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Americans
Do your bit
Eat Com meal musk*
Oatmeal- Corn, flakes -
Hominy and rice witk
milk*. Eat no wheat cereals.
Leave nothing onyour plate.
UNITES STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION
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
SAVE MONEY!
COME TO THE BARGAIN STORE j
1 And see what we have in the line of workmen’s clothing,
I 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 frofn 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
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— Howard and Hamilton Watches »
Railroad Grade and Best Timepieces Made
Alarm Clocks from $1.75 to $4.00
Snow Glasses, in Smoked and Amber, from 50c to $1.50
PAUL BLOEDHORN
PHONE 43 JEWELER AND WATCHMAKER
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WASHINGTON. June 28.—What the
United States learned at great cost in
digging the Panama canal is begin
ning to pay rich dividends in aiding
the construction of the great mer
chant marine now building. Compara
ble in size and importance, the jobs
have other striking similarities in the
problems of sanitation which threat
ened the success of work on the isth
mus. but which are being solved very
quickly in this country through radical
reforms in health regulation and com
munity spirit found so effective there.
Under direction of Lieutenant Col.
Philip S. Doane, the shipping board's
department of health and sanitation
is supervising every one of the score3
of shipyards for the protection of the
workers. Eager co-operation has been
received from state, municipal and in
dustrial agencies, which recognize
that the improved conditions sought
to be created are of more than pass
ing interest in the matter of health,
as well as "good business.” Results
have justified the efforts by lessening
the labor turn-over, decreasing the
loss of time due to sickness and hast
ening the output of the ships needed
to win the war.
Some striking instances of the de
partment’s work were made public to
day by the shipping board.
Some weeks ago, at a little ship
yard recently set down in a rather
sleepy Atlantic coast town, an out
break of dysentery was reported
among shipyard workers. The ship
ping board’s sanitary engineer found
that, while the drinking water supply
used in the yards was entirely pure,
being chlorinated, there was a tempor
ary water supply for concrete mix
ing, in which polluted water was used.
Workmen had drunk from the con
crete water supply, despite warning
signs. As the best way of eliminating
all chances in the matter, the sanitary
engineers arranged for purifying the
concrete water too, using chloride of
lime to make it safe to drink.
une or me oiaest communuies in
New England, a place of considerable
population, was found to be without
a health officer, to have dangerous
open sewers and lack garbage collec
tion. When an old shipyard in that
town was reopened, Uncle. Sam said,
"Clean up,” and the town responded.
The Pacific coast threw its energy
into shipbuilding to such good pur
pose that it launched the first mer
chant vessel and made the first ship
building record. Likewise, in its
eagerness to build ships, the Pacific
coast overlooked good sanitation.
One yard in that locality was handi
capped by sickness. Workmen were
hired only to quit, and during a single
week the superintendent of steel con
struction, the foreman riveter and the
foreman of the plate shop were all laid
up in hospitals and their places were
being filled by assistants just recover
ing from attacks of disease.
Inspection showed that the yard was
lacking in sanitary toilets and equip
ment for serving the men warm meals.
It hatf too small a number of drink
ing fountains. Moreover, a large city
sewer which ran over the tide flats
near the shipyard was broken open,
making easy the spread of disease
through flies. The shipyard company
had called the attention of the nearby
city to the bad condition of its sewer,
to be told that no city funds would bn
available for the repair of the break
until July. When the government
stepped in through the shipping board,
backed by the military authorities,
who refused to detail soldiers to guard
that yard until the sewer was re
paired, there was a hurried meeting
of the city council and a special ap
propriation of $6,000 to make the re
pairs. It took a special ordinance to
do it but it was done in five days after
Uncle Sam got on the job.
In another shipbuilding center there
was a mysterious outbreak of disease.
Fifty ship workers came down with
it at the same time, with tempera
tures running up to 103 or more.
There were rumors of poisoning by
German spies. When the shipping
board health officers investigated,
however, they found that mosquitos
were to blame and took steps to drain
nearby swamp land in co-operation
with the local authorities.
Mosquito work will probably play as
imoprtant a part in ship building this
summer, the country over, as it did in
the building of the Panama canal. In
several dozen localities active drain
age campaigns are being carried out
by communities working with the ship
ping board. One of the notable proj
ects in that line is the work at the
BARON D’ABERNON 7
Baron D’Abernon Is chairman of the
sftntPal control board of the liquor
traffic of Great Britain. His position
Is one that requires extreme tact and
capability.
big Hog IRland yard, near Philadel
phia, where $250,000 is being spent
in permanent ditching which is in
tended to rid that locality of mosqui- !
tos for all time. The state of Penn
sylvania has contributed $75,000, the
city of Philadelphia $45,000, and man
ufacturing interests have also appro
priated money.
