Active training of student pilots
in the flying school recently organ
ized by C. H. Gillam, has begun at
Fairbanks. Several have already
signed up for the course, among
them Arthur Hines, Percy Hubbard,
Frank Mapelton and A1 Goslo. These
men will take the lO.lesson course,
while others will take lessons by the
hour.
DOLE FLIERS HONORED
SAN FEANCISCO, Aug., 27, (£>)»-i
Services in memoory cf the seven j
brave flyers, six men and one girl, ]
who lost Uieir lives a year ago, far ,
out on the Pacific, in the tragic Dole ,
rao?, \vere held at the Oakland air. j
port.
I
! “I want to see a hydroplane air
I port for Ketchikan with the very
latest up-to-date and modern equip
ment such as will attract the very
best class of machines,” said R. T.
Sommers, Territorial highway engi
neer of Alaska, and the “daddy of
aviation” in Alaska.
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That Peter Steil is critically ill was
I the information contained in a tela
|gram received by Guy B. Erwin from
Dr. L. P. Dawes, who is attending
the Fairbanks merchant at Juneau.
Crews are at work this week insiie
and outside the lair building to pre
pare the main structure and annexes
for the annual exposition at Ancho’
age which will open on September
! the new “Okeh” records atj
Sylvia’s. You’ll be surprised.
Have you heard the new
“Okeh” records at Sylvia’s?!
They are wonderful.
—
j ARON ERICSON
j Signs Wall Paper
jj PAINTER A DECORATOR
( THE PALACE
• John Mattlch, Prop.
! POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
J Furnished Rcums
J Phone Main 56
I
NEW AND SECONHH
cues FOR SALE
at
OGLE’S GARAGE
Oils and Gasoline, General
Repairs
Storage
Pete Ogle, Prop. Phone Madison 68
CITY EXPRESS ;
Agent for
The American Express Co.
Sample Room In Connection
Baggage Stored
Connection made with all steamers,
trains and hotels.
"We never sleep" Phone Main 122
Harold Painter, Prop.
Successor to Billy Patterson |
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SEWARD WATER
STTPPT Y
SEWARD. ALASKA
Water a Necessity In Every Home’
John Nelson, Mgr.
Office, Arcade Building.
Wayne Blue, Agent
Phone Main 81
BY THE SACK OR CARLOAD
Premier
and mine run coal—Try it
Healy Lump
Nut or mine run
Evan Jones
Lump or mine run
Nanimo
Range coal in sack or bulk
Alaska Transfer
WOOD, ICE, HAY AND GRAIN
Telephone Main 81, Arcade Building
H. V. Hoben. A. F. Davis
REPORTS G. MILLER
The following description of a ser
ies of permanent army kitchens, said
to have been adopted by Uncle Sam
is forwarded to this Gateway by Carl
Miller of Valdez, who says he got the
dope from a friend, Captain S. F. Pry.
or, quartermaster corps, Fort Mason,
San Francisco. Captain Pryor wrote
to Miller as follows:
“You may bs interested in a great
permanent army kitchen where a
freind of mine works.”
"The range is 500 feet widie and 3,
000 feet long. It takes 27 experienced
firemen to keep the heat at the nec.
essary temperature, 400 cooks on
duty all the time, 1,000 mechanical
stokers for the kitchen police and
1,000 assistant kitchen police to watch
the stokers. Two hundred washing
machines are used for washing the
potatoes, 27 pile drivers mash the pot.
atobs, 14 steam shovels shovel the eSS
shells away from the kitchen door, 22
Liberty motors are used in the coffee
mills. Dirty dishes are hauled to 11
blast furnaces as the dishes are paper
and are burned after eviery meal. Hot
cakes are mixed with concrete mixers
and 46 men with bacon rinds attached
to their feet skate continually over
the large griddle to keep it gileased.
“Soup is made in an artificial lake
which keeps 34 dump' trucks busy
hauling the neoessary ingredients.
