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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Sails Seattle
APRIL 5
APRIL 11
APRIL 17 ...
APRIL 22
Arrives Anchorage
. MARIPOSA .APRIL 12
NORTHWESTERN APRIL 19
ALAMEDA. APRIL 24
.ALASKA. APRIL 29
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers with
out notice. Tickets on sale at rip-town office, Empress Building.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
ADMIRAL LINE
ALASKAN SAILING DATES
Lv. Seattle Ar. Anchorage
Apr. 2 . .FARRAGUT. .Apr. 10
Apr. 9 ..WATSON .. Apr. 17
Apr. 17 ...EVANS... Apr. 25
Apr. 25. .FARRAGUT.. May 3
Sailings from Seattle to
CALIFORNIA
Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays
Steamers
President, Governor, Queen,
Senator, Umatilla, Admiral
Schley and Admiral Dewey.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROUTE.
San Francisco to Los Angeles, daily except Sunday.
San Francisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday.
STEAMERS HARVARD, YALE, PRESIDENT, GOVERNOR,
ADMIRAL SCHLEY AND ADMIRAL DEWEY.
Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice.
For Full Particulars. T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage, Alaska.
LAUNCH “SWAN”
Capt. N. ,J. Gaikema.
Daily Trips to Knik and Goose Bay from Govern
ment Dock No. 1.
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Ticket Agencies at Baxter’s and City Auto Service,
Phone 89-R.
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. FOR MEN
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SEATTLE, WASH.
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Men’s and Young Men’s Wear.
Sandwiches, coffee and pastry lunch
es served at the North Pole Bakery.
Best music and entertainers at Pe
terson’s. 399
WASHINGTON, March 20.—(By
mail)—Rear Admiral Bradley
Piske of the navy believes that the
question of navy personnel is just as
important as having more and larger
battleships, and that even if these
greater instrduments of destruction
are provided, nothing can be done
to bring them to a maximum degree
of efficiency until the men can be
trained (a long and painstaking pro
cess) to manage them.
“For the United States to come
into the war at this stage,” he says,
“and make a creditable showing,
seems difficult.' In the summer of
1913 the German fleet carried out
maneuvers which showed a grasp of
naval warfare far beyond anything
we have ever shown. We have no
dirigibles, hardly a dozen aeroplanes
and no battle cruisers. The German
fleet has an advantage over us of
about four years already, and it prob
able will be 1920 before we can do
what Germany was able to do in 1913.
“Another unknown quantity is the
officers and men to man our navy.
We are' so far behind in both that
our fleet is already undermanned
and underofficered, while the vessels
in reserve have hardly enough men
to keep them in good material con
dition. It is impossible to guess, and
I use the word advisedly, how long it
would take, even if*the necessary num
ber of men enlisted, to get the vessels
of the active and reserve fleets man
ned in such a way that they could be
fought with anything like proper ef
fectiveness.
Undermanned Ships.
“The crew of the battleship Louis
iana, now in reserve, for instance,
would number about 800 men. Now
the Louisiana could not engage in a
fight with a highly trained German
ship of the same size on anything like
equal terms inside of a year after go
ing into commission unless she had in
her crew a very large proportion of
trained men at the start, and that she
has not.
"The Louisiana could be gotten
ready to go out and fight tomorrow,
but if she should have to fight a
highly trained German ship of the
same type she would probably be
sunk within an hour.
“This is not a wild statement. Re
member that the Cumberland was
sunk in much less time after she en
gaged the Merrimac in 1862, and also
remember that the United States Ag
ate Chesapeake was captured and
nearly half of her officers and men
killed or wounded in a battle of less
than fifteen minutes with the British
frigate Shannon despite the fact that
the Shannon was about identical in
size.
“Now, in a suppositious fight tomur
row between the Minnesota and a Ger
man battleship, the Minnesota would
not have one-half the number of men
on board as the Germans would, so it
is not far under the truth to say that
she would be sunk in an hour.
Life Too Easy.
“In this connection let us remember
that the actual battle of Manila was
decided in less than two hours, and so
was the battle of Tshushima between
the Russian and Japanese fleets, which
was the greatest naval battle ever
fought up to that time and which is
still the greatest if we leave out the
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battle of Jutland in the present war.
In point of destructiveness, of course,
the battle of Tschima was greater.
“Now, as to our navy, we do not
know where we are going to get
enough enlisted men to man the ships.
“Enlistments are coming in very
slowly and probably will continue to
do so. The young men of the country
do not take kindly to the hardships of
naval life because mainly, throughout
their lives they have been trained to
make money a*nd have an easy time. It
is difficult to see how members of a
self-indulgent, ease-loving nation can
fight successfully the hardy, self- sac
rificing members of a nation like Ger
many, unless we arouse ourselves to
action and devotion before it is too
late.”
