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IMPERIAL HEADQUARTERS, |
RUSSIAN ARMY, Oct. 30.—(By
Mail)—From this place every day
about half past twelve o’clock, over
special wires, flash the orders of the
emperor and his chief of Staff Alexieff
to the generals commanding the 700
miles of front.
If you have eyes that can see
through house-tops and brick walls,
you will see scores of uniformed of
ficers poring over maps and plans,
aides hurrying from one department
to another; orderlies standing at ram
rod attention back of busy generals;
a crown prince learning how to gov-|
ern, a czar conferring wuh his staff.
You will see all these important acts
which send a half million men to the
attack, to the forcing of a stream, to
the taking of an enemy redoubt. The
clash of cavalry, the thunder of big
guns, the offensives against Lemberg
and Kovel and all the other places— j
all are controlled from here.
Yet, if you have the eyes of ordi- j
nary mortals, you see none of this and j
grand general headquarters, or the
Stavka, as the Russians call it, is the
deadest, dullest place in all Russia.
Unless you have plenty of work to
keep you occupied, this is no place for
you. This is no health resort, no
place for tired business men, no
amusement center for neurotics and
roues. Everybody here has a job and
he keeps at it and if you have none
you are in for a rotten time.
Ordinarily about 20,000 people live
here. Now, with the military, the
population is about double this. Still,
the narrow, roughly cobbled streets
are seldom crowded because most of
the 40,000 people are busy inside. In
the dingy shop-windows one sees Am
erican tooth washes, American sew
ing machines, American typewriters,
American bicycles anl advertisements
for American harvesting machines.
A long, one-story house of hewn
logs, unpainted and weathered to a
somber gray, back a little from the
main street, is by tradition, the
scene of a meeting between Katherine
the Great, of Russia, and Emperor
Frederick, of Prussia, in 1726. Now
it is divided into two parts and a fam
ily lives in each.
A red brick “opera house” in the
middle of the town, the house of the
local governor, wherein Czar Nicholas
II now finds quarters with his 12-year
old heir, Alexis Nikolaieviche; a rath
er handsome Catholic church, several
equally handsome Greek Orthodox
churches; the street market; the view
from the terrace back of the emper
or’s quarters, make up the principal
eights of the place.
A long, very narrow street, be
tween two rows of whitewashed stone
buildings, whose roofs are almost low
enough to be touched by the extended
hand, looks inviting. Here are strange
shops kept by very hairy men. Their
wares are principally articles for the
peasants — charcoal stoves, ropes,
coarse cotton goods, shovels, hoes,
fur and near-fur caps, heavy boots
and the like. As one looks with inter
est into a barlike place where “kvass,”
a Russian drink made from fermented
black bread, but non-alcoholic, one al
most gets run over by a little car
made by the man who made the
Peace Party famous. In it were Rus
sian officers.
Lunch at the officers’ mess is the
real break in the day here. Only it
does not last long. General AlexiefT
sees to that. At 1:30 sharp he enters
on the run, passes rapidly down a
line of officers standing at salute,
seats himself at his table and the
waiters begin to serve. In 35 minutes
Ije rushes out again. He waits not
a minute.
Still one has time to take a look
around, chewing as he looks. Down
the hall a way is Captain McCall, the
British attache, the dapperest one of
all. There is the French lieutenant,
wearing a black monocle; and a
French captain who has been twice
wounded, according to insignia worn
on his sleeve. Then there are the
Belgian attaches, and the Italian, the
Serbian, Japanese and Portugese.
They are all very swe!i in their vari
ous uniforms and for a few minutes
one gets the “feeling” that he is real
ly at army headquarters and that
there really is a great world war go
ing on, that there is a mighty Euro
pean coalition.
Suddenly an orderly hands you your
cap and cane and you find yourself
in the street again. Tired from
morning rambles you hunt something
more restful to do and suddenly, as
you pass a kiosk; you spy among an
array of newspapers and periodicals
printed in Russian, a paper-backed
volume, with this title, in English
upon it:
“The Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes.” It was a heresy, but Sher
lock entertained till dinner time. Af
ter that came a visit to one of the
jammed movie theatres and then to
bed.
