$eiuardg)autj$iumai)
OF SEWARD. AL ASKA Established August ia 1M04
Published daily except Sunday bv
THE GATEWAY PUBLISHING... COMPANY
Exuered in the no-,'office at Seward Maska a*
second-class mall matter
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
H. V HOBEN and E. F. JESSEN, Proprietor*
E F. Jensen, Editor and Manager
The Associated Pres* is exclusively entitled to the use tor republlcatloz
ad ill news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise in this paper ard alw
the local newS published herein
Ail rights for republteation of special dispatches herein, are reserved
ADVERTISING RATES
fi*«r single colamn. one to six issues, per ’neb _$ .60
Per single column Inch, per month ..... 3.50
{Legal Notices, per line per issue _.18
Classified Advertisements per ltn<* per ls*iu* * . . ,i<j
Notice of Final Proof Notices 12.00
Notice to Creditors Notices 16.00
SUBSCRIPTION RATBS '>
Daily by carrier, per month g 1.25
Daily, by mail, pei month i.00
Dally, by mail, per year 10 00
WELCOME TO SEWARD
In behalf of the citizens of Seward and the Chamber
of Commerc, the hand of welcome is extended to Capt. R.
R. Lukens, Commander of the U. S. Geodetic survey boat
Surveyor, his officers and members of the crew; to Lieut.
Commander Perkins of the Coast Guard cutter Unalga,
the officers of that vessel and crew, and also to the big
game hunters from the States, Robert Frothingham, L.
Taylor, and Newton Ness. If we have missed any con
sider them included.
We are delighted to once again have with us the Sur
veyor; pleased that the Unalga and us folks have the op
portunity of getting better acquainted; and happy that
men of national prominence, such as the big game party,
are to remain in Seward a few davs before departing
Westward upon their big Alaska adventure.
Tho the Mayor has not so informed us, yet we know
he would want us to sav the key to the city is extended
to each and every one of you.
SOMETHING OUT OF JOINT
It ill becomes a newcomer to sound off but a visitor
in Seward yesterday said he couldn’t stumble over all
these ties that are nouring in here without wondering
what’s the matter with tie cutters in this district, also
the local sawmill. Well, that is something we quit wonder
ing about a long time ago. Until Alaska begins to snap
<mt of it. produce some of her own needs instead of send
ing Outside for everything, the country will just about
stay where she is today.
Dollars to doughnuts we will wager that if a new
school house is built- the Lowell Creek project, and other
local building being discussed sub rosa, the lumber and
material will be purchased direct from the States. And
this does not refer alone to the lumber industry, but in
cludes every line of business in the Territory.
Its all very puzzling to a Chechako with horns on
bis toes. Then, just for oood luck, we told him of how coal
was being shipped to Alaska, not onlv from the States,
but from British Columbia. And with such an immense
coal yard right in our own back yard.
The Chechako left mumbling strange words to him
self. • ‘
'-iJwwurtnanmiCBriJOiniiBsw
EXPERT PIANO TUNING AND RE
PAIRING—Pianos, player and electric
for sale and rent. George Anderson,
Anderson Music Shoppe, Juneau, is
i now in Seward. Leave messages at
9
i SeWard Hotel. Thank you.
a
a
■
A FIVE PASSENGER
OLDSMOBILE SIX SEDAN
Tickets $1.00
The five-passenger OLDSMOBILE SIX owned
by Sol J. Urie w ill be given away. The car is in
first class condition. Goes to holder of lucky
ticket.
Ticket. Car will be displayed Saturday at the
Candy Cottage comer.
Tickets on sale Seward Drug Co.,
and Candy Cottage
TV ELVE OFFICERS AND CR£V\
OF 65 MEM ON GEODETIC
SURVEL STEAMER
Back in Alaska to carry on ioi
another season, the U. S. Geodetk
! survey vessel Surveyor, Captain It
R. Lukens, arrived in port Saturday
from the South. The Surveyor’s re
turn to the Port of Seward seems
more like greeting one of tihe family
: for during the period the vessel was
j stationed here last year, many fine
J friendships were cultivated by both
townsfolk and the personnel of the
' ship. And all the boys look none the
Averse from a winter spent Outside.
