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GOSSIP ABOUT
YOUR FRIENDS
The Admiral Farragut is due from
the westward tomorow afternoon at 2
o’clock.
The steamer Northwectern, which
has been to Unalaska, put in here this
morning for oil.
A train left Chitina at 2 o’clock this
afternoon and i3 due in Cordova at
11 o’clock tonight.
William Urqhart has received a
new oak barber shop outfit, which
cost $3,500 in the states.
A new sawmill is being installed
at the fox ranch, Oldtown, by Messrs.
Porter, McKenna and Moore.
At a marshal’s sale this morning
tfco ship Myrtle H. was sold to Cap
tain Nels Anderson for $2,500.
The Burgess-Karstens Auto stage
line is now maintaining a regular
service between Chitina and Fair
banks.
The First Bank of Cordova has re
ceived a limited supply of the Victory
Libery loan notes, which are ready
for delivery.
One of the bents went out at the
Flag Point bridge, on the Copper
River and Northwestern railway, but
has been replaced.
Work has been started on the con
crete memorial to Cordova’s heroes in
the war, which is being placed at the
base of the flag pole.
Mrs. Lundberg, a recent arrival
from Ketchikan, has accepted a posi
tion at the Alaskan hotel in charge
of the cigar stand and sbda water
fountain.
Tom Cloninger has started the i
work of remodeling the rear of the
old Empress theatre building, w'hich
will be occupied next month by the
Alaska Biliard Hall Company.
The schooner Martha Clow has
been purchased by the Carlisle Pack
ers Company from E. R. Paoples, of
frimer company in connection with
its cannery at Andrefsky.
Tonight the city council meets in
regular session and it is none too
early to begin preparations for the
proper observance of the Fourth of
July.
Assistant District Attorney “Jerry”
Murphy and Deputy Marshal Harry
Kavanaugh are coming to Cordova
from Anchorage on the steamer
Alaska and expect to make an ex
tended stay here.
m
“Mollie Make-Believe,” by Marguer
ite Clark, at the Empress theatre this
evening; also a late Pathe News.
"Mollie Make-Believe” is a melo
drama that you will enjoy, as it is a
very pleasing story.
The cable is broken between Valdez
and Sitka and as the whereabouts of
the Burnside is not known here there
is no telling how long communication
will be interrupted. While the cable
is out of commission the Daily Times
is receiving its press reports by wire
less.
BRITISH AIRMEN
MAKE START ON
LONG JOURNEY
(Continued from Page One)
For communication with ships at
sea, both machines carry wireless of
limited range, the Sopwith having
both sending and receiving apparatus,
while the Martinsyle has only the lat
ter, which will serve to pick up in
formation as to position and weather
conditions from passing ships.
For Newspaper Prize
The aviators, contenders for thd
London Daily Mail’s $50,000 prize for
the first transatlantic flight completed
in 72 hours, announced before the
start their intention to land at Brook
lands airdrome, near London. Haw
ker's navigator expected to fly east
ward about six hundred miles and
turn into the transatlantic shipping
lane. Raynham’s steersman on the
other hand, intended to steer directly
for the Irish coast, thus saving, he
claimed, several hundred miles of in
direct flying.
Both navigators declared they would
depend upon their sextants and com
passes for bearings, together with spe
cially drawn tables for calculations.
Heading east through the night, they
expected to meet the sun on its west
ward way at a time to give them a
good horizon and opportunity for fig
uring out their position. During the
night, they said, they would “shoot
the stars,” and from their observa
tions calculate position, while the sun
would be their guide by day. Both
pilots expected to fly at an average
altittude of 8,000 feet, though theat
mospheric conditions would vary this
plan.
A Pessimistic Farewell
Start of the attempt to cross the
Atlantic through the air found the
people of St. Johns wishing the air
men Godspeed, but shaking their
heads in doubt. All the assurances
of flying sons, returned from the fight
ing fronts, could not assure them that
the men assaying the great adventure
were not flying in the face of elements
which would drive them to watery
graves. The unknown fate of Andre,
who disappeared in the far North
years ago in an attempt to make a
balloon passage over the Pole, was
coupled with the failure of Major
Wood in the Shortts machine, in the
Irish sea recently, as indicating the
probable result of the race for aviation
honors.
Something About the Flyers
Hawker is an Australian, 27 years
old, and a mechanic who rose to the
rank of flyer under the tutelage of
Sopwith, one of the earliest of the
British airmen. In 1912 Hawker made
an endurance record with a plane pat
terned after that of the American
Wright Bros.’, and later attained what
was claimed to be a world altitude
record—26,500 feet. During the war
he was engaged as an experimental
flyer, assisting in the development of
the Sopwith machines.
Grieve combines the qualifications
of navigator, wireless expert and me
teorologist with some flying e<perience
gained while he commanded the
cruiser Campania, mother ship of the
British air squadron -with the Grand
fleet. He is 28 years of age.
Raynham, 25 years old, has flown
since he was 17. Like Hawker, he
started as a mechanician, and during
the war was an experiment aviator
with the Martinsyde firm.
Morgan gave up a navy commission
to join the Royal air force, and lost a
leg in aerial combat. The Martin
syde machine is equipped with dual
steering control, so that Morgan can
relieve Raynham at intervals during
the flight. He is 37 years old and a
fellow of the Royal
ciety.
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