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EDW. T. McNALLY
M’Nally & Maitland
Lumber Wood
We carry a complete stock of common dimension. Fin*
ish that is CLEAR and properly kiln-dried.
SALES AGENTS
i ESKA CREEK COAL CO.
COAL $8.00 PER TON
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Yard and Office Foot of G St.
Phone 41R
The First Building in Anchorage.
Carrying a high grade line of cigars, cigarettes, to
baccos. Strongest Fruit Department in the city.
Classical music rendered every afternoon and even
ing. Piano and violin. You will like it.
Have your mail sent to Montana Pool Room. You
can get it any time.
You are welcome ! ! Let’s get acquainted this winter.
A. CHIMENTO and ALEX TSAKUMIS, Proprietors.
BANKING BY MAIL
It makes no difference where you are located, you
can send us your gold dust or checks and we will place
them to your credit, acknowledging receipt and furnish
ing you with a check book so you can draw money when
needed; or, if you prefer, we will place the money on de
posit in our Savings Department where it will earn 4 per
cent interest.
We will be pleased to attend to any business you
wish transacted anywhere.
German-American Mercantile Bank
SEATTLE WASHINGTON.
RECREATION
Bowling Alleys and Pool Parlors
YOUNG VIKING H. HEGSTROM
Next to Harmony Theatre.
PLUMBING MID HEATIHfi
Full Line of Plumbing Supplies, Pipes and Fittings.'
PROMPT ATTENTION TO ALL ORDERS.
T. W. KENNEDY,
E St. Bet. 3rd and 4th. Next to’Hotel Anchorage
UNION CIGAR STORE
4th Ave. Bet. C and B Sts.
Choice line of Cigars and
Tobaccos,
Confectionery and
Soft Drinks.
Meet Your Friends at the
UNION CIGAR STORE
GUS STIPOVICH and
OTTO GUSTOSON, Props.
Bread, Pies, Cakes, all the beat at
the North Pole Bakery. 328
Cotton felt mattresses, bed springs
and linoleum, at Crocker’s.
For Billiards and Pool, Peterson’s.
Try a Times Want Ad for results.
Peterson’s Billiard Parlor for latest
war bulletins. 400
ANNOUNCEMENT.
The auditorium of the Alaska La
bor Temple may be rented for social
affairs and entertainment. Make your
bookings now at office in Labor Tem
ple.
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
Best music and entertainers at Pe
terson’s. 399
Good Coffee and light lunches at the
North Pole Bakery. 328
Arrest—You may rest assured that
the best meals are at Cameron’s
Cafe. 364
Get your eyes examined free at
George Osborn’s, the leading jeweler
by Fred Carlquist, graduate optician.
Satisfaction guaranteed. 260
INCONSPICUOUS
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN
THE FIELD, Jan. 4.—The world
knows the English as a race of enor
mously reserved people. Just how re
served they really are one must live
out here to realize. The most thrill
ing engagement of the war does not
loosen the Englishman’s tongue any
more than his afternoon tea, if as
much.
I have been trying to get the story
of some British heroes. It can’t be
done. They say what they do belongs
to the unit they happen to be in. The
unit says the glory belongs to the
next higher unit and so on until one
is told that the honor belongs to
the whole British army.
The theory is that it is very unfair
for an individual to be signaled as a
hero. They say it is not treating the
other fellow right for one to be press
agented and heralded all over the
world as the doer of a great deed
because every day there are hundreds
upon hundreds of men who are risking
their lives in the deadliest of danger
ous undertakings and are never even
heard of. Luck, one is told, makes
more heroes than anything else—luck
which provides the opportunity and
luck which lets one be seen while
grasping it.
The French look at it much the
same way but if anything the British
carry the idea further. A French avi
ator is called an “ace” when he brings
down his fifth enemy aeroplane and
gets his name in the papers. There
are as many English airmen who are
aces, yet whose names have never ap
peared outside the official secret
communiques circulated among the
higher staff officers only.
Here is a concrete example: A cer
tain lieutenant of the Royal Flying
corps was mentioned in one of these
communiques. It seems he had en
gaged an enemy aeroplane, fought a
duel with it among the clouds, and
downed it fairly and squarely. Hop
ing to make an exception of this case
permission was sought to use the avi
ator’s name. It was courteously, but
firmly refused. What he had done
was not to his own personal glory,
but to the glory of the R. F. C.
And when the Royal Flying corps is
asked about it, it insists the honor is
the army’s.
So it goes. The Canadians pool
their glory with the South Africans
and the Anzacs and the Irish and the
Scotch and all the rest, and altogeth
er they heap it into the lap of Brit
annia. It is trite to say it is a war
of anonymous heroes but that is just
what it is and the British are so very,
very anonymous about it that they
run the risk of having the world say
they can’t be doing very much. Nor
do they care, apparently. Their idea
is that a hero who is a hero because
he has an audience is not a real hero.
The real thing does a brave act be
cause he can’t help doing it, and
When it is done his own satisfaction
over having done his bit as best he
could .without shirking, is the best re
ward he can have.
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Local Residents Visiting
In States Long to Return
The spirit of unrest is getting hold
of many of The Times out-of-town
subscribers and yesterday’s mail
brought three letters in which the
writers say that they have had
enough of city life and long for An
chorage. For instance, I. C. Starkey
write's from Seattle and says that he
is leaving Seattle and will soon be on
his way to God’s country; W. J. Stew
art writes from Tampa, Fla., and in
forms The Times that he is on his way
to New York to make arrangements
for an aeroplane that he expects to
bring to Anchorage early this spring,
and Rev. Edwin W. Hughes, from far
away Michigan, advises The Times
not to send his paper after the first of
April as he is leaving for Anchorage
on that date.
