Felix Brown & Co.
CLOTHIER AND FURNISHINGS
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NONE BUT THE BEST. C ME FELIX.
The Fuel|Question Solved
Where to get your fire wood, on short notice, in the right lengths, dry,
ready to bum—has been your problem ever. Now, all you have to do
is to call up 52-Y and tell us your wants, and we will attend to the rest.
WOOD WOOD
A trial order placed with us will dispel all your aggravation, caused
by former experiences with the keep-warm question.
Bird Creek Lumber Co.
Robert H. Fleming, Manager
Yard Next to R. R. Track in Old Town
RECREATION
Bowling Alleys and Pool Parlors
YOUNG VIKING H. HEGSTROM
Next to Harmony Theatre.
PLUMBING AND HEATING
Full Line of Plumbing Supplies, Pipes and Fittings.
PROMPT ATTENTION TO ALL ORDERS.
T. W. KENNEDY,
E St. Bet. 3rd and 4tli. Next to Hotel Anchorage
EDW. T. McNALLY
WM. MAITLAND
M’Nally & Maitland
Lumber
Wood
We carry a complete stock of common dimension. Fin
ish that is CLEAR and properly kiln-dried.
SALES AGENTS
ESKA CREEK COAL CD.
YARD and OFFICE, Foot of O Street.
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.
Y A “WANT” AD. IN THE TIMES FOR RESULTS.
(Seattle P.-I.)
Have you a real surname? The
chances are even that you have not.
At least that has beet, the discovery
of ){. M. Garrett, assistant professor
of the English department, of Wash
i.’gton, who has for several months
been delving into account books and
pu'.lie records taken Pom the archives
of the Duchy of Lancaster for the year
ihi'O.
You may have an honest-to-good
ness surname, but unless you are de
scended from royalty your father was
probably named after his occupation
or after the town in which he lived.
Out of 114 names found in an old Eng
lish account book and traced to their
origin, Prof. Garrett found that 44 per
cent originated from trades, crafts or
towns. If your name is Baker your
ancestors probably made bread and if
they made pastry perhaps your name
is Pybaker. If you bear the name of
Smith or Smyth there can be no doubt
that your father’s father’s father at
some time or other shoed horses. So
with Fisher, Mylner, Cooper, Mustard
er, Weber, Roper, Payne, Boteman,
Waterman and other names similarly
connected with occupations. London,
Lynne, Waterman, Drayton, Wake
field, Sutton and the like are names
derived from old English towns.
Staple Foods Look Cheap Now.
No matter what your name, it is
costing you a trifle more than twice
as much to live now in the twentieth
century as it would have cost you and
did cost your ancestors 600 years ago,
when knighthood was in flower. The
average wage at that time was 12
cents a day. But for 12 cents one
could buy a pound of butter, two
pounds of cheese, one pound of salt,
two pounds of flour, one and one-half
dozen eggs, a chicken for the Sunday
dinner and a pound of rice for rice
pudding dessert. In the Seattle mar
ket this bill of staples would cost ap
proximately 32.60.
Most of the items considered and
studied by Prof. Garrett were taken
from the accounts of the expenditures
of Henry, Earl of Derby, eldest son of
John of Gaunt, and afterwards King
Henry IV. of England, on his jour
neys to Prussia and the holy land.
Henry was supposed to have been the
model of the knights in the “Canter
bury Tales.” The books containing
the accounts were carefully kept with
a thorough though rather cumbersome
set of vouchers and receipts.
Horse Worthy a King for $25.
The first items discovered by Prof.
Garrett concerned horses. Henry paid
as high as 100 shillings (about $25)
for a splendid white animal, the best
that he could find in the kingdom, and
as low as 46 shillings 7 pence ($11.32)
for a piebald horse for his clerk of
the kitchen. The clerk of the kitchen
also needed some paper, so it was pur
chased at a cost of 75 cents a quire.
Henry sent John London ahead to
Calais before he began his trip and
paid him 16 cents a day for four days
or until he overtook him after leaving
Dover.
Tipping was prevalent in King Hen
ry’s days and it was a poor servant
who did not receive from 12 cents to
a shilling for his services if they were
at all difficult. Henry’s blood-letter
and barber received the most tips. Af
ter every shave Henry took particular
pains to reward his barber servant.
The account book does not say how
many times Henry was shaved.
The account book kept for Henry
shows few entries for dishes. Most of
them at that time were wooden. There
is an item of 8 shillings for a bag for
the cuphouse, which may have been
the receptacle for the plate. There is
also an account of the purchase of
three silver pitchers, but this was
later attributed to be the result of a
confusion of orders ,as the baker, cook
and Henry all bought a pitcher for
the same purpose.
Ale 4 Cents a Gallon.
Wine and ale were inexpensive in
the 1390s. Ale could be purchased for
4 cents a gallon and as low as 2 cents.
The best wine was worth 5 cents a
quart. The accounts or notes attached
thereto do not state that there was
any drunkenness.
A bill of goods hat cost Henry the
equivalent of $18.10, would cost at
the present time $804.28. The aver
age wage at that time was 12 cents.
