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RAILROAD EQl IPMENT FROM PANAMA.
A cablegram received from Seattle March lft advises
i that the following equipment for Anchorage Division is
aboard the steamer Turret Crown and the barge St. Dav-1
■id, en route from Panama to Anchorage: Six 200-class i
; locomotives, two 70-ton steam shovels, seven dinkey lo
comotives, 87 Lidgerwood flat cars, one 60-ton Lidgerwood
unloader, one spreader, and a supply of repair and extra
parts for the above named equipment.
The vessels are due to arrive in Anchorage about April
^ 20.
CONTRACT SETTLEMENTS.
The total amount paid to contractors by the Anchorage ,
: Disbursing Office during the period March 8 to March 14,
1017, was $24,568.48, as follows:
I Eska Creek Coal Company .$ 4166.08
Olson and Peterson . 464.50
Challstorp & Co. 10,860.17'
Olson & Co. 0088.78
AN( HORACE DEPOT ALTERATIONS.
The facilities of the Anchorage depot are to be im
proved shortly. It is planned to raise the floor of the t
baggage room to the level of the floors of the railway
coaches, in order to save labor in handling freight and
j baggage. A platform between the depot and the freight
shed will also be constructed, and a room will be built
inside the freight shed for the storage of small pack
ages.
PI MPINC PLANT BETTERMENT.
The efficiency of the Anchorage water works is to be
increased this spring through the installation of addition
al equipment in the pumping plant. The proposed im
provements include a 60 h. p. horizontal fire-box boiler,
one 12 by 7 by 12 double duplex pump, and the necessary
accessories.
The present plant is of insufficient capacity to sup
ply properly the constantly growing demands of the city
of Anchorage, and with the equipment now in use the
water service is threatened with serious interruption
through the breaking down of the machinery.
NEW YUKON STEAMSHIP LINE.
It is announced that a corporation composed of 24 Fair
banks merchants and mining merr has been formed for the
purpose of owning and operating a line of steamers on the
Yukon River in competition with the companies now in the
field. A steamer is to be built immediately, and others will
be constructed from time to time as the traffic warrants,
according to present plans.
ALASKA NORTHERN SCHEDULE.
Effective March lb, the train schedule of the Alaska
Northern Railroad has been reduced to two trains a week:
Leaving Seward on Mondays and I hursdays at 1) a. m. for
Mile ::f. and returning the san <■ afternoon.
The change is necessitated by rca.-on of reconstruction
j work along the line.
I’K KV All. I Ml WAGE SCALE IN SEATTI.K.
The following copy of a calilegTam received from Mr.
H. 1’. Warren, Engineering Representative ol the Com
mission in Seattle, under date of March 12, regarding the
prevailing rates of wages in Seattle arid vicinity is publish-,
d, |,y request, as a matter of general interest to em
ployees:
“Contractors in this vicinity pay for common labor
$2.75 per 10-hour day. Blacksmiths receive *2.75 per 10
hour day. Hoard is generally *6.00 per week. Quarters
' furnished but not blankets. Little contract work is
being done.
“The prevailing rate paid by a prominent contracting
linn at Port Angeles for common labor on construction of
new tracks is $2.50 to $2.75 for 10 hours, with a
.charge of $6.00 for board. Teamsters receive the same
rate.
“House carpenters in Seattle are plentiful at $4.50
per eight-hour .lav for city work. Outside the city the
wage- paid are $3.50 to $4.00 per day of 10 hours. Bridge
I carpenters on snowshed work last summer were paid
*:: 50 to $4.00, dependent upon ability of worker, for 10
hours. When employed by contractors quarters, without
blankets, were furnished.
“Machine drillers on tunnel and open work were paid
$3.50 for 10 hours. The same conditions as to quarters
applied to this class of labor as in the case of bridge car
penters when employed by contractors. All the above re
ceived the same rate of pay for overtime.
