French Designers Failed
to Grasp American Theme
CHICAGO, Apr. 7.—(AP).—The
quick, impulsive curve of the French
art nouveau style had its origin in
the American broom corn, asserted
Charles R. Richards, director of the
American Association of Museums,
speaking recently at the Art Insti
tute of Chicago.
"When the French and Belgian art
ists of the eighties, searching for a
new style of art, turned to the curv
ed line of nature, a young lad of 17
in Dayton, O., named E. Colonna,
was a apublishing a little book call
ed ‘An Essay on Broom Corn,’ ” Mr.
Richards said. “The book, dated 1SS7.
consisted first of a naturalistic draw
ing of the broom corn, and then a
series of abstract designs utilizing
its curves.
“Colonna later went to Paris and
eventually joined the Paris group
which was developing the art nou
veau style. His furniture and jew
elry appeared in the Paris exposi
lion of 1900, and were so impressive
that photographs were made. When
l was visiting a prominent art offi
cial in Paris I noticed in his offices
some of Colonna’s furniture. He
admired its artistic worth and pre
served it, though the art nouveau
style is now dead.”
The art nouveau style in the hand
of great designers like Colonna has
a lasting artistic value, according to
Professor Richards. The reason that
it failed as a great art movement
was that the curve on which it was
based was too subtle an art form
and could only be handled with suc
cess by genius. When it was taken
up by the French manufacturers
they did not call in the best de
signed, with the result that the
curve was used in all sorts of exag
gerated and bizarre ways and the
style was soon run out.
Los Angeles Hotels Move
to Oust Chair Squatters
LOS ANGELES. Apr. 8.— (AP).—
The old variety of young man-about
town who finds it convenient to
while away the hours in a comforta
ble lobby-chair in a fashionable ho
tel, whose rates preclude his perma
nent residence there, has been for
gotten temporarily by hotel detec
tives in Los Angeles. They have
come to center their attention on the
“squatter.”
Squatters usually are tourists who
come to Los Angeles, take an inex
pensive room and join the cafeteria
lines, but every afternoon and even
ing go to a smart hotel, clad in their
best garments. They settle into
chairs, where they have a good view
o! the passing pageant, and there
they tarry, hour after hour, while
the hotel guest's and their friends
are often crowded out.
“Some of the sitters have favorite
chairs and get angry if they find
some one ahead of them,” said a
hotel houseman. “It’s all a free show,
and the idea that hotel guests are
forced to stand means nothing to
them.”
Therefore little printed cards have
been added to the equipment of the
house detectives. When an unmis
takable squatter becomes too regu
lar. he is courteously handed this
token from the management. After
reading it he usually moves on.
England Endorses American
Steps To Safeguard Milk
LONDON, Apr. 8.—(AP).—Au In
ternational Milk Congress in Lon
don, similar to that held in the Ur.i
ivd States last year. Is umtir con
side 1 alien by the ministries c? agri
‘ul'U'e and health. Viteiinary o.'r
ion !n this country is :mprrS'°i
with steps taken by tie li tilled
States to pievent the spread of tu
b“ culosis through milk taken frru
infected cows, that strong represen
tations made to governmental auth
orities here are expected to resul
in similar measures in England.
Hunting foxes in Ireland will soor
he a thing of the past as a bill has
been introduced prohibiting their de
struction. The animals are said to b<
almost extinct in Ireland.
Brunswick Radlolas, tne Radiola d<
Luxe at the Alaska Shop. tf
Engineers Spend Freely
to Test Scientific Theory
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LOS ANGELES, Apr. 8.—(AP).—
An experimental dam, to be built
at a cost of $60,000, only to be de
stroyed to test the latest engineering
theories in relation to the constant
angle arch type, will be constructed
soon on Stevenson Creek, a tribu
tary of the San Joaquin river, north
of here. Funds for the work have
been provided jointly by Los An
geles county and private interests.
The object of the experiment is
to obtain data expected to prove of
great value in the construction of
dams in the Los Angeles county
flood control program, in which ap
proximately $35,000,000 will be spent.
