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The annual spring rush lo Alaska Is
on. Never before In the history of the
northern territory have the steamship
companies arranged so many sailings
from Seattle ns is contained in the list
for the present season. Figuring nil
the boats to leave gives an average
sailing from Seattle every twelve
hours, with the aggregate tonnage of
the sailings totaling about 760,000.
These figures include freighters and
regular lint vessels, but not govern
ment, fishing or other craft.
The companies contributing to the
traffic movement are arranged alpha
betically as follows:
Alaska Steamship Company; Border
Line Transportation Company: Can
adian Pacific Company; Grand Trunk
Pacific Railway; Humboldt Steamship
; ompany; Pacific Steamship Cont
, y; the last named being the amal
' gamation of the Admiral Line and the
Pacific Coast Steamship Company.
All the steamships in regular ser
vice making Skagway a port of call
work in conjunction with the White
Pass & Yukon route for interior points
of the Yukon territory and Yukon riv
er sections of Alaska. As each of the
companies named include Skagway,
that port will derive a direct benefit
from the bulk of the sailings as will
be the case with Juneau and Ketchi
kan, these three important places be
ing ports of call on both the south
eastern and southwestern routes. The
regular Sitka excursion will be main
tained by the smaller steamships op
erating on the southeastern Alaska
route, as well as the Prince William
Sound and Cook Inlet excursions, on
all vessels operating to the westward,
which will include excursion trips over
the Copper River & Northwestern
Railway at Cordova.
The W’hite Pass & Yukon route will
operate the Midnight Sun and Yukon
excursion trips, which include the
wonderful trip down the entire Yu
kon river to St. Michael. Ocean steam
ships can be boarded for the return
to Seattle.
All the companies have flooded the
east with attractive advertising mat
ter and while the war may curtil the
western movement to a certain ex
tent, passenger officials of Alaska
steamship and rail lines anticipate a
fairly good excursion year. The com
mercial passenger traffic has already
been unsually heavy, the mining de
velopment in the Copper river valley,
the railroad construction from Seward
and Anchorage, the number of peo
ple going into the Yukon territory
from Skagway and the general indus
trial development in southeastern
Alaska attracting more than the usual
number of business men and various
Early sailings to canneries in Bris
tol bay have been made by the Vic
toria, which took a full cargo and pas
, senger list to Port Moller. The Ad
miral Goodrich sailed for Herendeen
bay, and the Senator for Bristol bay
during the month, each with a capa
city cargo and large passenger list.
General Freight and passenger
Agent John H. Bunch, of the Alaska
Steamship Company, announces the
details of what is considered the most
extensive service between Seattle and
Alaska yet arranged by that organi
zation.
The steamship Victoria will make
five round trips to Nome and St. Mi
chael, leaving Seattle in June, July,
August, September and October. The
Latouche and Valdez are due to sail
on their first trip in May. The Juneau
is due to depart soon, these three also
for Bering sea, while the big freighter
Cordova, sailing in June, will make
Kotzebue sound points. These four
freighters will continue in the Bering
sea service throughout the summer.
The four large passenger and
freight carriers, Alaska, Mariposa,
Alameda and Northwestern leave on
the Anchorage-Prince William Sound
run with a sailing every six days, al
lowing 23 days for the round trip,
which will enable the schedule to be
maintained barring unusual events.
Northbound, each of these four ves
sels will make the Skagway Htop, but
southbound two of them only will
make the Skagway stop.
The Jefferson and Dolphin leave on
the southeastern Alaska run as usual
and will make the Taku-Sitka excur
sion trips during the season. The Re
dondo, Ketchikan and Skagway will
be on the southeastern Alaska routes
until the arrival of the Henry T.
Scott, which will augment that ser
vice.
The Santa Ana Is due to sail this
month for Bethel, head of ocean navi
gation in the Kuskokwi mriver. At
Bethel the vessel will connect with
Captain Langley’s river (mats, which
operate several hundred miles up that
stream. Returning from Bethel the
Santa Ana goes to Seward to take the
I)ora’B run for the summer, this run
to include two additional trips to
Bethel.
