came a method of independent port
raiture down to the middle of the last >
century.
It has been for some time feared
by Mr. Morgan that too long a con
tinuous exposure to the light would
result in deterioration of the colors
of the miniatures.
The collection dates back to the
15th century and was gathered to
gether by the late J. Pierpont Mor
gan, over a period of many years,
during which he ransacked the world
fc” the little treasures.
A miniature of Mary Queen of
Scots is by an unknown artist, paint
ed when the Queen was 23. It is in
the original frame of carved oak with
the “C. R.” of Charles II. to whom it
at one time belonged. There is a
miniature of Phillip II. of Spain, by
Issac Oliver, in a rock crystal locket,
enameled on both sides, and among
other portraits by the came artist is
one of Queen Anne of Denmark, one j
of Sir Phillip Sidney, and there are J
five miniatures of Robert Devereux,
Earl of Essex, one of the latest favori
tes of Queen Elizabeth. Peter Oliver,
son and pupil of Issac, is represented
in the collection with a reproduction
of the “Marriage of St. Catherine," ^
supposed to be one of the copies of
pictures in the royal collection at
Whitelydl, which he reproduced in
miniature by order of Charles 1.
Director Edward Robinson signed
the statement issued from the
museum announcing the withdrawal
‘ of the miniatures.
SAN LOUIS OBISPO, Calif., May
11.—The steamer Roanoke which left
San Francisco on May 8 for Val
paraiso foundered about one hundred
miles south of San Francisco and
many of her crew were drowned. The
story was brought here last night by
three survivors who landed here in a
small boat which also contained the
bodies of live of the victims of the
disaster. The small boat drifted
ashore and the men were powerless to
use the oars. They were reduced to
a frightful weakness and were partly
delirious from hunger, thirst and ex
posure. They were unable to give
the facts connected with the sinking
of the ship or any information about
the rest of the crew except that four
other boats were launched before the
Roanoke foundered.
The Roanoke was formerly in tin*
Nome, Alaska, trade.
Ill !!■■ . — ■■■ HI —
ANOTHER IRISHMAN
IS SHOT TO DEATH
QUEENSTOWN, May ll.—Thoma,
Kern, a member of a prominent
family, was shot yesterday after hav
ing been found guilty of high treason
by a court martial sitting at Fermoy
in tlie county of Cork. Kern was the
leader of the revolt which took place
in Fermoy. This is the first execution
in connection with the recent revolt
to have taken place outside of Dublin
and London.
DELAYED CABLES!
GERMANS REPULSED
PARIS, May 11.—It in officially an
nounced that the German attacks on
the French positions near the Vaux
pond, east of the Meuse, last night
were repulsed.
FORTY-TH R E E MISSIN G
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., May
11.—Forty-three members of the crew
of the Roanoke are missing. She
turned turtle and sank after her cargo
shifted in gale. The five men whose
bodies were brought here by the three
survivors died in the small boat of ex
posure. The Roanoke was carrying a
heavy cargo of explosives from ^an
Francisco to South America.
FRENCH REPULSED
BERLIN, May 11.—It is officially
reported that two French attacks near
Headman’s Hill and northwest of Hill
304 broke down last night under the
German fire which caused consider
able losses.
MANNING COMING
SEATTLE, May 11. — The cutter
Manning sailed last night for Alaska
and will be engaged patrolling the
rookeries during the summer.
GOVERNOR COMES NORTH
SEATTLE, May 11. — Governor
Strong has sailed for Juneau.
U. S. CAVALRY CROSSES
MARATHON, May 11. — Major
Langhomc with two troops of the
Eighth cavalry have crossed into
Mexico from here and are proceeding
rapidly southward, presumably in
pursuit of the raiders of Glenn
Springs.
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* CABLE TAKES *
* REST AGAIN *
Cable communication was inter
rupted this morning somewhere be
tween Valdez and Sitka. The Gate
way received a small amount of its
telegraphic news early this morning
but at 2 p. m. the chances of receiv
ing more seemed slim. It is reported
that the cable ship Burnside is in
drydock down below and this might
cause a big delay. However, the
radio communication is still in exist
ence but it permits communication
only of a slower kind. The cause of
the cable break is not ascertained. It
may be due to another whale or the
returning run of Oolakans butting in
to it in their hasty retreat from the
Seward fishermen.