Seward, the Alaska City of Opportunity
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Daily Gateway
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 11.
WARD, ALASKA WED
VATT?O TV
/Y, Y YU ARY 14, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
WORK IS STARTED
SEWARD'S BUD
NEW BREAKWATER
first step taken toward
rock work and spur
RAILROAD TRACK
With the beginning of the
placing of the survey stakes to
day the first actual step in the
construction of the Seward
breakwater for small craft has
i**en taken.
Within a week the compres
sors will be humming at the base
of Marathon mountain and the
■coyote” men will be driving
their 60-foot drifts into the side
* of the hill. At the same time the
track layers will be grading and
laying the ties and steel from
the end of the railroad “Y”.
From thence forward there wall
be no let up in the work until
the new bulwark of rock is laid
down in the bay as a man-made
haven for man-made boats and
an acquisition of supreme im
portance to the Port of Seward.
H. E. D. Wallace, engineer of
:he Alaska Road Commission,
dcho with Antone Eirie. resident
engineer, will have direction of
the work, arrived Tuesday from
Anchorage. With him came Clar
ence Marsh, compressor man,
and his family; Andy Wideman,
* ' expert in “coyote” drill work,
maned by the railroad, and Har
ry Hoyt, of the road commission,
who will hook up the compres
sors and then return to Anchor
age.
These are the only men now
to be brought from Anchorage,
nd with the exception of the
railroad pile-driving crew are
.11 the men that will be brought
s everyone else, so far as can
be determined, will be hired lo
ally. There will not be many
men put- on at first, but the
force will be gradually increased
» s the work progresses. From the
; umber of applications on file
with Mr. Eide there is no doubt
:heer will be ample local men
without any outside help.
When the Bridge and Building
drew No. 1 arrived with the
train Tuesday night, the rumor
sickly spread around town that
big force of Anchorage men
.ad been imported for break
rater work. This was quickly
dispelled by the engineers tn
% barge wh osaid that they in
tended to adhere strictly to their
first announcement and give
Seward labor the preference in
- very instance where possible. It
was also learned that the bridge
gang has troubles of its own for
she present but may have a
hand in the breakwater later.
The compressors are now on
the ground and the work of get
ting them ready for action will
begin at once. The plan is to
drive a series of holes into the
mountainside just large enough
for a man to crawl in and drag
his jack-hammer with him.
These holes will all be shot at
>nce giving old Marathon a
“face-lifting” operation that will
ioosen hundreds of tons of rock,
after which the steam shovel
will come along and load it into
the cars.
The breakwater itself will be
immediately north of the San
Juan dock pointing in a north
easterly direction sighting to
ward the radio station from the
shore. It will be of huge pieces
of rock to be filled in with small
er material and will be four feet
•wide at the top.
The railroad skid pile-driver
will be run out as far as the
FEARS FOR ECKIII
PH GROUNDLESS
KETCHIKAN, Jan., 14, (AV
Pilot Eckmann reported missing
since Monday, has been awaiting
for clear weather before contin
! uing the Renehan search;
He has been held down near
| Annette Island alongside a
; police launch.
j No further evidence of the Re
jnehan plane has been found.
I
: COUm CALLED
! TO 1 WHILE
! , COifiESS TALKS
MILLIONS ALREADY SPENT BY
SOCIETY IN AID OF THE
MANY IN NEED
i WASHINGTON, Jan., 14, (/Pi—
The drought is described at the
'“Greatest emergency in peace
time that the Red Cross was
| ever called upon to meet,” it was
announced by John Payne, nat
ional chairman, as the Red Cross
started on a $10,000,000 fund.
The statement came soon af
; ter President Hoover issued a
formal proclamation in which it
I was said such relief would over
< shadow the expenditures follow
, ing the Mississippi flood which
cost $16,000,000.
! Already $5,000,000 has been
spent, Payne said, for relief of
495.000 sufferers as compared to
325.000 in the Mississippi flood.
350 counties in 17 states are
ahead getting aid and four oth
I er states are to be added.
Meanwhile, the Congress House
and Senate drought committees
! are fighting over a $15,000,000
food loan.
