EMPRESS ALEXANDRIA MAY BE
ENTHRONED AS GUARDIAN
OF FORMER TSAREVITCH.
TEUTONS HAVE PORT OF PERNA
General Brujevitch Is Declared to
Have Made Himself Dictator and to'
Have Ordered Muscovites to Resist
Invaders.
LONDON, Feb. 25.—A Petrograd
telegram to the Morning Post says
that Germany plans to restore the
Russian monarchy. Former Russian
Printe.-s Alexandria as the guardian,
of h» r son. the former Tsarevitch, is
the favorite German candidate for the ^
Russian throne.
Former Czar Nicholas, it is said,1
will not accept the throne from Ger-j
mans.
The Germans have occupied Pernau.j
a Russian seaport ninety-nine miles
northeast of Riga.
The entente ambassadors in Petro
grad have decided to remain in Petro- \
grad pending developments. Some of
the members of the diplomatic staffs
have left and others will soon leave
through Siberia.
A F
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tor ar
light 1
alin dispatch says General Bru
, has proclaimed himself dicta
! has ordered all Russians to
;e Germans to the last.
ON! Y FORTY OF THOSE ABOARD
ii L-FATED FLORIZEL ARE
TAKEN OFF OF HER.
SOME NAVAL GUNNERS SAVED.
Graft Was Bound for New York and
Vs as Known as Queen of New
Foundiand Boats and Was Operat
ed by Red Gross Line.
ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, Feb. 25.
—The teamship Florizel, bound from
St. Johns for New York with 146 per
sons aboard, crashed into Cape Race
Rocks yesterday and was pounded to
p <\es. It is believed that only forty
were rescued and that 106 were lost.
The steamer Prospero rescued a
number of naval gunners. The Pros- i
pero .-'not a line aboard the Florizel.
The Florizel was known as the
queen of New Foundiand boats. She
was owned by the New York, New;
Foundiand and Halifax Steamship!
company, which is called the Red
Cross line.
ENGINEER KILLED
IN TRAIN ACCIDENT
FOOD WORTH $250,000 IS DE
STROYED WHEN FREIGHT
CARS ARE BURNED.
WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Feb. 25.—
One engineer was killed and six train
men seriously injured today when a !
runaway freight train of forty-two:
cars crashed into two locomotives i
standing in the railway yards here, j
The wreck caught fire and meat and ;
provisions valued at $250,000 were!
completely destroyed.
WORKERS ENDORSE
BRITISH WAR AIMS
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LABORERS FROM ALLIED COUN
TRIES GIVE SUPPORT TO
MILITARY PLANS.
LONDON, Feb. 25.—At the inter-al
lied labor conference today an agree
ment was reached whereby the British
war aims will be heartily supported by
all classes of workmen.
VIGOROUS ACTION IS TAKEN
AGAINST PRO-GERMAN ELE
MENT AND ALIEN ENEMIES
ALASKANS FIGHT GOVERNOR.
Mrs. A. I. Smith, Wife of Motion Pic
ture Operator Who Was in Anchor
age Last Summer, Passes Away in
Chicago.
BY CHARLES E. HERRON.
WASHINGTON, I). C., Feb. 25.—
Ultra patriotic sentiment is manifest
in the east, if possible, to a greater
degree rlian in the west, and vigor
ous action is taken against the pro
German element, alien enemies and
Industrial Workers of the World.
George R. Grigsby, attorney gene
ral for Alaska, and John W. Troy, ed
itor and publisher«of the Juneau Em
pire, are in Washington city, working
igainst the candidacy of Governor J.
E. A. Strong for reappointment as |
governor of Alaska. Thomas J. Don- j
>hoc, of Valdez, member of the nation
il democratic committee for Alaska,
s expected her shortly to take part in 1
lie gubernatorial fight.
'!’he contest between James W.
c. iekersham, republican,*and Charles
Sulzer, democrat, for the position
>f congressional delegate from Alas
ka, is expected to be determined by !
he house of representatives in the
eery near future. Mr. Wiekersham
s quite confident of gaining the seat.
C. D. Murane, formerly of Nome,
vho was chosen member of the repub
ican national committee for Alaska,
s now practicing law in Casper, Wy
>ming, and sent his proxy as mem
)er of the committee to former Gov
irnor Hoggatt. The committee is
neeting in Washington city this week
Mrs. A. 1. Smith, wife of the motion
Future photographer who was in An
chorage last summer, died in Chicago
he other day of childbirth. The lit
he baby is alive and healthy. Mrs.
smith was the author of the scenario
>f the play, the scenes of which were
aid in the north, and materially as
listed her husband in directing the
nhotographing of the picture.
The title of the picture is “Where
he Sunsets Are Crimson.” It is de
clared to be a film production of ex
ceptional merit and soon will be re
eased for exhibition.
