The Cordova Daily Times
Entered at the Postoffice at Cordova, Alaska. a» second class matter.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Single Copies .$ .10 Six Months (In advance) .$ 6.00
One Month . 1.00 One Year (In advance)...10.00
H. Q. STEEL, EDITOR. AND PROPRIETOR.
CPRUUVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1**17.
AMERICAN PEOPLE GETTING NERVOUS
Those small and wilful groups of United States senators
are getting on the nerves of Americans generally. Now it is
the great air navy bill that is to be held up. Senators Lafol
jette and Gronna and several other constitutional dissenters,
have decided that certain features of the measure are not .just
to their liking, so they propose to talk and talk some more about
it, while the whole nation waits anxiously for the launching of
an aircraft war program that the war experts tell us is to be
one of the big, if not tile biggest, factor in bringing the war
with Germany to a successful conclusion.
For weeks and weeks the senate Inis dilly-dallied with the
food bill, and today seems little nearer a conclusion on it than
it was weeks ago. Meanwhile the need for some sort of such
legislation grows until it has become a national crisis. Business
affairs that will be affected by this legislation are up in the air.
Nobody knows whether he is afoot or horseback, from the food
producer clear throligh a long line of middlemen to the con
Sumer.
The American people are not asking that any snap judg
meats be taken. They do not want congress to rush measures
through helter-skelter with but a glance at their contents, but
they do want and have a right to expect of the men they have
sent to congress, quick and final judgments after all the facts
available concerning pending legislation has been obtained.
When the house is afire men must decide quickly what is best
to lie done, and with war’s flames mounting skyward and the
American nation in the midst of the conflagration it is up t<
congressmen and senators to decide quickly every matter that
comes before them.
To block deliberately a war measure when the majority if
ready to decide one way or the other is to give aid to tin
enemy, and the men who do it should be pilloried as traitors.
-:o:
NOT A BRILLIANT EXAMPLE
According to tlio statistics and political ballistics compiled
by Lionel Wiener, writing for the Railway Gazette, of London
South America is affording the World a new and bright lessor
in the failure of government ownership of railways by demo
cracies.
“One and all,” lie writes, “have shown the same results,
owing mainly to the creeping in of politics in their manage
ment; too many employees whom it has been deemed (inadvis
able to discharge; bad service, and rolling stock that carelesi
management has allowed to decay; construction of expensive
unnecssary lines; costly exploitation yielding an annua
deficit.”
Proceeds he then to set forth the damaged wares. One line
after another, subjected to the nursing of politicians, whoops
up expenses and tears down efficiency, until in instances the
lines were paying as high as $164 for each $100 worth of busi
ness done. Switched to private control, expenses immediately
fell in heaps that scandalized the public treasuries and service
improved.
Mr. Wiener’s opinion is that public ownership throughout
South America is a creaking failure, proved by the expense
sheets of the lines and the great number of lines that have boon
leased or sold to private companies.
The subject has a hearty throb in it for those of us who live
north of the equator. The next election may bring the question
of government ownership directly to issue, and there is nn
» doubting the fact that a great number of Americans favor it,
politics, grab, inefficiency and all, and they are likely to con
tinue to favor it until the country shall have tried it out in its
own way, probably at a waste of some billions of dollars.
-:o:
Russia’s new-found liberties continue to be the greatest
danger to her freedom. Soldiers invading newspaper offices,
demanding seizure of all lands and properties, and the redirec
tion of the press to suit the notions of the soldier class, are not
promising signs of prosperity and peace, and a firm adherence
to the program of war which is necessary if the allies are to
close the thing up-soon.
-:o:
Alaska dogs have received notable honors m the western
battle front, where they carried 90 tons of shells to an isolated
post under a terribfe fire in the course of a howling blizzard.
That was only part of a day’s work for a malamute, whose
favorite fare is red hot shrapnel and who isn’t happy when he
doesn’t feel the sting of a rival’s fang in his flank.
*-:o:
The way Germany keeps the world in suspense over report
ed peace overtures recalls the story oMhe man in the hotel
room who dropped one shoe on the floor and kept the fellow in
the room below awake all night waiting for the other to fall.
-:o:
A noted Englishman who was much entertained here said
of America on his return to London: “It is a land of a hundred
million souls, mostly after dinner speakers.” It is well to hear
ourselves as others hear us.
—*-:o -
Magazines will be carried to our soldiers in France for one
cent each, which is a fine thing for the soldiers, but another un
canny wallop at our postal inconsistencies.
-:o:
It looks as if it might be a case with the German of pucker
ing his facade into his most drefful frown while asking for
peace.
-:o:
These days of stress are not very favorable for study of
Browning.
* -:0:.
News of Russian victories carries us back to the fall of 11*14.
Without the dark forces at Petrograd the dark days of 1915
ought not to be repeated.
---;0:
Attempts to classify Germany’s new chancellor has all the
excitement of comet chasing.
7 hey let you know
you are smoking—
they "SATISFY'7
20 for 10c
Chesterfield
CIGARETTES
of IMPORTED and DOMESTIC tobaccos-Blmded
I_SAVE MONEY!
COME TO THE BARGAIN STORE
Ai.d see wliat we have in the line of workmen’s clothing,
hei’x, mattresses and canvas goods of all kinds, tents and
shovels, kitchenware, furniture, stoves, etc. We also
carry a full line of mirrors plate glass and plain.