If $2.50 is considered the average dai
ly wage at present the wages today
are;-20 times as high as they were 600
years ago. But the price of the aver
age necessary staple article of food is
44 times as high as it was then.
“NIMBLE NED’S” GRANDDAD
SAVED BY THIS OLD-TIMER
(Washington Star)
On completing fifty continuous;
years in the government service this I
afternoon, and having decided to retire
from his position, Warren G. Bickford
of the treasury department was pre
sented with a gold watch and chain,
the gift of numerous friends.
Mr. Bickford was born in York j
county, Maine, May 2, 1845, and at the
beginning of the civil war enlisted in
the Sixteenth regiment, Maine volun
teers. He was seriously wounded at
the battle of Fredericksburg, anti be
cause of these wounds was transferred
for guard duty to the war department
in this city. Bickford was on duty
one night at the entrance of the war
department when he heard footsteps
approaching the spot where the sand
stone steps had been removed to per
mit new ones to be substituted. The
man was close to the steep jump-off,
and Bickford sang out: “Look out, old
man, or you’ll break your dern neck.’’
The next morning Bickford was
summoned before officials of the war
department and told that he had saved
the life of Secretary ^Stanton of the
war department, who, forgetting the !
steps had been removed, was just
about to step into the opening. As a
reward he was named as a private
messenger, and later as a mounted
messenger to carry telegrams received
at the war department. For forty
seven years he has been in the depart
ment of printing and stationery of
the treasury.
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PERIODICALS
NEWSPAPERS
Panorama Photographs
Anchorage and
Mount McKinley
PERSONAL SHOPPING BY MAIL
THE items in Women’s ^nd Chil
dren’s Wear, and Men’s Haber
dashery, that cannot be obtained from
your home merchant may be ordered
from us, and will be sent POSTAGE
PAID to any Alaska address reached
by U. S. Mail.
During the Holiday Season, as at all
times, we shall be glad to study your
wishes in the selecting of Gifts, and in
properly packing and mailing them to
your friends. Let us send you the lat
est issue of our Mail Order News.
Address Mail Order Department “A”
FREDERICK&NELSON
SEATTLE
B. C. NICHOLS
WATCH MAKER AND
JEWELER.
Anchorage, Alaska.
Inlet Soda Works
W. A. TAYLOR, Proprietor
Manufacturers of all kinda of
MINERAL WATERS, SODA
OIDER, SYRUPS.
AGENTS FOR GRAPE JUICE
Anchorage - - Alaska
SEATTLE, Jan. 20.—Bids for ttie
construction of two 48-foot motor
boats, designed by Martin C. Erisman,
well known naval architect, will be
asked from Seattle and other Puget
sound yards by the United States bu
reau of fisheries, which will use the
vessels in connection with the fisher
ies service. Ten thousand dollars was
appropriated by the last congress for
the boats. Erisman has been retained
by the bureau to supervise their con
struction.
He was notified by Washington, D.
C., that his plans and specifications
had been accepted and was directed to
turn them over to E. J. Brown, Seat
tle agent of the bureau of fisheries.
Brown is preparing to issue the call
for bids.
The vessels are to be duplicates,
each with a length of 48 feet and a
beam of 12.5 feet. They will be euip
ped with 25 horsepower motors, burn
ing distillate oil. Each will have ac
commodations for a crew of two men
forward'and quarters for two inspec
tors in a raised house aft, with a pilot
house and galley forward of amid
ships. A mast with a small spread of
sail for use in emergencies will be
provided on each boat.
In design they will represent a mo
dified seine boat model, and will pos
sess all the sturdy seagoing qualities
of that type.
Two 20-foot Karluk skiffs, designed
by Erisman and built in Seattle, are
now being used by the fisheries bu
reau station on St. Paul island, Ber
ing sea. They were designed especi
ally for discharging cargo on the
beach from vessels moored in the
roadstead, each of the skiffs having
a total cargo capacity of five tons.
They were sent north late last sum
mer.
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MEN’S CLOTHIERS
ROY FAIRBANKS, Prop.
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Time to fall in line with the others
that eat at Cameron’s Cafe. 354
Head The Dally Times and be an
incboragc booster.
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Union Laundry
and Bath. House.
Fourth Ave., Between H and J 'I
Anchorage ' *
OUR WORK IS GUARANTEED
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BATH TUBS IN ANCHORAGE
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A SPECIALTY.
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Il.o only told storage plant in con
nertinn with market In Anchorage.
Home-made Sausages. Fruits. Veg
! etables. Butter and Eggs, at whole
sale. Restaurants and roadhouses.
1 special attention.
I(ii Aie.. I»eC> II and I Sts.
E. 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 :
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Furniture Made to Order. AH |
Kinds Cabinet Work, Show <•)
Cases, Etc.
Kiln Dried Lumber.
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Seasoned in Our Shop.
JOE KITAK.
4th and K Sts.
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HOTEL SEWABD
511 THIRD AVE.
Arctic Club Bldg., SEATTLE, WASH.
ZBINDEN BROS., Props.
Rooms 51-00 Special
With Bath $1.50 Weekly Rates