Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD. ALASKA — Established August 19. 1904
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HURRAH FOR BALHISER!
Chas. Balhiser, Alaska delegate to the convention
in Columbus of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen, who originally was an Ohioan but for
years past a resident of Anchorage, put over some ex
cellent publicity for the Territory when The Ohio State
Journal, one of the foremost dailies in Ohio, published
four Alaskan pictures with appropriate accompanying
articles, in its rotogravure section.
Particularly is Seward pleased for Mr. Balhiser was
kind enough to include a magnificent photograph of
Seward and Resurrection Bay, ‘‘Where Train Meets
Ship. Seward and Resurrection Bay, Alaska, the great
harbor which is the ocean terminal of the government
railroad.”
“Plenty of Ice” is the title of another picture show
ing a close-up of Spencer Glacier which contains enough
ice to supply Columbus for many years; third photo
graph is a “Friendly Argument,” two brown bears in
McKinley National Park enoying dispute over who is
going to take the next bite of a choice morsel they have
found. The fourth of the series depicts one of Alaska’s
“Old Swimming Holes,” picturing three lads frollicking
in an Anchorage stream.
In a brief forward Mr. Balhiser is quoted as saying
that he “offered these photographs as proof that there
is at least one place in the world where it is possible to
keep cool in summer.” At the same time he hastens to
explain “that Alaska is not a wilderness of ice and snow,
but a land where good crops are raised and where sum
mer is coolly comfortable.”
This is what we term as one of the finest samples of
effective publicity an Alaskan has personally given to
the press in recent years. More of such broadminded
information will do much to enlighten the nation about
conditions in this Northland.
ALASKAN BARDS
Under new pseudonyms, The Gateway receives
many an acephalous literary morceau — poems — but
few are published, for we long ago discovered Mr. and
Mrs. General Average Reader are not interested in
the “long, swinging trot of a hungry coyote,” the sen
suous lilt of dreamy cadence causing Oldtimers to breast
the Yukon, rabbits to waltz on their hind legs and
mountain climbers to scale rugged peaks, then reflect
on their latter end.
Many of these contributors tune up their lyres and
pour out their aesthetic souls; few, however, soar as
did Ardenas when he spread his pinions and took a
header into the poetic empyrean, causing the public to
secure binoculars to watch his flight.
Alaska really is though, an avatar of originality;
there are wonderful new paths of poetry which are con
stantly being explored with the reckless abandon of a
troubadour but lack of space in this paper prohibits us,
as much as we would like to, from printing the gems
from budding Miltons and Bards of Avon.
Judging from reports from the States it seems that
most of our economic M. D/s who have for two years
been trying to tune up our industrial system, have no
conception of the gravity of the disease. They have
been sadly at fault in their diagnosis. And we have
heard so much of this alleged efficiency, too!
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Alaska is rich in resources beyond the dreams of
actresses.
Member lg31
National Editorial Association
IUMRINE GRIDIRON IS
INSTALLED BY JUNEAU
IT I COST OF $210
_
At a cost of approximately $2,000
a marine gridiron has been built
by Juneau at the upper municipal
float. The improvement is now in
use by three halibut boats, which
are undergoing overhauling and
painting, says the Juneau Empire.
Installation of the gridiron re
quired 10 days’ time. One hundred
and 80 piling, including the lean
ing and piling, were necessary.
There are two ways, one 136 feet
long, which affords room for three
boats of ordinary size at the same
time, and the other, 40 feet long,
which can take two. The gridiron
tnus can provide accommodations j
for five boats at the same time, j
The gridiron is at the rear of
the Charles G. Warner Co., ma
chine shop. In the immediate fu
ture a hoist will be erected by the
Warner company so that engines
can be lowered into and installed
in boats.
“The gridiron fills a long-felt
want,” said Mayor Thomas B. Jud
son, who supervised its construc
tion. “Heretofore boats requiring
repairs or overhaul either beached
themselves as best they could in
the neighborhood of Juneau or
went to Petersburg or Ketchikan
where gridiron or marine way fa
cilities are available. “Any boat
needing engine installation had to
go to Ketchikan. The gridiron can
cradle five boats at once, and the
crafts, entirely exposed at low tide,
can be subjected to any sort of
work. When the Warner Co., erects
its hoist, engines can be easily low
ered into boats on the gridiron.
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Davis and
children are leaving Friday on the
SS Yukon enroute to California
where Mr. Davis will undergo spe
cial treatment to his left eye.
TIME WAS UP
CHICAGO July 21. (A5)—Walter
G. Twitty, 78, the oldest member
of the Chicago Board of Trade,
who had the reputation of hand
ling more transactions than any
other man, died of heart disease.
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