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BIG PROFIT IS MADE
BY BRITISH POSTOFFICE;
LONDON.—The British postoffici.i
in spite of wartime conditions, re- j
ports a profit in 1918 of 833.241,
000. Its operation of the telephone j
service showed a profit of 81,600,- j
000, but it lost over $2,600,000 in
operating the telegraphs. It has.
never been able to make the tele
graph system pay, although up until
1917 the annua! loss had been stead
ily reduced.
Thousands of postal employes who
were called into military service
have been demobilized, and the j
movement of mail, as well as the
conduct of the telephone and tele
graph systems is beginning to show
some improvement.
An automatic telephone service
for Londoti, to cost $35,000,000 is
planned.
Heimberger’s Cascade Laundry has
just been renovated. Has sanitary
baths and furnishings. Shampooing
and electric drying a specialty.
Terms reasonable.
A. E. Lucy, at one time deputy
United States marshal at Yakutat.
and later employed by the Libby,
McXeil and Libby company at Yak
utat and by the Hoonah Packing
company at Hoonah, has been ap
pointed game warden of Ketchikan
by Govenor Thomas Riggs, Jr. Mr.
Lucy succeeds Patrick Hamilton.
Electrical Goods
Stoves and Ranges
Water Pipes and
Fittings
Bath Fixtures
Sheet Metal Work of All Kinds
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
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Northern Commercial Co.
Outfitters of the North
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|| of Army Made Great J
|i Record During the War J
WASHINGTON.—Even in Amer
ica, “the greatest builder of the
past,” no feat of construction has
ever approached that involved in
the completion in 90 days of 16
cantonments for the national army
and 16 tent cities for the national
guard, says the official war “ma
terial” history just made public by
the war department. The task in
volved the erection and equipment
of 32 cities capable of accommo
dating 40,000 persons each, with
all the requisite water, lighting,
sewerage, hospital and heating utili
ties, and in addition the preparation
of the strictly military features,
such as parade grounds and rifle
and artillery ranges.
The creature comforts enjoyed by
the American soldier of 1917 are
contrasted with those afforded the
man of '61-’65. Substantia! bar
racks, heated by steam or stoves,
took the place of tents; chemically
pure water replaced that secured
from the casual spring or stream;
scientific laundries cared for the
national army recruit's clothing, and
field bakeries gave him the modern
successor to the ashy hoecake.
Lumber used in the cantonments
alone, the report says, was equiva
lent to a board-walk 12 inches wide
and one inch thick “to the moon
and half way back,” while the nails
of one popular size would “girdle”
the earth 3!£ times.”
The race between the contractors
to complete the cantonments in the
time for the initial draft is elo
quently described, the builder of
Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ky., win
ning by a narrow margin. The can
tonments occupied 167,741 acres >1
land, which cost an average of $3.93
per acre, and the contractors’ profits
were given as less than 214 per cent
of the gross cost of construction.
Expenditures for the cantonments ,
represented 70 per cent of the total
for the Panama canal, but the time
consumed was less than 90 days,
against 10 years for the canal. Sup
plementary building projects under
taken by the department aggre- :
gated a much larger project than
the cantonments and included enor
mous storehouses, factories for va
rious purposes, proving grounds,
army posts, embarkation facilities,
docks, 'magazines, railroads, aviation
fields and hospitals.
‘•On November 11, 1918,” the re
port says, ”the construction division '
was conducting 535 operations in
442 localities, involving an expend:-1
ture of 81,000,000.000. These j
touched every state but one.”
As the construction crews de-;
veloped teamwork, remarkable in
stances of speed were reported i
Precautions taken to assist the con.-'
tractors included the detail of a :
disbursing oficer on the spot ‘‘with
the check book ready” so that ma
terial could be paid for on delivery,'
and so that special equipment could J
be obtained at a fair rental and a j
steady flow of building materials
be insured. The last feature finally
necessitated the sending of soldiers
into the forest to cut logs and piles
and to load them on railroad cars,
which were guarded by soldiers to
their destination.
When a shortage of stoves threat
ened the health of the new army,
officers of the construction division
were sent to the factories to speed
up production, with the result that
the army “obtained 15,000 in three
months, although that number is a
year's output of the industry.”
Fire prevention at the various
army projects was so efficient that
the per capita loss was only 46
cents, as compared with the civilian
rate of $2.42.
RESUMPTION OF
COBLENZ—German mai! passing
through the American censorship
recently has been made up prin
cipally of letters relating to re
sumption of commercial relations
with the United States, Great Brit
ain and France. Dealings in cloth
ing materials and articles of cloth
ing take up a predominant place
in the letters referring to business
matters, and from indications in the
mail it would seem that a »!eat
deal of cloth is being imported into
occupied Germany from Franc? and
Alsace-Lorraine.
