CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PASSES
RESOLUTION URGING NEW PATROL
BOATS FOR THIS SECTION ALASKA
The Nome rhambf-r of Commerce
11.ruling .him- 30th .. at which tim"
veral important matters wt*re
taken tip and acted upon. When
President R. B. Julian called the
meeting together, it wms noticed
that three of the directors and the
secretary were absent, due to press
ing business engagements. Presi
dent Julian appointed Ralph Lomen
Anting the notables present were
the National Councillor. Geo. I).
Schofield, anil K. J. Mathews, Chair
man of the Alaska Committee of
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce,
as well as Captain White and Sav
inc L. Craft of th** Steamboat ltt
The matter of the delay in trans
mitting the 1‘. S. mail from the
mail boat Donaldson to shore was
taken tip and referred to the Mail
Committee with the National Coun
cillor and President acting in an ex
Mr. R. W. J. Reed reported hav
ing telegraphed the Superintendent
of Light House Service requesting
authorization to install 13 Spar j
Buoys along the coast, which had
been granted and contract let to the
Lomen Reindeer and Trading Cor
poration.
A general discussion ensued on
the question of additional lights to
nid navigation. The concensus of
opinion seemed to favor the prepa
ration of detail data and defer re
quest until the season of 192.
Mr. K. J. Mathews discussed it
length the flight of the dirigible,
Shenandoah from Nome to Spitz-j
bergen a-nd its advantages to Nome, j
Judge Geo. D. Schofield discussed i
the matter of the Chamber, busl
r.ess men and others of this com
munity getting together and be- j
coming more social and increasin'; i
tl e membership of the Chamber, i
end outlined a policy which he sug
gested be adopted. President .Tul
le n acting upon Mr. Schofield’s sug
gestion appointed J. J. Hamlyn.
chairman; O. S. Weaver .and Ralph
I «-int*n a committee to
iiinner. No dale was set but the
n after was left entirely in the
! :.nds of ihe Committee.
National Councillor Schofield pre
sented the following Resolution.
\ hich. after a short discussion was
unanimously adopted.
RESOLUTION
Nome. Alaska June :tn. 1924.
WHEREAS, the V. S. C. G. C.
REAR, built in Greenock. Scotland.
1S74. was purchased by the Cnited
States Government from Great Brit
«’ll in 1885, and ever since and still
is on the Arctic and Bering Sea pa
WHEREAS. said vessel is a coal
burner and is insufliciently powered
to cope with ice conditions in Ber
ing Sea and the Arctic Ocean in the
service for which she is intended,
and i« in other respects obsolete,
and should be junked and immedi
ately replaced by a modern vessel
constructed along the lines neces
in Northern waters; and
WHEREAS, in conjunction with
the Coast Guard Service on patrol
J:i Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean,
a subsidiary service of a seventy five
foot, heavy duty powered, strongly
built, light draft patrol boat, to be
in charge of the Coast Guard service
a* Nome. Alaska, is a necessary ad
junct to the said service in the pro
tection <*f life and shipping in said
WHEREAS, on February 7.
1924. United States Senator Wes
ley L Jones, of Washington, intro
duced a Bill in the l\ S. Senate pro
viding of the construction of a new
Coast Guard Cutter for the use of
tie Coast Guard Service to replace
the said Cutter Bear, and on March
19. 1924. Representative Samuel E.
Winslow of Massachusetts, intro
duced a similar Bill for a like pur
pose in the House of Representa
tives. known as H. R. No. 6817.
v. hich has already passed the House;
WHEREAS, provision has been
made for the construction of 176
Patrol floats to do patrol duty along
American coast lines, and the Toast
Guard on May 1!». 1!»24. opened and
.ncepted bids f.»r the construction
■f such l*ati*ol vessels ol seventy live
f*-et in length, and as above describ
• d, to be used as auxiliaries in con
nection with Coast Guard Cutters
i-ti deep sea service.
NOW THEREFORE. He It lie
solved, by Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce of Nome. Al
aska, that tills Chamber urges the
imperative necessity of the immedi
ate construction of a new Coast
Guard Cutter to replace the Cutter
TEAK, to be specially built to cop**
with the ice conditions of Bering
Sea and the Arctic Ocean, and in
conjunction with such service, that
one of the new 75 foot Patrol Boats
h* rein mentioned, be allotted for
si rvice to Bering Sea and the Arc
tic Ocean to he stationed at Nome.
