MOOSE PASS MINER
By L.H.Allen
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WHY NOT BE CONSISTENT?
An Editorial by Editor Selby in the
Valdez Miner -
The Anchorage Times is conducting a
poll for and against the proposal by Col.
Ohlson, manager of The Alaska Railroad, to
remove the southern terminal of The Alaska
Railroad from Seward to Portage Bay. Of
course, as the poll is entirely disinter
ested(?) and is being conducted in Anchor
age, the proponents of the project will
undoubtedly win hands down.
There is considerable buncombe in the
letters favoring the removal as they place
the cost of building the spur to Portage
Bay at five million dollars, when the Bal
laine Bros., original builders of the road
from Seward to Turnagain Arm, personally
told the writer it would have cost them
$10,000,000 to build the route from Por
tage Bay, and consequently the project had
to be abandoned; that they were not in favi
or of the route in the first place, but
had it surveyed to see what it offered.
Many parties contend in letters to the
Times that it would be to the advantage to
make the change. Of course it would. It
was to the advantage of Anchorage to take
the Signal Corps from Seward; the car
shops; the land office, and to take the
Court headquarters from Valdez. It would
also help Anchorage to have the national
capital, the World's Fairs,the Seattle
docks. But whom other would it help? No
on© of course* No mention is given xo
the effect it would havS on Seward. No
mention is made of the great property Iosb
to the prosperous little town on Resurrec
tion Bay. No consideration for the thous
and or more people who made investments in
Seward, hoping that the government would
allow a stable town to flourish there and
not trade industries and governmental
agencies about from pillar to post.
Much capital is made over a snowslide
between Anchorage and Seward,"just a mile
south of where the Portage Bay spur would
cut off.” No mention is made of several
days' blockade of the railway near Curry,
and other blockades time after time in the
Broad Pass section in years past. Where
trains have been prevented from reaching
Saward a FEW times from the south end of
the railway, they have been prevented Doz
of timee by snows to the northward.^
Does Anchorage consider thea*
to the north sufficient reason to
the Anchorage division? Not on your life.
Do not trains on continental roads in th
States get tied up each winter? Una not
the Great Northern had slides which kills
numbers of people? Should these roads be
abandoned? (Continued back page)
PANTOMIME IS DELIGHTFUL FEATURE
SATURDAY DANCE AT HIELO'S
Saturday night’s dance at Hielo's road
house was well attended. The three-reel
pantomime, "Not By A Dam Site” which was
given at 10*30 o'clock under the direc
tion of Mrs. Paul Williams, was vastly ap
preciated. It was funny beyond words to
describe. Mrs. Williams read the scenario
while the actors acted it with a gusto
that provoked loud laughter and loud ap
plause.
Moose Pass' dignified schoolteacher,
Harry L. Smith, in the character of Simon
Sweet, bankrupt owner of the mill that was
not by a dam site, staged a death scene,
the horrible throes or throws of which
will haunt Moose Pass dreams for years to
come.
Mrs. Roy Luckie as Tootsie Sweet, his
charming daughter, out-fazendaed Louise
Fazenda by at least 1900 miles.
Mrs. Jake Laubscher, Simon's wife, with
specs perched on the end of her nose and
wearing an all’s wrong with the world ex
pression, got a laugh out of the audience
that could have been heard at Lawing,when
she produced a tire pump or somepin' and
stuck it in Simon's mouth to take his tem
perature.
Albert Williams was the cruel, hard
hearted Caesar Penny, villain of the sketch,
wearing a longhorn mustache a la Simon Le
gree, bent on foreclosing his mortgage on
the mill or else - the else being the hand
of the fair Tootsie Sweet.
Lyman Graves as Percival Penn, one of
these-here-now-writers, produced a huge
bank roll(probably as much to his own sur
prise as everybodys else)and paid the vil
lain off and took over Tootsie.
The ending of the pantomime was too,too
sad since it involved the demise of the
beloved schoolteacher and provided for
that nice Albert Williams being shot to
death in the Seat of the pants.
The Sewing club met last Wednesday with
ylrs. Will Estes. Present were Mrs. Leora
Roycroft, Mrs. Jake Laubscher, Mrs. Ralph
Reid, Mrs. E.L.Robbins, Mrs. Roy Thurston,
tfrs. Harry L. Smith, Mrs. L.H.Allen, Mrs.
Jlen Collins, Mrs.Sam Estes, Mrs. Fred
Laubscher, Mrs. John L. Nelson and Mrs.
Oscar Plowman of Lawing. The hostess
served toasted rarebit sandwiches, coffee
and tea*
The club will meet Wednesday, !\.y 3,
vith Mrs. L.H.Allen.
Elaine Kennedy accompanied her aunt,
irs. L.E.Ely to Wasilla last Friday morn
ing. Elaine will enter for another month
of schooling at Wasilla.
Mrs. Lyman Graves returned on the se
3aranof from Juneau. Mrs. Graves was em
ployed by the Territorial Legislature at
^.ts January session.
Lewis Tular# returned Saturday from the
Grant Lake region.