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CORDOVA, \, Till RSDAY, Jl LY \ l‘Mf>.
THE COMMERCIAL CLUB AGAIN
Cordovans have frequently expressed surprise nnd indig
nation over the manner in which the Seattle Commercial club
continually seeks to injure Alaska. Some years ago it was
the only organization backing Gifford Pinchot and lately it
interjected itself into the railroad terminal question, going out
of its way to lie about Cordova and the Copper River route.
Now it is attacking one of the greatest industries in its
own city, ship building.
The Railway and Marine News prints a resolution intro
duced in the Commercial Club asking the government to erect
a ship building plant at Seattle, and sluringly referring to the
private ship yards now there. Commenting on this resolution
the magazine says:
“How much better it would have been for this commercial
organization to have passed a resolution commending the
twenty or more shipbuilding plants, both large and small,
whose marine railways reach the waters of Puget Sound and
Elliott Bay, nnd solicit all the Congressmen and Senators for
their aid in giving to these many industrial developers and pay
roll upbuilders support in securing a portion of the contracts
awarded.
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Seattle should do. It should appoint a committee consisting
of its representatives from Ballard to Georgetown to make the
rounds of the financial and business interests of the city of
Seattle with tin* idea of getting up a strong protest against
the action of the Commercial Club of Seattle. Every railroad
man, steamship man and dock owner would certainly be the
first to join with the shipbuilders, although the majority of
memberships of thoses classes have been withdrawn from the
organization.
“Now is the time to take action and the Commercial Club
should be notified at once that any such resolution as the one
quoted above is a direct blow aimed at one of the pioneer
industries of Puget Sound and distinctly an industry which has
done more than almost any other thing to build up local
commerce in this city, to say nothing of the tremendous
amounts these interests have paid in the city of Seattle for
payrolls, supplies and taxes.”
The business men and Alaskans are withdrawing from the
Commercial Club which is not surprising, when it is considered
that the club is often found working against Seattle’s best
interests.
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CAN GOLIATH WARD OFF DAVID?
Judging from the signs at Washington, the coming
problem as related to the building of battleships for the United
States navy is to be not the calibre of their guns and the thick
ness of their armor above water, but how to protect their hulls
from the attacks of the submarine. The progress of the Euro
pean war thus far shows how vastly important that problem is.
While not a great many battleships have been sunk by
torpedoes, we know that they easily can be, and the knowledge
is disquieting.
A little while ago our naval experts thought that triple
bottoms would be a defense against torpedoes, and' so the
Pennsylvania, the Arizona, the California, the Mississippi and
the Idaho have or will have such construction. Rut it is now
seten that no existing submarine can run under tin* bottom of a
battleship and fire a torpedo upward at her. Tt is the sides
that need the protecting. Can that he done sufficiently?
In a week or two there are to be some experiments in
Chesapeake Bay which, it is hoped, will throw some light on the
matter. One of these experiments will include an under-water
attack upon a caisson built to resemble the section of one of
the proposed new American dreadnoughts, with a new arrange
ment of hull-skins and bulkhead protection against torpedoes.
This caisson is being constructed at the navy yard at Norfolk.
It will represent not an entire dreadnought, but only a portion
of the armored section of such a vessel, ft will not only mount
protective armor, but will have four or five protective walls
and other features that are not disclosed because they are
regarded by experts of tin* navy department as highly con
fidential. Then this caisson will be subjected to under-water
attack, representing the epxlosion caused by the contact of a
torpedo with the side of the dreadnought. Pending these
experiments, as well as a possible great conflict in the North
Sea, in which submarines may play their part on a scale never
known before, the plans lor our own huge superdreadnoughts,
unnamed as yet, but authorized by Congress this year as Nos.
43 and 44, are being delayed. Everything depends on the
design of the hull now, and' our naval constructors want to
learn all they can about hulls and torpedo-fire before the
vessels are built.
Can Goliath ward off the attack of David? That is the
supremely important question that is now filling the minds of
all the naval students of the world. May it not happen that
marvellously inventive America, which gave the workable
submarine to-the navies, will yet find the defense against the
terror of the under-seas?—Boston Post.
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Doth it not appear, Esau, that the war will be over, and
all our trade opportunities lost, before we have reached the end
of drastic legislation, prosecutions and persecutions of busi
ness and general “uplift?” What nation ever did have such
an opening? What nation ever failed so signally in grasping
a great prize?
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The United States supreme court reopened the Harvester,
trust case for a rehearing of arguments, without request from
either the government or the company. It will be remembered
that the court was divided when the ruling against the com
pany was made. Perhaps the court has seen a new light since
disposing of the steel trust case in favor of the trust. The
ordinary layman who does not know a tecum from a habeas
has great difficulty in reconciling the two decisions.
