Sydney Laurence
COMMERCIAL AND PICTORIAL
PHOTOGRAPHY
Masonic Building.
BRINGS GOLD
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WASHINGTON, D. C.—Savings
banks have begun ordering blocks of
^the Liberty Loan bonds, and it is ex
pected that this movement will become
widespread. Among the visitors at ]
the treasury department this morn
ing was the president of one of the ;
largest savings institutions of Brook
lyn, N. Y., and encouragement is be
< ing given to bring in many more.
Subscriptions continue to pour in!
faster than they can be tabulated.
Practically all of these came through
banks and this method of placing or
ders is recommended by the depart
ment to persons about to subscribe,
since banks are equipped with infor
mation, blanks for orders, etc., and
are able to assemble orders and trans
mit them to the treasury department
in large blocks, thus reducing the
work of handling them.
Subscriptions totaling over $500,
000,000 were received and tabulated
by the reasury department during
the first 48 hours of the offering of
the $2,000,000,000 “Liberty Loan.”
Orders totaled from 6 per cent of
the banks to which the loan has been
offered have been in a volume which,
if maintained, would result in the
• being oversubscribed by $4,000,000,
000 to $5,000,000,000. At times orders
♦ were received at rate of $500,000 a
minute. Since many of the largest
banks have already been heard from,
it is considered improbable that the
volume of subscriptions per bank will
be maintained.
Replies to the offering came from
virtually every part of the world
where the American flag flies. Hawaii,
Porto Rico, and the Philippines proved
that they are not financial slackers
by cabling substantial subscriptions.
Fairbanks, Alaska, the northernmost
city in the -western world, telegraphed
a $50,000 subscription, and added that
the loan would.be advertised in all
the newspapers there. From every
state in the union the reply was over
whelming.
0 New York, the country’s financial
stronghold, sent subscriptions total
ing $53,000,000, bringing its two-day
total up to $116,890,000. Saturday’s
New York subscription included two
of $10,000,000 each, one of $4,000,000
one of $3,000,000, two of $2,500,000,
two of $2,000,000, and six of $1,000,
* 000. A New York lawyer took $1,000,
000 worth and three sisters made a
joint subscription of $300,000.
Philadelphia subscribed $13,330,000,
including one subscription of $3,000,
000, another of $2,000,000, and six of
$1,000,000. Pittsburgh sent subscrip
tions totaling $4,668,000, including one
of $2,000,000 and another of $1,000,
000. Three subscriptions of $1,000,000
each were received from San Fran
cisco, making the day’s total $5,650,
000. Boston alone sent three individual
subscriptions of $1,000,000 each among
the day’s subscriptions of $4,115,000.
• Cleveland sent two subscriptions of
$2,000,000. A Milwaukee bank sub
scribed $2,000,000 and other in De
troit subscribed $1,500,000. Individual
subscriptions of $1,000,000 each were
received from Chicago, New Orleans,
and Toledo.
Subscriptions have been tabulated
from approximately 1500 of the 27,500
of the country, the other 26,000 not
having been heard from. So great
was the labor involved in distributing
the subscriptions geographically and
tabulating them that officials decided
to discontinue doing so for the pres
**ent, at least until a larger force can
be obtained. Indications are that the
present force will have its hands full
in simply tabulating the grand total
of subscriptions during the next few
days.
OUTLOOK AT TREADWELL
SINCE BIG MINE DISASTER
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DOUGLAS, May 4.—That Tread- j
well will continue to be the scene of
considerable activity for an indefin- i
ite period to come is announced by !
Manager P. R. Bradley.
Asked by a News man yesterday
for a statement as to what might be
counted upon so far as future opera
tions at Treadwell are concerned, Mr.
Bradley' said:
“There will be work here for a con
siderable number of men for some
time to come if no effort is made to
rehabiliate the three flooded mines
and of the probability of the latter 1
have nothing to say. However, there
is much work required to put the mills
and plants generally in condition for
their inactivity. The machine shops, |
foundry, cyanide plant and mercantile
interests will continue in connection
with the operations of the Ready Bul
lion mine, the machine shops and
foundry doing work required in their
lines for the Alaska Juneau company.
I have nothing to say relative to the
intentions of the syndicates owning
the property involved in the late dis
aster. What they may determine to
do will be known later.”
While several family have already
departed, the majority were prepar
ing to go even before the “happen
ings” of a week ago Saturday night.
Several foreigners have already left,
but they are of a class which is of
mighty little account to any business
I industry in any community in which
! they exist—they don’t live in the
] sense that other people do—so their
departure is of little consequence.
In the meantime, there are people
; here who are honest in the belief that
' Treadwell will yet see a period equal
to ‘the good old days” and that the
brightest pages in the history of
Douglas are yet to be written.—Doug
las Island News.
Cameron threw his key away. Open
night and day. 73f
Try a Want Ad in The Times.
G0MPER.3 MAKES TALK
ON PERMANENT PEACE
NEW YORK, May 1C.—Working
men everywhere must unite to estab
lish permanent peace in the world,
and factional strife among them will
not be tolerated, Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, declared at the national
convention of the National Cloth Hat
and Cap Maker’s Union of America,
held here yesterday.
He said that the Jewish press of
this country must not be permitted
to dominate the labor movement and
he wanted his hearers that unless
they quickly settle the differences be
tween themselves and the United Hat- :
ters of America their charter in the
American Federation of Labor will
be withdrawn.
“The conscience of the American
labor movement is far above any
press devoted to any particular na
tionality or religion,” he declared.
Get your eyes examined free at
George Osborn’s, the leading jeweler,
by Fred Carlquist, graduate optician.
Satisfaction guaranteed. 260
Fred Carlquist, wno !s a graduate
optician from San Francisco, is per
manently established with George Os
bom, the C. St. Jeweler, and will ex- j
amine eyes free. 260
F. A. POLLEY F. M. POLLEY
Clothing
carried in our stock is ail standard
stock and includes
CLUETT & PEABODY SHIRTS
DAGGDERNEL SHIRTS,
French Cuffs
FILSON SUITS
PIG SKIN PUTTEES
WASHINGTON SHOES
HATS AND CAPS
Polley Brothers
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
The Price Remains The Same
Their style, their quality, their guarantee of satisfaction has become
the new standard of value for $ 1 7 throughout the nation. Their
achievement enables men to be well dressed without being asked
to pay one cent more.
'The same Drice the nation over,'
sure still $17, but the price of nearly everything else has jumped,
When the war came everyone in the
clothing business thought that wool
would go up. The makers of Style
plus Clothes $ i 7 on account of their
extensive advertising were duty bound
f o keep on supplying the public with
bill wool fabrics, expert tailoring, the
rldll of a great designer,” at the known
3nice $17—provided there was any
way on errth to do it.
What happened? These makers
bought woolens and linings in tremen
dous quantity. They kept on adver
rising "the price remains the same."
Volume doubled, manufacturing costs
dropped because of the increased pro
duction—new efficiency and new
economies came to light through the
"necessity of the hour."
Incidently, the makers as well as our
selves have been content with a smaller
profit in order to keep your price the
same.
Please do not forget—we are the only
Siyleplus Store here.
Trade Mark
Brown & Hawkins
“QUALITY FIRST”
I the store for all the people || Anchorage and Seward