Capt. Heinie Berger of the mail
boat Discoverer, left port Tuesday
en route to Anchorage and way
ports. He had no Frenchmen
aboard.
The grand jury at Anchorage is
holding its deliberations in the
American Legion building, so in
adaquent i s the small federal
building, a mere shack.
Pilot Joe Crosson, of the Alaskan
Airways, who recently flew to Pt.
Barrow with movie picture man
Noggle, was due to take off today
for the return flight to his Fair
banks base.
Flowers made to order for all oc
casions. SYLVIA’S.
“HOME AWAY FROM HOME”
Seward Hotel
Rooms with or without bath.
Hot and cold water and
steam heat.
Special rates by the month
mrs. d. j. mckenzie
CLEANING
PRESSING
ALTERATIONS
C. Henning’s
Tailor Shop
PIONEER CLUB
NICK HODAK, Prop.
Cigars, Soft Drinks
Card Tables
OPEN FOR BUSINESS
NUKA BAY TRANS
PORTATION CO.
MS ROLPII III
Capt. Pete Sather
Leaves Seward 20th
of each month
For Charter or Hire
FIRST IDLER
OF SEASON HERE
ENRQUTE TO WEST
WHALES ARE NONE TO PLENTI
FUL. ACCORDING TO AD
VANCE REPORTS
The whale killer Patterson, own- j
ed by the American Pacific Whal
ing Company, Captain Pete Oness
commanding, with a crew of 11
men and which put into port on
Monday, came in to permit Chief
Engineer Arthur Baird to receive
treatment for a bad throat.
The Patterson is one of a num- j
ber of whaling steamers based atJ
Port Hobron and which will hunt
in Bering sea during the summer.
To those who have never beheld
a whale killer the Patterson o f
fers many points of interest, rang
ing from the sinister looking har
poon gun mounted at the apex of
the bow, the big winches neces
sary to control the monster levia
than both during its death strug
gles and in hauling it alongside for
final action of pumping air into
the carcass, flagging and starting
on another hunt.
“What is the principle food of
whale, herring?” was asked a man
whose English bore traces of the
North Sea.
“No, its a little fellow about an
inch long,” he responded
Then it developed that the her
ring is nothing more than the
herd-master of the whale, a sort
of pointer dog, which locates the
food and leads the whale to it.
This food consists of what is call
ed by whalers a planfon. It is the
principle food o f the herring.
Therefore when “Moby Dick” would
dine, he sets out first to find a
school of herring, shoves them to
one side with his ponderous bulk
and begins gulping down millions
of the little sea creatures.
According to the whalermen,
herring some time get in the way
! of the cavernous mouth of the
■ whale, but that’s the herring’s
[ business. The whale cannot stop
to argue the point.
But the sperm whale is the dis
criminating member of the levia
than mammal family. His choic
est tit-bit is squid. To secure his
dinner the sperm whale must
sound deep—a thousand feet or
more.
“Many is the time in the North
Sea,” continued the whalerman,
“when the bomb explodes, the
whale emits large numbers of
squid and the water seems alive
with the squirming, devil-fish.”
Thus the sperm whale holds the
record for submergence. He can
stay down one hour and 25 min
Overland
! On the Main Street
Seward, Alaska
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j Mel A. Horner, Mgr.
WHERE ALASKANS MEET
HOTEL ATWOOD
1st AVE. & PINE STREET
SEATTLE, WASH.
Ted Taylor, Prop.
Rooms Without Bath
From $1.00 Per Day
Rooms With Private Bath
, From $2.00 Per Day
Rates by Week or Month
I
HOUSEWIVES!
When you buy meats, specify
Frye-Bruhn Company better
meats.
Try Frye’s Delicious Baby Beef—it
is delicious; it is different; we urge
you to try it.
Phone Main 94—We Deliver
Frye-Bruhn
Company
Seward’s Leading Meat Market
utes, while the blue and right
whales average only eight min
utes, sometimes remaining down
20 minutes
The blue whale, a monster in
proportions, is the king fish in the
estimation of the whalers. It is
because he will sink, after death, j
Therefore when the gunner lands!
the harpoon true, every man is
on his toes for eventualities. If
not stunned or killed, the whale
immediately starts down. It is
then that he must have many
fathoms of line, and which must
be allowed to play out almost un
checked to prevent snapping and
the loss of the whale. Once the
whale begins to slow up, either af
ter sounding or in an effort to es
cape, the winches are brought to
bear, he is gradually snubbed, and
the engines are reversed. A big
whale will take the Patterson
along at from 12 to 15 knots with
engines reversed and against mon
ster seas.
Reports from the Westward say
the whales are none too plentiful.
Yet the whalers are eager. “Just
think qf getting back with an $800
cut on the season,” said one.
And again it may be a return af
ter several months battling the
sea and leviathans with mere pock
et change.
Such is the hazards and hard
ships of the men who go down to
the sea. ,
IT THE HOTELS
VAN GILDER—Mrs. James Cor
bett, Uyak; Mr. and Mrs. C. Cram
er, Wrangel; F. Baker, Seattle.
SEWARD—Mrs. M. Erickson, Cor
dova.
OVERLAND—C a r 1 Johnson, E
Gunn, Charles J. Taylor, Joe Wil
liams, Otto Russ, C. Stakler, John
Rupprecht, Mr. and Mrs. P. Iver
son, E. N. Kling, Stacy Sexton, S.
Diamond.
AMERICAN LEGION MEET
The regular bi-monthly meet
ing of the local American Legion
Post will be held Wednesday even
ing. The gavel will fall at 8 o'clock.
The International Fisheries boat
Zapora, with a party of scientists
aboard, who are carrying forward
halibut fishery studies, left port
during the night for the Westward
area. The savants expect to re
turn to Seward the latter part of i
next month.
FEEDING FOXES
If you are interested in a feed
that will produce quantity and
quality at a small cost, write Bert
Elstad, Petersburg, Alaska.
NOODLE HOUSE, Henry Kai
hara, proprietor and chef. Phone
Mad. 91, Kawabe Bldg.
Affiliated with the ~
West Coast Grocery Co,
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MAY .25
JUNE . 29
JULY .27
AUGUST .31
SEPTEMBER 28
OCTOBER.26
NOVEMBER 30
DECEMBER 28
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