Alaska, under the charge of the
('< ast Guard Service, at Nome, Al
RE80LVED FURTHER, that a
copy of this Resolution and the an
r.fxed data be forthwith transmitted
t*i Alaska's Delegate in Congress.
Sfnator Wesley L. .Tones; Repre
sentative Samuel F Winslow; the
Commandant of the Coast Guard
S< rvice. and to the Alaska Commu
te* of the jpeattie Chamber of Com
merce. coupled with the request for
active co-operation to secure the re
sells covered by this Resolution.
As a basis of the foregoing Ttes
c'ution. this Chamber submits the
following brief History. Data and
HISTORY
The ('..ast Guard (’utter Bear
has built in Greenock. Scotland, in
1874. and flew the Cross of St.
St. George until purchased by the
United States in 1885. and from
that day lias been on the Bering Sea
anil Arctic Patrol.
In 1884 prior to the purchase bv
our Government. Great Britain
loaned the Bear to the United .States j
to go to the rescue of the Greely ex- i
pedition. when thirty five men of
the Greely party were compelled to
take refuge at Cape Sabine, when
their relief ship PROETUS was
crushed in th** ice. The Thetis,
tl en in command of Winslow Scott
Schley (afterwards Admiral) and .
the Bear, in command of William
Emory U. S. N.. rescued Greely and
his six companions at Cape Sabine.
The Cutter Bear has been^n ser
vice f..r fifty years and ha* been on
the Arctic and Bering Sea Patrol
The BEAR is a coal burner with
" bunker service wholly inadequate
j for the soiling radius required in
Northern waters, end depends en
tirely for her fuel supply on coal
shipments from Seattle, Washing
ton and Vancouver Island. B. C:
her boilers are old and in need of
constant repairs; her engine is an
tiquated and of insufficient power
to drive the vessel out of dangerous
ice conditions met with in Northern
waters; her upkeep is expensive to
the extreme. In fine, the1 vessel is
obsolete and a menace to her brave
•'dicers and crew when attempting
navigation through the ice field-* of
Bering Sea and the ArcHc Ocean;
her days of usefulness in these wat
Bill introduced by Senator Jones
o*- Washington for a new Coast
Guard Cutter to replace the Bear,
and a like Bill introduced in the
House by Representative Winslow of
Massachusetts (H. R. No. 6817)
which passed the House March 18.
Provisions made by the Coast
Guard for the construction of 175
small Patrol Boats of 75 feet in
length to supplement and assist the
I 'pep Sea Coast Guard Service and
lids opened and accepted.
The Coast Gu ird Cutter Bear
sj.iled from the Port of Seattle, j
Washington, on May 15th.. 1924.
with 21.000 pounds of important I
mail aboard d os tinted for NOME.
Alaska. The vpsspI touched at ITn- i
alaska. Alaska, and departed from 1
that port destined for the port of;
Nome. Alaska, on May 31st.. 1924:
was caught in the ice pack off- St.
Lawrence Island, about 150 miles
s« utherlv from Nome. Alaska, on or
about June 8. 1924. and owing to
her lack of power and other obso
lete conditions, has been unable to
this date to free herself from the
lee; whereas, other vessels have
been enabled to make the Port of
Nome. The BEAR, imprisoned in
the ice as aforesaid. has drifted
Northerly half the length of Bering
Sea: through the Straits and far
North into the Arctic Ocean, and is
t.ow still fast In the ice In the vicin
ity of Point Hope, over three hun
dred miles North of Nome. Alaska;
to the imminent danger of her offi
cers and crew, and to the great det
riment to shippers, business men.
p ining interests and the people ^
generally. by the failure to receive
the first heavy mail of the season
I STILL ABOARD the Cutter HEAR.
This dangerous and unsatisfac
tory condition and present predica
ment of the Bear can be traced to
but one source and covered by the
[s'ligle word “OBSOLETE”; for be
:t known that the Master of the
Bear. Captain Cochran, is generally
recognized in the Service and in
shipping circles, as one of our best
American navigators under ice con
ditions in the Far North.
IWTKOl. BOAT:
Attention is particularly direct
ed to the necessity of allotting one
oi the Patrol Boats herein mention
ed for duty at Nome under the
charge of the Coast Guard Service.