VICTORIA. B. C„ Jan.. 14. (JP)
—The Motorship Northland went
aground on Salmon River, on
Vancouver Island; there were 31
passengers on board and a crew
j of 30.
A large hole was made in the
starboard bow when the vessel
crashed on the reef off Heckman
Island.
A salvage steamer was expect
ed to arrive on the scene at
noon. Captain Leonard Williams
raced his vessel to the beach as
soon as he was able to ease off
the reef.
No one was reported hurt and
the passenger boat is in no dan
ger.
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; TON OF AIR
NEW YORK, Jan. 14. (/P) The
i air weighs about 2,160 pounds up
• on every square foot of the earth’s
i surface.
I ----
! rock is filled in to drive piling
ahead of the rock fill. This work,
it is estimated, will not take
much more than 60 days.
Provisions for a landing dock
are not yet included in the plans.
It is now a question whether
this will be included in the gov
ernment work as a fixed pier or
a flot, and whether this work
will fall within the government’s
province or become a matter to
[be assumed by the city.
Ill TOSETiE Kil
I STRONG PULL FOS
ST
In pursuance of a resolution ad
opted at Tuesday’s luncheon of
the Seward Chamber of Com- j
merce at the Seward Grill, several
agencies of the city will be ask- j
ed to get together for the pur- j
pose of formulating communica
tions to the Chamber of Com
merce of Las Angeles, San Fran
cisco, and Seattle, Senator Wes
| ley Jones of Washington, and:
the Vessel Owners Association of
I Seattle, regarding the stationing I
1 of a coast guard cutter at Se-1
j ward for better protection of West
ward shipping. Those who are
: asked to participate in the fram
! ing of these letters are the Amer
| lean Legion, the local represent
atives of the American Red Cross,;
: the Jesse Lee Home Mission and
' the chamber itself.
| This is following a suggestion
| by Ernest Walker Sawyer of the
Department of the Interior, who
1 has wired concentration on one
I thing is necessary, and that if
decisive action is taken at once
on the coast guard problem, it
s might be successfully put over.
1 H. S. Balderston, chairman of
the local Red Cross chapter read
a telegram from the divisional
| headquarters at San Francisco,
asking for a special Red Cross
drive here for the aid of drouth
j stricken states of the South. It
has been deemed that since a
; drive has just been completed
| here, another would not go over,
«but that some contribution should
i be sent. This will probably take
; the form of a sum from the Se
j ward Red Cross fund. There are
| a number of local calls on the
i Seward fund and tin officials here
j feel that charity begins. at home.
However, they will help in the
national need as far as they can
| go.
; In acknowledgement: of the work
of Mel Horner, of , the Overland
Hotel, has done in the prop, ga
tion of Chinese pheasants on
Kenai Peninsula, Cai M. Brosius
got over a resolution that the
Chamber send a communication
| to the Territorial Legi nature and
j to the Alaska Game Commission
; asking that closed season be de
clared on these birds until they
,have time to propogate and flour
fish. They have come thru two
| winters and are apparently in
jalso ask for more birds for stock
: creasing. The communication will
; ing purposes from the Game Com
mission. Representative-elect Bros
I ius was also sternly commanded
I by President Urbach to demand
more wild rice for planting pur
poses from the Governor’s office.
The question of sending a re
presentative from Seward to at
tend the dedication exercises at
the Territorial capital building is
still an open one. it must
be decided before the Alameda
leaves here at the end of the
week. 9
Although no action was taken
there was a general discussion of
Senator Howell’s statements re
garding the difficulty of running
the Alaska Railroad because of
the severity of climatic conditions.
It was pointed out that there is
not a railroad crossing northern
United States that does not have
trouble with snow, cold weather
and floods than does the Alaska \
Railroad. The members hotly de
clared that Howell grossly insults j
the Territory and its “beloved" i
railroad thru ignorance of the
conditions, an insult chit shou;d j
i be resented.
PETERSBURG, Alaska, Jan., 14,
(/P)—A1 Farrow and L. C. Davis
who left here about Nov. 16 to
get their camp ready for winter
trapping, have been unheard of
since.
A searching party left aboard
the MS Sunrise after word was
received here that Clarence
Langford and Charles Anderson,
trappers, had found a boat adrift
and which is said to be the craft
in which the first named left
for the camp of Langford and
Anderson. The boat contained
provisions and clothing.
