THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska
for entry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth.Editor and Manage!
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BEHIND THE LINES
American army engineers are do
ing more constructive work in
France today than was ever done
on the Panama canal, stupendous
as the engineering project was, and
more also than was ever done in
a day on all the river and harbor
work of the United States. This
comparison gives some idea of the j
magnitude of the army construe-;
tion now going on in Europe, exceed
ing the most gigantic operations:
ever undertaken at home.
The Panama construction force j
was 40,000 men; in France it is'
a good sized army in itself. It in
cludes engineer troops and laborers
of all kinds for the constructive:
work and foresters for furnishing
the material of construction, cutting j
down forests, running sawmills, sup-i
plying timber and lumber. '
The call for material is so tre
mendous, writes an Associated Press
correspondent, that the forestry
force will have to be increased be
fore long. Already it is running
seventy sawmills, and 200 more are
required to keep up with the cbn-j
struction. With this increase, the
engineering force engaged on con- j
struction will reach more than twice,
as many as were employed on the ■
Panama canal, the largest previous;
constructive work the United States,
ever undertook.
Traveling across France from the !
seacoast, one sees the magnitude I
of this American constructive work:
at every hand, from the ten miles
of new docks and piers at the ports,'
then the American railway, tele- ]
graph and telephone lines, vast areas
of warehouses, shops and factories,
and finally the great stretches of
military camps and barracks for
this army of two million troops, j
But while one sees this work ir.
immense detached parts, it is only
at army headquarters that details
are available on the magnitude of
the work as a whole.
On the one item of timber and
lumber for this construction, the
army foresters are called on to fur
nish nearly 500 million board feet
of timber of which about 300 mil
lion feet is sawed lumber. This
500 million feet is no rough guess |
work, but is the estimate of re-!
quirements carefully worked out by j
the engineers. The precise total of j
these estimates is 484,792,000 feet or I
over 96,000 miles of lumber
This lumber is required to build
docks, barracks, for trench timber
ing, railway construction, building
barges, warehouses, hospitals, rail
way cars, and for telegraph and
■telephone poles. This with the pro
vision for firewood makes the huge
total of nearly 500 million feet,
which the engineering foresters must
supply for this constructive work.
It is this which will increase the
forestry force three fold and in
crease the sawmills they are running
to nearly 300.
WIRELESS IN WAR
The efficiency of the Allied
wireless telegraphy has been enor
mously increased during the war,
a semi-official statement issued by
the Rooyal Air Force says. In par
ticular, great progress has been made
in sending wireless messages from
aircraft.
In 1914, various difficulties re
stricted the use of wireless in con
junction with airplanes. Most of
these have been overcome and the
use oi wireless communications from
the air has been of great assistance
to the Allied forces in all military
operations.
Without the assistance of wire
less the use of airplanes could never
have been developed so fully as it
now is. ‘'Artillery' observation” by
airplane is among the most profit
able of all the uses of aircraft.
Far below in the batteries the
wireless operators received the cor
rections from the airplane, until the
signal comes to indicate that the
right range has been found and,
later, the “cease fire” signal to indi
cate that destruction has been ac
complished. *
The extended range of aircraft
wireless leads to its use from air
planes on long reconaissances, and
the operator in the hut on the aero
drome, miles behind the lines, is the
first to learn, perhaps of a new
German howitzer emplacement per
haps of the massing of troops in
tended to effect a surprise—a vain
hope, thanks to the wireless.
JUNEAU CONTRACTORS
WOULD BUILD BOATS
JUNEAU.—Alaska wants to join
the rest of the Pacific coast in the
work of building boats. One Juneau
firm, the Alaska Drydock and Manu
facturing company, has asked the
Territorial Council of Defense to
help it get contracts for the con
struction of one or more govern
ment coast survey boats which are
to be buili for the department of
commerce.
Secretary William C. Redfield, in
a letter sent recently to Thos. Riggs,
Jr., governor of Alaska, said somn
of the survey boats would be built
in Alaska if there were any ship
yards in the territory prepared to
do the work. The company advised
!he council that it was prepared to
build vessels of 110 feet in length
or smaller.
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Grub and the Kaiser!
