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w Hrplanes stop at ruby.
Miss Kune Writes Interestingly of
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New York-to-Nome Expedition.
KOKRINES, Alaska, Oct., 20— (By
mail)— Not since the never-to-be-for
gotten days of *98 were the people of
the interior of Alaska so intensely in
terested in any movement as that
when the facts of the great New York
to Nome airship flight was announced.
Prospectors and pioneers, careworn
Liorn hardships endured from walking
through dense forests and glaciered
mountains, and exposed to chilly wea
ther, came to Ruby to see for the first
time and personally inspect a modern
airplane, to actually see them land
and ascend to the clouds.
The younger generation was on the
ground when the planes arrived, all
hoping to acquire some knowledge of
the mechanism of the wonders of the
present age. Children were lifted in
to the tonneau of the plane and allow
ed to sit on the pilot’s and observer’s
seats, much to their delight and sat
isfy their curiosity.
The natives were there from every j
village for many miles around. They
stood in awe and were greately im
pressed as the four great planes, like
huge birds approached the earth and
as one machine was landing the others
were circling and making dips and
loops for the benefit of the spectators.
On a plateau east and at the edge
of Ruby was thout at first by Captain
Douglas, the advance location officer,
to be the most desirable landing place,
and there about eighty acres was
plowed, harrowed and rolled until it
became hard and level, and the supply
of extra high grade gasoline and lu
bricating oil was taken to this field.
but during the interval -between*..tfe
time the planes were first scheduled, to.
leave New York until they arrived, at
Ruby a vast sandbar was formed by
the receding water of the Yukon about
six miles east of Ruby,. making an
ideal landing place, and this spot will
be long and pleasantly remembered as
’Aviation Bar’ in recognition of the
first landing place of the “Black Wolf
Squadron,*” consisting of four air
planes. at Ruby, Alaska, August 26,
1920.
Capt. St Clair Street, in command
of the fleet, reported an extremely
pleasant and easy flight through
Alaska and experienced nothing un
usual in air currents, and made a rate
of 125 miles per hour. From Fair
banks to Ruby a distance of 240 miles
was made in two hours and five min*
utes.
The air route followed the Yukon
river, and at every native village and
prospector’s camp, and even the lone
wood chopper at his cabin, were greet
ed with a salute in the form of a very
low dip, sometimes circling overhead,
or at other times making a loop, which
was a rare treat, and one that was
heartily appreciated by all who saw
the wonderful feats.
The Pioneers tendered a banquet for
the airmen and members of the Pio
neel's. Each person contributed to
ward the purchase of a nugget as a
gift to each of the pilots and observ
ers. After remaining in Ruby one day
they departed for Nome. On their re
turn trip they stopped only once be- i
tween Nome and White Horse. Every
one is anxiously waiting for the report
on this trip, as upon the report lies
the possibility of an aerial mail service
to Alaska. (
urtlvsfs takes
ORE FROM NORTH '
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Jerry L. Galvin has the distinction i
vf being at .the head of the first min
ing corporation in Alaska to ship sack ,
€it ore by airplane. Galvin is general \
manager of the Bon Alaska Mining
company, opening rich silver and load (
lodes near Wrangell, and the U. S.
%rmy airplane squad took a sack of the
Bon Alaska ore out on their depart
ure from Alaska, says the Alaska Dis
patch.
Galvin recently arrived from the *
property and is registered at the Se-;
attle hotel. He says the heavy rains |
Crashed out the road connecting the
property with tidewater, and shipment
of ore sacked on the property during
fhe summer will be delayed until cold
Wither hardens up the roadway. He
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is sanguine, however, that return!
from the sack of ore taken out by aii>
p’ane will open eastern associates to
che value of the property.
Galvin was in Seattle late ia the
spring, going north to start develop
ment work. His company is financed
by eastern people. It is located four
teen miles from the town'of Wrangell.
WEATHER REPORT
SEWARD 42 Cloudy North.
Anchorage 20 Cloudy Calm.
Wasilla 20 Cloudy Calm.
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Talkeetna 22 Cloudy Calm.
Goldcreek 22 Cloudy East.
Hurricane 18 Cloudy Calm.
Summit 16 Cloudy North.
Healy 22 Cloudy Calm.
Nenana 24 Gear Calm.
Fairbanks 38 Gear Calm.
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PERT PARAGRAPHS
OF SENSE, AND NONSENSE . j
CAUGHT ON THE FLY BY
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When a political hanger on is ill
he wants a sinecure. '
You can hear ’em now days discus
sing the relative merits of the differ
ent politicians who are running foi
some office. You'll stumble onto a
bunch of red hot Democrats and if
you stop a while and listen to them
you'll begin to think that the only
party in the world worth supporting
is the Sign of the’Mule. You'll leave
urn and shortly after will bump into
another bunch of voters who are rav
ing over the merits of some Republic
ans. After absorbing about eighteen
yards of this conversation your Dem- j
ocratic ideas take flight and you com
mence to wonder whether the Repub
lican Party is it. You wander home
and sit you down and do a little think
ing on your own hook and you begin
to see light and bye and bye you are
confident that the name of the
party the man is connected with
doesn’t matter a continental just ao
long as the fellow is a man. Isn't
hard to get if you'll think it over.
