THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaaka,
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THE CAHILL MAP.
Flyers in the proposed 1920
world-girdling air derby will not
travel by Mercator’s projection, but
by a new “butterfly” map devised
by B. J. S. Cahill, of Oakland, Cal.,
which has just been adopted by Ma
jor Charles J. Glidden, executive
secretary of the Aerial Derby com
mission, now on his way to the
Far East, and who gave the map
his approval before leaving San
Francisco.
Mr. Cahill, who is the originator
of San Francisco’s 112,000,000
“civic center” plan, said that an
aviator using the Mercator projec
tion as a guide would go 1,000
miles out of his why in a trip from
Panama to Yokohama. “If the
north pole were on an island a mile j
wide,” he said, “it would appear j
on Mercator’s projection to be 25,
000 miles wide, or nearly the total
circumference of the earth at the
equator.”
The inventor of the new map, \
who worked on his drawings fifteen j
years, said*that “an impartial and!
rational world geography is esseri-1
tial to world peace.” He said that
Mercator’s projection, which was
originally devised by the Belgian
cartographer as a guide for navi
gators, “distorted and . exaggerated
the earth as it receded from the
equator.” This, for instance, made
it appear as if South America were
much smaller than North America,
when, as a matter of fact, he said,
they were about the same area.
The Cahill map is as though an
actual sphere had been cut and
flattened, its appearance somew-hat
resembling the outspread wings of
a butterfly.
A nation looking unduly expand
ed on the map may easily, Mr. Ca
hill said, develop a sort of geo
graphical "big headedness,” inducing
an overbearing diplomacy. A na
tion whose territory is so unduly
exaggerated on the maps in com
mon use may well come to exag
gerate its i esources, its economic
strength. and even its virtues, and
so create an atmosphere anything
but conducive to mutual good will
and consequent world peace.
All problems of intercommunica
tion by sea, land or air, are baf
fling and misleading on Mercator’s
chart, says Mr. Cahill, but simple
and obvious on the “butterfly” map.
a further aid to mutual knowledge
and understanding.
“Internationalism, now a sporadic
and occasional thing, but destined
in the future to be the keynote of
all human endeavor, plays an im
portant part in the science of sta
tistics and meteorology," said Mr.
Cahill. “Graphical statistics are self
contradictory and ludicrous on Mer
cator’s chart, and as for indicating
the progress of high and low pres
sure rings in weather charts, the
ever-changing scale on Mercator’s
was simply bewildering to the fore
caster who had to use them. The
new map, by showing all lands in
their true proportion and form, he
declares, would help materially in
solving peacefully problems dealing
with the world as a whole.
SPIRITS IN IRELAND.
The importation of many thou
sands of gallons of whisky from
America, as a result of prohibition
in the United States, has caused
alarm in the Irish distilling trade.
War restrictions have greatly
hampered the Irish trade. The dis
tillers were prevented in the 1916
17 season from making the usual
quantity of whisky. Next year they
were closed down altogether, and
even in the present year were only
permitted to make a reduced sup
ply. The prices, of course, went up,
and distillery shares advanced in the
stock exchanges.
The American whisky can easily
be sold at a lower price than the
Irish article, and it is being freely
taken up by the Irish retailers. One
provincial bonder is said to have
paid nearly 1200,000 in duty on his
consignment. What the distillers
are most afraid of is that the Am
erican spirit may be blended or
“faked-up” and sold as Irish or
Highland whisky.
One interesting fact stated in the
Dublin papers is that a; present no
American whisky is sold in Dublin
as such.
FEAR RUSSIA.
A great many Russians who
fought in the armies of former
Czar Nicholas prefer li^e in a Ger
man military prison camp to an un
certain existence in their own land,
according to Captain G. V. Oill, who
recently returned to the United
States from Berlin, where he was
engaged in special work for the
Inter-Allied commission. For six
months Captain Oill worked among
Russian prisoners of war in Ger
many, examining them for symp
toms of tuberculosis and seeing that
those affected were given proper
care.
"Six hundred thousand Russian*
were held as prisoners of war in
Germany when I went there last
March,” Captain Oil! said. “When
I left, about 2,000 had been re
patriated by the Inter-Allied com
mission. In the interval, conditions
in German prison camps had beer
improved greatly. Good food was
being served the prisoners when I
left, and the general rules of sani
tation were being observed.”
Captain Oill said many Russians
who were repatriated by the Inter
Allied commission returned to the
strict discipline of the German pris
on camps in preference to affiliating
themselves with "free society” un
der soviet government in their own
country.
