Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD. ALASKA — Established August 19. 1904
Published Dally except Sunday by
THE GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY
Entered In the post office at Seward, Alaska, as second-class matter
H. V HOBEN and E. F. JESSEN, Proprietors
E. F. Jessen Editor and Manager Edwin A. Sandbeck, Associate Editor
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UNBEATABLE MEN
While the world is prone to shower its laurels upon
those men who catch the imagination and amidst specta
cular stage settings climb to exalted heights, there are
others who, while overlooked, deserve to be classified
with “the forgotten man.”
They are the men who conjure up a practical idea
but remain obscured in the background while others ride
it to success, or it dies aborning simply for the lack of
those stimulants some successful men can command, but
which are beyond the reach of the originator.
This is the situation faced by Donald MacDonald,
father of the International Highway idea—the Pacific
Yukon-Alaska project—and the one who has kept it
alive when others, sighting something more spectacular
but less meritorious, have allowed it to become dimned
One can envision what it would have meant to the na
tion at this time had Mr. MacDonald’s idea been speeded
at its inception and sent forward to success. Of the hun
dreds of thousands of men who would have been employ
ed in a creative, progressive necessity as erection of pub
lic buildings as a means of relieving idleness and distress. |
Then consider what would follow after; the demand;
for every essential to motor travel, the tapping of a re
gion rich in gold, silver and copper, the linking of thous
ands of miles of isolated terrain io the continental Unit
ed States, offering a vast domain to the homebuilder and!
business man.
The International Highway is not a stop-gap con
ception such as many of those which have been mooted
by each major political party in an effort to relieve dis
tress. and which at best, are but transitory and leave
nothing of an enduring nature or avenues for following
up with new enterprises.
One often hears the words “constructive legislation.”
Too often it is but tue parroting of a catch phrase for pol
itical ballyhoo. In the MacDonald idea of the Internation
al Highway it net only is constructive legislation but a
wonderful economical force, simple of understanding and
carrying the fullest merit in point of its relation to the
most vital question ever confronting the nation.
Ye-'ily Mark Twain was right when he said: “It is
every man's duty to agitate; they may vote you down as
a fool, but some day you will be a hero.”
Stick with it Mac, old boy!
\\ nat Mr. MacDonald needs is backing in his agita
tion. not only or the lukewarm kind, but the real punch
which puts a thing over. If the commission named to con
sider the subject had included the originator of the idea
in its personnel, in all likelihood the army of labor now
idle would have been ripping the sides of mountains and
preparing the way for a great wave of progress such as
does not loom in any of the bag of tricks the Republican
politicians have been drawing from.
V/e have three suggestions to make, in conclusion:
(1) Let this be the first Alaska measure to be acted upon
by the Democratic regime which has always extended
fair-dealing on Territorial problems. (2) Assign Donald
MacDonald, the originator, as chief engineer in full
charge of the project, working in conjunction with Brit
tish Columbia and Yukon Territory engineers. (3) And
christen the great road artery “The MacDonald High
way !”
Seattle has discovered that there was graft in award
me contracts for county buildings. San Francisco is in
volved m a scandal over juggling of bids for the Golden
Gate bridge. Los Angeles has sent a number of public of
iici.* Is to the “big house” lor grafting. Twenty-nine per
cent of bank failures in the States were not due to the de
pression. Why pick on the booze racketeer?
A picture of the Fairbanks College, displayed in the
Rockefeller Foundation annual report, shows it in inid
winte-r, surrounded by snow and a bleak landscape fall
in.0- away to the sky-line. Maybe someone who has been
decrying advertising Alaska as a land of snow and ice
may be able to explain this.
1 here is one refreshing outlook in the increase in
crime. It will not be long before every town will have a cel
ebrity to look at without paying four bits to see one in
the movies.
The Saturday Evening Post warns the public to fight
shy of mining stocks and stick to “legitimate ones.” Like
some of those which tumbled from $250 to 30 c, for in
stance.
Having read what rival candidates said about each j
other during the campaign, Capone is glad he was safe
in jail.
THROUGH FIRE 10
FLOOD TO SUCCESS
First came a fire which wiped
out the old Seward Gateway; then
| came the Lowell creek flood, which
swept away the editor’s home.
About this time E. O. Sawyer, the
editor, who will be remembered by
many of the oldtimers, took stock
of his bank account and found he
had just about enough left to move
the family to the States, which he
did.
Today, at least 20 years later,
Editor Sawyer is now editing the
Miller-Freeman publications in San
Francisco, has a beautiful home
and is sitting on top of the wTorld.
A recent arrival in Seward from
the Southland brings Mr. Sawyer’s
regard? to his many friends up this
way with the invitation that if any
should visit the Golden Gate city
at any time, they look him up.
WOMEN’S CLUB MEETING
The Seward Women’s Club will
meet Thursday afternoon, Novem
ber 17, at 2 o’clock, at the country
home of Mrs. A. D. Haverstock.
NOTICE
Regular bi-monthly meeting of
the American Legion Wednesday,
November 16. Election of officers.
Thirsty? Try SYLVIA’S fountain.
Three room apartment for rent.
