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SEWARD. \LASKA, TCKSDAY. SEPTEMBER. 14, 1913.
When subjects get low and the everlasting weather conversation wanes
» ne is always inclined to talk shop. We sometimes forget that others cannot
feel the same interest in our business as we do ourselves and thus we some
limes become bores. In talking about newspapers, though, one is encouraged
by the belief that most people road them and are consequently interested, at
least to some extent.
After this initiatory apologia let us proceed briefly to say something
about the Gateway. Since newspapers first came to be published in Alaska
they have worked against their own best interests. By faking news they
have succeeded in reducing the confidence of the people in them. They have
placed under "raised dates’' old stories which were tried to be palmed olT on the
public as telegraphic dispatches and they have gone even further and made
stories out of whole cloth. Now, the Gateway has said before and it asks
permission to repeat that it never fakes. Outside of Juneau it receives more
telegraphic than am other newspaper and it depends entirely on the pro
duction of those telegrams for what it presents to the people who certainly
do not pay their good money to be deceived. That is one thing the Gateway
promises to the public and that is one thing it asks the public to believe. No
telegram i> ever “padded" unless when it has happened on a few occasions
when the size of a ship or the population of a city, or something similar, was
learned by consulting the best authority and was given that the story might
be seen in its true perspective. Such a course is absolutely justifiable when
the paper is sure of its facts. In all other respects the people may rest as
sured that when they read in this paper any story with a telegraphic date
they are reading what came over the cable. Sometimes clippings of interest
from Alaska papers are used but never has such a clipping been made to
appear as a special dispatch. The Gateway does this after the experience
which teaches that a publication which indulges in faking soon loses the con
fidence of the readers and influences the mind of readers unfavorably to
wards all newspapers.
Every town has some people governed by the monomania to get up and
make speeches when the least opportunity oilers. It must be very difficult
for a good natured presiding officer to squelch such individuals and they very
often become something very near a nuisance. We have all had moments
at meetings, etc., when we saw some way by which the deliberations could
be aided and we were tempted to right matters as we might go to straighten
a picture on a wall, but the best way out of it is to tell some one directly in
terested in the meeting and cut out that small town oratory. One often
wonders on such occasions w hy the soul of Demosthenes doesn’t come in and
bat some of those verbose gentlemen on the jaw for the honor of his pro
fession.
work remained to be finished. Some F
of the members of the council object- I
ed but the city attorney declared Mr.
Bade liaa setenty per cent of the total
due him anyhtw. Then Chamberlin
moved he be paid seventy per cent of
ten thousand dollars and paid a comli
ment to the contractor for the man
ner in which the work had been car- .
ried out. This motion carried. This
cleared away, the motion came for
the reading of the electric franchise
the first time. Borgen and Daggett
said it should be postponed. Youngs
believed it should go to the first read
ing so that its contents might be seen
and discussed officially. Chovin and
the mayor agreed and reminded the
objectors that passing the first read
ing does not mean passing the fran
chise. Youngs moved the franchise
to the first reading but he, the mayor
and Jack Chovin voted for the motion.
S, O. Itforfond, for the company stat
ed that he had given the franchise
i to members of the council who had it
in their possession for a week. In it
he said, the company had incorporat
ed every change suggested by the
council. He believed the matter
should be taken up and accepted or
rejected as the time is getting late, j
Youngs again suggested that the
matter should be reconsidered. “ That j
informal stuff never gets you any j
place" said he. Messrs. Winstedt
and Sawyer from the audience were
the next speakers and then Ed. Whit
temore with a joking remark about j
the generality of the discussion, sug
gested that the franchise ought to go
to the first reading. The mayor re
iterated the opinion that it should go |
to the first reading and someone mov
ed for reconsideration and all voted
this time to let the franchise go to i
the first reading except Mr. Borgen
who also was the lone dissentient
when the vote on the franchise came
up, so the first reading was passed, j
After some remarks by Chamberlin
it was decided to let the street com-1
mittee see the Railroad commission
and to have an additional $750 for
building a sidewalk out to the Ter-1
minal tract on Third avenue and to
improve Fourth avenue out in that
direction. At 9;50 sharp Mr. Win
stedt again rose to address the house
and the dramatic critic pulled his .
freight.
THE ELECTRIC FRANCHISE
PASSES FIRST READING
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Thunders Through Seward’s
Historic Halls.
The franchise asked for by the
Seward Electric Light and Power
Company passed its first reading last
night at the meeting of the city coun
cil after it had first been voted to
postpone its consideration. It gave
rise to many speeches and quite a de
1 bate which was entered into by mem
bers of the audience as well as the
city fathers. The meeting opened
with the request of C. E. Bade, street
; contractor, for the payment of some
of the money for the street work. He
declared the contract had cost him
live thousand dollars and said he was
willing to put up a certified check to
i guarantee the completion of the work.
The city engineer estimated that the
total cost of the work would be
slightly over eleven thousand dollars
and that only some $.100 worth of the
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CONTENTS - September Number
Special Articles
GOVERNMENT RAILROAD—By Thos. Riggs, Member Gov’t. Engineering
Commission.
PEN PICTURE OF VAST ALASKA—By William Sulzer. Former Governor
of New York.
MINING DEPARTMENT.
Mines in Alaska are Given Review.
Mining at Port Wells.
Review of Work in Chisana.
Review of Quartz Mines Along Coast.
Gold Handled by Assay Office.
Willow Creek Work.
Sulzer Copper Property.
Copper Activity Boon to Alaska, etc., etc.
OPINIONS OF ALASKA.
Editorial Expressions of the Papers of the Territory.
ALL-ALASKA.
Condensed News From all Parts of the Territory.
THE FUR INDUSTRY.
Review of the Conditions Shown by Latest Fur Sales.
FISHERIES.
Westward Fishing Had Poor Season.
Ships Lost in Alaska Waters—The Antiquity of Alaska— Discovery of the
Klondyke—Meanings of Indian Names in Alaska—Number of I assengers
to Alaska, etc., etc., etc.
EDITORIAL.
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