EmpressTheatre
TONIGHT AT 8:00 SHARP
The Fearless Star
HELEN HOLMES
in the Thrillinjr 0 Act Knilmu'l Drama
“THE MANAGER OF THE B.&A”
A story full of action from start to finish.
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HEARST PATHE NEWS—Scenes from the Front.
TRIANGLE KOMODY—“A FILM EXPOSURE.”
Mrs. Jack Sapiro at the Piano
GENERAL ADMISSION.
HAPPENINGS OE EOCAE
AND PERSONAE INTEREST
The Konnecott Copper Corporation
has ordered four tons of Matanuska
potatoes.
Mr. and Mrs John Ctillis of the radio
station spent last evening with town
friends.
Attorney Elmer K Ritchie of Valdez
is spending a couple of days here on
legal business
Dr W. W. Council and Chief of
Police Fred Brotherson left this morn
ing on a goat hunting trip in the moun
tains back of Evak.
The contract for carrying the mail
from Kodiak to Dnalaska has been
awarded to Dr Andrew Smith of Port
land This mail heretofore has been
cr Tied by the little steamship Dora
F. K. Sayres and wife were among
the outgoing passengers on today's
steamer.
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The study in “Prophecy" will be
held at the Presbyterian church this
evening at 8 o'clock. You are cor
dially invited
Two passenger steamers are sched
uled to leave Seattle tomorrow, one
of which will come via the outside
passage direct to l ordova. An Alaska
Steamship Company boat will also
leave Seattle on Friday.
Chief Clerk Alvah Fames ef the
railway mail service returned yester
day afternoon from a trip to Cook in
let points. He was accompanied by
Postal Inspector F. F Whitney, who!
is on hia way to the States.
Charles Peters, a well-known labor
leader from Anchorage, who was go-,
itig Outside to recuperate his health,
died aboard the steamship Alaska be
fore the ship reached Seward, where
the body was taken off.
Captain Dathrop, Mias neGraff says,
in very much interested In the con
struction of tilt; building, and will not
return to Anchorage until some time
in September.—Anchorage Times.
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The cable was out of commission
from 7 o'clock this morning until 3
o'clock this afternoon, and as a result,
the Daily Times did not receive Us
usual excellent Associated Press
service The cable is being repaired
between Seattle and Sitka, and will
he down again all day tomorrow. On
account of the wireless being
crowded with commercial messages it
was unable to handle the press report
today.
MISS DE GRUFF TELLS
ABOUT CONDITIONS RERE
Miss Ruby Dedraff returned on the
Northwestern from a month's visit to
Cordova on business connected wit It
the Empress theater circuit. Miss De
draft' advises that the new Empress
theater building in Cordova is pro
gressing rapidly, despite the scarcity
of carpenters and mechanics The
concrete foundations are till in. the
walls practically up. and the roof will
be on by September 1. Cnless un
foreseen difficulties arise. Miss De
draff says, the theater will be ready
for business by October 1.
The store space will also be ready
for occupancy shortly afterwards, but
the apartments will not be completed
until about the first of the year. When
the entire building is completed it
will undoubtedly be the most modern
in Alaska.
deorge B I’urvis Is architect-builder
In charge and there are several other
Anchorage workmen, including Will
iam Rathwell, Ed llathwell, 0. h Rob
inson and others, employed on the
building.
The eighteen apartments have all
been spoken for. as have the ten of
fices and three store spaces. Miss
Dedraff confirms the report that busi
ness is very active in Cordova this
summer, and that the merchants ex
pect a continuation of good times
throughout the winter.
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F0H1YDI
(Special to (ho Dally Timesi
A N'CHOIt AC K, Aug II Increases
in wages have been granted to the
majority of the employes of the gov
ernment railroad The increases av
erage about Id per cent.
Under the new scale unskilled la
borers are paid 5.1 cents an hour, an
advance of .1 cents an hour; splkers.
strappers. heelers, plow holders,
scraper holders, loaders, pitmen and
machine drill helpers get (id cents an
hour; hand drillers, tie cutters, coy
nte men. timl>er men. steam derrick
liremen, steam shovel firemen, pile
driver firemen, blacksmith helpers,
carpenter helpers, machinist helpers,
plumber helpers, linemen helpers and
sheet metal worker helpers receive 5.1
cents an hour; powder men, pile
driver men and machine drillers are
given 70 cents an hour; telegraph
and telephone linemen, hod carriers,
barge tenders, longshoremen, pipe fit
I ters and car repair men are rated at
t 75 cents an hour; plledrlver engl
i noers, locomotive crane engineers,
steam derrick engineers, electricians,
blacksmiths, machinists, hatch tend
ers. airbrake men. carpenters, paint
ers, boilermakers and sheet metal
workers receive from 75 to 82 Vi cents
an hour; plumbers, ship carpenters,
plasterers, lathers, steam fitters and
caulkers are paid from 80 to 82'/4
cents an hour; engineers on ditching
machines get 8.1 cents an hour, spe
cial machinists, special blacksmiths,
special boilermakers and special sheet
metal workers are rated at from 85
to 95 cents an hour
A new schedule affecting trainmen
and locomotive engineers went into
elect some time ago.
