OLD WEATHER ^
,* REQUISITES
CLOTHING
Get a high-grade suit at a reasonable price at Carrol &
Co.’s. We will guarantee you satisfaction in every
particular.
WHILE this real cold snap is on, don’t overlook the little
necessities to keep you protected from the onslaughts
of the fierce weather.
IT IS our business to keep in stock all that is required to
make you comfortable when the thermometer is way
below zero.
SCOTCH wool white gloves, light buckskin slip-overs,
Eisendrath’s mammoth mitts, light wool mitts—
_ white and gray, full assortment of toques, and gloves
C of all styles and varieties.
BEDDING for coldest weather—you need an extra com
forter or blanket or quilt. Do not miss the chance to
avail of the bargains we offer in these goods—heavy
for the season’s demand.
HEADQUARTERS FOR STETSON HATS AND
PACKARD SHOES.
CARROL & CO.
CARROL BLDG. FOURTH AND E STS.
BANKING BY MAIL
It makes no difference where you are located, you
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. 4
German-American Mercantile Bank
SEATTLE - - WASHINGTON.
NOTICE.
Until further notice the headquar
ters of the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters & Joiner., of America will
be at 429 L street, house on rear of
lot. Meetings every Tuesday evening
at 7:30 o’clock.
131 O. J. MEEHAN, Sec.
Inlet Soda Works
W. A. TAYLOR, Proprietor
Manufacturers of all kinds of
MINERAL WATERS, SODA
CIDER, SYRUPS.
AGENTS FOR GRAPE JUICE
Anchorage - - Alaska
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.
B. C. NICHOLS
WATCH MAKER AND
JEWELER.
Anchorage, Alaska.
MASONS
Anchorage Masonic Club
meets first and third Monday in
month. G. C. HAMMOND, Sec.
Don’t Forget to get your Norwe
gian Stock Fish in time to prepare
it for Christmas. Sundberg’s Gro
cery, corner 4th and C. 106
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AIRTIGHT HOT BLAST
HEATERS
Are the best on the market;
t( } use less fuel, and have
more heating surface than
any other heater of the same
size. The firebox is sectional
with an air space between
outer shell and fire pot.
NO BUILDING OF FIRES
IN THE MORNING.
All you do is to shake the
grate, fill stove with coal,
open draft and you have a
red hot stove.
We have in stock from the
smallest No. 12 size to the ,
No. 24 for store room.
Come in and let us show you Ij
how they work.
Dohrmann - - Herning & Co.
NEW YORK DAY BY DAY
(By J. M. Allison, Special Corre
spondent of The Times.)
NKW YORK, Nov. 21.—The new
est occupation for women is a devel
opment of the sightseeing car indus
try, now grown to great proportions
in New York. Females engaged in
the new vocation are called “squat
ters.” Their duties are to dress at
tractively, carry an armful of cam
eras and guide books and occupy
seats in otherwise vacant sight-seeing
cars until the time arrives when the
cars are tolerably well filled. They
are simply decoys used to "get them
I coming.” They never make a trip in
j one of the cars. As soon as the car
| in which they are sitting has some
jthing like a fair quota of passengers
| aboard, they quietly and unostenta
I tiously dismount and go to another
“stand,” where a vacant car is due to j
arrive. They work on a regular
schedule and are tolerably well paid.
Two girls who wear “sister” clothes,
smartly tailored, are regularly em
ployed by managers of the “Seeing
Chinatown” cars, at $1.50 per day,
each. They alternate between the
two “stands” on Broadway from
which these cars begin their trips.
An aristocratic-looking woman with
her young daughter are regular em
ployes of the "Seeing New York”
cars. They have been in the business
for two years and according to the
chauffeur who told me about them,
they have never yet been in one of
the company’s cars when it was in
motion.
The queer life of Broadway has
opened other unusual fields of em
ployment. There are, for instance,
the professional men dancers, who are
paid to dance with women patrons
of the hotels and restaurants. There
j are two or more of them constantly
| “on duty” at Churchill’s, Rector’s,
j Healy’s and places such as those.
They even have them at the Majestic
hotel, though here they are of rather
a different class than at the less ex
clusive places, and are under the
closest supervision and dirction of the
professional “hostess,” who manages
things in the grill room, where the
I dancing floor is located. If a lady
! looks as if she might wish to dance,
j yet is in a party in which there seems
to be no dancing man, the hostess
! makes a diplomatic inquiry. If the
lady really wishes to dance, the host
I ess formally introduces a youth who
looks as if he might be a Columbia
student—and, for that matter, he
probably is. He dances, conversing
j only in the necessary commonplaces,
land then quietly retires. He must
never sit at a table with a guest and
never dance twice successively with
one woman. He receives a weekly
salary of $20 or $25.