MUST BE KEPT DOWN
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MERCHANDISE
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GROCERS
IAUNuHK UNO
! ICE 100 HEAVY;
ABANDON RIVER
j Yesterday afternoon the launcl
j Ram, owned and operated by Georgi
i i Hainzinger, returned to port towinj
| the launch Victory, and they wil
I go into winter quarters in Nenana
The Fairbanks mail which was or
board the Victory was landed ant
| returned to the postoffice. It wil
1 be sent with the first mail ovei
the trail. The launch Eclipse, whicl
also left Nenana for Fairbanks
shortly after the Victory and th«
Ram, was on her way up river wher
last seen by the returning launches
! Both Douse and Hainzinger think
| that owing to the very heavy rur
! of ice, she will be compelled tc
: winter at “Eat-em-up” Franks.
The Victory left Nenana at eighi
o'clock on Satruday morning witE
the mail bound for Fairbanks. Sht
had no passengers, and although
there was some slush ice runftii^
at the time, no great difficulty fronr
. this cause was anticipated. About
' an hour afterwards the Ram got
! under way upbound, with George
j Hainzinger at the wheel, on the last
leg of his long journey from the
mouth of the Yukon river. He was
followed by George Black on the
gasoline sternwheeler Eclipse, who
was also making for winter quart
ers at Fairbanks after having de
livered a 15-ton cargo of meat and
provisions for the Alaskan Engin
eering commission.
When George Hainzinger, on the
Ram. was about five miles above
' Nenana, he met Douse, on the Vic
tory, down bound, and on inquiry
learned that the Victory’s pump
could not be worked by reason of
the fact that the intake at the
side of the boat below water level
had become clogged up with ice, and
as Douse was anxious to get to
Fairbanks with the mail, the Ram
took the Victory in tow and started
upstream.
By this time the Eclipse, with
Black on board, hove in sight about
a mile astern and remained in sight
until about 7 p. m., when the Ram
and her tow reached the old tele
graph station about 17 miles above
Nenana, where they decided to camp
for the night.
The Eclipse put in at the tele
graph station shortly afterwards;
she had Wm. Hartwig and a couple
of natives on board; but Black did
not tarry here long. He wanted
to take advantage of the bright
moonlight and clear weather and
make “Eat-em-up” Frank’s place for
the night, and so resumed his up
river journey.
Morning found the Ram and Vic
tory froze in, with a very large
quantity of slush ice running in the
river, making navigation slow, diffi
cult and dangerous. The risk of
continuing the journey was too great
and therefore it was decided to re
turn to Nenana. The boats were
accordingly cut clear o' the en
cumbering ice and the journey down
to Nenana was begun at about £
oclock in the morning, the boats ar
riving here at about 3 o’clock in
the afternoon. Fred Douse trans
ferred himself from the Victory and
took the wheel on the Ram, while
George Hainzinger attended to the
engine. This arrangement was made
necessary owing to the heavy ice
running, the boat being kept busy
dodging the big floes.
Within the next few days the
boats will be hauled up and put
away in winter quarters and Douse
and Hainzinger will hit the trail
for the upper town.
NOTICE
Nenana townsite lots will be
offered for sale at the townsite
office at 11 a. m., October 26th,
28th and 29th, 1918, at public auc
tion.
Anyone desiring a particular lot
put up for sale please notify the
Townsite Manager on or before the
dates named.
H. B. JOSEPH,
Townsite Manager.
AM HI
MET SATURDAY TO
i i The Advisory Board met at the
■ townsite office Saturday night, for
: the discussion of townsite matters.
[ The question of having a watch
man on during the winter was taken
up. The townsite manager stated
that the duties assigned to the act
I ing fire chief made it impossible for
him to be on at night as watchman;
and that these day services would
increase, rather than diminish, as
the winter progressed.
The duties mentioned will con
sist of daily inspection of the water
system, testing hydrants and exam
ining the electric lights in the
hydrant boxes, as well as weekly
j inspection of flues in the fire dis
. trict and monthly inspection in the
j residence districts.
Such duties as the above could
not be performed at night. And
as a matter of fact the acting fire
chief is on duty all the time, as
are all of the men employed by the
townsite. At present there are five
men who sleep in the townsite build
ing, ready to answer fire call.
It is true that in the latter part
of the night, when few are around
the streets, it would be desirable
to have a watchman out with the
presumption that in case of fire
an alarm would be given quickly.
But as a choice between having r.
man on day or night, there can be
no doubt that it is essential to
have a man on during the day. The
finances of the townsite will not
| stand a day and night service.
It was decided to- let the matter
rest as it is for the present.
