C ME FELIX
C ME FELIX
The following telegram was received by C. ME Felix
yesterday:
Rochester, N. Y., August 30, 1916.
Messrs. Felix Brown & Co., Anchorage, Alaska.
Gentlemen:—
We are very glad indeed to have your letter of
the 15th inst., and we assure you that we will make
every effort to satisfactorily meet your requirements.
We shall select suits as per your instructions, although
we find that most of the order will have to be made
up for you, and this will require about three weeks’
time. Just as soon as the items are finished, and we
will hurry them all possible, your shipment will go
forward in accordance with your instructions. We
hope that it will meet with your approval.
Yours very truly,
THE STEIN-BLOCH CO.
Ter SAMUEL WEILL, Vice-pres.
Clothing and Gent’s Furnishings
CORNER FOURTH AND D.
“NONE BUT THE BEST.”
C ME FELIX
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But, this is only one advantage of Con
goleum Rugs, a full line of which we
are displaying this week. Come in and
see them.
Our stock of the new Congoleum Art
Rugs will be a treat for your e|jp«**-Such
marvelous patterns in a low \ \ '
have never before been possiblefj.' f
find here just what you want K. cVs^l
room in your home. Call around ana
solve your floor covering problems today.
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For the endurance bowling contest at
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PENNYPACKER DIES.
SCHWENKSVILLE, Pa., Sept. 18.
—Samuel W. Pennypacker, public ser
vice commissioner and former gover
nor of Pennsylvania, die< kis home
here. He had been ill oral
weeks with uraemic poisoning. iVn
nypacker was 73_Y®arsmold and ;t
publican.
.tT 0. O. M.—-Listen—-Bfjf"~iSMitf)tbr
on Wednesday night. You can’t af
ford to miss this. 9-18-3t
British Navy
Not Appreciated
By Britishers
LONDON, Aug. 29. (By Mail).—
Britishers don’t appreciate their navy.
This statement goes as much for Ar
thur Balfour as it does for Bill Bow
bells. Both of them are near-sighted.
Also they lack imagination.
Just because Admiral Jellicoe in his
initial dispatch regarding the Jutland
fight didn’t pin boquets on himself
and the grand fleet, the first lord of
the admiralty failed to read between
the lines that the British had really
won the greatest naval battle since
Trafalgar.
But it was all there—and he had
the German wireless report as con
firmation. After detailing his losses
to Jellicoe modestly observed that
“the enemy returned to port.” The
Germans had already told the world
that on May 31 “during an enterprise
directed to the northward” the high
seas fleet had encountered the enemy,
etc., and that on the following it “re
turned into our ports.”
Instead of featuring this one es
sential fact, Balfour dolefully empha
sized the great losses sustained by the
British. England went to bed that
night in a blue funk. The psychologi
cal gloom was thick. Bill Bowbells
and all his friends were convinced
that Jellicoe and Beatty had gotten
the worst of it. More important still,
the neutral world had been similarly
impressed. “German Fleet Beats Bril
ish,” “Germans Win Great Sea Fight”
read the headlines in American news
papers over dispatches containing the
British and German admiralty com
muniques.
Even if the British losses had been
greater than those of the Germans,
which they weren’t, according to the
belated admissions of the German ad
miralty, news of the loss of certain
ships having been withheld “for mili
tary reasons”—it still would have
been a British victory, in the opinion
of most naval strategists in these
parts.
Bill Bowbells isn’t much of a strate
gist, but when he finally gathered that
the Germans had started out on an
“enterprise” which they had to aban
don in the face of the foe, and had re
turned limping into their ports, ne
opined that perhaps Jellicoe hadn’t
been licked after all. Arthur Balfour,
himself, some days after the fight, in
a public speech brought out quite
strongly this fact.
What a magnificent opportunity for
a real press agent! Why even a fair
ly competent cub reporter could have
written a more cheerful communique
; without adding to or distorting the
, facts at hand.
! A possible explanation is that Bal
j four was so obsessed by previous pub
lic criticisms of the official proneness
to withhold unfavorable news, that he
determined in this case to let the
worst be known at once.
The unfavorable effect upon the
public was immediate. The next day
British papers were filled with bitter
comment and gloomy forebodings. The
navy had already failed properly to
protect the east coast against sporadic
raids, and now when it had a real
chance at the enemy it had suffered
disaster. There were loud calls for a
clean sweep of the navy administra
tion. Bring back “Jacky” Fisher! He
will do the job right, etc.
