ANCHORAGE DAILY TIMES
A\l) COOK INLET PIONEER
COOK INLET PUBLISHING CO.
Anchorage, Alaska.
Charles E. Hermit. Publisher.
Harry G. Steel. Editor.
Subscription Rates: $1 per month. $10 per year, in advance.
Entered in the Anchorage Postoflice June 5, 1915, as second class matter
under the Act of of March 3. 1873.
For President—Charles Evans Hughes.
For Delegate to Congress—James Wickersham
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 27
1916.
TING A LING-A-LING. “HELLO?”
Instead of a bewildering jangle of code ringing, the Com
mission offices are experiencing a soothing quietude since the
telephone exchange has been placed in operation. The unex
pected sound of a feminine “Number, please,” in the receivers
is causing a more or less general readjustment of neckties and
vocabularies in the offices around the terminal yards. An
other improvement just being completed is the addition ot
another wire to a part of the Matanuska line which is expect
ed to do away with a part of the cross-talk, an unavoidable
accompaniment to paralleled grounded telephone wires.
As fast as material and equipment can be had Anchorage
telephone users will be excused from performing some impos
sible stunts. Some folks who have turned the crank of a mag
neto or read an advertisement of a correspondence school elec
trical course, and other electrical engineers, agree that it is
impossible to talk from a grounded wire to a metallic circuit,
and vice versa, without a repeating coil. Previous to yester
day. though, had anyone had occasion to call up the steamship
offices from Matanuska Landing, for instance, he would have
had a fairly comfortable conversation, sans “central,” sans
repeating coil. Some accommodating office in the yards would
have given the connection with a freakish arrangement of im
provised switches, or perhaps through the medium of a
straightened gem paper clip. Although there ain’t no such
thing, the gab-fest would have been an accomplished fact.
The Commission has sent an experienced man to Seattle to
do everything possible to expedite delivery' of the most mod
ern equipment, after receipt of which the system will be rap
idly extended to business and private houses in Anchorage.
Long lines of substantially built poles may now be noticed on
some of the streets and alleys, bare of cross-arms, cable and
wires, ready for this equipment.
Other technically impossible feats are being performed
daily over the Anchorage-Seward line. Contrary to the gen
eral impression, there is but one precariously and temporarily
hung wire of assorted guages and composition between these
two points. A telephone conversation over a single wire cir
cuit one hundred miles long is simply out of the question. The
telegraph and telephone department does not know that, how
ever, so this wire, 126 miles of it, is talked over whenever
there is a hiatus in the record of falling trees, forest fires,
wind storms, snow slides, timber cutting, blasting, and a few
other minor causes for interruption. Besides, a great amount
of public and private telephone correspondence, this one little
lonesome scrapped wire is handling a top-heavy load of offi
cial business and private telegrams, night letters, press and
other matter by telegraph. It is also used by numbers of
construction camps, maintenance me" and mail carriers. The
Alaska Northern railway is also using it for train dispatching
between Seward and Mile 52. If a patron should ask an oper
ator to transmit a piece of business while the wire is not
“busy,” that employee might be too well-trained to say any
thing; it would be best not to expect him to say what he
thinks.
But there is a halo of hope surrounding the head of the
business-like-looking cross-armed line poking its nose over
the summit beyond Turnagain Arm. That halo will not melt
away like nimbus around the morning sun. Then there will
be phantoms, composites and radios; gadgets, gewgaws and
gimicks.
THE FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION.
Everybody is looking forward to the Fourth of July cele
bration as an event that will afford considerable pleasure and
entertainment to the spectators. Anchorage is preparing for
an old-fashioned blowout, which will not only interest the
“kiddies’’ but the grown-ups as well. In order to pull off
such an event it is both laborious and costly. The contribu
tions have been libera] and there are ample funds to defray
all the expenses, including the prizes to be awarded in the
various contests.
While numerous committees have been appointed, the bulk
of the work has thus far fallen on the general chairman, Ray
0. Larson. As everybody knows, he is is a live wire and al
ways ready and willing to do his part. But the responsibility
should not be shifted to one person, no matter how competent
he may be to perform the work. All should labor to make the
celebration a memorable one, and as there remains but an
other week in which to complete the arrangements for the
I ourth let every member of the committee get busy, and with
those on the side lines boosting, Anchorage will pull off an
affair that will not only be a credit to the city, but make all
of our neighbors feel that they are missing something if they
do not spend next Tuesday with us.
The federal court has about finished its labors here, but
will return to Anchorage in August, when a longer term of
court will be held, when it may be necessary to impanel a jury
to try the cases that will make up the calendar.
There will be lots of amusement at Recreation Park on
Thursday, and incidentally a game of ball played.
ItELLIXUHAM ATTOHXKV
TAKES VP HOMESTEAD |
Jas. S. Truitt, for many years a j
prominent attorney at Bellingham,
Washington, arrived in Anchorage a
short time ago, accompanied by his I
son, and hag taken up a homestead
in township 18, range 1 east, in the
Matanuska valley. Mr. Truitt is
treasurer of the har association in
Bellinghm and has considerable prop
erty interests in that city, but is so
well pleased with his new venture
that he will make this part of Alaska |
his future home.
ALASKA.
If you want to know about the
new government thirty-five million
dollar railroad and working oppor
tunities. including station work,
send for the Weekly Times, An- j
chorage, Alaska. Yearly, $3; six
months, $1.50; in advance.