Along the coast line from St.
Michael to Kotzebue Sound and far
ther North points, except as to Port
Clarence, 100 miles North of Nome,
is without Harbors, and the waters
of the sea commence to “shoal up"
a distance of from one mile to two
miles from the beach, so that a
Coast Guard Cutter of deep sea ser
vice Is unable to render but little
assistance to small coastwise ves
sels stranded along the beaches,
(which is always the point of strand
ing of this class of vessels). Again, '
sailing radius of the Cutter Service j
is large, and the Cutter is not al- j
vays available In time of disaster of j
small vessels.
A small Patrol Boat Is necessary
in the control of smuggling; wreck
duty, and in saving life and property
.-long the coast in the Fall and
Spring, when the Coast Guard Cut
ter is not available; also in the
Spring, to proceed offshore and ex
amine into ice conditions ami wire-'
less such conditions to the first fleet •
cl’ incoming vessels. Many other j
uses might be named.
To instance the necessity for
such a vessel on the Coast. It might ,
lie noted that in September 1
1923.. the Schooners Woods. |
Silver Wave. Nokatak. Sea WoIT
and Teddy Bear, were all either in
trouble or long overdue. No Coast
Guard Cutter was at hand to go to
the assistance of either of these ves
sels. Capt. Thomas A. Ross, of the
local Coast Guard Service secured
the Biological Survey Boat HAZEL
and went to the assistance of these
\esaets and brought the crews of the
Woods and Teddy Bear to Nome.
Many like cases might be noted in
td'ese waters every year, where a lo
cal Patrol Boat is necessary.
Passed by Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce of\
! :*ska. 'June no. 1!*24.
President.
ATTEST: A. POLET, )
Secretary.
APPROVED BY: \
E. J. MATHEWSi
Chairman of Alaska Comniittee, Be
attie Chamber of Commerce.
IRA I). ORTON'.
GEO. D. SCHOFIELD
Committee from Alaska Committee
to N. W. Alaska Chamber
Commerce.
CUTTER BEAR OFF
KRUZENSTERN
The many friends of Captain G.
S. Cochran, and the citizens of Nome
in general, are loud in their praise
of that famous, intrepid sourdough
navigator of the frozen Arctic wat
ers, who in the past several years
has gone to the rescue of ships and
has rendered aid to numerous na
tives and white people along the
bleak Arctic (’oast. The people of
Nome are glad to know that the offl
cf i s and crew. as well as the vessel
are not in danger and that every
thing so far is in good shape. We
will all join the Commander in bis
wish for an Easterly breeze which
\ ill give the Hear an opportunity to
return to Nome shortly with the U.
S. Mail, in which there are so many
urgent business .etters long over
The publisher of the Nugget is in
receipt of the following informa
tion from Commander Cochran of
the Coast Guard Cutter Bear:
FI on. Geo. Maynard.
Nome, Alaska.
“Everything so far is in good
shape. The Bear Is now off Cape
Kruzenstem in sight. Position N.
Lat. 66.56 Long 164.03. Ice every
where. It has been an unusual sea
son. We are hoping for an easterly
breeze, thus far have had nothing
but N. W. and S. W. breezes and
when the ice loosens up I hope to
get to Nome without further delay.”
Let the Nome Nagget do yoor
letter wiittac, by ..having ,iw ad
the Weekly Nagger to yonr frteada
••n the Out*hie. „ f.
--SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
With the Arrival of the Cutter Bear we will Dispose for
CASH ONLY, Over $7,000 Worth of
large Shipment of Hart,
Schaffner & Marks Suits
with two pairs of trousers
to each Suit
Crossett Shoes Makes life
walk Easy.
John. B. Stetson hats and
other leading Brands of
Merchandise
AT
Cheap John’s Store
The best for the least money
Ladies Ready-to-Wear Apparel
at Absolute Cost
NOTE
On account of the ice condi
tions this Season. The Cut
ter Bear did not get here in
time. As they usually arrive
before the S. S. Victoria. It
will Well pay you to wait.
CONSISTING OF
Hats
Coats
Suits
Dresses
Skirts
Evening: Gowns, Blouses and other
seasonable merchandise
at absolute cost.
The Bon Marine
Te!e]|hoae Main 40.
M. VSBBBfl, Manager.
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WHOLESALER