Optimism obtains among all classes
n the east in regard to the outcome
>f the approaching spring drive of
:he allied forces on the west front in 1
France. American troops are being:
lisputched to the war zone. The best
>f discipline prevails and the men
ire anxious to get into leal fighting.
The weather in the east is abomi
nable.
L. F. Shaw, former editor of the
Anchorage Times, who has spent the
winter in the east, recently left New
York for San Francisco. He will be
n Anchorage early in the season.
FOUR AUSTRIAN SOLDIERS AT
CAMP LEWIS ARE ARRESTED
ON GRAVE CHARGE.
TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 25.—Four
Austrian-born soldiers in the canton
ment at Camp Lewis are in custody
charged with plotting to shoot down
'heir own officers in the first engage
ment and to deliver the American
troops to the enemy.
The maximum penalty for plotting
treason may be fixed at death, accord
ing to the judge advocate general.
IDAHO WANTS ELK HERD.
POCATELLO, Idaho, Feb. 25. — A
carload of yearling elk from the Gard
ener, Wyoming, region, reached here
recently and has been taken to the Po
catello forest section, where it is hop
ed to develop an elk herd. A heavy
fine is provided for anyone molestina
an elk in this state.
MRS. BELMONT TIFFANY, OF
NEW YORK, TELLS OF HER
WORK IN FRANCE.
CARES FOR WOUNDED TROOPS.
Soldiers From Many Climes and of
Many Colors Are Fed and Their
Wounds Dressed by Former Society
Leaders.
NEW \ ORIv, Feb. 26.—How Amer
ican women of wealth and refinement
are performing the most menial tasks
and undergoing severe hardships to
make the lot of the French soldier
easier on the way to and from the
front is told graphicaly in a series of
letters received here from Mrs. Bel
mont Tiffany, a New York society
woman and leader in Red Cross work,
who organized a Red Cross canteen ai
a French railway junction. She wrote
with no thought of publication but the
letters—written to relatives and re
leased for publication today by the
American Red Cross—tell their own
story.
On October 2o last, Mis. Tiffany ar
rived at the railroad center, “some
where” behind the French front. Fourj
railroads coverged there, she found
and more than 8,000 men a day stop
ped over at the station for refresh-1
ments, which were procurable in liquid
form only. There were no other fa- J
cilities for their comfort.
“I wish you could see our little vil- j
lage, so tiny and primitive—one long j
street winding up a hill with the big j
junction railroad station at the bottom j
and the church at the top; and a
stream, winding under a bridge hall
way up, a stream which allows the;
inevitable laundry to go on,” Mrs. |
Tiffany wrote. “It is picturesque as i
all French villages go but rather too
poor for beauty and there are no gar
dens at all, which is strange.”
Canteen Is Established.
Less than a month later, Novembe. |
18. to be exact, Mrs. Tiffany told of
the progress achieved in establishing
the canteen. A rough addition had i
been added to the station and dormi- j
tory and a recreation room had been |
completed while a reception room to j
accommodate 1,000 men was in course j
of construction.
“We have red and white oilcloth on
the tables, red glass carafes, and tur-i
key-red window curtains, and always!
flowers on the counter of the recrea- i
tion room,” Mrs. Tiffany wrote. “It is1
the gayest, brightset room you ever i
saw. However, it only holds 120 men. j
Our big room is to have a huge kitch-!
en and seats for over a thousand men.
“The dormitories are wonderful. 1
never was so proud of anything be-1
fore. Two hundred canvas stretchers j
for beds. We have a splendid fumi
gating plant and an incinerator and j
the place is a model of cleanliness. i
“All the men take off their wet and
dirty boots, and we have good felt
slippers for them. There are two big
stoves in the room, two woolen
blankets for each, an orderly who
wakes the men for their trains, good
shower baths and wash rooms. Alto
gether, when the big room is finished,
I honestly think it will be a model of
what it should be.
“Last year the men sleep in the
Great Effort Required.
However, the speedy transforma
tion was not effected without the ex
penditure of great effort. Mrs. Tiffany
summed it up by saying:
“Everything is going awfully 'well
and the whole unit has been fine. No
one should come for this work who is
not as strong as a horse and indiffer
ent to cold and fatigue. It is terribly
hard. The good it does is enormous,
however, and more than repays one,
You never saw anything like the ap
preciation and gratitude for the food
we give the men and the price we
charge. We give them a whole meal
for 15 cents, soup, meat, and vege
tables, or meat and salad, bread and
compote. It is really good, too. I
thought I had a good many occupa
tions, as I wrote you before, but since
then I have been particularly proud
of being a good cook.”
Mrs. Tiffany in another letter de
scribes in interesting detail the rou
tine of the canteen’s ‘‘night shift,”
which she regards as more strenuous
than the day relief.