See J. L. Graef.
IT THE HOTELS
VAN GILDER—F. E. Swartz, R.
C. Ongran, W. C. Knaark, F. E.
Towle, Lyle E. Hebert, Ed. K. Mills.
S E W A R D—Gus Gelles, Oscar
Ketum, P. M. Clayburn, E. A. Wil
liams, Peter Flibandt. R. C. Lark
end, E. V. Tavlin.
Dry Cleaning Special Day
One day only; next Thursday,
November 17, all dry-clean and
pressing at half-price. Seward
Steam Laundry.
Seattle Purity lee Cream; most
delicious. ALASKA SHOP.
| A Masters Work
Jonas Bros, offer you a com
plete Fur, Taxidermy and
Fawning Service — unexcelled
anywhere.
Game heads, fur rugs, birds,
etc., mounted true to nature.
Your raw fur skins dressed
and made into coats and
chokers.
Write for free catalogue.
JONAS BROS.
1030 Broadway, Denver, Colo.
Waechter Brothers Co.
WHOLESALE and RETAIL
MEATS AND PROVISIONS
QUALITY and SERVICE
The Reliable Market
G. R. MANTIIEY, Mgr. TELEPHONE MAIN 130
Stop at the
when in Seattle
NEW LOW RATES NOW IN EFFECT
Rooms with bath as low as $1.50; others at 5*2-00, $2.50, $3.00
Excellent Coffee Shop in connection
When Next You Visit Seattle Try the Frye
-*len C. Bartlett, Mgr. (Former Mgr. Gastineau Hotel, Juneau)
CONTINENTAL
Distinctive Downtown Hotel
SEATTLE, WN.
On Seneca, bet. 3rd and 4th Aves.
Fireproof, Soundproof Structure
Quiet, Convenient, Comfortable
All sunny outside rooms with bath
Ideal for visitors from Alaska
Special weekly and monthly rates
$1.50 and $2.00 Daily
II. A. Greenburg, Mgr.
ALL PRICES DRASTICALLY CUT
The Blue Shop
Alaskan
Airways, Eric.
(Formerly The Alaskan Airways, Inc.)
Serve all of Interior Alaska
Weekly schedules from Anchorage with U. S. Mail
For rates, information, etc., see
Elwyn Swetniann, Seward Representative
Clark Bassett, Manager Anchorage Base
K. K. Katz, Seattle agent, 16 Ray Street
McGee Airways
SAVES YOU TIME AND MONEY
Seward, Anchorage, Fairbanks Air Service
* V YOUR SERVICE ANYTIME
Kates: Seward to Anchorage S15; Seward to Fairbanks
Ten per rent less on round trip tares.
(.In’, t •' " • •■•eh, 30 minutes flying)
LIBERTY THEATRE
* Show Tonight at 8 o’clock ■
s That snappy comedian S
! JOE E. BROWN !
J in the lip-top 8-reel fun picture *
! “FIREMAN SAVE MY CHILD” i
| in which there is no child saved, but there is small baseball and J
i big baseball mixed up with the Fire department, and a patent |
! fire extinguisher in a way that will make you *
5 LAUGH and LAUGH and LAUGH !
i And also get you so excited in the climax ball game that you \
i will want to get rp and shout. A great comedy feature. One that ■
s everyone will enjoy. With it there is also another laugh-getter ■
“Seeing Injuns”
' And we will she.v too, a News reel and an old-time Song reel.
MOTORSfflP DISCOVERER
Sails from Sew ard every two weeks for
Anchorage and Cook Inlet ports. Phone 111,
Anchorage, for schedules and rates.
NEXT SAILING OCT. 3
Capt. Heinie Berger, Master
The Alaska Railroad
(MT P*RK ROUTE)
TRAINS ARRIVE TRAINS DEPART
Each Friday 6:30 p. m. Each Saturday 7:30 a. m
Mixed tram from Anchorage and intermediate points
arrives each Wednesday p. m» Mixed train for An
chorage aind intermediate points leaves not earlier
than 10:00 a. m. each Saturday.
Mixed train carries a coach and handles passengers
STEAMSHIP STARR
CAPTAIN ARTHUR RYNING
The next Westward sailing will be on December 4
SAN JUAN FISHING & PACKING CO.
Chas. A. Jansen, Agent
Phone Madison 139 Seward, Alaska
SEATTI.H
SAN FRANCISCO
105 ANGELES
SAN DIEGO
NEW YORK
Leaves Seattle North
EVANS . Nov. 30
Leave Sewara South
EVANS . Nov. 15
EVANS . Dec. 11
The Admiral Evans
will call at Yakutat
north and southbound.
Wayne Blue, Agent.
Pnones
Main 81, Madison 40
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FINEST
STEAMERS
LARGEST . /
FLEET y,y
Leave
Seattle
Steamer
Alaska .Nov. 15 Nov. 22 11 a. m.
Northwestern . Nov. 26.Dec. 3 1
Sailings from Seattle at 9 a.m. on
dates shown.
Reduced winter round-trip tickets
now on sale. Inquire about them.
L H. Flickinger, Agent
Phone Main 125
Leave
Seward