LONDON, July 5.—Great Britain
is now a nation of militarism. All
but a negligible quantity of male
Britishers between the ages or 18
and 41 have automatically become
soldiers for the duration of the war
under the military rompulison act.
They are the army of reserve and
will become trained units as fast as
the military authorities can put them
through the necessary steps. It is
estimated that upwards of 600,000
are thus added to the military forces.
Between 350,000 and 400,000 are
youths under 19. The remainder is
divided between married and single
men who have held back mainly for
family or business reasons. Every
man walking the streets or highways
of Great Britain, excluding Ireland,
is subject to challenge by a police
constable and must produce his cer
tificate of military exemption forth
with or face the consequences. But
few are free under the compulsion
act. Total exemption is granted only
to clergymen, exchanged prisoners of
war and the medically unfit. For
the next thirty days hundreds of
tribunals throughout the country
will consider the last applications
for exemption. It has been previ
ously announced that absolute free
dom from military service cannot be
granted to those pleading “serious
hardships.” Hence the tradesman
must leave his shop, the professional
man his office, the manufacturer his
plant and the husband his home, de
spite business or domestic hardship.
The conscientious objector, if his ob
jections are proved genuine to the
satisfaction of the tribunal, must
serve in a non-combatant capacity.
Even the government employe must
prove that his services are indis
pensable to the nation. British rail
way stations, especially those of the
larger cities, have taken on a new
aspect today. More women and chil
dren crowded the platforms than
ever before. The first drafts of the
conscript army have started toward
the training camps. In the big Lon
don railway stations husbands and
frthers, inevitably loaded with more
baggage than army law allows, re
mained on the platforms until trains
were ready to go bidding goodbye to
their wives and children- Heart
rending scenes were enacted. Trains
steamed out and thousands of per
sons stepped into strange paths in
which they will continue to walk
until peace brings Great Britain
back to normal balance.
During the past month millions of
pieces of furniture have been packed
in thousands of British homes and
put in storage. The government
lightened the load of the married
conscript in this respect. Local au
thorities are empowered by parlia
ment to store the household effects
free, pay a reasonable charge for the
cartage and insurance.
There are more empty houses for
rent in England, Scotland and Wales
than at any time in history. The
married soldier’s family, in most
cases, has not attempted to keep the
home fires burning. Wives and chil
dren have gone back to the "old
folks" or into lodgings. They will
make out on the government allow
ance that goes to every soldier’s wife
and children. In exceptional cases
the local authorities are empowered
by the government to offer funds—
the amount to be decided by the
barest needs.
Every day for weeks the railway
stations and the homes will go
through what started today—unless
peace puts an end to it.
KXIK ARM TIDES
July 6.
Low water .4:12 a. in. 3.9
High water . 9:12 a. m. 28.8
Low water . 4:23 p. m. 1-9
High water .10:15 p. m. 29.2
The great assistance rendered the
Fourth of July committee by the
city administration in laying off the
field for the sport events and other
wise aiding in all parts of the pro
gram is very much appreciated by
the committees in charge of the suc
cessful celebration of yesterday.
Boys! Try the Tacoma Cafe.
6-15tf.
Salmon—10c per can at I’ilger’s.
6-30-tf.
ADVERTISEMENT
ROLL OF HONOR
Members of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce who
have the interest of the town at heart and are ever ready
and willing to give their services for the upbuilding of
Anchorage.
THEY ARE ENTITLED TO YOUR SUPPORT.
Get on the roll, so that the membership will include
every resident if the town who is a live wire. In unity
there is strength, and Anchorage is a healthy youngster
and its growth promises to be a rapid one. Get in line,
by joining the Chamber of Commerce. Send your ap
plication to the secretary today. The following persons
have already done so:
Oscar Anderson.Ship Creek Meat Market.
Sidney Anderson.Cashier, Bank of Anchorage.
W L. Balcli.Balch & McDonald, Contractors.
W. Bjornson.Merchant Tailor.
Chas. E. Brown.Merchant.
L. P. Byrne.House of Movies.
Ceo. Carol.Carol <fc Co., Clothiers.
Geo. M. Campbell ....Alaska Realty & Investment Co.
T. D. Corlew.Dry Goods.
Leopold David.Lawyer.
H. C. Dohrmann .Manager, Knik Hardware Co.
A. E. Fvans .Evans & Frantzon, Decorators.
II. T. Fowler .Wholesale Grocer.
Roy Fairbanks.Merchant.
L. Ganton .Merchant Tailor.
Chas. E. Herron.Publisher, Anchorage Daily Times
A. S. Koch .The Riverside.
Dr. K. A. Kyvig.City Drug Store.
Ray C. Larson.Sash, Doors, Glass.
