SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OP SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
Published daily except Sunday by
Gateway Publishing Co.
Entered in the postoftice at Seward,
Alaska, as second-class mall matter.
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SPECIAL EDITION OUT SOON
The long-expected Prosperity Edition
■will be off the press Saturday, if no
untoward event happens between now
and then. Fifty-two pages have been
run off and eight pages remain, mak
ing sixty pages in all, one of the larg
est, and we trust, the most helpful
issues yet published in Alaska. No
snow pictures have been published,
and over a hundred cuts of the re
sources of this district are contained
in these pages.
It has been one long nightmare in
attempting to get out a special edi
tion of this size with our limited force
as the daily had to be kept up, the
jobwork looked after, and a half hun
dred details arranged and carried out.
One great inconvenience to which we
were subjected was the delay in secur
ing the special writeups and cuts from
parties interested. In fact, some of
these writeups are expected to reach
the office some time next spring.
We trust that our efforts will be
well received.
Extra copies of this edition can be
had for 25 cents. In case the names
are turned in to this office with the
cash, they will be mailed for our sub
scribers.
As we printed but 5500 of this edi
tion, and have orders booked for 3000
subscribers should place orders early.
Shoes for Skates, Urbach’s.
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STORY OF A TROWEL
Thirteen years ago a handsomely
engraved silver trowel was present
de to Mrs. Nbffc 6. Milled of Dade
ville, Ala., by James Mitohell in
recognition of her important work
In behalf of waterpower development
in her home state.
As the trowel is an implement of
the builder, -it was peculiarly appro
priate that Mr. Mitchell’s gift should
•take that form, for both he and Mrs.
Miller were builders for posterity.
Accompanying the trowel was the
promise that with it she should lay
the cornerstone of the mighty devel
opment project, whenever ,in future
years the opportunity should come.
Before the promise could be fulfilled
both donor and recipient of the gift
passed away.
During the intervening years the
trowel awaited its day of glory and
service, which came on November
7, when in the hands of Mrs. Mil
ler’s nephew, J. C. Lovelace, it laid
the cornerstone of the great Chero
kee Bluff dam of the Alabama Pow
er Company, of which Mr. Mitchell
was president at the time of his
death.
This gigantic enterprise on the
Tallapoosa river is nearly comple
tion and will be put into operation
next year. It will create thelargest
artificial lake in the world, cover
ing 40,000 acres, with a shore line
of hundreds of miles and impouund
ing 530 billion gallons of water. Be
sides the vast amount of power to
be generated by the project, it will
control the flood waters, and add
many miles to river navigation.
The symbol of a lofty vision, now
abut to become a majestic reality,
the little trowel will be preserved
as a memento of the dedication to
the public service of one of the
mightiest works of man.
WIDE-A-WAKE CHAMBER
In Kansas the state board of
administration has ruled t/bat per
mits for the soliciting of funds in
that state will be granted only to or
ganizations first securing approval
of local chambers of commerce. The
drives of a number of questionable
uplift societies are said to have in
spired the board’s action, as a re
sult of which some grafters may have
to go to work.
N. J. BLUE LAWS.
Now it is the turn of Perth Am
boy, N. J., to writhe in the throes
of a blue law agitation. Starting
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NEWS DEALERS
witih an attempt of the ministers' as
sociation to stop Sunday movies, the
reform has spread, leading to the re
ported arrest of several hundred per
sons for playing golf, driving auto
mobiles and a long list of other Sun
day activities banned by an ancient
blanket law of colonial days.
PITY THE GIRL
A western legislator is sponsoring
a bill to prevent hasty marriages,
with the object to protecting “young
girls who too easily fall victims to
the rushing tactics of scheming young
men.” It would also probably work
out in the interest of young men who
might faill under the influence of
scheming women, young or otherwise,
if such there be.
THE N. J. GOVERNOR
A. Harry Moore, recently elected
governor of New Jersey as a wet,
has been a Sunday School teacher
for 25 years and believes in the edu
cational methods of the W. C. T. U.
as a means of promoting temperancee.
He doesn't like the Volstead law, :
however, and declares that prohibi- ;
tdon "will not cease to be a hot is- i
sue until it is removed from nation- j
al dictatorship and left to the choice i
of the states.” i
MEMORIAL SERVICES
Last week special memorial ser- i
vices were held in Trinity Church j
in honor of William Bradford, who i
established New York’s first news- ■
paper, a little 4-page weekly called i
the Gazette, 200 years ago. He set j
up the first printing shop in Penn- :
sylvania in 1865, removing to New :
York, where he was a government i
printer for more than 50 years, and :
also served as a vestryman at Trin- ■
ify. He died at the age of 89. Cir- :
culation figures of the Gazette would *
be interesting for comparison to- ■
day.
KEEPS 'EM PENNED
Governor Tom J. Terral of Arkan
sas has been n office about a year
without issuing a single pardon. He
appears to be so: old-fashioned as to
believe that people who get into the
penitentiary usually deserve to be
there.
Baby Shortage In the
State of Washington
SEATTLE, Dec. 8. (JP)—The Pa
cific Coast Rescue and Protectiv
society has a waiting list of 75 per
sons who wish to adopt babies, Mrs.
Gordon, state superintendent, said
here the other day. Baby girls are
more desired than boys and parents
have definite ideas as to what kind of
a baby they wTant, she said.
The society has the only home
for babies in the state and intends
to construct a $60,000 building within
three years.
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Judge Introduces Them
Then Asked for Divorce
CHICAGO, Dec. 8. (/P)—Three years
ago Judge B. Sabath introduced Ed.
Katzinger and Mrs. Joseph Stein,
Chicago; two years ago he married
them. Today he was asked to di
vorce them.
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BEAUCAIRE; the Dashing, Duelling, Devil- §|
May-Care Adventurer, the Idol of Women and =
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A story full of gorgeous scenes and thrilling |1
action.
Supporting Rudolph is a wonderful cast-* H
including:
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DORIS KENYON — LOWELL SHERMAN |e
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THE GOLDEN BELT
To the end that the countless places of scenic and other interests
in the Territory may be thoroughly enjoyed and understood, and to
enable them to acquire first hand and accurate information concern
ing all Alaskan activities and development; travelers to the Northland
are urged tuo visit
ALASKA’S “GOLDEN HEART”
Interior Alaska and places en route—including Kenai Lake the
“Loop District,” Spencer and Bartlett Glaciers, Turnagain Arm’ An
chorage, the Matanuska Valley, Curry, Nenana River Canvon * MT
McKINLEY NATIONAL PARK, Nenana, the Tanana Valley and' Fair
banks, hold much of interest to everyone, whether on business or
pleasure bent; and a tour through these regions creates a true con
ception of the good things that Alaska has to offer.
For train and automobile schedules, passenger rates and other
information, confer with any steamship agent, or
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
The Alaska Railroad
(McKinley Park‘Route)
Seward Anchorage Curry Nenana Fairbanks
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