WATCHES
Howard
Hamilton
Verithin Gruen
I Full Line of Nugget
Goods
Special Order Work
Promptly Executed
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C. E. ORLANDER1
srcvK.ssou to.
GEORGE THE JEWELER
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HOTEL OVERLAND
HARRY WHITTEMORE, Leasee and Manager.
Headquarters for Mining Men
SEWARD, - - - ALASKA
1,000 1,000 i »ooo
Pipes Pipes Pipes
at the KEY
With every 7.V pipe sold we
give can or box of tobacco fiee.
A I^artje Assortment
Real Wu«s
THE KEY
PHONE MATHISON 115
Stationery
PAPER IN BOXES
Tablets Envelopes
Pens Pencils
Ink Mucilage
Library Paste Paper Clips
Memo Books Paper Files
In fact everything in the Sta
tionery line, also a big line
of School Supplies
SEWARD DRUG CO.
Charley the Tailor
Next to Alaska S. S. Co.
CLEANING
PRESSING
REPAIRING
Work Called for and Delivered
Suits Made to Order
Telephone—Adams 66
Seward
% 11 Geo. A. Mitchell
Or ill popr,*,or
Open Day and Nijrht
Phone Adams 119
Service—Cleanliness
Private Boxen for Ladies «r Parti***
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ANTON JOHANSEN
Seidovia, Alaaka
First-class merchandise at rea
sonable price*, prompt service.
The Carstens Packing Co.
Wholesale and Retail
Rsef. Pork, Veal, Mutton, Poultry,
Lard. Hama and Bacon.
Butter and Eggs
Orders from the Westward and Cook
Inlet Given Careful Attention.
BROADWAY AVE. SEWARD
ALEX FRAZER
Meet m» at the branch. tf.
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iKg harness ana slevSs at J. L.
G.-aef s tf
AMERICAN BASE I
IN FRANCE NOW
A GREAT PORT
A PORT TN FRANCE, March Id.—
A little more than six months have*
wrought a mighty change in the base*
at which, last June, the first division j
of American troops landed to go into j
training for their tight with the Ger- j
mans.
The docks have been and are being
enla.red, storage warehouses have
been and are being built, the harbor
lias been (hedged out to accommodate j
more mul larger ships, and U»e rail- j
road fac »ities have been nearly doub-1
led and are being increased day by j
day.
1 ho enlargement ol tnc port nas,
created a somewhat anomalous situ-i
ation. 1 01 whereas up to uoout the
end of last year troops landed more
regidaii.' and quickly than supplies,
so that it was someth'..* r ieared »t
would bo necessary to maw tempor* ^
arily on the French to. their suppor
the ba.-e is now in the position of be
ing able to handle iyio»> wcnnage than .
is at n-.'rent coming to it, either ii
the form of supply or troop ships.
The rapacity of the port would, how
ever, he almost reached with the com
pletion of the docks and store houses
now end* r construction if it were nok
for far reaching engineering plans
that are underway.
The American aulhcuties early
foresaw that even compi* hensive dock
enlarger »enls would i.VMtably i*esult
in congestion and confusion if some
outlet weie not arranged for the in
creasing supplies expected to arrive,
when they are needed, auci which even I
increased stoiage space could not bej
expected to accommodate. The prob- j
lem resolved itself into one of trans-[
portation.
Therefore, while the railroad tracks I
at the port itself are vastly more nun; J
ecoas than they were six months ago,',
the American engineers have conceiv- j
ed a plan whereby a vast tract of land j
three or four miles back of the port |
has been taken over, and m being dev- j
eloped coincidently with the port it- j
FOl f.
On either side of a huge basin into
PICTORIAL PATTERNS
and
PICTORIAL REVIEW
AT
Ellsworth’s
CHARLES CRAWFORD
GENERAL BLACKSMITH
Horseshoeing Wheel wright in g
SKWAltD ALASKA
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PROFESSIONAL
♦-♦
DR. 0. J. KEATING
Dentist
Office over Bank of Seward
Hours: 9 a. ra. to 5 p. m.
Phones:
Office, Mad. 76 Res., Mad. 68
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J. H. R0M1G, M. D.
Office on Broadway
Residence Third Ave.
Phones: Office, Adams 93; Resi
dence, Adams 48.
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L. R. C. P. & L. R. C. S. Edinburgh I
L. F. P. & S., Glasgow.
J M. SLOAN, M. D., C. M.
Van Gilder Building
Office hours: 1 to 3 and 7 to 8 p. m.
Formerly of Nome.
L. O. 0. M, No. 142S
Meets every Tuesday 8 P.M., at
A. B. Hall. Visiting Brothers
invited.
M. A. HORNER, Dictator
F. R. B1GF0RD, SecretaPy. I ]
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ODD FELLOWS
Resurrection Lodge No. 7
Meets 8 P. M. every Thursday
Visitors Welcome
P. H. Pederson John Noon
Noble Grand Secretary
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PIONEERS OF ALASKA
IGLOO NO. 9
meets on 2nd and 4th Saturday
each month, 8 p. Pioneer Hall
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which ships can if necessary he tow
ed and unloaded, dozens of parallel
spur tracks are being laid. They will
sei-ve a dual purpose, for cars cither
can be filled from barges and vessels
brought into the basin, or cars loaded
at the poll itself can quickly and eas
ily be hauled to the spurs and there
made up into trains.
