WE PAY—
8 l-2c pound for lead.
$2.75 a hundred for raj?#.
ton for cast iron.
27 l-2c pound for copper.
5c pound for rope.
18c pound for brass.
7 l-2c pound for rubber.
27c doz. for beer bottles.
ATLAS JUNK CO.
iota R. K. Ave. So., Seattle.
Seward
Ceo A Mitchell
Proprietor
t >pen Day and Nijfht
Phone Attain** t i J4
Service Cleanlines.s
l*nvatc iloxr* for f*»«He*M*r I'urth"*
! ANTON JOHANSEN
Seldovia. Alaska
First-class merchandise at rea
sonable prices prompt service.
HOT and COLD
DRINKS
at
THE KEY
PHONE MAT HI SON 115
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Seward Steam Laundry
Phone Main 1 *>/
I Rest of Work—Latest Machinery
Work IVlivered in 21 hour*
Kxtra Charge
No Charge for Mending Clothes
Rough Dry 10c Pound
Clraninjt and Preaaing
HEAD OE SCHOOLS
IN ALASKA WANTS
UNIFORM COURSES
Lester D. Henderson, Territorial Commissioner of
Education, spent the entire day in Seward yesterday, ar
riving in the morning on the Alaska and leaving for Ju
neau on the same steamer last night. Mr. Henderson is
just completing his tour of Alaska, having left Seattle lor
Nome last August. He traveled up the Yukon to Fair
banks. came out over the trail to Cordova, then to the
westward. Mr. Henderson will make a tour to the far
westward next summer.
While in Seward, Mr. Henderson paid the closest at
tention to the local schools and .just before the steamer
sailed last night stated he was well satisfied with condi
tions here, the attendance and the teaching staff.
Mr. Henderson wants to standardize the schools of
Alaska, prepare a uniform course of study and unify the
work generally. He says that at present the schools show
a lack of any unity, due principally to the frequent change
of teachers, with no continirty of purpose. Notwithstand
ing this fact he found the majority of them well man
aged.
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Herbert Hoover, food commissioner and tne rsationai
Educational Association have appointed Mr. Henderson
as representative of food conservation in Alaska.
•‘An American is a citizen of the greatest republic ir.
tlu* world, and a citizen of the world." said Mr. Henderson
to a Gateway representative. “Thrift education should be
enlarged upon and the people should co-operate with in
stinctors to encourage every pupil of the public schools
to have a savings account. Statistics show 80 per cent of
the population of the United States is dependent on char
ity at the age of •*>•">. Why ? Because people do not save.
Teach the children the value of saving and economy and
partially do away with the present inequalities that are
causing so much social purest and unhappiness today.
“In some lines the schools in Alaska have just as high
standard as those in the States, while in other lines they
are somewhat inferior. This is due to the fact that out
side they have an almost universal school system, while in
the interior of Alaska it is more of a unit system. There
is no reason in the world why Alaska should not have good
schools, because the territorial legislature has appropri
ated more money for the maintenance of public schools
lilt GATEWAY
PRINTING
DEPARTMENT
is i he by si toiiPPfi) omcE in Alaska
letter Heads
Bill Heads
Statements
Counter Slips
Hotel Note Heads
Knvelopes
Business Cards
Dodgers
Posters
Programs
Dance Tickets
Invitations
Visiting Cards
Tally Cards
Announcements
At Home Cards
Individual
Stationery
Loose Leaf Sheets
Legal Blanks
Catalogs
Magazines
Special Checks lor business men
Special Forms for Business Houses
In fact, anything you may wish in the way of
printing.
If you are planning new stationery or special
forms of any kind we are at your service.
_PHONE, MAIN 71 S
PRINTING Of THE BETTER KIND
than any other Stale in the Union, according to per cap
’ ita. With the added appropriation of this year’s legisla
ture the schools ought to take an advance toward efficiency
more than ever before. If the community is not getting
this efficiency, then the plans of the territorial board of
education are not materializing.”
Mr. Henderson dwelt upon the importance of manual
, training and domestic art, saying that these vocations de
jveloped a phase of th< pupils’ natural character not
touched in book education.
“It serves as a concrete example of’ accuracy,"’ he
said. “Mental training ;s not all we have to look for in the
pupil’s education, but body and spirit should be cared for.
Cordova needs phyiscal training for the school. Another
important issue that has been neglected here is the dental
examination of pupils and the medical inspection. This
should be taken care of at once. Also the compulsory law
compelling all children between the ages of eight and six
teen to attend public school, should be more carefully en
forced. The legislature appropriated money for the en
forcement of this law last year.
“A school board should not be dictatorial in its mat
ters, but should secure good educators and then allow them
to have much to say regarding the conduct of the school,
studies, etc. The members of a school board trust every
thing with their teachers and help them on every occa
sion. Teachers become more valuable year after year and
boards should strive to secure teachers who intend to stay
on indefinitely.”
