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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME Otf E
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA. M.A3KA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 19918
WHOLE NUMBER 220
x NATIONAL GUARD WILL BE DISBANDED
PADEREWSKI WILL FOUND NEW POLISH EMPIRE
GOVERNORS FAVOR CONFERENCE FAR FROM CAPITAL
Governors of States and Territories
Want to Confer Far Away
From Washington.
SEATTLE.—A special dispatch to
the Seattle P.-I. from Washington
says that the Governors’ conference
next year will meet either at Utah
or Alaska, preferably in Alaska, as
the governors want to go as far
away from Washington as possible.
At the conference of governors
held this year near Washington, the
complaint was made by some of the
governors that cabinet officers took
up much of their conference time.
CHINK DELEGATES
REACH VICTORIA
Chinese Peace Delegates On the
Way to Europe, Are Due In
Seattle Today.
SEATTLE.—The Chinese dele
gates to the peace conference ar
rived at Victoria, B. C. today and
is expected to reach here at noon
on their way to London.
Lou Tsiang, Chinese minister of
foreign affairs, heads the delegation.
The;y refuse to state their terms.
DECORATIONS ON
ELABORATE SCALE
TO HONOR WILSON
LONDON.—or the first time sines
the outbreak of the lat war, an
organized Scheme for the decoration
of the streets on a magnificent scale
has been arranged for the visit of
President Wilson
The entire route from the rail
road station to Buckinham Palace
is being elaborately and system
atically decked with standards linked
by streamers.
The Stars and Stripes is the pre
dominant feature in the whole de
coration scheme.
The banqueting arrangements
made for President Wilson are
similar to those made for the king
of Denmark when that sovereign
visited England recently.
The banquet room in Buckinham
Palace has been decorated in white
and gold.
S. B. Waite is leaving for Fair
banks tomorrow morning on a brief
visit to his daughter.
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PEACE CONFERENCE
PRACI1CAE SEEP
NATIONAL LEAGUE
l
Grey Says Peace Confe-ence Is
Practically A League of
Nations.
LONDON.—Viscount Grey, for
mer British foreign secretary, de
| dared today that the coming peace
conference affords the greatest
opportunity for a practical step in
the formation of a league of nations.
He said that it will not be neces
sary to create a league of nations
from the conference, as the confer
ence in itself will constitute the vital
beginning of the proposed league of
nations, the formation of which has
concerned the nations so much
lately and which has been so widely
discussed.
Viscount Grey declared that the
peace conference should be con
sidered a- permanent organization
and that it should keep itself alive
by adjourning.
WILSON TU talk
10 CONGREGATION
CARLISLE^ CHURCH
President Is Invited to Address
Congregation In Grandfather’s
Church.
CARLISLE, England—Reverend
Edward Booth, pastor of the Con
gregational church here, which was
built by President Wilson’s maternal
grandfather when he was minister
ing to the flock of Carlisle several
years ago, has asked President Wil
son to address the congregation
next Sunday.
| President Wilson’s visit to his
: maternal grandfather’s home is al
most coincident with his sixty-second
' birthday, which occurs on Saturday.
POltsTo CONFER
WITH THE CZECHS
■ Disposition of Czech Claims to
Austrian Silesia Will Be
Amicably Settled.
j -
• VIENNA.—A Polish delegation is
now on its way to Prague for the
! purpose of conferring with the
I Czechs regarding their claims to
Austrian Silesia.
It is confidently expected that an
| amicable agreement will be reached
| and all disputes settled finally.
SPECIAL MEETING
OF NENANA C.MJB
M. J. Croney, president o the
Nenena cuib, announces that a s~e
cial meeting o. :he club will be het 1
at 8 p. m. sT ir>. on Thursday night,
December 2o, at *he club rooms.
Business of g cat importance wi.
be up for discr sion and all tr~m
ber<> of >be club are urged to I >. in
attendance.
LYNN COAL SHOWS
MUCH IMPROVEMENT
—
| The quality of the coal mined
at the Lynn coal mine has during
; the past two weeks shown a great
improvement in quality and in her.t
l ing units, and indications point to
| the fact that the vein of coal he is
1 working on has been penetrated to a
i sufficient depth to ensure the re
! covery of a good grade of lignite
i coal with the chances of further im*
\ provement in quality as the miners
| penetrate deeper.