The three members of the Ad
visory Board present at the meeting,
who were the only ones in town
i at present, constituted themselves
: a committee to have the numerous
| collections of old boxes, bottles and
j general trash which has collected
; along “A” and Market street alleys
I in the business section, cleaned out
i for sanitary reasons and fire pro
i tection.
From a business point of view
property owner but very little to
' clean up the premises for which
j he is responsible, and it is good
business to do so. A business house
' can hardly expect to escape criticism
j or to increase its trade by sur
| rounding itself with a set of en
, tanglements.
The townsite manager requests
: the business men and others to
j co-operate with the Advisory Board
i in this matter, and not make it
necessary to invoke the fire regu
lations for the improvement men
tioned.
Buildings in this district are not
all properly supplu)! with lnc* lad
ders; and some of those which have
them do not have them safe, with
proper braces. This matter will be
looked into also.
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j Emmet Ward, of the N. C. staff,
was taken to the hospital a few
days ago suffering from appendi
citis. He is reported to be getting
along nicely.
William Knight, a well known
oldtimer, better known as Slow Bill,
hit the trail for the Outside yes
terday. Bill has been a familiar
figure in the Fairbanks district for
many years.
Another auto got away yesterday
afternoon at 3 o’clock with Claus
H. Johnson, Mrs. E. C. McCreary,
H. E. Jones, C. K. Brown, Mrs. E
R. Drury, Carl Bloom, A. Sorenson,
E. W. Green, Ray Crook.
The ladies’ card party given by
Mrs. Groves was largely attended
and brought in the sum of $40,
which was added to the funds in aid
of the beds in the American Hos
pital at Neuilly, France.
alone, the condition in this district
| should be changed. It will cost each
j* FAIRBANKS NOTES
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The Alaskan Engineering commis
sion s fast launch Sunbeam which
had been placed at the disposal of
Resident Engineer Hawley W. Ster
ling immediately after the news of
the disaster to the launch Flyer
became known locally, returned to
Nenana on Saturday evening and
will be hauled out and placed in
winter quarters immediately.
William Sherwin, who is in charge
of the Sunbearm. stated that owing
to the growing amount of ice run
ning in the river and the near ap
proach of winter, the several boats
’ with the searchers have dispersed.
| A very thorough search has been
made over a wide radius and there'
have been no results further than
those chronicled before, viz: the,
finding of the body of Mrs. Craig,!
some life preservers and a few' j
pieees of wreckage.
Thus another shocking river acci
dent remains shrouded in mystery, I
the solving of which is problematical.
Misses Jane Anderson and Betty!
Foster returned to town last night
from a brief visit to the Wilson i
homestead.
Knut Roland, the railroad con
tractor, arrived in town Saturday;
night, having completed his contract i
on the Fairbanks line.
Dr. R. R. MYERS
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DENTIST
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ARCTIC HOTEL
WANT ADS
WANTED—Two or Three con
genial fellows to occupy 4-room
residence with me. Kitchen fa
cilities if desired. See Slippern
FOR SALE—Panoramic views of
the town of Nenana in 1916 and
1917; taken by Johnson, of Fair
banks, from hill overlooking the
town. Apply at News office.
FOR SALE. CHEAP—Large tank
heater and pipe drum; flush toilet,
good as new; also sink. Inquire
Simson’s.
WANTED—Wood choppers to cut
four-foot wood at Vachon's, Tolo
vana. 0-19
FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
PIANOS —For Rent and Sale. Sim
son’s.
WANTED—Reliable party to rent
or manage Central Lodging House.
Inquire on premises. 0-21
FOR SALE—Small heater. Cheap.
Inquire News office.
FOR RENT—Four-room unfurnished
cabin, hot and cold water con
nections. Inquire Waechter Bros.
Market.
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Skof House
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
Mrs Norman Campbed
A Thoroughly Modern Hotel
The Southern
Tom Smith, Prop.
COLES AIR TIGHT
HEATERS
RANGES
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS
Yukon Stoves and Drums
Air Tight Heaters
Any Thing in the Sheet Metal, Plumb
ing or Heating Line
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
PERISCOPE THIS
WE HAVE A FULL CARGO OF WATCHES ABOARD—EACH
ONE HITS THE MARK, AS OUR PRICES ARE
SUBMERGED.
The Army Wrist Watch
That Light* In the Dark—Not a Novelty, But a Necessity
Otar $3 Radium Treated Alarm Clocks
JUST THE THING FOR DARK NIGHTS
WM. TAYLOR
WATCHMAKER JEWELER ENGRAVER
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