EXPANSION!!!
CRAMPED FOR ROOM
Our steadily growing trade and the immense new stocks
of goods coming in compel us to occupy the entire
double front of our building. The contractors are
now tearing out the partitions and arranging new
shelves and counters, and when these changes are
completed we can serve our many patrons with
greater efficiency than ever before.
WE WISH to announce to the people of Anchorage that
during the time alterations are being made in our
store, we are able to wait on you just the same as
before.
We take pleasure in thanking the public for their pat
ronage in the past and are confident of their con
tinued favors in the future.
HEADQUARTERS FOR STETSON HATS AND
PACKARD SHOES.
CARROL & CO.
CARROL BLDG.
FOURTH AND E STS.
MRS. OLLIE GRAY
TWO GIRLS CAFE
MRS. E. J. HICKEY
THERE’S A PLEASURE
IN EATING HERE
that will make your first dinner
linger long in your memory.
The foods are so excellent, the
service so deft, the atmosphere
so genial that we confidently
make the prediction that your
dinner here will be but the be
ginning of a long acquaintance.
PHONE 28-R.
Fourth, Bet. C and D
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FIRST AND C ST.
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Doors Shingles
Windows Roofing Paper
Building Paper Lath
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AN EMBARRASSMENT
OF RICHES
awaits those who come here to select
new wall coverings for their homes.
For the papers are all so pretty and
unconventional that to choose one
from so much beauty is difficult. But
when your walls are covered with your
selection you’l be satisfied that you
did indeed choose the best and pret
tiest.
EVANS & FRANTZEN
LUMBER
$30 PER THOUSAND
MONEY SPENT WITH US WILL STAY IN THE
COUNTRY
WE PAY WAGES TO TWENTY MEN
Chickaloon Lumber Co.
HARRY CRIBB, Inc., Agents
5TH AND G STREETS.
HULK OFGOLD
SHIP PORTLAND
IS DISMANTLED
(Valdez Prospector)
The battered hull of the famous
old gold ship “ Portland ” now lying
on the beach at Katalla, Alaska, is be
ing tom to pieces for the brass bolts
and fasteners which E. E. Miller, of
Ketchikan, is going to sell for junk.
Such is the prosaic end of the fa
mous old ship that startled the world
on a sunny July day, 19 years ago,
by bringing to Seattle a cargo of raw
gold taken from the newly-discovered
Eldorado on the Yukon river. The
news of the Portland’s arrival was
flashed around the world, and in a few •
weeks adventurers and gold hunters,
from every comer of the earth were i
headed for the scene of the new strike.
From that date Seattle was placed
definitely on the map as a city of com
mercial importance.
The Portland is being broken up for
junk! Miller says that junk has ad
vanced 110 per cent in price since the
beginning of the European war, and
that the price Offered for copper, lead
brass and babbitt is such that it is a
paying proposition to unearth the
wrecked ships that are strewn along
the coast for the metal that is in them
and that junk dealers in Seattle pay J
15 cents a pound wholesale for the
same. Occasionally it is necessary to
obtain permission from the former
owners of a hull before breaking it
up, but for the most part wrecks
three or four years old are handled
without any such formality.
The Portland began her long and
sensational career in 1885 under the
name of the Haytian Republic. Al
most from the first voyage she began
to furnish the newspapers with start
ling items of news, as she was seized
for carrying ammunition to the rebels
in Hayti during the Hippolyte rebel
lion. When the United States govern
ment forced her release, a futile at
tempt was made to sink her as she left
the harbor at Port au Prince, and the
marks of the collision with the gun
boat selected to do the work were
still visible when she came to the Pa
cific coast in 1889.
After failing both as a cannery
boat and a passenger steamer during
the next few years, she was finally
chartered by a Portland concern, for
the purpose of carrying passengers
and freight between Vancouver, Puget
sound and the Columbia river. How
ever, later the principal and most lu
crative part of her cargo consisted of
contraband Chinese and opium, it was
alleged. As a smuggler she was no
toriously successful until the expose
of the big smuggling ring on Puget
sound, after which she was seized
and sold by the government at Port
land.
nei new uwneis remuueitsu ner anu
started her out again under the name
of “ Portland.” From this time on
she had i. varied but always respecta
ble career, running to all points be
tween Panama and the far Aleutian
islands of Alaska.
As a passenger boat on the Alaska
run no steamer was ever more popular
than the “ Gold Ship.” All over Alas
ka today are people who like to recall
the pleasant journeys made on the old
“ Portland,” and who still feel a
twinge of regret when they tell of her
fate.
It was during a heavy snow squall
one morning in November, 1910, that
the Portland, westward bound, in try
ing to anchor off Katalla struck an un
charted rock and tore a large hole in
her bottom. The captain, thinking
only of the safety of his hardly awak
ened passengers, ran the sinking ves
sel full speed a distance of two miles
until she finally grounded on the bar
in front of the town.
