THE ANCHORAGE DAILY TIMES
AND COOK INLET PIONEER.
ANCHORAGE PUBLISHING CO.
Anchorage, Alaska.
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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, THURSDAY. MARCH 8. 1017.
SPRING APPROACHES.
Spring' is almost at hand. We don’t call it springtime in
1his part of the country until the trig boats begin to arrive and
the mosquito fleet starts to ply to the many *points on the in
let. From all indications, the coming of the big boats will wit
ness the greatest influx of people that the Cook inlet country
lias ever witnessed. Residents returning from visits to the
states report that hundreds of people sought information about
this region, with a view to coining here when the season opens.
Untold letters of a similar import have been received in this
community. As the rails are laid toward the interior on the
government railway system new opportunities will be opened
in many ways; mineral lands long lying dormant will be devel
oped; new regions will be explored; new activities undertaken.
And it is to take advantage of these opportunities that the peo
ple are coining. Of course, most of them will come direct to
Anchorage, look over the situation here, and make their deci
sions accordingly. It is anticipated that *manv will remain
permanently, and join with the pioneers in the upbuilding of
a substantial commercial center at this point.
Certainly, the outlook for the Cook inlet country and for
Anchorage as the commercial center of this region, never seem
ed more auspicious than it does right now. We have almost
gotten rid of that “two-year” talk so prevalent when the town
was first started. It is gradually dying out. The most pessi
mistic among us are becoming convinced that if the resources
of the Cook inlet country stand up under the developments that
have been inaugurated “apd that will be undertaken, Anchorage
must certainly evolve into a very important commercial center.
There is no other way to look at it. The government railway,
as has been said before, will either expose or make this coun
try. So far as The Times is concerned, it is not alarmed as to
the expose. The country will stand up under developments.
All that is needed is the faith to inaugurate them. There are
several highly important enterprises lined up for this commu
nity, once the harborage facilities are installed, but the time
is not ripe for,publication concerning them.
BOOSTING FOR ANCHORAGE.
This town has been the object of so many knocks, chiefly
from towns that are jealous of its unparalleled progress in such
a short space of time, as well as the malcontents who have taken
their departure, being unable to land a fat job with the railway
work or fromothet causes, that it is really refreshing to quote
one wTho takes a rosy and optimistic view of the situation; who
sees things as they are, and yet who is not extravagant in his
praises. Under the caption, “Hotel and Club,” the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer of February 9, says concerning a local resi
dent, then on a trip to the states, but now returned to Anchor
age;
“Anchorage for mine,” enthusiastically declared George
M. Campbell as he arrived at the Savoy after an extended trip
thfougji the 6’asterp and southern states. He is accompanied by
Mrs. Campbell.
“Our little town, hardly two years old, beats any place I
have seen or care to see,” he continued, “for we really have a
most progressive city, even though quite young in years. In my
travels I have seen no better regulated, lighted or paved city,
and that is saying a good deal. On my arrival in Seattle, I re
ceived several telegrams from Anchorage and one of them an
nounces that a party of live people are outfitting there for the
purpose of going to Mt. McKinley by following the trail of
Prof. Herschel Parker. . Their purpose is to mark the trail and
possibly ascend the mountain. Another bit of news from the
north which has just reached me is that some excellent strikes
have been made in the Willow creek mining district, and that
will mean more business for Anchorage.
“This little new city possesses some of the largest build
ings in the whole Alaskan territory. Capt. A. E. Lathrop has
recently opened a new absolutely fireproof motion picture the
atre which cost $30,000. By the way, that theatre screened a
motion picture feature film now playing to $2 prices in New
York several weeks before it was released at the metropolis.
Anchorage is really up-to-date.”
NO BREAK IN RELATIONS WUH
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY FOR PRESENT
WASHINGTON, March 8;—There will be no break in dip
lomatic relations between the United States and Austria-Hun
gary for the present, according to an announcement made by
the state department today. The Austro-Hungarian govern
ment lias shown a disposition to concede certain contentions
of the American government and it would serve no'useful pur
pose now to sever diplomatic aairs.
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Loussac’s Daily Gossip
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1917.
Vol. 1. No. 198. ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, 4th and D
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Did you take a picture of the skii race last Sunday with your
Kodak? Think of the pleasure of catching just the moment
they were off—and the lasting pleasure of a souvenir in your
photo album.
We Alaskans are really nomads, here todhy and there to
morrow’. We are ever thus at the call and beck of dame for
tune. But the day comes when we feel we have had enough of
traveling and then for the memories brought forth out of the
collection of pictures taken by you here and there. This is what
owuiing a Kodak will mean to you. We carry a full line of East
man Kodaks, Films and Photographic Supplies.
Your favorite opera, your favorite song, or your favorite
symphonic orchestra, or Pryor’s Band is translated into enthral
ling reality on a Victor Record played on the best of machines—
the Victor Phonograph in your home.
SnowT Glasses ai-e a necessity on the trail and so is a small
assortment of drugs and surgical dressings. Take with you a
Johnson & Johnson Utility Kit—-only 50c.
San-Tox Cold Cream and Peroxidized Cream are just the
things for your complexion and skin. They are soothing, heal
ing and will not grow hard, 25c and 50c a jar.
And for that tired feeling—get a bottle of San-Tox Blood
Purifier. It is a concentrated extract of well known roots and
barks noted for their alterative and tonic action upon the blood
and the liver. The San-Tox Blood purifier makes a splendid
spring tonic. $1.25 per pint bottle.
