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SPKITNA. ALASKA
ON TOLSTOI TRAIL
Branch Stores:
McDOUGALL
TALKKETNA
Anchorage General Hospital
Corner 6th & K Sts.
Private Rooms and Wards, Sani
tary and Thoroughly Equipped.
When you are sick it’s CARE
von want.
WEEKLY PROGRESS REPORT ON RAILROAD PROJECT
(From tli.' Alaska Railroad Record)
OFFICIAL CIRCULARS.
DELIVERY OF MAIL MATTER.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
Anchorage, Alaska, March 22, 1917.
! Circular No. 17b:
TO ALL CONCERNED:
A number of complaints have been received from em
ployees at various points on the line stating that they had
i not received newspapers which had been forwarded to
; them by publishers. It is desired that all concerned give
I this their attention and see that papers and other mail
matter are delivered to the party to whom addressed and
not to parties acting for the addressee.
E. MEARS, Commissioner.
PAY DAY SCHEDULE.
„ Anchorage, Alaska. March 2b, 1917.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
Circular No. 177:
TO ALL CONCERNED:
That all employees may know when to expect their pay,
and also to enable the disbursing office to systematically
handle the work in connection therewith, the following
rules are hereby promulgated, effective April 1, 1917, and
all concerned will govern themselves accordingly:
1. The regular monthly pay day for the employees of
these headquarters, the Terminal, the Townsite, and the
detached divisions will be as follows:
Second and Third of .Month.
General Office and detached offices having separate
rolls not including force account men.
Fifth and Sixth of Month.
Townsite and Telegraph and Telephone force account
men. Transportation Department and Floating Equipment.;
Seventh and Eighth of Month.
Mechanical Department, Mess Houses, and B. and B.
Department.
Ninth and Tenth of Month.
Dock, Material Yard, Marine Ways, and other branches j
i not specified above.
Fifteenth to Twentieth of Month.
All employees not working at the Terminal. (Checks
will be delivered at the several camps).
2. It will be mandatory for employees to present them
selves with the proper identification at the disbursing office
on one of the two days set aside for paying the department
under which they are employed. Those failing to so pre
sent themselves will be required to wait until after all
checks are ready to issue, usually about the evening of the
15th.
3. When the first day of a period set aside for the
payment of a group of employees falls on a legal holiday
or Sunday, an effort will be made to pay on the preceding
day; however, this is not a right to be demanded and when
it is possible to advance the pay day as above, the disburs
ing officer will notify the employees through their superior
officer. In cases where the second day of a given period
falls on a holiday or Sunday, the men will be paid the first
day.
4. When it is not possible for a group of employees to
be present during the period assigned them for receiving
their pay, cadsed by matters connected with their duties1
over which they have no control, the disbursing office upon
application of the proper official in charge of the group,
will set aside a period when the men will be paid without
awaiting the completion of all rolls.
F. MFARS, Commissioner.
ENGINEERING REPRESENTATIVE.
Department of Jhe Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission.
Anchorage, Alaska, March 1, 1 !>17.
Order:
The following assignment of duties of the Seattle Of
fice shall be effective this date:
With the title of Engineering Representative, Mr. H.
P. Warren shall have jurisdiction over the following mat
ters, under the immediate supervision of the Chairman:
1. Contracts for ocean transportation.
2. Receiving and forwarding ocean freight.
3. Contracts for wharf and dock facilities and for
: service of crane ant* other handling appliances.
4. Supervision of any necessary repairs or alterations
to marine equipment.
5. Inspection of second-hand equipment or mechanical
devices.
6. Employment and transportation of labor securer!
in the United States proper for service in Alaska.
7. Subject to the approval of the Chairman, the em
ployment of such clerical or other forces as maj' be neces
I sary for the performance of the work under his jurisdic
tion. WILLIAM C. KDES, Chairman.
ELECTRIC POWER TARIFF.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
Anchorage, Alaska, March 26, 1!>17.
Telegraph and Telephone Department
Electric Light and Power Service.
Supplement No. 2 to Electric Light and Power Tariff No. I:
| Effective April 1, 1!>17, the rate for electric power ser
! vice only will be 10c per kilowatt hour.
