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Clook Iknlet innrer
VOL. 1
Anchorage, Alaska, Saturday, November 20, 1915
NO. 20
GRAND BAL EN MASQUE
SOCIAL EVENT ON TAPIS
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The following are the prizes of
fered by tue Varuus business arms
and iuuiviuuats tor ihe grand mas
querade ball to be given at Roberts'
hall thanksgiving eve:
Beat dressed lady—43-plece gilt
edge dinner set; Carl W. Holtc, the
hardware merchant.
Most oeuuiifiit lady under mask—
12-pound turkey; Ship Creek Meat
Mai ket.
best sustained lady character
21-piece box tudet soali; barson A;
Wendler, the merchants.
Best sustained lady character—
Broils parlor clock; ti. C. 'Nichols.
Most historical lady character—
Coftee percolator; A. A. Shunbeck,
the merchant.
Best lady waltzer—Brussels art
rug: Kuik Hardware Company.
best lady two-stepper—Breach
plate mirror; Ray C. barsou, tue
glass man.
Best lady hesitation waltzer-—$10
stovepipe bat; Frisco Mercantile.
Best comic lady costume—Fancy
bottle perfume; .Northern Drug Co.
Best lady three-stepper—Sewing
rocker; Eckmann's Furniture Store.
Most graceful lady—Pair of silk
hose; Mrs. T. D. Corlew.
Best lady clown—-Hand-embroid
ered collar; Mrs. Stevens.
Prettiest girl - 12 cabinet photos.
McCain Studio.
Best character costume—Xmas
box cuHd/ cyan & Smith.
Best couple waltzing—Fancy cake;
TkVingart & Moot, bakers.
* Best couple two-stepping—Fane
cake: IteBel bakery.
Best Alaskdn costume—Student's
lamp; Matanuska Hardware Co.
Best Anchorage costume—Lino
leum art rug; Evans-Frantzon Co.
Consolation prize—12 cabinet
photos; Sydney-Laurence Photo Co.
Best sustained gent’s character—•
Fancy cake; Reilly’s Cafe.
Most historical gent's character—
Cuff buttons and scarfpin; Seiden
verg &. Freyd.
Illuol ui»s *?>'*»1 •’ -
Fancy box toilet soap; Anchorage
Central Market.
JP Fattest man dancing—Any box of
cigars in the house; Montana Fool
Room.
Best gent clown—Best dress shirt
In store; Newt AV. Pilger.
Best gent waltxer—Fancy necktie;
Anchorage Clothing Store.
Best dressed man—Silk scarf;
Frank J. Cotter.
Best comic gent's costume—5 lbs.
Kverbest coffee; Pacific Grocery Co.
Best gent clown—Wellington pipe
and 1 pound tobacco; Robarts
Billiard and Bowling Parlor.
One rick of wood each for best
hard-times couple; Northern Trans
fer Co.
J. H. Finley & Co. will give a
prize to a character to he announced
on the floor.
Punch will bo supplied by the
f * North Side Lumber Yar.d and the
Anchorage Supply Co.
<• . Don’t forget the dance at Robarts’
j) hall tonight. Dance begins at 9
' o’clock. Orchestra in attendance.
Just arrived, a new supply of Bed
Springs and Mattresses. At Eck
tiiann’s Furniture Store, Fiifth and
K street.
Grand musical concert at Robarts’
billiard and bowling parlors tomor
row evening. Five-piece orchestra.
Ten lots near Seattle; free and
clear; title insurance; Value $300.
Will trade for Anchorage jots. Wm.
F. Merchant, Crist Hotel.
A good place to eat—Merchants
Cafe.
Merchants Cafe. one block from
tile Northern.
The Alaska Pool Room—best
lights, good tables, good sorstce. <
Msrcbants Cafe, next door to the
White House. ' 1
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XEKTAtV DANCING ('M U
ORGANIZED LAST NTGH1
The Neetaw Dancing Club was or
ganized last night at a meeting helc
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. L.
Raich. It is proposed to hold fort
nightly dances at Byrne hall, ant:
I’rof. and Mrs. Foster will supply th<
music. Officers of the club are:
President—,1. A. Moore.
Secretary—G. M. Campbell.
Executive committee—Mrs. G. M
Campbell, Miss Babe White, and thf
Messrs. Balcli. Maxwell and Man
ning.
