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Nome. Alaska, September Hi. 1!»1B.
THK RKASOX.
A great industrial firm which (
employs a large number of work
ers of both sexes has been devoting
considerable attention to efficiency
and was really troubled by the fact
that fatigue got the better of their
employees after a certain number
of hours. The experts hit upon a
novel plan to abolish this fatigue
which they had come to the conclu
sion was more a nervous matter
than anything else. They had in
stalled in the work room cabinet
phonografs which played the latest
records, and the result was satisfac
factory beyond words.
The work was pleasanter to the
employees and although they ex
pended the same amount of energy, :
they felt far less fatiguing conse- 1
quences.
Without stopping to question the
permanence of improvement follow
ed this innovation, it may be point-;
ed out that the employers in this j
instance encountered tiie very great
est difficulty with which the hired
workers themselves have to contend
against. This is the fact that more
often than not their daily tasks arc :
pure and simple drudgery. While
to the professional man or to the ar
tist, painter, sculptor or novels*:, the |
labor which they have to perform ;o j
make a living is a delight, for the!
majority of the workers it is a
source of endless distaste and their
labor is the dreariest toil imagin
able.
The wise ones have suggested that |
this is because the work* re have not
chosen that particular calling which
was best suited to their peculiar in
clinations. and that for any man or
woman to make a success in life
and to enjoy their work, the indi
vidual idiosyncracies as such must
he studied, and the individual ad
justed to the work for which he
is best suited. Because results have
proved satisfactory in some instan
ces, many 30 called experts are now
endeavoring to make a remunerative
profession out of the work of ad
justing employees to the jobs which
are best adapted to them.
Now it is quite obvious that any
such effort will be impossible and
for this reason. Most cf the work
ers of the world have at any rate
to take what they can get to make
a living, and their concern is more
with getting a job whereon they
can live, than one which will be
suited to them. For there is no
choice open to the average worker;
and to make the life worth living it
is the average worker who really
needs to be suited.
On the other hand, one fact that
has escaped all these experts is this,
that what palls upon the majority
of workers is the fact that they are
not, to use their own colloquialism,
■“their own boss'. The man who
shovels in on his own ground into
his own boxes a poor enough pay
streak, so that it earns for him a
scanty living, will manifest a great
er interest in his work than if he
is earning twice as much working
for another man, and with the boss
looking down his collar as he lifts
every shovelful. That is what drags
The interest of the craftsman in ills
work is not because -.ie craftsman
is tracing out some beautiful and
artistic design, and there is what
the philosophers call the gratification
of the creative instinct. That is not
the reason. That is bunk and gufT,
pure and simple. It is because the
craftsman is working out his own
ideas himself, and unchained as to
mind and hand by the ideas or con
trol of another person.
The life of the surgeon or the ar
tist or the poet who makes a living
that way, filling the wants of his
body and soul by his labor whatever
their nature, is not drudgery be
cause he is working for himself. For
the man who is his own boss, there
is no question but every act is very
far from drudgery. It is the en
slavement of being hired that is
irksome, and makes even the occu
pation of die most despised calling
preferable just so long as within
that, one is one’s own master.
The majority of employers fool
ishly imagine that they are benefitt
ing themselves by driving their em
ployees. They are, just as long as
the supply of labor open to them is
inexhaustible. But if there is a
limit to the supply that can be ob
tained to replace those that have
been driven to the scrap heap, this
driving policy is the most fatuous
in the world.
Once upon a time, right in Nome,
there was an employer who was
notorious as a driver of his men.
From the morning until the evening
he was bossing them and driving
them. In the stopes he watched
them speed up the carloads and on
the surface he tallied the cars with
care, urging a faster and faster
speed. He certainly got out great
dumps that were the wonder and ad
miration of every operator in the
district, and this employer achieved
quite a reputation as a director of
labor of which he employed an
enormous number from time to
time.
The remarkable fact about his
operations was this that they did
not pay. His dumps didn’t clean up
worth a cent. They didn’t clean up
nearly as the dirt had panned even
grab sample. And the reason was
known to every working miner in
the district, and was not a secret
with the men who worked for him.
The miners worked hard all right.
They kept their shovels moving un
der the urge of the boss. But they
sacrificed everything to get their
cars loaded and out to the station
to be hoisted. They kept the en
gineers busy; but instead of shovell
ing in pay they shovelled in waste,
and let bed rock, in which was the
money, go by, while they loaded up
with waste the cars. And later on
in the very mine which he failed to
pay, some laymen who had formerly
worked for him, took out big money
and took it out at ease, just by
cleaning up the bed rock they knew
had been skipped. His work was
wasted work.
A whole lot or jons would dc
much more tenable by employees
and much more profitable to the
employers if there was a greater
consideration of the human factor.
There is no question that the boss
ing tendency which some love to
display soon causes fatigue to deve
lop in the workers; the literal
drudgery of the job for which they
are hired results in a diminished
output just because it is drudgery,
or the quality of output is below
the standard.
