THE ANCHORAGE WEEKLY TIMES
ANCHORAGE PUBLISHING CO., PUBLISHERS.
CHAS. E. HERRON.
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EVIL OF MAIL ORDER HOUSES
Mail order houses in the states, particularly one ot the
largest of these concerns having a branch in Seattle, have
been active this summer in soliciting business here and in this
vicinity by the distribution of their catalogues. They have
succeeded in obtaining considerable trade, most of which lias
been sent by housewives.
Women here should not make the serious mistake of
patronizing mail order houses. In only a very few, it any in
stances, quality considered, can goods be bought cheaper
from them and brought here than from local merchants. But
aside from this material fact, the chief reason why trade j
should not be given to the mail order houses is because doing j
business with them is ruinous to this community.
Mail order concerns do not contribute anything to the sup-1
port of Anchorage. They pay no taxes nor wages here. The!
money they receive from local customers is lost to the people!
here forever. In time, if their trade prospers, they will almost i
deplete this community, as they have many places, of cash.
No knowledge of economies is required to realize that
with every decrease in available cash, local business will suf
fer in corresponding ratio. Professional practice, labor, and
real estate will rapidly follow merchandise in experiencing tin*
loss of a local market.
The housewife that sends money to mail order concerns
is taking the most effective means of reducing the income of
her husband, no matter what his occupation or calling, and of
decreasing the value of the house and lot that constitute her
home. She is tearing down, while he is trying to build up.
Upon the prosperity of the community as whole depends
the prosperity of every person in the community. Depleting
a community of its money by sending it to mail order house
operates to the misfortune of everybody.
FAIR SURPRISES OLD TIMERS
The lirst Annual Alaska Agricultural-Industrial Fair just
closed in Anchorage was a credit in every sense of the word to
the exhibitors and the committees in charge. On every hand
are heard favorable comments, and everybody that visited this
city to attend the exhibition went away with the sense of hav
ing received full value for the time passed in Anchorage.
Not only were the three days a time of pleasure and merry
making, but the exhibits shown served to open the eyes of even
the men who considered themselves well posted on Alaskan re
sources. The agricultural and mineral exhibits especially were
educational. The former showed a variety of products which
Tnany old timers had not supposed could possibly be grown in
this region.
The success of the fair has assured its permanancy as an
Anchorage institution, and every year we may look for a better
show than the preceding year.
Now is the time to perfect an organization to have charge
of the arrangement and management of the annual exposition.
Chicago garment makers have decided women are to
wear trousers with their evening gowns next winter. Oh, we!I,
clothes don’t make the man.
And now comes the aftermath, made pleasant in this par
ticular instance by the knowledge that the lirst annual fair
wa- a huge success.
The business men generally, hotels and restaurants in par-j
ticular, report a good trade din ing fair time.
All big events closed at the same time—the fall fair and
The Times Automobile Contest.
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Loussac’s Daily Gossip
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1917.
Vol. 1. No. 240. ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, 4th and D
Why suffer the inconvenience of
i trying to find your way in the
' dark, when you can buy a KWIK
LITE flashlight from us. A Kwik
Lite flashlight comes in many
different sizes. The vest-pocket
light takes up very little room and
the batteries are considered the
best made. They are highly rec
ommended for steady burning and,
of course, we guarantee them.
The August Victor records are
in and as usual the latest popular
music is brought home to us on
the phonograph. To hear Ger
aldine Farrar sing the “Star Span
gled Banner” is an inspiration, and
listening to some of the latest
dances makes you long for a dance
floor and your best girl. The new
popular songs are snappy and full
of melody. Billy Murray sings
“Everything Is Going Up,” and
we know it is true, but it is funny
just the same. Our stock of Victor
machines and records is the larg
est in Alaska. Within the last two
weeks we have sold about a dozen
machines and a thousand records
or so, and we have some left, and
new ones coming in on every boat.
Mail your orders to us.
