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Sixty new combination boxes have
been installed at the local postoffice.
The launch Pioneer will go on the
ways this week for a general over
hauling.
Link Wain and Charles Sanden left
this morning for the north arm of
Eyak lake in quest of brown bear.
The Bible Study Class will meet
this evening at the Presbyterian
manse at 8 o’clock. A welcome to all.
The Pioneer Packing Company’s
cannery tender Jeanne let yesterday
for Juneau for a scow, with Bill
Young in command.
Dustin Farnum in the humorous
Irish drama, “The Son of Erin” and
Hearst-Pathe News this evening at
the Empress theatre at 8 sharp.
The steamer Northwestern, which
is now to the westward, will sail di
rect from there to the states. She
is booked to leave Seattle for Cordova
on May 27.
The bents of the Chitina bridge re
cently washed out by ice floes will be
replaced by Friday, when through
traffic will again be resumed on the
Copper River railway.
The Harmon Machinery Company
has received the cresoted piling and
braces for its new building, 50 x 100
feet, which will be erected on the
ocean dock by Contractor Bartley
Howard.
The Admiral Farragut is due here
from Anchorage on Tuesday next.
Upon her return to Seattle she will
be withdrawn from the Southwestern
Alaska run, her place being taken by
the Admiral Watson leaving Seattle
May 28.
The line of the Tanana Valley rail
road in the vicinity of Gilmore will
be revised and somewhat changed
from its present location. A crew of
men under charge of Arnold Nordale
left for the vicinity of Gilmore to run
the required location lines.
To date the Burns coal mine has
shipped to Nenana 2,500 tons of coal,
nearly all of which is stored.
GREAT LAKES
SHIP YARDS
MAKERECORD
WASHINGTON, May 14 (by Asso
ciated Press).—First honors in the
building of ships during the war was
awarded today by the shipping board
to the ninth or Great Lakes district.
Held by canal restrictions to a lighter
type of vessel than was built on the
seaboard, the district did not produce
so many net tons as other sections,
but outstripped all other districts in
the number of shifis. In one year it
put into service 125 more vessel than
were delivered from all American
yards in the year before the United
States entered the war.
At the outbreak of war, Great
Lakes yards, which had developed a
highly efficient type of cargo carrier,
were at work on 100 bottoms for for
eign account. All were requisitoned
by the shipping board and the first
ship turned over to the board under
its war program was the Limoges, a
2,390 ton freighter, built at Toledo.
Twenty-seven ships were finished and
put to sea before the canals froze in
1917.
While winter gripped the lakes new
work was continued and the existing
fleet, even old boats which had been
laid up were overhauled. Summer saw
every available craft worked and
overworked as never before, keeping
the stream of grain, iron ore, coal and
manufactures moving toward the
east, for shipment to the men in
Europe. At the opening of naviga
tion, 20 ships slipped from the ways
and work was carried forward at in
creased speed. In November a total
of 28 ships—nearly one a day—was
put into service by Great Lakes yards.
The total for 1918 was 163 new
freight carriers, all of them steel ex
cept one. The smallest yard on the
Lakes, having only three ways, deliv
ered 13 ships and finished a four
teenth only a little late for delivery
before the ice closed navigation. Be
tween the end of November and the
end of March, six more were
launched. All were 4,200 ton boats.
One yard built a 3,500 ton ship in
84 days. Another launched a 3,400 ton
hull in 28 days, a record which was
slipped to 24 days by another plant
soon after. That record stood but a
little while, for still another yard
launched a 3,500 ton ship In 17 days
after the laying of the keel and deliv
ered It complete 14 days later.
Expansion of the yards to meet the
war’s demands gave the Lakes a total
cf 112 berths, 79 for cargo ships and
33 for tugs. While the average total
number of rivet gangs In the Great
Lakes district is only ten per cent of
the nation's total, they point proudly
to a record of delivering 30 per cent
of the country’s total ship tonnage.
Additional contracts for 346 ships
of 4,200 tons each have been placed
in the district since the last requisi
tioned ship was finished in October,
the program to be completed by the
close of navigation this year. Since
the signing of the armistice 400,000
tons of shipping have been delivered.
Orders also have been placed in the
district for 25 steel sea-going tugs, 13
wood sea-going tugs, two steel harbor
tugs and 39 wood harbor tugs.
Completion of the building program,
according to officials will give the
Lakes district a record of 447 cargo
ships and 79 tugs delivered to the
government, the largest number of
ships and the largest tonnage built in
any district.
EDUCATiONIS
EASIEST WAY
MAKE MONEY
WASHINGTON, May 14 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The value of staying
at school is stated in dollars and cents
in figures compiled by the bureau of
education and now being distributed
to boys and girls throughout the
country by the children’s bureau.
From a study of a large number of
actual cases it has been found that
at 25 years of age the boy who re
mained in school until he was 18 had
received $2,000 more salary than the
boy who left school at 14, and that
the better educated youth was then
receiving more than $900 a year more
in pay.
“This is equivalent to an invest
ment of $18,000, at 5 per cent,” the
statemnt said. “Can a boy increase
his capital as fast in any other way?
“From this time on the salary of
the better educated boy will rise still
more rapidly, while the earnings of
the boy who left school at 14 will In
crease but little.”
While wages have increased with
the war, the proportions shown in a
table of weekly earning still hold true,
the statement said. The boy who left
school at 14 at the time the investiga
tion was made received an average of
$4 a week, his wages increasing each
year to $7 a week at 18. The boy who
remained in school until he was 18
began work at $10 a week. At 20 the
salaries were $9.50 a week for the
boy who left school early and $15 for
his better trained competitor. At 25
they were earning $12.75 and $31 re
spectively, and total wages up to that
time had been $5,112.50 and $7,337.50,
so that the boy who remained in
school had earned nearly 50 per cent
more in eight years than the other
lad in 12 years.
“Children should stay in school as
long as possible because education
means better jobs,” the children’s
bureau urges. “Boys and girls who go
to work at the end of grammar school
rarely get good jobs. The work they
find to do is usually unskilled; it of
fers little training or chance for ad
vancement. When they are older they
find they are still untrained for the
skilled work which offers a future.
Education means higher wages.
“Many boys and girls when they
leave school find work that offers a
high wage for a beginner. But these
wages seldom grow because the work
requires no training.
“A position with a future and
steadily increasing wages requires
school training.
"Does it pay to continue your
studies? Education means a success
jful life and useful life; it pays the
I individual. Education means efficient
workers; it pays the nation. Show
this to your parents and ask them
what they think about it. Stay in
school! ”
To get all the witchery there is in
kodakery have us do the finishing.
Agency either drug store. Scarbor
augh. 14-tf
H. Claude Kelly, of Fairbanks, has
been appointed clerk of the district
court for the Fourth division by
Judge Bunnell to succeed Joseph E.
Clark, resigned. Mr. Clark resigned
to enter the automobile business with
his brother in Seattle.
MASONIC MEETING
A regular meeting of Mt. McKinley
lodge, No. 183, F. & A. M. will be held
on Thursday evening at 8:30 o’clock.
Work in the E. A. degree.
EDWARD F. MEDLEY, W. M.
A. FEILD, Secretary.
You will like our kodak finishing.
Agency at both drug stores. Scarbor
augh. 14-tf
REMEMBER
Eagle dance in Eagle hall Saturday
evening at 9:30. Empress orchestra
with latest hits. 4t
Job printing at Daily Times office.
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