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(From tlu> Alaska Railroad Record)
WEEKLY FORCE REPORT.
Anchorage Division.
The number of employees of the Anchorage Division
as shown by the payrolls on Saturday, April 7, 1917, was
as follows:
Commissioner’s Office . 38
Shops and Y'ards . 161
Transportation Service 36
Store and Dock Departments 282
Accounting Department 16
Disbursing Office ‘
Townsite Department 20
Steward’s Department 14
Hospital Department 25
Telegraph and Telephone Department 54
Track, Bridge and Ballast—Main Line 259
Turnagain Arm District 191
Matanuska District "63
Talkeetna District . 164
1620
Stationmen and laborers—All districts 1288
Grand total all employees Anchorage Division 2908
COMPENSATION FOR STATION LABORERS.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
Anchorage, Alaska, April 211. 1917
Circular No. 198:
TO ALL CONCERNED:
The matter of compensation for stationmen laborers has
been taken up with the Chairman, and his reply has been
received as follows:
“Comptroller decided April 12th stationmen
laborers are entitled to receive compensation under
Act September 7, 1916.”
In accordance with the above, compensation can be paid
to all stationmen laborers who were injured since Septem
ber 7, 1916, for a period longer than three days, and they
should arrange to file their claims at the earliest possible
date with the district engineer in charge of the district
they were working on at the time of injury.
Claims of the above nature are to be handled in the
same manvr as claims of Commission employees.
F. MEAUS. Commissioner.
John L. Strong has been appointed, effective April 19,
assistant agent and operator at Anchorage station. _
Under the title “The President’s
Message," the Deutche Zeitung, of
Portland, publishes the following lead
ing editorial:
“President Wilson has addressed
congress. He has called for a declar
ation of war, an army of 500,000 uni
versal military service and appropria
tions sufficient to carry on the war
wtih vigor. He also demands credit to
the allies and co-operation with them
toward a speedy close of the war.
“If we must have war, let it be a
man’s war. This is no time for boys’
play. But let us avoid alliances of all
kinds. Let us fight our own battles,
pay our own bills and take our own
medicine when it comes to the bitter
ness of war. We have need for all our
resources. We have place for all our
men.
“The president’s message is prob
ably the most straightforward and
masterful which he has spoken in his
years before the public. We can heart
ily agree with many things he said. Of
course, we differ with him on the ques
tion of the necessity for war and we
fail to see the advantage of entering
into an alliance in order to prosecute
an effective and liberty-preserving
war.”
The New York Staats Zeitung prints
an editorial dispatch from Washington
signed by Bernard Bidder, its editor,
in which he says:
“The president need have no concern
as to the loyalty of Americans of Ger
man ancestry. That question has been
answered definitely and finally. I
trust, however, that in the days of
trial and bitterness to come it will be
understood in a spirit of sympathetic
appreciation.”
The New York German Ilerold—In
respect to Mr. Wilson’s declaration
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that the war is not aimed at the Ger
man people, we think he has a lurking
suspicion that they would quickly cast
off their kings and princes if they saw
a strong democratic party ready to
shield them against their enemies,
while they set their house in order.
We are absolutely certain that during
the war no change in the form of gov
ernment the Germans have is possible.
Many of them would prefer a republi
can form of government, but they feel
that, if they follow their inclinations
at this time, the resulting internal
disturbances would permit the enemy
to enter the gates and to devastate
Germany.
Louisville Anzeiger—Our president:
contends in his message that we have
to go to war to free the world of
autocratic rule. The German people,
says he. Were not asked if they want
ed to go to war or not. Even if so,
let us not make the same mistake, and
give our people by a referendum vote!
the opportunity to decide themselves
about the momentous question: Peace
or war. '
Cincinnati Volksblatt—We agree,
with the president that war exists be
tween the United States and Germany i
and that all the citizens must comply]
with the duties arising out of a state
of war. All other statements in the
president’s speech we disapprove and
reject.
Cincinnati Freie Press—We stand
and fall with the land of our choice. I
MOVING DREDGE TO SIXTY-MILE.