No general revision of the scale for
persons receiving wages on a monthly
basis has been announced by the
Alaskan engineering commission; hut
consideration has been given to ap
plications of monthly paid employes
for increases, and a number of ad
vances have been made to persons in
that classification
The lowest clerical schedule is for
stenographer*, who are rated at $125
a month.
The new scale is applicable only to
the Seward and Anchorage divisions.
There is another scale for the Fair
banks division.
The labor union and a mass meet
'ci ■>! w oi la a v at Anchorage have re
jci-lcl tic ale of wages offered by
the Kncitiei-- i ('uiiiicinsinn, the fob
lowi:, - ■ > 1 • *'iii being adopted by
the litter bod>
Hesolve l That the wage scale sub
mitted by tin- Alaskan Kinginering
commission for machinists is insuffi
cient and unjust in comparison with
any w age scale'now in existence for
work of a like character in the states;
and
Whereas: The increase of wages of
railroad shop men on the Pacific coast
lias been 41! per cent since 1916 and
for contract shops 65 per cent; and
Whereas: Employes hav access to
provisions and foodstuffs at a much
less cost in the cities on the Pacific
coast, thereby saving a larger part of
their wages; and
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Whereas: The Alaskan Engineering
commission has offered inducements]
to men now in their employ living!
quarters at a low cost and necessities
such as food and clothing at a price
10 per cent above cost through a com
missary; and
Whereas: me accommodations tor
married men have been insufficient,
the commissary discontinued and the
employes have been forced to pay ex
cessive prices for the necessities of
life; and
Whereas: The former wage scale
expired on April 1, 1918, and should
be replaced by any new scale begin
ning on that date; and
Whereas: The total increase In the
wages has been approximately only
18 per cent since the year 1916 and
entirely out of proportion with the In
crease in the cost of living or w-tth
the increased wages granted to work
ers on the Pacific coast; and
Whereas: A large number of men
have been forced through economic
neceslty to return to the states and
leave their property and homes to se
cure a living wage In a more con
genial climate; therefore be it
Resolved: That we, the machinists,
in regular meeting assembled, demand
from April 1. 1918. a further Increase
In the wages paid by the Alaskan en
gineering commission and the re
establishment of the commissary, and
upon failure to accede to our demand
we pray that some method be adopted
whereby workingmen and the families
can secure transportation to the
States
\Vh"n*f Government employes
in the States are receiving yearly
leave of absence with pay also for all
holidays All of these demand* have
|been placed with the Alaskan cngi
| neering commission on March 21,
11!»18. for their consideration, and tip
| to this date have not received a defi
nite answer.
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On Friday evening Professor John
Itandnll Dunn. (' S. It. of Si Louis,
mem iter of the hoard of lectureship of
The Mother Church, the First Church
of Christ, Scientist, in ltoston. "ill
deliver a lecture in Masonic hull, com
mencing at K:.'in o'clock
Andrew Chris,ensen. in charge of
the Industrial department of the
Alaskan enginec-fug commission, is in
c wit today on his way to the Sta'es.
lie says that when he left Anchorage
last Saturday the men had nc.1 agroed
to accept the wage scale on the gov
ernment railroad, and that unless
they did so he thought all work would
be suspended for the present
Wednesday, August 14
High water . 5:46 a.m. 9.9
Low water .11:15 a.m. 3.0
High water . 5:46p.m. 11.2
Thursday. August 15 #
Low water .12:56a.m. 2 1
High water . 7:01 a.m 8.3
Low wafer .12.o2p.rn. 3 6
High water . 6 42 p m. 1 l.o
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Mrs T. N. Hubbert wishes to an
nounco that she will receive pupils
for vo« al an«l piano instruction
Studio. M ichelcon • irt i- r building,
phone, 02. ‘M3
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Have you looked over our stock of
Congoleum rugs? The Northwestern
Hardware store.
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In these times everyone con
sults his conscience when pre
paring for his immediate and
future needs.
Hoarding is contrary to the
public good. Intelligent econ
omy is a patriotic duty.
Many men need clothes now.
Buy for a reasonable time
ahead but don’t hoard.
Get the styleplus habit. You
will wear stylish, serviceable g
clothes at prices that permit g
thrift and destroy the tenipta- I
tion to hoard.
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g time, on all Cook Stoves in our stock.
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Save 10 per cent
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