1*01*1 LAB DAXCEff TO 1511
HELD AT BYRNE HAL!
A series of popular-priced dances
with the best music obtainable it
Alaska, will be given at Byrne hall
commencing Saturday night. Movent
ber 27. The musicians are diree
from San Francisco, having played ir
many of the smartest cabarets there
and have brought with them tin
latest music. The price of admissiot
will be 7.7 cents: ladles free. These
dances will represent all that i:
snappy, smart and up-to-the-minute
and will afford the young people o
the town an opportunity to get ac
attainted. The dance scheduled t<
take place tonight was postponed
owing to the installation of the ntov
ing picture show, now in progress.
At the regular business nieetint
of the Nmhorage Woman’s Club
held Thursday afternoon at the so
cial hall, old town, Mrs. L. Davit
read a very interesting, informal:
paper on “Child Welfare. 'lit'
i meeting was in charge of the socla
I service department.
GRAND MIMICAL CONCERT.
A grand musical concert by thi
' new five-piece orchestra will bi
I given at Robarts’ billiard and bow!
! ing parlor, on Sunday evening, No
'■ vember 21.
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Mrs. Tubby Is enterta ning oi
I Government Hill this afternoon, ii
! honor of Mrs, Wainwright and Mrs
; Itodinan.
The Episcopal Guild will meet a
the home of Mrs. Walters Tuesda
afternoou. November 23.
A dance will he held tonight a
Robarts' hall.
FIRST 1 RITA ROD MAIL
ARRIVES AT AXyHOllAGI
Albert Uohrmann. carrying t.h
ldltarod mail from Knik to Anchor
age, reached here at 5 o'clock las
evening, bringing 400 pounds o
mail. He departed from Knil
Thursday morning at 7 o'clock
reaching Matanuska Landing in th
evening. At this point. Col. Revel]
the mail contractor, took the mai
enroute to Seward, while Dohrmam
departed for Knik, to get the nex
outbound mail.
Grand musical concert at Robarts
billiard and bowling parlors tomor
row evening. Five-piece orchestra
Merchants Cafe, under the man
agentent of J. Casey McDannel.
Cook Stoves and Air-Tight Heat
ers at cost. At Eckmann’s Furnitur
Store, Fifth and K street.
# Go to The Model for photo sup
plies. We also develop and prinl
■ Opposite Brown & Hawkins, corne
Fourth and E street.
Remember, this is the last monti
that you get the ldxl <5 photo free, a
the McCain Studio, Third arena
and H street.
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They afe reddy—Crawford Flats
Nifty oWeV roe his 5th and I Sts
Haadsoate fur rug for sale. la
quire at this office.
The miners of Anyot, li. C.,
(Jranby Bay, recently walked out.
i A coal famine at £ordova may be
; taken as the height of sarcasm.
Ketchikan citizens travel as far as
I Juneau to become Klks.
The residents of Iditarod wagered
$15,000 on a horse race there la3t
month.
Ketchikan talent is preparing to
give the operetta, "Queen Ksther,"
for the benefit of a local hospital.
Thirty-seven million feet of lum
ber was cut from the national for
ests of Alaska during the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1915.
Widmore D. Hill, recently promot
ed to the position of assistant in
spector of boilers at Seattle, was for
eight years chief engineer of the
i steamship Humboldt.
">Ty Northland” is the title of a
new song composed by Robert Craw
ford, of Fairbanks. It is dedicated
to the trail-blazers and pioneers of
the north country.
Cedar telephone poles are shipped
from Craig, Alaska, to Seattle.
William Ansley has been appoint
ed postmaster at Iditarod, succeed
ing Albert Wile.
By ordinance the Ketchikan coun
1 oil has declared that saloons, bowl
ing alleys and pool rooms shall here,
after close at midnight and remain
closed until G o clock the following
morning,
■ The volume of business in Petcrs
• burg is now making a larger per
' eentage of gain than can he shown
' by any other town in Southeastern
: Alaska, and it's going to keep right
“ on growing.-—Petersburg Report.
I
Jap Wada. who first brought the
, news of the Fairbanks strike to Daw
son and who was almost lynched by
, the miners when they found tlie dig
gings were not as rich as reported,
was kicked hy a iiorse in Iditarod
and was badly injured.
