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OSTRANDER BLDG. CORDOVA, ALA8KA
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AN OFFER FOR SIXTY DAYS ONLY.
\ 575 Town Lots in Cordova.
Ranging in price from $50 up to $3000, and 600
Town lots in Chitina from $50 to $1000. Any fl
or all of them on easy terms. ■
? Now is the time to buy. I
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I GEO. C. HAZELET, 1
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THE HOTEL
CHITINA
ENLARGED AND COMPLETELY RENOVATED
SPACIOUS LOBBY —- STEAM HEATED
CAFE AND BAR
The Comfort Home of the Interior
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Proprietor Chitina, Alsaka
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FIRSI BANK OF CORDOVA 1
CAPITAL STOCK $25,000
4% on Time Deposits
Vir Stockholders Are
S. BLUM GEORGE C. HAZELET
M. BROCK FRED GLASBRENNER
A. E. LATHOP DELIA LYONS
JAFET UNOEBERG
DESPOSITORY FOR TERRITORIAL FUNDS.
HIM THE DUTCH
CARE FOB THE
REFUGEES
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
NUN8PEET, The Netherlands, Mar
I 10—The life of the nine thousand Bel
gian refugees who are enjoying the
hospitality of the Dutch authorities
in a vast camp here, is an interesting
sidelight of the war. The camp,
which is one of the numerous similar
concentration centers spread about
Holland, is situated on a sandy plain
surrounded by pine woods, renowned
for their efficiency in the treatment
of tuberculosis. It consists of four
villages formed of capitally arranged
and commodious huts, in which each
family has a chamber. All have
board floors and are illuminated with
electric lights. In each of the vil
lages are large workrooms for differ
ent trades, washhouses, baths and a
children’s recreation shed, all provid
ed with heating apparatus, while there
are four schoolhouses and a wooden
church capable of seating about 2,000
people. Hospitals for ordinary ail
ments and for infectious diseases, a
dispensary and several small libraries
have been either specially erected or
established in houses already erected
in the neighborhood and lent for the
purpose by charitable people.
The camp Is under a dutch military
guard and besides the company of
150 soldiers a small detachment of
country police and Belgian gendarmes
patrol the villages to keep order.
Tools necessary to all the ordinary
trades are provided and several small
huts in each village are fitted up as
workshops. The men make or mend
all their own shoes and clothes, while
the women do sewing.
It is interesting to observe the pride
the refugees take in decorating the
huts, which are separated by wide
tracts of ground. Each shack has
received its name and the difference
in the two Belgian races—Flemish
and Walloon—can be marked at once
by the inscriptions in Dow Dutch or
French. A small proportion of the
people are bi lingual, but 6.000 of them
speak only Flemish and the other 3,000
only French.
Around the shacks, notwithstanding
the sandy soil, some of the men have
laid out little patches of garden.
The authorities distribute daily pre
miums to those obtaining the best re
sults in neatness and cultivation. In
one place an excellent imitation of
the Dutch lion is laid out in sand and
green turf fetched from the woods.
Pour priests and 34 sisters are en
gaged in the religious and educational
work of the camp, and besides these
there are men and women among the
refugees who possess a high grade of
education and who give their ser
vices as renders to their companions
In distress in the schoolrooms after
nightfall. A benevolent resident of
the district also has presented a mov
ing picture apparatus for entertain
ment. ■*
Sickness among the refugees has
been little conslderalng the number of
people and the circumstances under
which they were brought together in
a spot where no drainage or sanitary
arrangements existed before their ar
rival. Only one adult has died since
the camp was formed, and that was
a woman of over eighty years of age.
Among the children a number have
died of measles.
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DESCRIBES ACTIVE
SERVICE IN TRENCHES
PARIS, March 10—Georges Quinton
a reservist who was cited in the or
ders of the day for holding out, alone
of all his section, against the attacV
of last November, near Ypres, sends
some interesting notes of trench life
He writes:
“Four days in the mud up to oui
knees when we stand up to fire; u;
to the armpits when we sit down t<
rest; as for lying down In it, that’i
not to be thought of.
