CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
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HELP WANTED
First-class ironer at Dee ^injj s laun
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THREE ROOM furnished house or
apartment. V. 0. l*n\ -!*•
FOR SALE
FOR SALE
Twc-room house, nicely furnished,
7th ave., near electric light plant.
No. 10 Remington typewriter, good
condition; bargain if sold at once.
Inquire Gateway. ^
Victrola and records, good selection.
Inquire Gateway.
For sale Hotel Crist at a sacrifice on
account of illness, tourth ar.d K.,
Anchorage, Alaska.
An eight horse-power Pelton water
wheel, never been list'd. Just the
thing for a small mining plant or
electric generatoi. Inquire at the
Gateway. **
FOR RENT
For rent two-room furnished house
$12.50 per month. See Dougherty £
Stewart.
MISCELLANEOUS
Fresh Butterkist popcorn at the
KEY._
Andy's Express, phone Madison 143.
Mail vour letters at The Key.
PROFESSIONAL
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J. H. ROMIG, M. D.
Office on Broadway
Residence Third Ave.
Phoned Office, Adams 93; Resi
dence, Adams 48.
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I L R. C. P. & L. R. C. S. Edinburgh
1 L. F. P. & S., Glasgow.
J M. SLOAN. M. 0., C. M.
Van Gilder Building
Office hours: l to 3 and 7 to 8 p. m.
Formerly of Nome.
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DR. O. J. KEATING
Dentist
Office over Bank of Seward
Hours: 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Phones:
Office, Mad. 76 Res., Mad. 58
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1)R. CHARLES DAGGETT
Dental Offices
Stull Building
Office Phone, Adams 111
Residence Phone, Madison 44
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LEON C. BOOKER
Attorney at Law
Phone Madison 84
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ROBERT SIMPSON
Juneau, Alaska
Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground
FRATERNAL |
I- 1
L. 0. 0. M. 1425
Regular meeting every Friday
night at 8 o’clock in A. B. Hall.
Visiting brothers invited.
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ODD FELLOWS
Resurrection Lodge No. 7
Meets 8 P. M. every Thursday
Visitors Welcome
Henry Fathers Leon C. Booker
Noble Grand Secretary
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PIONEERS OF ALASKA
IGLOO NO- 9
meets on 2nd and 4th Saturday
each month, 8 p. m., Pioneer Hall
Seward Steam Laundry
Phone Main 157
Beat of Work—Latest Machinery
Work Delivered in 24 hours
Extra Charge
No Charge for Mending Clothes
Rough Dry 10c Pound
Cleaning and Pressing
U. S. RAILROAD RECORD
ti,e news of the line from Seward to Fairbanks. No. 5
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COMMISSIONERS’ RULING ON COMPUTING TIME
UNDER NEW WAGE SCHEDULEBENEFITS EMPLOYES
C ircular No. i84-A
TO ALL CONCERNED:
The following instructions, effective
April 1, are issued for the informa
tion and guidance of all concerned:
Hourly Men
1. In computing time a calendar
day begins at 12 midnight and ends
at 12 midnight.
2. An employe who is required to
work in excess of eight hours during
a calendar day shall be paid for such
overtime at the rate of one and one
half times the rate applicable to the
position he holds, except as otherwise
provided herein.
Examples applying the foregoing
rules:
Longshoreman starting work at 4
n. m.. April 1, and working until 7 a.
m.. April 2, lays off until 4 p. m. and
i again starts work on his regular shift,
working until 7 a. m. April 3. The
time earned would be stated as fol
lows :
April 1. 4 p. m. to midnight, less;
half hour luncheon: 74 hours (o> 70c.
April 2. Midnight to 7 a. m., 7
hours (a> 70c.
April 2. 4 p. m. to 5 p. m., 1 hour
i (ffi 70c.
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April 2. 5. p. m. to midnight, 7
1 hours (a) $1.05.
April 3. Midnight to 7 a. m., 7
! hours @ 70c.
The time roll would give the fo?