J. Austin Fraser, who has returned j
from a trip to Sixty-mile, reports that
O. C. Carlson, who recently took over'
the'Walker fork dredge, which has!
been operating on Miller creek, has a
large crew of men engaged in moving
the dredge to a point on the Sixty-mile
river, says the Dawson News, near the
mouth of Rig Gobi. Miller and Glacier j
flow into Rig Gold, which in turn de
bouches into Sixty-mile. The dredge
has been knocked down, and the ma
terial is being hauled about seven
miles. It is reported that if all turns
out satisfactory the new owners of the
dredge may put several dredges on
that part of Sixty-mile. Mr. Carlson
is an old-time Nome operator, where
he spent fourteen years. He also was
in the Klondike in the early days and
mined for a while on Bonanza.
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KENNECOTT COPPER
SETS A BIC. RECORD
BOSTON, April 3.—From all its
mines the Kennecott Copper corpora
tion turned out 11,878,000 pounds of
copper in January, which was a
slight increase over the previous
month. Both the Alaskan mines
and the Braden contributed to the
gain, although the major part of the
increase was from the former.
Now that the Kennecott owns all
but a very few shares of the Bra
den company, the latter to all in
tents and purposes is an integral part
of the Kenecott and places this com
pany in fifth position among the hig
porducers, being exceeded by the Ana
conda, the Thelps-Dodge, the Utah
Copper and the Inspiration.
Kennecott’s normal output from the
Bonanza and Beaton mines in Alaska
at the present titme may be regarded
as about 7,000,000 pounds monthly al
though for six consecutive months last
year this output exceeded 10,000,000
pounds. Of this total the Beatson
properties furnish about 1,000,000
pounds, but by the middle of this year,
with the completion at least 3,000,000
pounds a month.
WELSH CITY IS A
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CARDIFF, Wales, April 10.—Sub
scriptions from Cardiff to the new
British war loan amounted to more
than 30,000,000 pounds, an average of
ioO pounds for every man, woman and
child in the city. This remarkable
contribution is an indication of the
golden age which the war has brought
to Cardiff. In no British city has such
vast wealth been earned so easily and
so quickly.
At the outbreak of the war, Cardiff
had the largest export trade in the
country. Freights began to increase.
Ships doubled, trebled, quadrupled in
value. Young business men, enter
prising and daring, bought whole
fleets on a speculative basis which
would almost make a New York curb
broker hesitate. They reaped the re
ward of their daring.
In one ease a tramp steamer so old
that it was carried on a company’s
books at a nominal valuation of one
pound, was sold for 80,000 pounds, and
resold the next day for an even 100,
000 pounds. In another case a steam
er bought in the midst of a voyage
for 100,000 pounds, realized 40,000
pounds for its owner by the time it
reached his dock, and was then
promptly resold for another profit of
40,000 pounds.
Among new millionaires of Cardiff
are 14 young men who before the war
were shipping clerks earning not more
than $10 a week. One of them had
less than a hundred dollars in the
bank when he bought his first ship,
collecting the money for his initial
payment by borrowing small amounts
from a large number of friends and
acquaintances.
W. A. Macumber, a pioneer musi
cian of Nome, died last winter in
Southern California, where he went in
search of health. Macumber was one
of the best known men in the northern
camp. He served as postmaster for a
time and was employed in the office
for many years. He was leader of the
band and orchestra.
II
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Pacifist in
fluence in America took a sudden turn
Saturday from efforts to prevent war
to means of financing it. At the
some time it became known that a
plan put forward by the American
Committee of War Finance headed by
Amos Tinchot, to place the entire fi
nancial burden of the war upon per
sons with incomes of more than $5,000
a year, has been indorsed in high
circles.
“If we have war,” Mr. Pirn-hot said,
“let’s have the country organized on
a basis that will unite all classes. The
only way to do this is to place our fi
nancial burden where it belongs. Our
friends the militarists, IJoosevelt,
lioot, Choate, Mitchel, and others, tell
the people every day or two that the
country has grown soft through ex
cessive wealth. If they mean this,
they will not hesitate to sign the
pledge of the American Committee on
War Finance.
“Our plan is not to confiscate
wealth; it is to make wealth available
for natural service in war. It will give
every man who enlists the feeling
that he has the backing of those who
do not enlist. It will do for war what
has never been done before, that is,
make it a just war so far as the peo
ple within the country are concerned.
It will not hurt anybody who has a
surplus income to sacrifice some of
his surplus.
