OLD ill CONTRACTS
TO BE TERMINATED
A recent Washington xpeoial to the
Juneau Dispatch elves a key to tb?
activity being displayed In the matter
of tha Alaska mall service which is so
pleaalng to Alaskans. Among other
things it ssya: -
Second Assistant t'ostmsster General
J. T. McCleary, cognisant of condltfoos
la Aldaka, sent a man to the big terri
tory last summer to make a careful
study of the mail system. This repre
sentative, Mr. Henry M. Robinson, of
Atlanta, recently returned to Washing
ton to report. As a result of hla inves
tigation the department la entering
upon a reorganisation of the entire
Alaska aervic#, and propoaea to terml
oate all existing mall contracts, enter
log into oe? ones as speedily as possible.
Advertisements for new services ire
now being sent out and it la hoped j
that new contracts can bo closed early j
In the summer.
Mr. McCleary haa decided to abro
gate all existing contracts, which he
has a right to da upon payment to the
contrsctora of one month's extra com
pensation. The mail service in Alaska
now entails an expenditure of a little
over 1200,000 so that the change of old
schedules to new will, at the ouside cost
the government J'20,000. But tbero will
bo many carriers who will consent to
take contracts under the new system,
and in such cue* it may not be necss
ssry to pay the extra month's compen
sation.
The new oontraot will be drawn In
?uoh form that carriers must deliver
the mail as fast is it Is turned over to
them. Where they are now bound to
take buu 800 poucds per trip,
they may, in some seasons be
obliged to lnorease this to 1,600
pounds. In bad weather, however,
'he contractors will not be required to
carry the full amouot of mall, if it
should be imprsctlcable for them to do
so. But even during the winter the de
partment finds that the Alaska reads
are In very fair condition, and it is not
anticipated that many trips will be
made with short loads. The contractor
would have nothing to gain by holding
over the walls, for what he docs nut de
liver on one trip he will bavft to deliver
on the trip following.
The postal authorities appreciate the
hardships that confront the people of
Alaska, and want to render them every
assistance In the waj of prompt dell
very of all classes of mail. They want
parcels and reading matter to gc
through with practically the same ex
pedition that letters are forwarded, and
Mr. McClearj believes that under the
new ocntracts, properly drawn, this
can be brought about.
J ALASKA AND THE YUKON
IN JUST A LINE OB TWO |
The Alaska Steamship Co., will not
run regular vesaila from Sao Francisco
to Nome.
Qu?rtr, rich ia free gold, haa been
found on Coffee creek, in the Kougarok
district.
Anson Swan, one of the pioneer young
men of Dawson, Is dead at San Fran
cisco.
Charles, the 6 year old son of L. S.
Robe of Fairbanks, lost his life in the
Chena river in an attempt to save his 5
ve&r o!d sister from drowninsr. The girl
was reacted.
The Humphrey bill, providing a lei
of game laws for Alaska, passed the
house on March 16. This bill passed
the house last session, but failed to get
through the seaate.
Arodt Erlckson, a miser who went to
Takataga besoh last summer, commit
ted suiolde there on February 6th by
hanging himself. His former home was
at Arlington, Washington.
A motion to get Otto Shackleford out
of jail at Dawson on a writ of habeas
oorpus has raised the question as to
whethor this prerogative, one of tho
proudest privileges of the Britishers,
shall be extended to aliens.
Freshman Fun at Yale.
From "Nigger Heaven" Boisterous Boys Drop White Mioe and
Hens on Juniors' Fair Guests In Hyperion Pit
and Break Up Glee Club Concert.
Tbomgh they did not succesd tenui
ty In stopping the performance until
*11 except the last two numbers of the
programme had been sung, the Yale
fresh men fairly turned the annual Glee
club concert upside down. Whit* mice
?nugly tucked away In bonbon boxes
were lowered from the freshmen's gal
lery Into the pit and orchestra of the
Hyperion theater, and women, willing
ly accepting what they believed to be
graceful offerings from admirer*, turn
ed the little pests loose nij themselves
with results tint can be Imagined much
better than they cuu l-e described.
Ileus tethered to long line* were
droppe 1 squawking on to the headR of
the sinners on the stage. and bottles
of whisky and \Y:ue were dangled en
tlc!np!y before thflr eyes, but Just out
of r.-ac'i of tbt1 i*Tformers. Paper
streamers were sent floating In every
direction, aud when the flimsy cascade
was so thick lu front of the platform
that It was hlddeu entirely from the
view of those In the rear of the house
Fire Marshal Glmlwln ordered the cur
tain nine down.
The Glee club refused to acknowl
edge Itself altogether defeated, how
ever. and. advancing In frout of the
lowered curtain, went through the last
two numbers on the programme with
a magnificent disregard for the trou
bles that beset them.
The lire marshal had given full warn
ing that be would stop the perform
ance If the throwing of streamers be
gan. for he made no secret of his fear
that the light paper might start a ter
rible fire If once caught by the acci
dental dropping of a match, but he was
liberal In the extreme In the Interpre
tation of his own threats and gave the
freshmen wide license In their enjoy
ment before he finally took a repressive
hand.
The Glee club men struggled bravely
a&d on the whole not unsuccessfully,
for ftr more experienced performers
veil might have been rattled hopeless
ly by the ordeal to which they were
subjected.
The us* of immense streamer* came
Id to play early, and long b?for* the
first halt of the progrusB* there was
a waving veil of thin strip* of colored
paper floating between the platform
and the audience, but It was not nntll
the second half of tbo programme was
reached that the reel fnn of the even
ing began.
The bonbou boxes, daintily tied with
red and blue ribbons, proved Irresisti
ble (>alts to !hc ualds end young ma
trons to whom they were lowered so
respectfully from above. They seemed
such charming compliments from un
seen admirers that first one trimly
gloved hand and then another stretch
ed out and. satisfied that the prize was
not to be rudely Jerked away, seized It
and loosened It from the string with
deft fingers.
By common consent, however, the
fair recipients waited for a lead when
It came to opening their present*, each
being unwilling to show undue eager
ness to get at the good things wlthiu.
i and the reeult was that sue or eigni 01
the boxes were opened within a space
? of a few seconds.
The result exceeded the wildest
| hopes of the perpetrators of the Joke
and caused a complete suspension of
the concert for several minutes. There
arose the moat amazing chorus of
shrieks that ever drowned the efforts
of the Glee club In all the history of
Yale.
Many womcu leaped on chairs, with
their skirts gathered closely about
them, and screamed as If there were a
special prize for her who screamed
loudest and louge-it.
Here one of the pink eyed pet? -
raised for the moment to the dignity
of monsters of horror and terror
Jumped lightly on to a corsage and
sent cold chills through a hundred
feminine hearts as It was seen to
scamper lightly over white shoulder
and arm In search of some sure haven
of refuge.
There was a wild grab at ankle, or
frenzied clutching of petticoats told
where another had sought shelter In
.the dark, and even after the last
mouse had been accounted for and
every bonbon box had been emptied
or carried away there waa an air of
tensest apprehension among the sis
ters and cousins and aunts who had
come to pay the tribute of their pres
ence to the lingers of Tale.
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