The Cordova Daily Times
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H. G. 8TEEL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 14, 1917.
CORDOVA TO BAT
The weather was ideal yesterday for baseball ami the play
ers ot the newly organized Cordova team gave an excellent ac
count of themselves in their initial game. As the season ad
vances and the boys get limbered up, they promise to give a fine
exhibition of the national game. VVe have the material for a
strictly tirst-elass club, and all that is now necessary is a little
practice.
Speaking of baseball, the Daily Times cannot too strongly
urge upon the fans the necessity of doing their bit to put the
park in better condition. The diamond needs fixing and the
outfield should be extended another hundred feet, filling in all
tin' holes so that the players can field any hit without fear of
meeting with an accident. To make these improvements it
will take $500 or $(!()(), of which amount Mayor Chase has
raised over $200, and will be glad to receive further subscrip
tions from those who have not already donated to this fund.
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MECHANICS NEED NOT FEAR CONSCRIPTION
Tlie skilled mechanic who may have religions or other ob
jections to war service need not fear conscription when the se
lective draft bill passes, as it seemer certain today it would
pass. The government is so anxious to build food carriers that
will prevent men, women and children in the old world from go
ing hungry, that any man who can qualify as a mechanic is cer
tain of employment, which will be in fact voluntary service in
feeding millions who are threatened by a food pinch. A bulle
tin issued by Henry M. White, United States commissioner of
immigration for the Washington district, says:
“The United States government employment service of the
department of labor has been instructed to make a thorough
canvass of the northwest, with the hope of securing the name
and address of every skilled mechanic who is qualified and will
ing to assist in building wooden vessels for the United States
government, which is required to meet the necessary prepara
tions for war. All men experienced as shipwrights or ship
carpenters, caulkers, and iron workers for wood ship construc
tion, who are willing to accept employment in such work are
urged to forward their name and address, together with a brief
statement as to their special line of work and experience, to the
office of the United States government employment service.
Seattle.
“In calling for applicants who are experienced as ship
builders there is no element of compulsion of service. The fil
ing of the application does not obligate any one to accept em
ployment, but is desired for the purpose of offering opportunity
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SEND ROOSEVELT; DEFEAT HIS ARMY PLAN.
Tremendous newspaper applause greets our ex-president
of 58 years who would face the foe on the field of battle at the
head of an army, though the approval of his particular project
is somewhat less unanimous,” says the Literary Digest in sum
marizing newspaper comment on the Roosevelt plea to be al
lowed to carry the American flag into the conflict somewhere
in France.
The selective draft bill passed the senate and house since
that was written. The senate bill was amended to provide for
the raising of a Roosevelt division outside tin* drafted army.
The house turned down a similar amendment and last week sen
ate and house conferees debated the Roosevelt plan.
It is to be hoped that the senate amendment will be defeat
ed. Not to keep Roosevelt from heading an American army in
France. There are few, it any, who would begrudge him that.
Most of us get the inspiration of the Henry Watterson vision of
the colonel’s march “to Champs Elysees, up through the Rue
Royale, passing the Madeline, out the boulevards to the Column
ot July, and thence, let us hope, across the Rhine.” But to per
mit him to raise a volunteer army outside the drafted army for
such inspiring service would be to take the very heart out of
America’s “first line.”
There is an inspiration in the very thought of service with
Roosevelt under the Stars and Stripes on the French battle
front, and the national guardsmen who already are virtually
in the government service, the men of the regular army, and the
very cream of American youth who will be selected for the
first unit of the great selective draft army should have the right
to hope that if as national guardsmen, as members of the regu
lar army, or as drafted men, they perfect themselves to the high
est state of fitness they will be the first to be picked for this in
spiring service under such a doughty leader.
Send Roosevelt, but let him pick his men from the cream
of the national guardsmen, the regulars and the drafted men,
and leave open to those who may not make the first selection
for service at the front the certainty that to the extent they
bring themselves to a state of military efficiency they may ex
pect to be selected for the inspiring work of the army.
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Every vessel has a flag, and every home, every office,
every store, every private and every public building should
have a flag.
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Vessels of our wooden war fleet which may escape German
divers will have a life of 18 to 20 years, say experts — so we are
building for peace as well as war.
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Thirteen may be an unlucky number, but the local ball
team piled up that many runs yesterday and did not allow the
navy team to get a man across the home plate.
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In order that our readers may keep posted on the price of
foodstuffs in the states, the Daily Times on Saturday printed
its first market report, which will hereafter be received twice a
week.
