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In appreciation of the patronage of the ladies of Cordova
and the Copper River Valley during the past year we will give a special discount
OF FROM II l TO 20 PER CENT.
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THIS SALE INCLUDES Hats, Coats, Dresses, Waists, Shirts, Suits, Hose, Shoes, Corsets, Silk and Batiste
Underwear, Umbrellas, Gloves, Sweaters, Silks by the yard, Crepe de Chene and Georgette Crepe, Towels
and Toweling, Sheets, Pillow Casing, House Dresses, Aprons and Yarns.
All NEW GOODS Arriving During This Sale
Will Also Be Subject to Discount
MAIL ORDERS from the Copper River Valley and the surrounding towns will also be given strict attention.
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CORDOVA, ALASKA
NEW VESSELS
WASHINGTON, May 23—The sea
is calling again to American youth.
As the new ships of the merchant
marine glide down the ways, the need
for men grows more pressing. Abun
dant opportunity to aid in winning
the war is offered the crews of the
new vessels, with the certainty that
when peace comes there will be fur
ther adventure and good pay in car
rying American commerce through
out the world.
Recruiting of the boys and men
who must go down to the sea if Amer
ica is to regain her old place among
the maritime nations in the hands of
the shipping board’s enlistment serv
ice, headed by Henry Howard, with
\ headquarters at Boston, who has out
lined to union men and steamshir
• companies what already has been ac
> complished.
“About a year ago we realized the
shortage that was going to arise when
\the new fleet was finished,’’ Mr. How
ard said, “and we started the train
\ing of officers, both deck and engi
’ neer. We established a train ol
[schools extending along the Atlantic
coast, the Gulf of Mexico, the Pa
c-ific coast and the Great Lakes, tc
enable us to get hold of the men whc
ijad experience at sea. We then got
,ho co-operation of the steamboat in
ipection service. No man was ad
. mitted to our schools for officers un
■ less he could first qualify for expert
ence required by the rules of th<
steamboat inspection service. Thai
obviates the training of any dead ma
terial. After men get their licenses
we place them, as far as possible, or
board steamships as junior officers
to get actual bridge experience, foi
thirty to sixty days. During that pe
riod they get $75 a month, with nc
bonus, paid by the emergency Heel
corporation, so that the only expense
to the steamship companies taking
these men is the food they eat.
“We have turned out officers sc
fast that a great many have not beer
finding positions in the merchant ma
rine, and have gone into the navy
It has been to a certain extent t
short cut to a commission in th<
| navy, going through our schools, ow
: ing to lack of co-operation in many
I of the steamship lines in taking these
men on. We believe, however, in
view of the action that was taken by
the American Steamship Association
j some weeks ago, that this will now
be straightened out, and that we will
get the places.
“There have been licensed since
j the first of June something over 6,000 j
officers, both deck and engineer.
“Engineers have been giving train-;
ing in various technical institutions—
the Massachumtts Institute of Tech
nology, in I^^bn; the Johns Hop
kins, in Baltimore; Case School of
Applied Science, in Cleveland, and
the University of Washington, in Se-1
attle. Then, outside of those insti
tutions,’ we have been giving special
engineering courses in Philadelphia
in connection with the ice-breaking
steamer, the Governor Weaver,
loaned to us by the city of Philadel
phia for that purpose. We also are
giving some courses at the Seamen’s
institute, in New York. We are start
ing an additional school in Berkeley,
Cal.
“We have been in touch with the
Officers’ Association in England, and
if any shortage develops here we will
bring officers over to fill the places.
We have an offer of co-operation from
the English Officers’ Association. We
have felt from the very beginning that
we ought to develop our own material
here to the utmost before we call on
any foreign officers, but it looks now
as if it might be necessary to call on
the foreign officers, to have a reserve
force on hand to meet any emergency
that may arise.
“We have started training ships for
training sailors, firemen, cooks and
stewards, oilers and water tenders.
We have in operation the Governor
, Dingley at Galveston and the Governor
Cobb is at sea. Our program calls
for giving these ships five days out
of the seven each week at sea, so as
to- give the men their sea legs. The
old army transport Meade is being
used as a receiving ship. #
“We divide the men into squads of
ten each, under an able seaman as in
structor. One of the principal things
is to teach them lifeboat work. With
> training every day for thirty days we
feel that those men are probably as
, good in handling a lifeboat as the av
erage sailor on board a steamer.
“One rather interesting incident
demonstrated that fact. A training
, ship was being towed, boilers and en
i glnes out of commission, to Boston
by a navy tug in a heavy gale. The
tug ran short of coal and was obliged
to put to port. They felt that there
was danger of the ship going ashore
during th*, night, so the captain or
dered the men to abandon the ship.
It was getting along towards dark,
but they launched their lifeboat with
the wind blowing sixty miles an hour,
took nearly sixty men off, and trans
ferred them to the navy tug. All of
tkis work was done by our recruits,
who had only had about five weeks’
training, without any casualty of any
kind, which was a pretty good dem
onstration as to what that training
means.
