PURELY LOCAL
Mrs. E. Griffith of Gulkana is spend
ing a few days in town.
Dr. Parker of Kodiak arrived in
town on yesterday’s boat.
The steamship Northwestern is not
due from Seattle until 9 o’clock to
night.
Mrs. W. H. Lindig is a returning
passenger from a trip to the States on
the steamship Northwestern.
John Dineen, who was recently dis
charged from the army, is returning
to Cordova on the Northwestern.
The steamship Victoria, on her way
south from Nome, left Seward at 1:30
p. m. today, and will call at this port.
Dr. Schwartz, who is physician for
the Chilkat Oil Company and Bering
River Coal Company, came over from
Katalla to spend a few days here.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Leach, Miss
Bessie DeLeo, Gretchen DeLeo and E.
F. Medley returned this morning from
a trip to Valdez as the guests of Capt.
Harry Moore and Manager McConaghy
of the Pioneer company.
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Mr. and Mrs. Danilo Vucetich of An
chorage are spending a week in Cor
dova, on an extended trip to the
States. Mr. Vucetich is connected
with the Bank of Anchorage, but he is
stopping over here to attend to im
portant business matters in connection
with the Italian consulate, which he
represents.
AMERICAN-BORN BOY
LEADS BIG ORCHESTRA
IN CLASSIC PROGRAMS
ROME, July 17 (Correspondence of
Associated Press).—Willy Ferrero,
aged 13, who leads 100-piece orchestras
in selections of Wagner, Beethoven,
Grieg and others, is an American, and
was born in Portland, Me. The child
has attracted the attention of Europe
since he was four years old, but it
was only recently that his American
birth was revealed by his parents
who are Italian.
The father told the Associated Press
correspondent that Willy carried an
American passport, but that his name
thereon was William Ferrero, a name
he had chosen for him while he had
worked in Maine when the child was
born.
The father said that at the age of
two the lad was brought to Italy,
whither his parents were returning to
take up their residence in their old
home in Turin. When Willy was four
he began his musical career, leading
an orchestra in the Folies Bergere, in
Paris. A year later he appeared in
the Costanza theater, Rome, where
for the first time he led an orchestra
of 100 pieces. The program was com
posed of Wagnerian, Beethoven and
other heavy selections.
The child took his orchestra before
Emperor Nicholas in 1913, and con
ducted two concerts for the monarch.
In the same year his orchestra was
filling an engagement in London, and
he was commanded to appear before
Queen Alexandra of England at Marl
borough house. He appeared before
Pope Benedict XV in 1916.
In April, 1915, just before Italy’s
declaration of war, Willy was present
ed with the gold medal by the Italian
minister of education, after he had
made a successful appearance in the
Augusteum, where he had conducted
an orchestra and chorus aggregating
500 participants.
All the players in the orchestra are
men of long musical experience.
IMPORTATION OF PLANTS
BARRED ON ACCOUNT
OF MENACE OF INSECTS
BRUSSELS, June 12 (by mail).—
The City of Ghent, which is noted for
its magnificent botanical garden, is
greatly concerned over the ruling of
the American Department of Agricul
ture, prohibiting the importation of
live plants owing to danger of insect
infection. It is stated that this will
mean a yearly loss of business am
ounting to two million dollars.
As no shipments have been made to
America for the last three years it
is felt that Americans have no proof
as to the existence of insect menace,
and the authorities have requested
through the Consular channels that
an American expert be sent to Ghent
to test the soil and plants, in the
hope that the prohibition will be
withdrawn.
We always have a supply of
pasteurized sweet milk and cream on
hand. Also buttermilk and Bulgarian
buttermilk. City Dairy. Phone 187.