A. E. Lathrop .Alaska Transfer Company.
S. D. Maxwell .Anchorage Supply Co.—Lumber.
J. A. Moore _Townsite Manager.
W. T. Normile.North Side Lumber Co.
L. 0. Nvberg .Owner of Nyberg Block.
J. E. O’Reilly.Construction Superintendent.
Newt. W. Pilger_Merchant.
F. M. Policy.Merchant.
•L E. Robarts-Billiard and Bowling Parlors.
V. A. Schmitz.Northern Drug Company.
A. A. Shonbeck .General Merchandise.
H. G.' Steel .-Editor. Anchorage Daily Times.
F. B. Tracy.General Agent Alaska S. S. Co.
James Turner .Anchorage Central Market.
J. L. Waller.Lawyer.
C. B. Wark ..Manufacturers’ Agent.
E. J. Warner.Alaska Realty & Investment Co.
A. J. Wendler-Merchant.
J. T. Westermann ....Vice-President, Bank of Alaska.
F. B. Wood.Wood Undertaking Co.
S. F. Kildall.Master Mariner.
C. P. Pedersen.Northern Transfer Co.
C. W. Bolte.Hardware. t
R. H. Kleming.Bird Creek Lumber Co.
EH DeHon.Prop. Pioneer Laundry.
FLIRTS IN SHADOW
OF DEATH CHAIR
Walto Puzzled Whan Charms
Fail In Courtroom.
HIS EGOTISM IS REVEALED.
“She Wouldn’t Look at Mo,” Ho Com
plains to Alienist—8lsyor by Poison
of Parents-in-law Says That Ha
Never Loved Young Wife Heiress to
Fortune.
A brand new record In filrtatlon has
been made. Dr. Arthur Warren Waite
has broken the old one and establish
ed the new—making eyes In the shad
ow of the electric chair—In the court
room in New York where he was on
trial for his life.
The crushed young wife whose par
ents he poisoned, his broken hearted
father and brothers and the studio
dove whom he "thought more of than
all the Pecks and Waites put togeth
er” were all in the room with him. it
would not have been strange if his
good looking head had been bowed
with shame. But it wasn't bowed. It
was slightly raised, and there was a
bright and interested gleam in his frank
blue eyes. Arthur Warren Waite,
chaperoned by judge and jurors, his
fate in their hands, was doing his best
to attract the attention of a pretty girl.
"She wouldn’t look at me,” he com
plained to the alienist, who told of the
little affair upon the stand. Arthur
Warren Waite was astounded. Appar
ently he could see no reason why his
charms should fail him for the first
time, there in the prisoner’s chair.
"I never could have -believed he was
interested in any other woman,” his
young wife had said.
In the corner where she sat listen
ing so calmly and grimly, leaning a
little forward in her chair, her small
hands folded. Clara Louise Peck, as
she now desires to be called, learned
how far misplaced her faith had been.
Her slayer-husband and the alienist
to whom he had told his story both
said he had never loved her for a mo
ment.
Didn’t Love His Parents.
"When I got rid of her I meant to
get a benutiful wife,” that supreme
egoist had explained. "She was not
my eo.ua 1 in anything. She was not
beautiful nor talented. She was just
«n nrrlinnrv milpt Hrl.”
He did not know how to love. All
ego, entirely selfish, he admitted that
he felt emotion for no human being,
this strangely solitary man in the pris
oner's chair. “I didn't feel anything
for my parents.” be said. “I know i
ought to love them, because they were
good to me. Mrs. Horton (his studio
companion)—oh, I'm afraid that was
only a temporary matter! Life is only
a hollow, miserable shell.”
Hi* Studio Companion.
Upon his inability to feel a throb of
love or fear or sorrow the defense
based most of its argument. Arthur
Warren Waite, they said, was “by him
self, of himself and with himself,” a
moral imbecile, a man who could not
realize murder because he could not
realize any personality outside his own.
Meanwhile the man who wrote poems
on love In the Tombs seemed to feel
that It did not much matter what hap
pened to him, but bewailed the lack of
“harmony” in the courtroom.
"When I look into people’s eyes I
can make them like me,” be said. “I
could do it now if they would look at
me. But the atmosphere is hostile."
SUGAR CARDS IN ENGLAND.
lasuad to 25,000 Member* of a Co
operative 8ociety.
Sugar cards have been Issued to the
23,000 members of the Sheffield and
Eccleshall Co-operative society. Be
fore sugar can be bought at any of the
stores the card, which bears the mem
ber's name and number must be pre
sented. When the quantity bought
weekly is half the‘normal quantity in
peace times a record is made on the
card. Nonmembers are not supplied.
The system has been adopted by oth
er societies and is proving most suc
cessful In husbanding supplies.
Speaking of the likelihood of the
card system being extended to other
articles, T. Walton, the general man
ager, said that his board felt that it
would be necessary before very long
If supplies diminished as they were
doing week by week. Cards for all
food might soon be in use.