Cooks use steel, boats and are dressed
in asbestos clothing. Every flew min.
utes they row to the center of the
soup lake and drop dbpth bombs to
properly stir the mixture. Sixty.seven
fire engines are used to pump the
soup to the 950 tables. Three thous
and miles of pipes and boiler coils in
MAGNECCIL BLANKET
Maeneeoil Blanket; three tree j
treatments to any one that calls at |
try house any week day from 10 a
m. to 3 p, m. Plione Madison 63.
Mrs. E. A. Crawford, Agent.
tils lake wamni the soup with the heat
from a neighboring volcano. Bread is
cut by 11 band saws, and a perforated
endless conveyor properly salts and
peppers tbs victuals; twenty large
street sprinklers are used to put the
syrup on the hot cakes. Cofflse is
made in a 6,000 gallon tank and is
pumped to the tables through pipes
by centrifugal pumps. Ten 5.ton rol.
lers arts used to knead the bread to
save labor and costs. Six mains have
been laid from twenty of the country’s
largest dairies to supply th*3 milk.
Radio telephones are used by the mess
yargeant who also uses a motor cycle
in traveling around the dining hall
and kitchen. All the cooks wear gas
■masks. This is the third largest kit.
chen of its sort in the army.
Men’s dress shoes $2.50 to $4.00;
i Men’s rubber pacs $3.50 to $4.00.
| SEW^Rd leather
WORKS.
BRUNSWICK PHONOGRAPH AN
RECORDS. Schallerer’s Alaska Shop.
THE HOLE
Soft Drinks and Candies
Cigars and Tobaccos
CARD TABLES
J. A. Eamon
Proprietor
Phone Madison 54
Ne»t Door to Liberty Theater
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SMITH PENS ANSWER
ABB.vNG, Aug., 27, (/P)—Governor
Smith has decided to reply to William
White’s charges that as'an assembly,
man favored the saloon and a)/l3d
interests.
Cleanliness ana the best of meats
our motto. Frye-Bruhn.
THESE ARE KODAK DAYS. QUALI_|
TY DEVELOPING AND PRINTING.
SCHALLERER’S ALASKA SHOP.
FRATERNAL
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Meets the second and
fourth Mondays of each
|« month in Odd Fellows’
IHall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
come; Mrs. Anna Les
lie, W. M.; T. P. Graham, Secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO. 1425, L.O.O.M.
Meets every firsl
and third Fri
day each mouth
at 8 p. in., at
Odd Fellows’
Hall. All visit
i n g members
welcome.
PETER N. ANDERSON, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER, Secretary.
PIONEERS OF ALASKA
IGLOO NO. 9
C. M. Brosius, Sec.
SEWARD REBEK^H LODGE NO. 6
A., I. O. O. F.
come. Mrs. P.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
each month In Qdd
Fellows'Hall at 8:00
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
N. Anderson, N. G.,
Ludvig Larsson, Sec’y.
! RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
i Meets etfery Thurday at
8.00 p. m. in Odd Fellows’
| Hall. Visiting brothers welcome.
| Ole Cendbek, N. G. Ludvig Larsson
i Secretary.
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SEWARD LODGE NO. 219, F. & A. M.
« Stated communications first
and third Tuesdays of each
month. Visiting brethern wel
come. Henry Frost, W. M.; T. P. G-ra
ham, Secretary.
TOMORROW’S TIDES
High water 11:21 a. m. 6.8 It.
Low water 4:51 i>. m. 0.2 ft.
H'gh v.*:-ter 10:31 a. m. 9.0 ft.
o.v water 4:25 p. m. 3.4 ft.
Puce Bred Stock
Produces all of
Seward Dairy
That rich, creamy taste of
milk is due to the fact that
nothing but pure bred, tested
cows produce it under the
most ideal conditions of feed
ing and sanitation.
Milk
Seward
Pnone Main 130
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