Most* of this drudgery is inherent
in the system. It is so inherent be
cause the man who works for an
other will never regard that work
as if he were working for himself.
That is utterly impossible. And it is
not because a man working for him
self is developing his -productive or
creative instinct, but just because
he has a sense of freedom, life and
work are tolerable and pleasant.
There is nothing in the world will
remove a sense of drudgery like a
sense of independence. Not merely
individual independence, but collec
tive independence, the sense of free
dom and equality that comes of co
operation. After all, the device of
the employer who. installs his
phonographs in his factory to pre
vent fatigue is little better than
were he to resort to some anodyne
or stimulant for the same purpose.
It is almost certain that there will
follow the reaction that marks the
use of all such stimulants or “nar
cotics numbing pain” that the poet
mentions.
The one anodyne that affords
stimulation and destroys fatigue is
freedom. Drudgery cannot “spot its
snowy mantle, nor chemic power
change its scepter into iron”. It is
this industrial freedom which alone
will make work a delight for the
workers, and as precious to them
as their leisure is today. It will
make toil a pleasure, ana bring back
the days when the worker was
proud of his work as something
wherein he had imprinted his indi
viduality and turned it over to the
social use, satisfied in the thing be
ing well, because done under terms
of freedom and with perfect liberty.
The slave's task is the hard task,
if “needs must when the devil
drives” becomes the inspiration ot
the toiler’s industry, no music be it
aver so sw’eet sounding is able to re
lieve the soul of weariness and the
body of fatigue. Temporarily it
may induce forgetfulness of the
agony to be endured, but it merely
postpones from the working period
the intensive misery of the work
drudgery to the hours of lefsure,
and steals <rom rest the recupera
tive power which it should other
wise possess. They all beat about
the bush with idle palliatives. There j
is but one remedy, and that is In- !
dustrial freedom. The rest is moon- j
shine. 1
OVERSTOCK tilt
To the Public: —
We have just finished stock tak
ing, and find that we are heavily
overstocked so are making enorm
ous reductions in Hardware—as
much as 50% in certain lines. Not
withstanding immense advances out
side, especially In Hardware ana
Metal Goods, we are still selling on
the basis of goods purchased tne
past two or three years.
We will sell for cash only at these
prices, and for a limited time, until
we bring our stock down to the re
quirements of the Camp.
If you have an order to be filled,
let us figure on it; we can save you
money. We have proved It oj
others, we can prove it to you.
DARLING & DEAN COMPANY.
NOTICE OF UNITED STATES
MARSHAL’S SALE UNDER
SPECIAL EXECUTION.
Notice is Hereby Given, that
under a Special Execution issued
out of the District Court for the
District of Alaska, Second Division
in a cause entitled Empire Trust
Company, a corporation. Trustee,
plaintiff, versus Fairhaven Water
Company, a corporation defendant,
dated the 14 day of Augiu-t 1916.
the undersigned United States Mar
shal, will on the 18 day of Septem
her, 1916, at 12 o’clock noon, at the
front door of the United States
Court House in the City of Nome
Territory of Alaska, offer for salt
anil sell to the highest bidder, upon
the terms hereinafter stated, tnosi
certain properties, premises, rights
and franchises of said Fanbaven
Water Company, deseril'Ci! as lol
lows:
All the interest of Flithe.ven
Water Company, in the water right
amounting to 5000 miners’inches, lo
cated at Lake Imuruk and stream
running out therefrom, on August
10th 1904, notice thereof being
posted by law called and Known as
the "Polar Bear Ditch” and right
of way thereof, particular? of said
water right and location being more
; fully set forth in Volume 30, Page
55 of the Records of the Fairhaven
District, together with the right ot
way, and appurtenances; and
All the interest of Fairhaven
Water Company, in the water right
amounting to 6000 miners’ inches,
measured under a four inch press
ure, and located just below the first
lake at the head of Plnnell River,
the same being more fully set forth
and described In a certain “Notice
of Appropriation of Water”, dated
August 25th 1905, and recorded in
the Fairhaven Recording Precinct,
on the 4th of September, 1905, to
gether with the right of way and
appurtenances; and
All the interest of Fairhaven
Water Company, in the water right
amounting to 500 miners’ inches,
measured under a four inch press
ure, located at Lake Imuruk, the
outlet thereof and stream running
out therefrom; the, said water right
of 500 inches being part of and
included in a certain water right ot
5000 miners’ inches at said location
and more fully and particularly de
scribed and set forth in a certain
"Notice of Appropriation of Water’’
dated August 15th 1905, and re
corded in the office of the Fairhaven
Recording District, on the 4th day
of September, 1905, together with
the right of way, and appurten
ances;
Also the ditch and right of way
appropriating and carrying the
waters above described, extending
from the .intake at Lake Imuruk to
the head of Pinnell river; thence
down Pinnell river to the
dam and reservoir; thence
down Pinnell river channel to in
take on Pinnell river about nine
miles from the mouth thereof,
thence along the right limit of Pin
nell river and Inmachuck River to
the penstocks situated above Ari
zona Creek, together with all dams,
reservoirs, branches, laterals, ex
tensions, and appurtenances; also
ik
nine wooden houses and two stables
it various points along said ditch.
