OXYGEN RESCUE
IS
WASHINGTON, April 30. — In re
spouse to inquiries from the army and
navy as to information concerning the
best types of apparatus to be used in
combatting noxious gases, the bureau
of mines, department of the interior,
which had such an investigation under
way in behalf of the miners of the
country, lias rushed its report into
print, with the result that experts are
now busily engaged in designing an
apparatus that promised to be super
ior to any now in use on I he European
battlefields.
The experts of the bureau, Dr. Yan
dell Henderson, professor of physiol
Og' in the Yale medical srhool and a
recognized authority on the physiol
ogy of respiration, and J. W. l’aul, in
charge of the rescue work of the bu
%reau of mines, make the statement
that ihe wearing of the present types
of oxygen rescue apparatus involves
grave danger, owing to the fact that
the makers have as yet failed to meet
satisfactorily certain mechanical
physiological needs in construction.
• They point out the dangers and de
fects of the apparatus, and suggest
ways in which these may be eli
minated.
''While ibis report is primarily of
, interest to the mining industry and is
meant as a measure of the improve
ment in the oxygen apparatus used
in saving life at mine disasters," said
Van If. Manning, director of the bu
reau. “it comes at such a time as to
be of great value to the army and the
navy in their need of apparatus *to
protect the lives of their men in war
fare. Rescue apparatus is being quite
generally introduced. Some states
v even require by law its purchase by
, mine owners. A large number of coal
and metal mines now have apparatus
on band for use after explosions and
mine fires. The apparatus is also
being sold in increasing amounts to
the fire departments of cities, and
crews have been trained to penetrate
smoke filled buildings for the saving
of life and property. Around gas
work and refrigerating plants air hel
mets of a simple type are sometimes
very useful. This aparatus also finds
a use in the navy when the deeper and
unventilated compartments of a vessel
ore io be enterd. The recent introduc
tion of asphyxiating gases for offen
, sivo military purposes has been met
by means of simple masks provided
l with a chemical absorbent. It is re
V ported that, on one side at least, the
, men setting off the gas are themselves
\ nrote. ted from asphyxiation by means
h oxygen mine rescue apparatus of
the so-called half hour type.
"In the apparatus now being used
we have found a number of grave de
fects. As an instance of one of these
serious defects, the manufacturers of
such apparatus have directed that the
oxygen supply should be set at a rate
sufficient for only moderate exertion
upon the part of the wearer. Because
of this rescue crews have been trained
to walk slowly and to stop and rest
at frequent intervals. Moving slowly
might mean to be crushed and a vig
orous attempt to escape would result
in collapse or even asphyxiation, be
cause of an insufficient supply of
oxygen.
“As the most effective means of
putting into concrete form and of
testing the feasibility of the recom
mendations of this report, the bureau
has attempted to develop an apparatus
along the physiological lines for which
it calls. For some time W. E. Gibbs,
an experienced mechanical engineer,
has been at work for the bureau on
this problem.”
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NA riONAL CHAMBER DIRECTORS
TO MEET IN ST LOUIS.
WASHINGTON, April 30, — War
time problems will be discussed at the
jj^ meeting of the board of directors of
the Chamber of Commerce of the Uni
ted Slates, which will be held in St.
Louis, Thursday, Friday and Satur
day, May 3, 4 and 5. The annual meet
ings of the National Chamber are held
v in Washington, where the hearquar
V ters are located, but on occasion meet
> ings of the board are held in other clt
lea. St. Louis was selected for the
early spring meeting place this year
The first business session will be
held Thursday morning. The same
day there wil lbe a luncheon tenderec
by the Chamber of Commerce of St
Louis. In the evening there will be
an informal conference and entertain
merit at the residence of Clarence H
Howard, president of the Common
wealth Steel Company. Mr. Ilowarc
is ihe St. Louis director of the Nation
al chamber.