COAL FOR POTASH.
The German Potash syndicate is
negotiating with America again,
says the North German Gazette,
which believes it will be able to
reach an agreement in regard to
the exchange of potash for Ameri
can coal.
Negotiations took place between
the Germans and Americans last
spring, but failed, says the paper,
because America still thought it
could rely on its own substitute for
[potash and refused the German of
[fers, whereupon Germany sold hei
! output, which was intended for ,th<
i United States, to Sweden.
Negotiations, says the Berlin pa
per, have now been resumed to en
able the German potash mines, oi
which 120 are crippled through lack
of coal, while others have only 2"
percent enough fuel, to buy Ameri
can coal with dollars and recoup by
selling potash to America at dollai
rates.
Other negotiations are also unde!
way between Germany and Holland
for milk and dairy products in ex
change for potash.
WOMEN IN FINLAND.
An astonishing sight for the
stranger in Finland is the numbei
of women engaged in almost every
field of employment, says an Asso
ciated Press correspondent, writing
from Helsingfors. In England dur
ing the war one became accustomed
to the sight of women performins
various kinds of work in which
previously only men were engaged
But in Finland the visitor gets the
impression that the women are do
ing everything. They even serve as
porters on sleeping-cars.
Not only are they at heavy manu
al work in fields and factories, but
they have become skilled as me
chanics and have invaded business
offices to an extent that is probably
undreamed of in any other country.
In banks, the proportion of wom
en employes to men appears to be
about 10 to 1. In the biggest finan
cial institutions in Helsingfors, wom
en hold positions involving great re
sponsibility and calling for excep
tional ability.
At the Finnish foreign office, the
correspondent noticed that women
were holding offices that would be
entirely beyond the aspirations of
their sisters in the state depart
ment at Washington or the British
foreign office.
This change has come about al
most overnight. Finland’s man pow
er has been greatly depleted, and a
large part of what is left is required
for military service.
The Finnish business woman is
remarkably keen and intelligent. She
has a kind of masculine interest and
absorption in her work that seems
to admit of no margin for senti
ment or frivolity. She dresses sim
ply and smartly, as do the majority
of the city-bred women of that
country. An American walking
through the principal streets of Hel
singfors might well believe, judg
ing from the costumes and brisk
walk of the Finnish women, that he
was in the heart of Chicago.
Woodbury’s Facial Soap and othei
standa-d toilet soaps. Fowler &
Morris.
NOTICE.
The School Tax Roll is now a1
the Townsite office, where paymenl
of school taxes will be accepted.
The valuations of lots have beer
readjusted, with very few excep
tions. and cut fifty per cent. The
rate for this year is four mills, £
cut of one mill over last year, mak
ing a considerable saving to th<
taxpayer.
Notices of School taxes have beer
made to all taxpayers where known
If taxes are not paid on or before
January 15, 1920. a penalty of ter
per cent will be added. If not pair
on or before .July 15, 1920, interes;
will be charged at the rate oi
twelve per cent per annum.
H. B. 35, Chapter 5, Section 4
AH taxes levied and assessed by
the board of school directors undei
this act shall be a lien upon the
property assessed and such lier
shall be prior and paramount to al'
other liens and encumbrances, and
may be foreclosed by an appropri
ate action in any court of compe
tent jurisdiction.
The owner of property assessed
shall be personally liable for the
amount of taxes assessed against
such property and such taxes, to
gether with penalties and interest,
may be collected after the same
become due, in a personal action
WANT ADS
FOR SALE-—Six-horse barn,
quire at Nenana House.
In
tf
COOK wanted for railroad camp.
Inquire Alec Kalisoff, at Arctic.
Fresh Groceries, Fancy and Sta
pie. Fowler & Morris.
Dr. J. R. 80WEN
DENTIST
Prices Most Reasonable
THE BOWEN BUILDING
r.s. McDonald
Public Stenography Typewriting
Bookkeeping Conveyancing
REAL ESTATE
RENTALS LOANS
LIFE INSURANCE
FIRE INSURANCE
Only tbe most reliable companies
Safety Deposit Boxes
For Rent.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
ALASKAN ENGINEERING
COMMISSION
Office of the Townsite Manager.
Nenana, Alaska, Dec. 2, 1919.
Notice of Delinquency in the Pay
ment of Assessments on the Fol
lowing Lots, Nenana Townsiie:
Lot.
