NEW EMPRESS
THEATRE WILL
OPEN THURSDAY
Cordova is going to be justly proud
of the new Empress theatre which is
now so very near completion and Cap
tain A. E. Lathrop is surely sparing
no expense to make the general ef
fect rich and pleasing to the eye. The
lobby is to have a large oil painting
by Sidney Lawrence. The interior
decorating with all its softly blending
colors has been the work of Robinson
and Bogart, while the Reverend E. P.
Zeigler did the special panel paintings
and the central piece in the dome.
The chairs intended for the theatre
have not arrived yet. Captain Lathrop
ordered them the east but they have
been delayed in transit. The new Kim
ball organ has left the factory and will
be installed earlier than anticipated.
D. C. Fairman, who has pleased the
public so well, will remain as organ
ist.! The seating capacity of the new
house will be about 650. The operat
ing room is especially interesting; it
would be hard to find one more strict
ly up-to-date on the outside, and fire
proof according to the underwriters
regulations. Instead of the carbon
lights formerly used, new incandescent
lights, which represent the latest
stride in the moving picture business,
are being’ installed by W. C. Stoeser.
The incandescent lights are of 800
candle-power and give a steady, soft,
though sharply relieved light. The de
tails of the picture are as marked as
with the bright carbon lights but the
reflection is done away with, thereby
relieving the strain on the eyes suf
fered by so many theatregoers.
A splendid lot of new pictures have
been arranged for, including many
from the famous Goldwyn firm.
The new theatre will be opened
next Thursday, June 12 with the
seven-reel picture, “Sporting Life,”
and the Empress will be taxed to its
capacity to accommodate Cordovans
who want to inspect this new amuse
ment temple, which was planned and
erected by Contractor Georage B.
Purvis.
Special dinner served from 11:30
o’clock every day at the City Bakery.
If you do not receive your copy of
the Times regularly, please notify the
circulation manager.
SOUND CAN BE
MAGNIFIED TO
ANY DISTANCE
SAN FRANCISCO, June 9 (by As
sociated Press).-—A man’s voice can
be heard as loud as the cannon’s roar;
it can be heard two or twenty miles.
The ticking of a watch can be ampli
fied until it sounds like breakers on
an ocean cliff.
“It’s no trick at all to magnify sound
four or five million times, or indefin
itely,” said Tom Lambert, a wireless
telephone engineer, today. “All that
is needful is to connect a number of
vaccum valves in multiple with a wire
less set, and the thing is done. At the
first receiving contact a voice will be
normal. Cut in one vacuum valve and
it is raised seven times; thereafter it
squares itself—seven times seven to
forty-nine and for the next valve, and
49 times 49 for the next, and so on."
“I mean volume of sound; not power
of transmission,” explained Lambert.
“In a test recently, a phonograph was
connected with an amplifier at mid
night, and we were lifting it up grad
ually to supply all Ban Francisco with
song and amusement, when the police
urged us to desist.
“In the stadium at Golden Gate
Park the ticking of a watch was made
audible all over the grandstand while
an athletic meet was in progress.
Captain Robert W. A. Brewer, an ex
perimenter, moved off 2,000 feet and
spoke quietly to his dog, and the dog
couldn’t be held. A wireless station
which I am not permitted to name re
cently received a telephoned message
from Europe, and through its amplifier
startled duck hunters in the marshes
eight miles away.”
Mr. Lambert exhibited one of the
vaccum valves. Its exterior resembled
an ordinary 16-candle electric light
bulb. Through the glass, however,
could be seen electric winding that
was dissimilar. Around a filament was
wound convolutions of wire called a
“grid.” Above the grid was an encir
cling metallic plate. The current, it
was explained, pased through each in
the order described. The in-coming
wireless signals travel down the aerial
wire to the tuning set and then to the
vacumn valve, which is a "detector,”
or receiver.
For practical purposes, the vacuum
valve has its use as in warships,
where the wireless telephone speaks
its message through a horn to several
officers, instead of to one using ear
pieces. It can be availed of to ad
dress audiences.
The wireless telephone is wonderful
ly extending the field developed by
the wireless telegraph. Any wireless
telegram receiving set is equally good
for receiving telephoned messages.
The transmitting instruments, of
course, are different.
Every airplane possessed by Uncle
Sam and all United States warships
are equipped with wireless telephone
apparatus. These sets on warships are
efficient at least twenty miles.
COMMISSION NAMED
TO PICK SCHOOL BOOKS
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Under an act passed by the legis
lature, a textbook commission was cre
ated, consisting of the territorial com
missioner of education and two other
superintendents of schools to be
named by him. Announcement has
been made by L. D. Henderson, the
commissioner of education, that he had
named W. A. Knox, superintendent of
the Ketchikan schools, and Miss Em
ma Keever, superintendent of the Cor
dova schools.
The duty of this commission will be
to examine into many textbooks dur
ing the summer months and then meet
in Juneau in the fall, to decide upon
which books they wish to use in the
Alaska schools during the coming
years. This is to bring about the
uniform system of school for which
Mr. Henderson has been working
ever since he took his present office,
and before.
New Perfection oil cook stoves are
just the thing for summer. North
western Hardware Company. 71tf
Home portraits of quality. Agency
Cordova drug store. Scarborough, pho
tographer.
Best coffee in town at the City
Bakery. 2-6t
DIMON NICKOLOFF
SHOE REPAIRING
Red Cabin (Ocean Dock)
Men’s Shoes half-soled and
heels sewed and nailed.$2.75
Rubber heels and soles. 2.75
Radies’ Shoes half-soled. 2.00
Heels, rubber and leather.75
Men’s haf-soles . 2.26
Children’s Shoes, heels and
soles .„Z'6U
Harness Repairing: Automobile
Tires Vulcanized
Rubber Boot* Repaired
Hand and Machine Work
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ALMOST ANY VACANT RESI
DENCE LOT IN TOWN FOR
DOWN AND MONTHLY
PAYMENTS OF
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PICK OUT YOUR LOT AND THEN
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OPTIMO STANDARD CIGAR8.
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OPTIMO 8ENATOR CIGAR8.
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MOZART MAGNIFICENT CIGAR8
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3 for 50c
TUXEDO TOBACCO, TINS
3 for 50c
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Prices are coming down. So are
du‘r ham and eggs. Now 50 cents at
the City Bakery. 2-6t
The Daily Times job plant is
well equipped for all classe of com
mercial printing.
Aunty
Keating’s
Wee Shop
Take a peep in the Wee Shop,
And I’ll bet you my all
You’ll want to stop in
If only to call.
There are lots of Toys,
Picture Books and Games,
Marbles and Candies and
Dolls without names—
Silks and Laces,
Ribbons by the mile—
And Frances Fraisure there
To give you a smile.
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M’CONAGHY
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Plumbers and
Steamfitters
COR. FRONT and B 8T8.
Electric Wirin'
and Repairs—
JOHN G. YOUNG
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Sheet Metal Works.
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Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath
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