MANY PATIENTS
FROM ALASKA
TO ASYLUM
A total of 846 patients, legally ad
judged insane, of the Territory of
Alaska, have been committed to
Morningside Sanitarium at Portland,
Ore., according to the annual report
of that institution just received by
Gov. Thomas Riggs, Jr. The admis
sion of these patients covers a per
iod of 16*4 years ending June 30,
1920.
Of the total number admitted 45.9
per cent have been discharged as re
covered and improved. The recov
eries for the fiscal year ending June
30 shows a higher percentage of re
coveries totaling 59.6 per cent of
those received during the same per
iod. The total number leaving the
Sanitarium is placed at 423. There
are at present receiving treatment
206 persons. Two hundred and seven
teen have died in the institution.
A total of 52 patients wrere re
ceived during the past fiscal year.
There wrere discharged during this
same period 31, while 18 deaths are
reported. A gain of three is shown
in the number of Alaskan patients
at the hospital during the year. Of
the 206 patients now at Morningside,
175 are men and 31 are women, all
receiving treatment.
H. C. L. AFFECTS HOSPITAL
Conditions at the Sanitarium are
described as follows:
During the fiscal j^ear just ended,
the Sanitarium Company has as a re
sult of the ever increasing H. C. L.
been financially cramped. It has been
necessary to put off certain things.
Stocks and stores have been depleted,
but the time has arrived when it is
no longer possible to delay large pur-1
chases which have been put off from
time to time. We have just purchased
fifteen hundred dollars worth of the !
one item—bedding, and we must still |
buy a very large quantity. The same j
applies to clothing. AVe have waited
as long as we dare in the vain hope
that prices will drop. AA^e can wait
no longer. The slight advance recent
ly granted by congress in our rates,
from $41.25 to $45.00 per patient per
month, is, as shown by a comparison
with purely maintenance charge of
some of the largest institutions in
this country wholly inadequate, and
is already consumed for new sup
plies. AA'e are still hopeful, however,
as we have been for the last few years
past,, that prices will soon .drop
though the latest press reports from
A\Tashington, D. C., show to date, ex
cept in a few minor exceptions, where
commodities have been temporarily
reducd to stimulate sales, and reduce
stocks, prices still cling desperately
to the high levels. Even these tem
porary declines have failed to reach
Portland.
Under these trying conditions, we
have strained every point to contin
ually advance the service, for a busi
ness enterprise or institution must,
under no conditions, remain station
ary. It must either improve, or of
its own weight go backward. Morn
ingside hospital and the resulting con
ditions under which the legally ad
judged insane of Alaska are cared
for, have improved, and we are pleas
ed with this opportunity of mention-!
ing some of the more salient points
.of which we speak.
SEEK NEW TKEATlYlblNTb
The Sanitarium Company is at all'
times seeking new ideas and initiat-1
ing additions and improvements that
we may better care for our patients, j
During the fiscal year just ended this
work has increased in increasing pro
portions, and new and improved and
more pleasant facilities have been
added, for the better care and happy |
contentment of our patients.
Very lately experiments have been
conducted in Eastern clinics with
music, and the result, most benefi
cial in many cases, particularly so in
the mild and severe hysterical types,
have been discussed widely in medical
and lay journals. Morningside was
quick to grasp this, the latest theory,
in additional care of mental cases.
After numerous conferences with one
of the local electric stores, we secured !
their services in installing a most in
genious device, whereby, from a cen
tral sending station, music is electri
cally transmitted to every building
and every ward of the institution. Our
practical application to an extent
bears out the theory of the clinics
as to the soothing and curative ef
fects of music. But curative oh not,
our daily concerts are today an added
source of enjoyment and a pleasant
moment of diversion to the patients.
GROUNDS BEAUTIFIED
Realizing the importance of a
pleasant environment the hospital
grounds have been greatly beautified
with the addition of lawns, flowers
and ornamental shrubs and trees. In
addition to a tract of the hospital
ground fronting on the Columbia river
highway has been set aside as a
park, with its symmetrical gardens
and curved paths was planned and
laid out with a view to the beautiful
and artistic, and the planting so ar
ranged that our patients convalescing,
may more speedily recover in sur
roundings of shady lawns and flower
ing bloom from early spring until
frost.
Of late the Alaskan patients are be
ing housed in increasing numbers in
our parole cottage. This building,
modern in every sense of the word,
airy and commodious, without a lock
or a bolt, offers a pleasant and home
like abode for those patients, either
mildly insane, or on the speedy road
to recovery.