We have received a few single
light, silk lamp shades. They are
very pretty and not expensive.
They will greatly improve the ap
pearance of your home. Come
in and look them over.
Loussac's Drug Stores
PHONE 100-R Immediate Delivery PHONE 62-Y ,
4th and D St. 4th and H St. ■
ARGONAUTS ENCOUNTERED
DIFFICULTIES.
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winter. They would not give up their
search for the riches they were in
formed were to be gathered up in
fistfuls. This they dd, and in a few
weeks a band of natives brought back
the remainder of the party, half
starved and anything but anxious to
kill their rescuers.
There had been some mutteerings
among the party against Renton, but
now the storm bui'st in earnest. It
was a certainty that he had fiever
been in the country before and that
he knew absolutely nothing about it.
However, he still claimed that he had
but that the topography of the coun
try had greatly changed from earth
quakes or some unknown reason.
Nearly every member of the par
ty by this time had a different idea of
what they should do. Some wanted to
winter at Orca, and some wanted to
try the Copper River again under the
impression that they had not found
the real channel and that the**boat
would yet be able to get up far
enough to make winter quarters.
Others wanted to go to Valdez Bay
and go in over the glacier, this route
having been discovered a short time
before. Some wanted to go home,
while others did not want to do any
thing at all.
Split by dissension the party at last
agreed to divide up the outfit and go
where they wished. The supplies
were taken ashore and each received
his allotment. But in the outfit there
was not an extra sack. Sugar was in
barrels, meat in boxes, beans ami
rice in hundred pound sacks, and
canned goods in cases. How any man
ever expected to carry this stuff on a
prospecting trip in the interior no one
has ever figured out to this day. It
was at last decided to take the sails
off the ship and make sacks and this
was finally done against the advice of
the older members of the party who
stated that the ship should be kept in
good condition to return home in case
the voyage preved a failure. Making
the sacks took several days.
After everything but the bacon had
been divided the party discovered
that they had been duped and Renton
nearly lost his life. About 1000
pounds of the meat could be eaten in
a pinch, but the balance was rotten.
About 1700 pounds was found to have
been made from sucklings and un
born pigs, weighing from six to ten
pounds each, and packed for the ex
press purpose of working off on Al
askan outfitters. Each man looked at
his meat and then started for Renton
with a rope. It had finally dawned
upon them that they had been duped,
and that the whole expedition was a
put-up job; that Renton had never
Libby Cut Glass—always a gift
of excellence and good taste. Uni
versal Chaffing Dishes and Perco
lators are always welcome in a
home. Sterling and Rogers 1847
table silver in all these articles are
suitable gifts at all times.
Parisian Ivory—A toilet article
DeLux—clean looking, sanitary and
dust proof, it makes a nice appear
ance on your Areewsr. You can go
a long way to win a girl’s heart by
a gift of a nice Paresian Ivory Toi
let Set.
AUGUSTINE & KEYER make
the most delicious chocolate candy
on the coast. Their Victoria and
Chocolate Butter Crisp are famous
and when you give your friend a
box of them you have made a three
base hit and a home-run. We are
the agents.
Eaton & Crane’s name as makers
of high grade stationery is a guar
antee of the quality and correct
ness of the paper you use. Hereto
fore they hud no direct representa
tive on the Alaska coast. It was
not thought possible that any one
store could sell enough stationery
to be granted an agency, but we
have done it. The reason we sell
so much is because of its quality
and price.
been in Alaska, and that he had over
charged them for everything he had
bought for the party while in San ’
Francisco; that he had stood in with j
the ’Frisco merchants, and while he
had charged them for first class out
fits he had bought the poorest he j
could find. They held a council and
decided that “he was a scoundrel and
should be hung as a warning to other
scoundrels who got up schemes to
beat their fellowmen.”
Committee Waits on Renton.