: lowing information:
i John Johnson, Longsh: 1-3—
224 hours @ 70c.$15.75
John Johnson, Long: 2-2—7
hours @ $1.05. 7.35
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Amount earned .$23.10
3. Department heads shall see that
foremen or others in actual charge of
work do not permit any employes on
au hourly basis to work two separate
shifts aggregating more than eight
hours in any one calendar day, unless
it is clearly for the good of the ser
vice that this should be done.
4. An employe engaged in an op
erating capacity (which includes
transportation employes and others
performing repair work in connection
with rolling and floating equipment,
longshoremen and other dock em
ployes) is not subject to the eight
hour law as coming under the act of
August 1, 1892 (27 Stat. 1340) nor
are these employes to be covered by
the usual overtime certificate.
All other employes are subject to
the eight-hour law and must not be
required to work in excess of eight
I hours in any one calendar day except
in cases of emergency as outlined in
Circular £:o. 12, “Timekeepers’ In
structions.”
5. The rate for longshoremen will
apply at the terminal and then only
to those employes engaged upon the
dock or in the stream.
6. No designations nor rates of pay
other than specifically mentioned in
Circular 184 shall be given any em
ploye unless otherwise authorized in
writing by the commissioner in
! charge.
7. Where an hourly employe works
an irregular period of time, as 7
hours and 10 minutes or 6 hours and
50 minutes, his time will be entered
as follows:
15 minutes or less will be shown as
1-4 of an hour.
16 to 30 minutes as 1-2 hour.
31 to 45 minutes as 3-4 hour.
All over 45 minutes as 1 hour.
Train and Engine Crews
8. Train and engine crews’ time
will commence thirty minutes before
time called to leave any given point,
regardless of actual leaving time.
9. Tie-up time will not be allowed
to train crews and engine crews in
work train service in the maintenance
SEWARD SAW MILL CO.
Good Rough Lumber of all Kinds
$26.00 and up per thousand, deliv
ered.
Telephone Kenai 2
of way department and in yard ser
vice. Fifteen minutes' tie-up time
will be allowed all other train and
engine crews.
10. No time will be deducted for
meals, unless crews are relieved from
the responsibility of caring for their
trains or engines.
11. All trainmen and enginemen
who are regularly assigned to service
by the commission will be paid on a
monthly basis; 240 hours or less will
constitute a month. All time in ex
cess of 240 hours will be computed as
overtime, and paid at schedule rates.
12. If, for any cause, a crew is not
called for service any day except Sun
day, during the month, time will not
be allowed, but regularly assigned
crews will be allowed eight hours for
each Sunday during the month,
whether service is or is not rendered.
If over eight hours are worked, actual
time will be allowed.
13. When train and engine crews
are called for duty and not used, four
hours will be allowed; if duty is per
formed. eight hours will be allowed.
14. Where trainmen and engine
men in any calendar day are called
and perform work and are then re
lieved from duty and are later called
again, they will be allowed actual
time worked on the second time call
ed.
15. A calendar day begins at 12
o’clock midnight and ends at 12 o’clock
midnight.
16. Xo overtime is to be computed
until a full 240 hours’ service
has been rendered. All time in ex
cess of 240 hours in any one month
shall be computed as overtime at the
following hourly rates: Engineers 85
cents; conductors 80 cents, firemen
65 cents; brakemen 62cents.
In computing overtime, the follow
ing rules will be observed:
15 minutes or less will be shown on
time slips as 1-4 hour.
16 to 30 minutes as 1-2 hour.
31 to 45 minutes as 3-4 hour.
Over 45 minutes as 1 hour.
17. Where regularly assisgned
crews serve a fractional portion of a
month, overtime for same shall not
be computed until a full eight hours
per day for the number of days in
service has been rendered. Time in
excess of this amount shall be com
puted as overtime at the hourly rates
given above.
18. Conductors and enginemen will
send in time slips for their brakemen
and firemen respectively.
19. When any change or correction
is made on any time slip, the time*
slip shall be returned to the conduc
tor or engineer, together with a state
ment showing the cause for making
the change or correction.