"Here at the rest depot we find thi
illustrated papers with photographs o
‘parlor trenches’ such ns we haven’
had the luck to see The real husi
nous In hand la transacted In a nar
row ditch, a yard and a half deei
with a foot of mud, water nr slush at
the bottom of It, and a low bridge
of earth on the edge toward the tier
mans who batter It with their but
lets and scatter It with their shells
"Back of the lines In the 'eagnas,
as we call the covered trenches, and
at rest In the villages, life is dull and
uninteresting—nothing to do hul
greese boots, clean guns and chad
the Taubes. Xo one aeema to he sor
ry when their turn in the trenches
comes. Every ma th'n la a bundle
of nerves, but that doesn't prevent the
proveitbial On! lie wit and efferves
cence from showing itself. A Germnn
sentinel or an officer on observation
becomes not only the target for out
bullets but a butt of sarcasm. A pig
dragged to the front from a deserted
village is attached to a cord and
pushed over the bank of the trench
with a Prussian helmet on his head.
Thp ‘boches’ save us the trouble of
sticking him and we drag him hack
where we can roast him and eat him
at leisure.
"I don’t know how to account for
it, but with wet feet four days at a
stretch I can't catch even a cold In
my head, while In Paria I have an
average of four cases of bronchitis ev
ery winter. Alongside me there's a
fellow who weighed in Just outside the
200 pound limit—escaped being ex
empted by a few insignificant ounces.
Me used t<* spend a few thousand
franca every season to lose from 5 to
10 pounds at Vichy; he has already
lost twenty here and is as hard as
nails; next year he says he'll buy a
farm somewhere, dig trenches and
save the Vichy money.’*
UNIFORMS STRIPED
LIKE THE ZEBRA
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LONDON, March 10—The experi
ences of this war may lead to the
trail of soldiers’ uniforms triped like
ure. It Is the unbroken mass of
the rainbow, in the opinion of some
military observers who have serious
doubt as to the effectiveness of khaki
or blue-gray, or any of the other col
ors now in use. In India and South
Africa, where khaki got its reputa
tion as a uniform cloth, it fitted well
Into the backgrounds of the land
scapes, but in the different landscapes
and atmospheres of Europe both the
khaki and the blue gray show up con
spicuously in mass.
Nature, the color experts now say,
did not stripe the zebra by way of
ornament, but as a protective meas
ure It iB the unbroken mass of
color, no matter of what shade, that
catches the eye in the distance. Col.
Maude, a well-known expert, recounts
an instance in India when his party,
approaching a parade ground from a
distance, were unable to see but one
of three battalions until comparative
ly close up. The troops all wore
scarlet jackets. But two troops were
made Invisible by white pipeclay belts
and cross-straps, which broke the mass
of color, while the conspicuous body
had dark stripes which blended in
with the red. Tigers, leopards, birds,
lizards, snakes and most living crea
tures use a mottled coloring.
While scarlet is most conspicuous
at short range. It is one of the first
of the primary colors to fade from
view at a distance. As a landscape
has all colors in it, striped, large
checks or varigated blotches of dif
ferent colors are the easiest to melt
into the background. This fact was
recognized in old times, when forts
on the coast were painted ir^ black
and white squares.
Even now crude colors in stripes
are used to conceal wagons from air
men.
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Notice to Firemen
There will be a regular meeting ol
the Cordova V'oulnteer Fire Depart
ment on Thursday. April First, at eight
o’cuock In the Gymnasium. There ts
a difference of opinion as to whether
or not the officers for the ensuln*
year should be elected on this night or
at some latter meeting. Hotter b«
there or you may miss the election.
1 JACK E. WAY, Secy.
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1 Reserved seats for the big show or
Wednesday night are on sale at th<
' Northern Drug store, at 75 cents
General admission, 50 cents.
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All the Real News in the Times.
16-INCH GUNS
FOR NEW U. S.
BATTLESHIPS
(Ry Associated Press Correspondence)
WASHINGTON, March 18—The two
battleships provided for In the cur
rent naval hill may be armed with
16-inch rifles, the heaviest naval guns
ever designated.
