RAPID WORK IS
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ITAL
IAN ARMY, Jan, 3. — The transpor
tation romance of this 450 mile moun
tain front, set down in cold, hard fig
ures, reads thus: Two thousand four
hundred and forty-eight miles of rail
road rebuilt or repaired; 590 miles of
new railroad built; 150 miles of air
line cables stretched for the teleferi
ca system; 30,000 miles of telephone
wire put up; 10,000 new troop, hospi
tal and freight buildings erected; 200
miles of narrow gauge railroad laid
in or behind the trenches; 110 new
bridges thrown across rivers and pre
cipices to accommodate 2,040 miles of
operating road.
The work Is credited to 120 civil
engineers of the government depart
ment of public works, aided by army
engineers proper; likewise by 200,000
I workmen and 100,000 army mules,
hitched to 50,000 wagons.
The foregoing is the first official
record of the exact extent of the con
struction work on this front, carried
,on steadily for eighteen months de
spite enemy artillery, avalanche, snow
balls, rains, floods, frost, lack of ma
terial and all the other ills by which
engineers are beset.
NOTICE.
Mt. McKinley Lodge, No. 183, F. &
A. M., will hold a special meeting to- j
night at 8 o'clock. Installation of of
ficers. Visiting Masons extended a
cordial invitation to attend.
H. A. SLATER, W. M.
E. F. Medley, Sec.
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mistake at Eagle hall on Saturday
night. Please return to fleorge
Dooley and receive right one.
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IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE ,
TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD
DIVISION, CORDOVA PRECINCT,
AT CORDOVA,
No. 112.*
In the Matter of the Estate of J W.
Durnen, Deceased.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
The undersigned executor of the es-1
tate of J. W. Durnen, deceased, here- '
by gives notice that all persons hav- j
ing claims against the said estate, are j
admonished and required to present !
, the same, with the proper vouchers, I
1 within six months from the date here
of, to the undersigned executor at his
office and place of business, namely at !
Slater's Restaurant, on First Street,
in said Cordova.
Dated at Cordova, Alaska this 27th
day of December, 1916.
HENRY A. SLATER,
Executor of the estate of J. W. Durnen,
Deceased.
Date of first publication, December
29, 1916.
Date of last publication, January 26,
1917.
AEROPLANE TRIP
POLE
Captain Roland Amundsen, discov
er of the South Pole and the first to
ail through the Ice locked labyrinth
>f the Northwest Passage, while in
'hicago a few days ago, told of his
>lan to crown his career by an aero
>Iane flight to the North Pole.
Captain Amundsen plans to sail
From Norway in June, 1918. He will
skirt the Arctic coasts of Sweden,
Russia and Siberia as far as the delta
of the Rena river. At n |«iint north
west of the New Siberian Islands he
will head Into the ice pack. With his
ship frozen fast in the Ice pack he
will drift across the polar basin and
come out in the Atlantic ocean on the
east coast of Greenland.
The ship on which Captain Amund
sen will sail will lie launched at Chris
tiania in March. Its keel was laid last
June. It will Is 800 tons, a three
masted schooner, equipped with ar
auxiliary oil mob’r of 24o horsepower
It will carry a crew of ten men, tw<
of whom will be Americans. The resl
will be Norwegians.
"By heading Into the Ice severa
hundred miles cast of where Nanser
began his drift, -aid Captain Amund
Ben, “I believe I will have a strongei
northward current and will be carriei
close to the pole Nansen went intf
the pack too far west. He drifted t<
85 degrees and then made his famout
>*nou iu O') wrfti 1 11 iiiuiuico, o i
was the highest north then. He float
ed clear of the ■ e in the north Allan
tic between Spst/bergen and Green
land. By startim niv drift farther eas
and at about 72 degrees nortli latitudi
1 believe I will reach 88 degrees a
least and possiMv 89. if I achlevi
the former lati' ide I will he withii
120 miles of the pole.
"I expect to i * ach 88 degrees nftei
a drift of a year and a half or tw<
years. In that ime I will have drift
ed halt across the polar pack, whicl
is 1,800 or 2,0(oi miles wide Then
will set sail in an aeroplane for thi
pole. I should make my air voyagi
from the ship to the pole in an houi
or so.
"I expect my drifting voyage across
the polar basin to occupy three yean
in all. I will take along a thorougl
scientific equipment. I expect ts
bring back much valuable data regard
ing prevailing winds, air currents, aii
temperatures, sea currents, sea tern
perstures, slty of Arctic waters
and so on. I will make frequent aero
plane flights, ltislng to a height o
2,000 or 3,0( "feet, I shall he able ti
survey the region within a radius o
100 miles or more."
"Do you expect to find memorials o
the I’eary expedition at the Pole?'
Captain Amundsen was asked.
“No, ' he said "Peary's records
were cai hod on Ice, and they havs
drifted far a»»\ since Peary stood a
the top of tin world on April 0, 1909.'
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LABORERS Ft
TO COLLECT I
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Pay checks for hundreds of laborers
on the government railroad are held '
by the paymaster at Anchorage as
"uncalled for.’’
In the last issue of the Alaska Rail
road Record appears two full columns
of names in six point type, including
over r,0u men for whom checks have
been Issued and are still to be deliv- I
ered.
These checks range from a few dol
lars for men who worked a day or so ‘
on force account nnd then quit up to
check-' of over $100.
Under the system used men put on
are given a time check and their time
kept by number. When the payrolls
are made out checks are issued for
the amount due. In some instances
men quit and leave; in others they
go to other sections of the work. It
is probable that some of the checks
will never be called for. Some of the
men who worked three or four days
and the nleft owing to dissatisfaction,
and then left owing to dissatisfaction,
Some men leave their checks with
the paymaster rather than get them,
realizing that the money is in safe
hands.
Checks not called for during a period
of three years will be forwarded to
the treasury department. The circu
lar requests that employes get their
pay on designated pay days.
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