THE ANCHORAGE DAILY TIMES
AND COOK INLET PIONEER.
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AM IK mu IK. ALASKA. TIU'KSD.W, MARCH -1-’, 1!H7.
CHANGE DESIRABLE IF APPROPRIATIONS
CONTINUE.
Advin*. from Washington tell us that Secretary ot War
linker has under serious consideration the proposition to re-J
move government road and trail building and maintenance in
Alaska from the dominion of the war department to that ot ,
the interior department. As a military necessity, the war de
partment, wax hack in the days ot 1S!)S, began the building!
of a road from Valdez, at that time in its infancy, to a settle-j
meat called Kagle. on the Yukon river. The object ot this road
construction wasgto provide a winter trail from the southern j
coast of Alaska to the great interior of the territory. W ith the j
diseoverv of the great Tanana placer tields. trail connection xvas •
made with tin* Kagle \ aldez trail. Ibis road, at the beginning}
but little better than a dog trail, hut now a xvagon road upon,
which automobiles are siiCeesstully used, lias been ot incalcu
lable benefit to the people <^f Alaska. Thousands upon thou
sands of people have accomplished the trip lrom the coast to
Die interior country, and hundreds upon hundreds ot tons ol
freight have been moved over it. I'p to the beginning of work i
on tIn* big railway project, it xvas by tar the most beneficial 1
development scheme undertaken in Alaska under the directi
auspices of the government. a> represented by the war depart-1
ill' lll.
• Since the beginning of construction work on the \ aide/.
Fairbanks road, the war department, under the permissible fic
tion that they were military necessities, has undertaken other
road and trail building in Alaska, greatly to the benefit of the
territory as a whole. The appropriations granted annually by
a reluctant congress have not been sufficient to construct all
Ihc roads and trail- necessary, hut nevertheless, much has been j
accomplished. Xow comes the war secretary with his proposi
tion to turn road and trail building in Alaska over to the in
terior department, relieving tin* war department from further ;
authority in the matter. The interior department now has j
control of most government activities in Alaska, and really j
should have control of practically all federal functions in the;
territory. We are inclined, therefore, to view with favor the:
change contemplated, always provided annual appropriation;- j
will follow, as in the years that are past. It has been suggested!
that the war secretary is trying to “ slip one over on us;" that
be will turn the road and trail building over to the interior de
partment. and that no more federal appropriations will be made
tor this purpose; that it will be left tor the territory to build its
own roads and trails. It is well known that the congress is very
reluctant about making appropriations for the benefit of Alas
lea. I’oo nianv of tin* congressmen -till labor under tin* delusion
that this terrintory is a land of perpetual snow and ice, 1111
'"orthv of development. Near the end of the last session, two
back woods congressmen Stafford and (Jordon knocked out
the $500,000 road and trail appropriation for Alaska, employ
mg a point of order to do so. I he senato promptly restoied the
item in the war appropriation bill and when the special session
convenes, we shall probably get our approrpiation, but it shows
that it is not easy sledding; that there are some provincial fei
iows that get into congress who can see no further than the lim
its of their own particular congressional districts.
GIVE THEM A WELCOME.
Today, tin* first boat of tin* season will sail from Seattle, ei
route to Anchorage. The freighter Ketchikan, ot the Alaska
Steamship line, laden to the guards with a tonnage for the coal
terminus, will depart from the Puget sound metropolis, bound
for the Cook inlet metropolis. There is no reason, other than
the fact that the marine insurance concerns are asleep on theii
job, why this, or any other vessel, should not have arrived here
two weeks ago, or sooner. There is some agitation along the
line of giving the first passenger ship that reaches here some
W of a demonstration. . The idea is a good one. But if we un
dertake anything oT this nature, let’s do it up right. Let u<
make the arriving passengers realize, upon their arrival, that
we have a live bunch in this community. The first impres
sious of a town are very apt to be the lasting impressions._
COOK INLET BASEBALL
LEAGUE OFFICERS HOLD
.MEETING LAST NIGHT
Walter'' DeLoiig presided at the
board meeting of the Cook Inlet Base
ball league held last night at the Bank
of Alaska.
Mayor J. G. Watts, on behalf of thif
townsite authorities, appeared before
the meeting and guaranteed his moral,
physical and financial support to the
worthy cause of the national game.
Mayor Watts concisely explained the
status of affairs relative to the juris
diction of the ball park and was lib
eral in his concessions. Moreover, he
advanced the information that the ad
ministration realized the importance
of the matter and that it was “for the
good of the public,” and, therefore, the
administration would materially aid
to successfully carry out the season’s
schedule.
Jt is the prime motive ot the board
to wipe out the indebtedness against
the grandstand and the first revenue
will iiS- listed in this manner, allowing
thp^j^g^sgary amount for maintenance
and running expenses. It was decided
last night to issue monthly statements
of the financial 'condition of the
league; same to be published in the
local papers'and a certified copy hand
ed to the townsite officials. Further,
the townsite officials will have access
to the books of the organization at
any and all times.
