INTERESTING OVERSEAS
LETTER FROM OBSERVING
YOUNG LADY
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The following interesting letter,
descriptive of men and incidents in
France, was received by a Cordovan
from a clever young lady who is over
seas engaged in Y. M. C. A. work:
1 have just returned from having
lunch at the Hotel Crillon with a New
York girl. The Crillon has been used
by the United States for its peace
conference activities. I went into the
reception room and spoke to the of
ficial in charge. After communicating
with my friend, he wrote a pass for
me to “travel” in the building, called
an orderly to escort me and I went
up in the elevator with a naval officer
who had four gold bars on his
shoulder, other famous-looking people
(the most famous ones in appearance
are not always the real thing I
notice). I proceeded along the cor
ridor past the President’s door, where
his secret service man stood in the
entrance. I brushed the Presidents
ccat as it hung on tile rt,ck In the
hall and found my friend in the
“United States treasury department”
of the hotel. The halls were all
cleared for the exit of President
Wiison—no one is allowed in 'he
up; tr halls wh? has not a very good
right to pass through promptly, to
stand about is quite forbidden. My
friend told me of having been
presented to President Wilson a day
or so before; he said graceful things
to her and she sail the few graceful
thing she wanted to say to him.
The secret service chief, whom I met
this neon and chatted with quite a
while, said most peop'a ' forgot the
graceful things they wanted to say,
forgot everything in fact and were
often dumb at the dramatic moment.
Some of the opera singers are not at
their best when he attends. It seems
strange, doesn’t it, that Americans
should be affected that way—the
temperamental French and Italian
opera singers might be expected to
get excited before a distinguished
audience. And the President of our
United States is distinguished, who
ever he may be, u’est-ce pas9 I liked
the way the chief secret service man
spoke of Wilson, the hearty respect
and honor in which he appears to
hold him. I have seen the President
twice here, once at very close range
in a military audience, when I was
surprised to see that he is a very
handsome man. the other time he
almost trod on my toes, I was so
much in the front line as he passed
to his automobile from the Hotel
Criilon after an important conference
It is good small boy stuff and I
enjoy it.
Today I saw Lincoln Steffens. Most
interesting of several intersting peo
ple who were pointed out to me was
Mr. William White, former ambassa
dor to Italy and to Great Britain
(Yes?)—they told me he was one of
our realy big men in the United
States. He is a real man in all that
he does. 1 also saw Mr. Hoover and
was pleased to “rubber” at this ex
ceedingly well known American.
I wanted to go across the Alexandre
III bridge this afternoon and watch
the famous ones assemble for the
very important session today, the last
one President Wilson will attend be
fyie leaving on his special train to
night for Brest to board the George
Washington which sails tomorrow. It
was raining hard and uniform regula
tions do not permit us to carry
umbrellas, so 1 decided to torego mis
small boy stunt. I saw Lloyd George’s
house in London, I have seen Presi
dent Poincaire here (spend my days
just across a narrow street from his
mansion, in Paris) — I caught a
glimpse of Marshal Joffre one day
outside the Institut de France, a
French soldier told me it was anyway,
and the hat he wore was like the
pictures I’ve seen, so don’t you think
1 may say that I saw him?
My friend of the luncheon today
had the happy privilege of attending
the reception given President and
Mrs. Wilson by the king and queen of
Italy—she described the brilliant oc
casion in a vivid way, I am perhaps
lazy or the minutes do not permit,
for I am not going to try to give it
to you.
My days in Paris are limited. Every
minute or so a soldier appears with
movement orders with folks names oil
them and I shall be getting one before
very long. An American university
is to be started at Beaune, near Dijon,
and as I am recording secretary of
the army educational commission, at
tend their meetings and take the
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minute and eait (?) them. I shall be
traveling out of Paris pretty soon.
Orders is orders and I am not saying
nay to anything that comes along—I
would like to see Paris in the spring
time, but they say it is a very beau
tiful country where we are going,
next to Paris the most to be desired
in France, so here’s hoping for inter
esting days ahead. We shall be 100
miles from the Alps, hardly within
walking distance. Our connection with
the army is a very close one, the edu
cational work is in their charge—a
real live general and a colonel attend
the meetings and have the final say
at the sessions of the commission. We
people in the office end of the work
are interested in being pleasantly
situated—if our work were with the
soldiers we would be glad to go where
they are. Our work with the soldiers
is done in spare time whenever we
have the opportunity. I . certainly
belong to them for anything that I
lads the other night at a program
given for the soldiers. It occurred to
me their mothers would like a word
about them so they gave me addresses
and a few facts and I sent a letter
home telling their mothers what won
dreful lads they are and how Paris
is not spoiling them. It is just a little
incident, but we try to keep our eyes
open and our hearts ready at all
times. At the Beaune university there
will probably be plenty of opportuni
ties to be helpful to the boys too.
One thing sure, if I had supposed that
my stay in Paris would be limited to
six weeks or so there would have
been more method in my sightseeing.
