NAVAL PLANS
INCLUDE MUCH
CONSTRUCTION
WASHINGTON, July 18 (by Associ
ated Press).—Acting under specific au
thority granted in the new naval ap
propriation bill, the navy department
soon will start construction on two ol
the largest dirigible hangars in the
world. Rear Admirals Taylor and
Parks, heads of the bureaus of con
struction and repairs and yards and
docks, respectively, have received in
structions to speed up the preparation
of the working plans, as an expend!
ture of about $3,500,000 for two han
gars to house flying machines of the
Zeppelin type has been authorized.
They will be located on the seaboard
probably in New Jersey, and possibly
on the same date.
Ground area necessary for the con
struction of a double hangar will be
about one square mile. Each hangai
will be about 800 feet long, 250 feet
wide and from 150 to 200 feet high.
It is probable that all steel construe
tion will be used and officials estimate
that from six to eight months will be
needed for their erection.
Provision for the purchase abroad
of a Zeppelin type airship, at a cost
not to exceed $2,500,000, is made in
the naval bill, and the construction in
this country of a similar machine at
a cost of $1,500,000. It is probable
that the machine purchased abroad
will be of the British R-34 model, al
though larger. It probably will be
flown to this country by an American
crew, the only other alternative be
ing to attempt to tow it by cables
made fast to a ship. Negotiations
looking to the purchase already have
been entered into with foreign nations
After experiments with the foreigr
craft the construction of an improved
American-built machine will be
started.
Secretary Daniels said recently thai
he had no further statement to make
regarding the rumored trans-Pacifie
flight. Naval officers believe, how
ever, that such a flight will be at
tempted shortly after the navy comes
into possession of its first cruising
dirigible.
NOTED LONDON WRITER
ON VISIT TO ALASKA
During the past ten days Skagwaj
has had in its midst a noted write]
and lecturer, Mrs. Charlotte Cameron
F. R. G. S., of London, England. Ii
addition to being an author and lec
turer of note Mrs. Cameron is a greai
traveler, having gone into countries
that have never been entered by 2
woman, and in some instances she has
been the first white person to se1
foot on territory inhabited by canni
bals and savages. At one time hei
guides were the natives, and she as
sured those who heard her that she
had many “thrills” during her jour
nev.
Mrs. Cameron is a member of manj
clubs, the London Press Club and manj
others. She is an enthusiastic Red
Cross worker, and did much to assist
in winning the world war. She has
with her letters of appreciation from
Queen Alexandra and Queen Mary fox
work she has done in writing for the
benefit of her country, England.
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Among Mrs. Cameron’s work are:
“A Woman’s Winter in South Amer
ica,” “A Passion in Morocco,” “A
Woman’s Winter in South Africa, ‘‘A
Durbar Bride,” “Zenia: Spy in Togo
land,” and many other books of fic
tion and history.
Mrs. Cameron left a few days ago
for the Interior where she will gather
data for a work on the Northand.
While in town she was a Pullen house
guest.—Skagway Alaskan.
FISH PIRATES
BECOME BOLD
IN ATTACKS
As a result of a shooting affray
which occurred when alleged fish pi
rates fired one hundred shots at the
cannery tender Forester, prominent
cannerymen conferred with Governor
Thomas Riggs, Jr., to organize some
j means of protection for the canneries.
Those who met with the Governor
Riggs were H. L. Simonds, manager
of the Hoonah Packing Company;
James T. Barron, manager of the
Thlinket Packing Company of Funter
Bay; C. S. Harley, manager of the
Tenakee Fisheries Company, and A.
N. Minard, superintendent of the San
bourne-Cutting Company of Kake.
The attack upon the Forester was
made when the boat was lying along
side one of the Hoonah Packing Com
pany’s traps. The pirates, in an at
tempt to drive away the cannery ten
der, opened fire upon her. No one was
injured. At other times, it was said,
pirates have fired upon watchmen at
the fish traps, or kept up a fire on the
watchman’s house in order to prevent
his leaving.—Juneau Empire.
CREWS ARE DESERTING
FROM JAPANESE SHIPS
TOKIO, July IS (by Associated
Press).—Japanese shipping companies
are embarrassed by the increasing ten
dency among the crews of their steam
ers to desert at foreign ports. Sailors
deliberately elect to serve on ocean
going vesseles with the sole object of
deserting and landing in foreign coun
tries.
No one should be without an elec
tric plate, especially the kind with 3
L different heats. Northwestern Hard
ware company.
Special dinner served from 11:30
o’clock every day at the City Bakery.
Electricity for service, that’s why
we sell electric waffle irons, toasters,
grills, toast-stoves, immersion heaters,
j curling irons, cozy-glow heaters,
1 and everything. Northwestern Hard
| ware company.
WHERE YOU GET
COMFORT AND SERVICE
And the Rates Are Right.
CORDOVA, ALASKA
EQUAL FLEETS
FOR ATLANTIC
AND PACIFIC
SAN FRANCISCO, July 18 (by As
sociated Press).—The coming of the
Pacific fleet is hailed with pleasure
throughout the coast as the harbinger
of many changes, economic and other
wise. The decision of the United
States navy department to maintain
two equal fleets means that approxi
mately two hundred vessels of all
. sizes will compose the Pacific fleet,
with a personnel of 25,000 men.
While no accurate figures are ob
tainable, it is pointed out that the
money spent at Pacific ports for the
maintenance of these ships and men
will amount to millions a week, and
the resultant return to the various in
dustries which will contribute to this
maintenance will be no inconsiderable
sum. Scarcely any kind of a selling
concern will be overlooked, from the
coal yard to the fruiterer.
Further than this, thousands of sail
ors will be on liberty practically at
all times while the ships are in port,
and this means that the small shop
keepers will participate in thousands
of dollars spent in necessities, as well
as in the many little luxuries which
are the delight of the sailor.
Aside from the personnel of the
navy, many of the families of both of
ficers and men undoubtedly will move
to the Pacific coast so as to be near
their sons, husbands and fathers, and
this means the addition of many more
persons who will have to be catered to.
Your eyes fitted. Compound and
stigmatic lenses replaced. See Os
borne.
It’s the flavor and the grain which
make the bread at the City Bakery
famous.
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GOODRICH Shoes
outwore Six pairs of his”
He is an old timer—been in Alaska for 21
years—and just back in the States. He
was visiting the Goodrich Factory and we
asked him, of course, if he ever used our
Goodrich “Hi-Press” Boots and Shoes
while he was up there, and he said— I
“Say, those are some shoes you people make.
Why, I remember one time when my part
ner and I went over the hills and I wore a
pair of your Goodrich White Pacs. He
didn’t! And he wore out six pairs before
we got back—I still wore my first pair.”
Ill There’s the result of making Goodrich
If Rnhher Footwear the new wav.—TN ONR I
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