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The government will now expend $2fi,K00,(H)0 in building
400 miles of railroad in Alaska with a’ view to oyiening up to
use the Alaskan eonl fields. We need good coal on the Pacific
coast more than any other mineral resource. It is a basis of
efficiency. The employment of a large number of men with the
government as paymaster, should go far to improve labor condi
tions on the coast in the near future.—Plaindealer.
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We do not at all mind a discussion of the Lemberg situa
tion. Tt’s the only word in Galician nomenclature that we can
pronounce in public without a blush of boyish embarrassment.
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Another battlefield which the Lord seems to have forgotten
is that Olympic church in which rival factions are trying to
sing each other out. What fools us mortals be!
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The Russians haven’t learned since the Japanese war.
Their ammunition then was scarce and inefficient. It remains
so.
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Let it be known to all dynamiters that Andrew Carnegie,
desiring to die poor, does not wish to be blown up for some
weeks yet.
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Enough powder was shot off in Cordova the last two days
to seriously endanger President Wilson’s proclamation of
neutrality.
After Atlnnta got her near-beer saloons closed, the danger
of lynching the governor of prohibition Georgia diminished.
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug 8tore. Residence,
Rainier-Grand Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Company Hospital
Hours—10 to 12; 1 to 6 p. m.
DR. C. L. HALE
D E N T I 8 T
Office In Adams Building
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Councellor at Law
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA.
ASA C. BALDWIN
Civil Engineer
Patent Surveys
Address: Valdez, Alaska
J. F. R. APPLEBY
CIVIL ENGINEER
Phone 4. CORDOVA, ALASKA
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GEO. F. WHITE
The Assayer
Assaying and Ore Testing
VALDEZ, ALASKA
Established 1911. Formerly 12 years
with Tacoma Smelter
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IMPORTED WINE8
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GOLD-COPPER
FOR SALE
A high grade Gold property, ten
miles from Valdez with several j
hundred sacks of high grade ore I
on the dump. This property ad
joins a producing mine and sev- !
eral veing of high tirade ore are
exposed on the surface of this
ground.
Also four groups of copper
properties on Prince William
Sound, adjoining navigable water, I
All of these properties could be I
made producers with a small
amount of money and for a party I
who can open same up or can se
cure the capital to do so, this is
an opportunity to make a fortune.
For prices and terms apply to
S A. HEMPLE, Valdez, Alaska
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fl of printed matter that shows its quality need
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S needed to turn out high grade work neatly, you
B will not pay more for good printing than you
B would for inferior printing produced by a
flj novice in a poorly equipped shop.
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I ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
Fast and commodious ateamera tailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway. Cordova, Valdez, Seward and
SHIP CREEK, via INSIDE PASSAGE
Sail* from Seattle— Sails from Cordova—
June 30.MARIPOSA.July 10
July 7.ALAMEDA.July 17
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Juneau, Sheep Creek,
Treadwell, Douglas, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez ard Latouche. Explos
ives, 8. S. Seward. 8. S. Seward, 5th; 8. S. Latouche, 15th; 8. 8.
j Cordova, 25th of each month.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers
without notice.
Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour before
sailing time.
F. B. TRACY, T. J. TALLENT,
General Agent Ticket Agent
Pacific-Alaska Navigation Co.
ALASKA PACIFIC S. 8. CO. ALASKA COAST CO.
PUGET SOUND ALASKA ROUTE
Next sailing from Seattle will be
ADMIRAL WATSON, JULY 15
ADMIRAL EVANS, JULY 25
Via the INSIDE PASSAGE for Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat,
Katalla, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Cook Inlet points and Kodiak
Island.
Seattle-San Francisco connecting with steamers Yale and Har
vard for Southern California Ports.
Schedule subject to change without Notice.
ALASKA 1RANSFER CO., Local Agents
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I Copper River &
i Northwestern Ry.
;; Effective June 12th, 1915.
Two trains every six days between Cordova and
;; Chitina, one of these trains leaving Cordova making
;; connection with Alaska Steamship Co. ttearnerj arriving
;; from Seattle.
;; Trains between Chitina and Sliushanna Junction,
;; and Kennecott connect with trains between Chitina and
;; Cordova.
!; All trains from Cordova leave from Second Street ;
;; Depot. ■
' | Dining Car In Connection With all Regular Pessenger Train* Be- •
I I tween Cordova and Chitina.
■! The above schedule subject to change without notice.
■ | Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.
;; Tickets on salt* at Depot or up-town office, Alaska
;; Steamship Company building
; j Caleb Corser S. R. Hedges
If Superintendent Cordova Agent
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T. W. CLONINGER Af .
proprietor L-hitina, Alsaka
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Sizes from 4 to 500 H. P. Write
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ALASKA AGENTS
CORDOVA - - ALASKA