LUMBER
! From the Factory Direct to You.
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We can fill your order any time
After the 20th inst.
Bird Creek Lumber Co.
1 Yard at Foot of H St.
PHONE 5 2 Y.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
_ COMPANY
^'ast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Sails Seattle Arrives Anchorage
MAY 21.MARIPOSA.MAY 28
MAY 27 .NORTHWESTERN JUNE 3
June 2.ALAMEDA .June 9
June 7...ALASKA . June 14
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers with*
out notice. Tickets on sale at up-town office, Empress Building.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
ADMIRAL LINE
ALASKA SAILING DATES
Lv. Seattle Ar. Anchorage
May 11 EVANS May 19
May 19 FARRAGUT May 27
May 28 WATSON June 4
June 4 EVANS June 12
Subject to change without
^notice.
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SAILINGS FROM SEATTLE
TO CALIFORNIA
Monday, Friday and Saturday
STEAMERS
President Governor Queen
Senator Umatilla
Admiral Dewey Admiral Schley
Through Tickets to All Eastern Destinations in United States and
Canada. Information cheerfully furnished and rates quoted.
T. B. WATSON, Agent, ANCHORAGE, ALASKA
Launch Wilheminaj
JOHNSON AND THOMPSON jj
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Twice a week trips to all points on Turnagain Arm. y
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See bulletin boards for schedule. y
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For information call City Auto Service. PHONE 89R. jj
jr_LAUNCH “SWAN”_l
Capt. N. J. Gaikema. a
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Daily Trips to Kuik and Goose Bay from Swan jj
Landing. y
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See Bulletin Boards for Schedule a
Ticket Agencies at Baxter’s and City Auto Service, [j
* Phone 89-R. y
Power Schr. Lina K.
“SAFETY AND SERVICE’’
Will Make Regular Trips to
All Turnagain Arm Points.
PARKER <fc EATON
FOOD CONTROL
IS fCESSITf
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Herbert C.
Hoover, war food controller of the
United States, has issued a statement
regarding the necessity of govern
ment food control under present con
ditions.
Mr. Hoover, who directed the feed
ing of the destitute Belgians since
starvation threatened, assembling and
manipulating the machinery of the
Commission for the Relief of Belgium
for the purpose, expressed his reluc
tance to take the post of food con
troller. Other men, better fitted for it,
could be found, he insisted.
Food control, he declared, however,
was essential. Without it flour might
go to $20 a barrel; with it, present
flour prices could be cut 40 to 50
per cent without injury to producers.
! Mr. Hoover thus outlined food condi
j TIDE TABLE FOR ANCHORAGE.
Monday, May 38.
Low Water . r.: 40 a. rn. 6.5 feet
High Water .11:26 a. m. 25.3 feet
Low Water . 5:58 p.m. 3.5 feet
Tuesday, May 29.
High Water . 0:25 a. m. 26.5 feet
Lbw Water . 6:48 a. ni. 6.2 feet
High Water .12:43 p. m. 24.7 feet
Low Water . 6:57 p. m. 4.5 feet
TRAIN SCHEDULE.
Effective 12:01 a. m., Monday, April
23, 1917, a mixed passenger and freight
train will be run between Anchorage
and Matanuska, Matan’ ska and King,
and between Anchorage and ltabbit on
the following schedule:
Main Line.
Northbound Southbound
Daiiy ex. Daily ex.
Sunday Sunday
Leave Arrive
i :30 a.m... 0.0 Anchorage .. 9:15 p.m.
7:65 a. in... 4.8 Whitney .... 8:50 p.m
8:26 a. m.. .12.3 Kuney . 8:30p.m.
9:10 a. m.. .21.8 Kirchwood ... 7:50 p m
9:40 a. m . .27.6 Eklutna . 7:20 p.m
Arrive Leave
10:10 a. m.. 36.4 Matanuska 6:45 p.m.
