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Howard, Hamilton, Waltham
and Elgin
A Fine Line of Bracelet Watches, Cut
Glass, Sterling Silver, Ivory
and Nngget Jewelry
JEWELRY MADE TO ORDER
Osborne Bros.
THE CITY BAKERY
WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN FINE CAKES AND PASTRY
FOR
Parties and Receptions
Makers of the Famous "Cream Loaf" Bread
Sun “Maid" Raisin Bread—A Treat Indeed
Rye Bread Graham Bread
LUNCH ROOM—WHERE YOU GET THOSE EXCELLENT
LUNCHES
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And see what we have in the line of workmen’s clothing,
beds, mattresses and canvas goods of all kinds, tents and
! shovels, kitchenware, furniture, stoves, etc. We also
carry a full line of mirrors—plate glass and plain.
THE NORTHERN BLOCK
First Street
Copper River
and Northwestern Ry.
FOUR TRAINS WEEKLY BETWEEN
CHITINA AND KENNECOTT
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mon
days, Thursdays and Saturdays
Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Fridays
Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays
and Fridays
Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednes
days, Thursdays and Saturdays
The above schedule subject to change without
notice.
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 W. E. BROWN
Superintendent Agent Cordova Wharf
R. K. BROWN, Jr., Ticket Agent
MEET ME AT
THE
‘HORSESHOE’
POPULAR RECREA
TION PLACE
Where we can always find our
friends
I Finest Billiard and Pool Ta
bles in Alaska
BEST GRADES OF STAND
ARD BRANDS OF CIGARS
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I Your eyes fitted. Compound and
astigmatic lenses replaced. See Os
borne.
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The Red Dragon
CORDOVA. ALASKA
Headquarters of Cordova
Chapter American Red Cross.
Club House founded in 1908
by Episcopal church. Open
from 1 p. m. to 10 p. m.
REV E. P. ZIEGLER
Supt.
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When Ordering Job Work Don’t
j Think It Is Your Duty to Build Up
j Concerns In the States, But Give
| TH» People Who Are Paying
| Wages and Spending Their Money
| In Cordova a Chance to Live.
H---E
g PROFESSIONAL (J
DRS. DAGGETT & BLYTH
Northern Hotel Building,
Cordova.
DENTISTRY
Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.
Special ^Attention to
Prophylaxis and Pyorrhea.
PHONE 200
WM. A. HESSE
Mining Engineer,
U. S. Mineral Surveyor,
U. S. Deputy Surveyor.
BOX 13 CORDOVA, ALASKA
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls May be Left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Alaskan Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and Residence: Cordova
General Hospital (Ostrander Build
Ing-.
Phones—Residence 115; office 132
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Office: Over Blum, O'Neill’s Store
ROBERT SIMPSON
JUNEAU, ALASKA
Glasses Fitted. Lenses Ground
. HUBBELL & WALLER
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Civh and Mining Engineers.
U. S. Mineral and Deputy Land Sur
veyors for Alaska.
1102 L. C. SMITH BLDG., SEATTLE
WILLIAM PALLISTER, M.D.
Specialist in the treatment of
diseases and deformities of the
eye, ear, nose and throat; glasses
fitted.
JUNEAU GENERAL HOSPITAL
SMITH & McCONAGHY
PLUMBERS AND STEAM FITTERS
Cor. Front and B Streets
Office Open Evenings.
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Room 1.
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA
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FRANK H. FOSTER
Attorney at Law
Room 1 Alaskan Hotel
CORDOVA
MACHINE WORKS
E. R. GARNES, Prop.
! Residence Shop
Phone 101-3. Phone 182
Machine Wo xk. of all Kinds,
Blacksmithing, General Repair
ing, Horse Shoeing, Oxy-Acety
lene Welding and Cutting.
HARMON MACHINERY
BUILDING
Cordova, Alaska.
Out of Town Jobs Given Strict
Attention. *
Use less wheat and meat. Buy local
foods. Serve just enough. Use what
is left.
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If you want to keep posted on the
war read the Daily Times.
“Over the Top” [
By An American Soldier
Who Went
ARTHUR GUY EMPEY
Machine Gunntt Serving In France ■
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(Copyright, 19V, by Arthur Guy Bmpojr)
SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I-FIr^by the neW8 of th.
sinking of '^ l-^ttanla by a German
submarine, ArtnurQuy Empey, an Ameri
can, leaves hi* of1re |n Jersey City and
goes to England where he enlists In the
British army
CHAPTER H—After a period of train
ing, Empey volunteers for immediate serv
ice and soon finds himself In rest billets
"somewhere In hrance," where he first
makes the acquaintance of the ever-pres
ent "cooties
CHAPTER HI—Empey attends his first
church services at the front while a Ger
man Fokker circles over the congregation.