It was decided that the number of
teams to be admitted to the league
shall be the first six that make appli
cation in the regular form.
The directors will meet with the
different team managers at 10 o’clock
Siyulj^y morning at the Chamber of
Commerce to discuss matters of mu
tual interest. ~
Next regular meeting will be held
Wednesday night at the Bank of Alas
ka.
Loussac’s Daily Gossip
THl'KSDAY, MAK(’If 22. 1917.
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You remember the county fair? Re
member the tremor of expectancy in
the crowd gathered around the dingy
old hot air balloon as she swelled, oh.
so slowly, with the smoke and fumes
of the barrel stave fire?
Will you ever forget the thrill she
gave you as she lazily lurched into the
air, dragging with her the fellow in
the darned but spangled pui-ple tights
the parachute jump man with oiled
hair plastered down on his forehead ?
You secretly half hoped he would fall
and half feared he would.
And then, at about fifteen hundred
feet, the aeronaut’s mad leap, his dead
drop of 300 or 000 feet, the slow open
ing of the parachute ami the swinging i
drift to.the ground. Remember?
Suppose you had to leave your job
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in the office, shop or on the fatrn and
begin such performances tomorrow?
Suppose you had to go up in a bal
loon, in any and all sorts of weather,
to be shot at by artillery and lunged
at by hotile aircraft? Suppose you
had to leap from burning balloons^or
get tossed out of a basket of one
■while passing through the clouds?
What if America should suddenly'
find herself in a war and the bill-!
boards should say: “Your- Country]
Needs You.” Think you could do these j
things for her? British boys are do-!
ing the little trick every day. Yester
day they were clerking in stores,
working in shops, bookkeeping in of
fices or going to school. Today they
are making parachute leaps from bal»:
loons and other more thrilling things .
still.
Yesterday that lieutenant you find j
yourself talking to was a ping and j
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white youth at Eton preparing to go;
up to Cambridge. Today he considers 1
fighting duels above the clouds with
Germans as much a part of his job as •
yesterday he considered calculus to be.
Yesterday he was a school kid, writ
ing essays about flowers. Now he
handles a machine gun like a demon
as he hurtles through the sky two
miles a minute, or nose-dives after a
war-hardened youth like himself
whom he is trying to kill.
Here’s an example. The incident
occurred in the observation balloon
section. Two youngsters, carrying out
observations over the German defens
es, suddenly got a shell through their
balloon. It began to fall, slowly at
first, then faster. They were about a
mile high.
“We’re hit and falling!” one of the
observers phoned down to the ground.
“The hostile gun is at X-22-D62!” A
moment later the second observer
phoned down the position of the hos
tile battery, which had punctured
them, but gave the position slightly
different. ^
Then both boys jumped. Their par
achutes opened about the same dis
tance down, and not more than 50
feet apart, they were wafted earth
ward together.
“The blighters!” one youth called
over,to the other as they dangled half
a mile above the earth. “They could
not do that again in a million shots!"
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“Rummy lot of Stale cheese!”
growled the other, waving an arm in
the direction of the Germans. “Pure
accident! They couldn’t hit a bread
wagon if they tried.” Thu schatting
they landed in a field about a mile
from their winch, and patiently trudg
ed back. , v
“I’m sorryr to note,” said^the com
pany commander as they entered the
hut serving as batallion section tele
phone central, “that you two gentle
men failed to agree on the location o1
the hostile battery which brought yoi
down.” And though there was a twin
klein his eyes, his voice was severe.
“Sorry, sir,” one of the young offi
cers replied, with a smart salute, “bui
perhaps our error was due to the oh
serrations being taken at different al
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titudes.” Throughout the British
army one finds boyish looking offi
cers. And they have again and again
proved themselves up like this, when
the pineh comes.
Two other-young officers while’at
an altitude of about 1,400 feet, found
themselves caught in a.'jlptktorm be
fore they could be hauled down. Just
before reaching eartfra jpolcnt gale
hit the balloon, which plllSd the wity-h
on the ground completely over, snap
ping the wire cable. The sausage
went up and off among the clouds like
a bubble in a whirlwind.
At a tremendous height the balloon
was struck by lightning and set on
fire, throwing one of the officers out
of the basket. His parachute opened,
but as the balloon* now falling like a
rock, had its rigging tangled up with
the lower cords of the parachute, the
latter began descending at frightful
velocity through the storm clouds.
The officer might have cut the balloon
loose, making his own escape a cer
tainty, but he would have doomed hit
brother officer to certain death. So
he refrained, preferring to take the
millionth chance along with the other
man. .
The velocity of the fall extinguished
the fire, which-had burned a great
hole.in the bplloon:-and Xvind, getting
in through."the. openihgi caused the
fabric to swell outr thus forming; a
parachute of itself. Tl>e ground was
reached with a thud, which broke a
collar bone or two-but both' young men
walked to the nearest dressing station
where they “reported” before receiv
ing first aid.
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