Matanuska Branch
Northbound Southbound
Daily ex. Daily Ex.
Sunday Sunday
Leave Arrive
11:00 a. m..36.4 Matanuska .. 6:20 p.m.
11:30 a. m..42.9 Palmer . 5:55 p.m.
12:20 p. m.. 49.5 Moose Creek. 5:25 p.m.
Arrive Leave
12:40 p. m..56.0 Eska . 4:50 p.m.
Leave Arrive
12:60 p. m.. 55.0 Eska . 3:08 p.m.
1:10 p. m.. 59.7 Granite . 2:53 p.m
Arrive Leave
1:25 p. m..60.6 King . 2:45 p.m.
Main Lin*
Southbound Northbound
Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday only.
Leave Arrive
9:00 a.m... 0.0 Anchorage .. 10:45 a.m.
9:20a.m... 5.0 Campbell ... 10:25a.m.
Arrive Leave
9:45 a. m... 10.4 Rabbit . 10:00 a.m.
Mixed train leaving Anchorage north
bound will stop Just north of road cross
ing. Terminal Yard, Anchorage.
POWER BOAT J
to all points on Susitna
and Yeutna Rivers.
Call at City Auto Service
PHONE 89R.
rDanianiajta/iJanla^aiilartaraaniaTiSniau^sn.aniiaiils
Gas Boat
ALL TURNAGAIN ARM
POINTS CARRYING
U. S. MAIL.
N.'P. WHITE, Captain
TEEn°nv^mEnp°fn ^ILL SELL “BOSS OF THE ROAD” GUARAN
TEED DYE BLUE JUMPERS, OVERALLS PER SUIT co or.
REGULAR PAINTERS OVERALLS AT 90c PAIR
PHONESt STORE 7-R "{°MPT DELIVERY~ “C0URTE0!OFfTceTo-R
tions in the following statement:
“There is absolutely no occasion for
food panic in this country, nor any
justification for outrageous prices,
unless the opposition of special inter
ests defeats the president in obtain
ing the necessary powers to control
the nation’s food fully and adequately.
America’s problem is not one of
famine, for we have now and will have
next year a large surplus. Our prob
lem is, after the proper protection of
our own people, to give to our allies
the last ounce of surplus of which we
are capable.
“Therefore, the nation needs a food
control for two purposes: To regulate
prices and to increase the surplus.
After providing our normal consump
tion we will have together with Can
ada a surplus for our allies equal to
only 60 per cent of the food they re
quire from us. If we take broad
measures of control we can with as
little disturbance to economic machin
ery as need be furnish them an addi
tional 20 per cent. Their loaf even
then will be a privation loaf, and ev
ery ounce we can put in it will dim
inish their privation. The problem is
capable of solution.
“If, however, the whole world, al
lied and neutral is to have the unre
stricted run of our markets in com
petition with each other and in compe
tition with the speculator in this coun
try, we may expect to see $5 wheat
before the year is over.
“Large measures of food control do
not mean arbitrary interference with
the necessary economic machinery of
trade. They mean that every branch
be called in by the government and
forge themselves into a link from
which the contemplated chain will
protect producer, legitimate distribu
ter and consumer.
‘‘Fordnstance, I am assured that the
American farmer did not realize $1.30
a bushel for the 1916 wheat harvest,
yet the price of wheat in New York
today is $3.25 a bushel and flour is
$14 a barrel, with all it attendant
hardship and dislocation of social and
industrial life.
“I have no hesitation in saying that,
if the able, patriotic men representing !
the majority of each branch of the
food trades were called in and clothed
with necessary powers to control the
small minority of skunks that exist in
every trade, one result would be that
an equally nutritious flour, based on
even $1.50 wheat, could be sold in
New York, for a good deal under $8
a barrel, and every trade would re
ceive its legitimate profit. Without
control we may see $20 flour before
the year is out and a total dislocation
Power Boat Marathon S
__(CAPT. TOM NEELY)
Specially constructed. Freight and passenger service to Susitna,
Talkeetna, Dead Horse Hill and Indian River.