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Baseball is in the air. The bug has
reached Anchorage earlier than usual;
Old Winter realizes that his tyrannic
cal reign is over and has roared out
his final blast in the futile effort to
frighten approaching spring. With
the advent of Spring the sportsmen
awaken to the realization of the many
possibilities; the thoughts of swains
turn to love; the school boy rubs his
eyes and hauls out his tops and mar-;
bles; the milliner thinks of. Easter
hats; the gardner prepares for an ear
ly market; the hen is coaxed into
productiveness and the thrifty house
wife figures on the cost of paint. But
greater, far greater, than all of these
is the old baseball fan of America.
He gets out the map and points to
Marlin Springs where McGraw and
the Giants are in spring training; he
tells you where Comiskey and the
White Sox will work out the “Charlie
horses” and so on down the line and in
the end will inevitably turn back to the
^ records of Honus Wagner, Christy
Mathewson, even to the ancient history
of Tener, Long, Delehanty and other
diamond stars who live only in mem
ory. He will ask you for a compari
son of the present-day player and
scorn your answer. To him Pop An
son will ever reign supreme as . the
premier first sacker of the land and
pooh pooh the idea that any battery
could live up to the enviable record of
the famous Clarkson and Kelly.
At this period of the year an occa
sional weaker brother may swing at
an imaginary golf ball in the hotel
lobby and another one may take the
i press off his tennis racquet and lov
i ingly caress the gut. Still others will
probably look up the last year’s fly
book and the yachtsman turn to needle
I and compass. Reluctantly granting
the minor pastime of the specialist,
the American baseball fan considers
no other sport or recreation save his
chosen one worthy of the name.
There is no fan like an old fan and
Anchorage is entertaining one at the
present time.
Old, not as years go but in experi
ence and devotion; one who has fol
lowed the game from the days of
town ball and when the batters called
for a high, low or waist ball; the
days when the catchers were not cov
ered over with armor and “fielders
pulled ’em out of the clouds with
bare hands.”
Wm. Gerig, of harbor fame, is a
thorough devotee of the game and
a true apostle of baseball as the na
tional and typical game of recreation
and clean sport. He was the synonym
of- happiness as he paced the floor of
the Crescent hotel lobby last night
and expressed his views Of the bowl
ing specialist, the solo fiend or the
movie fan when they wasted the time
they might better have spent in talk
ing baseball with its fascinations and
power to give all classes of American
people exhilarating recreation and
honest amusement.
The talk had gone around the lobby
for some time and the subjects rang
ed from war and munitions to women
and the stage when the embryo man
agers, Block and Hansen, opened up on
baseball. These gentlemen are more
than friends in the ordinary sense of
the word; they will discuss long and
earnestly on some question important
to railroad building in Alaska; they
will sit contentedly through an hourfor
each dinner course or be friendly riv
als on the bowling aleys, bul. when :t
comes to baseball they become bitter
and friendship ceases. They are man
agers of rival teams and each is out
to win the pennant of the Cook inlet
baseball league. Last night they dis
cussed the respective merits of their
players and compared Tommie
Thompson and Cullen to Henry and
Sullivan. m
Other phases of the game were en
tered into and other questions dis
cussed when Manager Breck rather
cruelly rubbed it in in on Manager
Hansen and brought up the question
of suits and spoke haughtily of the
big order the Matanuska Farmers had
I given Glen Carrington, the representa
tive of Spaulding’s sporting goods. He
> even went so far as to intimate that
a group picture of the Farmers’ team
1 would occupy a full page in the 1917
official baseball guide as winners of
the coveted pennant.
Breck spoke knowingly of the com
i bination of colors and cut of suits and
blazers and Hansen came back and
said that he considered the Turnagain
Arm colors for more harmonizing
i than the ones selected by the Farmers.
The discussion waxed hot and furious
I and the lobbyists took part in the con
■ versation. Dr. Westermann quit his
solo game long enough to take out a
stack of blues in the baseball argu
ment and spoke feelingly of the
Giants and the Polo grounds; Frank
Redwood tried to switch the game to
cricket; Dad Abbey vainly mentioned
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Gerig took the floor. Mr. Gerig’s fame I
had preceded him from Panama and j
even from Missouri.
Mr. Gerig’s first sentence called for]
attention when he said that harbor
building was his vocation but that
baseball, was his hobby. .Jtftejr a few:
casual remarks in regard to the An
chorage harbor and docks and the
wonderful possibilities of Anchorage
and vicinity he complimented Captain
Jim Ward on the masterfully manner
he had piloted the Anne W. safely into
port. He admitted, however, that he
was surprised that Mariner Jim was
so late in coming and asked
concerning the position - of the tug
Roscoe and where Capt. Nelson
was. Mr. Gerig expressed himself as
being well satisfied that his vocation
called him to Alaska and was glad
that Anchorage was the chosen spot.
He said that he anticipated a very
pleasant summer especially when he
learned of concentrated action of all
factions to make the Cook Inlet Base
ball league a success. And then he
launched into an exceptionally inter
esting dissertation of baseball. It was
apparent from the outset that he was
a dyed-in-the-wooler and an aident
supporter of the game. It was also
apparent that Mr. Gerig will not emu
late Bill Spencer or Hum Higgir.s as
a rooter b«t will sit calmly by and
take in the salient and finer points of
the game. He spoke of the days of ’88,
and prior, ;<Jie worer'the yellow
and black for old Missouri.
Mr. Gerig generously admitted the
flaming and oft yictorious Red of the
Jayhawk but said that Sydney Ander
son would gladly second the choice of
yellow and black and suggested these
colors for either Manager Hansen or
Breck.
He advised the managers not to
proselyte and to pay special attention
to team work. He further advised
them to keep the players satisfied and
contented and to immediately “bench”
the crab. Other good advice he gave
these embryo managers and closed by
mentioning that while his harbor du
ties called for close application, ex
perimenting and comparisons, he
would anxiously await the musical
sound of the crack of the bat against
the ball and the stentorian voice of the
umpire as he cried to “Play Ball.”
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