J. and J. sails for Talkeetna June
2S, Maitland's Dock. (i-UT-Ut
<* EM PRESS THEATR E f
Alaska’s New Reinforced Concrete Fire-proof
Theatre will Positively Open
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Saturday, July
WITH A BIG FEATURE
PROGRAM
This new theatre is 40 x 130 feet, with a seating capacity
for 700 people and will be the most attractive and up-to-date
theatre north of Seattle. Steam heated and electric lighted
throughout, and by the installing of numerous fire exits the
management takes pride in announcing that the entire build
ing can be emptied in 90 seconds.
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Remember the Date!
Remember the Date!
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Nation’s Welfare Requires Industrial as
Well as Military Preparedness
Bv Colonel THEODORE ROOSEVELT
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WE believe in co-operation between the nation and industry. We
wish to help and not to hamper industry. We recognize that in
the modern world there can be no great national business suc
cess save by the fullest use of the great organizations demanded by mod
ern industry, but we believe in insisting that these great organizations
are used to work for the LARGEST POSSIBLE MEANS OF SO
CIAL AND INDUSTRIAL JUSTICE FOR THE WORKERS AND
FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
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We do not believe that preparedness for national power lies wholly
in guns and ships and armed men. We believe that we must organize
our industries for defense in time of war as one result of organizing
them for the most effective production of the necessities of life in time
of peace. Such production must be on the largest scale, with govern
ment co-operation and government regulation.
There must be organization both of capital and labor.
THERE MUST BE A DELIBERATE PURPOSE TO SEE THAT THE
HEALTH AND WELL BEING OF THE WORKERS, THEIR STANDARD OF
WAGES AND OF LIVING AND OF THE EDUCATION OF THEIR CHIL
DREN ARE HELD UP TO THE LEVEL THAT WILL INSURE THE GREAT
EST NATIONAL EFFICIENCY, NOT ONLY FOR THE PRESENT, BUT FOR
THE FUTURE.
The first step toward this is unequivocal declaration in favor of the
preparedness program, which is the essential step for national organiza
tion in matters industrial as much as in matters military.
WEATHER REPORT.
7 a m. June 27, 1916.
Station Temp. Day Wind
Ship Creek .
Summit Rd. Hs.
Glacier .
Mile 52 .
Seward .
Matanuska Jet...
Moose Creek ....
55 Clear Calm
63 Clear Calm
55 Clear Calm
62 Clear Calm
55 Clear Calm
60 Clear Calm
60 Clear Calm
THE SAME OLD STORY.
The cable is down agin today and
| of course it is impossible to furnish
i our readers with a satisfactory press
service.
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Whitney’s Ranch, the big dinners,
the wild flowers and the fishing. Ask
the Reo Service. Herman L. Gentsch.
6-2?-6t.
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Luke's Cafe
Cor. 9th Ave. and C St.
Chop Suey^ Noodles
Blacksmithing General Repair Work
Horseshoeing a Specialty
BOB SMALL COR. C & SECONDj
Delicatessen and Fancy Grocery Store
Will Open in the Fowler Bldg, on
MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1916
Full line imported Olive Oils, Sardines, Hors d’
Heuvre, Cold Meats of all kinds, Cheese and Staple
goods. JOHN FENNER, Prop.
Next to Admiral Line Office.
ALASKANS-We Pay the Postage!
on your orders for Dry Goods of every descrip
tion, mailable under Parcel Post Reegulation.
Send us your orders for such goods as can
not be supplied you by your home merchants,
and we will fill them carefully and promptly.
Dry Goods; Women’s and Children’s Ap
parel and Dress Accessories; Boys’ Clothing
and Men’s Furnishings; Complete Housefur
nishing Lines.
ADDRESS MAIL ORDER DEPARTMENT
FREDERICK & NELSON, SEATTLE
Fifth Ave. Cigar Store
CIGARS, TOBACCOS, CANDIES, FRUITS.
VICTOR STEWART,
Propr ietor.
Fifth Avenue Between C and D
Launch Swan
Daily Trips to Knik
For Schedule See Bulletin Boards
Launch Brighton
Nate White, Captain
Carrying U. S. Mail between Anchorage, Hope, Sunrise
and Glazier Creek—All Points on Turnagain Arm.
GREEN FRONT CIGAR STORE
Soft Drinks of all
kinds. Leading brands
Cigars, Cigarettes,
Tobacco.
Just
Received
Fresh
Supply.
Fruits
Candies
Stationery
Notions.
Sweet Milk and Hutterniilk Daily,
Miss I. Itlair, Propr. 4th Av. bet. C and D Next door D. D. Rest.
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Anchorage Supply Co.
FIRST AND C ST.
ANCHORAGE
Doors Shingles
Windows Roofing Paper
Building Paper Lath
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G-. W. PALMER
KNIK, ALASKA
Distribute General Merchandise, Hardware, Boots and
Shoes, Lumber, Shingles, Gasoline, Kerosene,
Paints and Oil. Pumps, Pipe and Fit
tings, Tents and Tarpaulins.
Sperry’s Flour, Sold Under Absolute Guarantee
From the Company.
Recleaned Oats, $55.00 per ton.
Hay, $35.00 per ton.
Red and Grey Rosin Building Paper, $1.00.
D. G. Berry Sugar, $8.25 per sack, 100s,
Carnation Milk, $4-25 case.
Red Clover Butter, $40.00 Bbl, 110 lbs.
The “Lucy” Does It
KNIK, ALASKA
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