donations to the
NEW LABOR HALL
Donations Received and Ac
knowledged in the Columns
of 'If' Anchorage Daily
Timelttiip to and Including
November 18 .$7,473.85
Reed & Dahl . . . 50.00
The Bank (Reed & Dahl) .... 50.00
Montana Pool Room. 50.00
F. E. Parker. . 25.00
FfSnk Eccles Transfer . 25.00
Olaf Helm . 25.00
Fifth Avenue Cigar Store_ 10.00
Bessie Raymond . 5.00
Sadie Schmidt . 5.00
Eva Williamson . 5.00
Bessie Fisher . 5.00
Atyy & Murphy, Lawyers. 5.00
Bert Wilkinson . 5.00
Sam Cash . 5.00
L. C. Rainey. 5.00
J. M. Sloane. 5.00
C. R. Clapp . 5.00
J. H. McClure. 5.00
D. R. Grant. 5.00
Jas. Brennan. 5.00
R«S$ Mills. 5.00
Ole Johnson. 5.00
Matt Baker . 5.00
Frank Martin . 5.00
Jean Jackson . 5,00
D. N. Georgoff. 5.00
N. BalabanofT. 5.00
E. Henrickson . 5.00
L. E. Nelson . 5.00
Arvie Kallestad . 5.00
Geo. Hendrickson . 5.00
Aftert Lee . 5.00
Geo. Baker . 5.00
Carl Carlson I. 5.00
Andy Grossley . 5.00
Chas. McKenzie . 5.00
L. Trandeem . 5.00
J. O. Bush . 5.00
A. S. iMcDowell . 5.00
Ben ^jtson . 4.00
J.'f). Bush . 4.00
J. E. Anderson. 3.50
Harry Gozoff . 3.50
Alex Tibieff.. 3.50
W. M. Foster . 2.00
M. Cameron . 2.00
Annie Sewrnick . 2.00
Tony Gillette .'. 2.00
Seattle Rooming House. 2.00
Mike Papeduk . 1.00
1'he bakery goods at the North
Pole Bakery have that “home” fla
vor. 11-9-tf
See the Thanksgiving special ad
vertisement of Felix Brown & Co.,
this paper. 33
Try a Want Ad in The Times.
UNDERGROUND
CITIES DFTHE
FEUDAL DATS
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES
ON THE SOJV1ME, Oct. 23.—(By
Mail.)—While the cave warfare which
has been adopted by the Germans as
their latest style of defensive tactics is
being greatly facilitated at the south
ern extremity of the Franco-British
offensive by thejexistence of caves dug
by the Hugenonts, it is being even
more facilitated at the northern ex
j tremity of the “big push” by the ex
I istence of entire underground villages.
| The caves, cellars and vaults, dug
by the Hugenonts in the province of
Santerre, both for refuge and for con
cealing their valuables, date back to
the religious wars which were waged
in France several centuries ago. The
subterranean villages in the1 northern
part of Picardy are of a more antique
origin and go back to feudal times.
As a rule, they are dug*into solid
rock, and the French general staff has
reason to believe that their existence
was not only long ago known to Ger
mans, but long ago counted upon by
the German general staff as a definite
means for clinging onto the soil of
France.
There is now every reason to be
lieve that the series of underground
villages in Picardy is to be utilized
I largely by the Germans in constitut
j ing a new line of defense against the
I Franco-British drive that has now
pushed them entirely out of their
three-line trench defenses which they
had regarded as absolutely untakable.
By a combination of circumstances,
the immense navigable canal which
was being dug in the northern part of
France when the war began, and
which was to have been one of
France’s greatest inland waterways,
skirts the district of underground vil
lages on the west and constitutes an
additional asset to the Germans for
their new line of defense. This canal
starting from Peronne, where it was
to connect up with the Somme canal,
already in existence, traverses the
northern half of the pathway of the
allies’ offensive, cutting the Bapaume
Cainbrai road near Hovrinecourt.
At the moment war was declared i
this canal was practically completed j
and ready to have the water turned in.
At the foot of Mount Saint Quentin,
the French have already reached the
banks of this canal, and it has been
ascertained that the Germans are util
izing the big ditch for their new line
of defenses. This does not consti
tute a serious fact for the French gen
eral staff, as it is of course in pos
session of all the details of the canal’s
construction. What it does regret,
however, is that its occupation by the
Germans will unquestionably force its
complete destruction by the allies’
heavy artillery and the years of time
and millions of francs spent in its
construction will be entirely wiped out.
