OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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EFFICIENCY OF RAILROAD EMPLOYES
There was but fifty-four hours and thirty-seven min
utes time lost due to mechanical failures on The Alaska
Railroad during the past year which reflects the efficien
cy and loyalty of the army of employes who move Uncle
Sam’s trains over the system and keep its rolling stock
in repairs. During the past year there were employed an
average of 228 men in the mechanical department. Loco
motives receiving repairs were as follows: Class 2, 3;
class 3, 5; class 4, 7; class 5, 32, light repairs, 148; running
repairs, 1,148. The annual report of the railroad says
there were no serious delays due to locomotive failures.
All things considered, this is a record which few sys
tems of equal length and enjoying similar operating con
ditions can surpass.
THE PRESS AGENT IS RIGHT
An Eastern newspaper takes a sarcastic “fall” out of
a California press agent because he quotes a former Alas
kan as refusing to live in New York because it is too cold.
And yet press dispatches depicted New Ydrk and the East
ern coast swept by blizzards, railroads tied up by cold and
snow ten days ago, and on the same date the flappers in
Alaska were still “rolling their own,” (and are now,) all
wTomenkind were wearing low shoes and thin shoes and
thin silk hose, and no one but the man who had spread
himself for a new fashionable overcoat appeared wearing
The ship Panama, purchased by the Alaska Steam
ship company, will be renamed after some river or place
in Alaska. Why not honor the man who saved Alaska to
the United States and name the ship the “SewardV
HOLIDAY CLUB FORMED
OY LOCAL CLUBS; FINE
HADIOLA BE DISPOSED
Tickets were placed on sale today j
at local business houses for mem
bership in the Holiday Club, an or
ganization formed for the purpose
of disposing of the $350 radiola set
given free to the Seward Volunteer
Fire department and the Seward
Athletic Club by Schallerer’s Alaska
Shop. According to present plans the
organizations desire to obtain at
least 350 memberships and providing
this is accomplished the radiola, a
beautiful cabinet machine in first
class condition, will be turned over
to the one holding the lucky num
ber during the night of the Firemen's
Annual Mask Ball, New Year’s Eve.
The accumalated funds from the or
ganization will be turned over intact
to the treasuries of the twro clubs.
A membership charge of $1.00 has
been fixed.
The government school at Belkof
sky show’s a slight increase in enroll
ment this year, according to ■ Miss
Margaret Jlichardson, teacher.
CHLORINE FACTORY EXPLODES
DIGNE, France, Dec. 15. (/P)—
Tw’enty-three are dead from an ex
plosion in a liquid chlorine factory.
The explosion is atttributed to a sud
den rise in temperature after ex
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treme eold. Seventy were injured
when a ton of the liquid exploded.
Biff VARIETY PIES
AT ANNUAL MASK BALL
Everything, from a flap jack turn
er to a thrashing machine, is almost
numbered among the great conglom
eration of prizes which will be award
ed at the Firemen’s Annual Mask
Ball, on New Year’s Eve. A long
list of articles, donated by local
business men, was turned in at last
evening’s special meeting by the
prize collecting committee, wThich
comittee consists of Broadwell and
Sheldon. Chieff Guest and members
of thee department congratulated the
committe on their excellent work.
Within the week the prizes will be
tabulated and awards announced.
HANDBALELRS ACTIVE
Handball teams No. 3 and 4, con
sisting of Irvo Dyer and Lieut. Jones,
Dr. Roberts and Leon Urbach, played
off three games last night in the
tournament now under way. Jones
and Dyer took two out of three. Jones
| substituted for Swetmann.
| This evening Galloway and Morton
take on Flickinger and Jessen.
Owing to the large number of play
| ers, plans are being made to start
double headers next week, or tourna
ment games on each court. Jones,
Balderston, Valade, Paulsteiner, Shel
don, Mount and Lee are to be paired
off with others forming four more
teams.
The twelve page Seward Weekly
Gateway. $3.50 a year.
HAS BEEN REMODELED
The S. S. Northwestern of the A.
S. S. Co., which has been off the
Seward run for a few trips departs
from Seattle on December 18. In re
suming the northern run the North
western will appear with many new
improvments in which are numbered
a radio compass, one of the new in
ventions for safeguarding navigation.
It is reported all of the staterooms,
social hall stairway, the dining and
the smoking rooms, have been re
modeled.
TONNAAGE ON S. S. ALASKA
The S. S. Alaska of the A. S. Co.,
now enroute to this port from Seat
tle, will discharge 24 tons of local
cargo and 139 tons for railroad
points. The steamer will go to Hali
but Cove and discharge an approxi
mate 50 tons at that port.
Jack Otis, who recently built a
trading post at King Cove, is enjoy:
ing a good business it is reported by
recent arrivals in Seward. His stock
of merchandise was received on the
S. S. Starr.
The natives of Belkofsky have
practically all gone to the trapping
grounds but will return in time to
celebrate the Russian New Year
which arrives early in January.
Among the trappers in the Pavlof
bay district this winter are Lewis
j Mitchie, Ben Green and Robin Wil
liams. Alex Bear and Jack Anderson
are over in Chinaman’s Lagoon.
WESTWARD FAMILY MOVES
Mrs. Robert Gould and children, of
King Cove, where Mr. Gould is * in
charge of the cannery over the win
ter months, have moved over to Bel
kofsky for the winter, where the chil
dren may have the opportunity of at
tending school, the Gateway corres
pondent reports. King Cove is but 14
miles from Belkofsky by water but
in going overland, owing to it’s pecu
liar location, two mountains must be
crossed in all about an eight hour
hike.
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