I An erroneous impression appears
to exist in the minds of some people
regarding the coal mined by Lynn,
as evidenced by the statement ap
pearing in a recent issue of the
Alaska Citizen, and some wild
speculation around town as to its
utter unfitness as an economic fuel,
a representative of the News inter
viewed F. D. Browne, engineer in
: charge, and gleaned the following
particulars regarding the coal and
its use by the Alaskan Engineering
i commission as fuel in the power
, and heating plants.
The Alaskan Engineering com
mission was fully aware of the fact
: that the vein of coal on which Lynn
was working was a very young coal,
(just a little better than peat. A
[ sufficient pressure of the earth
j had not been exerted to expel the
j greater part of the moisture from
. the coal, and consequently the coal
, found here was considered inferior
j to the coal found in the Lignite
i country and at the Burns mine,
i which is situated within a mile or
j two of the lignite coal fields.
The fret shipments of coal re
; ceived in Nenana and used by the
j Commision were known to be sur
I face coal and not much was ex
| pected of it. A third of its bulk
; almost was water and although it
was known that with a little drying
very satisfactory results might be
obtained, it was used in its raw
state owing to the great scarcity
of fuel. This first shipment ar
rived in Nenana on November 14,
and was used in the boiler which
j supplies heat to the engine house
' and machine shop. This fuel has
been in use here almost continuously
since that date.
Coal was first used in the power
plant on November 25, and here too
it became necessary, owing to al
most a fuel famine, to use the coal
in its raw state without any attempt
being made to dry it even slightly.
It has been in use at the power
plant almost continuosly since and is
still in use.
At the start, and for a few days
when the A. E. C. were forced to
use this surface coal, wood had to
be used with the coal, owing to the
large percentage ..of dirt and ashes
left in the fire box and ash pit.
Mr. Browne also pointed out that
lignite is a coal that requires some
experience to handle rightly and the
firem- at the power and heating
plants did ; it know, at first, the.
1 rigtifc metl. 'c to employ in using the
' coal, to get the best results. They
je e ow getting used to its idiosyn
| acies and the consequence is that
-r. ’> better results are n'.w readily
' ib ■ 4,
I / * si te before, the Commission
.ff:,ial? wj" well aware of tbe fact
..hat the coa- was practically surface
coal and of a noor quality at that.
also that nearly a third of its bulk
was composed of water, but they had
hoped that sooner or later Lynn
would reach a depth and recover a
better grade of coal, and in the
meantime were prepared to use such
coal as they could get until the lig
nite fields had been reached.
1 The coal received from the Lynn
mine for the past two weeks has
! been of a muclr superior grade to
' the first consignments, and is also
showing' a steady improvement in
quality.
| As it will take at least three
weeks' to reach the Burns mine, near
the Lignite fields, and in view of
' the fact that the coal from the
mine at Mile 29 (Lynn’s) is daily
‘ showing a marked improvement, Mr.
Browne is now considering the ad
, visability of putting up a dryer
near the Lynn mine of sufficient
| capacity to handle all the coal that
1 will be needed for all purposes in
I Nenana. With a very little drying,
' the coal has shown a very marked
, improvement in qualities of com
i bustion and heating units. A car
load of coal that was not needed for
| immediate use was run into the en
gine house and was left there for
several hours, with the result fhat
the slight drying >the coal was sub
jected to made a lot of difference
when it was used.
It had not been found possible
to conduct a fair test, for various
reasons, but Mr. Browne said that
just as soon as a representative of
the Bureau of Mines can come down
! to Nenana, a systematic test will be
1 made.
i
In the meantime, the coal is be
ing used right along in the boilers
of the power plant and in the heat
ing plant, and shipments are ar
riving steadily- The force employed
at the mine has been increased and
double shifts are now running, so
that a large quantity of coal may
be mined for the use of the A. E. C.
Superintendent Packer, on being
interviewed with regard to the coal
said that the coal which came from
the Lynn mine at first is known
as surface or bloossom coal, and
contained besides a large percentage
of moisture, some dirt and sand
which made firing difficult and
rendered cleaning of fires necessary
more often than usual. The fire
men obtained here had no idea of
just how this class of coal was to
be used, and consequently were not
able to get the best results out of
it. They have now educated them
selves as regards the proper methods
to be adopted in firing with this
fuel and are finding no difficulty
in keeping up the required steam
pressure in the boilers.