The head of a chemical works in
Winkel and Wiesbaden, writing to
a New York concern, says that since
commercial relations between the
United States and the occuipei ter
ritory of Germany are about to hj
renewed, he desires tc order at once
several hundred tors of phosphates.
He believes he will be able to ar
range for the import permit for
this shipment. Quotations F. 0. B.
at Antwerp or Rotterdam are re
quested, payment to be made from
credits which the firm still has in
America.
In a circular trade letter a bank
in Hamburg says that in event the
German vessels surrendered to the
Allies are not returned it would be
the duty of the government to re
place the lost tonnage. The letter
sets forth also that the shipbuilding
industry is m a position to turn
out a million tons of shipping w;li
in a year, and that materials, such
as lead, steel and copper ars at
hand in sufficient quantities to carry
out this program.
Shoemakers throughout the Amer
ican occupied area recently have
been buying leather scraps from
the Third United" States army, this
leather having been abandoned by
the German army after the armis
tice. In Coblenz alone it is esti
mated more than $1,000,000 worth
of leather was found by the Ameri
cans ir. various storehouses of the
Eighth German army ^porps.
According to the letters there
appears to be no shortage in Ger
many cf metals such as steel, iron,
zinc and tin and there are enormous
stocks of machinery of various kinds
on hand. Lack of coal and inade
quate transportation facilities, such
as shortage of freight cars, are the
deciding factors in curtailing the
business and industrial activities of
the country.
DENVER, Colo. — William H.
' ("Billy”) Adams, of Alamosa, who
'served the people of Colorado in
the legislature for 36 years, has
announced his retirement. Adams
has given this advice to the young
man contemplating entering pop
ties: “Don't. Unless you can make
your living outside politics.”
Adams came up from his cattln
ranch in Conejos county when the
state of Colorado was jus: two
years old, being elected to the
lower house. Each legislature since
then, including the session which
ended April 8, he has been a
familiar figure in the legislative
chambers, first as a member of the
house and later in the senate.
Adams was an expert on parlia
mentary law and this knowledge
helped him through many a hard
fought fight on the floor of the
legislature. In his own opinion,
his greatest battle was the one
which ended in the last election of
the late H. M. Teller to the United
States senate. By quick thought
and application of an obscure par
liamentary rule, Senator Adam-.,
then belonging to the minority wing,
seized control of the senate when
the president left the chamber, tak
| ing what he called “the rump sen
ate” wifh him.
I Adams will not talk of himself or
s r
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of his stewardship:
“I made a rule early in my puh
lic life,” he said, “to watch, to lister.,
to learn, to keep quiet. I have ad
hered to this rule and found it
good."
Senator Adams was a so-called
“reactionary.” He led the oppo
sition to the direct primary refer
endum and recall, declaring ■ he
“didn’t believe in freak legislation."
HARRY PRA1I IS
BACK FROM TRIP
Assistant District Attorney Harry1
Pratt and Deputy Marshal Pete Me- ’
Mullen returned to Fairbanks yes
terday. They had been to Tanana
Crossing to investigate the disap
pearance of Henry Highquist, a
prospector, who was reported miss
ing some time ago.
The party found nothing that
would throw any definite light on
the fate of the oldtimer. His cabin
and the scene of his labors wire
visited, but no trace of the raiss'ng
man nor any clue that would guide
them was found.
The Indians in the neighborhood
of the Crossing and the Lake Mans
field country were closely ques
tioned, and it was learned that
Highquist started out in a polirg
boat, bound for Fairbanks, some
time ago. The search party found
a boat on a sandbar a short dis
tance above McCarty. The beat had
a large hole in her side, which may
have been caused by contact with
a sweeper. She was lying upside
down on the bar and was paitly
filled v. ith sand.
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Mrs. Belle Campbell - Director
Fairbanks city dads
NAME TAX COLLECTOR
At a meeting of the Fairbanks
city council last night, Frank
Bishoprick was appointed collector
of school taxes. The applications
of James Feaster. Peter Stie! and
Fred Rhind for the position were
rejected.
This is a new tax created hy an
act passed by the last territorial
legislature and calls for the pay
ment of $5 per year for school pur
poses by all male residents of
Alaska, between the ages of 21 and
56, both inclusive, the tax collector
receiving ten per cent of the col
lections as compensation.
Mr. Bishoprick will collect the
taxes within the limits of the Fair
banks school district only.
BERNARD FAY WINS
THE CHAPMAN PRIZE
PARIS. — The Victor Chapman
prize, founded in memory of the
son of John Jay Chapman, who was
one of the first Americans to fight
for France, by enlisting in the For
eign Legion, and who later was killed
when a member of the Lafayette
Escadrille, has been awarded this
year to Bernard Fay, who is pre
paring a thesis on “The Intellectual
Relations Between France and the
United States." Mr. Fay will study
at Harvard during the year 1919
1920.
Birth Announcement Cards at the
News Office.
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