All professional dancing partners
are called “sharp-shooters,” the name
having originated several years ago,
when the dancing craze was just de
veloping, and when skillful dancers
went from place to place, at night,
winning cups and cash prizes, for
which the accustomed patrons of the !
dancing places were supposed to com- I
pete. The name still fits the voca
tion, in the Broadway places, for the |
professional partners make most of
their money by being constantly on
the outlook for women who are will
ing to pay them to act as dancing es
corts or a round of the after-mi 1
night places, like “Monmatre” or
Bustanoby’s. In this instance, the
paid partner appears to be doing the
entertaining, or, at least, to be an
ordinary member of the woman’s jiar
j ty. I saw one of them at Hector’s at
about 2 a. m., recently, dancing every
dance with a most unprepossessing
old female in a preposterous frock,
her dumpy figure fairly showered
over with large diamonds. The pro
fessional partner was a sad-faced,
blonde youth, who is regularly em
ployed at Churchill’s. He conscien
tiously performed his duty, paying
not the slightest heed to the smiles of
onlookers. At our table was a cabaret
singer who knows most things along
Broadway. “That old woman comes
into Churchill’s about once a week,”
she said, “and hires that boy to bring
her here or take her some place else,
after the dancing is over at Church
ill’s. One or two men who can’t
dance are always with her. One is
supposed to be her husband. You
can see them over at that table. She
always gives the boy twenty dollars.
Of course he perfectly hates to dance
with her and to have people laugh at
him, but business is business and he
needs the money. He says she is one j
of his best customers.” ,
Another queer vocation in which ;
many people are engaged, along {
Broadway, is that of buying theatre {
tickets, at the box offices, for the !
speculators. These are called “dig- !
gers,” and most of them, also, are j
women. They appear to be bona fide
theatre patrons and they use many de
vices to get hold of choice seats. One
of them, a woman of refined appear
ance and attractive manner, openly
wept, in the office of a speculator on
Broadway near Forty-second street,
recently, when she told that the box
office man at the Globe theatre had
finally discovered that she wasn’t
really buying tickets for her own use.
“I made a mistake, Leo,” she said. “I
tried it two days in succession with
out changing my make-up. I said that
I liked the show so much that I
wanted tickets for a friend of mine,
but it didn’t go. They were ‘on’ and
I guess I’ll never be able to get any
more there.”
One of the big speculators told me
hat he had at least 50 “diggers” on
his list. “Some of them,” he said,
“make ten or twelve dollars a week,
and devote their entire time to the
business. I pay my people from 25c
to $1.00 advance on the tickets they
buy. Of course, the way things are
run now, the ‘diggers’ have little
chance to get choice seats at the box
offices, by ordinary methods. Most
of the theatres sell almost all of
their good seats to the speculators
and agencies, as a matter of regular
business. Some few first class seats
are kept, however, to be on hand in
case some important patron must be
favored, and the manager who wishes
to do so can always get a pair or two
back from the speculators or the
agencies. The “diggers” work all
kinds of schemes to get hold of these
tickets. One digger poses as the sec
retary of a prominent man who is
deaf. In that way she sometimes gets
front seats that she can sell at five
dollars each.
Although with some slight misgiv
ings, this one is offered as a new
story:
At a public school in the cloak and
suit makers’ district a teacher asks:
“Ikey, can you tell me how many
seasons there are?”
The reply is: Yes, teacher, they is
two seasons; the busy season and the
dull season.”
i For Billiards and Pool try Peter
son’s. 46
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Anchorage souvenir spoons. Lord,
Jeweler. 103
GEO. OSBORNE
THE LEADING JEWELER AND ORTlt i AN
XMAS GIFTS
For elegant and artistic Xmas (Jifts, come and inspect our
large and complete line of Gorham’s exclusive silver ware
in table and toilet articles in the most up-to-date patterns.
We also represent llawkes Cut Glass, the most artistic and
original patterns on the market.
Also the largest and most complete line of up-to-date Jewelry
in the city.
We manufacture and design anything desired in the line of
jewelry and nugget work.
All watch and repair work guaranteed and promptly returned.
GEO. OSBORNE
C STREET JEWELER
When You
Buy Fruit
Look for this Trademark
Discriminating housewives serve
only Hunt*s Quality Fruits in
their homes. They are the choicest
of sunny California's tree ripened
fruits, packed with scientific and
clean methods, and come to you
fresh as when picked, every day
in the year.
We carry a full line of
Hunt's Quality California
Fruits
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POLLEY BROS.
Anchorage, Alaska
Wood and coal delivered to any
part of the city. Phone 43-Y. Uni
versal Taxi and Transfer. 125
Cotton felt mattresses, bed springs
and linoleum, at Crocker’s.
Phone 43-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
IT’S A REAL PLEASURE
to view the new wall decorations on
view here exclusively. They are so
unconventional, so out of the common
and so unusually artistically attrac
tive. If you plan to repaper you
should by all means see these new
papers. To decide without doing so
is apt to result in regret later.
EVANS & FRANTZEN
CITY AUTO SERVICE
Phone 89-R.
FOR AUTOMOBILE
Any hour of the Day or
Night.
OFFICE—Next door to New
Labor Hall.
Tex Jones
R. C. Jeffery
The Panhandle
CIGARS
CANDIES
TOBACCOS
F R U I T
NUTS
4th AVE. NEAR C STREET
NEW CABINET SHOP
Furniture Made to Order. All
Kinds Cabinet Work, Show
Cases, Etc.
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JOE KITAK.
ODD FELLOWS
Odd Fellows Club meets
every Monday evening,
Peterson Building, 8 p. in.