The Alaska Co-Operative Fishing
and Packing Company has an
i nouneed that a big plant will be
i built about two miles from Wrangell,
on Scow bay. The association has a
membership of eighty members,
which includes about seventy-five
5 boats.
I ne pvonie isugger reports uur
of. the mountains forming the Saw
tooth range is showing signs of be
t coming an active volcano. Natives
have reported smoke issuing from
the mountain, and white men report
seismic disturbances in the district.
' Two Juneau men have leased the
Pacific Coast Steamship dock and
warehouse dock at Skagway and will
" engage in the packing and shipping
1 of herring on a large scale for ex
r port. They are reported to have re
[ reived large orders from eastern
dealers.
Efforts by the governor's office to
j secure the appointment of a deputy
I'nited States marshal at Yakutat
I have at last been successful. The
attorney general has authorized
Tnited States Marshal Bishop to
, make the appointment, which will be
; done very shortly.
i Dawson News: Mike O'Kee, an
i enthusiastic North Dawson gardener.
- has produced In his gaiden near ttp
Mary’s hospital this season the first
! wonderberries grown in the Yukon.
- They are the marvelous berry
; | brought out by Burbank, the wizard
i gardener of California.
Archdeacon Hudson Stuck, the
' man who conquered the "top of the
• continent" by climbing to the high
r est peak of Mt. McKinley in 1912,
has gone outside and will spend the
winter in the states. He is the an
i thor of a number of books on
t Alaska.
Merchants Cafe, four doors from
Hotel Crist.
<i 5- _ ; i' .-w
wanted-—Boarder*, and > roomers,
J Fsurtht awd at.. M. Sharta.
- if.. . :4t, '.xr.i JlnstP-K" laiD -i"-— -
•> Hi »■*
J wf 'Trtotpareuhld’twtrit #t reaaeaabls
prices. McCain Studio.
One of the interesting statements
contained in a recently published re
port of the territorial mining in
spector is that “there appears to be
a mania for falling down mining
shafts in Fairbanks.’’
The big hall on the top or the
Hag pole in front of Fred Johnson's
store at Seward was taken down this
week to be regilded, and it was
found to be perforated with dozens
j of bullet holes, shot by men trying
| their rifles in different parts of the
! town.
It is reported in Juneau that W.
F. Thompson, manager of the p'air
[ banks News-Miner, who is now tour
j ing the states, is making arrange
ments to enter the newspaper busi
ness in Juneau at an early date, and
that Los Bernard, a well-known
| printer, will have an interest in the
j business.
Mining operators of Eureka creek.
! in the Hot Springs district, will build
| a ditch fifteen miles long to bring
water from the Hootalinqua rh’er.
Tiie ground has been extensively
prospected, and with cheaper meth
ods of handling tlie gravels will lie
a big producer.
E. fV Short, of Ester creek, made
a $20,000 cleanup recently and
treated his crew to a turkey dinner,
and after the meal each workman
was givei a bottle of champagne to
toast his partners with. They turned
Hip tables on the manager by drink
ing his health in brimming goblets.
Koyukuk camp is reported to lie
1 'veil euppliied with provisions tor
the winter, as flip mere! ants of the
iVstrlct all secured their stocks ear'y
and the steamers r* ached their des
tination. Last spring several articles
had lieen exhausted before the open
ing of navigation, and the miners
were camped on the river banks
awaiting the arrival of the boats.
Chief Engineer Crawford, of the
steamer Mary Sachs, with the Stef
fanssen expedition, who returned to
Nome after the loss of his ship, has
purchased the schooner Challenge,
and will go into the Arctic next smu
! iner with the expectation of meeting
Steffanssen. The schooner will be
used this winter trading among the
islands to the westward.
Home at Sitka against the Fourth
division for the quarter ending Sep
tember 1 amounted to $644. This
money was paid on the order of
I .lodge Bunnell, and was taken front
j the territorial indigent fund. The
total amount received bv the indi
gent fund for that quarter was
$1,432.49.
The new government hospital for
natives at Juneau is nearing comple
tion and will be ready in a few’
• »«ks for pat'ents. The building is
"Sty9-l feet, with concrete basement.
It has two wards, for male and fe
male patients, operating room, pri
vate rooms for nurses, and a large
waiting room. The arrangements
are said to be ideal.