A committee went aboard the
schooner and told Renton he was
wanted ashore. He begged of the
men who composed the committee to
tell him if violence was intended, and
was told that he would not be harm
ed. When he stepped ashore, however,
he was met by a howling mob who
told him that he had but a short time -
to live, he was denounced as a swind
ler, a thief, a traitor, and every in
sult the men could think of heaped
upon him in the hopes he would re-1
sent it and give the mob an excuse
to kill him. The mob demanded that
he repay them the money they had
paid him, and many of them favored
making him a prisoner and feeding
him the food he had sold them.
He acknowledged having $1500
aboard the vessel, and a committee
was delegated to go and get the
money. When the party arrived
aboard, however, he was in such
plight that he had to be carried
aboard. The men dragged him to the
galley and then his nerve forsook him j
entirely. They chafed his arms and j
legs to restore circulation, but he had
lost control of himself and lay on the
deck a fear-crazed wreck.
Doctor Protect Patient.
A doctor who accompanied the par- j
ty told the men that he was in a
serious condition and would die if |
further excited. He gave the man an
injection of morphine and was en- i
deavoring to make him comfortable
when the angry crowd came again to
wreak vengeance on him, but the doc
tor forced them back and took Ren
ton to his stateroom where he locked
the door and refused to turn him
over to the mob. A committee search
ed the ship but found no money, and"
sent word to Renton that he had the
privilege of handing over his ill
gotten gains or being hung, and he
finally gave up $90, all the money he
claimed to have.
Had it not been for the courage of
the doctor the man would certainly
have been hung, as the crowd was de
termined to make an example of him.
After dividing up the outfit the
crowd scattered and all ti’ace of them
was lost. With the exception of nine
of them who came to Swanport, elev
en went to the Valdez trading post,
then known as Hangtown, and the re
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Members of the Alaska Labor
Union who attended the meeting Mon
day night were informed by Sam
Mandle, member of the Holding Com
pany, that creditors are pressing the
organization for money overdue on
the Labor Temple and that unless
about $3,000 was paid within the com
ing month the district court at the
October session will be asked to ap
point a receiver to take charge of the
property.
The original debt of about $40,000
has been reduced to $12,500, the re
duction during the past three months
amounting to $3000. The Holding
Company estimates that with in
come from dues, assessments and
rentals continuing as for the past
three months the debt can be wiped
out within another year and the!
Union secure clear title to what was 1
intended as a practical monument to ;
and home for organized labor ip
Alaska.
A portion of the 2300 men whose
names are now on the membei'ship
roll are several months in arrears,
many of these delinquents having re
moved from Anchorage, but enough
remain here and in this vicinity to
wipe out the debt within 24 hours if
they would pay up. The reasons for
non-attendance and non-payment of
fered by many of “the old guard” are
too well known to need repetition
here in detail—they are covered by
the three words “inexcusable internal
dissentions.”
The amount of one day’s wages of
each Union man who has been em
Union Clears $500 Labor Day With <
Aid of “Direct Action” by The Times
BY C. H. PACKARD.
The net contribution of the Labor
Day celebration to the treasury of the
Alaska Labor Union was a little more
than $500, the total receipts being
approximately $1000. The discussion
following submission of the report at
the Union meeting Monday night,
brought out several facts of interest
not only to Union members but also
to the general public. A number of
these are referred to elsewhere. Here
is another:
Charles E. Herron, managing own
er of the Times, donated to the Union
and to the Labor Day fund amounts
Spirit of ’76 in Evidence to Limited
Extent in the United States Today
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it represents that should lead us on
to establishment of democracy and
defeat of autocracy.
“We on Labor Day are celebrating
victories won against our own people.
Here in this country all voters have
a chance to be a part of the govern
ment, and it is not the fault of the
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flag but the fault of the people them- !
selves if they do not get justice.” |
Referring to the I. W. W., the
speaker declared members of that or
ganization do not believe in building
up, but they favor destruction. They
propose to “pull the /angs of capi
talism,” but here where the great
HERE IS GOOD PROOF OF
ORGANIZED LABOR’S WISDOM
The strength of the organized la
bor movement and the wisdom of its
course has had no better proof than
the agreement just entered into be
tween the government and the Broth
erhood of Carpenters and Joiners, by
which all work on army cantonments
is to be done by union labor.