BALL SERIES
NEW YORK, Nov. 10.—All over
the east baseball fans are howling and
tearing their hair over prices charged
this year for admission to world’s se
ries games. Also, they have admit
ted they were surprised by the abso
lute calm which laid hold of Boston
and Brooklyn during the series and
before it.
There isn’t anything wonderful
about that calm-, nor anything high
handed in regard to the prices. The
first was an unavoidable fact, the
latter something that was bound to
come sooner or later since luxury has
come to be one of the requisites of
such contests.
The east has been world’s “seriecl
to death. T%ams on the Atlantic sea
board have hogged the affair ever
since Detroit and Chicago quit win
ning American and National league
pennants. Even the Pirates were too
far east for the good of the game.
They take world’s series games in
the east now as a matter of course.
The fans like them and they want to
see one team or the other win, and
they spend money to see the game,
but the spirit isn’t there and it never
will be until the west has had sonic
baseball prosperity.
Magnates in the two big leagues re
alize this fact and it will be surpris
ing if some deals are not put through
this winter which will strengthen the
western clubs to a point where they
will be real pennant contenders. The
White Sox are contenders now and so
are the Tigers, but there are spots
■n each club which badly need streng
thening and these will be given at
tention. In the National league the
same conditions prevail, and it proba
bly will come to pass during the win
j Lor that St. Louis, Pittsburg and Chi
I>;uro will be bolstered.
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Before leaving for his home in
Baltimore a few days ago Manager
Wilbert Robinson of the Brooklyn Na
tional league champions, declared he
was beaten by the better team in the
recent world’s series. The Dodgers’
infield weakness, he said, had a pow
erful effect on his pitching staff. He
promised to put through some deals
during the winter which will plug up
many holes in his team. He also ex
pects several of his young players
to deliver.
STORY OF THE
OF 1 ZEPPELIN
LONDON, Oct. 19.—A close range
view of a great flaming super-Zeppe
lin toppling out of a black, midnight
sky is probably a lifetime privilege.
The certain knowledge that nearly a
score of human beings are in their
death throes does not occur to the ob
server of a Zeppelin’s fiery demise.
The splendor of the occasion only ap
peals.
England’s latest air victim, which
fell at Potter’s bar, performed its fi
nals almost at the backdoor of the
United Press correspondent’s home.
Watching the sky raider, held fast by
earth searchlight tentacles, wriggling
and twisting to escape the rays, a
small brilliant disk of light suddenly
illuminated its nose. Like an enor
mous thousand-candlepower flare it
glared there momentarily and then,
as if set in motion by some unseen
force, dilated with startling rapidity,
white flames raced down the silvery
back of the raider, probably two city
blocks in length. The next stage of
the wonderful display came faster
than words can be written.
No Fourth of July extravaganza |
has ever equalled the glaring curtain '
of flame which flowed like a waterfall |
from top to bottom of the raider, en
veloping her length and breadth.
There, suspended on an even keel, the
great airship hovered momentarily
against the black sky, glowing and
silhouetting every joint and criss
cross of its metal skeleton.
Ten seconds, perhaps, it remained
like this. Then the great luminous
tail began to curl like a burning worm.
Fiery meteors shot earthward. The
great monster’s back became weak.
Its belly sagged until the whole giant
form described a weak imitation of
the letter S.
Then a real disintegration began.
The whole twisted, fiery form began
to fall. Monster pieces roared away
from the main body and hurtled them
selves earthward. The carcass was
falling hundreds of feet a second car
ried by the wind to the north. It up
ended, writhed back to the horizontal
again and parted in the middle.
It was now only a felling mass of
flame devoid of form. The incandes
cent flare which had illuminated half
of North London and the fields and
villages of Middlesex as- bright as
day subsided. As the flaming mass
struck the ground a lower flare gave
out a final light and all was dark
again.
Cheers from a hundred thousand
throats were carried on the breeze.
Everyone knew that another Zeppelin
had been added to England’s bag. In
the morning while soldiers were drag
ging charred and blackened bodies
from under the smouldering ruins at
Potters Bar, the world was told that
this time it was a super-Zeppelin.
