Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 19M
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RETIREMENT OF “PETE” COOK
After fourteen years of practically night and day
service as commercial telegraph dispatcher, and custo
dian of a thousand and one business and government se
crets, P. A. Cook, practically the last of the old guard in
the administrative and operating service of the Alaska
Engineering Commission, has relinquished his key and
is retiring to private life.
Only those familiar with the early history of The
Alaska Railroad can appreciate the responsibility and ex
acting duties connected with the telegraph service. There
were times when every expediency known to the craft
had to be resorted to in maintaining connections and serv
ice along the railroad and handling the great volume of
private business via cable to the States.
Urbane, courteous and diplomatic, it can be said that
not one person who faced Pete’s window on business or
other contact but who viewls his retirement as a personal
loss. No one ever saw him lose his self-control under the
most exacting conditions, and no one was ever refused
a service even though it entailed self-sacrifice and added
labor.
It was these sterling qualities, combined with an en
gaging personality that endeared Mr. Cook to all who
knew: him and helped him to round out a record in the
telegraph service of which anyone may be proud.
Mr. Cook’s retirement is due to the transference of
the Telegraph and Telephone department to the radio
service, which took place October 1. It is understood that
he will retire to the States where he has accumulated a
pretty home and where he will spend his remaining years
in enjoying a well earned rest from almost a half-century
of continuous labors as one of the best telegraph operators
in the nation.
PASSING OF DWIGHT MORROW
With the passing of Dwight W. Morrow, Senator
from New Jersey, the Republican party has lost another
of the elder statesmen, and a potential candidate for the
Presidential nomination in 1932.
Senator Morrow was one of the “unapproachables”
identified with the national government. No man or
group of men could boast his control or influence unless
it were those who, like himself, subscribed to the finer
qualities and virtues of American statesmanship. This
has been demonstrated on many occasions when he was
called upon to give expression of his conception of the
responsibilities resting upon the shoulder’s of men who
guide the nation’s destiny.
Emerging from the vortex of national high finance
and industry, Senator Morrow brought into the political
life of the nation the ethical concepts upon which he had
founded his course through life and which led to his recog
nition as the one man capable of solving a delicate inter
national matter between the oil interests of the United
States and the Mexican government. Contrary to the
course expected of him, he adjusted the question entirely
to the satisfaction of national dignity, the financial and
political interests involved and darified an atmosphere
fraught with international friction.
He did not ask his party to express his views, but
made them known with an open frankness which all could
understand.
'The Pity w that we have too few Morrows identified
with national hfe today. His short span of action while
identified with national politics served to re-establish the
premise that great wealth may not warp a man’s concep
lon of his responsibility to his nation, nor rear up a bar
ner between himself and his less fortunate fellows.
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FfllSCO BUSINESS IN
I Mil IKE EXCURSION
j TO NLASKJI NEXT YEAR
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An enthusiastic Alaska meeting
was held Wednesday morning at
the San Francisco Chamber of
■ Commerce, according to a mes
sage received by the Seward
Chamber of Commerce
Many speakers, prominently
identified with Alaska and with
I Alaska’s interest, addressed the
I meeting. Ernest Walker Sawyer,
| of the Department of Interior,
j spoke of development and oppor
; tunities in Alaska, and particular
ly the opportunities in mining.
Other speakers were Louis C.
! Greene, of the Alaska Commercial
Co., A. K Michenor, of the Alaska
Packers Association, Frank Ham
mon of the Postal Telegraph Co.,
B. S. Hubbard of Schwabacher
Grocery Co , Garnet King of the
Southern Pacific Co., and George
Presley, who is the executive vice
president of the Chamber.
At a suggestion made to that
Chamber body an Alaska commit
tee is being formed and a definite
excursion to Fairbanks is con
templated for the latter part of
June.
It was further suggested that
some of the San Francisco Cham
ber of Commerce party go via
Cordova and Paxon’s, on the
Richardson Highway, and the
others to go via Seward to meet
at Fairbanks, with fishing at
Russian River and Paxons and a
visit to Mt.v McKinley.
G. H. Walmsley, agent of the
Pacific Coal Co., and secretary of
the Juneau Chamber of Com
merce, is confined to his home in
Juneau, suffering from wounds
received in the late war, says the
Juneau Empire. Mr. Walmsley
has had considerable trouble with
his injured right leg, caused by
shrapnel and has undergone min
or operations for the removal of
shrapnel from his leg before
There will be a mixed train, in
cluding a coach, leaving Seward
for Anchorage at 8:15 tomorrow
morning, according to E. L. Sweek,
of the local jailroad office.
The Alaska Railroad crane was
taken out to Snow River again
this morning for the purpose of
snaking out logs which lodge in the
bridge pilings. The river is said to
be receding now.
WILLIAM'S FINGERPRINTS
IS MISTAKEN IDENTITY
Dave Williams, held at Peters
burg for several days by federal
authorities and suspected of being
E. M Stewart, eastern postoffice
bandit, is not that much wanted
man. according tq advices receiv
ed from postal authorities by U.
S. Marshal Albert White. Wil
liam’s finger prints, taken at Pet
ersburg and forwarded to Seattle,
freed him from suspicion of being
Stewart.
But that didn't win him his
freedom from arrest. He is now
being detained at the request of
authorities at Seward where he is
alleged to have passed some bad
checks, says the Juneau Empire.
A mixed train arrived in town
last night from Anchorage with a
string of empty cars which will be
used to take the SS Alaska’s cargo
into the Interior.
Local residents report an earth
shock here at about 4 o'clock Wed
nesday afternoon. The shock was
probably of the same origin as
those reported from Ontario.
The “Majestic,” last word in mo
dern refrigeration, at Brown &
Hawkins.
Phone for Hortack’s banish Ici
Cream and we will deliver. Candj
Cottage.
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