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SEW \RI>, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14. 1915.
The Gateway has been aware for some days that a “petition” has been
“circulated” for the purpose of calling on the Engineering Commission to
~eli the lot.s in the Terminal tract but it declined to take notice of the tact
for quite a few reasons. One of these reasons is that the “petition” was in
the hands of at least one man who may be designated by the rather endearing
term of “agitator.” and another reason is that this petition was being signet!
by men who expressed the it* in their desire to build when, as a matter of cold
fact, they are possesors now of lots on which they could built! it they’ wanted
to or if they believed they could secure better advantages by building than
be selling to some recently arrived gentleman who might be supplied with the
needful.
Of course, the "petition ' was not signed generally or anything like gen*
erally. It was signed by a clique, but. it is granted, it was signet! by a few,
good, very good and worthy citizens.
There are some of us that could not build if we tried and there are
others of us who failed to build when w e had the chance.
It may he that real estate is held at too high a figure but, in heaven’s
name, is there one of us that would not try to get what we could for what we
have ?
It is mereix a public knock at Seward to say that we have not confidence
enough in our i ty to believe that the prices asked for real estate is reasonable.
The men who hold real estate are just as valuable citizens as the men who
do not and might be better for the community than those who envy them.
They are as a rule men who have been years in Seward, have spent hard
winters here In the hope of better and must they be told by some who have
just come to make money by the railroad development that they cannot do
the same ?
Sell the cu»ed Terminal Tract by all means and get rid of it or keep it
and put up boiler houses or clam factories or something, but get rid of it.
It is probably being held, anyhow, to keep us guessing and everyone with
any common sense would want to see the blamed thing either sold out or
chucked into the bay. Let us be sure first that we have the price of a lot
if they are put up for sale. The men w ho are holding lot* in Seward now
for a g'H>d price arc holding them because they have confidence in Seward’s
future and, by the Gods, they are right to have it. If they thought their lots
were worth lt*^> than they asked for them they would sell them anti he glati
to get rid of them.
Let us be honest with ourselves; The man who has not got a lot might
be the first mar. to ask the biggest price for one if he had it. Just imagine
some of the men signing that petition saying that a lot thirty feet by a
hundred is not big enough for their residence! (’an some ot us ever acquire
even the sense of humor of a jackass. »
The construction of a great United States fleet and the city of Seward
seem to have no connection at first glance but they are really very closely
drawn together by certain circumstances. We were told in the cable dis
patches yesterday that the new naval program of the United States will in- !
elude expenditures on the Pacific of two hundred and forty million dollars
for the first year. This means that a great Pacific fleet is in contemplation
and the establishment of a great Pacific fleet means that an immense amount !
of coal will be required. At the present time the United States requires
three hundred or four hundred thousand tons annually on the Pacific, but with
the tremendous increase in the naval power on the Pacific the requirements
m4
will be very much greater, ami as the Matanuska coal is as good as the best,
and a.> it can l*c secured for the fleet on the Pacific at much less cost than
any other coal the whole thing means that the output of Matanuska will he
increased to a greater extent than had hitherto been thought necessary.
tells about the two j
CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS
NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—It wasn’t
luck that gave Bill Carrigan a pen
nant winner this year. It was plain ,
ordinary grit, plus a couple of tons
of sheer fighting, and some rattling,
good consistent baseball. No manager
ever facet! an April getaway with u
stiff er field to fight against than did
this same Bill Carrigan.
Chicago’s new sadly crumpled
White Sox, reinforced by the meteoric
Collins at second, and with a chuck- i
ing staff reckoned to be the class of
the circuit, started well and set the
pace until June. When they had been
squelched, a new ogre rose to con- !
front the Boston mentor—the Tigers, j
And it was some ogre. Cobb was ;
playing the best baseball of his (
scintillating career. Crawford was :
slugging with all his old-time power, j
Veach was playing like a fiend, and .
Jennings had an infield his first since
1001). All this array of power was
backed up with a fair pitching staff.
But Bill Carrigan came through.
When the time came for a “crucial”
series—like the recent one with the
Tigers at Boston, which really gave
his men the pennant—he went out and j
won games. There was no cracking :
under the strain.
Boston has worked its way into the ,
Big Tilt through the classiest field ,
that ever represented Ban Johnson’s ;
loop. The Phillies have won a pen- j
nant from a field that probably is the
weakest that ever represented the j
National Circuit, and that’s taking no
credit from Pat Moran, either, be- .
cause he deserves all the roses that j
can be shied at his red head.
Both the favorities in the National
League dropped by the wayside. !