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Alaska has one more undeveloped 2
asset, capable of being exploited into ;
a perpetual sourfce of millions, in the %
marvelous Valley of the Smokes. This 2
is the assurance brought back from ;
Mount Katmai by the expedition of 2
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the Beaux-Art Features Co. of Los •
Angeles, whose producing company 2
has been in the valley making proto- 2
play scenes for use in forthcoming •
screen features. 2
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When the Katmai volcano erupted •
in 1912 and covered thousands of 2
square miles with ash and pumice, 2
killing all the vegetation and game, •
and wiping out more than one set- 2
tlement, it was regarded as a great •
calamity. But the eruption uncov- 2
ered a strange formation which is •
declared to be one of the wonders of •
the world, exceeding in beauty the 2
Yellowstone and other great national 2
parks; and already there is a move- j
ment on foot to develop tourist traffic 2
to this extraordinary freak of na- •
ture.
Besides the scenic possibilities, 2
which will shortly be shown on the ®
screen in Beaux-Art pictures, the 2
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valley is said to possess vast depos- •
its of practically pure sulphur, arse- 2
nic and other chemical elements. •
Black sand was found in profusion in 2
the beds of the streams, a fact de- •
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serving the attention of prospectors. 2
The atmosphere resulting from the •
unique association of steam, hot mud «
and the eternal snows w'hich ring •
the vallev, is remarkably bracing, t
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Sufferers from rhuematism, dyspepsia 2
and other ailments, it is declared, g
will be benefited if not entirely cured •
by a short stay in the valley. 1 2
“The finest pot of beans imagina- ;
ble,” said Miss Dixie Dawson, the 2
company’s leading lady, “is what any j
amateur cook can cook in the Valley l
of Smokes. You just cover your pork 2
and beans in snow water, rie the «
lid on the pot and let it into one of 2
the steam holes. Forget it for five ;
hours or five days if you like—it wont «
burn or dry out. Oatmeal, rice and •
other foods are cooked in the same *
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w'ay. There is no wood in the val- J
ley, so you can’t fry or broil, but we \
found out how to bake the most de
licious bread. We had to carry in our j ’
tent poles from a point seven miles
iway, where the last of the dead cot
onwoods, blasted by the volcano,
were not entirely buried by the pu
nice.”
The “smokes,” literaly thousands of
them, are clouds of jets of steam tin
ier various pressures, emitted from
holes and huge caverns in the solid
ified volcanic clay. The entire valley
which is shaped something like a clo
ser leaf, seems to be gradually solid
ifying. According to the Indian
?uide who found the trail for the mo
tion picture party, many miles of the
hot mud, now safe to cross, were in
semi-liquid condition a year ago when
he was there.
In one of the three arms of the
valley is a “live” glacier of consider
able size, at the foot of which is a
beautiful cobalt-blue lake of hot wat
er. In another arm is situated the
Falling Mountain, down whose face i
inclined at an angle of about 50 de
grees to the horizontal, roll contin-1
ually huge boulders, broken off from
the snow-caped peaks by variations
of temperature.
These and other unique points of
interest are capable of being reached
by automobile from an advantageous
site for a hotel on the high ground
where the camp of the picture expe
dition was pitched. Indeed, the en
tire thirty-two miles of the valley, it
is said, can be made into a boulevard
for motor cars at moderate expense.
While the thirt^rfive mile trail
over which the party “mushed” is
very difficult, lying through long
grass and burnt alders, over ranges
of pumice stone and up the beds of
painted streams, investigation shows
that an easier way into the valley is
possible by aut6mobie road of not
more than eighteen miles.
From samples of the many thous
ands of feet of film exposed in the
cameras of the Beaux-Art photograph
ers, it is evident that the surpassing
beauty and strangeness of the valley
will appeal to hundreds of tourists,
who will no longer be satisfied merely
to make the round trip along the
ccast, but will demand transportation
and accommodations which will ena
ble them to see “the show place of
Alaska.”
Electricity for service, that’s why
ye sell electric waffle Irons, toasters,
grills, toast-stoves, immersion heaters,
jurling irons, cozy-glow heaters,
md everything. Northwestern Hard
yare company.
Tub and shower baths at the Holden
pool room barber shop. 9-tf
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