Along the line of this canal are also
to be found the underground villages
of feudal times which it is now known
are being organized by the Germans
with machine guns for a final resist
ance. One of the most famous of
these subterranean villages is at Her
mies, on the banks of the canal. The
village is dug in the solid rock, and
consists of 115 chambers with about
800 alcoves. The entrance to this vil
lage is under the tower of the church
and its fortification by the Germans
will of course entail the destruction of
the entire church edifice by the allied
artillery. Other similar underground
villages are to be found in the valley
of the Exuette, traversed also by the
canal, and at Ypres. Getting the Ger
mans out of these subterranean vil
lages is not considered a serious prob
lem by the French general staff.
NEW YORK, Nov. 13,—New York’s
season of grand opera which opens to
night at the Metropolitan opera house
is replete with novelties and will give
the Greater City’s music lovers op
portunity to hear several new song
birds.
Among the operas to be sung for
the first time is Reginald de Koven’s
“Canterbury Pilgrims,” with book by
Percy Mackaye. The presentation
will be the opera’s world premiere.
Other operas to be sung here for the
first time are “Iphigenia ni Tauris,”
by Gluck, to be sung in German;
“Francesco da Rimini,” music by R.
Zandonai, book by Gabriele d’Annun
zio, to be sung in Italian, and “Les
Pecheurs des Perles,” by Bizet, to he
sung in French.
The new artists are Alice Eversman,
Odette ,Le Fontenay, Marie Sundelius.
Kathleen Howard, Paul Eisler and
Gennaro Papi. Papi is to be second
[ conductor of the Italian opera.
Arthur Bodansky and Giorgio Pol
acco have been re-engaged as conduc
tors. The artists {If yesteryear re
engaged are:'
Sopranos — Frances Alda, Maria
Barrientos, Anna Case, Vera Curtis,
j Emmy Destinn, Minnie Egener, Ger
aldine Farrar, Rita Fornia, Johanna
Gadski, Mabel Garrison, Frieda Hem
pel, Melanie Kurt. Edith Mason, Alice
Nielson, Marie Rappold, Lenoru
Sparkes and Rosina van Lyck; mezzo
sopranos—Mariska Aldrich, Emma
Horniggia, Sophia Braslau, Raymonde
Lelaunois, Louise Homer, Marie Mati
feld, Margarete Matzenauer, Florence
Mulford, Margarete Ober, Flora I\>
rini, Lila Robeson and Eamestine
Schumann-Heink; tenors—Paul Alt
house, Pietro Audisio, Angelo Bada,
Julius Bayer, Max Bloch, Luca Botta,
Enrico Caruso, Riccardo Martin, Gio
vanni Martinelli, Albert Reiss, Johan
ness Sembach and Jacques Urlus; bar
itones—Pasquale Amato, Bernard Be
gue, Guiseppe de Luca, Otto Goritz,
Mario Laurenti, Carl Schlegel, An
tonio Scotti, Robert Leonahrdt, Vin
cenzo Beschilglian, Riccardo Tegani,
Herman Well and Clarence Whitehill;
basses—Carl , Braun, Adamo Didur,
Pompillo Malatesta, Arthur Middle
ton, Giulio Rossi, Leon Rothier, Basil
Ruysdael, Andrea de Sergurola ' and
Henri Scott.
Giulio Gatti-Gasazza continues as
general manager,
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“MUSH-ON!”
! Jake Hardy was a pioneer
j When most of us were kids,
Ie knew no home from Thane to Nome
He lived his life on skids.
Jake’s huskies were a speedy pack.
No finer saw the Yukon;
From Ketchikan to Mastodon
“Mush-on!” he cried, “Mush-on!”
When hungry men came north for gold
They crowded on Jake’s heels;
He doused the lamp and broke his
camp
And went off hunting seals.
They crowded on where ’re he mushed,
But he kept on and on
Till Death said “come”; and on the run
“Mush-on!” he cried, “Mush-on!”
But Jake has found a home at last
Within St. Peter’s gate;
He looks you o’er when at the door
You knock to learn your fate.
No sourdough has he turned away,
For when they chance upon
The last, long trail, they hear that hail
“Mush-on!” he cried, “Mush-on!”
—H. W. F.