20. When any regularly assigned
engineman or trainman leaves his reg
ular domicile and does not furnish in
formation sufficient to enable him to
be found after a reasonable search so
that he may be called for duty, he
i.hall have time deducted from his reg
ular monthly pay, equal to the time
served by the member of the crew
who relieves him.
21. Any crew placed in the service
temporarily and not employed for over
ten consecutive days, shall be consid
ered an extra crew and paid on ?.
straight hourly basis at the rates des
ignated in paragraph 16.
22. When any member of a regu
larly assigned crew serves in two dif
ferent capacities in any one month, he
shall be paid for any intervening time
(if entitled to pay for such time) at
the rate applicable for the position in
which he served previous to the
change.
23. The time of all monthly men
shouM be shown in days and not in
hours. Monthly men should only be
put to work at the beginning of the
day or at the beginning of the after
noon period as no smaller period of
time than one-half day will be report
ed for them.
24. Full time must be shown for
monthly men for Sundays and holi
days, providing they have worked the
day before and the day after. No
time will be allowed for Sundays and
holidays, unless the day before and
the day after have been worked.
25. These instructions will serve to
cancel all previous rules in conflict
herewith.
F. WEARS, Commissioner.
MACK' IUCKS
For heavy, rugged use stand any strair,
you care to put upon them. For heavy
construction and haulage; for all-round
utility; for satisfactory service from
every angle.
Seven thousand MACK Trucks in daily service
testify to MACK quality. I have sold over *7.>,000
worth of MACK Trucks in the Pacific Northwest
since January 1—everyone of them earning money for
the owner every day.
ft There’s a MACK Truck for every purpose. All
sizes from ) to 7 1-2 tons. While you are about it gel
a truck that is a REAL TRUCK. W’rile, for our in
ter^sting literature.
‘PERFORMANCE COUNTS^_
T. G. YOUNG
Distributor for MAC K I rucks
100 Tike Street SEATTLE
Subscribe for the Gateway. Do it now
G.W. PALMER
KNIK, ALASKA
SOME OF OUR SPECIALTIES:
WELLMAN CANNED GOODS TIP TOP EGGS
MARSHFIELD CHEESE
RED CLOVER BUTTER SPERRY’S FLOURS
AND A FULL LINE OF
HARDWARE
Stoves. Hay and Feed
No Better Goods Can Be Bought At Any Price
G. W. PALMER, KNIK, ALASKA
THE
COLEMAN
HOTEL
GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor
Most Comfortable
Hotel in the City
Local and Long Distance Phones
Modern Bath Rooms Rates Reasonable
RUBBER BELTING
COAL MINERS’ and COLD MINERS’ SUPPLIES
Doors nml Windows
IXI. Parlor Heaters
Air Tight Heatvrs
Aluminum Ware
P. & B. Paper
Malt hold Roofing
Marine Engine Oil
Gas Engine Oil
Lacnueret Paint
Denatured Alcohol
Lang’s Ranges
Gasoline Stoves
Deadening Felt
Weather Strips
Blacksmith’s Coal
Wheel Barrows
Fishing Tackle
Alcohol Stoves
Seine Twine
Granite Ware
Cook Stoves
# Camp Stoves
Oil Stoves
Spark Plugs
Jump Coils
Batteries
Asbestos
Tar Pai»er
Valve Oil
Floor Oil
Linseed Oil
2up Grease
Paints
Ammunition
Bench Forces
Brushes
Varnishes
Turpentine
Japan
Coal Tar
Lamps
Lanterns
Tents
Shot Guns
Gasoline
Bellows
Cutlery
Fire Clay
Aides
Fire Brick
Lime
Cement
Glass
Rope
Mercury
Phone Main 8/ J, L. GRAEF Seward, Alaska
SEWARD WATER and POWER COMPANY
JOHN A. NELSON, Manager
Office-Bank of Seward Building
SEWARD
ALASKA
DOUGHERTY & ROMIG
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
Houses for Rent Rents Collected
Lots for Sale Large Listing
Phone Red 147 Seward. Alaska
SEWARD BAKERY
Phone Madison 82
Excels in good Bakery Goods
Give Them a Trial
ALASKA WEEKLY POST
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copy. Better than letters.
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