6
7
11
1
2
3
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
2
12
13
14
15
16
17
15
19
16
2
6
10
13
14
15
16
8
9
15
Block
1
1
1
2
13
1
12
1
I S
8
11
14
17
18
19
21
22
6
8
n
4
11
R
9
8
9
10
1
8
8
8
11
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
18
19
21
22
22
22
22
22
23
23
25
10
13
3
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i 8
112
> 8
13
25
25
26
33
41
45
45
46
54
54
54
55
55
55
55
56
56
57
Amount.
...$103.17
103.17
... 103.17
... 114.72
... 90.54
... 36.21
170.54
170.54
170.54
170.54
... 170.54
170.54
317.54
... 208.52
... 102.74
16.26
70.69
169.21
56.63
56.62
56.63
56.61
56.63
56.63
... 20.92
42.53
27.93
43.47
25.92
25.92
25.92
27.95
29.90
... 28.27
34.10
86.48
... 208.52
... 115.38
... 107.24
134.29
134.29
99.11
93.01
66.12
63.65
86.48
78.35
78.35
88.52
88.52
... 88.52
88.52
85.00
92.58
20.12
1.61
12.19
24.96
40.25
42.28
41.37
87.74
9.30
6.02
6.02
9.11
5.83
48.22
... 45.46
2.03
70.26
8.13
... 20.73
•5.31
19.37 j
19.35 1
37.28
18.71
20.12
1.51
4.88
... 5.08
3.55
If the above assessments together
with 10 per cent, penalty are not
paid on or before January 1, 1920,
the lots will be reported for for
feiture, and title revert to the Gov
ernment according to Circulars
(Nos. 458 and 554.
CARL SCHMIDT,
k J-2 Towitsite Manager
brought in the name of the £
district against suet owner in
court of competent jurisdiction.
CARL SCHMIDT,
Assessor, Nenana School Board.
FRESH STOCK
Groceries, Clothing and Footwear
SAVE TIME AND MONEY
All Necessities for Trail and Camp
GO TO
FOWLER & MORRIS
[ We Strive to Please
EVERYTHING THE BEST
Tavern Cafe and Bakery
WM. ROOIGKEIT
Proprietor
A Thoroughly Modern Hotel
Tom Smith, Prop.
NENANA HOUSE
Just Come in and Sit Down and Look Oit.
•I
MRS. A. B. EASTERLY, Propriety...
DR. R.R. MYERS
DENTIST
ARCTIC HOTEL
NENANA LODGE No. 1193
L. 0. 0. M.
HEETS AT MOOSE HALL
Fourth and B Streets
Second and Fourth Mondays
At 8:00 P. M.
ILEX FOWLER M. V. TYLER,
Secretary Dictator.
Dfiptrtment of Ibc Interim
Alultu Engineering Commission
NOTICE
Passengers are required to pur
ehase tickets before entering trains
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is in
the employment office, on the ground
floor of the General Office Building.
Alaskan Engineering Commission, or
at Camp 415 (North Nenana).
Tickets will be on sale at any
time during office hours, and can be
purchased in sufficient time before
the departure of the trains.
Regular trains for tha south leave
the foot of A street on Wednesday,
and Saturdays at 8 a. m., and from
Camp 415 (No-th N'enana), for
Fairbanks, Tuesdays and Fridays, at
1 p. m.
The following is the schedule be
tween North Nenana and Fairbar.k.
subject to change without notice:
Leave Fairbanks at 7:00 a. m .
arrive North Nenana, 11:30 a. m
Leave North Nenana 1:00 p. m .
arrive Fairbanks, 5:30 p. m.
No tickets will be sold crossing
the river. Those intending to trav
el to Fairbanks must make the r
own arrangements for reaching
North Nenana.
Trappers and Traders of Alaska
SELL YOUR FURS TO A HOME INDUSTRY. WE GUARANTEE
YOU HIGHER PRICES THAN OUTSIDE
CONCERNS WILL PAY.
Daring the last season we conducted an advertising campaign
throughout the North and are prepared to send you the names of
people in all sections of Alaska and the Yukon who will verify our
statements.
Our excellent Eastern connections, and the tremendous amount
of mail order business we are receiving from all parts of the
States for furs made to order enables us to turn our stock quickly
at a reasonable profit, but we must have fur, for which we guar
antee top prices.
Make us a trial shipment. If our price doe* not suit you. the
goods will be returned charges prepaid.
WE MAKE FURS TO ORDER
at more reasonable rates than can be obtained Outside. At present
we are working three operators, and need others. If you are an
operator and finisher, and want a good year-around job, com
municate with us.
CHAS. GOLDSTEIN & CO.
JUNEAU, ALASKA