The Daily Times is in receipt of a
letter from Mrs. Vernie P. Abbott,
formerly of Cordova, who is again re
siding at San Francisco in which the
writer evinces much interest in Alas
ka generally and those things affect
ing this section in particular. Mrs.
Abbott says:
“I cannot refrain from expressing to
xmu how much I enjoyed an account of
the ascent of Mt. Eccles by three of
Cordova’s young ladies, appearing in
your issue of July 21st. I receive an
occassional copy of the Times and al
^dRvs read them with interest, but
anything that bears on the out-of-doors
as you know gives me particular pleas
ure. The article referred to was writ
ten by Mary Baen Wright, if I remem
ber correctly and evidently she was
one of the mountain climbers. Cor
dova needs a lot of energetic spirits
like her to awaken it to an active ap
preciation of the natural beauty
of its surroundings and to bestir it to
the actual accomplishment of such
trips as these, which would eventual
ly lead to the building of trails or at
least to the finding of paths of easier
ascent so that more and more of the
young folks of Cordova would be led
to find their enjoyment in the whole
41 some out-of-doors'and come under the
ennobling influences that are the re
ward of those who climb to the moun
tain tops.
“Am also much pleased to hear of,
and interested in the movement to
form an athletic club, which is to take
up the different branches of athletic
sports, including ski-ing. Some phil
anthropist of Cordova ought to come
forward now and build them a club
house with a gymnasium and a swim
ming tank, particularly the swimming
tank, of concrete, filled with water
pumped from the bay and heated to a
temperature. I should think such a
building could be made to pay for its
upkeep, and its benefit to the commun
ity would be immeasurable.
“I am enclosing some information
regarding the San Francisco War
► Memorial which is to be built here in
the near future and thought it might
be interesting to your readers. At a
big mass meeting in May held in the
Civic auditorium and by popular sub
scription over two millions dollars has
been subscribed to finance this pro
ject, the success of which is now as
sured. It is expected that the balance
of the desired two and one-half million
will be raised within the next few
months and that the construction will
begin shortly. The enclosed leaflet
describes it in detail. Mr. Charles H.
Kendrick, who has been my employer
for the last ten years, except when I
was in Cordova, is chairman of the
American Legion War Memorial Com
mittee which has raised this sum
with the help of the citizens of San
Francisco. Since his return froip two
year’s service with the army, which
included service at the front as corps
remount officer, where he did very ef
fective work and was cited for brav
ery, earning the rank of major, he has
devoted his entire time to the inter
ests of the American Legion, both
the state and national organization. I
thought the people of Cordova might
like to know how San Francisco is
trying to express her gratitude to the
men who served the country in the
late war.
“With regards to you and best wish
es to Cordova.”
Another credit added to the long list
of Charles Ray’s success, when “The
Girl Dodger,” was shown at the Em
press last night. When it comes to
playing the dreamy rube,—making the
character both real and lovable, Mr.
Ray is without a peer.
In this picture he takes the part of
a dreamy young student, more inter
ested in philosophy than phemales.
But one day a little chorus girl tod
dles along—at any rate unsophistica
ted Charlie thinks her a chorus girl—
and he wakes up to such good advan
tage that his “man of the world” chum
hasn’t a look in.
But then we never thought Charlie
so darned slow, when he really got
started. It’s an unusually clever piece
of comedy work, and is being shown
for the last time again tonight.
Tomorrow night only, Charlotte, the
world’s greatest skater is featured in j
a national attraction, “Frozen Warn
ing.”
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WINNFIELD, La., Sept. 21 (by As
sociated Press).—Organization neces
sary to assure building of Louisana’s
share of the Lone Star Trail has been
perfected and efforts will be made to
have similar action taken by other
states through which it is proposed to
route the road.
The highway is to pass through the
northern section of central Louisana,
the objective points being St. Augus
tine, Florida, and Los Angeles, Cali
fornia. After Louisiana is completed
the organization of Texas will be tak
en up and pushed a thousand miles or
more across that state and tften the
east end will be taken up through the ;
states of Mississippi, Alabama and
Florida and finally the great western
division will be completed through
New Mexico. Arizona and California.
Other east and west highways
through Louisana are the Dixie Over
land along the line of the Vicksburg,
Shreveport and Pacific railroad and
the old Spanish trail along the South
ern Pacific, both far removed from
the Proposed Lone Star trail.
RAILWAY ASSOCIATION
'URGES CO-OPERATION
NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (by Associa
ted Press).—Co-operation of the pub
lic in meeting the nation’s rail trans
portation requirements is asked by the
Association of Railway Executives in
announcing its program to secure max
imum service from existing transpor
tation facilities.
The association urges the co-opera
tion of the public shippers to attain: \
An average daily minimum move
ment of freight cars of not less than
3 miles per day.
An average loading of 30 tons per j
car.
Reduction of bad-order cars to a |
maximum of 4 per cent of total owned.
An early and substantial reduction
in the number of locomotives now un
fit for service.
More effective efforts to bring about
the return of cars to owner roads.
Many a friend who was perfectly
willing to lend you money when you
had a job is hard to to\ich when you
are out of work and really need a loan.
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| REPUBUCAN !
II r,mn AT„Iir,Trn THURSDAY EVENING \
|| EMPRob THEATER _ At s o'clock |
| SENATOR DAN A. SUTHERLAND (
11 Candidate for Delegate to Congress, and
|| HON. JOHN RUSTGARD
11 Candidate for Attorney General |
11 Will be the speakers and discuss the issues of the campaign |
11 After the addresses films of local interest will be shown. Special music by Mr. Fairman |
|| EVERYBODY WELCOME |