Lighters and launches from Katalla
were alongside almost immediately
and the passengers, who scarcely had
time to realize what had happened,
were quickly taken ashore. The one
hotel not being large enough to ac
commodate them all, the sympathetic
residents came forward and offered
the shelter of their cabins. Even the
ship’s four cats and a family of kit
tens found happy homes, when an old
sailor produced them from the egg
case into which he had placed them
when the ship began to go to pieces.
That night all the town was out on
the beach watching through the mist
while the old Portland made her last
fight against the sea, and the creak
ing and groaning of rending timbers
could be heard above the roar of the
breakers. When morning came the
beach in front of the town was littered
with piles of wreckage three feet high.
Provisions of all kinds, turkeys, chick
ens and meat alternated with bedding,
and furniture protruded here and
there from stacks of splintered wood.
The beach-combers, hurrying from
pile to pile in the gray, drizzling
dawn, reaped a harvest.
Six years have gone by 'since then
TIDE TABLE
Saturday, October 14.
L,ow Water . 2:25 a. m. -0.1 ft.
High Water .8:00 a. m. 29.1 ft.
jow Water .2:09 p. m. 3.2 ft.
High Water.7:31 p. m. 31.2 ft.
Sunday, October 15.
Low Water . 3:04 a. m. 0.4 ft.
High Water. 8:42 a. m. 28.5 ft.
Low Water .2:43 p. m. 3.8 ft.
High Water.8:05'p. m. 30.6 ft.
Monday, October 16.
Low Water .3:46 a. m. 1.1 ft.
High Water.9:27 a. m. 27.9 ft.
Low Water . 3:19 p. m. 4.4 ft.
High Water.8:42 p. m. 29.9 ft.
and piece by piece the old hull was
washed ashore, but the engines cover
ed with barnacles and sea weed and
du tie ted by breakers, sink deeper each
year into the sand on the bar, and the
launchmen of Katalla use the rusty old
mass of iron as a tide-mark, for they
know when the incoming tide covers
the gold ship’s engines, they may take
their boats out with safety through
the breakers on the bar.
Peterson’s for Billiard and Pool, tf
The N. E. Ohlesson bakery at 919
5th St. will open under new manage
ment as a first class home bakery.
Will cater to party, wedding or ban
quet trade. Light lunch served if de
sired.
MRS. F. L. WALSH,
10-6-tf MRS. BERTHA BRITTON.
The North Pole Bakery has opened
for business in the building vacted by
Reilly’s Cafe. 10-13tf
For Sale—My one-half interest in
Montana Pool Hall. See Anchorage
Realty Co. or Roy Williamson.
CITY AUTO SERVICE.
Phone 89-R.
FOR AUTOMOBILE
Any hour of the Day or
Night.
OFFICE 4th and H Sts.
Just Opened
• First-Class Modern
HOTEL
ALLEN
Dining Room In Con- ;;
nection.
: ALLEN & SMITH, Props.
Matanuska.
Sanitary Market
The only told storage plant In con
nection with market in Anchorage.
Home-made Sausages. Fruits. Veg
etables, liutter and Eggs, at whole
sale. Restaurants and roadhouses,
speclui attention.
Ith Ave.. Bett H and I Sts.
£ £ KURTZ & CO.
Send Us Your Check
...ASSAYS...
Falkenburg & Laucks
Ore Testing and Milling
Gold and Silver $1.00
Copper _ $1.60
Lead - - - $1.00
Seattle, Wash.
95 Yesler Way.
“Analyze Anything."
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S. S. CAPELLA
Sails 3 times weekly for all
points on Turnagain Arm.
Connecting with Government R.
R. at Kern Creek for Seward
and all way points.
Tickets at City Auto Service.
Freight and Passengers.
Phone 89-R for sailing dates.
LEE J. RICE, Capt.
Wood Undertaking Co
funeral DIRECTORS
LICENSED EMBALMERS
Anchorage Matanuska
Bank of Seward
Established 1905.
H
Depository for Territorial
Funds
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SEWARD, - ALASKA
Larson & Wendler
Phone 26-R
Elberta Peaches for Canning
Tea Garden Preserves
and Jellies
HEINZ’S 57 VARIETIES—
Pickles, Preserves, Jellies,
Etc. Etc.
FREE AUTO DELIVERY
Larson & Wendler
DISTRIBUTORS
Corner 4th and I PHONE 26-R
Green Express, Taxi and Storage
OFFICE AND GARAGE 7th AND F
WE STORE ANYTHING—
Trunks Stored, 50c Per Month
SEE US WHEN YOU ARE READY TO MOVE
DAY PHONE 28-R * NIGHT PHONE 40-Y
LET THERE BE LIGHT
We Can Furnish It
PRICE & BENNETT
PLUMBING OUR SPECIALTY
Sheet Metal Works and a. i . n o rr
Gasoline Lighting tilth ut.f D€t. (j & H
THE PLACE
Where restful hours can be spent with all your friends.
CIGARS—FRUIT—CANDY
AND
SOFT DRINKS OF ALL KINDS.
The Arcade