PLAN TO IKE
KOI PAT FOR
ITS EXPENSES
BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 3L_One of
the most revolutionary plans the new
Irigoyen administration in Argentina
is fostering today is a scheme, which
might or might not appeal to Uncle
Sam, to make the national army pay
for its keep.
The proposition is to use the troops
as a sort of gendarmerie, especially
with a view to guarding the frontiers
against “contrabandistas” and to the
collection of government revenues,
which will not only give a better serv
ice than the country has had before
but will save the salaries of the offi
cials who have been doing such work
in the past.
A bill authorizing the assignment of
the military forces to this class of du
ties was introduced in congress be
fore the end of the de la Plaza admin
istration but nobody took much inter
est in it and it seemed likely to die
in committee. Irigoyen officialdom
pounced on it immediately, however,
and will urge its prompt passage.
The idea is not popular with the ar
my or with the functionaries who are
threatened with the loss of their po
sitions, but the Irigoyen economy re
gime has had an enthusiastic recep
tion by the masses of taxpayers.
Incidentally, it is understood to be
the government’s intention, as an
economy measure, to make a drastic
reduction in the number of conscripts
called to the colors annually for mili
tary training. There is even some talk
of abolishing conscription entirely.
Nobody knows just how strong the
movement is yet and it is sure to be
desperately fought by the element
which wants a great deal more mili
tary preparation instead of less of
it.
SPANISH WAR WIDOWS MUST
WAIT FOR ANOTHER YEAR
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Widows
and minor children of officers and en
ilisted men who have served in the war
with Spain who have been hoping to
be granted pensions by this congress
probably will be disappointed. Those
hoping for governmental relief and
recognition must wait another year.
Swamped with appropriation bills
and an administration railroad pro
gram, which must be considered be
fore March 4, Representative Johnson,
of Maine, today admitted he had little
hope that congress would take up his
pension bill before adjournment.
Wood—Phone 40-R. 186
Daily War Bulletins at Peterson’s.
THE HOUSE OF CLEAN
SPORT.
TheRB.C.Co.
MONARCH
WORLD'S
BEST
ROBARTS’ BILLIARD
AND BOWLING
PARLORS.
P. O. Opposite.
Pioneer Sheet
Metal Works
YUKON STOVES
— AND —
HEATERS
Corner Fifth and C Sta.
Anchorage - Alaaka
BAXTER’S
MAGAZINES
PERIODICALS
NEWSPAPERS
Panorama Photographs
Anchorage and
Mount McKinley
Inlet Soda Works
W. A. TAYLOR, Proprietor
Manufacturers of all kinds of
MINERAL WATERS, SODA
CIDER, SYRUPS.
AGENTS FOR GRAPE JUICE
Anchorage - - Alaska
FREDERICK&NELSON
SEATTLE
Invite you to send to them for
such items in FURNITURE and
DRY GOODS as cannot be readily
supplied by the merchants in your
own community.
All such orders received by
FREDERICK & NELSON receive
the prompt, personal attention of
an expert shopper, and Parcel Post
shipments are sent POSTAGE
PAID to any point in Alaska.
Granite Candles
For Sale
Polley Bros.
NEW CRESCENT HOTEL
F. W. REDWOOD & CO., Props.
Warm Rooms. Moderate Rates. Hot
Baths.
Cor. Fourth and C. Anchorage
Phone 48-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
Union Laundry
and Bath House .
Fourth Are., Between H and 1,1
Anchorage
OUR WORK IS GUARANTEED
—and—
SANITARY
; THE LARGEST AND CLEANEST
BATH TUBS IN ANCHORAGE
Sanitary Market
The only cold storage plant In con
nection with market in Anchorage.
Home-made Sausages. Fruits. Veg
etables, Butter and Eggs, at whoie
sale. Restaurants and roadhouses.
spcriiiT attention.
1th Ave.. Bet. H and I Sts.
£ E. KURTZ & CO.
THE SYDNEY
LAURENCE CO.
COMMERCIAL AND
PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Interior, Flashlight Work a
Specialty.
Kodak Developing and Printing
HARMONY THEATRE.
CHOVIN SUPPLY
5th and C.
Carries Everything in Electri
cal Supplies and Fixtures
to make a happy Home
Agent for
FRISCO STANDARD
GAS ENGINES.
CARROL & CO.
Fourth St., near E
MEN’S OUTFITTERS
Complete stock of Clothing,
Shoes and furnishings.
LEARN TO DANCE.
Latest Dauces Taught. Begin
ners given special attention. For ap
pointment call at third house from
C on 6th Ave.
WM. BUNTING.
C. HENNING
TAILOR.
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s
Suits Cleaned, Pressed and
Repaired. 4th Ave. and D St.
Tony's Cafe
OPPOSITE EMPRESS
THEATRE.
TABLES FOR LADIES—
—NEWLY REMODELED
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Kitak Show Case Co.
Furniture, Cabinets.
Bank and Office Fixtures
Made To Order
Kiln Dried & Seasoned Lumber
Factory Opposite White House
HOTEL SEWARD A
511 THIRD AVE.
Arctic Club Bldg., SEATTLE, WASH.
ZBINDEN BROS., Props.
Rooms fl.00 Special
With Bath 11.50 Weekly Rates