THE NORTHERN BLOCK
First Street
I . .. ........-...—____
I SAFETY FIRST I
MODERN LAUNDRY I
F. A. Jones, Proprietor
An Up To Date Steam Laundry
I Experienced Capable Employes
SANITARY
Clothes Thoroughly Washed and
Sterilized No Contamination
SERVICE
Quick Work - Reliable - Courteous
Out of Town Work Given
Careful, Prompt Attention
PHONE 66
WE AIM TO PLEASE
1st Avenue Below Alaskan Hotel
WM. A, HESSE
Mining Engineer,
U. 8. Mineral Surveyor.
0. 8. Deputy Surveyor.
■OX 13. CORDOVA, ALASKA
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Stors. Rsaldanoo.
Alaskan Hatsl
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
PHYSICAN AND SURGEON.
Office and Residence: Cordova
General Hospital (Ostrander Build
ing).
Phones—Residence U6; office 132. '
*
---LT_ I'.If
DR. 0. L. HALE
DENTIST
Specialty of
Porcelain, Inlay, Bridge Work
Office: Over Blum, O’Neill’s Store.
--LI in
DR. CHARLES DAGGETT
AND
DR. HOMER BLYTH
DENTAL OFFICES
Suite 1, Northern Hotel Block.
Phone 200. Cordova,
P. O. Box 186. Alaska.
Hours: 9 a. m. to • p. m.
Evenings by Appointment.
JOS. MILLER
OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN
Room 10, O'Brien A Simpson Bldg.
ROBERT SIMPSON
JUNEAU, ALA8KA
Glasses Fitted. Lenses Ground.
HUBBELL & WALLER
Civil and Mining Engineers.
U. 8. Mineral and Deputy Land Sur
veyors for Alaska.
1102 L. 6. S^TH BLOG., SEATTLE.
WILLIAM PALLISTEr7m.D.
Specialist In the treatment of
diseases and deformities of the
eye, ear, note and throat; glasses
fitted.
JUNEAU GENERAL HOSPITAL.
PATENT SURVEYS
A. C. BALDWIN,
U. 8. Mineral Surveyor.
VALDEZ . ALA3KA
E. F. MEDLEY.
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Room 1
loams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA
SMITH & McCONAGHY
PLUMBERS AND STEAM FITTER8.
Cor. Front and B Streets.
Office Open Evenings.
When Ordering Job Work Don't
Think It is Your Duty to Build Up
Concern* In the State*, But Qlva
The People Who Are Paying
Wage* and Spending Their Money
In Cordova a Chance to Live.
0-12 :
. 3
The jj
Northern J
- ► i <
- :J
;; s
For the Beat Brand* of |
wines, i;
LIQUORS i
AND
CIGARS
. < ►
i > _ < >
' 1 eiiliHHrilMliiiiiiiaiHBHHHBflBMMNl 4 1
<» . .
Call at the
POPULAR CORNER
First Arrant and C Street 3!
. . < >
.♦♦♦♦H+mrHrrttmrmi q
f ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
’ Pm* and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketoh
Ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova. Valdez, Seward
July 12. NORTHWESTERN _July 24
July 18.A LEM EDA.July 24
Sail from Cordova seven days later.
The freighters Cordova, Latouche, Juneau, YTaldoz
and Eureka also make regular trips.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of eteamers
without notice.
Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not bo received at the dock later than ona hour before
sailing time.
F. B. TRACY, S R. HEDGES,
_0«n«fl *B*nt Agsnt
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP <3
ADMIRAL LINE
SAILINGS PROM SBATTLK JULY 22 So. AUGUST 7 15 23 31
SAILINGS FROM CORDOVA
8outhbound Westbound
July 26 ^July 28th
August 3rd j August 5th
August 12th V August mh
August 19 > August 21st
~ V" •" " ■
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Steamers President, Governor, Admirals Schley and Dewey, Queen.
Through Tickets to All Parts of the United States and Canada.
Right Reserved to Chance Schedule of Steamers Without Notice.
FOR FULL PARTICULARS APPLY
W. A. NOURSE, Agent. Empress Building, j
K~ ~ —
-—— i _„____
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN ^
Fresh Beef, Pork, Yeal, Mutton |
and Provisions
j -- 8
Particular Attention and Prompt Service Given to orders from §
MINING CAMPS, ROADHOUSES AND
INTERIOR POINTS
SMITH & GLASBRENNER, Props. I
six:*****#*
~ ' "■ 1 1 ■ ...
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
| Foos Gas Entries I
4 to 530 Horse Power jjjj
General Electric Motors |
Roebling Tramways
Pelton Water Wheels
Chicago Oil Engines and Compressors
| I
| Harmon Machinery Co Inc f
Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting
CORDOVA, ALASKA
ASK FOK THE “ SHELDON SERVICE ” I
Sheldon Auto Stage Line 1
Twice-a-Week Service, Cliitina to Fairbanks.
Cars Leave Each End Tuesdays and Saturdays. I
FARE *75.00 40 p0(JNDS BAGGAGE FREE. I
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ADDRESS |
ROBERT SHELDON, Owner and Manager CHI1INA, ALASKA |