RELICS OF SEA
(Juneau Dispatch).
Memories of the sinking of the
steamship Yucatan, in Icy straits, near
Hoonah, some eight years ago, were
revived the other day when Jack
Campbell, on his boat Clopex, brought
to the city a fifty pound compass and
large binnacle which he had procured
from natives at Hoonah. The com
pass is in excellent shape and in work
ing order; the large hood or binnacle
is well preserved. The compass weighs
50 pounds and not even a crack ap
pears on the glass. The articles have
been remarkably well preserved on ac
count of having been buried in soft
earth several feet deep at the town of
Hoonah. Also with the compass were
lights, a stem light, saloon light and
the light that drops down in the top of
the binnacle over the compass, which
were in good condition.
Many old sea-faring men who have
examined the compass and binnacle
are of the opinion that they came
from the steamship Yucatan, which
vessel, after striking an iceberg, in
Icy straits over eight years ago, was
beached in Mud bay by the captain
and afterwards sunk.
It is the belief that the above-men
tioned articles of the ship’s equipment
were either stolen from the sunken
wreck by the natives or obtained by
them from some one who had pilfered
same from the wreck.
Just why they should have been bur
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ied in the ground at Hoonah is a mys
tery. Probably the natives were afraid
to exhibit them around for fear of be
ing prosecuted; probably they were
simply seeking a safe place to conceal
them until an opportune moment came
to dispose of the articles.
In reaching the conclusion that they
belonged to the Yucatan, old mariners
say that if they belonged to the "Is
lander, they would bear a number;
and if to one or two other boats which
have gone to the bottom in the waters
of the vicinity, certain marks of iden
tification would appear. In the absence
of any sUch marks of identification it
is believed that they came from the
Yucatan, especially as that ship sunk
not far distant from the village of
Hoonah not many years ago.
The compass and binnacle have been
placed with City Wharfinger Thomas
Banbury at the City Wharf where
they may be seen by any one.
A JAPANESE COMPOSING ROOM.
The most interesting department of
a Japanese printing plant is the com
posing room. Great cases of type of
all sizes extend the whole length of
the mammoth room. As the Chinese
and Japanese characters used in a
printing plant run far into the tens of
thousands, the life of the compositor
must be a continual search for the let
ter he desires to use.
The compositors were scuffling
around the aisles of the room hunting
for these characters and all singing
at the tops of their voices, which ap
parently caused them to forget the
terrors of their work. There seemed
to be hundreds of them, and the din
was deafening.
After the proof is finally corrected,
the forms are made up, quite as they
are in an American newspaper office,
stereotyped and sent down to big cyl
inder presses.—Archie Bell in World.
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IT’S A REAL PLEASURE
to view the new wall decorations on
view here exclusively. They are so
unconventional, so out of the common
and so unusually artistically attrac
tive. If you plan to repaper you
should by all means see these new
papers. To decide without doing so
is apt to result in regret later.
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ROBARTS BUILDING
Shampooing and Face Massage
A Specialty.
CHOVIN SUPPLY
5th and C.
Carries Everything in Electri
cal Supplies and Fixtures
to make a happy Home
Agent for
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GAS ENGINES.
CENTRAL BARBER SHOP
Modern Equipment Throughout
New Sanitary Bathroom in
Connection.
417 4th Avenue.
Kitak Show Case Co.
Furniture, Cabinets.
Bank and Office Fixtures
Made To Order
Kiln Dried & Seasoned Lumber
Factory Opposite White House
GEN. JOFFRE
PARIS, Feb. 21.—The elevation of
General Joffre to the rank of marshal
of France appears to have eliminated
him entirely from any effective con
nection with the army. The general
public is slow to comprehend the situa
tion, but discreet references in the
press leave little doubt as to the fact.
