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The Cordova Daily Times.
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GREATER CORDOVA’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER
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Entered at the Postoflice at Cordova. Alaska, as second-class matter.
CORDOVA, ALASKA, SATURDAY^ OCTOBER 30, 1915.
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CORRECTS AN ERRONEOUS IMPRESSION .
In its campaign for “all the mail all the time, some of the
residents of the interior charged that the holding up of the mail,
in excess of the present weight limit, was due to action on the
part of the Chief Clerk of the Railway Mail Service, stationed
here. It is gratifying to know that the Fairbanks News-Miner
is willing to correct this erroneous impression and under the
caption of “In Justice to Mr. Fames” says:
“The matter of getting all the mail all the time is one of
vital importance and of great interest to the ])eople of Fair
banks and interior Alaska. In discussing matters that are so
close to the hearts of the people of this district many things
are stated' that had better have been left unsaid, many impres
sions are created that should not have been created, and many
men who are doing their utmost every day in the year to help
and develop the country are put before the public in a light
that is not to their credit, and in a way that does them an unjust
and an unfair injury.
“Yesterday under the heading, ‘These Men Can Help Us,’
tin* News-Miner printed a story setting forth just what the men
who have the transporting and the routing of the mail under
their supervision could do for the better mail sendee which
Fairbanks desires. In that article certain statements were
made that apparently could be taken two ways. One person,
at least, so construed the article, and probably correctly so, that
it appeared as if the blame for the inefficiency of the winter mail
service was due to Mr. Fames of Cordova.
“This is wrong, absolutely so. There is not a man in Al
aska who has been a more faithful worker for a better mail
service for the interior than Alvah Fames. Mr. Fames has
worried more, has fought harder and has spent more time
trying to persuade the postoffice department in Washington to
do something to relieve the annual congestion of mail in Cor
dova, than any other man in Alaska. The trouble with the
Alaska mail service insofar as the interior of the territory is
concerned is this: Washington officials of the postoffice depart
ment have repeatedly refused to spend another cent on the mail
service to the interior. Whether through ignorance, bullhead
ness, economy or for any reason anyone cares to name, the
postoffice department in Washington simply refuses to listen
to Alaska, is not known. But the fact remains that they won’t
listen and they don’t listen.
“Voinov Richmond, the manager of the Northern Commer
eial Company, threw a lot of light on the mail service today.
He stated' that Alvah Karnes had on record in Cordova, well,
almost reams of letters which he had written to Superintendent
Vaille of the Seattle postoffice, under whom he works, and
reams of letters that he has sent to Washington. But to all the
pleas, all the entreaties, Washington returns the same reply,
“We don’t want to spend another cent on the mail service in
in Alaska.” It is a cut and dried answer.
“Superintendent Vaille of the Seattle postoffice even sug
gested to the department an increased mail service to Alaska in
a modified' form. The suggestion was that certain communities
receive all classes of mail at all seasons of the year, while
others, more remote, should be more confined in their service.
For instance, Superintendent Vaille did not advocate the car
rying of parcels post to Point Barrow in the winter time, where
it costs about $2 to deliver a single letter from Seattle, but he
did think that Fairbanks should have a better service. But
the department would not listen to it. Back came the same
old cut and dried answer, “We don’t want to spend any more
money on the mail service in Alaska.’
“Instead of knocks Mr. Flames should be boosted for the
service that he has rendered and is trying to render the interior
points. The suggestion made yesterday was that an itemized
account of the three transportation clerks would prove to the
department in Washington the absolute necessity of a better
mail service for the interior.
“No man who has the United States mails in his charge
wants to store 35 tons of accumulated mail in a wooden build
ing that is liable to burn up at any time. He is certainly not
going out of his way" to put added responsibility and extra
work on his shoulders. Therefore it is not Alvah Karnes who
is to blame. Tt is not Alvah Karnes who made necessary the
shipment of 35 tons of accumulated mail from Cordova to Skagf
wav last spring that should have and could have come into the
interior six months before it did, if Washington was so educated
to the conditions here as to forget that cut and dried statement,
‘We don’t want to spend any more money on our Alaska mail
service. ’
“To Mr. Karnes be the credit for what he has done. And to
the people of Fairbanks comes the labor of working unceasingly
to bring about those ideas which Mr. Karnes suggested to the
superintendent at Seattle and to Washington regarding an atf
the mail all the time service for Fairbanks.”
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tober 18 .ALAMEDA.October 29
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