“The station is always empty when
we arrive, but 15 minutes later it fills
up as if my magic,” Mrs. Tiffany
wrote.
“This crowd keeps on pretty con
tinuously. It is never an overpower
ing rush, but a steady stream until
about 2:30 and sometimes until 4:30.
The men buy their tickets at the first
window and then pass on to the coun
ter where the food is served. Of course
they are always in a tearing hurry
and push and shove each other as if
they were going to get left if they
j didn’t. But there is no reason for it,
■ because they don’t come in for meals
; unless they have at least an hour and
usually they have a wait of three
hours. But that makes no difference.
They act as if they had one minute in
which to get and eat their food. But
all are good-natured, and if the regu
lar foil gives out, they will cheerfully
accept any substitute.
Big Platform Service.
“At 11:55 comes the big platfrom
service which lasts about an hour. It
was the one thing I dreaded before
coming, but far from minding it now,
I enjoy it. It certainly is amusing and
though on a cold or windy night it is
rather trying, you feel that you are of
so much more use, just because it is so
cold and disagreeable.
“Well, this crowd keeps on till after
two, when have our second plat
l o! m service, but *f the •lrst train in
ti>'> case is late the canteen is full
unc 4:30 as the men won’t trust
themselves to sleep in the dormitory
when they have only an hour or two
“Then we get the dishes washed, the
table wiped off and the marmites
scoured and at three or four our
French volunteers leave us. The cook
stays until six when the day cook
comes on duty. At that time the day j
scrubwoman comes and also one or|
two French volunteers, who stay until 1
eight and help with the breakfast rush
and cleaning up. We have to have j
the soup and the ragout statred and j
fresh coffee and cocoa ready to serve
at 0:30 or 7:00 but the scrubing of;
floors comes in the day shift—the one
that works from seven to three. And
for us at seven the night is over.”
“It has been very hard up to now;
but we are all very fit and well. Four
teen or sixteen hours at a shift have |
not been at all unusual, and twelve!
hours are habitual to me, but it lias
been so very well worth while. Can
you imagine feeding an average of
3,000 men a day, a shifting population,
infantry, cavalry, artillery, marines,
chasseurs Alpins, engineers, Turcos,
Egyptians, Senegalese, and today
about 500 Annamites?”
Trainload of Wounded.
Mrs. Tiffany writing one letter is
interrupted by the arrival of a train
load of wounded. At the conclusion of
her duties she resumed her letter:
“Four hours I have just come back
from the canteen. Such an afternoon.
A great train of seriously wounded,
which is tiring, as one has to climb in
all the marriages. The men adore
cocoa. We get into the sanitary train,
and begin with the men who are well
enough to sit up and handle tin cups,
and afterwards those who are too ill
to lift their heads or use their hands.
Those, of course, we have to lift and
feed ourselves; as there are usually
two and three hundred men in a train
you can see one has to work quickly
to get through.
“This work is hard and takes a real
vision and inspiration to keep on day
after day.
“I have personally dressed and
bandaged the frozen feet of twenty
three Senagalese in the last ten days;
great huge blacks, they were, whose
feet were swollen three times the
usual size. The station doctor brought
us certain simple remedies for com
mon hurts, and four of us took ban
daging lessons at Neuilly. There is a
lot of dressing. Sixty have been done
this week. The other day we had a
sanitary train with two wagons full of
nothing but chest wounds—twenty
four men whose coughing disturbed
others, so they were put together.
“The dressings I find the hardest
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part. I can stand the wounds and
the blood, but the face wounds are so'
much the worse for me.
“As long as I live I shall be grateful
that I have had the chance to do this
work. It is far bigger and more im
portant than I had any idea of.”
PHILIPPINES TO
BORROW $2,000,086
MONEY WILL BE USED TO CON
STRUCT TORPEDO BOATS
AND SUBMARINES.
MANILA, r. I., Feb. 25.—Governor
General Francis Burton Harrison to
day signed the law authorizing the
flotation in the United States of a
two million dollar bond issue. The
money will be used for the construc
tion of torpedo boats and submarines.
The Philippines intend to give Am
erica help in the war.
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These springs are five in
number and one of the old land
marks of Alaska. The Russians
had a hospital there in 1841,
where they sent patients with
diseases of the skin and consti
tutional blood disorders.
The temperature averages
145 degrees Fahrenheit at the
Spring. The baths are effica
cious for rheumatism, stomach
and liver troubles, kidney and
bladder diseases, and for consti
tutional disorders.
These springs are in charge
of Dr. F. L. Goddard. The
terms for room, board, and
baths, $2 a day and up. Cabins,
$7.50 per yionth and up, includ
ing furnish1' ngs, except bed
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