CALIFORNIA
SEATTLE-PORTLAND-SAN FRANCISCO
Scenic Shasta Route
THREE DAILY TRAINS
SHASTA LIMITED — CALIFORNIA EXPRI^S
—SAN FRANCISCO EXPRESS—
Through Standard Sleeping Cars from Seattle and Port
land to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Dining
and Observation Cars.
ARE YOU GOING EAST!
The cost via California is practicaly the same as on the
Northern Routes.
Call or write for information
C. M. ANDREWS, D. F. & P. A.
712 Second Avenue. SEATTLE, WASH.
QUICKLY REACHED
via
On the ALL RAIL
SOUTHERN
PACIFIC LINES
Make It a Smokeless, Dastless,
Gasless, Trip East This Year
In addition to the cleaner conditions due to
Electrification, you’ll enjoy the comfortable
accommodations and you’ll like the little
courtesies incident to “Milwaukee” service.
Both Steamship Co.’s act as Milwaukee agents in Anchorage.
A. E. HARRIS, Traveling Passenger Agent, Juneau.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway
“See America First*'
East
Through Rates from Anchorage to
Eastern Destinations Are in Effect
via the
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
THE ADMIRAL LINE
To California and the South via Portland and the mag
nificent steamships “Great Northern” and “Northern
Pacific. ’ ’
A. S. DAUTRICK .Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent, Room 18,
Valentine Building.
r.'J. MOORE, City Passenger Agent, Second and Columbia, Seattle,
Wash.
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Leave Leave
Seattle Seward
Dec. 1 Mariposa .Dec. 8
Dec. 8 Alameda .Dec. 15
Dec. 16, Mariposa.Dec. 23
Dec. 24, Alameda .Dec. 31
Leave Leave
Seattle Seward
Jan. 1, Mariposa .Jan. 8
Jan. 8, Alameda .Jon. 15
Jan. 16, Mariposa.Jan 23
Jan. 24, Alameda.Jan. 31
1 his company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers with
out notice. Tickets on sale at up-town office, Empress Building.
.1. J. LANKIN, P. B. TRACY.
Agent. General Agent.
I PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
ADMIRAL LINE
Sailings from Seward to
Seattle and Alaskan Ports
Date Steamers
Dec. 18.SPOKANE
Dec. 27 .WATSON
Jan. 7 .EVANS
Sailings Seattle to Seward
10th, 20th, and 30th each Month
Sailings from Seattle to
CALIFORNIA
Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays
Steamers
President, Governor, Queen,
Senator, Umatilla, Admiral
Schley and Admiral Dewey.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROUTE.
San Francisco to Los Angeles, daily except Sunday.
San Francisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday.
STEAMERS HARVARD, YALE, PRESIDENT, GOVERNOR,
ADMIRAL SCHLEY AND ADMIRAL DEWEY.
Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice.
For Full Particulars, T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage, Alaska, ip
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TRY A “WANT” AD. IN THE TIMES FOR RESULTS.
The hand that rocked the cradle
Now makes shells that rock the
world,
For female fingers fashion
Almost ev’ry bomb that’s hurled;
And maidens, wives and mothers
All stand working, sun to sun,
With bits of flittering metal
That will kill men when there done,
Who knows, Oh Tommy Atkins,
As you throw that hand grenade
Perchance it’s one of many
[ That your wife or sweetheart made.
LONDON, Nov. ii.—(By Mail)—
The early Victorian females, must
raise their lily hands from their tat
ting and crewel work in horror as
they look back across the River Styx
and see how the hands of their twen
tieth century female descendants are
occupied. I am sure they don’t con
sider it maidenly or ladylike and yet
these staunch and willing women mu
nition workers of today are doing
cruel work too.
Down at the big arsenal at Wool
wich, just 30 minutes from London
by train, 17,000 women from 16 to 60
years old at big machines are turning
out with fleet and capable feminine
fingers bits of glittering copper and
aluminum and brass which, assembled
into shells, bombs, hand grenades,
cartridges and all those deadly and
frightful weapons of modern warfare
are dubbed munitions.
Not only are the wives, mothers,
sweethearts and sisters of Tommy At
kins, the typical working women, em
ployed at this new sort of fancy work
but delicately reared and cultured
gentlewomen as well are eagerly and
efficiently doing their bit.
There is work for every grade and
degree of age and mental and physi
cal development. The pay for all is
better too than the workers can get in
any other sort of a position. It aver
ages from three to five pounds or $15
to $25 per week. One time comfort
able English households are plunged
into chaos and gloom through the
loss of their chambermaids, nurse
maids and cooks who hear the siren
call of the shrapnel and the shell.
Mansions in Mayfair and Park Lane,
hovels in Whitechapel and the East
End disgorge alike their bits of fem
ininity into the insatiable maw of the
government arsenals.
Never have so many fur coats never
has so much jewelry been sold in Lon
don as at the present moment and the
women munition workers are the busy
little buyers. The first thing a poor
little erstwhile factory slavey does
when she draws her first princely (in
proportion) pay check at the arsenal
is to treat herself to all the cheap
jewelry her little starved feminine
heart has craved her whole life long.
She may top off with a warm coat or
fur and after this reckless spending
orgy she is content to settle down and
save her salary with the exception of
what she spends daily on real food.
And my how she does eat!
there are canteens established at
the different arsenals where the girls
may get the most nourishing food for
the cheapest rates. Four meals are
served a day, breakfast, lunch a very
high tea at a very low price, and din
ner. There also are lodgings estab
lished near the arsenal for all those
women who wish to live close to their
work. These are called hostels and
furnish comfortable and sanitary
rooms for a modest sum.