E. R. McFARLANI), Superintendent.
Approved: F. MEARS, Commissioner.
NOTICE.
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For the coming season, the Alaskan Engineering Com
mission desires to discourage, as much as possible, the
practice of employees and townspeople riding back and
i forth on the steam tugs and gas boats which ply between
! the Anchorage dock anil the large passenger steamers.
We expect to be very busy during the next two or three
1 months in the discharge of incoming and outgoing passen
■ gers and handling freight and baggage, and our past ex
perience has been that visitors riding back and forth have
j been the means of delaying and interfering with the rout
ine of business. ,
F. MEARS, Commissioner.
The Commissioner’s Office at Anchorage has a limited
j number of copies of the “Western Classification" on hand.
! They may be purchased by the public at $1.00 each.
G. A. Stanton, bridge inspector, has been promoted to
i the position of resident engineer. Anchorage Division.
WEEKLY FORCE REPORT.
Anchorage Division.
The number of employees of the Anchorage Division as j
shown by the payrolls on Saturday, March 15, was as fol-1
lows:
Commissioner’s Office . 36 j
Shops and Yards . 157 |
Transportation Service . 15 j
Store and Dock Departments . 150 :
Accounting Department. . 18
Disbursing Office . 5
Townsite Department . 18
Steward’s Department . 11 I
Hospital Department . 26 j
Telegraph and Telephone Department. 56 1
Track, Bridge and Ballast—Main Line. 1011 '
Turnagain Arm District . 184 j
Matanuska District . 216 j
Talkeetna District . 156 J
1156 j
Stationmen and laborers—All Districts .1030 J
Grand total all employees Anchorage Division ....2186;
CO NT R ACT SETTLEM ENTS.
The total amount paid to contractors by the Anchorage |
Disbursing Office during the period March 15 to March 21, j
1017, was $4804.60, as follows:
Anderson & Co.$ 876.40 |
A. L. Adair. 3020.37 |
J. W. Wilson & Co. 881.34 j
L. S. McLennan.:. 26.49 j
TELEPHONE CROSS TALK.
(By E. R. McFarland, SupL T. and T.)
When a conversation carried on over the telephone is
heard more or less distinctly on another circuit, it is
termed “cross-talk”. It may be due to the fact that the
circuits are not sufficiently insulated from each other, or it
may be due to induction. In the latter case it is the induc
tion of the voice currents from one circuit to the other,
even though a distance of several feet may intervene be
tween the adjacent wires. Certain atmospheric conditions
are believed to aggravate the trouble at times. Transpos
ing the wires of a metallic or two-wire circuit will remove
the trouble, but there is absolutely no way to overcome
cross-talk in the case of grounded or single-wire circuits.
When grounded or single-wire circuits lie parallel, each
wire is within the magnetic field surrounding the other;
therefore they act inductively, causing the magnetic cur
rent from one wire to flow through the other, and through
the telephone to the earth or ground, forming a circuit.
Hence, conversations on one grounded circuit may be heard
on another that is paralleling it for any distance.
At times considerable annoyance is experienced on 1
some of the Commission lines on account of the lack of
time and the necessary facilities for installing properly'
balanced and transposed metallic circuits. One single-wire |
circuit, unhampered by inductive disturbances, makes a j
very satisfactory wire within certain limitations occasioned j
by the length of line and number of instruments connected j
thereon, but simultaneously with the installation of an-;
other and similar circuit in the vicinity, cross-talk trouble j
immediately begins.
When the Anchorage-Seward and the Anchorage-Mata- j
nuska lines were first constructed, a conversation on fhe j
Matanuska line could be heard plainly in Seward, more j
than 100 miles away, because the two wires were hung |
side by side for a distance of about five miles, near Anchor- I
age. To overcome this difficulty, when the first standard j
cross-arms were received in Anchorage they were at once j
installed on this section where the two lines paralleled!
each other, an additional wire was hung and a properly j
transposed metallic circuit with a repeating coil provided. |
This resulted in a complete elimination of all cross-talk !
between the two lines.