CHAPTER JV-Empey’s command goes
Into the front-line trenches and Is under
Are for the first time.
CHAPTER V—Empey learns to adopt
the motto of the Brtlsh Tommy, “If you
are going to get It, you'll get It, so never
worry."
CHAPTER VI—Back In rest billets, Em
pey gets his first experience as a mess
orderly.
CHAPTER Vll-Empey learns how the
British soldiers are fed.
CHAPTER inn—Back in the front-line 1
trench, Empey sees his first friend of the
trenches "go West.”
CHAPTER IX—Empey makes his first
visit to a dugcsit In "Suicide Ditch.”
CHAPTER X—Empey learns what con
stitutes a "day's work” in the front-line
trench.
CHAPTER XI—Empey goes "over the
top” for the first time In a charge on the
German trenches and Is wounded by a
bayonet thrust
CHAPTER XIII—Each Tommy gets
an official bath
CHAPTER XIV—Empey helps dig
an advanced trench under German
fire.
‘ATrlvihg al "The ‘taped diagram of
the trench, rifles slung around our
shoulders, we lost no time in getting
to work. We dug as quietly as pos
sible but every now and then the noise
of a pick or shavel striking a stone
would send the cold shivers down our
backs. Under our breaths we heartily
cursed the offending Tommy.
At Intervals a star shell would go up
from the Germnn lines nnd we would
i remain motionless until the glare of its
white light died out.
When the trench had reached a
depth flf two feet we felt safer, be
cause it would afford us cover in case
we were discovered nnd fired on.
The digging had been in progress
about two hours, when suddenly hell
seemed to break loose in the form of
machine-gun and rifle fire.
We dropped down on our bellies in
the shallow trench, bullets knocking
up the ground and snapping in the air.
Then shrapnel hutted in. The music
was hot and Tommy danced.
The covering party was having a
rougfi thin- of ii ; they had no cover;
just had to take their medicine.
Word was passed down the line to
beat it for our trenches. We needed no
urging; grabbing our tools and stoop
ing low, we legged It across No Man’s
Land. The covering party got away
to a poor start but beat us in. They
must have had wings because we low
ered the record.
Panting and out of breath, we tum
bled into our front-line trench. I tore
m.v hands getting through our wire,
but, at the time, didn’t notice it; my
journey was too urgent.
When the roll was called we found
that we had gotten It in the nose for
63 casualties.
Our artillery put a barrage on Fritz’
front-line nn.d fotnjnnnicnfjon tronrtwis
ind their machine-gun and ritle hre
luddenly censed. f
Upon the cessation of this Are, *
itretcher hearers went out to look for f
tilled and wounded. Next dny we 1
earned thnt 21 of our men had been j
tilled and 37 wounded. Five men were
nissing; lost in the darkness, they! 1
nust have wandered over into the Ger- J
nan lines, where they were either
tilled or captured.
Speaking of stretcher bearers and
wounded, it is very hard for the aver- '
nge civilian to comprehend the enor- 1
mous cost of taking care of wounded
and the war in general. He or she gets (
so accustomed to seeing billions of dol- j
lars In print that the significance of
the amount is passed over without
thought.
From on official statement published
In one of the London papers, it is j
stated thnt it costs between six and
seven thousand pounds ($30,000 to $35.
000) to kill or wound a soldier. This
result was attained by taking the cost
of the war to date and dividing it by j
the killed and wounded.
It mny sound heartless and Inhuman, j
but it is a fact, nevertheless, that from
a military standpoint it is better^or a j
man to be killed than wounded.