“Piledriver men employed by contractors in the city
work eight hours and are now asking an increase of 50
cents per day after May 1. Time and a half is paid for
overtime, but overtime is rare, and is forbidden on mu
nicipal contract work. The present scale is as follows:
Ground men $4.00; boom men $4.50; engineers $5.00;
bridge carpenters $4.00.
“Machinists employed on Seattle construction and dry
dock work receive 50 to 65 cents an hour; eight-hour day;
time and a half for overtime.
“Steam shovel men work 10 hours in Seattle, with the
scale as follows: Engineers $150 per month, cranemen
i$100 per month; firemen $05 per month. All the above
receive hoard in addition to salary. Pitmen are paid
$2.75 per day, without board. After May 1, the scale will j
be, for eight-hour day, without board, as follows: Engin
eers $175 per month, cranemen $125 per month, firemen
I $100 per month.
“Train crews on the Cascade Division of the Great;
! XortherMBre paid the following per month: Yard en
gineers, average $120; firemen, $82 to $96; freight en
gineers, average $180, (varying from $140 to $286, ac
cording to size of engine. The lower figure corresponds
to size of engines in use on Alaskan Engineering Com
mission railroads.); passenger engineers, average $200
(with maximum of $219); passenger conductors, $165 to
Si87—nearly all at lower figure; passenger brakemen, $85
to $98; freight conductors, $128 to $190, average on
steady runs, $140; freight brakemen, $90 to $110,—with
average on steady run, $97; work conductors, $168 to $199,
—usually about $180; work brakemen, $95 to $125,—us
ually about $115.
“Switching crews are paid as follows: Day foreman,
40 cents an hour,—average $112 per month; day helper,
' 27 cents an hour,—average $108.60 per month; night fore
man, 42 cents an hour,—average $117.60 per month.
“Very little overtime is worked by the switching,
dews. The men will average 28 ten-hour days per month.
This information is secured from the Chief Clerk of the
Superintendent’s Office, Seattle Division of the Northern
Pacific.
“Regarding the wages paid contract laborers, it is im-1
po. sible to obtain very complete information on account I
of the limited amount of this work being done. The rates;
now in force may change later in the season, contingent
J upon the demand for labor. At present there is an abun- j
dance of labor available at the above schedule.’’
NATIONAL READING COURSES.
The Bureau of Education of the Department of the
Interior has inaugurated a series of reading courses for:
the public which are proving popular throughout the;
United States. The following courses are ready for dis
tribution:
Course 1. The Great Literary Bibles.
Course 2. Masterpieces of the World’s Literature.
Course 3. Reading Course for Parents.
Course 4. Miscellaneous Reading for Boys.
Course 5. Miscellaneous Reading for Girls.
Course 6. Thirty Books of Great Fiction.
Course 7. Some of the World's Heroes.
Course 8. American Literature.
Course !*. Biography.
Course 10. History.
Readers may take one or more courses. They are re
quired to read Course 1 twice during the three years suc
ceeding enrollment. Any other courses are to be read but
once.
For the benefit of the employees of the Alaskan En
gineering Commission an outline of Cour e 1 is printed
in these columns:
The World's Great Literary Bibles.
Among the books of the world a few are so preeminent
for content and style that they have been called “The Lit
erary Bibles.” These are the Iliad and the Odyssey of
Homer, the Divine Comedy of Dante, the greater dramas
of Shakespeare, and Goethe’s Faust. Each of these is the
embodiment and revelation of the ideals of a race, an age,
or a civilization. They came out of the hearts and minds
of the people for whom their authors were only spokes
men. They are therefore simple, fundamental, and com
prehensive. They appeal to the hearts and grip the minds
of all people everywhere, young and old, learned and un
learned, of whatever race or creed. They are human books
and take firm hold on the human life which we all live,
which few understand, hut which in all its phases has "in
terest without end”. They are broad-minded books. Their
authors saw life steadily and saw it whole. Kings and
priests to God and humanity, they interpreted for man the
eternal mysteries. Prophetic men, they stood on the moun
tain tops and caught the glow of the ever-dawning new
day. Finely organized men, they felt the heart throb and
pulse beat of the human race; they understood the hopes
and fears and aspirations of humanity better than most
and they have set these to the music of rythmic winged ;
words.