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The town of Fairbanks is reporter
to be in debt to the extent of $12,000
the sum of $7,000 having been addec
to the indebtedness during the pas
year.
The Kenai Fishing & Trading Coni
puny of Seward, which has a plant a
that place, will operate two pursi
seine boats, about 25,000 feet of gil
net and three beach selneB, employ
ing about 25 men this summer.
The Raven patrol of the Boy Scout
was organized recently in V'aldez, will
a membership of about twenty-five
Thomas Donohoe was selected patro
''s'yleiuler.
(By Associated Press)
KODIAK, April 30. — Recent visit
to Katmai volcano, which lies eighty
miles north of here, have convinced
l hose making the trip that it will be
some time before the world's greatest
volcano will he listed as a regular ex
j Dibit for tourists. The situation
around the crater Is a little too realls
j tic and fraught with danger.
Mud flows, unannounced floods of
frightful proportions, landslides and
occasional gusts of gas are constantly
occurring and three groups of craters
surrounding the king of all modern
craters take turns at steaming.
Katmai is of the explosive type of
crater and presents few of the char
acteristics shown by the Hawaiian vol
canoes, there being no lava in sight.
The original eruption was a series of
cannon like reports by which so vast
a mass of matter was hurled skyward
that the atmosphere over the whole
surface of the earth was affected. This
material was hurled out in the form
of gas filled pumice, lighter than
water.
An idea of the extent of the erup
tion in distances is gained by the fol
lowing comparison. Had the eruption
occurred in the loop district of Chi
cago the whole city would have been
buried under from 15 to 25 feet of ash
and it would have been six months
before anyone could approach nearer
than Evanston.
There would have been a foot of
ashes at Springfield, 111., and an inch
at Cairo, while the explosions would
have been heard in New York and
Philadelphia and fine dust and fumes
would have been noted In New Or
leans.
Katmai canyon, at the foot of the
crater was so filled with ashes by the
original eruption that a vast lake was
formed in the upper reaches of the
stream. Last spring this dam broke
and precipitated a flood so vast that
the high water mark shows it to have
been fifteen feet deep where the val
ly is five miles wide. The remaining
dposit of water soaked pumice, many
feet in depth, actually is flowing sea
ward as a mass with a slow glacier
like motion. It is like quicksand and
dangerous to cross. Cold bay, 25 miles
south of the crater, has been filled for
several mileB out from the original
shore line by pumice brought down
by the streams.
Among the phenomena noted as a
result of the eruption is that pumice
dust blowing from the sunny side
of the slopes in the spring has covered
snow drifts remaining on the north
slopes so deep as to keep it from melt
ing all summer. Thus layers of snow
and pumice are accumulating in the
northern valleys, which may remain
for years.
The sharp pumice particles blown
about by the wind cut weird designs in
the dead trees and brush and have
actually cut away small twigs.
The natives who escaped from Kat
mal bay during the great eruptior
never returned, having been provide!
with a new town further westward
The Kodiak natives, however, de
clare Katmal to be "safe so long as
he smoke.” Scientists support this
native logic by stating that volcanoes
of this sort only erupt when a slide
covers up the vent and pressure be
comes sufficiently strong to cause an
explosion.
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Trappers report the most successful
year in the history of the territory,
the extremely cold wenther driving
fur down from the hills.
A thousand men and women parad
ed the streets of Fairbanks one even
ing recently in a patriotic demonstra
tion, and the greatest enthusiasm was
displayed. Following the parade a
mass-meeting was held and the organ
ization of the Alaska Loyal League
was perfected.
Martin Logan, an employee of the
Alaska engineering commission, had
his arm broken above the elbow and
sustained severe bruises recently as
the result of a rock slide near Rain
bow creek, where he was working.
Stephen Trembla, the young soldier
of Fort Gibbon, who recently stabbed
and killed a companion during a quar
rel, was indicted recently for first de
gree murder by the grand jury at.
Fairbanks.
