A Thoroughly Modern Hotel
The Southern
Tom Smith, Prop
Tk* Devil’* Dream, The Champion
Liar, To My Affinity and The Water
Wagon. —Now on the pre*t and will
be iiiaed in a few day*. Get one for
yourself and also one for your
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Ship-Shape for Mosquito Weather
Awnings, Tarps, Tents, Bed and
Hat Nets made to order. Suits and
Coats Cleaned and Pressed. Hats,
Neckties and Uunderwear renovated.
Phone or Call
HARRIET D’ORSAY’S
TAILOR SHOP
Third and A Phone 32 Green
U. S. GRILL
First Class
Restaurant
Second Avenue
Fairbanks
HOTEL
NORTHERN
FAIRBANKS
Only Hot Water Heating System
in Fairbanks
Pool and Card Rooms, Cigars
Ice Cream and Soft Drinks
CARL BERGE, Prop.
PERFECT
FIT
Here is where you get
Perfect Fit, Comfort
and best quality at
lowest prices in a
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BERG, The Tailor
Fairbanks, Alaska
WANT ADS
FOR SALE—Furnished Cat-.n. In
quire Fred Ma^rath, N. C. Co.
A BARGAIN—Fully equipped hand
laundry and bath house, for sale
cheap. For particulars address j
Mrs. L. Gallian, Brooks, Alaska.
FOR SALE—Four jackhammers and
I fittings; 250 feet of hose; six sets
of steel. All in good condition.
Inquire of Jack Singleton, Healy.
FOR SALE—Good brood sow with
ten pigs averaging 30 pounds.
None better in Alaska. Will be
sold at a bargain for spot cash, j
C. N. Creamer, Fairbanks.
SECOND HAND BED NET for sale
sale cheap. See Miss D’Orsay.
LOST—iPocketbook containing pa
pers of value to the owner, ann
money. Reward for return to A1
Clamo.
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ALASKA—Down Fort Yukon at
3 this morning.
TANANA—Up Rampart yester
day.
PELICAN—-Down Nulato at S
this morning.
PIONEER—Down Tolovana for
Kantishna river points at midnight.
No report from Canadian line
this morning.
SHRINERS TO AID CHILDREN
J DES MOINES, June 16— The im
: perial council of the Mystic Shrine
has decided to establish a hospital
at St. Louis, dedicated to the crip
: pled children of North America. The
| site has already been purchased at
,a cost of $150,000.
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THE LARGEST HOTEL IN INTERIOR ALASKA
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VISITING FAIRBANKS
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FAIRBANKS, ALASKA
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FORMER RUSSIAN NOTABLES
GLAD TO DO MENIAL LABOR
RIGA. Latvia, May 10—It is not
unusual in Riga to have a Russian
princess as your stenographer. A1
least, a business man can acquire
the service of a countes? in thai
capacity. Almost every diplomatic
or consular mission in Riga has at
least one princess or countess as a
typist.
If the supply of princesses and
countesses fail, there remains a
large number of other well edu
cated people, most of them unaccus
tomed to work, but now anxious to
do anything to save them front
starvation.
Men who have been general man
agers of big Russian factories are
now glad to take any kind of decent
honorable employment to earn their
living here.
The condition of these Russian
refugees who have found shelter
in the infant Baltic states shows
‘how complete has been the financial
downfall of the Russian nobility.
In Riga, Reval and other Baltic
towns, princes, barons and counts
and their families, accustomed foi
decades in Russia to lives of luxury
are living a hand-to-mouth exist
ence. The possessions which they
once had and that escaped confisca
tion by the Bolshevikii, clutter up
the shelves of second hand dealer
in these cities. Diamonds, othei
jewels, fine tapestries and the count
less costly knick knacks of a lux
urious civilization have been sole
by these refugees to get bread.
The correspondent was present s
few weeks ago at an entertainment
for the benefit of some of these
refugees—all members of the ole
Russian and Baltic nobility. Some ol
the more fortunate had saved theii
evening clothes. They were in sharp
contrast to those who had not.