At Woolwich, under the wise and
humane jurisdiction of Miss Lillian
Barker, the government lady supervi
sor, the women workers are like one
huge family or a school for girls. All
sorts of things are provided for their
amusement and instruction in their
recreation hours. There are dancing
classes, amateur theatricals and edu
cational' courses.
So, although the work is strenuous
and the hours long, the effect on the
women of this steady work, good pay,
nourishing food, clean lodging, fresh
air and above all, blessed spirit of in
dependence they have attained, is
working miracles with English wom
ankind.
Thanks to the munition work they
will be fit, physically, mentally and
financially to take up the burdens of
their poor maimed and broken men
folks after the close of the war.
Strange and yet fittingly simple
isn’t it, that these same deadly bits of
metal -shining beautifully golden ,in
the sun should be bringing death and
destruction and disfigurement to the
one, health, prosperity and life to the
other.
Twenty-four hours, day after day,
night after night, the huge arsenals
are busy turning out the munitions
that spell trouble for the enemy.
Since the days of Eve and Adam wom
an has been dubbed a trouble-maker.
Now she is glorying and being glori- j
fied in the role. As making munitions |
which is synonymous with making
trouble, she is certainly making good.
SPLENDID SHOWING
BY P. O. DEPARTMENT
In response to an inquiry addressed
to the postmaster general by Con
gressman Henry T. Rainey, of the
Thirty-Sixth district, Illinois the
following information regarding the
workings of the parcels post system
was given by that official and incorp
orated in an extension of remarks in
the Congressional Record by Mr. Rai
ney.
The United States parcel post is
handling approximately 1,100,000,000
parcels a year, or over 90,000 a month.
It is the largest express service in the
world . It is impossible to state the
proportion of this business which is
distinctly rural. It is undoubtedly
true, however, that the chief function
of the government’s express service
has proved to be agricultural. That
is, the government's the principal
express carrier now operating be
tween city and country and vice versa.
The bulk of the parcel post business is
of this nature, whereas the bulk of
the business of the private express
companies passes between city and
city.
One of the most interesting devel
opments of the last year in the par
cel post service is the increase in the
average weight of parcels. The count
of April 1-15, 1915, showed an aver
age weight of 1 pound 7 oz. The
counts of October 1-15, 1915, showed
an average weight of 1 pound 11 oz.
The parcel post act and the changes
of rates and regulations as to weight
limits subsequently made by Post
master General Burleson reduced the
rates upon the heavier parcels and
opened the mails to parcels weighing
20 pounds throughout the country and
to parcels weighing 50 pounds within
the first two zones or within 150
miles of the point of each shipment’s
origin.
During the past three years and a
half the service has been improved
and cheapened by the reduction of
postage for the distances up to the
sixth zone; the weight limit has been
increased from 11 to 20 pounds be
yond the second zone; the permissi
ble packages have been increased in
size, the cost of insurance reduced and
indemnity provided for partial dam
age as well as total loss on packages
mailed.
Despite these improvements in the
service and reduction of rates, the sys
tem has not been run at a loss, al
though it was freely predicted by its
opponents such would be the case.
Salaries of post-office clerks, city and
rural carriers and railway mail clerks
have been increased to the aggregate
of nearly $15,000,000, and yet during
the period from March 4, 1913 to
June 30 1916, a total surplus of $12,
500,000 has been paid into the treas
ury by the post office department.
During the period from 1905 to 1912
the postal deficit aggregated $74,600,
000.
100 ALASKANS PAY
INCOME TAX ON
$150,000 YEARLY
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The inter
nal revenue report shows that more
than 100 Alaskans pay a tax on In
comes of $150,000 per annum. This
sum represents the largest income,
while a majority of those who are re
quired to pay an income tax will do
so on incomes of $5,000 or less.
Fine Job Printing at Times office.
Peterson’s Billiard and
Solo Parlors
Fourth Ave. Between C and D
The Matanuska Cafe
In the New Matanuska Hotel.
THE PLACE TO EAT AT THE JUNCTION
Alex (Blondy) Anderson
SPEED SERVICE
The Royal Cafe
The new eating house on Fourth Avenue
Caterers to first-class trade.
Boxes for private parties.
Lunch Counter.
ATHANS & PAPPADOPOLOS .... Props.
304 Rooms All Outside Rooms
Absolutely Fire-Proof
BEST IN THE CITY
New Richmond
Hotel *
SEATTLE
BATES—Rooms with private bath,
$1.50 per day and upwards. Rooms
without Bath, $1.00 per day and up
wards. —A FREE AUTO BUS.
r R. C. McCORMICK, Prop.
M. K. MacRAE, Mgr.
The Lang Stove, born in
Alaska.
Is the Stove for Alaskans.
Body made of Arrnco Rust
Resisting Iron.
Polished Cooking Surface.
Will hold fire overnight with
wood or eoal.
^ Will burn green wood.
Ask your dealer for a Lang
Stove.
If he cannot supply you write us.
Our line is complete from the small
1 est camp stove to the largest hotel
range.
Any sourdough will tell you about the
Lang Stove. They all know it.
i F. S. LANG MFG. CO.
SEATTLE. WN.
'FRISCO CAFE
Everything in Season and Service the Very Best.
Private Boxes for Large or Small Parties.
ONCE A PATRON ALWAYS A PATRON
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
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ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
THE ALASKA LABOR UNION Will Open Its
Auditorium and Main Floor Complete with
BIG DANCE
SATURDAY, DEC. 23rd
SUNDAY, DEC. 24th
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