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APPREHENSION
COPENHAGEN, Nov. (i— From a city of order Ber
lin is beginning to become a city of disorder, as a long and
ijittnr report in the Berlin Tageblatt clearly shows. In
the railway forwarding departments there is chaos, the
paper says. Endless packages, trunks, parcels of al de
scriptions, are stored there in hopeless disorder; man\
have been stolen or lost. The public accuses the new offi
cials of stealing them; the officials say that the thefts are
made by dishonest cab drivers and untrustworthy for
warding agents.
The great Berlin forwarding agency declares that
parcels of all descriptions are stolen by thieves while the
conveyances are passing through the streets. 1 he agency
in all soberness makes the astounding statement that Ber
lin is full of thieves, convicted criminals who have been
refused admission t< the army, serving to make the streets
thoroughly unsafe.
Another forwarding company says that it is useless
bringing charges against the dishonest drivers, as there
are so many of them that the crown prosecutor has given
it tin as a had iob .
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HUNG R~IN GERMANY
DELAYING MUNITIONS
COPENHAGEN, Nov. 6—Leaders of various groups
of German labor were received at main army headquai
ters this week, not for the purpose of congratulating Field
Marshal von Hindenburg on his birthday as first was in
timated, but in an effort to have German workmen speed
up the production of munitions. The leaders submitted
to General von Ludendorff, the chief quartermaster gen
eral, complaints of the laboring classes. These dealt par
ticularly with the operation of the compulsory labor ser
vice law.
A lengthy conference was devoted to discussing thej
j possible improvement of the conditions of labor and the
maintenance of the output of munitions which General
i von Ludendorff declared was the cardinal duty of the
hour. Recently private but trustworthy reports have been
received by The Associated Press that the German autlior
i ities were experiencing difficulty in preventing a falling
i off in the production of munitions, owing to the lowering
of the working capacity of the individual underfed work- j
man and the scarcitv of certain raw materials, notably the
more rare metals used in the manufacture of high grade j
steels. It is doubtful also if Germany will be able to keep
pace with further increases in Anglo-American produc-;
tion if, indeed, it is now even holding its own.
Reliable reports from so widely separated sections of
the Western front as Flanders and the Argonne, say that
the German artillery has strict orders to spare ammuni
tion in every w'ay possible. . • J
I Piano Tuner I
Geo. Anderson, Expel t, is in )
I Seward and is making his head- ^
i quarters at the Overland Hotel. ;
J Orders taken for Pianos and i
* Player-Pianos. Pianos for rent, i
l Expert work guaranteed. Main
I 120. Addiess orders, Juneau, |
I Box 991.
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CHARLES CRAWFORD
GENERAL BLACKSMITH
Horseshoeing Wheelwrighting
si:\v \Kl>. VLASK \
The Carstens Packing Co.
Wholesale and Retail
Bee!, Pork, Veal, Mutton, Poultry,
Lard, Hams and Bacon.
Butter and Egg*
Order* from the Westward and Cook
inlet Given Careful Attention.
BROADWAY AVE. SEWARD
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PROFESSIONAL * *
J. H. ROMIG, M. D. . ,
Office on Broadway
Residence Third Ave.
Phones: Office, Adams 93; Resi
dence, Adams 48. — '
I L. R. C. P. & L. R. C. S. Edinburgh
| L. F. P. & S., Glasgow.
J M. SLOAN, M. I)., C. M.
Van Gilder Building
Oflice hours: 1 to 3 and 7 to 8 p. m.
Formerly of Nome.
DR. O. J. KEATING
Dentist
Office omt Bank of Seward - -
Hours: 9 a. m. to 5 p. in.
Phones:
Office, Mad. 76 Res., Mad. 58
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FRATERNAL
3-n
L. O. O. M., No. 1425
Meets every Tuesday 8 P.M., at
A. B. Hall. Visiting Brothers
invited. L* .
M. A. HORNER, Dictator.
H. R. BIGFORD, Secretary.
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ODD FELLOWS
Resurrection Lodge No. 7
Meets 8 P. M. every Thursday
Visitors Welcome
Charles Lechner C. E. Muliin
Noble Grand Secretary
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PIONEERS OF ALASKA
IGLOO NO. 9
meets on 2nd and 4 th Saturday
each month, 8 p. m., Pioneer Hall
'4-3
m CHES
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Howard
Hamilton
Verithin Gruen •
Full Line of Nugget
Goods
Special Order Work
Promptly Executed- *
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C. E. ORLANDER
SUCCESSOR TO
GEORGE THE JEWELER" '
Taylor’s Express meets all boats
and trains. Phone Main 122.
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Proof of labor blanks for sale at
Gateway.
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Read The Gateway.