THE ANCHORAGE WEEKLY TIMES
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CHAS. E. HERRON.
President
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MUST SUPPRESS LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
For the past year the disposal of liquors in public places
has been common in Anchorage. There are numerous boot
leggers in this city who ply their trade in defiance of the law
and who appear to prosper despite the efforts of the marshal’s
office to suppress this illegal traffic.
The dealings of the bootleggers, however despicable and
harmful to the community, pale into insignificance when com
pared to the serving of liquor at our cafes, where young girls
and women are given the raw whisky amid surroundings which
to say the least are not elevating.
The bootlegger sells his liquor in most cases only to men j
who are addicted to the w hisky habit and are looking for the i
stimulant which they crave. In the case of the restaurants, I
however, the liquor is served to girls and women who in numer- j
ous cases obtain their first taste of strong drink in these'
houses.
The Mint Grill, operating under the supposition that it is'
allowed to serve what is brought into the house, has built up,
a most disreputable trade. Here liquors by the case are served
io those who brought it and their friends.
This traffic has been common in Anchorage since the foun
dation of the town, but only of late has it reached such pro
portions that the Times feels it should be suppressed. The
president has issued a proclamation making it illegal to sell,
dispose or give away whisky within five miles of an army post,
aud it now is up to the peace officers here to see that this is
enforced to the letter'of the law.
WAGES OF FIGHTING MEN.
Capturing American “Sammies” is a decidedly more lu-j
*-uative occupation for the.Prussian soldiers than fighting for]
- the fatherland. When the kaiser offered a bonus of $75 to
the first man of his forces in France who captured an American ;
-soldier, he fixed a sum that represents more than three years’)
p£y for a private in the German army. The pay given Amer- j
jean soldiers, compared with the pay of the British Tommy, the !
French poilu, the Italian Alpini, the German boclie and the 1
other fighting men of Europe, seems handsome wages. The
American second-class private w ill receive $33 a month. The :1
Russian private gets 32 cents a month; the Austro-Hungarian j1
troops are given 2 1-2 cents a day. Great Britain allows her 1
fighting men $7.(50 a month at home with an additional allow- 1
ance for service in France, Mesopotamia and other foreign 1
teritories. Italy ranks second in generosity, allowing a month- {
ly minimum of $5.83. Spain compensates her soldiers with &
monthly wage of $4.42; Germany has a w~age scale beginning at 1
$1.65; Japan’s soldiers at home receive $8 a year, and Turkey )
grants her men $11 a year.
THE TROUBLE WITH SEWARD.
Last summer the people of Anchorage in an effort to pro
mote good will between the different towns along the Alaskan
coast and particularly with Seward, started a get-together
movement with our sister city, and along with expressions of
good will, invited a delegation of Seward citizens to visit this!
city.
A number of representative men came over to the metrop-j
oils of Alaska, and while here were shown every courtesy by
the citizens of Anchorage. They were taken over the railway!
line, about the city, and given every opportunity to view the:
work of the Alaskan Engineering commission and to get better j
acquainted with the people, the belief being that once they I
became better informed of conditions here, they would realize j
that Anchorage had nothing to gain by speaking ill of their
city, and that they themselves would look at conditions from an
other viewpoint, and see that the best interests of both Anchor- i
age and Seward could best be served by the two cities working
in harmony, the fact being that what will help one city is bound
to benefit the other.
For a time alter the return of the Seward delegation every
thing went well. The knocking of both cities, which before had
been common, was discontinued, and it appeared that once
.more peace was to reign in southwestern Alaska.
Of late, however, the Seward Gateway, a small newspaper
published at tne Resurrection bay Town, has been letting little
yips out of it occasionally, growing bolder with each issue, un
til now it is out again with the knocker brand on every page.
The Times cannot believe that this change of front has
tlm sanction of the men composing the Seward delegation
which visited Anchorage last year. Most of these men were
broad-gauge citizens, and all were free to admit that they were
amazed at the progress made by Anchorage, and went away <
with the expressed intention of working in harmony thereafter.
The fact of the matter is that the Seward Gateway is as
small in spirit as is the typical knocker of that town. It repre
sents the element in Seward, which, insanely jealous of the
progress made by Anchorage, is willing to go any length if
by so doing it believes it can injure this city.
As a sample of the matter now being printed in the little
paper at Seward witness the following, taken from the issue of
Oct. 26:
“Anchorage keeps harping on a charge of the judicial '
seat of government in this division, claiming that the dis
trict court sessions held in Valdez cause a great inconve
nience to that town on Cook inlet. Suppose a session was
held in the winter and Anchorage was the only seat ? Who 1
Loussac’s Daily Gossip
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1017.
Vol. I. No. 296. ANCHORAGE, ALASKA. -4th and D
39 Days Till Christmas
We are taking great pleas
ure in announcing to our pa
trons that our Xmas stock is
now opened for their inspec
tion. We are not going too
strong in claiming for our
stores the best assorted
stock of holiday merchandise
in the city.
Beginning with a Yictrola
and ending with a Water
man Ideal Fountain Pen you
can find a suitable gift for
every one of your friends or
relatives. We are going to
announce in our advertise
ment in detail what we have
from time to time. In the
meantime we take this op
portunity to emphasize the
importance we attach to our
“out of town business.” We
are at all times glad to as
sist our patrons from here to
Dead Horse Hill and along
the Turnagain Arm in se
lecting their gifts. We wel
come their inquiries and will
see to the packing and mail
ing for them anything they
may wish to get.