To adequately and comfortably take
care of the heating and hot water
problem, due to the expansion of the
institution in recent years, the entire
heating system has been changed. The
two small boilers formerly supplying
heat and hot water have been re- j
moved, and in their stead have com
pleted the single central heating unit.
Our new heating system, with the
great boiler housed in a fire-proof, re
inforced concrete boiler room, apart
from the other buildings of the hospi
tal, is a model of perfection in low
pressure steam heating and hot mater
systems. This installation has cost
the Sanitorlum Company approximate
lv ten thousand dollars.
INMATES LIKE FARMING
Great advancements have been
made on our fruit and truck farm.
The ground is being more intensely
farmed, and by heavier application of
fertilizers we hope to materialv im
prove the quantity and quality of
produce raised for our own use.
Through the proper planting of every
variety of vegetable grown in this
district, which includes practically
all vegetables, we will have an abun
dance of fresh vegetables, as well as
fruits throughout the season.
A few hours of light work on the
faim each day, or at intervals, as
the patients desire, is greatly appre
ciated by the inmates and we make
every effort to allow as many as pos
sible out each day. We are sorry at
this time that the limited size of our
farm prevents a great number of the
patients this diversion, but we hope
to get around this in the near future
by acquiring additional lands nearby.
During the recent influenza epi
demic, Morningside maintained its
reputation, and not only did we have
no deaths from this dreaded disease,
but as was the cause in the more
serious epidemic of 1918, not a single
case developed at the institution.
There are many other items
which migjit be mentioned, such as
the repainting of all the buildings,
improved facilities here, a replace
ment there, and a host of such items
but these had best be classed in the
general category of general upkeep
and general supervision, the most
important item of all, and for which
Morningside today, in its splendid ma
terial condition and high morale of
both employees and patients, deserves,
we feel, some slight credit.
BEAR HUNTERS USE
ROW AND ARROW TO
BRING BRUIN DOWN
SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 (by As- _
sociated Press).—Skins of five grizzly
bears, killed by two San Francisco
men, Dr. Saxton T. Pope and Arthur
H. Young, in Yellowstone park, are
being stuffed and prepared for exhibi
tion in the California Academy of
Science museum here.
Only five arrows were needed to kill
the five, the hunters reported. Each
animal was stopped by one shot, -from
a distance less than forty yards.
A sixth bear was killed, but not by
an arrow. When the arrow's failed to
stop the animal, the men resorted to
their guns. The bear was a female
with cubs, and, according to Young,
was the most ferocious found.
Young is claimant of the American
bow and arrow championship. Dr.
Pope and Young hunted in the park
under permit from the United States -
government.
The Ladies’ Toggery Shop—the O.
T. O.; “Out of the Ordinary,”—Lad
ies’ apparal store. Mrs. Grant Reed.
Windsor Hotel. 20-tf
Just received the new fall line of
samples of made-to-order rain coats.
Now is the time to order at Hubbert’s
Tailor Shop. 19-6t
Graham Bread fresh every day at
the City Bakery.
New and Second-hand Un-called-for
Suits for sale at Peyser’s Tailor Shop.
Pianos for rent. Phone Anderson
piano expert. Windsor hotel. 13-3t
Developing and printing for the
amatuer. Scarborough 1
Why Pay High Prices For j
EASTMAN KODAKS
When you can buy at Eastman
* Catalogue Prices
!
i
Vest Pocket Autographic Kodak, Meniscus Achromatic Lens
and Kodak Ball Bearing Shutter .$ 9.50
Vest Pocket Autographic Kodak with rapid rectilinear lens.... 10.60
Vest Pocket Autographic Special Kodak. Anastigmat lens f.
7. 7. Price . 16.60
No. 1 Autographic Kodak Junior. Meniscus Achromatic lens
and Kodak Ball Bearing Shutter,. 16.65
No. 1 A Autographic Kodak Junior with Rapid Rectilinear lens 20.95
No. 1 A Autographic Kodak with Rapid Rectilinear lens. 25.00
No. 1 A Autographic Kodak with Kodak Anastigmat lens f. 7. 7. 30.65
No. 2 C Autographic Kodak Junior with Rapid Rectilinear lens 22.90
No. 2 Folding Autographic Brownie. Meniscus Achromatic lens 10.20
No. 3 A Autographic Kodak Junior with Rapid Rectilinear lens 24.65
No. 3 A Autographic Kodak with Rapid Rectilinear lens. 29.35
No. 3 A Autographic Kodak with Kodak Anastigmat lens f. 7. 7. 35.35
No. 3 A Autographic Kodak Special with Baush & Lomb Tessar
Series lib Anastigmat lens f. 6. 3., and Optimo Shutter.... 124.50
We also carry a stock of Brownies, Films, and
supplies of all kinds for the Kodak lover.