For Rates and Schedule See Joe Spenard, Agent.
CITY EXPRESS OFFICE, 4th Near C. Phone 61R
of wages and consequent dislocation
of industry and living.
“On the other hand, if we overcome
the submarine and if we open other
markets to our allies we may see
wheat at $1 a bushel and flour under
$6 a barrel. In any event, with suffi
cient control, the present price of flour
can be reduced by 40 per cent to 50
per cent and at the same time the
producer treated in a liberal manner.
“Without any form of control we
; are likely to see an even worse situa
i tion than the high prices prevailing,
resulting from the unrestricted drain
on our wheat abroad. It is possible
that the last three months of next
year may be bare of foodstuffs in this
country.
“Food control does not mean bread
cards to the American people. It
means the broad conservation of our
food, the better handling by elimina
tion of waste and speculation. With
proper control for America the gov
ernment would ask only one thing
from the individual consumer—that he
eat plenty, but wisely, and waste noth
ing. And if democracy is a faith
worth defending, our people will do
this service voluntarily and willingly.
"Hoarding and speculation are rife,
yet there can be no particle of a doubt
that we have today in North America j
a surplus of from 50,000,000 to 70,- j
000,000 bushels of wheat beyond our
ordinary consumption and beyond the
needs of our allies before the next
harvest comes in.”
Dances five cents each at Robart’s
Hall tomorrow night. Sourdough
club. 126
Stoves and Ranges. All kinds. At
Bolte Hardware Co. Fhone 90R. 46
Some folks sleep, we never do. The
Yellow car. Thone 61R. 36
Mixed, hot and cos'd drinks served
just right at Peterson’s. 2
There is no mountain like Mount
McKinley. Mr. Sidney Laurence will
point it out to you from his photo
graphic and art studio, Masonic Build
ing. 103
Dr. W. A. Rystrom, dentist, over
Harmony theatre. 810
Rubber tired baby sulkies at $2.50
at Eckmann’s Furniture store. 109
Hot a.id cold water wash rooms both
floors at Peterson’s. 2
Cotton felt mattresses, bed springs
and linoleum, at Crocker’s. 459
Read the Anchorage Times and be
an Anchorage booster.
Eyes Examined free at B. C. Nich
ols, the Anchorage Jeweler, by A. B.
Magnuson, Optician, holding diploma
from Omaha Optical Institute. 807
North Pole Bakery, strictly modem,
up-to-date, clean, courteous, prompt.
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
Fine Job Printing at Times otilca
YOUR
SHOES
Should come
from
TURRELLS
SEATTLE ^
Largest stock of high
grade and stylish shoes in
northwest. Send for a
catalogue or visit the store
when down.
Quality Is Paramount.
Turrell Shoe
COMPANY
903 Second Ave. Seattle
They
Satisfy!
—and yet
they’re
MILD!
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VVl ^Nm^| ^k(v--'|| mi^ "ffPatriotism and thrift are inseparable. This is
JL d vl lO Uolil dllllHL A JLJLJL XXL a< true as that the good citizen is the patriotic
citizen. At the outset of the present war there
were 3G7 savings accounts to every 1,000 of population in (lermany, 379 out of 1,000 in France, 342 out of 1,000 in the United Kingdom, but only 218
out ot 1,000 in the United States. In other words, there were nearly twice as many savers, in a given number, among tlie people of these European
powers, as there were in the l nited States! Xo wonder they have been able to astonish the United States bv the wav thev have financed the more
than forty billion dollars already invested in the war. THEY WERE BETTER SAYERS THAN WE. We can well learn from their example and
add more generally the splendid quality of thrift to our own undoubted spirit of patriotism. It is the privilege of this bank through its
facilities to be of practical assistance to all who are practicing thrift.
Safety Deposit Boxes Bank of Anchorage