The vanity of a girl with a small j
brother gets many a hard jolt.
Did you ever hear a man with ar.
obese bank balance say that the lov(
of money was the root of all evil ?
Lots of men would rather lose k
friend than a dollar.
A married man who was hypno
tised says it felt as it does when hir
t
wife makes up her mind.
I.ots of men after laying up some
thing for a rainy day get discourage*:
because it does not rain.
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That Southeastern Alaska is on th<
verge of unusual prosperity* due to
the development of its timber am
water power industry* is the canelu
sion rt^iched by John Thomas Wat
! wins* hydrographic and geodetic an
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gineer of the Co^st and Geodetic sur
vev, who has just returned from at.
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Official trip to the territory.
“Business is somewhat slack now,'*
said Watkins, “because of the slow
'mg down of the Treadwell mine anc i
die fact that the salmon catch thit
year was only 60 percent of normal
But other big mines are opening \l\
and the almost unlimited water sup
ply is being developed. Some of tm 1
towns north of Dixon Inlet are light |
id in some instances heated by elec^
cricity at a cost to th consumer of * •
:ent a kilowat. This region is prob
i ibly the last big stand at virgin tin*
i ber in the country. It is planned
to utilize the timber for pulp, wWijJ
j can be shipped to the states to be
made into paper. The timber standi
1 thick on the hillsides and can be,
easily conveyed down hill to the
mills, which are operated . by the
. h
cheap hydro-electric power.
“The residents are optimistic and
tourist travel is unusually heavy, the
boats and hotels being crowded to ca
pacity. These tourists are advertising
Alaska and its climatic advantages
dhd bringing settlers.
“Only about 8 per .cent of the ne*
cessary. sounding, have been made by
the Coast .and Geodetic surrey. uA*
til the new. regions are thoroqgbty
charted, navigation will be precariodt
| and marine insurance costly. . A sur*
rey steamer is now at work ig
I Southern Alfak* ymttn" , '
NEW YORK, School budgets in
American cities should be twice as
large as before the war according to
an analysis of public school statistics
Ju»t givon out ty ti».3tyM!dK%9
Foundation. Tha roport maintalM that
-teachers’ salaries should now be doub
le the pre-war figures in order to ob
tain the same quality of educational
s^rfice. The cost of jcfeoq) butydtyci
declared to have trebled in the last
j five years.
These findings are made public in
a volume entitled “Trends of School
! Costs.” The author is Dr. W. Randolph
Burgess, assistant director of the de~
, partment of education of the Russell
Sage Foundation. The study is an ap
plication to the field of education of
the method of the index number. The
volume is a companion to “The Index
Number For State School Systems” by
Dr. Leonard P. Ayres, which made a
comparison of the efficiency of the
school systems of different states*.
Dr. Burgess compares the salaries
paid to teachers with those paid to la
borers and artisans for 80 years and
finds that the wages paid to young
women teachers in country sehaols
have increased from $SU>0 a week in
1841 to $17.50 now, an increase of 600
percent. Salaries of women teachers in
cities show a similar increase from
about $4.50 to $35.50 a week. Men
teachers received, much smaller relat
ive increases. .
Up to 1915 teachers received per
centage increases in salary nearly
twice as great as artisans and laborers
Dr. Burgess finds; but in spite of the
increases the average pay of teachers
has never risen as high as wages paid
to such artisans as blacksmiths, car
penters and painters,
“During the five years since 1915
the salaries of teachers have increased
on the average af 45 percent as com
pared with u 100 percent increase in
the wages of laborers and artisans”,
says a summary of the report. “This
lag in teachers' salaries behind &e
general rise in prices has wiped out
all the gain .that was made since the
time of the Civil War. A comparison
of teachers’ salaries and the cost eX
the necessities of life each year for
the past 80 years, makes it dear that
itn the past two years the purchasing
power of the teachers’ ; salary, has
been less than at any other time since
the Civil War. The reportmamtaine,
that the only way Co retain efficient
teachers in service and at the same,
time attract able men .and woman to
teaching is to bring salaries,to a level
corresponding to. the levd of. the
wages in other occupations, and {fee
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levels of the cost of living. ... This i?
’ taken {a mean bringing salaries Jo a
point just double the prewar figures-"
■ Estimating the probable levels at
rscbooi expenditures during the coming
few years, the conclusion is drawn by
Dr. Burgess that to buy the same
amount of education service in 1920
ahd 1921 as in 1915 it will be nacesr
sary to double the school budget In
the light of price and wage fluctua
tions in the past and particularly at
the time of the Civil War,.it is pre-j
dieted that . no large decreases in!
prices or wages are to be anticipated]
immediately, but that expenditures pa:
the enlarged scale will be- necessary!
.'or a number of years.
Considering ways to meet the de»'
siied increase in school expenaes. Dr. <
burgess says he believes the tax rate
^ property agd particularly m land
con be further increased without di
saster. The wide range of tax rates ir
different large cities is cited to indi
cate that there is no economic ttt&t
which has been reached in Many ctfeteft
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