BUIK IS II'
MATCHED AGAINST
SHARKEY LEFT OUT IN THE
COLD BY N. Y. ATHLEIC
COMMISSION
NEW YORK, Jan., 14,
Max Sehemling, heavy weight
champion of the world, will de
fend his title against W. L.
“Young” Stribling in June and
the winner will face Primo Car
nera in September, under the
terms of a contract signed by
representatives of the three prin
cipals and Madison Square Gar
den officials.
The fight will be for the beni
fit of the Hearst Milk Fund. The
survivor of the two matches
will also defend the title next
year for another Milk fund with
the site, it is understood, in Jer
sey City or Detroit and possibly
Chicago.
The agreement leaves Sharkey
who had been named the heavy
weight contender by the New
York Athletic Commission, out
in the cold. The commission had
also suspended both Schmeling
and Camera.
HUGE BONUSES IN THE OFF
ING FOR OFFICERS IN
THE COMBINE
NEWARK, N. J., Jan., 14, (/P)—
The Bethlehem Steel Co. 13 offi
cers have been ordered to show
cause why they shouldn’t give an
accounting of the payment of
bonuses totaling $36,493,668, un
der a signed court injunction
against further bonuses.
It was denied that a suit had
been brought by four common
stockholders against President
Eugene Grace and Chairman
Charles Schwab and others in
a complaint in which it was al
leged the stockholders knew
nothing of the bonus system
used to pay officers,
“Bonuses to officers of hund
reds of thousands of dollars were
revealed in the attemtped mer
ger of the Bethlehem and the
Youngstown Sheet Tube Co.
NEW YORK, Jan. 14. (/P)—The
inhabitants of Hulu valley in the
Himalayas have 360 gods says
Mrs. Louise L. Horch, Roerich mu
seum explorer.
GE. BUILDING
!S
FOG I! LOS STAY
NEW DOCK BUILDING RUMOR
ED TO BE ON PROGRAM
IMMEDIATE WORK
With the arrival Tuesday of
the Alaska Railroad Bridge and
Building Crew No. 1, Seward has
a new working unit which seems
destined to be here for several
months, according to all the in
formation available at this time.
Eight men arrived with sev
eral bunk and cook cars, and
about as many more will come
by the next train. Members of
the crew were of the opinion
that they might be here until
summer.
So far as can be learned the
first work will be the strength
ening of the Seward Dock, which
has been weakened by frequent
batterings of big steamers in
south gales. A large quantity of
new piling must be driven there.
Following this work, the pile
driver will probably be shifted
to the breakwater site, where for
a time the railroad men will be
working for the Rivers and Har
bors Department of the Alaska
Road Commission.
There is also a rumor of 100
feet of new dock to be built, but
the details of this plan or the
location of the work was not
available. Whether It has any
thing to do with the promised
coal bunker construction, is not
known at this time. In any event,
it appears certain that Seward
will be the headquarters of a
considerable force of workers
for some time to come.
SEATTLE, SAN FRANCISCO AND
LOS ANGELES COMPAN
IES INVOLVED
WASHINGTON, Jan., 14, (/P)—
The Pcs office department start
ed investigation of activities of
oil promoting companies in Alas
ka. The companies maintain of
fices in Seattle, San Francisco
and Los Angeles.
It is said they offered a high
return in money by forming as
sociations of several investors to
develop mineral rights on a
! maximum allotment of 256 acres
by the government charging two
dollars for such service.
The government charge for
maximum acreage is $32.
The Postoffice department will
investigate the use of the maiLs
for letters of investors and the
I companies.
NO “FATIGUE”
CHICAGO, Jan. 14. (/Pi—There
is no such thing as “fatigue” in
metals, says Prof. H. F. Moore,
of the University of Illinois. Breaks
'supposed to have been due to
; “fatigue” are really traceable to
faults in the metals, he says.
AID JOBLESS
JERUSALEM, Jan. 14. (/P)— A
i “buy home products” campaign
has been started in the Holy Land.
Mass meetings, lectures and
space in newspapers are being
devoted to the drive which is
.aimed to increase employment.