As fast as material can be obtained and permanent
lines built, thus creating metallic circuits, cross-talk will '
entirely disappear from both the long-distance and local
exchange wires. The cable recently connected between
the townsite exchange and the terminal yards has effec- !
tually done away with inductive disturbances so far as the 1
instruments in the yards are concerned, but of course if a
telephone in the terminal yards should be connected with
a grounded instrument in the townsite district, cross-talk j
may still be heard. The entire exchange will be made me- j
tallic as soon as material is at hand and it may also be
come necessary to metallic at least one of the wires run
ning through the Turnagain Arm District before a perma
nent pole line can be built, and if this should be decided
on, a considerable loss of labor and material will be in
volved. It is obvious that such a pole line cannot be ad
vantageously consti-ucted ahead of steel.
It is impracticable to metallic the two wires now run
ning between Kern Creek and Potter Creek, because they
are composed of different materials and gauge, and besides
there would then be but one circuit where two are required.
Transposing two grounded circuits with each other will
not eliminate cross-talk. It may be noticed that there is
no cross-talk on the Turnagain Arm wire when the tele
graph is actually working, unless the composite feature
between Anchorage-and Seward is being used.
It is not generally known that there is but one circuit,
pai-t grounded and part metallic, between Anchorage and
Seward. All the official and commercial traffic between
the States and Anchorage, in addition to newspaper matter
and a load of construction, camp and train dispatching
business is handled over this circuit. Although one tele
graph and three talking circuits may be used on it simul
taneously without the least sound between them, there is
cross-talk annoyance on account of the paralleling of other
grounded wires.
Inductive crosses and physical crosses may be distin-1
guished from each other by the fact that a telephone on |
one-wire cannot signal or “ring" another telephone on an
other wire unless there is an actual physical contact be
tween the two wires. When a physical cross seems proba- J
ble the operator at the nearest exchange should be notified
at once.
It often happens that parties on party or long -distance
lines will j-ing without “listening in”. This frequently re
sults in two conversations being held on the same circuit.
That method undoubtedly adds to the capacity of the wires, i
but, in fairness to the system, the annoyance experienced
should not be charged to “cross-talk.”
The total disbursements of the office at Anchorage for
the period March 15 to March 21, 1917, were $13,692.39.
The payment of salaries and wages amounted to $3161.02;
for local purchases, $4689.93; to contractors, $4804.60:
other expenditures, $928.32; dock claims, $108.52.
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WASTE MONEY?
Almost every one does. Bread oust upon the
water eoines buck again. But when you throw
money away it mighty seldom ever comes back.
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
for a year means $52 to the good for you—and
the interest we pay you in our Savings Depart
ment. Try it for a few months, you will be sur
prised to find how fast your account will grofv.
BANK OF ALASKA
ANCHORAGE Wrangell
ALASKA
NEXT DOOR TO HARMONY THEATRE
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THE
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Opp. Postoffice
Ladies,
TAKE NOTICE!
ON DISPLAY MONDAY I
The largest stock of Ladies’ Spring- Hats in town at rea
sonable prices. Wait for our large stock of Ladies’ Spring
Suits, Coats, Dresses, Waists and Shoes that will arrive
on the next boats. These goods come direct from New
York.
REMEMBER—OUR PRICES WILL BE REA
SONABLE.
Opp. Postoffice
PLUMBING AND HEATING
Full Line of Plumbing Supplies, Pipes and Fittings.
PROMPT ATTENTION TO ALL ORDERS.
T. W. KENNEDY,
K St. Bet. -hd and 4th. Next to Hotel Anchorage
TRY A “WANT” AD. IN THE TIMES FOR RESULTS.
Daily War Bulletins at Peterson’s.
Society Cabaret, Robarts’ hall Sat
urday night, March 31.
Read The Daily’Times and be an
Anchorage booster.
Latest War News at Peterson’s. 399
Tasty, appetizing lunches at the
North Pole Bakery. 567
Wood Undertaking Co..
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
LICENSED EMHALMERS
Anchorage Matanuska
QUINN BOARDING
HOUSE.
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Coninr 3rd and C St.