The auxiliary boats Held an thus and
the Wild Cat are likewise back again
the latter to work out of Fort Hol
bron and Kodiak.
Captain Lukens, with the new
equipment added to the vessel this
year, expects to accomplish double
the amount of work heretofore pos
sible. A fathometer has been install
ed, which automatically gives depth
-soundings by means of a radio device.
This apparatus is controlled from the
pilot house and by means of an echo
control register, tsends intonations
and then times the interval required
for their transmission thru sea water
and back from the ocean bed to the
receiving' apparatus, registering it
automatically by means of a light.
Through this fathometer it is pos
sible to take four soundings a second
while steaming full speed ahead.:
However, freqeunt stops are made to
obtain samples of the bottom.
The second machine which will;
facilitate work enables the ship to!
work in the night or fog and to oh-!
tain its position to within a half al
boat length under any conditions.
This is known as the radio acoustic
method of locating the position of a
ship.
It also takes advantage of the
speed of sound through water but tlie
practice, with this machine, as com
pared to the fathometer, is somewhat
!
different. Hydrophones, installed in
boxes set on large boxes of concrete, |
are placed under water at known pos
itions. The ship, then working in fog
or oui of sight of shore, explodes a
TXT bomb and the time between;
the explosion, its reception by the
hydrophone to the ship again, is reg-j
istered automatically to within a
hundredth of a second. This device
has proven regular and active for
distances up to 75 miles.
The Surveyor this year will con
tinue the work begun last year on
Prince William Sound, Cook Inlet, i
and other Westward points.
There are 12 officers on board and
63 men in the crew.
E. E. Crosson, father of Joe Cros- j
son, Interior aviator, who arrived
Saturday from California, departed
today for Fairbanks.
The vessels at the waterfront are
Astrid, Marion, B. F. M., and Nuka.
The Chamber of Commerce in
vites the hunters to be their guesfs
at tomorrow’s luncheon at the Sew
ard Grill.
Norman N. Lack, Alaska Rail
road official, came over on a
freight Friday night returning to
Anchorage yesterday.
LIBERTY
THEATER
H O’CLOCK
ONE SHOW
H O’CLOCK
Hie most famous modem novelist
SINCLAIR LEWIS
Author of ‘‘Main Street” and “Babbitt” wrote
tonight’s feature
“ Mantrap ”
A gripping story of the Canadian Woods
And three of the greatest stars
ERNEST —TORRENCE —
CLARA BOW —
PERCY MARMONT
in the leading roles give you some fine acting
MAGNIFICENT BACKGROUNDS — STIR
RING SITUATIONS ~ AND ADVENTURE
The great combination of author- play- actors
make this a feature you should not miss And at
last we can give you the first 2-reel comedy of
the famous ‘Collegians’ series that will run for
some time. This one is
"BENSON AT CALFORD"
The popular Hayden Stevenson, George Lewis,
and Dorothy Gulliver
Have the leading roles and are wonderful
AN EXTRA GOOD PROGRAM
A
I
M
4
THE superior quality of GOLD SHIELD
Coffee requires less per cup in the making
—this is true economy. GOLD SHIELD is
a wonderfully rich-bodied, special blend of
the world's choicest coffees, giving to you
most cups of supreme coffee contentment
(
ICE POOL COMMITTEE
ESTABLISHES MUG
Ending a question that has placed
individual members of the Nenana
Ice Pool Committee in a quandry
since the close of the pool on April
14—concerning tickets marked 12 a.
m. and 12 p. m.,- it has been decided,
says the Fairbanks paper, that tic- j
leets marked 12 a. m. are synonymousi i
with those marked 12 midnight, and j
ffckets marked 12 p. m. are synony-'
mous with those marked 12 noon.^
The committee’s reason for estab
ishing the rule was that a ticket
marked 12 midnight holds good un
til 12:01 a. m.,,and a ticket marked
12 noon holds good until 12:01 p. m.
It is said nearly 200 tickets are in
volved in this decision.
On 17 Nenana ice pool tickets the
hour was not marked and 20
guiltless of dates.
Ninety-eight Nenana ice pool tick
ets bore no signatures.
it