Your mail orders will be
given immediate attention.
Our service in town ena
bles us to deliver any pack
age to any address and we do
that free and freely. «
We have also increased
our stock at Store No. 2, at
4th and H St., in the Lathrop
building. We aim to give
the same service to people
up-town as we do at our
store at 4th and D. Call in
and see us.
And, by the way—We
want you to try our new
weighing Toledo scale. It is
the best and most accurate
scale made. It tells you what
your weight should be, etc.
Our enormous stock of
new Victor Records is now
open.
Fresh stock of Augustine
& layers’ Candy received on
the last boat.
We deliver the goods at
the Stores that have what
you want—when you want
it.
Loussac's Drug Stores
PHONE 100-R Immediate Delivery PHONE 62-Y
Ith and D St. * 4th and H St.
would be inconvenienced by the long hike over the trail
and back again? Surely Anchorage should admit that
there are others in this division, others who have been
here longer and who will remain longer as commercial cen
ters. Anchorage is now booming, but when the bubble is
pricked, Anchorage will be a siding on the main line.’’
When it is considered that the above was written by a man
vho has never seen Anchorage; who knows nothing about the
•esources of the country tributary to this city; and who lias
>een in Seward only long enough to absorb the petty spirit of
!he burg, it becomeSudisgusting. ..
It is an exhibition of the same spirit which has prompted
lie organization in Seward of a lobby which this year will go
,o Washington to make the supreme effort to have the work on
he Anchorage harbor stopped. The chief agent in this move
ment is John E. Bglbrine and why he is making this effort'in
ihe behalf of Seward is plainly evident by the Seward delin
luent tax list printed'
It is out of line with the Times’ policy to notice these flings
it Anchorage. This-paper always has followed a constructive
lolicy, striving with every effort to assist in the upbuilding of
;he whole country, but when a dirty little cur continually snaps
it your heels, it is oflly human nature to kick it away.
Most of the stories printed with a view of harming An
ihorage are only ili^bulitions of a diseased mind which appeal
io people of smaircajibro, and as such find their way into print
n a publication, tile standard of which is lower than that
maintained by any other paper in Alaska.
The people of Anchorage, as a whole, have a supreme con
tempt for the activities of the small disgruntled clique in Sew
ird which has succeeded in giving that city a name for petty
meanness unequaled elsewhere in the north, a reputation ot
which .the decent citizens are ashamed, but which the contin
ned agitatioiTof the few will not allow others to forget.
Anchorage is big enough to ignore the existence of the lit
tle city on the bay, and may be some day enough new blood will
be injected into the polluted arteries of Seward to allow it tc
resist the efforts of the persons who now are doing their best
to prevent its growth and expansion.
FDKUMN OF STttL PLANT IS
ACCUSED QFRUING PLATES
INTENDED FOR FEDERAL SHIPS
3rUS VOLLIETH, OF OLYMPIC AND AURORA COMPANY,
IS SAID TO HAVE MADE USE OF MYSTERIOUS ACID
ON MATERIAL SO IT WOULD NOT MEET REQUIRE
MENTS IMPOSED BY GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS.
SEATTLE, Nov. 14.—Gus Vollietli, a German, foreman of
;he Olympic and Aurora Steel Works, was arrested today,
charged with having caused a destructive explosion at the
>lant. The police think Vollietli is involved in a plot to pre
sent the manufacture of steel plates for the government ships
jnder construction in Seattle shipyards.
Vollietli is accused of having used a mysterious acid. The
ilant officials claim he doctored the steel £o it would not meet
:he government requirements.
The explosion^ occurred in the foundry of the plant while
dates from a wrecked furnace were being repaired there.
The acid Vollietli used is said to have severaly burned M.
L Tennan, another foreman.
TRAIN WRECK KILLS THREE SOLDIERS.
PUEBLO, Colo., Nov. 14.—An alleged plot to dynamite a
rain on which three soldiers were killed yesterday in a wreck
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A. A SHONBECK
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
AGENCY FOR:
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ANCHORAGE
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MATANUSKA
at Cotopaxa, Colorado, is being investigated by a representa
tive of the federal department of justice. Information was ob
tained today by the authorities leading them to believe a dyna
mite plot was the cause of the wrecking of the train.
WOMEN WIPE ENGINES.
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Feminine Railway Laborers Prefer
Their Tasks to Housework.
SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 14.—Wom
j en engine wipers here and at other
i division points on the Great Northern
! and Northern Pacific railroads in this
; housework. C. H. Younger, state lab
or commissioner, declared here recent
ly after an inspection trip to the rail
| road shops of the state.
The women in the employ of the
Northern Pacific here work 10 hours
a day, but recive time and a half for
the last hour, he said. In Pasco and
Ellensburg women engaged the
same work for the Northern Pacific
work eight hours a day, as do women
coach cleaners in the employ of the
Pullman company.
The women engine wipers are not
required to mount the engines or go
underneath to clean the firebox, this
work being done by men.
BASEBALL STAR JOINS NAVY.
BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 10.—Walter
Maranville, the shortstop of the Bos
ton Nationals baseball team, visited
.the Boston navy yard today and said
he would enlist in the navy next week.
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