Completing a round trip to the Arc
tic coast by way of the Koyukuk
country, a journey which occupied the
greater part of a year, Scotty Smith,
a well known oldtimer of the interior,
arrived in Nenana a short time ago.
At a recent meeting of the Nome
city council that body conferred upon
the mayor the authority to pardon per
sons convicted of offenses in the mu
nicipal court, thereby arousing a
storm of indignation among the resi
dents of the city.
The Loyal Order of Moose of Fair
banks has sent to Mooseheart, the fa
mous home for the children of mem
bers of the order, a moose hide, hand
somely decorated with the figure of
a heart, under which is the slogan,
"Fairbanks, the Golden Heart of
Alaska; There’s a Warm Spot in It
for You.” Within the heart is the
Moose emblem, and the uumber of
the Fairbanks lodge. The skin will
form a part of the decoration of the
boys' dormitory.
Alex Campbell, one of the old sour
doughs of the Atlin district, died re
cently while alone in his cabin. He
had been ill for some time and Gold
Commissioner Frazier sent two men
to bring him to town for treatment,
but when they arrived he said that
he was much better and would come
into town himself the following day.
The next morning a neighbor found
him dead.
TELEPHONE LINE
IF RAILROAD
EXTENDED
Arrivals from the westward report
that the Alaskan engineering commis
sion now has its new telephone and
telegraph system in operation from
Seward and Anchorage to the Talkeet
na river, a distance of 245 miles, or
half wmy from the coast to Fairbanks.
The northern end of the system is lo
cated In a camp bearing the euphoni
ous name of Dead Horse Hill. The
camp received its name from the mis
fortune that befell an early prospect
or, his horse dying at that point.
The telephone and telegraph forms
| part of the railroad system that the
commission is building into >tho in
terior from Anchorage and Seward. It
runs across a section of swamp In
the Susltna valley that is impassable
in summer. 1-lnemen working on
snowshoes built the lino across the
swamp in March.
The commission also lias a tele
phone line in full operation from Sew
ard and Anchorage to the Matanuska
coal fields. The system adopted on
this line and the lino to Dead Horse
Hill makes it possible to use the wires
for both telephone and telegraphic
communication at. the same time. The
two lines will be used in dispatching ^
trains by telephone and also provide
the means for a commercial telegraph
business.
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There are 22 restaurants and 13
pool and billiard halls in Anchorage.
The Canadian Klondike dredge No.
4, on the Klondike river, has tieen re
paired and will begin operations to
ward the end of the month. No. 2
dredge has been working all winter,
despite the cold weather.
Charles Oleson, who was trapping
near the head of the Porcupine, ar
rived at Wrangell recently with seven
lynx, ten marten, fifteen ermine, nine
wolverines and five beaver skins, tiie
result of four weeks’ trapping.
Alaskan Grill
M. E. HOLBEN, Prop.
The Place To Eat
Everything In Season
Service The BEST
Boxes For Large Or Tray Service
Small Parties Our Specialty
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THE UNIVERSAL CAR
320,817
Have been built and actually lay or disappointment In secur
delivered to retail buyers since Ing Ford cars. If, therefore, you
August 1, 1916. are planning to purchase a Ford
These figures — 320,817 — re- car, we advise you to place your
present the actual number man- order and take delivery now.
ufactured by ua since August 1, Immediate orders will have
1916, and delivered by our prompt attention,
agents to retail buyers. This un- Delay in buying at this time
usual fall and winter demand for may cause you to wait several
Ford cars makes It necessary months. Enter your order today
for us to confine the distribu- for Immediate delivery with our
\ tion of cars only to those agents authorized Ford agent listed be
who have orders for Immediate low and don’t be disappointed
delivery to retail customers, later on.
rather than to permit any agent
| to stock cars In anticipation of PRICES F. O. B. VALDEZ,
later spring sales. ALASKA.
