HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
Published Every Saturday at the Herald Building,
Second Avenue, llyder, Alaska.
Telephone No. 82
Chas. F. Sand ford.. Owner and Publisher
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Alaska, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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Big Railroader Out
An event in the railroad
world was the recent resignat
ion under fire of Sir Henry
Thornton, fior ten years presi
dent of the great government
owned Canadian National Rail
ways. Expensive management
with tremendous deficits in op
eration was given as the cause
of dissatisfaction with his ad
ministration.
Sir Henry has had a rather
remarkable career as a railroad
man. Born in Indiana 60 years
ago, he was a star football
player at the University of
Pennsylvania in 1893, later a
coach at Vanderbilt, then be
gan railroading with the Penn
sylvania as a $50' a month
draftsman.
After gaining experience and
achieving a large measure of
success in the United States, he
was called to England in 1914
to be manager of the Great
Eastern Railroad. In this cap
acity he handled war-time
transportation so well he was
knighted by King George and
became a British subject in 19
19. He was made president of
the Canadian National, longest
railroad in North America,
with 22,000 miles of track, in
1922.
Friends attribute his down
fall to politics, which is enevi
tably mixed up with a railroad
under government ownership
and operation. His own com
ment upon resigning was: “In
my opinion, a publicly owned
railroad can be successful only
if the management has the
complete confidence of the
owners.”
The experience of most count
ries seems to be that a govern
ment railroad is seldom suc
cessful under any circumstanc
es, so far as rendering efficient
service at reasonable rates is
concerned, unless it is heavily
subsidized from the public
treasury in one form or anoth
i er.
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The Sun Eclipse
The eclipse of the sun on the j
afternoon of August 31 will af- ■
ford millions of people the op
' portunity to witness one of the
most striking of all celestial
phenomena known to mankind.
; The extent of the eclipse will
[vary from total in portions of
I the East to only 10 to 30 per
. cent on the Pacific coast. In
: the middle West and in the
; Southeastern states from 50 to
I 75 per cent of the sun’s surface
will be obscured as the moon
passes across it. As Hyder is
■ome distance from the path of
totality, it is probable that the
obscuration of the sun will not
ixceed more than 70 per cent
of the solar area.
The earth is the only planet
in our solar system with a moon
large enough to make a total
eclipse of the sun possible.
Mercury and Venus have no
moons at all; Mars has two,
i but they are only five to ten
I miles in diameter, so would on
I ly show as small black spots
when crossing the sun’s face.
The larger planets have sever
al moons, but nione are large
enough to eclipse more than a
slight fraction of the sun.
An endless source of wonder
to the laymen is the ability of
astronomers to predict the oc
currence of eclipses with uner
ring accuracy years and even
centuries in advance. It is
known, for example, that a to
.tal eclipse of the sun will be
(visible along the southern bor
der of the United States from
j California to Florida on Aug
ust 12, 2045—or 113 years
hence. The eclipse which will
occur next Wednesday was
predicted and described in
great detail in a work pub
lished in Vienna nearly 50
years ago.
But if we cannot understand
how these wonderful spec
tacles of the skies are predict
ed, we may witness them as oc
casion offers and marvel at the
mind of man which has discov
ered so many of natures sec
rets.
Just for Fun
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The wisest man we know
says: “Put a little sugar into
what yiou say and take a little
salt with what you hear.”
Promoting Peace
Mrs. Henry Peck: “Let’s see,
what is the name of that place
where so much was done to
wards promoting peace in the
world.”
Henry: “Reno, my dear.”
Grocer: “A thief entered my
store last night and took every
thing but a box of soap.”
Cop: “The dirty cmok!”
S’funny, isn’t it?
Apothecaries say a dram con
tains three scruples and pro
hibitionists think if one takes a
dram he has no scruples.
There is also a story going
around about a Scotchman who
wanted to smoke m o n o
grammed cigarettes, so he
changed his name to Chester
field.
Depression in Scotland
“Yes,” said the commercial
traveler, “we have received
letters of appreciation from
England, Wales, Ireland—and
a piost card from Scotland.”
A monument is proposed for
for the man who invented post
cards. The inscription might
appropriately be, “Wish you
were here.”
The Modern Young Idea
“I wouldn’t cry like that if
I were you,” said a lady to lit
tle Betty.
“Well,” said Betty, between
her sobs, “you can cry anyway
you like, but this is my way.”
INTERESTING NOTES
It is estimated that the popu
lation of the world today is a
little more than double the
population of 100 years ago.
German societies for prevent
ion of cruelty to animals are
advocating rubber shoes for
horses instead of iron,
i _
Mail was transported by rock
et for the first time recently
when a shall containing 300
letters was shot from the top
of the Hoch-Troetsch mountain
to Semriach, Austria a distance
of a mile and a quarter.
Since 1500 A. D. Iceland has
; exceeded all other regions in
the output of lava from its vol
j canoes.
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
August 23, 1922.
Bob Keitk has started the
foundation for a new liotel in
Hyder, B. C.
Noel Traversy is painting the
new Daly Alaska office.
John Carlson and four part
ners have started work on a
contract for 100 feet of tunnel
on the Daly Alaska.
Joe Green has sold every lot
on Kingway in Hyder, B. C.,
between the boundary and the 1
wharf, with the exception of
three.
Gus Erickson and Alex Mc
Phee are falling and bucking
limber for Lloyd Snyder, who
has a contract at Glacier Bay
for the Hyder Lumber Comp
any.
R. E. Lundvall, whose face
and hands were badly burned !
when his home was destroyed '
by fire July 30, is almost recov- j
ered and will be only slightly i
disfigured, the burns leaving
;only a few scars.
The Mobile group on the
south fork of Glacier creek and
not more than an hour’s walk
from Stewart, has been bonded
by G. D. B. Turner, who is also
operating the. Indian group in
the upper Salmon basin.
Mrs. Helen Bell is moving her
Style Shop building from Main
Street to Hyder, B. C., which
is having something of a build
ing boom. Lee Balch and E. E.
Charlton are on the job.
A new bunkhouse is being
j built at the Riverside mine in
praparation for the crew that
will be necessary when the
compressor, which has been or
I dered, arrives.
Boyles Bros., of Spokane, the
well known diamond drilling
| firm, are incorporating to op
| erate both in the United States
; and Canada, and in this con
j neetion their manager in this
■ district, L. Jessen, went south
I Sunday.
I The Prince of Wales today
tied up at the new Hyder dock,
which sits like a desert isle
away out toward the Marmot,
! with no present connection
| with the shore. When the ap
jproach is finished an addition
al ocean voyage will not be
necessary to reach the town, as
it was this trip.
It is not necessary to go into
the hills to sense the activity of
Hyder. During the day the
Hyder Lumber Company saw
mill’s saws hum their way thru
spruce and hemlock logs, to the
accompaniment of Pitcher and
Company’s pile driver hammer
as it slams down the founda
tion to the Hyder dock ap
proach. At night the sawmill
planer sings a musical lullaby
to soothe the tired nerves of
such residents as are not used
to much excitement.
PROFESSIONAL
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jHgber, Alaska
FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
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CHAS ,F, SANDFDRD
NOTARY PUBLIC
HERALD OFFICE
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
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LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Howard Campbell, Dictator
P. S. Jack, Secretary
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