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and THE ALASKA EVENING POST.
Published Daily Except Sunday by The Gateway Publishing Company.
Published Daily Except on Sundays and Holidays.
Entered as second-class matter September 2, 191F at the postoffice a*
Seward. Alaska, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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' A COMFORTING CABLE
Word that the full appropiration for the government
railroad is included in the civil sundry appropriation bill
was not unexpected but it is comforting to realize that
congress, thoroughly awakened to the advantage of a de
veloped Alaska as compared to a wilderness, is losing no
opportunity to help the good woi^.
THE ALIEN MENACE
Comment concerning the need for a spy and conspir
acv measure in this country during such a time as this, is
unnecessary. The United States has long been a fertile
field in which foreign commercial agents have waxed fat
while helping themselves to our trade secrets and divert
ing business over seas. It is only one step from a com
mercial agent to a military agent. Aliens trained to se
cure information secretly and by devious means are a
menace when war threatens.
HOW ABOUT THE MINERALS?
Creation of Mt. McKinley park by this congi-ess will,
undoubtedly, be followed by appropriations in the future
for wagon roads and trails by which the remote fastnesses
of the now almost impenetrable Alaskan i*ange will be
made more accessible for future exploitation.
One feature concerning this national park is of more
than passing interest and that is the question ot develop
ing the mineral resources within it. A copy of the law
will be awaited with anxiety by those interested in devel
oping the mineral resources of Alaska.
THE H. C. OF RAILS
At the rate the price of rails is going skyward it will
cost more for the steel for a line next year than it does for
both steel and roadbed this year. Last month a consign
ment of rails for use on the Fairbanks division were secur
ed by the Seattle purchasing agent for $36 per ton. Less
than 20 days later the low bid on 10.000 tons was $40 per
ton or an increase of about $5 for the month.
By contracting for all the rails necessary for the
main line in 1915. the commission could have saved some
thing like $10 per ton on all the rails needed but then no
one expected the war to drag on and on and on.
PUZZLED JAPANESE
The compliment the Japanese government is said to
have paid our army system—that of detailing a captain
to study the national guard in service in Texas — would
be explicable in only two ways: either the Japanese want
to be polite and dignify us by doing what they would do in
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SHELL 0UT1 !
ICOWtfRc^O^ocPiRiTY AVfS
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—Donnell in St. Louis Globe*Democrat.
a country with an efficient organization, 01 they think
that we are concealing something. They may think that
the mobilization was a tremendous success and that we
are trying to keep the truth of it from being known.
They make think that it couldn’t have been as bad as
we said it was. When they find out that it was woise than
our own reports of it we hope that they will remain the
cherry blossom children of Shailer Mathews’ imagination.
—(Chicago Tribune.)
GOVERNMENT GRATITUDE
Suppose you should work for one employer for fifty
years at the same old salary and that at the expiiation of
half a century he should take you into his private office
and give you a slight raise—would you exude gratitude at
every pore? • •
Dr. Caroline Asenath Grant Burghardt is in a posi
tion to answer this question, for alter fifty years of con
tinuous service with the government Dr. Burghardt has
been given her first promotion, from clerk at $900 a year
to clerk at $1,000 in the bureau of navigation of the de
partment of commerce. Counting $1,200 as the aveiage
salary of a government clerk, Dr. Burghardt will reach
that goal at the end of a century and a half of service, if
she keeps on moving. Dr. Burghardt is a native oi Mas
sachusetts, is a graduate of Howard University Medical
College of Washington, and was in the medical corps of
the army during the Civil war. She was appointed to the
government service in the treasury department in 186G
at the request of William Cullen Bryant.
Dr. Burghardt has done her work well. In private
employment she would have won promotion long ago. Hei
case is but one of thousands of examples illuminating the
reason why there is so little real vivacity in the govern
ment service.
A SUICIDE CLINIC
Los Angeles, in its amiable setting of climate, should
be the last place in the world for life to take on so drab an
aspect as to move unfortunates to suicide, yet there exist
in that community of nearly GOO,000 souls various people
who are so tired of life that they are inclined to jump from
the docks, or press the trigger of a revolver, to be rid of it.
Recently a Los Angeles church, moved by the condi
tions, organized a suicide clinic, with the intention of
checking the induced mortality. All who are intending to
commit suicide are invited to the clinic, where the issue
will be discussed with a view to making life appear more
agreeable to the despondent ones.* It is an organized
friendship for the encouragement and relief of hopeless
men and women.—(Post-Intelligencer.)
AN EVER PRESENT BLESSING
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The excellent service rendered by the devoted women
in charge of the Seward General hospital is worthy of
commendation, in addition to thanks bestowed upon them
by everyone unfortunate to be ill or injured, who is
brought back to health through their tender ministra
tions. Seward is fortunate in possessing so well handled
an institution._~
PACIFIC STEAMSHIPCOMPANY
, .ADMIRAL LINE
SAILINGS FROM SEATTLE:
Admiral Farragut February 15th, Admiral Watson, February
25th, Admiral Evans March 2.
Sailings from Seattle to California, Mondays, Fridays and Sat
urdays—Steamers President, Governor, Queen, Admiral Schley, Ad
miral Dewey. „ , A . , . „
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROUTE—San Francisco to Los Angeles daily ex
cept Sunday. San Francisco .to San Diego, Mondays. Thursdays and Saturdays.
* Steamers Harvard. Yale. President, Governor, Admiral Schley, Admiral Dewey.
For full particulars address,
_WAYNE BLUE, Agent, Seward, Alaska. I
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SEATTLE SAILINGS
AI ASK A sails Feb. 16
MARIPOSA will sail Feb. 8.
Seattle Sailing of 8th, connects with Dora to West
ward.
Right reserved to change this schedule without
notice.
; a. h. McDonald,
Agent.
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