Prior to the decree that ntmed Joffre
technical councillor to the war council
he was the commander in chief of all
the French armies. The two decrees
that were issued simultaneously with
that which raised him to the rank of
marshal annulled the decree that made
him councillor to the war council. In
the meantime other decrees named
General Nivelle commander in chief of
the French armies operating in
France, and General Sarrail command
er in chief of the Saloniki expedition.*
Another decree made Generals Nivelle
and Sarrail responsible directly to the
minister of war. Consequently, Joffre
is marshal without a command and
without any other function excepting
that of member of the superior war
council that has not met as such since
the beginning of the war.
It is also held that Joffre ceased to
be a member of the superior war coun
cil the moment he was placed in com
mand of the French armies in the field
in the face of the enemy.
PARIS, Feb. 12.—Two billion and
fifty million franks in gold has been
turned in to the Bank of France up to
December 28, since the beginning of
the war. Nearly two billions had been
received since June, 1915, when the
first real effort to mobilize the gold of
the country began. In the first month
of the effort the receipts ran up to
above a hundred million a week, then
dropped back gradually to an average
of six million that was maintained un
til the launching of the last loan. Then
the gold receipts went up again to
over 64 million in one week.
It is estimated that there are still
between two and three billion francs
of the yellow metal in the hands of
the public and a number of legislators
with Deputy Bouffandeau of the Oise
at their head propose to force reluc
tant holders to bring in their hoards
by demonstratizing all French gold
coins. All the gold in the bank, under
their proposed arrangement, would be
recoined after a new design and no
other gold coins would be legal tender
in France after the end of hostilities.
CONDITIONS ARE GOOD IN
CANADA, SAYS ROBINSON
D. Robinson, of Victoria, B. C., is
registered at the Hotel Anchorage.
Mr. Robinson has recently come from
Canada and verifies the report that tne
government has torn up 100 miles of
steel rails on the Canadian Northern
railroad and 150 miles along the
Grand Trunk and shipped the steel to
France. The companies are working
in conjunction and the Canadian
Northern switches on to the Grand
Trunk at one location and the Grand
Trunk on to the Canadian Northern
at another point in order to make it
possible to supply the rails for rail
road building and repairs in France,
and at the same time does not impair
travel.
Mr. Robinson says that the Can
adian government has established a
naval base at Vancouver and are pres
sing workmen into the service of man
ufacturing submarines. He reports
that labor is very scarce and wages
are better than they have been for
many years. Mr. Robinson has come
to Anchorage to go into the hotel
business and is looking for a location
either in Anchorage or in some of the
railroad towns.
North Pole Bakery serves lunches
after the show. 567
Maps of Alaska for Sale. Roberts.
CALIFORNIA AND
MELBOURNE CHAT
SAN DIEGO,. Cal., Feb. 17.—The
naval radio station at Chollas Heights,
near here, recently completed at a cost
of $300,000 and now in full operation,
has exceeded in many respects the
hopes of its constructors. The largest
and most powerful on the western
hemisphere, it will be able, it is be
lieved under favorable atmospheric
conditions, to communicate with sta
tions 12,000 miles distant.
Shortly after the plant was placed
in commission and before the sending
and receiving instruments had become
what the operators termed "broken
in" aerial conversations were held
with the Melbourne, Australia, sta
tion and the ease with which commun
ication was established over this dis
tance gave rise to hopes that the Chol
las Heights soon will be in touch with
points half way around the world
The radio apparatus installed is
what is technically known as the Poul
sen arc transmission. This system was
invented by Vlademar Poulsen, of
Denmark, eleven years ago. The pat
ent rights were acquired in the Unit
ed States five years later. At that
time the largest arc transmitter built
by Poulsen was one rated at only five
kilowatts. The development of the
Poulsen arc from the five-kilowatt set
of 1905 to the giant 200-kilowatt set,
weighing 25 tons, installed at the
Chollas Heights, has since been
achieved.