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The indications are that tonight’s dance, for the benefit of
the Belgium relief fund, will be largely attended and one of the
social events of the season. The ladies in charge of the arrange
ments have left nothing undone that will add to the comfort
and pleasure of those participatingdn this charitable movement.
MRS V. P ABBOTT
PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER
Windsor Hotel • •. Cordova.
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Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Room 1
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA
WM. A. HESSE
Mining Engineer,
U. 8. Mineral Surveyor,
U. 8. Deputy Surveyor.
BOX 13. CORDOVA, ALASKA
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DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug 8tore. ! i
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Alaskan Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
PHYSICAN AND SURGEON.
Office and Residence: Cordova
General Hospital (Ostrander Build
lng).
Phones—Residence 116; office 132. j
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DR. C. L. HALE
e E N T I B T
Specialty of
Porcelain, Inlay, Bridge Work!
Office: Over Blum, O’Neill's Store.
DR. CHARLES DAGGETT
AND
DR. HOMER BLYTH
DENTAL OFFICES
Suite 1, Northern Hotel Block.
Phone 200. Cordova, j
P. O. Box 186. Alaska. I
Hours: 9 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Evenings by Appointment.
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ROBERT SIMPSON
JUNEAU, ALASKA
Glasses Fitted. Lenses Ground.
HUBBELL & WALLER
Civil and Mining Engineers. „
U. 8. Mineral and Deputy Land Sur
veyors for Alaska.
1102 L. C. SMITH BLDG., SEATTLE.
PATENT SURVEYS
A. C. BALDWIN,
U. S. Mineral Surveyor.
VALDEZ . ALASKA
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SMITH & McCONAGHY
PLUMBERS AND STEAM FITTERS.
Cor. Front and B Streets.
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Boxes For Large Or Tray Service
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Howard & Lund
Contractors and Builders
Estimates Furnished.
PHONE 68. |
M. C. Thompson H. C. Murphy
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Thompson & Murphy, Prop*
Dealers in
WINES, LIQUORS AND
CIGARS
Phon# 107.
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Where We Can Always Kind Our
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Sixty Steam Heated Rooms Eietric 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
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PACIFIC STEAMSHIP <°
ADMIRAL LINE
-SAILINGS
From Cordova
Southbound Northbound
ADMIRAL WATSON ADMIRAL FARRAGUT
MAY 17 MAY 17
Sailings from Seattle—April 25, May 3, 11, 19, 28.
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Sailings From Seattle—Mondays, Fridays, Saturdays.
Steamers President. Governor. Admirals Schley and Dewev, Queen. |
Through Tickets to All Parts of the United States and Canada.
Right Reserved to Chance Schedule cf Steamers Without Notice.
FOR FULL PARTICULARS APPLY
W. A. NOLRSE, Agent. Empress Building.
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© ALASKA
Y STL AM SHIP CO.
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between 8eattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, Seward
April 28 . MARIPOSA . May 8
May 4. NORTHWESTERN .May 14
Sail from Cordova seven days later.
The freighters Cordova, Latoucliv, .Juneau, Valdez
and Eureka also make regular trips.
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers
without notice.
Tickets on sale at up town office Alaska Steamsnip Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not L« received at the deck later than one hour before
sailing time.
F. B. TRACY, S R. HEDGES,
General Agent Agent
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FOR GENERAL TEAMING, EAGGAGE
TRANSFERRED, AUTO SERVICE,
COAL AND WOOD.
ALASKA TRANSFER
COMPANY
UNEXCELLED WAREHOUSE FACILITIES
For Storing and Insuring Baggage,
Mdse and Household Goods.
Office—EMPRESS BUILDING, CORDOVA- -Phone 85
WHY NOT OWN YOUR OWN HOME?
Many families are Paying out from $2004o S500 in |
rent each year. Why not put that into a home of your |
own? |
Call on Geo. C. Hazelet, Trustee of the Townsite, and |l;l
6ee if it can’t be arranged. if
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j JVORTHERN MEAT MARKET j
WHOLESALE AMD RETAIL DEALERS IN |:|i
|| Fresh Beef, Fork, Veal. Mutton 1
11 and Provisions I
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;:jj Particular Attention and Prompt Service Given to order* from
MINING CAMPS, ROADHOUSES AND If
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Manhattan Hotel
R. W. FERRELL, Prop.
Electric Lighted. Hot Water. Turkish and Tub
Baths.
OPPOSITE CORDOVA GRILL, CORDOVA, ALASKA.
PHONE 99
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When Ordering Job Work Don't
Think It Is Your Duty to Build Up
Concerns In the States, But Give
1 The People Who Are Paying
! Wages and Spending Their Money
! In Cordova a Chance to Live.
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