GETS LINCOLN’S BIBLE.
Pmantsd to Nsgro College by Son of
the Emancipator.
President F. A. McKenzie of Fisk
university, the negro institution at
Nashville, Tenn., announced the gift
by Robert T. Lincoln of a Billie which
was presented to former President
Abraham Lincoln by negroes in Balti
more in 18(34.
In presenting the book Mr. Lincoln
said:
‘‘It has seemed to me better that this
notable testimonial should be preserved
In some Institution where Its resting
place will be permanent, and I can
think of no more fitting selection than
the Institution founded ■ by General
Clinton Bowen Fisk immediately upon
the conclusion of a distinguished mili
tary service in the war which resulted
In the abolition of human slavery la
oar country.”
When at Matannsfca Eat at the
PLACE CAFE
Mrs. Hatton, Prop.
J. M. CORNELIUS
Watches j* Jewelry
Eyo Glasses Fitted, Watch Repair
ing, Jewelry Made to Order.
High-class. Prices Reasonable.
_Fourth and H St._
LENNON'S
Bakery and Coffee House
Bread, Pies, Cakes, Cookies, Etc.
-a Specialty
Fourth avenue west.
Sanitary Market
Tl.c only cold storage plant in con
nection with market in Anchorage.
Home-made Sausages. Fruits. Veg
etables, Putter and Eggs, at whole
sale. 1 restaurants and roadhouses.
, special attention.
1th Ave.. Bet H and I Sts.
I E. E. KURTZ & CO.
The Sydney Laurence Company
Commercial and Pictorial Photography
Post Cards and Local Views
Kodak Developing and Printing
Town Center
Carrol Building, Fourth Avenue
Phil, The Barber
O. K. Bath House and Barber
Shop.
Fourth, Between D and E.
Phil J. Eckert, Proprietor.
$1 PER DAYj
Corner 4th Ave. and C
MKS. QUINN, Prop.
V. A. SCHMITZ
OPTICIAN
OFFICE
Xorthem Drug Company. Empress
Block, Corner H and Fourth.
THE CRESCENT
F. ». HMD S CO, top
Clean Private Rooms. Comfort
able Beds. Moderate Rates.
Bathroom in Connection.
Cor. Fourth and C. Anchorage
Cook Inlet News Sen/ice
Newspapers, Magazines and
Periodicals from all parts of
the world received overland
twice a week.
THE MODEL 4th and E St.
HANNAN’S CAFE
Cor. 9th Ae. and B St.
Anchorage, Alaska
Short Orders
Chili Con Came. Tamales made
to order, any style.
Special Price to Restaurants.
THE
White House
Mrs. Martha White, Propr.
Up-to-Date in Every Way
Nice Comfortable Beds
Rates Moderate
Fourth Ave, near K street.
Scotty Watson
Conducts a Comfortable Lodging
House at Matannska Landing.
BILLIARD ks SOLO
PARLORS
Soft Drinks, Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobaccos
Best of Service P^^TERSON^ 4th and D Sts.
Balch & McDonald
General Contractors
FRAME CONSTRUCTION CONCRETE WORK
EXCAVATION GRADING
HOUSE MOVING
4th Ate. Bet. D and E Anchorage
Hi® Two Girls Cafe
Mrs. Ollie Gray and Viola Bar
nett, Propr etors.
Our Motto:
Courtesy, Service, Quality
WAFFLES A SPECIALTY
4th Ave. and C St.
Electric Lights
Rooms 50c per Day Up
Auto Meets All Boats
Steam Heat
FIRST CLASS CAFE
IN CONNECTION
EUROPEAN AND
AMERICAN PLAN
CIRCLE CITY
HOTEL
HEADQUARTERS
FOR MINING MEN
REMODELED :—: FREE BATHS
227 E. Third St. Between Seward and Franklin
W. SHORT, Proprietor JUNEAU, ALASKA
BJORNSON & GANTON
Merchant Tailors Correct Styles
4th and I Street
GREEN FRONT CIGAR STORE
Soft Drinks of all
kinds. Leading brands
Cigars, Cigarettes,
Tobacco.
Just
Received—
Fresh
Supply.
Fruits
Candies
Stationery
Notions.
Sweet Milk and Bu ttermilk Dally.
Miss I. Blair, Propr. 4th Av. bet. C and D Next door D. D. Rest.
Fifth Ave. Cigar Store
CIGARS, TOBACCOS, CANDIES, FRUITS;
VICTOR STEWART,
Proprietor.
Fifth Avenue Between C and D
Launch Swan
Daily Trips to Knik
For Schedule See Bulletin Boards
Launch Brighton
Nate White, Captain
Carrying U. S. Mail between Anchorage, Hope, Sunrise
and Glazier Creek—All Points on Turnagain Arm.
Luke's Cafe
Cor. 9th Ave. and C St.
Chop Suey “d Noodles