Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD. ALASKA — Established August 19. 1904
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WELCOME, TALLAPOOSA!
Seward welcomes Capt. C. H. Dench, commander
of the United States Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa,
officers and crew, on this, their first visit to this port.
The Coast Guard service in Alaska has functioned well;
their duties cover a large range but never do we re
call when the coast guard in Alaska fell down on a job.
The Gateway has taken issue with the service ow
ing to lack of a cutter in these immediate waters, win
ter and summer but never as to the personnel of the
rank and file. We long for the day when such a vessel
as Captain Dench's will be stationed here to safeguard
the deep-sea lanes of this and the Westward regions,
which some seafarers claim is the most dangerous nav
igable body of water in the world!
Every year at least a dozen men and vessels perish
in these waters.
The Tallapoosa has just come from an errand of
mercy; taking off the captain and three sailors of the
wrecked fishing boat Monroe, marooned on Wingham
Island, about 15 miles . from Katalla. The men were
on the island since March 21. From Seward the Talla
poosa will help other cutters patrol the seal herd as it
makes its way to the Pribilof Islands. *
Seward hopes you will enjoy your stay here and
that you will make this port often.
CHANCE FOR ANOTHER BUREAU
By the appearance of things, Washington may be
compelled to create something new in the way of bur
eaus for Alaska. It is the official Chaperonage Bureau.
Its functions would be to provide suitable escorts
for high governmental officials junketing in the Terri
tory under the guise of obtaining information as to its
needs, while the facts are that they are merely beating
the tourist agencies and steamboats out of their cut by
spending a vacation at the expense of the government.
Time out by a number of Alaska Railroad employees
is called, when high officials come North. It might be
suggested that Washington purchase a number of stout
pack frames, along with a roll of blankets, a fry pan
and a three-pound lard pail as part of the equipment of
the Chaperonage Bureau.
It would be cheaper all around and would give the
visiting official opportunity for seeing Alaska ‘‘on the
inside,” instead of through a palace car window. If he
emerges from the brown bear regions still possessed of
his shirt and moccasins, he will have something to re
port, something of value at least, should he decide to
write a series of articles on “Why Alaskan Homes
Brew?” or “Many Things I Didn’t Suspect.”
But facetiousness aside. These visitors, while we
welcome them on one hand, tread almost upon one
another’s heels, and are doing nothing but raising par
ticular Hades upon their return to Washington, aside
from the fact it is utterly impossible for them to learn
anything about Alaska in a couple of days. Instead of
form relief, they might start with “Alaska relief.”
THE LAD IS A WONDER!
The type of Washington official who is daily prov
ing himself as a 100 percenter Alaskan, is Ernest Wal
ker Sawyer. Judging from material and Alaska public
ity he is giving out to the leading papers and magazines
in the United States, we wonder when the man sleeps!
Just one item, his recent series of articles in the Detroit
paper, rebounded with such a sweep of favorable pub
licity for Alaska, not recalled in years; thousands of
letters have been written to Alaska on account of that
series. Some Americans are just discovering Alaska and
solely because of Ernest Walker Sawyer. May his ener
gy never falter and may his reward be of the best.
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What Alaska now needs is a little more “home
brew” and more “snoose,” and fewer “geoducks.”
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Mr. and Mrs. Bill Smith of Cor
dova were incoming arrivals on
the SS Yukon, in port today.
Mrs. Smith who was formerly
Miss Geraldine Laughlin, a grad
uate of Seward High School, was
married in Cordova on April 27
where she has been visiting with
her sister, Mrs. Cassidy.
Arriving with Mr. and Mrs.
Smith were the bride’s sisters,
Miss Alberta Laughlin and Mrs.
Cassidy. Mr. Smith will visit in
Seward for a week and Geraldine
will stay for two weeks, when she
plans to leave for San Diego, Cal.,
where she will make her future
home, following a visit to Hono
lulu. The newlyweds are staying
j at present at the home of the
; bride’s parents in Seward,
j Sen. E. E. Chamberlin, United
j States commissioner at McCarthy,
! pioneer resident and official of
Seward, arrived from Cordova on
the SS Yukon and will remain
for at least a week making needed
repairs and alterations to his
fine home here on the outskirts
j of the city.
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VAN GILDER—M. Shields, M.
Fisher, D. Turcotte, Joe McKen
nery, Ray Shay, Mr. and Mrs.
R. Mayben, Russell Annabel, John
Riley, W. M. Roshbuck, Theo.
Hansen, Jim McDonald, K. B. Ed
wards, George Goshaw, Mrs. Jack
Warren, A. C. Stewart, P. Hansen,
E. W. Adams, L. A. Dolan, W. J.
Jones, N. A. Erwine.
SEWARD — James Anderson, G.
Welch, Ole Wilson, F. Larsen, C.
L. Carlson, Steve Diamond, Tom
Marco, M. E. Nelson, H. Schultz,
W. Murry, W. Wells, Mrs. A1 Jones,
T. Thomson.
OVERLAND—A. S. Gill, Harold
Newton, Nick Morinon, J. Kelly,
C. B. Russel, J. C. Hansen, Oscar
Wenchell, L. Larson, K. Paulsen,
John Parson, V. Matson, Tom
Knox, M. Johnson.
GILLILAND—Alex Murray, John
Carlson. H. Jacobs, C. B. Jacobsen.
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! Mr. Rice, official of the United
States Smelting Corporation, and
head of the Fairbanks Explora
tion Company, w?as among today’s
prominent arrivals from the South
en route to the Interior.
Capt. Pete Sather, of the Rolf
Transportation Line, with miners
Babcock and Goyen on board,
arrived from Nuka Bay. Goyen
is said to have brought in some
great looking specimens.
Mrs. A1 Jones, and two children,
wife of the w'ell-known young
Cook Inlet cannery man, was an
incoming passenger on the SS
Yukon. Mrs. Jones, member of
the Bartholf family, is enroute to
join her husband for the season,
May Dance Dance
ODD FELLOWS HALL
Music by
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THIS FINE CAST
MARY BRIAN — FREDRIC MARCH
LILYAN TASHMAN HUNTLY GORDON
SEENA OWEN — WILLIAM AUSTIN
and many other first class actors in the great play from
Edith Wharton’s novel, ‘The Children,” renamed
THE MARRIAGE PLAYGROUND"
An 8-reel picture of domestic troubles and the adven
tures of the seven children. SOMETHING UNUSUAL. Full
of comedy and tene situation.
With it w© will show you a two-reel comedy
of Jack Duffy and Anne Cornwell in
“HALFBACK HANNA”
AND A NEWS REEL
SEND IT TO THE LAUNDRY
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