Here and there were men in coats
of one coloi-, trousers of anothei
and tan shoes or high boots. They
danced with women as variously
clad—some chic, in latest modes
some in shirtwaists and skirts;'stil
others in frocks so obviously home
made or remote that the poorest
shop girl in Mew York would snifl
at them.
The casual stranger dropping inti
Riga or Reval for a day or twe
would never find this poverty'. In
stead, he w'ould find cafes, open al
night, where foreigners, lucky be
cause of the low rates of exchange
and local profiteers, tossed fat banl
rolls of almost worthless rubles 01
marks to waiters who count only' ir
hundreds of thousands.
An American correspondent whe
advertised in a Riga Rewspaper foi
a translator able to read, write anc
speak fluently English, Russian anc
German, and with some knowledge
of Lettish, received 51 replies by
mail. The corridor before his room
in the hotel was filled with men and
women seeking to apply personally
for the position. Most of them were
so well educated that they could
quayify not only in the four lan
guages mentioned, but in other;
as well. They were either out ol
work or receiving such small pay
that they were anxious to change.
Among the applicants was a form
er colonel in one of the most aris
tocratic Petrograd guard regiments,
and a dozen other former officers.
See The News for Carbon paper.
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YANKEE TOURISTS ABROAD
ARE FILLING THE HOTELS
ROME, June 1—“Tenting on the
old camp ground” willfbe the lot of
Americans rushing into Rome. Rome
is full, full for months, so the hotel
men say. American tourists have
j captured and occupy it so that others
| of their countrymen wishing to pet
, *n must be spoken for in advance
I or must pave a golden road for
themselves in gratuities to hotel
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porters and clerks in order to pet
a place where to lay their heads,
j “Sorry, but we are full. Did you
write us? Did you telepraph?” is
the constant cry of the functionaries
at the hotels. If one cannot answer
in the affirmative, sorry indeed is
their lot for weary pilprimapes from
one hotel to another is the only al
ternative.
| A chance mipht brinp a room
“scalper” to one’s assistance. This
consists in offerinp a room in a
private house for which the daily
stipulation is enormous. There was
one example where an American
paid $10 a nipht for his room in
a private family. The room was
only scantily furnished and not at
all modern in its appointments.
Aside from the scarcity of lodg
inps, Rome seems to have taken on
its pre-war tourist attitude. The
same vendors of cameos present
themselves to the American on his
appearance in Rome. The same old
faces are seen in the antique shops
and the art show-rooms. The same
beppars occupy their accustomed
places, while the same old “blind
band” with its full-siphted “drum
mer” of tourist shekels prinds out
its unintellipible violin squeaks and
clarionet proans. Cab drivers rule
the hiphways, except for a new
auto bus line which has superceded
the old horse line on the Corso
Umberto.
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Prices have mounted ten to 20
times what they were in the old days
and all the souvenirs are a thousand
per cent higher. The art works and
antiques have taken a similar leap.
“Itching palms” greet the Yankee
tourist at every turn. Hotel prices,
even when transferred into Ameri
can money, are two or three times
their former level. A room and
meals on the American plan cost
at least $5 a person, where it used
to cost $2.
BENSON SAYS AMERICANS
ARE ON THE SEA TO STAY
LONDON, June 1G—Admiral Ben
son, retiring chairman of the United
States Shipping Board, writing on
the future of the American mer
chant marine, in the publication
Fairplay, says: “America is upon
the sea to stay. Who can doubt that
she will, after witnessing the won
derful—almost undreamed of—ac
complishments during the late war?
“America has expended four bil
lion dollars to make a place for
herself upon the seas, and has made
that place, and will undertake earn
estly to maintain it. There is suffi
cient commerce for all the nations
to thrive upon.