Under the terms of the agreement
not only the carpenters must be or
ganized workers, but all other labor j
on these big jobs must be organized.
This is one of the most sweeping
labor agreements ever entered into
mainder again started for the Copper
River, half hoping that the story told
them by Renton might yet come true.
Many of them perished that winter
from scurvy and cold, and the rem
nant of the party finally disappeared
from the knowledge of the old-timers, I
aand probably found their way to the!
outside, dead broke, discouraged and
broken in health. Renton returned to
Frisco and finally disappeared.
doyed this season by the Alaskan En
gineering Commission would wipe
out the debt, and if delinquents have
not lost all sense of justice, of ap
preciation for benefits which the or
ganization has directly brought to
them, no extended argument of the
delegate-collector will be necessary to
induce them to “come through” im
mediately. Had the Alaska Labor
Union never existed, or had it been
allowed to die for lack of “nutrition,”
it is very probable the old wage scale
and its minimum of 37% cents an
hour for common labor, with long
shoremen and others in that class and
carpenters and other skilled mechan
ics "ettin" < •■it", would continue
to Lx- miii.iU. ncd L. the commission.
Secretary Henry was elected T.ion
daJ’ • ’ delegate to go out the
line a- do missionary work; to en
deavor to convince delinquents that
they are under moral if not legal
obligations to come to the aid of the
Lnion in its time of need; to recipro
cate for the valuable services the or
ganization rendered them and every
worker in Alaska during the strike in
February, 1916, and in subsequent
negotiations with the commission.
Ihe loss of Labor Temple would be
a greater one to organized labor
morally, as well as a disgrace to the
A. L. U., which the organization
could not outlive.
Boys, forget petty differences of
the past six months; be good sports;”
be real union men and not cheap imi
tations; be union men for principle as
well as for profit and pay up your
dues.
more than equaling the net receipts
above referred to, or $573.92. One
hundred dollars of this was in cash to
the fund and he voluntarily cancelled
an old debt of the organization,
amounting to $473.?2 for printing and
advertising.
One of “the enemy” who has been
active in hammering and abusing the
the Times and Mr. Herron, admitted
with apparent reluctance that “Her
ron is a mighty good sport;” this “di
rect action” being further evidence
that he is a practical friend of the
Union, organized labor and workers
generally.
majority of the population are engag
ed in construction of the railway they
are working for the government—for
themselves, if they are citizens of
this country—hence they should stand
for the best things possible for the
workers.
“If the spirit of co-operation pre
vailed here now, as it prevailed when
Union men turned out and cut and
hauled logs and erected the old Labor
Temple, there would be necessity for
strikes here—no excuse for the pres
ence of the I. W. W ” he said. “No
country is greater than the people in
it, so let us give more encourage
ment to the sentiment ‘Live and let
live.’ ”
and one of the most important. It
marks out the policy of the govern
ment and the policy of labor unmis
takably and to the credit of the na
tion and the labor movement.—Prom
American Alliance for Labor and
Democracy.
WOMEN SCAB IN ~ —
MILLS OF HOQUIAM
Closed down by the strike of lum
ber workers, fighting for an eight
hour day and living wages, the Hoqui
am Sash & Door Company plant, in
Hoquiam, has started operation with
a force of women and girls. The
wromen are wearing overalls doing the
heavy work previously done by men
and are working ten hours a day for
wages much lower than the striking
men received. The action of the
women has aroused much bitterness
in the Grays Harbor country.
“Why does the president have the
pardoning power, and not congress?”
“We don’t want a prisoner who de- ^
serves a pardon to run the risk of
dying of old age.”—Ex.