I have done it noontimes and Sundays
--a l,o IP crvnflV
fashion and not at all studiously, have
just roamed about and enjoyed every
thing I could. 1 meant to connect
everything I saw with its historial
asociations but thought there was lots
of time to do it. It has been interest
ing just looking at the outside of
things, poking my nose through the
gate bars at Cluny Museum and enjoy
ing the quaint picturesque exterior—
for instance is a sample incident of
one Sunday’s wanderings. We learned
afterward that if we had made a big
noise and been insistent somebody
would have let us in. The snow in
the garden was untrod and we did not
dream it was impossible to get inside.
I would like to see the inside of Presi
dent Poinca ire’s garden which runs
away back to the Champs Elysee, but
the high fence makes it impossible.
One of the handsomely uniformed
guards spoke to me one day when I
was trying to peer through, and
smiled at me, but did not offer to
grant my request—he told me that
“Comrade Poincaire” lived there,
which I knew quite well but 1 did not
know that his guards called him
comrade.
I wmndered through the Luxem
bourg Gardens and enjoyed the
statues and the open spaces and the
snowy aspect of things. The statues
surely did look uncomfy with a snowy
background. Talk about chilly looking
statues—the Cathedral of St. Dennis
heads the list, with its famous Kings
and queens lying upon their tombs
face up with hands clasped in “Now
I lay me down to sleep” fashion.
Marie Antoinette is there, Catherine
de Medici, the famous Louis ’teenths
(several of them, and I should worry
anyhow why they were famous—most
of them just because they were, or
because they could spend money
faster than the others,—we are obliged
to them for leaving fine jdg bridges
and museums and gardens because we
can enjoy them now.
The French would not like my ir
reverent way of speaking of their
honorable “remains” I fear.
I am not writing you the kind of a
letter I should or could, it just hap
pens to be the one I can this minute.
This is a beautiful building where
I am located now—built in the time of
Napoleon—at Beaune I shall miss
these high painted ceilings and ornate
gildings and inlaid floors—our office
fixtures rather spoil the grandeur
thereof, but we shut our eyes to mod
ern Americanisms and feature the Na
poleon stuff when we glance about.
We have a real telephone switchboard
in the kitchen, operated by a Belgian
refugee. The Elysee Palace, American
army headquarters have a telephone
book all their own—no outside con
nections with it are possible, just for
army use alone. We have tea out in
the kitchen every afternoon. We are
already planning pleasant community
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life at Beaune—the educational per
sonnel is interesting and pleasant for
the most part, really fine people and
nice to know. They say Beaune is a
small village of a few thousand and
we shall have to make life interesting
for one another, have a common mess
perhaps, and parties and hikes some
times. You see I don’t relate the work
side of it very much, it is not enter
taining to do it and to write about it
also—X like my work and they tell me
they like the way I do it so that's all
right. Dr. Erskine who is the head
of the English poetry department at
Columbia university told General
Rees I was doing it all right, quite to
their satisfaction.
So much just to ease your mind lest
you fear I am not doing my duty by
the United States of America.
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Tonight only “The Kiss” for the
last time. Also Hearst-Pathe News.
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Fresh shipment of Brookfield saus
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pool room barber shop. 9-tf
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
No. C-150
In the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division.—Celia
Graves, Plaintiff, vs. William H.
Graves, Defendant.
The President of the United States of
America to the above-named defend
ant, William H. Graves, greeting:
You are hereby required and sum
moned to appear in the district court
for the territory of Alaska, Third divi
sion, within thirty days after the ter
mination of the required six weeks’
period of publication of this summons
and answer the complaint of the
above-named plaintiff, the original of
which complaint is on file with the
clerk of the above-entitled court, and
unless you so appear and answer said
complaint judgment will be rendered
against you for want thereof, and
plaintiff will apply to the court for
the relief demanded in said complaint,
to wit, for a decree of absolute di
vorce dissolving the bonds of matri
mony now existing between said
plaintiff and defendant upon the
ground of desertion and non-support.
This summons is served upon you
by publication thereof in accordance
with an order of the above-entitled
court made and entered on the 24 th
day of March, 1919.
First date of publication, March 28,
1919.
Last date of publication, May 9,
Witness the Honorable Fred M.
Brown, judge of said court, this 24th
day of March, 1918.
(Seal) ARTHUR LANG, Clerk.
F. H. Foster, Attorney for Plaintiff,
Cordova, Alaska.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To L. T. Gray, heir and devisee of
Robert D. Gray, deceased, to all other
heirs of the said Robert D. Gray, de
ceased, to James Smith, executor of
the last will and testament of the
said Robert D. Gray, deceased, to all
persons claiming liens upon or against
the interest of said estate, of said ad
ministrator, or of said heirs, in the
mining claims hereinafter described,,
and to all whom it may in any manner
concern:
You and each of you are hereby noti
fied that I have expended during the
year 1918 one hundred dollars ($100)
in labor and improvements upon and
for the benefit of eacn of those three
certain mineral oil mining claims, all
situated at the head of Mirror Slough,
in the Kayak recording precinct, ter
ritory of Alaska, and known as and
called:
The Brown Bear Association Min
eral Oil Claim,
The Bald Eagle Association Min
eral Oil Claim, and
The Gray Wolf Association Min
eral Oil Claim,
the location notices or certificates of
which may be found of record in Book
6, at pages 148 and 149, of the records
of Mining Locations and Declaratory
Statements, in the office of the United
States commissioner and ex officio
recorder in and for the said Kayak
recording precinct, at Katalla, Alaska,
that is to say, I have so expended la
such labor and improvements upon
and for the benefit of all of said
claims during the said year 1918 the
sum of three hundred dollars ($300),
in order to hold said claims under
the laws of the United States and
the Territory of Alaska relating to
the annual labor upon mining claims,
being the amount required to hold
said mining claims and each of them
for the period ending on the 31st day
of December, 1918.