CHANCES IN
BIC LEAGUE
SUGGESTED
NEW YORK—Nov. 8—The elimina
tion of the spitball—in fact, the elim
ination of the use of any foreign sub
stance as an aid to the pitcher; the
question of raising the player limit;
the complaints regarding short fences
and bleacher walls; John McGraw’s
fall from grace; umpire baiting;
world’s series changes—all these and
many other questions will be well
thrashed out when the National league
magnates get together December 12
for their annual gab-fest in New
York.
Gov. Tener, president of the Nation
al league, is one of those who believe
in the elimination of the spitball and
its variations. A pitcher, Gov. Tener.
believes, should have no need for out
side agencies, and the cleanliness of
the game has something to do with his
opinion. He believes, along with a
great many others, that the spit-ball
is just a wee bit indecent and repul
The change in the player limit has
found many champions and it is one
of the things that magnates and clit
ics alike expect will be doctored. Clubs
have suffered because they didn’t
have an adequate number of substi
tutes to carry on their games. The
Philadelphia and Boston clubs are two
examples of this. The New York
Giants and the Phillies are expected
to lead a fight for the rescinding of
the twenty-one player rule.
The short bleacher wall in Phila
delphia is certain to come in for dis
cussion. It is obviously unfair to op
posing clubs to count all balls into the
left field bleachers home runs. The
wall is low and many a drive which
.would be good for only two bases in
other parks, bounds into the bleachers
for a circuit clout. As the Phillies
play, many more games, there than
any other club they get too many
whacks at the short wall, opposing
clubs contend, and they will make an
effort to have something done about
it.
John McGraw’s statements are cer
tain to be aired when the magnates
get their fanning started. Several
of them are said to be in favor of
rigid discipline for the Giant’s leader.
Umpire baiting has been carried on
without regard to the open season in
the National league and the good
work started last season for the bene
fit of the Braves probably will be
carried to a satisfactory conclusion.
SHOP EARLY, THAT IS
EARLY IN THE DAY
ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 4.—Uni
formed shop girls lined down town
streets today and handed each passer
by a printed appeal to shop early. It
was a shop-girls’ campaign to close
loop department stores at C:30 p. m.
Saturdays. The campaign will be
continued each Saturday during No
vember.
LONDON WATER COLOR
ARTISTS OPEN EXHIBIT
NEW YORK, Nov. 4.—The first ex
I Dibit in America by the Royal Society
of Pointers in Water Colors of Lon
don was opened here today at' the
American Art Galleries, Washington
| Square South. The war is the cause
i of the move of the exhibit, which has
been held in the society’s own gallery
j in London since 1768.
Try a Want Ad in The Times.
Inlet Soda Works
W. A. TAYLOR, Proprietor
Manufacturers of all kinds of
MINERAL WATERS, SODA
CIDER, SYRUPS.
AGENTS FOR GRAPE JUICE
Anchorage - - Alaska
| P. 0. SUNBERG
| GROCERIES AND GENERAL |l
MERCHANDISE
Is Reasonable Prices and a
|| Square deal to Everybody.
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j|| podvorba svakomu jednako.
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Everlasting Roofing. Bird Creek
Lumber Co. 37
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527 FOURTH AVENUE
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tock of Merchandise Will
Be Sold at a Sacrifice
We Are Forced to Quit Dec. 15th, 1916. Building Sold. Must Vacate
A FEW OF OUR PRICES*
MACKINAW COATS—REGULAR FROM $7.50
TO $15.00 TO BE SOLO FROM $4.00 TO $8.00
1,000 SWEATERS, TO BE SOLD AT COST. \
SSElPSRflr SOCKS, REGULAR $1.50 . 90e
MOCCASINS, REGULAR $4.00.$2.75
UNDERWEAR.
THE BEST TO BE HAD FOR ALASKAN WEAR TO BE
SOLD FOR ONE-HALF THE REGULAR VALUE.
A Thousand Other Things Too Numerous to Mention.
GOODRICH PACS, REGULAR $5.50.$4.5©
FUR-LINED CAPS, REGULAR $1.50.90c
J. B. STETSON HATS, REGULAR $5.00.$3.50
THE FAMOUS DANIEL GREEN FELT SHOES
REGULAR $5.50 . $3.75
FELT SLIPPERS, REGULAR $1.50 . 90c
ARCTIC SHOE, REGULAR $4.00.$2.75
CLOTH TOP RUBBERS, REGULAR $1.50.$1.10
Come and Be Convinced. Fixtures For Sale