The New York Evening Sun re
I cently had a big write-up about Sen
i ator Frank Aldrich, of Nome. He
told the reporter that a two-thou
: sand-mile trip with dog teams to at
tend the legislature of Alaska is
nothing, but that he could not tin
I derstand the crazy commuters who
traveled twenty or thirty miles every
,dav to work in the city.
Nome: Two of tin. most remark
able strikes ill the history of Alaska
have just been made in this camp
On4 is a placer strike at Solomon
which means nothing less than the
picking up of a new third beach line
' nnd tht. other is a strike of quartz or
i Boulder creek, which has resulted Ir
| the uncovering of ore that has more
; gold than rock In many places.
Dance tonight at Robarts hall.
Choicest cigars, candies, fruits
grape. juice, at- the Alaska Poo
•RoftV> , -r : l ? -.•
Bring your 1u»» te McCala’i
Studio for development and printing
Work guaranteed
As Anchorage lias been designatec
as the terminal for the MtUanusk:
coal fields, any information of ai
olllcial nature with respect to tin
i quality of the coal is of Important:
j to residents here. On the test ma:
i the Pioneer recc ved the official re
port of the teats, made by the arm
or. d cruiser .Maryland on coal takci
! from the Matanuska fields. It fol
lows, in full:
Inspection and laauiiiig.
i'pon the Maryland's arrival a
Bremerton a visit was made to tin
coal dock, where some 7,700 sacks
of the coal were stored under cover
On account of the receipt of a lette
from the bureau of steam engineer
; ing stating that preliminary tests,a
i Annpolis indicated high f.sh content
j and instructing that the necessar;
| preparation be given the coal, a pfe
| liminary insiiection was made tc
j gain some idea as to the quality o!
! .he coal. Rough determinations m
i ihe asli c ontents of the different
! sized parts of a sample taken fron
I six bags at random tailed to shov
any excessive percentages of ash. sc
tile coal was loaded onto the lighter
and placed in the ship’s bunkers..
During the loading of the lighters
a shovelful of coal was taken from
every fifth bag and retained for 11
sample. This sample (of about thret
tons I was worked over and oue car
retained. From the same sample a
portion (about Sop pounds) was
taken for a sizing test. The per
rentage of the different sizes, and
the analysis of the gertu/'O.l sample
are given in attached sheets.
Seven-Day Port Test.
'I'lie port test was begun as soon
as one lighter of coal had been taker,
on. The load during part of the test
i period v.as heavy, but was carried
throughout the test on one boiler
j Fires were cleaned every twelve
! hours.“by which time .about 'X ..
1 inches of clinker had formed. The
i clinker was medium weight, rather
| porous, and dark colored, with small
: pieces of light-gray asli mixed in
with the fmvul portion. The clinker
j stuck some to the bridge wall, but
j not enough to cause serious trouble,
j and did not stick to the grates at all
In (lie furnace the clinker could be
Irrnlfoti Fairlv puuil i" wlicm fnlfl If
! was' brittle and easily broken.
Darius tUe port test the gas an
alyses showed 1 •> to 12 per cent C02
with probably n.3 to 0.4 per cent CO
The elTorl was to carry tires T to v
inches thick, but they were heaviei
much of the time, thus accounting
in one way for the presence of CO
The soot formed was comparative
ly free from tarry matter and bene,
did not aihere to the tubes as mucl
as does that from Pocahontas coal
although the amount of soot former
by the Matannska coal was mort
than with Pocahontas.
The figures lor the evaporation
on account of the difficulties inciieu
[ fo the measurement of the feer
water, can only be consideerd ap
proximate al best. The figures ob
tained during the port test shower
an evaporation equal to or a littlr
better than wag obtained during th<
test with Pocahontas coal made bj
the Maryland in 1913.
On the last two days of the por
test the use of screened coal win
tried. The eoa! for this purpose wai
screened on rhe lighter alongside the
dock. One day all of the coal re
maining on a four-mesh screen wa>
used, and on the other that which
passed through the screen. The onl\
trouble experienced with the tlnei
coal was that the natural draft was
not quite strong enough to malntair
the required rate of combustion al
ail times.
20-Knot Test.
The excellent steaming propertlef
of this coal were plainly shown ir
the test. For a time it looked as i
it would he possible io make tin
turns for 2b knots without puttins
on the blowers, tint it was not done
With about three-fourths inch pres
sure of air in the lire rooms, how
ever. there was an abundance o
steam, and steam eould be raised l<
the popping-off pressure at any min
ute. This condition obtained through
out the four-hour test, and at it:
close the fires were still in eXcsHen
steaming condition.
l.VKnot Test.