Manager A. F. Haines, of the Paci
fic Steamship Company, has set the
date for the name Bailings of that
company. The Admiral Wainwright
will make two trips from San Fran
cisco, leaving during May and July.
The Senator will also leave from San
Francisco during May. The Umatilla
will make Its round trips from Seat
<•<’. making a total of nine Ilering sea
trips for that company, six from Seat
tle and three front San Francisco. All
the southwestern sailings of this com
pany will include southeastern Alaska.
The Spokane and Seattle will handle
the complete local southeastern run,
Including the Taku-Sitka excursion
during June. July and August. The
Admiral Farragut, Admiral Watson
and Admiral Kvans will be on the
southwestern Alaska route and in ad
dition there will be a freighter for
southwestern Alaska.
The Humboldt Steamship Company
►will continue in the same service ns
heretofore and during June, July and
August will make the Sitka-Taku ex
cursion trip, while the Border Line
Transportation Company will confine
its efforts to maintaining its service
on the southeastern Alaska route, with
excursion trips during the season.
The Princess boats of the Canadian
Pacific will continue to make regular
sailings, -the Princess Alice, Princess
Sophia and Princess Charlotte being
assigned to the run, sailing from Van
couver, connections being made by re
gular Princess line boats out of
Seattle.
The Prince Rupert and Prince
George and Prince John, of the Grand
Trunk Pacific Company, will main
tain the service for that company with
regular sailings from Vancouver, con
necting with rail or boat from Seattle.
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With a total business to her credit
)f $4,934,573 during the month of
April, Alaska is again rapidly climb
ing into ber last year's place of first
among the territories and possessions
af the United -States.
Last year the business of Alaska
amounted to $120,000,000, and it is
freely predicted that this year's busi
ness will amount to even a greater
sum and that Alaska will witness the
greatest year in her history.
Figures compiled by the Juneau cus
toms house show that while there Is
little or no canned salmon being ex
ported, last year's pack having already
been cleaned up, the exportation of
fopper ore from Cordova is steadily
keeping pace wit hthe record of last
year. The detailed figures:
March April
Copper.$3,090,012 $2,919,698
Bones, hoofs and
horns. 20
Curios .. .. 161 1,083
Fresh fish .. .. 68,231 98,861
Dried fish .... 5 117
Canned salmon.. 24 2,012
All other salmon 8,736 13,504
Shell fish. 11,047 12.960
Dther fish pdcts.. 12
Skins and furs.. 68,041 28,971
Lead ore. 9,228 6,242
Sone, including
marble. 19,995
Dther articles .. 909 612
Total Alaska
Products .$3,256,520 $3,111,997
[T. S. articles re
turned .$ 88,654 $ 65.651
Sold bullion_ 268,675 298,005
Sold coin. 27,000 1.500
Sold ore. 235,848 207.405
Silver ore .. .. 57,876 56,440
Grand Total of
Business ...$4,934,573 $3,740,998
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3ALL DODGERS CLAIM
THEY HELP TRAIN ARMY.
(By United Press)
NEW YORK, May 14. — Coney Is
land ball dodgers and New York fans
may go to Albany to protest against
the senate bill, now in the house,
which would prohibit posing of ne
groes behind the canvas, while base
balls are thrown at their'heads.
The fans don’t want to see the old
national pastime lose caste, and the
ball dodgers think the sport good
training for grenade throwers.
End men and “nigger babies” could
be as well classed under the statement
that the negro race is made ridiculous,
they say.
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The king salmon started to run to
day, and with his usual enterprise, H.
A. Slater served the patrons of his
restaurant with that most excellent
of sea food at the noon day meal.
The Very Rev. R. J, Crimont heart
of the Catholic church in Alaska, has '
received official confirmation of his'
appointment as bishop of Alaska. Ills'
consecration will be celebrated at Ju-I
neau within the next two or three,
months. Bishop Crimont’s office since
his appointment to the heart of the I
church in Alaska in 1904 has been
that of prefect-apostolic. The Holy
Father has raised the office to that
of vicar-apostolic, and the holder be
comes a bishop. After his consecra
tion. the Very Rev. Crimont becomes
the Right Rev. Crimont.