The Giants never were in the hunt,
and the Braves, handicapped by in
juries and suspensions, put up a
gani'\ but futile, fight. Brooklyn
threatened for a while, but their op
position was not of the steady variety.
The Phillies haven’t played flashy
ball. They displayed a flash to take 1
the lead early in the season, but since
then have played fifty-fifty ball, con
I tent in the belief that their enemies
! didn’t have the stuff for a spurt that
would overtake them. They were
right, for had either the Braves or
j Superbas jiossessed a drive on any
power at all, the Phils could have been
i unseated at almost any stage of the
; race.
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I WILSON GOES TO GAMES
DURING WORLD ( R!SIS
i
| Laughs With Secretary Lane and
| Takes All Things Ea»y
By GEORGE P. WEST
■ ¥
j United Press Staff Correspondent
\ WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.—Through
1 sweltering days of international
S crises,—(the word is stale in Wash
■ ington,)—President Wilson again has
■ demonstrated his marvelous ability to
■
: sit light ami to think through to a
■
: decision without seeing advisors und
3 without a flurry in White Horse
■ *
■
■ rot;* nc.
| So far as visible sign.» go, Presi
5 dent Wilson in these perilous days
*
: might be a quiet scholar leading a
S.singular*y uneventful and retin d life
: in ti e nig hon ey old mansion among
m | A
: the tree.-.
: I)ur;ng the most critical da*'s of tlie
[j Arabic-.Mesperian-Dumba incidents l *•
j saw ;V/ rclary of State Lansing • >r
31 a brief forty minutes, ate luncheon ;»t
m
: his own table with Son-in-law Me*
[ Adoo once, and in the course of a
\ week received formal calls lasting
•
r fifteen minutes from not a half dozen
E others,—all persons of on important
m
jjiLnce to whom internatieral a ai’
m
z are (*»\ek.
2 Not once did th^ I re-ident sit
E across the table from ar officiu' or
E porsie al advisor and enjoy one of
2 those loose ami informal discissions
jj that average citizens crave when c.m
E fronted by problems infinitely less
E absorbing and momentous. One ('Vr
E noon he sat through a hall g: me * ith
2 the round form of Secretary of the
E Interior Lane beside him, but the
E President’s shaking shoulders showed
E that their conservation led far away
2 from submarines and diplomatic con
3 . .
; ^piracies.
E All the policemen on the White
E House lawn ami White House cor
E respondents saw during these days
\ the leisurely White House routine of
El golfing in the morning and motoring
■i
■ in the afternoon. At the executive
. offices assistant secretaries read news
papers ami talked tennis or baseball.
The appointment book was nearly
blank.
This does not mean that President
Wilson hasn’t his finger on the pulse
of the nation. He has imagination,
for one thing, and it is declared it is
iust because he wants to listen to the
voice of all the people that he refuses
to listen to a handful who may or may
not represent the ninety' millions.
The president has resumed theatre
going for the first time since the
death of Mrs. Wilson. In his first
week he saw a stock company in one
of the old popular favorites and a
vaudeville show.
There is nothing high-brow in his
pleasures. No gum-chewing girl with
her “steady” beside her could be more
appreciative when a sleep-stick
“artist” falls into the foot-lights
trough or reaches over and gives the
orchestra leader a resounding smack.
Dr. Gary Grayson, White House
physician on special detail from the
Navy, is the President's constant
i companion at golf, motoring and the
theatre. Dr. Gray’son has a reputa
tion as a good story’ teller, and at the
• White House he gets lots of practise.
The President loves a good story and
laughs like a boy.
Washington doesn’t like the Presi
dent’s seclusion. It likes the search
light on the Washington monument
at night and the Marine band. It
likes fuss and feathers, and it likes
White House occupants who are good
subject for endless anecdotes. But
even to Washington the thought oc
curs that perhaps the President is
giving so much to the country’ partly
because he gives so little to Washing
ton. The presidency is such a big
job these days that the man who fills
it must neglect a few little details
like supplying Washington with sub
jects for social gossip and giving the
glad hand to a stream of leading citi
zens from Spoon River, Silver Springs
I
and way points.
Those who know’ the President well
say he avoids numerous personal in
terviews not because he does not like
companionship, but because he likes it
too well. When he opens his mind to
a caller he gives and takes too many
impressions. It taxes his strength
and interferes w ith the orderly course
of his thought. And so, just because
he is so very human, he must give to
some the impression that he is a cold
blooded ihinking machine.
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inside Alaska are now anxious to get
any news they can of the place where
the government railroad will be. To
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