ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Leave Seattle
Arrive Seward
MARCH 9 .ALAMEDA. MARCH 16
MARCH 16.NORTHWESTERN.MARCH 23
MARCH 23.ALAMEDA. MARCH 29
MARCH 30.ALASKA.APRIL 6
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers with
out notice. Tickets on sale at up-town office. Empress Building.
J. J. LANKIN, Agent. F. B. TRACY, General Agent.
'ALASKAN SAILING DATES
Leave Seattle Leave Seward
Mar. 9. .FARRAGUT. .Mar. 16
. Mar. 19 ..WATSON.. Mar. 26
Mar. 26 .. .EVANS... April 3
First Anchorage Sailing
Apr, 1 ..FARRAGUT.. Apr. 9
Sailings from Seattle to
CALIFORNIA
Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays
Steamers
President, Governor, Queen,
Senator, Umatilla, Admiral
Schley and Admiral Dewey.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROUTE.
Snn 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.
Sandwiches, coffee and pastry lunch
es served at the North Pole Bakery.
Best music and entertainers at Pe
terson’s. 399
ICE-BOUND LAND
(From the New York Evening Post)
You know the general conception of
Alaska. Well, that is what Alaska is
not. So says Lowell Jackson Thomas,
who is not only a college professor,
but a soldier of fortune as well. He
speaks with a certain authority. For
he has been to Alaska ten times, and
hopes to go a hundred times more. A
man interested principally in the in
dustrial development of the country,
when his business is finished on each
trip, he transforms himself into an
eager traveler and explorer, and pen
etrates fastnesses to which only the
spirit of adventure would send him.
Even ardent naturalists have balked
at long trips which this member of the
Princeton faculty and sometime pro
fessor at the Chicago Kent college of
law has taken.
Now a lecturer and author Thomas
has also been a newspaper reporter.
He has seen Alaska through the re
porter’s eye. The Alaskan Porcupine,
said to be the farthest north Indian
tribe, have given him the euphonious
name of “Picktoorsti Tenjenati Nunk
ugafuttahug,” a designation worthy to
be compared perhaps, with that of
“Bwana Tombo,” conferred by the
Africans upon Col. Roosevelt in his
quality of lion hunter. In return,
Thomas characterizes Alaska as the
land that knows a man only by his
real virtues.
“It is a land of strong men, where
weaklings perish on the trail,” he
says. “It measures a man, not by the
usual artificial standards of society,
but by those qualities that distinguish
real men—honesty, patience, and in
domitable courage. This is the land
which Russia, after greedily looting it
of its furs, sold to the United States
for $7,200,000, or half what it cost to
build the Brooklyn bridge or the
Woolworth building.
“Governmental red-tape has been
responsible for the slow development
of the territory. The resources of the
region remain virtually untouched.
But this red-tape is being gradually
eliminated. And in this direction
great credit is due to Franklin K.
Lane, Secretary of the Interior. You
must not -forget that Alaska is one
fifth as large as the rest of the United
States. Yet its white population is less
than that of the Harvard Bowl on the
day of a Yale-Harvard game and just
about equal to the number of persons
at a world series baseball game.
“I have been north of the Arctic
circle in Alaska when the mercury
registered 100 degrees below zero.
Millions of Americans continue to
regard Alaska as the land of ice and
snow. But Alaska has two climatic
belts—the coast region and the inter
ior. The coast has a comparatively
mild climate with cool summers; the
interior has cold winters but compar
atively warm and short summers.
More furs are worn on Broadway on
any Sunday in July than are worn in
Alaska in a year.”
Even those persons who associate
the great region toward Bering sea
with seals (chiefly extinct) and the
gold fever may have heard of the
Alaska salmon fisheries.
“Watching a salmon run is one of
the world’s greatest sights,” says
Thomas. “The fish come up from the
depths of the sea in countless millions
and fight their way up shallow
streams, along the coast, to spawn.
In Valdez last summer I encountered
a run of humpbacked salmon. I stood
within ten feet of some of them and
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ground 100 feet of film with my mov
ing picture machine. They paid no
more attention to me than if I had
been photographing them from the
moon.”
The railroad from Seward on Res
urrection bay to Fairbanks, a distance
of 466 miles, to secure which contin
uous attempts were made for several
years, is now being built. Thomas
says it will be completed about 1920.
Professor Thomas describes Alaska
in these words:
“This is a land of colossal ice
crowned mountains, of gigantic gla
ciers, or fjords rimmed in by ranges
of jagged, saw-toothed mountains that
make the fjords of Norway shrink by
comparison. This is the land where
the red midnight sun doubles back on
its track when the year-tide is full,
and where the Great God of Nature
passes his invisible paint brush
across the horizon for hours in the
broad daylight of midnight, throw
ing a new masterpiece of brilliant
colors across the sky every few min
utes.
“At Tanana, Alaska, I saw the sun
rise and set in two hours and forty
five minutes, on December 15, 1915.
If you take a photograph showing the
sun every fifteen minutes, from sun
rise to sunset, you see 11 equi-distant
suns.”
War News
Rumors and facts at Peterson’s. 444
F. Olrikat, the fur buyer, will be
back in Anchorage on or about the
15th. See Brown & Hawkins. 565
For a Solo game come to Peterson’s.
Read The Daily Times and be an
Anchorage booster.
Maps of Alaska for Sale. Robarts.
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
Maps of Alaska for Sale. Robarts.
FRATERNAL orders.
MASONS
Anchorage Masonic Club
meets first and third Thursday
in month. G.C.HAMMOND, Sec.
L. O. 0. M. 1534
Regular meeting every Wed
nesday night at 8 o’clock,
at A. L. U. Hall.
JAS. L. CORT, Sec.
BILL’S CLUB.
J. T. WESTERMANN, Secy.
Meets at Club Rooms every
Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock.
EAGLES CLUB
Meets every Friday night
at the Anchor club. Lathrop
Block. C. G. GANTY, Secy.
Alaska Pool Room
_Fourth Ave., Near D.
Cigars, Tobaccos, Candies, Soft Drinks, Fruits, Concord
Grape Juice.
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JOSEPH SCHMITBAUER. . . Proprietor.
BANKING BY MAIL
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can send us your gold dust or checks and we will place
them to your credit, acknowledging receipt and furnish
ing you with a check book so you can draw money when
needed; or, if you prefer, we will place the money on de
posit in our Savings Department where it will earn 4 per
cent interest.
We will be pleased to attend to any business you
wish transacted anywhere.
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MATANUSKA JUNCTION.
M. J. ROCHE, Prop.
CAFE IN CONNECTION
A. LYALL, Prop.
LEARN TO DANCE.
Latest Dances Taught. Begin
ners given special attention. For ap
pointment call at third house from
C on 6th Ave.
WM. BUNTING.
Cotton felt mattresses, bed springs
and linoleum, at Crocker’s. 459
C. HENNING
TAILOR.
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s
Suits Cleaned, Pressed and
Repaired. 4th Ave. and D St.
Pies, fancy cakes, staple bakery
goods at North Pole Bakery. 567
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