The history of the development of
the work of the Catholic church in
Alaska presents one of the interest
ing chapters in the territory's Ameri
can career. When Alaska became the
property of the United States in 18G7
it was by the Holy See a part of the r
diocese of Vancouver island (now Vic- a
toria). and was several times visited
by Bishop Seghers, then by his suc
cessor, Bishop J. B Beonwel. t
Before 1878 Wrangell and Sitka (
were visited occasionally by priests -
from Victoria. On November 23, 1878, T
F. J. Althoff was appointed first re
sident priest, and on May 3, 1878, he
established himself in Wrangell. On
July 17, 1882, he held services for the
first time in Juneau, and in the late
fall of 1886 he brought the Sisters of
St. Ann thither and established the
hospital and later on the school. The
pioneer sisters of those heroic days
is still among us. *
On July 13, 1886, Archbishop Seg
hers, F. 1>, Fosi, II. A. Robant, S. J.,
left Victoria, and passing through Ju
neau, went to establish the first Ca
tholic mission on the Yukon.
Oil Ttllxr 97 10(14 « _ . * it
sovereign pontiff separated Alaska and
the Aleutian islands from the juris
diction of the bishop of Vancouver is
land. and made that territory'a sepa
rate administrative district to be gov
erned by a priest invested with epis
copal jurisdiction, and nominated a
prefect apostolic.
Father Pascal Tosi was the first
incumbent. He was succeeded by Fa
ther J. U. Rene, March 16, 1897. The
third incumbent, Father It. Crimont,
took up the office on March 28, 1901.
In recognotion of the present devel
opment of this Northland.and of the
catholic church’s’ work within her
borders, and in view of its greater
future, the holy father raised the
prefecture to the rank of vicariate,
henceforth to be governed by a bishop.
In a consistory held in the Vatican
palace on March 2'!, 1917, Pope Bene- “
diet XV proclaimed the Very Rev. R. >
•I- Crimont, titular bishop of Amrnel- 5
dera and vicar apostolic of Alaska. t;
That the bishop-elect is eminently
well fitted for the post, a brief sketch jij
of his life will show.
Bom in 1859 in Picardy, France, he
left home when about ten years old -i;
for ^he Jesuit college of Amiens. He
entered the society of Jesus in 1875, §
at St. Acheul, and there underwent the 5
usual two years' spiritual training and
two years’ review of literary studies. :j;
Then came three years of philosophy.
This long stretch of study was
broken by an ocean voyage; for the §
missionary spirit had touched the
young student and he had volunteered
for Indian missions of our now great
Northwest. Accordingly he came in i:
1886 to Woodstock, Maryland. After
two years of theology he was there ,
ordained a priest by Cardinal Gibbons, ;
and spent two more years in complet
ing his course of divinity.
Several years of missionary activ- (
ity, particularly among the Crow In- i
dians, served as a training for more J
arduous work in Alaska, where we I
find him stationed from 1895 until his I
call to the presidency of Gonzaga col- I
lege in October, 1901.
The historian of Gonzaga relates |
that under the direction of Father Cri- |
mont the college made a marked ad- |
vance In scholarship — as the class!- |
caV programs of those days indicate— 1
in number of students and in official 1
standing, for upon him, first of all the
presidents of Gonzaga, was conferred 1
the title of “rector." Even material- S
ly “Old Gonzaga” had just begun to |
expand, when in May, 1904, the kindly §
rector was ordered to Alaska to suc
ceed Father J. II. Rene, as prefect
apostolic.
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HERE’S HOW TO FLY 4
THE STARS AND STRIPES 4
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(By United Press) . 4
WASHINGTON, Mey 14 4
For the guidanc e of puzzled pat- 4
riots, the war department has 4
prescribed this simple formula 4
for hanging the American flag— 4
as It should he hung: 4
Wherever possible hang the 4
flag from a staff, and not against ♦
1 in- wall U8< bunting for the ♦
wall. 4
it, however, a flag is hung 4
against a wall, the field of stars 4
should be always to the north 4
on a north and south street, and 4
to the east on an east and west 4
street. 4
Never hang it horizontally, if 4
possible to hang it otherwise, hut 4
if hung horizontally, the* end eon- 4
talning the stars should be at 4
the north or east. 4
Army regulations call for the 4
flag to fly from sunrise to sunset, 4
but it is optional with the indi- ♦
vidual whether it shall fly at night. 4
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Ueorpe E. Baldwin has sufficiently
ecovered from his recent illness to he
tde to leave the hospital.
