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SEW VKD. ALASKA, TI’ESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1915.
It seems rr-ther premature for the United States and the other American
republics to recognize Carranza as the provisional president of Mexico while
Villa. Zapata and the others are still in the field, but most likely Washing
ton and the other governments have information that Carranza has practic
ally overcome opposition and is in the best position to bring about an orderly
condition of affairs.
The presence of man like Colonel l>. C. Jack ling is a real boon to a new
country like Alaska. If there is anything most required in such a territory
it i.- money and the men who know how to spend it to the best advantage.
Jackling has been very successful and the success of one venture counteracts
many failures. Success is a wonderful influence in attracting in many senses.
It is really surprising how little interest the general public gives to the
cost of government. Even taxpayers as a rule bother their heads only very
little about the amount of taxes levied. When it comes to franchises and such
things the same strange carelessness is evident. The truth is that no one
«are> particularly how much a city or a county or a state is charged. A
man will pay an utterly exorbitant tax of. let us say, a hundred dollars for
incompetent government and make no protest when he would go to the courts
and fight to the end if a man who worked for him in some other capacity
tried to beat him out of five dollars. In the newspaper world it has long been
known that you cannot get the main body of the public interested very deeply
in the question of taxation although all people in the community are directly’
affected by it. “Laissez Faire” is the motto of the people. It means in
Baconian English, “l.et her rip.”
In the^ exhaustive description of how Alaska is represented at the
Panama-Pacific Exposition not a word about Seward appears. This descrip
tion was specia'ly compiled by the Exposition officials for the All-Alaska Re
view and is being published in the Gateway—yesterday ami today. It is too
bad that Sewar l did not do something to have its name kept before the
public.
CANADA SUFFERS MUCH
ON ACCOUNT OF WAR
Ten Thousand Dwelling* Vacant in
the City of Toronto.
Canada had been financially very
sick since 1913, having borrowed be
yond reason. No part of the empire
was so ill prepared to meet wur cris
is, and none met it more bravely.
Cost of living jumped. Enlistment of
nearly 130,000 reduced supply of
labor. A “back to the land" move
ment was inaugurated. Canada had
been growing in the wrong direction;
despite increase of 34 per cent in pop
ulation by immigration, rural com
munities had gained only 17 per cent
in 10 years, while the urban increase
had been 62 per cent. I^and under
cultivation had decreased from 4.62 to
4.42 acres per capita between 1909
and 1913. The new campaign has
brought an increased acreage in grain
alone from 20 per cent; this year’s
agricultural production will be 30 per
► cent to 40 per cent above 1914.
The government has granted leave
of absence to 30,000 enlisted men in
camps; they may retain harvest pay
and also their soldiers’ stipend. The
government had distributed seed
grain to the value of more than $3,
500,000, besides direct relief of over
$2,000,000.
The western provinces gave their
cities aid in caring for the unemploy
ed. Ontario commission has recom
mended government employment ag
encies, industrial insurance ami voca
tion! guidance—a socialistic program
that would have shocked Canada two
years ago.
Manitoba is the only province that
enacted a general moratorium.
Others left it to the courts to deter
mine as to whether foreclosures
should be permitted. There is com
plaint in Manitoba that the morator
ium is working harm, and agitation
for its abolishment. Unwritten law
in Canada since the war is that prin
cipal shall not be exacted where in
terest is kept up and the debtor
shows reasonable excuse. Building
trades have been the hardest hit. In
Toronto 10,000 dwellings are vacant.
But business sentiment is now more
optimistic than for the past 18
months. The impetus from war
orders is beginning to be felt.
Thrift now prevails. The consump
tion of spirts fell off 800,000 gallons,
cigars 48,000,000 and cigarettes 27,
000,000 in the fiscal year ended on
March 31.—Boston News Bureau.
CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Sunday: Masses at 8:30 and 10:30
a. m. Sunday school after Mass.
Rosary, Instruction and Benediction,
7:30 p. m. Weekdays: Mass at 8
a. m. I
Dry goods at Butts.
-NEWSPAPERS MAGAZINES1
NODUS SmiOWERY CIGARS CONFECTIONERY
EVERYTHING NEW EVERYTHING GOOD
.THE HOUSE OF HETTEL'S, 4tti Avenue. SEWARD _
Good Old Time Eating
PATTEN S BOARDING HOUSE, FIFTH ST.
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Good Old Time Boarding, per day-... $1.00
Separate Meals .35 to .75
Special Sunday Dinner.75
MRS. TltODAY The Old Time Favorite CATERER
Wanted!!
Men to inspect our line of furnishings. Everything
for the man in or out of doors.
A suit? Come in and have a look at the finest line
of Fall samples exhibited in Seward. Let us take
your measure for that suit NOW.
“Schoenbrun and Company" stands for satisfaction.
Dress and work shoes.
Shoe packs and rubber boots.
Kenyon rain coats and mackinaws.
Famous Filson Stag Shirts.
Dress shirts and popular neckwear.
Wool shirts and sox.
