SIX AIRPLANES
FOR STATION
TO WESTWARD
Six airplanes, including possibly a
dirigible of the Zeppelin type, are
planned for the aviation base to be
established at Seward as part of the
extensive system of aerial coast de
fense patrol. The airplanes for the
base will probably be what are called
triplanes, which have developed 160
miles an hour.
Several months ago the Associated
Press dispatches contained the in
formation that Seward had been des
ignated as one of the aviation bases
of the aerial coast defense patrol sys
tem of the United States.
A recent copy of the Commercial
and Financial Chronicle of New York
city gives an article regarding the
aerial coast defense system, and con
tains the information, received from
the department at Washington, of
what will be established at Seward.
Regarding the fleet of dirigibles to
be included in the new system, the
Chronicle says:
"The fleet of dirigibles will include
four huge ships of the rigid type, cost
ing $1,500,000 each; twelve smaller
balloons, to cost about $250,000 each,
and a number of still smaller type,
costing about $25,000 each.”
In commenting upon the ninety sta
tions planned ,the Chronicle says:
"The operation of the coastal sta
tions would require $3,000,000 more
and experimental stations another
$3,000,000.”
The aviation base planned for Sew
ard would be a coastal and training
station.
EMPLOYMENT MUST BE
PROVIDED FOR WOUNDED
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 7 (by Asso
ciated Press).'-“Don’t spoil the boys
when the come back” was the plea of
Russell C. Lowell of the federal board
of vocational education when he
spoke here recently.
Mr. Lowell said he thought that
some of those who had been maimed
in the war were spoiled for the future
by being feted too much and adored
as heroes when they reached their
own home towns. He cited several
cases were young men had practically
refused to undertake to learn new
trades after being unfitted by their
wounds for continuing at their old
trades, because, they said, they did
not need to work now.
After a time, Mr. Lowell declared,
’ a man tires of such idleness and false
honor, and he either becomes men
tally sick and despondent or gets
quite crooked in his methods and be
gins preying upon people instead of
trying to earn a living.
Mr. Lowell stated that one of the
chief difficulties the federal educa
tional system is encountering is that
of getting hold of the maimed men
when they have returned to this coun
try. They filter back to their own
districts and, unless properly taught
to start life anew, are apt to reach
a mental stage where it is difficult to
get them to overcome the real diffi
culties which exist in the re-educa
tion in trades.
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IDITAROD GOLD
BROUGHT OUT
BY DOG SLEDS
ANCHORAGE, Feb. 7 (Special to
the Daily Times).—One thousand,
three hundred pounds of gold, valued
at $300,000, recently passed through
Anchorage on its way from Iditarod
to Seattle. In charge of Robert Grif
fis, the veteran Wells Fargo Express
messenger, the treasure, packed in
heavy wooden boxes and loaded on
three dog sleds, was twenty days en
route from Iditarod to Anchorage. The
trip over the trail from Iditarod to
Matanuska, where the party boarded
a train on the government railroad,
was slow and arduous on account of
the weather. At a roadhouse on Happy
river the travelers were storm-bound
seven days.
As a result of the difficulties and
delays on the trail between Iditarod
and Matanuska Mr. Griffis, who for
Several years has transported gold
for the Weils Fargo Express Com
pany from the Interior to the Coast,
did not realize much, if any, profit
on his journey this season. He un
dertook the moving of the metal from
Iditarod to Seward at $1.25 a pound.
His expenses on the trip this year
practically equaled his compensation.
The gold is owned by banks and
dredge operators in the Iditarod coun
try. To get it to the States they in
trusted it, as is customary every year,
to the express company. At Seward
Mr. Griffis delivered the treasure to
an agent of the company, and by him
it was sent by steamship to the Wells
Fargo office in Seattle.
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SUBSIDY FOR GOLD
PRODUCTION OPPOSED
LONDON, Feb. 7 (by Associated
Press).—“A subsidy for the produc
tion of gold appears to us to be fun
damentally unsound,” reports the gold
production committee, consisting of
Lords Inchcape, Sir Thomas Elliott,
Sir Charles Addis and W. H. N.
Goschen.
Early last year a committee called
the gold producers’ committee ad
vised the chancellor of tiya «wtoquer
that unless the gold produemfrlndus
try was helped, the already diminish
ing supply of gold must suffer, and
that the maintenance of the present
gold standard of value might be met
by a special grant of some kind.
The gold production committee, as
quoted above, does not approve a
subsidy, and further says the gold
production of the empire rose steadily
from £51,000,000 in 1910 to £59,000,
000 in 1917. Although there has been
a decline since, it is regarded as due
to natural causes and decreased labor
efficiency caused by the war.
COFFEE HAS ADVANCED
AS MORE IS DRUNK
SAN JUAN, P. R., Feb. 7 (By Asso
ciated Press).—Porto Rico is consum
ing fifty per cent more coffee today
than she did before the Island “went
dry,” according to a San Juan coffee
dealer.
This fact, together with an island
coffee crop of only half of what it |i
was last year, and a heavy demand
from Spain and Cuba, has sent up :•
prices throughout the island. ij:
The coffee market here began jump- :•
ing a week or two ago and it has been :j:
going up ever since. Retailers found
tlie price almost doubled over night,
and the restaurants last week raised
their prices to 10 cents a cup. :j
San Juan dealers say coffee is likely ji
to go higher than the present price Jjj
of 44 cents retail if the outside de
mand continues as strong as now.
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