Developing and Printing of Films
IREHl DRUG CO.
CORDOVA AND M’CARTH Y, ALASKA
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Combined report of the financial conditions of the
BANK OF -ALASKA |
AND ITS BRANCHES |
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At the close of Business June 19, 1920
RESOURCES ;§
Loans and Discounts.$ 506,901.10
U. S. and Other Bonds .. 41,956.56
Banking Premises, Furniture and Fixtures.... 74,438.49
j:| Cash and Due from Ranks . 391,676.56 :£
Miscellaneous Assets *.'..... 4,085.25
Due from Branches ..v. 127,769.54
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i TOTAL .. $1,146,827.50 g
LIABILITIES :j;j
Capital Stock .....$ 140,000.00 £:
Surplus Fund .-..j.. 15,000.00
Undivided Profits .... 13,811.22
Reserved for Interest and Taxes . 1,075.00
Deposits . 856,214.14
Due to Branches ... 120,727.14
TOTAL . $1,146,827.50 :§
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WHEN IN
KATALLA
STOP AT
THE BREAKERS
THOMPSON & CHADWICK
CORDOVA MACHINE
WORKS
E. R. GARNES, Prop.
Residence Phone 101-3
Shop Phone 182
Machine Work of all Kinds,
Blacksmithing, General Repair
ing, Horse Shoeing, Oxy-Acety
lene Welding and Cutting.
AUTOMOBILES
REPAIRED
Office and Shop: City Dock
CORDOVA, Alaska.
Out of Town Jobs Given Strict
Attention.
Ootimo Cigars
Pepp and Jun©'?
GUS GELLES, AGENT
JUNEAU, ALASKA
/ SHAMPOOING
\ FACIAL AND
For MANICURING
/ CALL
1-7-3 I
MRS. SWANBERG
Sixty Steam-Heated Rooms, Electric-Lighted
Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath
Cordova House
DOOLEY & GREENIG
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Headquarters for Railroad and Mining Men'
Satisfaction Guaranteed :: Rates Reasonable
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Alaska
Steamship Company
Regular Sailings Between Seattle,
Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez,
Ellamar, Liscum, Latouche, Seward.
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FROM SEATTLE- SA|L3 3pUTH_
JULY 15.-. ALASKA .JULY 24
JULY 22. ALAMEDA .AUG. 1
JULY 29. NORTHWESTERN .... .AUG 7
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Frequent sailings of freighters carrying explosives.
This schedule subject to change without notice.
P. B. TRACY, Agent
Alaska—Washington—California ALASKA ROUTE
Safety Courtesy Service Speed
OFFICE EMPRESS BUILDING ~ ' |
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WEST BOUND .SOUTH BOUND
LEAVE CORDOVA LEAVE CORDOVA
EVANS, JULY 24 EVANS, JULY 29
WATSON, AUG. 5
CALLS ANCHORAGE AND KODIAK
L. A. COUNTS, AGENT Res. Lathrop Apts.
Phone 132—2
CLEANING
PRESSING
HAT-BLOCKING
HUBBERT
THE TAILOR
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H ipp r River and
Ni irthw st rn Ry.
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Trains leave Cordova for Ckitina Monday and Thursday.
Trains leave Ckitina for Kennecott Tuesday and Friday.
Trains leave Kennecott for Chitina Sunday and Thursday *
Dining Car in Connection with all Regular
Passenger Trains between Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received and delivered at Cordova
Wharf from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m., except Sundays
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot office
one hour before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER, Sjperintendent
MARK McALLAN Ticket Agent.
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CITY BAKERY LUNCH ROOM
Special Carefully-Prepared Lunch served from 11:30 a. m. Our Fine
French Rolls with every meal
Big Variety of Pastries and Cakes, Always Fresh
Sanitary Machinery of Latest Model. Patent Brick Oven. Best Ma
terials used by Expert Workm«*-«. producing our Famous Cream Loaf
Best Ccffee in Town
French Bread
FRED M. SCHAUPP
SANITARY PLUMBING
Steam-Fitting, Marine Pipe and Tank Work
Sheet Metal Work
SECOND STREET, NEXT DOOR TO FEDERAL JAIL
PHONE 72