Also all that placer mining claim
called the ‘Utica’ containing 160
icres, more or less, described as
follows:
Said Utica claim adjoins placer
;laim known as the Dashley Group
jn the North and No. 6 below Pin
uell on the South, and ex
tends about two miles up and down
the Inmachuck river between said
Dashley Group and No. 6 Below
Pinnell river, Being 660 feet wide,
more or less; the corners and side
lines thereof being marked by
large substantial stakes set In
mounds;
Also an undivided one half inter
est in placer mining claim called
No. 6 Below Pinnell river, situated
on said Inmachuck river; said
claim containing 20 acres, more or
less, and running 1320 feet, more
or less, up and down said Inma
chuck river, and being. 660 feet
wide, more or less.
Also that certain placer mining
claim called No. 9 Bench below Han
num Creek on the left limit, situat
ed on the left limit of said Inma
chuck river, and containing 20 acres
more or less;
Also an undivided one fourth in
terest in placer claim described as
No. 4 below Hannum creek on said
Inmachuck river,, containing about
20 acres, running 1320 feet, more
or less, up and down said river and
being about 660 feet wide;
Also placer claims called Numbers
5 and 6 below Hannum Creek on
said Inmachuck river, containing
about 20 acres each, running 1320
feet more or less, up and down said
river and being about 660 feet
wide.
Also a leasehold estate in placer
claims on said Inmachuck river de
scribed as follows: No. 9 Below
Hannum, No. 9 Fraction adjoining
the South side of No. 9 below Han
num on the Inmachuck river; a
Fraction between No. 9 below Han
num on the Inmachuck river and
No. 1 below Pinnell and adjoining
the East end of No. 9 below Han
num; No. 1 below Pinnell on said
Inmachuck river, No. 2 below Pin
nell on said Inmachuck river, ex
cepting therefrom the present
thawed channel w-here the Inma
chuck river flows through said
claims; said leasehold estate being
for the period commencing July 4th
1912, and ending when said claims
shall have been fully worked out in
accordance with the terms of a cer
tain written lease of said premises
between the Inmachuck Dredging
Company, and said Fairhaven Water
Company, yielding and paying to
said Inmachuck Dredging Company,
20 per cent, of the gross amount of
all gold, and precious metals pro
duced therefrom.
Also certain real property in the
Town of Deering, described as fol
lows:
The house known as the Fair
haven Water Company’s Building in
said town, 48x20 feet, 2 stories
high, with shed in rear 12x16 feet;
also stable 20x20 feet situate about
40 feet Easterly therefrom; also 2
warehouses 40x20 feet situate about
4 0 feet easterly from said stable;
all being situated in the East end
of said town of Deering, Alaska, to
gether with the lot of land upon
which said buildings are situated,
being about 250 feet East and West
and 100 feet North and South.
All of said properties, premises,
rights and franchises, with the ap
purtenances, being situated in the
Fairhaven Recording District, Terri
tory of Alaska. Second Division, in
cluding all and every estate, right,
title and interest therein which said
Fairhaven Water Company, a corpo
ration, had on the 1st day April,
1909, or that it has since acquired.
The Terms upon which said sale
will be made are as follows:
The purchase price may be paid
wholly in cash, or the purchaser or
purchasers may pay in cash suffici
ent to defray the costs and expen
ses of sale, including the Marshal’s
costs, fees and commissions, and
any additional amount which may
be bid by suclf purchaser or pur
chasers, may, at his or their option,
be paid in cash, or said purchaser
or purchasers may deliver to the
United States Marshal in lieu of
cash, any of the prior lien bonds
and coupons, which said bonds and
coupons are fully described and
identified in the judgment in this
action reckoning and computing said
prior lien bonds and coupons for that
purpose at a sum equal to and not
exceeding that which would be pay
able out of the net proceeds of
said sale to the purchase- or pur
chasers, as the holder or holders of
said bonds and coupons, for his or
their just share and proportion in
that character of said net proceeds.
All of said properties, premises,
rights and fransciscs will be sold
in one parcel, as a entirety; said
sale, however, will be made subject
in the lien of $16,500.00 outstand
ing first mortgage seven per cent
gold bonds of said Fairhaven Water
Company, with interest thereon at
the rate of 7 per cent per annum
from September 15, 1906, which
said $16,500.00, first mortgage
seven per cent gold bonds, together
with the interest thereon, are se
cured by a trust mortgage on the
properties, premises, rights and
franchises above described.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, August
19th, 1916.
E. R. JORDAN,
United States Marshal for the Di
strict of Alaska, 2nd Division.
8at. Aug. 19, 26, Sept 2. 9, 16.
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Bluff and Chlnlk, August 24.
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SAILING FROM
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SEPTEMBER 20.
OCTOBER 15.
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
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LEAVE SEATTLE:
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