The Poulsen arc employs a direct
arc of from 600 to 1,000 volts, burning
in a closed chamber of hydrogen, the
terminals being placed at right angles
in a powerful magnetic field. Electric
current for the radio set is furnished
oy a 200-kilowatt 1,000-volt direct cur
rent generator driven by a 300-horso
power, 2200-volt 60-cycle induction
motor.
Following are a few of the interest
ing features of America’s greatest
radio station: 7 —
The receiving room is absolutely
sound proof, the walls and floor being
padded with asbestos. There are four
iistinct and complete controlling sets
in this room, enabling any of four op
erators, or all four simultaneously to
send and receive messages.
The aerial or antennae weighs 16
tons and has a sag between towers of
about 100 feet. The aerial is said to
be twice as large as that strung from
the Eiffel tower.in Paris.
The helix is 14 feet in diameter and
11 feet in height, or approximately
nine feet higher than the helix used in
ordinary naval and commercial sta
tions.
The generator weighs 60 tons and
2,800 pounds each.
Approximately 26 miles of piping
and copper cable have been laid
throughout the radio reservation of
7214 acres. A large part of this area
will be kept wet at all times to insure
a good “ground” for the huge aerial.
The three 600-foot aerial towers
contain 1,000,000 pounds of fabricated
steel. They are among the largest
radio towers in the world, and are
placed in a triangle 1,100 feet apart.
Establishment of a distant control
system will enable the operators at
any naval radio station on the Pacific
coast, from Darien, Panama, to Nome,
Alaska, to operate the sending instru
ments at Chollas Heights. This is ac
complished by a system of land tele
graph lines which in time of war
would be under the direct control of
the navy department.
Six buildings, of Mission style, form
the quarters of the commissioned and
enlisted personnel on duty at the sta
tion, the sending and receiving instru
ments and the generators.
NOTICE.
The Auditorium of the Labor Tem
ple may be rented for social affairs
and entertainments, also club rooms
and offices on the upper floor. Call on
the secretary or phone for particu
lars. 512
Get your eyes examined free at
George Osborn’s, the leading jeweler,
by Fred Cariquist, graduate optician.
Satisfaction guaranteed. 260
Best musk at Peterson’s.
444
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Anchorage, Alaska.
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of
Union Pacific System
Through Cars
between SEATTLE and Chicago
Kansas City. Denver
San Francisco. Los Angeles
Direct Connections for all
points East via the Famous
COLUMBIA RIVER ROUTE.
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—all the time—by Automatic
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GUS STIPOVICH and
OTTO GUSTOSON, Props.
Time to fall in line with the others
that eat at Cameron’s Cafe. 354
Wood and coal delivered to any
part of the city. Phone 43-Y. Uni
versal Taxi and Transfer. 125
War News
Rumors and facts at Peterson’s. 444
Fred Carlquist, who is a graduate
optician from San Francisco, is per
1 manently established with George Os
born, the C. St. Jeweler, and will ex
I amine eyes free. 260
Union Laundry
and Bath Souse
Fourth Are., Between H and I,
Anchorage
ora work is guaranteed
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Home-made Sausages. IVuits. Veg
etables, Butter and Eggs, at whole
sale. Restaurants and rcadhouses.
spec la' attention.
Ith Ave.. Bet H and I Sts.
£. E. KURTZ & CO.
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SEATTLE
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Invite you to send to them for
such items in FURNITURE and
DRY GOODS as cannot be readily
j supplied by the merchants in your
own community
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All such orders received by
| FREDERICK & NELSON receive
I the prompt, personal attention of
an expert shopper, and Parcel Tost
shipments are sent POSTAGE
PAID to any point in Alaska.
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W. A. TAYLOR, Proprietor
Manufacturers of all kinds of ^ 4.
MINERAL WATERS, SODA
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AGENTS FOR GRAPE JUICE
Anchorage - - Alaska
QUINN BOARDING
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PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Interior, Flashlight Work a
Specialty.
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HARMONY THEATRE.
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