While tentative plans for the new
ships contemplate vessels similar In
general design to the .12,000 tons gi
ants of the California class, now build
ing, details of armament and engine
equipment are being given unusual
attention by navy designers and the
results obtained from the 15-inch main
batteries of the newest Rritish and
German battleships are being closely
watched.
Already tne new 16-Inch gun has
been subjected to tests at the Indian
Head proving ground and white the de
tails of its construction and perform
ance are closely guarded, it Is known
that the gigantic weapon has given
proof of its efficiency that has delight
ed navy ordnace experts. The gun
was built at the American naval gun
factory and has been undergoing
tests for several months.
Some idea of the probable sifle of
the new American gun may be gath
ered from the fact that each of the
eight 15-fnch guns of the British bat
tlship Queen Elizabeth weighs 96
tons, white similar guns designed In
the r rupp works for German battle
ship. aid down this year each weigh
more than 82 tons. The 14inch ri
fles of the battleships New York and
Texas for the five new American
dreadnaughts now under construction,
weigh 63.3 tons each, and it is cer
tain that the new 16-inch weapon
weighs more than 100 tons without
its mountings.
Krupp engineers have designed a
16-inch gun which fires a projectile
weighing 2.028 pounds against the 1,
675 pound mass of steel hurled by the
15-inch rifles adopted for the German
navy, and the 1.720 pound projectile
poured into Turkish fortresses of the
Dardanelles by the British battleship
Queen Elizabeth. None of the Ger
man or British vessels of the first
line carry any weapon exactly simi
to the American 14 inch gun, jump
having been made last year from the
standard 12-inch rifle to the 15-inch
type.
The New York, Texas, Nevada and
Oklahoma each carry ten 14-inch guns
while the Pennsylvania, California,
Idaho and Mississippi each will carry
twelve, placed three in a turret.
These weapons throw projectiles
weighing 1,400 pounds, ay is the case
with the 14 inch guns designed for the
four Japanese battleships estimated
for in 1914.
With the increase in size, the life
of the gun is shortened by erosion,
due to the heat generated by the ex
.plosion of the huge charge of powdei
necessary to hurl nearly a ton of met
al fifteen miles that Is said to be th<
range of the American 16-inch weapon
The rifling of the gun burns out
under the blast. Drops *of melted
Bteel are visible in the bore after each
shot, and it is said that the life of
the Queen Elisabeth's 15 Inch weap
ons is less than 100 ahota each. Af
ter that the gun is so Inaccurate as
to be virtually useless.
Navy gun defigners have overcome
that difficulty somewhat. It is said,
with the new American 16-Inch gun;
but the life of the gun Is still far be
low that of the 14-lnch gun.
The Krupp works, before the out
break of the present war, announced
that a process of steel and powder
manufacture had been evolved that
decreased erosion; but the factory is
understood to have refused to con
tract to supply a large number of
great guns under guarantee of 250
rounds accuracy-fire life.
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You will be pleased If you eat at
the Windsor grill.
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Fresn shipments or com on the cob
at Kinney's.
DON'T OVERLOOK THE
BIG SHOW WEDNESDAY
The tickets for the Cordota Park
Association benefit, to be given at
Empress theatre on Wednesday night,
are now on sale and from the manner
in which they are being disposed of a
large audience wlU witness the pro
duction of "Trisa.” a four act western
drama. For several weeks past a
local caste has been rehearsing this
play, which promises to be well actee
and well staged If you have' not al
reudy secured your tickets get them at
once.
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NOTICE
We will not be responsible for any
debts contracted by any of our crew
Northwestern Fisheries Co.
Orca Cannery
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LAWRENCE BARRETT a mild
Havana smoke at all dealers.
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Kinney has a coraer on Coffee.
What we mean Is COFFEE, not the
wishy-wishy kind you have been
buying and nicknamed coffee. Ons
can of Dwight Edwards will reft vino#
J. F. R APPLEBY
CIVIL ENGINEER
Phone 4. CORDOVA, ALASKA
For Sale
Four big groups of fine copper
properties on navigable water on
Prince William Sound. Large
amount of shipping ore in sight on
these properties and ore could be
taken out at once in from two to
three places on each group to help
the expense of opening same up.
Prices and terms reasonable.
S. A. HEMPLE,
Valdez, Alaska.
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