FOR HIRE OR CHARTER
MOTORSHIP DISCOVERER
Leaving Seward for Cook, Inlet, Iliamna, Kenai and other
ports: Aug 25; Sept. 8, 22; Oct. 6, 20.
Capt. Heinic Berger Seward, Alaska
The Alaska Railroad
(Aft. McKinley Park Route)
TRAINS ARRIVE TRAINS DEPART
Each Friday 6:30 p. m. Each Saturday 7:30 a. m. Fair
banks and way points.
Mixed train from Anchorage and intermediate points ar
rives each Wednesday p. m. j
Mixed train for Anchorage and intermediate point's leaves
not earlier than 10:00 a. m. each Saturday.
Mised train carries a coach and handles passengers. (
Alaskan Airways
Serve All Interior Alaska
Weekly Schedules from Anchrage with U. S. Mail
For Information* rates* etc., see—
El wyn Swetmann
SEWARD REPRESENTATIVE
KARL K. KATZ Matt A. Nieminen
Manager Chief Pilot
ANCHORAGE BASE ANCHORAGE BASE
STEAMSHIP STARR
CAPTAIN C. E. ANDERSON
NEXT SAILING OCTOBER 21
SAN JAUN FISHING & PACKING '
COMPANY
Chas. A. Jansen, Agent
Phone Madison 139 Seward, Alaska
I
Travel by the
Dollar Steam
ship Line from
Pacific Coast
Vessel Seattle Arrives South
Leaves Sewrd Seward
ports to New
York via Pana
ma Canal.
Evans Sep. 2 Sep. 9 Sep. 14 j
Evans Sep. 23 Sep. 30 Oct. 5
ADM
Paaaanger ifumma^ttiana aa all
Admiral Liaa veaaela hare beta
•lately and materially improved. Tea
will find tkena very attractlra aad
comfortable. ,, j
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
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Steamer
Lvs. Seattle
Northbound
YUKON .Sept. 12
ALASKA .Sept. 19
YUKON .Sept. 26
Lvs. Seward
Southbound
Sept. 18 9 p. m
Sept. 26 11 a. m.
Oct. 3 11 a. m.
R. A. Hall, * Acting Agent
PHONE MAIN 125
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KINLEY, DIOTT Li
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places be quite different.
A current time card on tl
Alaska Railroad gives Nenana
feet lower, and distant 59 mil
from Fairbanks. Barometer reai
jings taken during time of fligi
and at same hour at both plac
gives Nenana 250 feet HIGHE
than Fairbanks, or adding diffe
ence for direct leveling 330 fe
higher. At the same hour bar
meter readings at Anchorage ar
Fairbanks makes Anchorage 8
feet HIGHER. The same tin
card gives Anchorage as 410 fe
LOWER. The three points namt
above are the only ones in Ii
terior Alaska where a check ca
be made on barometer readings
Since no barometer is locatf
near Mt. McKinley, there is r
reliable way to check the readir
of a barograph carried by a plar
over the mountain.
The nearest points at which ar
attempt at a check could be mac
are Fairbanks, N. E., 160 mile;
Nenana, N. E., 120 miles; Ancho:
age, S. 135 miles; McGrath, W
155 miles; Iditarod, S. W., 21
miles; Ruby, N. W., 195 miles.
Of these points at time (
flight, Fairbanks had highe;
thermometer and lowest barom<
ter readings. Iditarod made tl
highest barometer and lowest the]
mometer readings, and Anchorag
next. All points were cloudy e>
cept Ruby and Iditarod, indical
ing further change in air pressui
that day. A thermometer attach
ed to a wing of the plane rea
10 below zero at the top of th
mountain, 59 above at Fairbanl
and 40 above at Iditarod.
All the above points are too dis
tant to be helpful in correctin
the barometer reading taken i
flight. Other corrections for hu
midity, temperature (which is of
ten a large amount], wind, la
of needle, etc., are usually applie
when some sort of accuracy i
aimed at.
, The accounts of ascertainin
accurately the measurements o
high mountains by means of ai
! aneroid barometer will be believe*
j by those only wrho are ignorant o
1 the subject.
In 1924 a government surve:
: party carried a network of line;
i by triangulation a short distance
north of Broad Pass and along the
Alaska Railroad, using levels, es
tablished by first-order leveling
in 1922. It was their unofficial
opinion that the early estimate ol
Mt. McKinley’s height of 24.00C
feet was too low.
From other sources and manj
observations, the height of Mt,
McKinley is believed to be be
tween 25,000 and 26,000 feet above
sea level.
The results of the first-order
leveling in 1922 and levels estab
lished by railroad engineers differ,
and the cause is probably due to
the fact that no sea level had
been established at the time the
railroad work was started, and an
arbitrary sea level was used, and
later was found in error.
Motorship
Princess Pat
SPEED — COMFORT
Serving All Cook Inlet
Points and Connecting
Weekly with Admiral
Line Steamers
Towing and Special Trips
By Arrangement
CHAMBERS & COLWELL
Seldovia, Agents
FRED M. O’NEILL, Skipper
GRATIFYING
A subscriber to The Gatewa;
writes: “It was gratifying t<
read your little editorial in Thi
Gateway of August 24th, “Alaskj
j Aviators Greater Heroes." I thor
Moughly agree with what you hat
I to say and I am sure that the pi
jlots will be glad, too, that some
one has spoken outright, as yoi
have, what many of us know tc
ie be their thoughts on the matter.’
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Mrs. Michael Malloy is acting
!t City Clerk during the absence ol
es iA. D. Balderston on a vacation ir
! the Hope district.
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The Seward Chamber of Com
merce meets at its regular weeklj
luncheon at noon tomorrow (Tues
day! in the Seward Grill.
Orlander
Jeweler
Dealer in watches and
clocks, nugget jewelry,
old Ivory, curios and a
lull line of goods usually
carried in a first class
jewelry store.
Watches repaired on
short notice
Science of Trapping, $1.50; Fox
t Trapping, $1.50; Fur Buyer's Guide,
) i $2.50; Home Manufacture of Furs
J i and Skins, $1.75; ALASKA SHOP.
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BOAT EQUIPMENT
Stuffing boxes, bearings,
propellors (new and used),
gear pump, etc.
WM. H. BAKER
Pond St. Quincy, Mass.
WALL PAPER
Aron Ericson
Painter and Decorator
Hotel Seward
ROOMS WITH OR WITHOUT
BATHS
HOT AND COLD WATER IN
ALL ROOMS
=1
J W. BLASE, Prop.
YOUR. LAUNDRY
KEEP
PHONE
MAIN
148
YOUR YOUTH
Renewing the bloom in
your family clothes robs
the bloom from your
cheeks, and ironing out
clothes wrinkles hastem
face wrinkles. It’s all
so unnecessary. The
Seward Steam Laundry
will keep you and your
clothes young at a very
low price.
Seward Steam Laundry
Call For and Deliver Dry Cleaning and Pressing
SEWARD WATER SUPPLY
Seward, Alaska
“Good Water a Necessity in Every Home”
Wayne Blue, Agent
Office, Arcade Building. Phone, Main 81
Overland
Hotel
On the Main Street
Seward, Alaska
MEL A. HORNER
Mgr.
' VAN GILDER HOTEL
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
STEAM HEAT
J. S. Badger, Prop.