The Americans alicady have taken
over on lease from the F i*onch certain
lines of railroad which will be fed
from the yards of the port and of its
complementary station in the rear,
elliciency and capacity of the port it
self by helping the French to econo
mize in dock a'ld transportation space.
The American plan which envisages
caring for vastly more volume than
the port would normally accomodate,
even with the enlargement of docks
and store bouses, is not original with
them but is more or less a copy of
what the English have done at anoth
er port, where they have increased the
daily output of merchandise from
about 200 cars or less to more than
700. This they have been able to do
by laying out huge yards to the rear
of the actual port to avoid congestion
and to lacilitate making up trains.
The steady development of the
American port has made it necessary
to rcanange the manner in which the
work is done. Last July a compara
tively small branch of the quarter
master’s department was amply able
to superintend and manage the un
loading and distribution of supplies.
Today the work has grown so that it
has had to be entrusted to a railway
transportation department that is
growing in size every week and which
now merely turns over to the quar
termaster, as it does to the engineer
ing, the aviation and all the other de
partments such material as belongs
to each.
To keep pace with the increasing
volume of supplies that arrive, a huge
force of workmen has been found nec
essary. Two regiments of coiored sol
diers, numbering three thousand men
and most of them husky stevedores
and longshoremen from New York
and Southern ports in times of peace,
now do the bulk of the unloading from
the ships and the reloading of the
trains.
A not inconsiderable force of Ger
man prisoners of war, with whom the
negroes especially seem tc enjoy fra
ternizing, are at work about the docks
from early morning until evening.
Every able bodied male citizen of the
port, and many not so able-bodied, in
addition to all the women who care to
work, hape found employment and of
course at wages that w’ere hitheit©
unknown. The city may be said to be
in the heyday of its prosperity.
The somewhat chaotic conditions
that naturally prepailed when thou
sands of newcomers flooded into the
city from the boats in late June have
subsided. Those stationed permanent
ly in the poll have gradually settled
down, in the few hotels and in many
private families. The officers have es
tablished messes for themselves at
which they can avail themselves of
American food, and the men who are
not quartered in the towui, itself, live
at the original camp where General
Sibert and his first division stayed
until it was time to go to the train
ing camp behind the front.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Vote For
JAMES I~ GALEN
Republican Candidate for
Road Commissioner
i
Primary Election Tuesday, April 30
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CAPT. “ARCHIE” ROOSEVELT
I
“Archie” Roosevelt, 6on of Col. Theo- i
: dore Roosevelt, was recently promoted
to captain on the recommendation of
General Pershing. He was a second
lieutenant.
That Tough Feeling.
What makes you feel so tough!
Well, there Is no way of tell ng, nowa
days.' A dentist will say it’s your
I teeth: a stomach specialist will say
It’s your digestion; a Christian Scien- j
tlst will lay It to a defective mental
attitude; an optometrist will find a
cure In double lenses, and a nerve spe
cialists will Invalidate you for three
months. Do you smoke?-Kansas
; City Star.
LONGSHURtMEN i
TIE UP WORK I
| AT VANCOUVER!
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VANCOUVER, B. C., March 13. —
Several hundred longshoremen quit
work this afternoon when Peter Sin- j
clair, a fellow worker, was arrested,
suspected of being a draft evader. Sin
clair later proved that he was too old
to go to the front. The men however
refused to return to work until a
meeting to be held tomorrow. Mean
: while work is tied up along the water
front.
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THRIFTIC
Sing a song of Thrift Stamps
Sixteen in a row;
Take them to an agent,
Add thirteen cents or so,
Change them for a War Stamp
And for your loyalty
You’ll get a crisp $5 bill
In Nineteen Twenty-three.
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: POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Vote For
HENRY A. SLATER
for
REPRESENTATIVE
on the
Republican Ticket
Primary Election, Tuesday, April 30.
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FOR ROAD COMMISSIONER
Third Division
JAMES E. WILSON
I
of Valdez
Present Incumbent
I have announced my candidacy for Road Com
missioner of the Third Division on the Democrat
ic ticket subject to the Primaries on Apr. 30,1918
^ —Paid Advertisement.
FOR ROAD COMMISSIONER
Third Division
HARVEY SULLIVAN
j of Valdez
Former U. S. Marshal
I have announced my candidacy for Road Com
missioner.of the Third Division on the Republican
, ticket subject to the Primaries on April 30,1918
—Paid Adrartiswuant.
H. V. Horen A. F. Davis
ALASKA TRANSFER
H. V. HO BEN, Manager
Coal, Wood and Ice
General Transfe-r • Phones, Main IT and 81
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THE
HOTEL
SEXTON
GEORGE SEXTON. Proprietor
Most Comfortable
Hotel in the City
Local and Long Distance Phones
Modern Bath Rooms Rates Reasonable
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SEWARD WATER and POWER COMPANY
JOHN A. NELSON, Manager
Office—Bank of Seward Building
SEWARD ALASKA
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Attention IVIvisHers!
THE GLACIER BAR, at Girdwood
. is a Restaurant and Pool Hall. Meals are to be
had from 5 a. m., until 10:00 p. m. Good
Spring Beds—Horse and Dog Stables
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Hitchcock & Hachey, Props.
THAR ain’t but
two perfect
comforts that I
knows of—a good
wife an’ good to
bacco. An’ even the best
wives git a little tryin’ at
times.