“The fleet that I have outlined will
hold 3,000 men. We plan to put that
number through each month. We have
a receiving ship now in New York
harbor, the Dorothy Bradord, to keep
a reserve number of men there all
the time to meet any emergency. We
also hope to have a similar ship at
Newport News, a similar receiving
station ship at San Francisco, and a
similar station at Seattle. The de
mand for men would appear to be
about 18,000 men on the west coast
in the next eighteen months. We also
have under consideration a receiving
ship at New Orleans.
“For getting men, we have made
use of a chain of drug stores through
out the country. The drug store, es
pecially in a country town, is a sort
of a social center, open every day
and every evening, which makes them
an ideal enrolling station. These
stores have given us nearly 7,000 en
rolling stations. The cost to the ship
ping board has .been almost nothing.
“As to the special training of fire
men, in the district around Chicago,
including Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio and Michigan, we are making a
special drive to get men who have at
least six months’ experience in firing
stationary boilers, feeling that men
with that experience would make ex
ceedingly good material from which
to develop firemen at sea. We will,
of course, put those men on board our
training ships and give them actual
firing experience there.
“We have established an advisory
committee to the recruiting service,
made up of the president of every
association or union that has any
thing to do with tho manning of the
merchant marine. We have had the
heartiest co-operation from them, so
that the men we have been putting
on board ships have been well re
ceived by their fellow workers, and
the unions are co-operating in this.
Judge John J. Finnegan of Seward
has been appointed by Governor
Thomas Riggs, Jr., to succeed Captain
John T. Hunt as executive officer of
the governor’s office, and has ac
cepted the position. He is a member
of the Seward law firm of Finnegan
& Morford, and formerly was United
States commissioner at that place,
Chisana and other Third division
towns.
Judge Finnegan and wife are pas
sengers aboard the Northwestern for
Juneau, and spent last night with
their many Cordova friends.
Judge Finnegan has been a resident
of Alaska for many years, and is re
garded wherever known as a man of
fine abilities and the highest integ
rity. He is a good lawyer, has had
a great deal of executive experience,
and is a man of sound judgment. He
spent last winter in Washington as
the official representative of the Sew
ard Chamber of Commerce, and aided
Delegate Charles A. Sulzer in secur
ing the passage of the bill permit
ting Seward to issue bonds to pro
vide for protection against floods.
Before offering the position to
Judge Finnegan, Governor Riggs an
nounced that he would not regard
politics as a qualification for this po
sition. The new army officer is a
Republican.
sums mi sitisfies
WITH PHESENT SUES
The rate hearing conducted in Cor
dova yesterday by Examiner O. B
Kent of the United States shipping
board was largely attended by local
shippers, and not a single complaint
was entered against the present
freight rates to Alaska. A number
of merchants were asked point blank
if they felt that they were being
charged more than they should be or
had any grievance to offer, and they
all replied in the negative.
JUNE! DANCE NETTED
GDOD SUM FDR RED CROSS
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We, the undersigned representatives
of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and '
the Pinkus orchestra, wish to thank ,
the following persons and business
houses for their kind assistance and
donations to our dance on May 22:
Mrs. W. L. Fursman, Mrs. John Day,
Mrs. C. P. Mickelson, Mrs. Sophia
Scott, Mrs. Jack Sapiro, Mrs. Frc
Glasbrenner, Mrs. J. V. Lydick, Mrs.
W. W. Council, Mrs. M. Golden, Mrs.
Archie Fields, Mrs. Nina Nichols,
Verne Nichols, W. R. Hillery, and the
orchestra, consisting of Will Clayson, !
V. Swanberg, E. Steel, F. Burns, Mrs.
Frank Cunningham, Robert Bogart,
A1 Foster, George Dooley and A,. H.
Pinkus; and especially Mrs. George ^
W. Walker for her hand-made flow
ers, which netted $35.30. The actual
dance jitneys sold, with all expenses
paid, netted $209.50. The hand-em
broidered table cover, which was do
nated by Mrs. Anton Johansen, is still i
bringing in the money.
The proceeds of the lunch will be
announced later, along with the pr
ceeds of the table cover. The punch
was donated by the following houses:
Northwest Soda Company, Alaskan |
hotel, Cordova House, Kenny Holden,
E. L. Harwood and Freddy Haef.
Thanks are also- extended to the
Northern Drug Company, the Cordova
Drug Company and to Kenny Holden
for his bass solo on the basso pro-!
fundo; to little Alice Potts for her
her presence, and to the general pub
lic for its patronage.
All moneys have been turned over
I .
-o Treasurer E. V. Boyle for the sec
ond Red Cross war fund drive.
J. B. SAPIRO, President.
GEORGE DOOLEY, Secretary.
ROBT. GOTTSCHALK, Trustee.
A. H. PINKUS, Leader.
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