These books should be read by all who would know the
world’s literature and life. The United States Bureau of
Education has therefore chosen them for its first course in
reading, and invites all serious-minded young men and wo- ;
men to join this, its first National reading circle, the mem
bers of which will undertake to read each of these books,
at least twice within the next three years fioni the time
of joining the circle.
To each person giving satisfactory evidence of having
read all the hooks on the list there will be awarded a cer
tificate bearing the seal of the United States Bureau of j
Education and signed by the Commissioner of Education.
All young men and women who want to know thp best i
there is in the literature of the world and to gain the in
spiration it gives are invited to join this National reading
circle, and it is hoped many thousands may do so.
Charles Alphonso Smith, professor of' English in the1
University of Virginia, Charles Korstet* Smith, professor
of Greek- in the University of Wisconsin, Richard Burton,
professor of English literature in the University of Minne
sota, and William Lyon Phelps, professor of English lit
erature in Vale University, will assist the Bureau of Ed
ucation in directing this course of reading.
In writing about this course refer to it as “United
States Bureau of Education, Home Education Division,
Reading Course No. 1, or as The Literary Bibles Reading
Course”.
I’. P. CLANTON, Commissioner.
Books In Reading Course No. 1.
1. The Iliad of Homer. Lang, Leaf and Mycr.
Macmillan Company, of New York .$0.25 j
2. The Odyssey of Homer. Butcher and Lang.
Macmillan Company, of New York.50
or
The Odyssey of Homer. William Cullen Bry
ant. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.
Students’ edition ...T. 1.00
3. The Divine Comedy of Dante. Thomas Y.
Crowell & Company, New York. Students’
edition. 60
or
The Divine Comedy of Dante. C. E. Norton.
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. 1.501
or
The Divine Comedy of Dante. Henry Wads
worth Longfellow. Houghton Mifflin Com
pany, Boston .-. 2.50
I. Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Mac
beth, and Othello.Any edition
5. Ooethe’s Faust. Bayard Taylor. Houghton
Mifflin Company, Boston .75 i
Reference Books: Book of References, Allusions, etc..
E. Cobham Brewer; Introduction to Homer. Richard C.
Jebb.
Note.—When no publisher is mentioned the books may
be obtained at varying prices, depending on the quality of
the edition. Apply to any stores selling books or to any
book dealer or publisher.
The Bureau of Education does not lend or sell the
books.
CONTRACT FOR BOX CARS.
The Alaskan Engineering Commission has let a con
tract to the Seattle Car and Foundry Co. for 20 box cjtrs
of 60,000 pounds capacity each at a flat price of $1990 per
car. Delivery is to be made early this summer, and of the
consignment 14 go to Anchorage and six to Seward.
ADDITION TO ANCHORAGE DOCK NO. 2.
In order to care for the increasing freight tonnage
at Anchorage harbor, an extension of 156 feet is to be
built to Dock No. 2. A piledriver was moved to the end
of the pier last week anil on Friday afternoon the first
piling of the new structure was driven. It is proposed to
push the work ahead as rapidly as possible.
The specifications call for 68,500 feet b. m. of lumber,
7534 lineal feet of piling and approximately 7000 pounds
of spikes and bolts.
COAL UNLOADER FOR ANCHORAGE.
The purchase of a portable coal elevator and unloader
for use at Anchorage harbor has been authorized by the
Commission, delivery to be made early this spring. The
specifications stipulate that the machine must he “elec
trically driven and controlled, automatic in action and
capable of delivering 100 tons or more of coal per hour
from a barge to ship's hatch.” An actual test of the ef
ficiency of the apparatus is to be made by the Engineer
ing Representative of the Commission at Seattle before
acceptance anil shipment to Alaska.