And if within ninety days after the
publication of this notice, to wit,
within ninety days after the 8th day
of May, 1919, you fail or refuse to
contribute to me, the subscriber, one
if the owners in common of said min
ing claims and each of them, your
proportion of such expenditures,
which amounts to the sum of firty
dollars ($50) for each of said claims,
or a total of one hundred fifty dollars
($150) for all of said claims, your
interests in each claim for which you
3o fail or refuse to contribute will
become the property of the said sub
scriber under the provisions of Sec.
2324 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States.
A. T. COTTON.
Residence and postofjice address.
K.italla, Alaska.
First publication, Feb. 6, 1919.
Last publication, May 8, 1919.
SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION
[n Justice Cburt, in and for Cordova
Precinct, Territory of Alaska.—
John Muller, Plaintiff, vs. Dan Mc
Vae, Defendant.
rhe President of the United States of
America to the above-named defend
ant Dan McVae, greeting:
You are hereby summoned and re
turned to be and appear in justice
:ourt in and for Cordova precinct,
erritory of Alaska, within six days
ifter the termination of the required
lix weeks’ period of publication of this
lummons, and answer the complaint
>f the above-named plaintiff, the origi
lal of which complaint is on file in
he office of the above-named Justice
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
of the peace at Cordova, Alaska, and
unless you so appear and answer said
complaint, judgment will be rendered
against you for want thereof, and
plaintiff will apply to the court for
the relief demanded in said complaint,
to wit, for the sum of $299.25, with
interest, costs and attorney's fees to
be taxed.
This summons is served upon you
by publication thereof in accordance
with the order of the above-entitled
court, made and entered the 29th day
of March, 1919.
Date of first publication, March 31,
1919.
Date of last publication, May 12,
1919.
R. H. L. NOAKES,
United States Commissioner and ex
officio Justice of the Peace in and
for Cordova Precinct, Territory of
Alaska.
Prank H. Poster, Attorney for
Plaintiff.
NOTICE OF MONITION AND AT
TACHMENT AND TIME AND
PLACE OF TRIAL
No. C-151
In the District Court of the United
States, Territory of Alaska. In Ad
miralty. Nels Andersen, Libellant,
vs. the Ship Myrtle H.
Public notice is hereby given that
on the 7th day of March, 1919, a moni
tion and attachment issued out of the
clerk’s office of the district court of
the United States, Third Division, ter
ritory of Alaska, in a cause civil and
martime wherein Nels Andersen is
libellant against the ship Myrtle H„
her boats, tackle, apparel and furni
ture, for the sum of $1,731.90 claimed
!>y me sain noenant JNels Andersen
under an express contract for labor
and services performed by him for re
pairs, care and towage of said ship.
And by order of said court the trial
upon said libel will be held at the court
room of said court at Valdez, Alaska,
at the hour of 10 o’clock in the fore
noon on the 30th day of April, 1919, or
if that date be not a day of jurisdic
tion of said court, then upon the first
day of jurisdiction of said court there
after.
And all persons interested in the
said ship Myrtle H„ her boats, tackle,
apparel and furniture, are required
upon the said date of trial to interpose
their claims, if any they have, other
wise the same wilil be pronounced
against for the said debt and costs as
prayed for in the libel. And pursuant
to said order of the court this notice
shall be published in the Cordova
Daily Times, appointed as the official
newspaper of said court in this cause,
for a period of fourteen days prior to
the date of said trial.
Dated April 12, 1919.
F. R. BRENNEMAN,
United States Marshal for the Third
Division, Territory of Alaska.
FRANK H. FOSTER, Proctor.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the matter of the estate of Chief
Court for the Chitina Precinct,
Territory of Alaska,
fn the mat. .ter of the estate of Chief
Goodlatah, deceased. In Probate.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned administrator of the
ustate of Chief Goodlatah, deceased,
:o the creditors of, and all persons
having claims against the said
deceased, to exhibit them with the
necesary vouchers, within six months
ifter the first publication of this
notice, to the said administrator,
Lewis J. Day, at his place of residence
n the town of Chitina, Alaska, the
same being the place for the trans
action of the business of said estate.
Dated this 10th day of April, 1919.
LEWIS J. DAY,
Administrator Estate of Chief Good
latah, deceased.
First publication, April 17, 1919.
Last publication May 29, 1919.
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