LAUNCH BRIGHTON
NATE WHITE, Captain.
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by U. S. Mail.
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times, we shall be glad to study your
wishes in the selecting of Gifts, and in
properly packing and mailing them to
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(Mining and Scientific Press.)
The passing of the old-time pros
pector has been bemoaned by several
contributors to our “Discussion” de
partment. Many engineers appear to
regard the prospector as a romantc
humbug, while at least as many look
upon the mining engineer as a pedantic
prig. In this issue Mr. L. I. Rowland
calmly states that “the average engi
neer falls short of the standard” by
which the prospector measures him,
especially if he be a graduate from a
mining college. This is a fair retort
to the techincal men that complain of
the time they waste in looking at the
holes in the ground that the prospec
tor calls mines. The ideal prospector
is as rare, and no rarer, than the
ideal engineer. The prospector to
whom nature is an open book is as
uncommon as the engineer to whom
the earth’s crust is transparent; yet
it is manifest that while much has
been done to train the engineer, noth
ing has been done to educate the pros
pector, unless we regard the issuance
of official bulletins by the government
bureaus as an educational propaganda
for the unlettered. Behind all the dis
cussion lurks the fundamental guess,
how to find a mineral deposit and how
to make money out of it. No more
pertinent problem can be attacked in
our pages. Two years ago we had a
symposium on the subject, a number
of experienced engineers recorded
their ideas, and the trend of opinion
was duly summarized in these col
umns. However, the question is iter
ative and we are aware that since
then we have added several thousand
new readers to our clientele. Upon a
number of points most of us will
agree: (1) that the cream of min
eral deposits has been skimmed, (2)
that the prospector has fewer chances
of making a rich discovery at grass
roots, (3) that there is plenty of
money for exploratory work, even if
the old-fashioned grub-staking is less
common, (4) that government pat
ronage of the prospector would breed
graft and idleness, rather than effec
tive search for mineral, and (5) that
much of the public domain is seques
tered by means of idle locations, that
is, x by the legal holding of ground
without any real prospecting being
done. Other factors concerning
which we may be less in accord are
(1) that the untechnical prospector
has had his day and that the search
for ore must be done henceforth large
ly by younger men with a scientific
training, (2) that it would be well to
combine the unscientific instinct of the
old type with the scientific knowledge
of the new school, (3) that the min
ing law should be modified so as to
afford better protection to the genu
ine discoverer, (4) that the publica
tion of accurate information concern
ing the occurrence and characteristics
of mineral deposits is the proper func
tion of the state and government, (5)
that the building of roads and trails
is the most immediate service that the
state or government can do for the
further expansion of the mineral in
dustry, and (6) that depreciation of
the prospector or sneering at the
young explorer is no good to any
body.
Wood Undertaking Co..
FUNERAL DIRECTORvS
LICENSED EMBALMERS
Anchorage Matanusks
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Notice is hereby given that the part
nership heretofore existin'.: between
Henry Behrenburg and Anna Bub ha.
been dissolved and terminated. This
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ite.l the property known as tin* ihhivu
burg Bub Group of Claims, same h -
in.; situated on Dollar Creek, a triVu
sry of Cache Creek, Cook Inlet Lr<
•bnet. Third Judicial Division, Territory
>1 Alaska
The said. Henry lVhrtnburg has sold
ais inter-st to me and l am now c V
iwmr of the aforementioned
uni any business dealings regarding t!
,-i'iie will be transacted by m*\
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alcd bids will be received by
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'liny, Anchorage. Alaska, nn
.••ludln* the first day of l>e<*« oh a
116. for running 2,000 feet of tunn■! on
o property of the Anehoraa — illow
-’reek Milling- and D*»v, bipment Com :«
• v, situated in the Willow Creek Di.
riot. _ ,
Bids will specify rate per fort and
ill he paid for at the completion o:
ach one hundred feet..
The Company reserves the right to re
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Successful bidder will, at Ins own
osts and charges, furnish all tools, ex
losives, transportation. grub, camp
qulpment and all things necessary for
>ip successful completion of said con
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