If n man Is killed he is buried, and
the responsibility of the government j
ceases, excepting for the fact thnt his j
people receive a pension. But if a man I
is wounded it takes three men from 1
the firing line, the wounded man and
two men to carry him to the renr to
the advnnced first-aid post. Here he is j
attended by a doctor, perhaps assist
ed by two R. A. M. C. men. Then he is
put into a motor ambulance, manned J
by a crew of two or three. At the field !
hospital, where he generally goes un
der an anesthetic, either to have his
wounds cleaned or to be operated on,
he requires the services of about three
to five persons. From this point an- j
other ambulance ride Impresses more
men in his service, and then at the am- |
bulance train, another corps of doc- j
tors, R. A. M. C. men, Red Cross nurses j
and the train’s crew. From the train j
he enters the base hospital or casualty
clearing station, where a good-sized
corps of doctors, nurses, etc., are kept
busy. Another ambulance Journey Is
next in order—this time to the hospital
ship. He crosses the channel, arrives
in Blighty—more ambulances and per
haps a ride for five hours on an Eng
lish Red Cross train with its crew of
Red Cross workers, and at last he
reaches the hospital. Generally he
stays from two to six months, or long
er, in this hospital. From here he is
sent to a convalescent home for six
weeks.
If by wounds he is unfitted for fur
ther service, he is discharged, given a
pension, or committed to a soldiers’
1 home for the rest of his life—and still
the expense piles up. When you real
ize that all the ambulances, trains and
ships, not to mention the man power,
; used in transporting a wounded man,
could be used for supplies, ammunition
and re-enforcements for the troops at
the front, It will not appear strange
thnt from a .strictly military stand
point, a dead man is sometimes better
tiian a live one (if wounded).
Not long after the first digging party,
our general decided, after a careful
four of inspection of the communica
tion trenches, upon “an ideal spot," as
he termed it, for a machine-gun em
placement; took his map, made a dot
on it, and as he was wont, wrote “dig
here." and the next night we dug.
There were twenty in tne party, my
self included. Armed with picks,
shovels and empty sandbags we ar
rived at the “ideal spot” and started
digging. The moon was very bright,
'hut we did not care as we were well
out of sight of the German lines.
• Tve 'iThtl gTTten “fTTout VinTT feet
[own. when the fellow next to me. aft- '
r a mighty stroke with his pick, let go
f the handle, and pinched his nose
elth his thumb and forefinger, at the
ame time letting out the explosion,
Gott strafe Me pink. I’m bloody \fell
:nssed, not ’alf I ain't.” I quickly
timed In his direction with an inquir
ng look, at the same Instant reaching
or my gas hag. I soon found out what
vas ailing him. One whiff was enough
ind Host no time in also pinching my
lose. The stench was awful. The rest
if the digging pnrty dropped their
licks and shovels and beat it for the
weather side of that solitary pick. The
iffieer came over and inquired why the
work had suddenly ceased, holding our
loses, we simply pointed In the direc
tion of the smell. He went over to the
pick, immediately clapped his hand
aver his nose, made an "about turn”
and came hack. Just then our cap
tain came along and investigated, hut
after about a minute said we had bet
ter enrry on with the digging, that he
did not see why we should have
stopped as the odor was very faint.
t>ut If necessary he would allow us our
?ns helmets while digging. He would
stay and see the thing through, but he
had to report back to brigade head
quarters immediately. We wished that
we were captains and also had a date
at brigade headquarters. With our gas
helmets on we again attacked that hole
and uncovered the decomposed body of
a German; the pick was sticking in his*
chest. One of the men fainted. I was
that one. Upon this our lieutenant
halted proceedings and sent word hack
to headquarters and word came back
that after we filled in the hole we could
knock off for the night. This was wel
come tidings to us, because—
Next day the general changed the
dot on his map and another emplace
ment was completed the following
night.
The odor from the dug-up, decom
posed human body has an effect which
is hard to describe. It first produces
a nauseating feeling, which, especially
Xfter eating, causes vomiting. This re
lieves you temporarily, but soon a
weakening sensation follows, which
leaves you limp as a dishrag. Your
spirits are at their lowest ebb and you
feel a sort of hopelessness and a mad
desire to escape it all, to get to the
open fields and the perfume of the flow
ers In nighty. There is n sharp,'
prickling sensation in the nostrils,
which reminds one of breathing coal
gas through a radiator in the floor, and
you want to sneeze, but cannot. This
was the effect on me, surmounted by a
vague horror of the awfulness of the
thing and an ever-recurring reflection
that, perhaps I, sooner or later, would
be in such a state and be brought to*
light by the blow of a pick in the hand*
of some Tommy on a digging party.
Several times I have experienced this"
j odor, but never could get used to it;
the enervating sensation was always
present. It made me hate war and
wonder why such fhtnf^ were counte
nanced by civilization, and all the spice
[ and glory of the conflict would disap
! pear, leaving the grim reality. But
j after leaving the spot and filling your
lungs with deep breaths of pure, fresh
air, you forget and once again want to*
be "up aud at them.”
(To be Continued)
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