COL. DUNCAN M. STEWART
IS RAISING REGIMENT OF
CANADIANS FOR SERVICE
Col. Duncan M. Stewart, the well
known mining man who is concerned
in important placer holdings on the
Kenai peninsula, is taking the initia
tive in the organization of a regiment
of ex-Canadians who are now natur- |
alized American citizens, to partici
pate in the war. Col. Stewart lives in
New York city and makes yearly
trips to Alaska. He was in Anchor
age last season. The following is
from the New York World of Febru-!
ary 9: I
Duncan M. Stewart, formerly lieu
tenant-colonel of the Thirteenth Scot
tish Light Dragoons of Montreal; R.
K. Cowan, formerly captain of the !
Queen’s Own Rifles, of Toronto; Hen
ry Mountain, formerly lieutenant in
an Ottawa regiment—all now natur
alized American citizens—and H.
Ashton Richardson, of Nova Scotia,
purpose to form a regiment of ex-Ca
nadians living in the United States
if this country goes to war.
“I think I voice the sentiments of i
thousands of Canadians who owe
their living and protection to this
country when I say that we want to
be something more than taxpayers,"
said Col. Stewart yesterday. ‘'Amer
icans who were in Canada are fight
ing, and now we Canadians here
stand ready.”
WEATHER REPORT.
7 a. m., April 10, 1917.
Station Temp. Day Win4 Trail Snow
Anchrage 30 Cldy. Calm Good 9 in.
Indian Ck. 38 Cldy. S. E. Bare V2 in.
Kern Crk. 28 Snow East Poor 9 in.
Mile 52 ..31 Snow South Drift 72 in.
Seward .. 30 Rain South Bare 2 in.
Potter Ck. 30 Cldy. Calm Poor 1 in.
Matnuska 34 Cldy. S. W. Bare Gone
Kashwtna 22 Cldy. East Good 33 in.
Deadhorse 30 Cldy. East Good 38 in.
ralkeetna 36 Cldy. North Good 33 in.
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Latest War News at Peterson’s. 399
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but in the best possible manner.
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Will you meet me?
When?
Thursday afternoon and evening.
Where?
In the Presbyterian Parlors.
What for?
To get a fine lunch and to buy some
thing dainty and useful at my own
price. 786
Fresh Nuts, Robarts.
778
XOTXCE FOB PU8LZOATZOX.
Department of the Interior. U. S.
I-and Office at Juneau, Alaska, Februarv
3, 1317.
NOTICK is hereby given that William
Hughes, of Knik, Alaska, who, on April
16, 1915, made Homestead Entry. No.
01780. for NW14 SW%, Lots i. i. SH
NWii Sec. 2, Lot 2, Section 11, Town
ship 16 N.. Range 2 W.. Seward Merid
ian, has filed notice of Intention to make
five years Proof, to establish claim to
the land above described, before I,eopold
David, U. S. Commissioner, at his office
at Anchorage. Alaska, on the 11th day of
April, 1917.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Fred Crocker, of Knik. Alaska.
Malcolm A. McNeil, of Knik. Alaska.
Stanton Shafer, of Knik, Alaska.
James Patcheil. of Knik, Alaska.
C. B.-WALKER. Register.
FRANCE WAS SAVED—
INDIRECTLY THOUGH NONE THE LESS SURELY, THROUGH THE THRIFTY HABITS OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE, AS MUCH AS BY THEIR UNEXAMPLED
HEROISM; MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WERE AVAILABLE FOR THE PROSECUTION OF THE WAR, MONEY SAVED BY THE PEOPLE, LITTLE BY LITTLE,
UNTIL THE SUM BROUGHT FORTH AT A CRITICAL TIME WAS IN THE AGGREGATE, STAGGERING.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE—THE MOST EXTRAVAGANT ON EARTH—MIGHT AT THIS CRUCIAL MOMENT IN THE AFFAIRS OF THE NA
TION, ASK THEMSELVES IF EACH PERSON IS DOING HIS “BIT” AND BY SO MUCH AS HE IS ABLE TO PUT AWAY FOR A POSSIBLE NA
TIONAL NEED, HELPING TO PAY HIS DEBT TO HIS COUNTRY.
OPEN AN ACCOUNT TODAY. A BANK ACCOUNT IS THE GREATEST INCENTIVE TO PRACTICAL ECONOMY.
BANK OF ANCHORAGE
RESOURCES OVER $500,000.