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The latest women's sport coats, in
te newest colors, just received at
layson's. Drop in and look at them.
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Windsor Hotel
L. Wain, Prop.
Where You Get
Comfort and Service.
And the Rates Are Right.
Cordova Alaska
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EXPERT
PIANO TUNER
George Anderson, piano expert and
factory representative, will be in Cor
dova this coining summer. Expert
work in piano and organ tuning and
repairing guaranteed. For prices on
new and second hand pianos and or
gans, also pianos for rental, address,
P. O. BOX 991, JUNEAU, ALASKA.
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| 4 to 5C0 Horse Power
General Electric Motors
Roebling Tramways
Pelton Water Wheels I
v X' s
Chicago Oil Engines and Compressors
Regal Boat Engines | {
| Harmon Machinery Co Inc |
Oxy-Acetylene Welding.
CORDOVA, ALASKA
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.
Hot and Cold Water, Electric Bells, Electric
Lights, Steam Heat, Suites With Bath.
Bar in Connection &
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An Up To Date Steam Laundry
Experienced Capable Employes
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Clothes Thoroughly Washed and
Sterilized No Contamination
SERVICE j
Quick Work - Reliable - Courteous
Out ot 1 own Work Given
Careful, Prompt Attention
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| THE TIME TO SAVE IS NOW! , M
I uj W hy delay making preparations for future needs till some ly t
wj uture date? It might be too late then. The time to start sav- mm
' II V ,nB.,s »<>"• \\ hen you have made a start, be consistent in your K
W saving. Lay aside a little every month. A substantial savings P
*3 ii<,<',;uiit will find you prepared for opportunity or adversity. id
Both will face you one time or another.
1F0RM THE SAVINGS HABIT r
The First Bank ;
|i of Cordova I
Territorial Depositary,.
Jj United States Depositary for Postal Savings Funds. U,
N Commercial Department. Savings Department.
Cordova Mill &
Lumber Company
Manufacturers and Dealers in Rough ajid
Dressed Lumber.
Also Outside Lumber.
We Have Succeeded the Arctic Lumber Company and
All Mail Orders Should he Addressed to Us.
Orders From up the Line Office and Mill Opposite
j Promptly Attended to. Railroad Depot. Phone 5
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STATIONERY AND PHOTO SUPPLIES
Developing and Printing Phonographs
Views and Postcards ~ « o j
. * t,. . . . „ Columbia Records
Art Pictures, Art Supplies „ .
Picture Frames Sheet Music
Picture Framing Candies Always Fresh
Toilet Articles Cigars and Tobacco
MAIL ORDERS GIVEN IMMEDIATE ATTENTION
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ALL THE LIGHT ON THE BOOK,
and none in the eyes is what makes
the electric light so superior for night
reading. And its brilliancy bring* out
the type with the utmost distinctive
ness so that reading is accompanied
by no strain on the eyes whatever.
Have you electricity in your hom*T
^Cordova Power
Company
LIGHTS WATER PHONES POWER
Office: FIRST STREET.
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| Copper River &
| Northwestern Ry. |
s Four Trains Weekly Between Chitina and Kennecott. ig
jijj Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mondays, Thun
| days and Saturdays. j:>
% Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays and
Fridays.
| Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays, Thun- gl
jjji days and Fridays. j|
* Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednesdays, gj
Thursdays and Saturdays. |
The above schedule subject to change without notioe. j|
Dining Car !n Connection With all Regular Peteengtr Train* Be
tween Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received ami delivered at Cordova w harf s|
i| from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m., except Sundays. &
'I'iekets on sale at Second Street depot, office one
p hour before departure of trains. p
| Caleb Corser W. E. Brown |
|; Superintendent. Agent Cordova Wharf. S
R. K. BROWN, Jr., Ticket Agent.