Suit cases, grips and travelling bags.
Wool blankets and quilts.
Everything for men.
Whether you stay in town or go to the hills, you
need clothes, and of course you want good clothes.
We've got 'em. That’s why we want you to inspect
our line.
THE MINER’S STORE
FRANK J. COTTER, Manager
Phone Adams 131 “Don’t Forget the Parcel Post” Seward, Alaska
The All-Alaska Review
Coming Features in October Number:
Richardson-Wickersham Controversy
Stories of Discoveries in Alaska
The Discovery of Chisana
the Discovery of Nelchina
The Discovery of Nome
Alaska Gold Mines
By Eminent Engineers
Rise and Fall of Alaska's Home Railroad
Alaska at the Panama Exposition
Personal News from Every District
MANY OTHER FEATURES
ORDER YOUR COPIES NOW
The All-Alaska Review
Seward, Alaska
The Seward Light and Power Co.
Dynamo Room Showing 230 K. W. Alternator
Another View of Interior Showing Pelton Water Wheel, Exciter and Auxiliary Generator
ALASKA AT
THE EXPOSITION
(Continued from Yesterday)
(From The All-Alaska Review.)
The exhibit includes two fine
plaster models. One is a map of Al
aska, showing the telegraph lines
railroad lines, wireless stations,
steamship lines and also Alaska’s
position on the globe and with respect
to other countries. The other repre
sents the Mining of Alaska and il
lustrates the various methods of min
ing, dredging, hydraulic and under
ground ore mining where concentra
tion is necessary. This model also
gives a good idea of the topography
and character of the country, giving
heart to the prospector, settler and
adventurer who labor under the er
roneous impression that Alaska is a
dreary winter waste. Flowered fields,
tree-clad mountains, exquisite mead
ow-bordered tarns and trout-filled
rivers are some of the summer de
lights of this far northern land.
R. V. Sewell, Alaska’s noted artist,
has sent a number of excellent can
vases to the exhibit They all por
tray some charm of the Alaska land,
either a bit of beautiful scenery, a
fine industrial landscape or a painting
of genre portraying types of Alaskan
people and glimpses of their daily life
In the Palace of Transportation, the
Pacific Coast Steamship Company
features Alaska and also provides at
tractive quarters for the Alaska
cruise Club. This exhibit is under the
direction of Mrs. Mary E. Hart of
San Francisco ami Alaska, a woman
of great energy and ability who spent
fifteen years in Alaska as a miner
and newspaper correspondent and
now owns a ranch at Dyea to which
she will return at the close of the
Exposition. Her husband was Judge
Frank Hart of Cordova, Alaska.
Here in this booth cordial welcome
is extended not only to visiting Al
askans, but to all those interested in
Alaska and desirous of gaining infor
mation about this Croesus country.
The booth contains an interesting ana
valuable collection of Alaskan treas
ure and curios as well as a display
of what Alaska has to offer tourist
ami traveller. The walls of the booth
are hung with a splendid oil painting,
a panorama 25 by 71 feet, depicting
a section of the ice front of Muir
Glacier. Sailing close to shore is
shown the S. S. Spokane, painted to
scale. As seven-eights of the bulk of
floating ice is below the water line,
some idea of the tremendous ice field
is gained. The driftwood, sand, shells
and moss in the foreground were col
lected at Sitka and especially brought
down to complete the panorama.
Picturesquly placed on the shore line
are two Alaskan Indians; the man is
an expert carver of wooden totem
poles, and his wife is a weaver of
baskets and maker of moccasins.
A large totem pole divides the ex
hibit canvases and is an exact copy
of the famous Wrangell totem pole.
It is the same size and coloring as the
original and is carved from a single
piece of wood to represent the leg
endary history of the Indians.
The forty-five feet of show cases
contain a $10,000,000 collection of
curio3 exhibited by members of the
Alaska Cruise Club. There are rare
carved ivories owned by Mrs. C. D.
Lane, ceremonial Chilkat blankets
exhibited by Mrs. Walker C. Graves,
and wonderful Attu baskets loaned
by Mrs. C. Cross.
In the Palace of Food Products
there is an exhibit which might also
be said to be distinctively Alaskan.
It is the representation of the Alaska
Packers’ Association. This is a
thorough exploitation of the salmon
industry in Alaska. The Fortmann
hatchery, named after the president
of the company, Henry Fortmann, is
the largest fish hatchery in the world.
The entire process, by picture and
model, is shown, the capture of the
female salmon when the spawn is
taker from her, its fertilization with
the milt of the male, the turning of
the spawn into the fine steel mesh
baskets in bins filled with water, the
feeding ami caring for the spawn dur
ing the gestation period of 240 days,
and the turning into troughs and in
lets until they are old enough to feed
for themselves are some of the feat
ure. Three hundred bottles filled with
spawn each one according to the day
after which the spawn was removed
from the fish, takes the egg right
through the poly-wog state into the
mature salmon.
There is a model cannery iii replica,
of the type owned and operated by the
corporation in its various branches
throughout Alaska. In connection
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