' “It should not be forgotten that
the ruthless enemy practically wiped
i out a good part of the most efficient
i type of our overseas shipping. If
j America had not by its shipbuilding
. made up for this lack in world ship
I ping, ocean rates would be soaring
, today.
! “I, for one, am optimistic as to
the future of the American merchant
marine. The shipping of the entire
world is now in a period of depres
sion, but I believe that within a
short time we shall see a turn for
. the better; in fact, even now there
are indications of a revival.
| “We are now ship independent,
and we must and will strive to
maintain that independence.
DUNDEE DEFEATS HANLON
NEW YORK, June 16—Johnny
Dundee, New York lightweight, was
given a decision here last night
over Jimmy Hanlon, of Denver. The
fight lasted 12 rounds.
Robert E. Burns was a returning
passenger on this afternoon’s train
from Healy, after an absence of
several days in the hills.
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PATHE NEWS-PICTORIAL
JESSE L. LASKY PRESEN Is
FANNY WARD
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“ON THE LEVEL
By Marion Fairfax
ADMISSION, 50c. . . . RESERVED, 75c
SOLDIERS AND CHILDREN, 25c
SHOW STARTS AT 8:00 O’CLOCK.
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ALASKA ROAD COMMISSION
NOW HAS NEW EQU1PMEN1
I More than $300,000 worth o
new equipment is now owned b;
the Alaska Road Commission am
will be put in service on the variou
road projects this summer, according
to Major J. C. Gotwals, engineerini
officer of the commission.
Much of this equipment has beei
acquired within the past year witn
out cost to the commission, havin)
been secured from the war depart
roent. The last of the material, con
sisting of nine caterpiller tractors
arrived on a recent trip of thi
steamer Latouche. Three of then
will be brought over the trail t<
the Interior and the rest will b'
used on coast projects.
The equipment acquired include
11 tractors, 12 dump trucks, 1:
light delivery trucks, one stean
shovel, two gas-propelled draglim
excavators, 24 two-ton trailers,
dump trailers and a large quantit;
of tools and supplies.
Manager R. S. Donaldson, of thi
Healy River Coal Corporation, ar
rived in town from Healy yeater
'day afternoon, and plans to maki
a trip to Fairbanks before return
ing to his headquarters out the line
Fine Stock Staple and Fancy Gro
ceriei. Fowler & Morris.
JENNINGS BLOCKS EFFORTS
TO TEST JONES MARINE ACT
: KETCHIKAN, June lti—District
r Judge Jennings rendered a decision
I this week denying the petition of
s the Territory of Alaska and She
: Juneau Hardware Company for a
r restraining order enjoining Collect
or of Customs Troy from taking
i steps to forfeit merchandise shipped
• from Canada admittedly in violation
: of the Jones marine act.
The plaintiffs contend that section
' 27 of the act is unconstitutional be
• cause it discriminates against the
‘ territory of Alaska.
1 ' The action to test the validity of
' the act was authorized by the late
; legislature.
INSULTING SIMS SAILS
SOUTHAMPTON, June 16—Sims
1; sailed for the United States today.
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| STANDARD OIL CUTS PRICES
I SHREVEPORT, June 16—The
| Standard Oil Company has announc
! ed a reduction of 25 cents a barret
■ on all grades of crude oil, except
I Caddo heavy and Arkansas.
PROMINENT JURIST PASSES
BALTIMORE, June 16—Judge W.
A. Blount, president of the Ameri
can Bar Association, died here to
j day.
FRUIT FRESH CANDIES SMOKES
BILLY GAGNON S - UNION BUILDING
CARDS
SOFT DRINKS
POOL
2?
Sheet Metal Work
Plumbing, Heating Plants
Stoves and Ranges
Nenana Sheet Metal Works
PAUL PALFY, Prop.
— New Location on A Street
FRESH SMOKES
Candies--Stationery 1
Summer Drinks 1
Slater’s Buttermilk 1
The Portland I
NENANA STAMPS—25c per 100; $2 per 1,000 |
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