The coal, he said, is steadily show
ing a vast improvement in quality
with each carload received. This
condition has been noticed for the
past two weeks, and he thought that
if the vein does not pinch out, Billy
Lynn has struck good coal which
could be used to advantage most
anywhere.
'rhe boilers at the power plant
and at the heating plant near the
enginehouse are being fired right
along with this coal and the Commis
sion has not .’xperienced or hea'd
of any shortage of power or heat yet.
'NATIONAL GUARD ’
: 10 REVERT BACK I
! 10 CIVIL LIFE
! _
Destruction of the Organization Is
Threatened By the Ruling of
Military Authority.
| WASHINGTON, D. C.—The judge
; advocate general says that the offi
| cers and men of the National Guard
: will revert to civilian status when
(discharged from federal service.
| This ruling practically destroys
the National Guard as organized be
fore the war.
i I/EITH
--
PRESIDENT Ml
i VISIT Willi THE
i TROOPSIOWORSOW
President Will Eat Ch-istmas Dinner
With the Boys of the Army
At Chaumont.
PARIS.—President Wilson will
visit the American army headquart
ers at Chaumont tomorrow and will
eat his Christmas dinner with the
troops. He insists on having his
' dinner with the enlisted men and
eating- it from an ordinary army
mess kit. Later on he will have
a formal dinner with General Per
shing and his staff.
After the Christmas dinner, Presi
. dent Wilson will review the troops
i and deliver an address to them,
i He expects to leave Calais for
England on Thursday and will re
turn to France after a brief stay
in England.
I President Wilson and his wife
i were out shopping yesterday. They
I visited many of the principal stores
made many purchases and viewed
the gaily decorated shop windows
I in the neighborhood.
Ired cIosTdrive
VERY SECCESSFUll
WASHINGTON, D. C.— Approxi
| mately fourteen million members
I have been enrolled in the Christmas
] Red Cross membership drive which
| ended last night.
Bad weather and the prevalence
j of influenza greatly handicapped
j the workers.
CLARK SELECTED
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Friends
of Speaker Champ Clark of Miss
ouri, say that he will be put up as
a candidate for presidential nomina
tion on the Democratic ticket in
1920.
It is reported that Champ _ Clar ’s
cand: lacy will be supported by Wil
liam Jenning’s Bryan. J
Renowned Polish Pianist Is On Way
to Poland's Former Great
Baltic Seaport.
COPENHAGEN.—Paderewski, the
world famed Polish pianist, arrived
here today aboard of a British
cruiser which had been placed at
his disposal by the British govern
ment.
Paderewski is enroute to Danzig
which was former Poland’s great
Baltic seaport before she was robbed
of it by Germany.
The Berlingske, commenting on
the journey undertaken by the aged
pianist, belives that he has a plan
for the founding of a new Polish
government under Entente auspices.
REPRESENTS AMERICAN POLES
NEW YORK.—Paderewski left
New York last November with power
of attorney to represent all Ameri
can Polish communities.
[EAVES PARIS
Former Russian Foreign Minister
Who Is Pro-German, Obliged
to Leave Paris.
PARIS—Paul N. Milokoff, former
Rusian foreign minister, who had
been recently accused of Germano
phile leanings, was obliged to leave
Paris today.
His presence in the French capi
tal is believed unnecessary.
STEEL STEADILY
When the men of the steel gang,
under Foreman Thomas K. Blakey
knocked of wprk for the day last
night the steel had reached Station
No. 17992, which is just 700 feet
from the Moose creek bridge.
From Moose creek to the Nenana
river croossing it is approximately
four miles, and this distance will be
covered soon. If the work of the
steel gang had not been hampered
by the bad weather prevailing re
cently, the steel would have reached *
the bank of the river by Christmas,
as predicted.
The steel gang is now building
an 1800 foot siding, extending from
Station 18,000 to Station 17,992.
The work was taken in hand this
morning and will be completed in a
day or two, when Jhe work of ex
tending the line southwards will be
renewed.
Rapid progre s is being made wPh
the building f the bridge across
the Nenana river at the crossing,
and it is expect 1 that i* will be
read" for the -‘eei in a few days.
R. G. Burns, the Lignite coal
miner, arrived in t wr on the trai.'
last night. He will return to the
mine after the holidays.