Balfour and Bowbells—officialdom,
press and public—in their contempla
tion of the really heavy losses sustain
ed by the British fleet not only com
pletely lost sight of the RESULT of
this fight, what it meant for the fu
ture security of the island kingdom as
well as of the empire and the allies
generally; but they forgot entirely
what the navy has been doing ever
since the war started. Their perspect
ive on both future and past was out of
focus.
After all, the Jutland battle was but
an incident. It was a day’s work—a
hard day, that sent thousands of brave
men to death and filled homes
throughout England with widows and
orphans—but it was merely part of
the great scheme.
The navy’s really hardest work has
been the mine-sweeping and submar
ine-hunting, the former comparatively
safe, but awfully motonous, the latter
dangerous and at times thrilling. In
mine-swoepmg the navy has the valu
able assistance of the coast fishermen.
As to submarine-hunting the navy
isn’t saying much. The “bag’ hasn’t
been announced, but any blue-jacket
would offer it as his opinion that the
decrease of the U-boat menace has
been due to ether thing sbesides ttip
lomatic notes from ashington.
While the BritH i.avy has been
working it has been growing. The de
tails of its growth are not known to
the writer, and if they were he would
n’t dare teJ. He believes it,has been
growing faster than the German nav>.
pts-yf of- ite-added-w.rtrr-tak
ing tht tw«r'lltavies as 'sWotf -'at"
the beginning of the war, and allow
ing for the admitted losses on both
Of all the pace that the pac
makers pack there is no
pac like the pac that PIL
GER packs.
The Ball Band “Vacs,” the U. S. White,
the Eureka, the Goodrich Hipress
sides, .the British navy, according to j
the calculations of experts is relative
ly more powerful today. In battle.
ships and battle cruisers of the dread
nought era (built since 1904)—the
ships that really count in modern war
fare—Germany has lost 18.5 per cent
of her strength, while Britain has lost
6.6 of hers. In light cruisers of the
same period Britain’s loss has been
only 5.2 per cent, while Germany has
been weakened nearly 45 per cent. In
vessels of the older type, Britain’s rel
ative loss has been heavier, chiefly
on account of the disastrous Darda
nelles venture, and partly because
these types being more easily spared
have been assigned to other danger
ous enterprises.
For two years now Britain has suc
cessfully defended her title as mis
tress of the seas. The Jutland fight
merely clinched what had already
been accomplished through incessant
watchfulness, day in and day out, com
bined with a zeal of personnel and ef
ficiency of material hitherto never ap
proached in naval history. If the al
lies are victorious in the end, this will
be due to the diligence of British sea
men as much as to the prowess of
British soldiers for without the secur
ity afforded by her navy, England
would neither have been able to trans
port her soldiers to the firing lines nor
to keep up the ever-increasing sup
plies of arms and ammunition from
both England and America to her
troops and those of her allies.
WHOLESOME VARIETY
AT THE EMPRESS
Lillian Walker and Evart Overton
are the co-stars in ’‘Playing the
Game,” a special feature in two parts,
at the Empress theatre tonight and
tomorrow night. These two screen
celebrities do not play their parts just
right. They drop their disguises and
both play a wining game that has ap
pealed to many as very interesting.
In addition, a very amusing program
has been prepared. It comprises
“Eleven-Thirty P. M.” (in two parts),
“The Rev. Salamander” and Pathe
Weekly News.
These screen productions are the
very best procurable, and are intended
not only to amuse, but to continue
presenting clean-cut motion pictures,
and maintain that high standard of
film art presentations for which the
Empress theatre is noted. This mid
week variety offering is deviating
slightly from the plans originally out
lined, but a deviation calculated to
please the Empress theatre patrons.
The six reels programed for this even
ing and tomorrow are interesting be
yond measure. 9-19-lt
BOYS—GET IN SHAPE
For the endurance Bowling Contest at
Robarts’ in the near future. Prizes
awarded. 9-15tf
SEE
About This
4-Room house. Cabin and Lot
near C St. Price $700.00.
Lot for $125.00 Cash.
Fine corner, $350.00. Easy
Terms.
Lot 30 x 50, $100. Half
cash. Let me show you.
CABIN FOR RENT.
J. H. Smith
FOURTH AND G ST.
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SHINGLES.
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Local cottonwood and spruce shaved shingles.
Same as made in Norway, Sweden and other northern
countries. ROOD FOR 50 YFiARS.
Manufactured by Frank Johnson. Peters Creek.
Leave orders with O. P. Strom, Fourth and D Street,
Anchorage .... Alaska
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