We are Issuing this notice to Runabout $460, Touring Car
Intending buyers that they may $475, Coupe-elet $620, Town Car
i protect themselves against de- $715, Sedan $765.
I
Ford Motor Company
Owen E. Meals
, VALDEZ, ALA8KA.
I
W. E. TERRILL
FREIGHTER
Baggage and Freight Taken
over the Trail to Fairbanks.
TEAMS LEAVE CHITINA
FEBRUARY 5
MARCH 15
Baggage can be left at the
Chitina Hotel, Chitina, or Alas
kan Hotel, Cordova.
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An Alaskan Product
Real Old German Lager
A Refreshing Drink
The Valdez Brewing Co.
Under New Management
Patronize Home Industry
On Tap In Every Saloon
| Alaskan Hotel I
£ THE HOUSE OF COMFORT
THE BEST EQUIPPED HOTEL
IN ALASKA
BAR AND BARBER SHOP IN CONNECTION. |
g Hot and Cold Water, Electric Bells, Electric
| Lights, Steam Heat, Suites With Bath.
Bar in Connection |
:§ ROBERT GOTTSCHALK Proprlteor* ART CLONINGCR :|:j
I CORDOVA, .... ALASKA |
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1 Foos Gas Engines |
| 4 to 500 Horse Power
General Electric Motors |
Roebling Tramways
Pelton Water Wheels |
Chicago Oil Engines and Compressors |
Regal Boat Engines
| Harmon Machinery Go Inc |
ill Oxy-Acetylene Welding.
CORDOVA, ALASKA
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Sixty Steam Heated Rooms Eletric Lighted
Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath.
Cordova House
H. C. ROSS, Proprietor.
Headquarters for Railroad and Mining Men
Satisfaction Guranteed
Rates Reasonable
Ml or theft or mismanagement may prove such economy costly ex ^
w travagance.
jv Moral: rl here is real economy in using this bank. Try it. £
| The First Bank
§ Of Cordova
131
Territorial Depositary.
United States Depositary for Postal Savings Funds
Commercial Department. Savings Department.
, L.
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Cordova Mill &
Lumber Company
Manufacturers and Dealers in Rough and
Dressed Lumber.
Also Outside Lumber.
We Have Succeeded the Arctic Lumber Comp
All Mail Orders Should be Addressed to 1
Orders From up the Line Office and Mill Op;
Promptly Attended to. Railroad Depot. Phon
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E. A. HEGG
STATIONERY AND PHOTO SUPPLIES
Developing and Printing Phonographs
Views and Postcards r. j
» . tj* , . . „ .. Columbia Records
Art Pictures, Art Supplies , „ . .
Picture Frames Sheet Music
Picture Framing Candies Always Fre. 1
Toilet Articles Cigars and Tobacco
MAIL ORDERS GIVEN IMMEDIATE ATTENTI
ALL THE LIGHT ON THE BOOK,
and none In the eyes Is ha: in '
the electric light so superior - n hi
reading. And its brilliancy brin :t :
the type with the utmost di.- c
ness bo that reading is an ■ t t. :<>
by no strain on the eyes v.h r
Have you electricity in your 1 te?
Cordova Power!
Company
LIGHTS WATER PHONES POWEI
Office: FIRST STREET.
) Copper River &
| Northwestern Ry.
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EFFECTIVE MAY 1, 1916.
| Three Trains Weekly Between Cordova and Chi i v.
I ji|| Four Trains Weekly Between Chitina and Kennecoti
1|||| Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mondays, T . t
§ days and Saturdays.
jlf Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays a: !
if Fridays.
If Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays, Thura -
if days and Fridays.
|||| Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednesday;;,
Thursdays and Saturdays.
if The above schedule subject to change without not! • .
Dining Car In Connection With all Regular Peesrngir Trains Pt
if tween Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.
if Tickets on sale /it Depot or up town office, Alas! a
if Steamship Company building
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LCaleb Corser W. E. Brown j
Superintendent Cordova Agent
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