For the l.Vknot test twelve boiler:
were lit up. but soon after the tes
Anchorage views, stationery, plioti
supplies- tobaccos, cigars, candies
etc., at The Model, corner Fourtt
and E street.
Whplaw Mw*d*s, all **•»
■wan's FOrnit##* SUtfT. *,r.
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Johnston's Ferry, Tho Bright on
at your aortic* from this aid# ti
iai fr#» tiie boats- OflkJo.
i.-’doOr to- **okatrnl'a*- Fraaklli
Johnston. Manager.
I f was started two of these were put
i out, and later a third. During the
remainder of the test the turns were
| kept up most ot the tune with eight
‘ boilers working and the ninth
banked. Difficulty in maintaining
jibe desired steam pressure with'the
. i eight boilers was experienced only at
times of cleaning the iires, and then
' j only when the fires were cleaned too
i : soon after each other. For cruising
at tliis speed it lias been the prac
tice to use ten boilers with eastern
I coal.
Iti-Kimt Test. ~~
Six boilers were lit for this rpn,
j but one v.as banked almost at the
; start of the test, and later it was out
out. About two and one-half hours
afier the test started a second boiler
was banked, and this was cut out
when the test had been in progress
nine houFs. During tlit? remainder
of the test four boilers only were
used, these furnishing ' plenty of
steam to make the proper number
of turns and keep the regular aux
iliaries going. For this speed the
practice has been to use six boilers
with Pocahontas coal. So far as is
known, the Maryland has never .be
fore made turns for 10 knots With
only four boilers in use.,
(■eneral.
The coal as stored on the dock
was dry, but was wet on the lighters
after they were placed alongside the
ship. Neither on the dork nor in
I the bunkers was any tendenev to
heating noticed. The coal was al
most entirely free front lumps, but
for the most part was not objection
ably fine.
It is a fairly friable coal, has mod.
erate coking tendency, and is excel
lent for steaming purposes. The
volatile matter appears to be fairly
easily driven off. but is not difficult
to burn.
From the standpoint of smoke
lessuess the coal is also very dealt'
aide. 1'nde.r natural dre.rt the stuck
"otiservjt'if'tfs 'biigFt ly.tw.vr, Xt..~ •>
and Xo. ?! (P.engelmann chart), av
erag’ng somewhat above Xo. 2. X - ri
der forced draft during tlie four-hour
run tlie smoke averaged about the
same, out showed less of the heavier
smoke. Tlie smoke is cue what less
in density than that from Pocahon
tas and it is not as black.
Both officers and men eo-ooerated
fieartilv with the bureau s engineer
throughout the tpst. and this eo
; oneration was one factor contribut
ing to the success of the tests.
Verv truly, yours.
(Signed) O P HOOD.
Chief Mechanical Engineer.
The telephone line connecting An
chorage with Seward is down, due to
a heavy snowfall on the Ship cree.c
summit. The line will he repaired
within a day or so. A man departed
from here this morning to repair ‘he
break.
Deputy Marshal Brown, of Kndc,
reached here today.
Andrew Christensen, chief of field
division of the V. S. land depart
ment and snuperintendent of sales,
who expected to depart for his head
quarters at Juneau on the North
western. is delayed, and may await
here and go out via the winter trail.
The trip of Commissioner Mears
and Superintendent O' He illy to thfe
Matanuska country has been post
poned for several days.
There will be services in th*
Presbyterian church tomorrow fore
noon and in the evening. Rev. John
McBride, pastor.
The steamer Admiral Farragut is
expected tomorrow evening.
Ladies howling day—Wednesday
afternoon of each week. Roberts
billiard and bowling parlors.
Dance tonight at Robarts' hall.
AW'Ol \CKMK\T.
Commencing on the evening of tlie
20th. the management of the Ro
il harts hall will giv> a series of Satur
day night and holiday dances.
Both the music and floor will
please you.
Watch for the list of prises for the
! grand Thanksgiving masquerade ball.
Having received special mould
ings.. lumber furniture, flat urea,
fancy Teasef. etc., 1 a* »•» *
emutloi* to He, aajrtbls* is the Mir»l
I-Kcrrs .i w.lfl ty’.V-) * At V
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