“Already England is levying a war
contribution of 25 per cent even on
incomes of $2,500. The percentage in
creases rapidly on higher incomes. If
we go to war, we might as well begin
by patriotic action that will place the
war on a respectable basis, take all
profit out of it, unite the country by
making it co-operative in the largest
sense, and give it a strong impulse
to enlistment by making the soldiers
feel that they will be honestly fed,
clothed and armed, and that if they
are killed or wounded the pensions
will not come out of the poor.”
The greatest significance was at
tached to the sudden action of leading
pacifists, because of the belief that
they were in close communication
with Washington leaders. While they
insisted that they “still hoped” for
peace, their actions indicated that the
‘ hope" is practically exhausted.
The committee, in its announce- j
ment, pointed out that the heavy toll
of war will be upon the working peo- :
pie of the country because of their
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greater numbers. With this in view,
it calls for signatures to a pledge to
demand legislation for a special war
income tax on all incomes over $5,000.
The schedule calls for a tax of 2Vs
per cent on all incomes from $5,000
to $10,000 a year.
On all incomes over $10,000 a slid
ing scale beginning at 10 per cent and i
rising to a point that will permit no
individual to retain more than a net
income of over $100,000 per year, is
proposed.
The pledge further calls for legis
lation limiting net profits on all war
supplies to .‘I'- per cent and provides
that no wholesale or retail dealer
shall sell foodstuffs or other necessi-!
ties at a profit greater than 0 per
cent during the war.
“We do not believe that any real
patriot wants the poor people of the
nation to bear the burden of the cost
of war in addition to the burden of
fighting,” said Mr. Pinchot. “Our j
committee is not made up of peace-at
any-price people, and there is no one
connected with the movement who has
any German sympathy. Our proposal
is simply predicated on the nation’s
experience in past wars, and is based
on the theory that in war there should
be a partnership between the workers
who will be called upon to risk their
lives and the wealthy who will be cal
led upon to furnish the finance of the
war.
“An idea of what such an emergen
cy law would do can be seen in the
case of the Du-pont family, popularly
reported to have an annual income of
$80,000,000. Taking out $100,000 al
lowance for each of the ten or so
members of the family, would leave
a net return to the government of ap
proximately $79,000,000 a year.
“Recently we have been asked to
sign a meaningless pledge of loyalty
to the country, which was in fact an
insult to any real American’s patriot
ism. Here is a pledge that is some
thing more than empty words. It is
practical patriotism.”
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AT THE EMPRESS.
Entire Pathe Program.
“The King’s Game,” a Pathe Gold
Rooster play of unusual interest, ex
cellent in manner of production and
one of the most striking features of
fered at the Empress theatre this
week, will be presented in motion pic
tures this Thursday and Friday, April
26 and 27.
Three favorite stars of the film
world. Pearl White, George Probert
and Sheldon Lewis, appear in this pic
ture, which' was produced under the
personal direction of Arnold Daly, the
master detective in every motion pic
ture he appears. Under Daly’s guid
ance, together with the stars men
tioned and from the reliable Pathe
Brothers, this production in five parts
being the adventures of an unusual
young duke, whose father, the old
grand duke of Kiev, coveted the wife
of Count Dardinilis, his colonel of
huzzars; of the old grand duke’s plot
to get her for himself; of her acci
dental death at the hands of his Cos
sacks, and of the colonel’s escape to
America with his little daughter, is
truly meritorious and worthy ff more
than passing fancy. Pathe News of
current events, home and abroad, will
also be a feature.
Peterson’s Billiard Parlor for latest
war bulletins. 400
Best music at Peterson’s. 444
Wood and coat delivered to £any
part of the city. Phone 43-Y. Uni
versal Taxi and Transfer, 125
Stop at Peterson’s Hotel. 390
a e all Dance
OPENING GAME OF SEASON
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Saturday Night!
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ROBARTS’ HALL
April 28
NO COUNTER ATTRACTION
Biggest and Best affair in history of Anchorage. Given in sup
port of the National Game.
Proceeds go to pay off indebtedness on Grand Stand.
Five-Piece Orchestra
AND
Splendid Dance Floor
PLAY BALL AND SUPPORT THE ISSUE.
BUY A TICKET - $1.00 EACH.