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GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY, (Inc.)
Elmer A. Friend, Editor
Harry V. Hoben, President Frank L. Ballaine, Sec.
• Catered ai •econd-claw matter September 2. 1915. at th« Poet Office at Seward, Aluaku,
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WASHINGTON, Julv 23— The list of casualties
from the American Army fighting in France is now being
balanced bv returning convalescents, whose numbers in
the reconstruction centers like 'Walter Reed hospital here
have reached an appreciable total.
It is an outstanding fact to all observers that an
American youth smashed by a shell, bomb or hand gre
nade is, notwithstanding, exactly the same kind of an in
dividual he was before he went in. High spirited, mischiev
ous, all personal loss discounted and humanly anxious to
resume any dull round of-civilian labor, they have, a ten
dency to regard the carefully planned hospital school for
re-educating them to usefulness with the same distaste
that healty youth has for the training establishments,
however desirable he may know them to be
So a chance visitor to the hospital expecting to dis
cover a hero is apt to find a proportion of youths whose
clothes have been taken away from them to compel them
cnv near their beds. They are likely to be calculating
intelligently their chances to shirk irksome routine- What
over adventure and torture they have lived is being for
gotten while their force and energy are entirely devoted
to the problem of today.
es, they are most healthy and normal human be
ings, undepressed and entirely unworried about anything
“explained Major Cotton, one of the chiefs of orthopedic
surgery at Walter Reed.” “We find these are not ill people.
Their mental and physical vigor is most astonishing to
persons not familiar with the circumstances.”
It is requiring a continuation of military discipline
and considerable patience and persistence to work out on
this material, the far-sighted plans for teaching a mained
man a new and productive trade. The massage, hydrothe
rapy, and electric treatment to restore wasted muscle and
shrunken limb are regarded as baskets, and demonstrat
ing intelligent interest in automobile mechanics, and oth
erwise submitting to requirements which are made before
they can have liberty and leisure.
See a German?” responded Maurice Becker once a
piivate in the 10th Infantry, who left his left hand in an
army hospital near Toul last January- “You bet I saw a
German. Three of them, all at once, one night, patrolling
in front of our post- They got my buddy with a rifle bullet,
and I was cutting lose with my automatic and hand gre
nades. \\ e got two, and one of my own grenades got me.”
Becker explaned the suspicion he had about hand gre
nades, which is shared by all soldiers in their first meet
ings with that deadly weapon.
ah, they tell you it is timed for five seconds, ” he
announced scornfully, “and then one goes off in three sec
onds, and the next goes off in seven so Fritz can dump it
back on you.”
They are going to try and teach Becker to be an auto
mobile expert before they snd him back home to Misha
waka, Ind.
Sergeant Paul Chamberlain, 22 years old and with six
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year’s military service behind him, had a new theory.
“I’m a military failure,” he announced, after it was
explaned that a shrapnel shell had taken away a good sec
tionof one foot. “A fellow with my experience could have
right along, promotion and all, but Fritz picked
' to quick. Nothing heroic about it, we’d been in 20
(lavs in trench at Toul, and were going out at dawn on
March 9th when they tagged me. There’s a bunch of scrap
iron in these Dutch shells, and it got me.
“Still, maybe I’ll be an instructor or something witii
the army yet awhile. Down here, I’m studying poultry
raising.” 1
One soldier, a mimic, broke up the discussion by re
enacting the scenes in the base hospital wards, when Eng
lish visitors demanded incessantly, “My word, are you
i eallj a Yank?” • ■
Thus, the one grimness about Walter Reed hospital,
where 1,100 patients now are housed is the headquarters
map which often adds many red lines on a blueprint to
show extentions building, and more yellow lines to show
extentions planned- It does not extend to the wounded who
are back from “over there”.
They won’t let it while they have a joke left
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A ten wheel locomotive for the commission at Nenana
lias been shipped from Seattle via St Michael.
R.G. Chambers, formerly connected with the Gateway
is now business manager of the Anchorage Times.
The Skagway Chapter of the Red Cross has been fore
ed to enlarge headquarters on account of great activity.
Joe Anneich, proprietor of the Tower House, and Mic*
key Woods, former liquor dealers, have been arrested at
banana for having liquor in their posession which is alleg
ed to have been stolen from the government warehouse at
Gibbops.
Ruby’s first draft quota reported for service on June
20th. '
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A plan is now being inaugurated to place all United
States Commissioners in Alaska on a salary basis instead
of the fee system at present in use.
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Territorial Senator Heckman, of Ketchikan, recently
knitted a pair of socks. The socks were sold at auction and
the money went into the tobacco fund for the boys at the
front.
John Hanson, old timer and member of Igloo No.5y
Pioneers of Alaska died recently at Long City, Hanson
was 57 years of age at the time of death and for fifteen
years had been a miner in the interior.
It is rumored on the interior that Phil Murphy, for
mer city treasurer of Nome, will be the new Territorial
treasurer under Governor Riggs.
1 he Fairbanks office of the Alaska Road Commission
has been closed and all interior work will hereafter be di'
rected from the headquarters at Juneau
The Bank of Ruby has sold its business to the North'
ern Commercial Co., and closed its doors June 15th.
Bert Walker, well known miner at Ruby, was recently
killed accidently in a tunnel on the Mascot Bench. Walker
was buried under the auspices of the Pioneers.'
There is said to be a deal pending whereby the North"
ern Commercial Company will take over the Dominion
Commerical Co., also E.R. Peoples, interests at Fairbanks
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