The work of the department of
health and sanitation covers much
more than the cleaning up of un
healthy conditions. The comfort and
convenience of workers is also very
important. Every shipyard is required
to have medical and hospital facil
ities, and these are inspected, and in
formation gathered about disease, ep
idemics and accidents. The living
quarters of shipyard w'orkers are in
vestigated, and recommendations made
for their convenience and comfort in
bunk houses, homes, transportation to
and from work and recreation. Lunch
eon and kitchen facilities are studied
with a view to seeing that the men get
nourishing food, in clean surroundings,
at reasonable prices. This involves
investigation of milk, meat and ice
supply, food storage facilities, cook
ing and dish-washing equipment, and
so forth.
l nere was a shipyard on the Great
Lakes which had difficulty last fall :
keeping a working force of 1,000 men. ■
Its labor turnover was very large. In
vestigation showed that the yard had
grown so fast that too little attention
had been paid to providing for the
comfort and convenience of workers.
The lunchroom was inadequate, and
there was little in the way of bathing
facilities or recreation.
Today this shipyard is fully manned,
and has little trouble in keeping good
workers. The expensive item of labor
turnover has been reduced until it is
practically negligible. The company
purchased an old passenger steamship,
brought it to the shipyard and con
verted it into a floating hotel. First
class kitchen equipment was installed,
with toilets, washrooms, and other
conveniences, providing good meals
for tw’o or three hundred men. A large
dormitory was built near the yard,
with a clubroom at one end where <
men could read, write, play pool or 1
cards, have music and visit and smoke. I
The sleeping rooms in this dormitory
"'ere warmed by hot air last winter,
and the piping system is to be used
this summer for blowing cool air in
the corridors. With these conveniences
for making their work pleasant the
employes organized a “Shipbuilders’
Service Club,” elected officers, and ar
ranged for baseball, bowling and bas
ketball games, with dances and other
social affairs among themselves.
It is now becoming a matter of pride
among the shipyard workers in that
yard to serve for the period of the .
war, and arrangements have been
made whereby every man who remains I
in the employ of the company until the
end of the war will receive a certi
ficate, showing that he not only was
serving in the fight for democracy,
but that he stuck at his post until the
fight was done.
Uncle Sam’s work does not stop ^
with the cleaning up of bad health !
conditions, or the providing of comfort .
and convenience. He will safeguard
life and health by giving the ship
yards the results of the best that
has been learned in war.
As an instance, the Dakin solu
tion which, the shipping board says,
has saved thousands of soldiers’ lives
and hundreds of thousands of soldiers’
limbs by preventing blood poisoning
and other after-consequences of these
wounds, is being furnished to every
shipyard. Two specialists will travel
about the country and teach the Dakin
method to physicians in shipyards and
shipyard localities, so that shipyard
workers who suffer even slight acci
dents may have the best treatment
the medical world affords. '•
FOR SALE
FOR 8ALE:
Choice business and resi
dence property.
FOR RENT
Furnished and unfurnished
apartments and cottages.
INSURANCE
Fire and marine, life and ac
cident.
BONOS
Fidelity and surety.
CORDOVA ABSTRACT and
REALTY COMPANY
ROOM 1, A DAM 8 BUILDING.
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MEET ME AT
THE
HORSESHOE’
2SRSS
POPULAR RECREA
TION PLACE
Where we can always find our
friends
Finest Billiard and Pool Ta
bles In Alaska
BEST GRADES OF STAND
ARD BRANDS OF CIGARS
CORDOVA
MACHINE WORKS
E. R. GARNE8, Prop.
Residence Shop
Phone 1014. Phone 182
Machine Wotk of all Kinds,
Blackemlthing, 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.
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Jewelers and
Opticians
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| JEWELRY MADE TO ORDER |
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When Ordering Job Work Don’t
Think It Is Your Duty to Build Up
Concerns In the 8tates, But Give
The People Who Are Paying
Wages and Spending Their Money
In Cordova a Chance to Live.
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DRS. DAGGETT & BLYTH
Northern Hotel Building,
Cordova.
DENTISTRY
Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.
Special Attention to
Prophylaxis snd Pyorrhea.
PHONE 200
WM. A. HESSE
Mining Engineer,
D. S. Mineral Surveyor,
D. S. Deputy Surveyor.
BOX 19 CORDOVA, ALASKA
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DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and 8URGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Stor*
Calls May be Left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Alaskan Hotel
DE. W. W. COUNCIL
PHY8ICIAN AND 8URGEON.
Office and Residence: Cordova
General Hospital (Ostrander Bolld
Ing-,
Phones—Residence 116; office IIS
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DE. C. L. HALE
D E N T I 8 T
Office: Over Blum, O’Neill’s Store
SMITH & McCONAGHY
PLUMBERS AND STEAM FITTERS
Cor. Front and B Streets
Office Open Evenings.
E. 7. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Room 1.
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA
WILLIAM PALLISTER, M J>,
Specialist In the treatment of
diseases and deformities of the
eye, ear, nose and throat; glasses
fitted.
JUNEAU GENERAL HOSPITAL
FRANK A. METCALF
Civil and Mining Engineer
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
Juneau Alaska
FRANK H. FOSTER
Attorney at Law
Room 1 Alaskan Hotel
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Sixty Steam Heated Rooms Eletric Lighted [
Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath.
Cordova House 1
DOOLEY AND GREENIG 1
Headquarters for Railroad and Mining Men
Satisfaction Guranteed
Rates Reasonable