The total disbursements of the office at Anchorage
for the period March 8 to March 14, 1017, were $131,
273.27. The payment of salaries and wages amounted to
$104,118.16; for local purchases $2002.11; to contractors
$24,568.48; other expenditures $584.52.
DO YOU WASTE MONEY? |
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Almost every one does. Bread east upon the *
water comes hack again. *But when you throw
money away it mighty seldom ever comes back. s
What’s going to happen to you when you have
no more money to waste? Why not open an ac
count here? $1.00 does it. Doing it once a week
tor a year means $52 to the good for you—and
the interest we pay you in our Savings Depart- , j
ment. Try it for a few months, you will be sur- j
prised to find how fast your account will grow. j
BANK OF ALASKA
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ALASKA
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On April 1st, we must send our Single Stone Din- <J
moml Stock outside to lie RE-RE(1ISTKREP. <3
Marine Insurance and Kxpress Charges will amount <3
to 10 per cent. This discount we will give you 011 all <J
Diamond Pieces until that Date. <3
A reasonable deposit will hold any Diamond. <3
Kngaged SOON, married in .11 NE. <3
NOW is the Time and This is the Place. <3
Regular Price Now
Gent’s Ring Plain .$100.00 $ 90.00
(rent’s Ring, Fancy . 105.00 99.50
Gent’s Ring, 6-Prong . 180.00 162.00
Gent’s Ring, Fancy . 85.00 76.50
Gent’s Ring, Fancy Gypsy. 300.00 270.00
Single Stone Scarf Pin . 90.00 81.00
Ladies' Tiffany Rings, (told .$120.00 $108.00
Ladies’ Tiffany Rings, Gold & Platinum 85.00 76.50
Ladies’ Tiffany Rings, Gold & Platinum 95.00 85.50
Ladies’ Tiffany Rings, Gold & Platinum 175.00 157.50
Ladies’ Tiffany Rings, Gold. 130.00 117.00
Ladies’ Tiffany Rings, Gold & Platinum 2S5.00 111.50
Ladies’ Tiffany Rings, Gold & Platinum 155.00 139.50
Ladies’ Tiffany Rings, Gold . 60.00 54.00
Ladies’ Tiffany Rings, Gold . 65.00 58.50
Far Rings, Gold .$220.00 $198.00
Far Rings, Gold . 115.00 103.50
Far Rings, Gold and Platinum . 385.00 346.50
Far Rings, Gold and Platinum . 180.00 162.00
Far Rings, Gold and Platinum . 135.00 121.50
WALTER A. LORD
DIAMONDS AND GOLD NUGGETS.
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The place of real service. Poxes. Lunch Counter.
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Ladies’ Bargains:
We Are Going to Sell the Balance of Our Stock of Ladies’
> Plush Coats, Fall Coats and Top Cassimere Skirts at Half
Price and Less—SACRIFICING PRICES.
! $02.50 Plush Coats, with fur trimming, your choice $30.00
! $55.00 Plush Coats with fur trimmings, now $25.00
! $40.00 Plush Coats with fur trimmings, now .... $17.50 |
I $35.00 Fancy Tweed and Heavy Wool Coats, now $17.50
I $30.00 Fancy Tweed and Heavy Wool Coats, now. $15.00
EXTRA SPECIAL
i $H..)0 to $12.00 Ladies’ Cassimere Top Skirts—
| Take your choice for $4.50 {
; $3.50 to $0.50 Ladies’ Waists, your choice $1.00 {
! -’oc and 3.)e Ladies’ Black Cotton Hose, 2 pairs for 25c <;
Opp. Pcstoffice ,
TRY A “WANT” AD. IN THE TIMES FOR RESULTS,