On several of these projects the use
of the constant angle arch type is
anticipated.
It is the theory of many engi
neers that the constant angle arch
type will permit the use of thinner
construction than has been tried here
tofore. If true, this would reduce
materially the cost of dams.
The experimental dam will be 140
feet long and 60 feet high when the
first tests are made. Special instru
ments will be inserted in the con
crete to test stresses, deflections
and temperature changes as the
load of water is increased. After
this information is obtained, the
height of the arch will be run up to
100 feet. The water then will be al
lowed to rise to the point at which
the dam may be pushed out of posi
tion, thus establishing the ultimate
resistance of this type of construc
tion.
Seadogs of Danzig Slow
to Endorse Rotor Vessel
DANZIG, Apr. 8.—(AP).—Shipping
experts are reluctant to pass judg
ment on the recent trip of the rotor
ship Buckau from this port to Scot
land. They say the Buckau is so
small, and the rotor substitute for
sails so new, that long experimenta
tion with larger ships will be neces
sary to test the commercial value
of the new invention. Nevertheless
the speed of the Buckau from Dan
zig to Grangemouth is regarded as
satisfactory, in comparison with the
average speed of sailing ships of the
same size over a similar distance.
The memory of old clippers which
crossed the Atlantic ‘from Boston to
Liverpool in 12 or 13 days will not
fade from the minds of shipping
men, who still look back with favor
upon the great old sailing ships that
were making records in the middle of
last century, when sailing was in its
glory. It is clear that the oldtimers
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^ADMIRAL LINE
IH.F. ALEXANDER.
Sails from
Seattle
April 7
April 21
S. ADMIRAL EVANS
Arrives South from
Seward Seward
April 14 April 18
S. ADMIRAL WATSON
April 28 May 2.
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports including Seldovia and
Kodiak.
S. S. ADMIRAL PEARY
April 27—With freight and explosives.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81 Res.. Madison 40
STEAMSHIP STARR
NEXT SAILING OF STR. STARR WEST, APRIL 5
San Jnan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MifotSON 13*. 8EWARD, ALA8KA
do not care to have it intimated
that revolving steel towers will ever
rival the romantic rigging of the old
clippers, even if they do bring about
economy in operation and lower
freight rates.
Technical Debate to Mark
Meeting of Oil Geologists
(By Associated Press)
WICHITA, Kans., Apr. 8— (AP).—
The sub-structure of the principal
crude oil fields in the world will be
visualized, dissected and discussed
during the convention of the Amer
ican Association of Petroleum Geolo
t gists, which meets here soon. Treat
j ment of this subject occupies the
I most prominent place on the pro
gram, and will be handled by geolo
gists representing all states and sev
eral foreign countries.
New light on the general strati
graphic background of the Kansas
fields, the sub-surface stratigraphy
of western Oklahoma, the San Ang
elo formation in Texas, the upper
cretaceous diastrophism and sedimen
tation in Montana, the age and cor
relation of the kreyenhagen in Calif
ornia, carbon ratios and petroleum
in Illinois and the permian of India,
is expected to be thrown on these
fields in more than SO papers to read
before the convention.
FRATERNAL ORDERS
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
JL Stated communications first
and third Wednesdays of each
/\r\ month; visiting brethren wel
come, J. P. Hannon, W. M.; Harold
Painter, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at
p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Fred Martineides,
N. G.; Chas. Lechner, Secretary.
IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
| Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows’ Hall; John
! Flowers, President; Coll A. McDou
i gall, Secretary. _
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Meeets the second and
Eourth Mondays of each
month in Odd Fellows'
Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
come; Goldie Blue W. M,
Mrs. Viola T. Swetmann, Secretary,
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays ol
each month in Odd
Fellows Hall at 8; OC
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. John
Rpsness, N. G.
Murders Increase as Courts
Dispense with Death Penalty
BERLIN, Apr. 8— (AP).—'There
have been no executions in Berlin
since 1921, and it is now being al
leged that the number of brutal mur
ders has increased in the German
capital because of the disposition of
the court to impose sentences of life
imprisonment instead of death.
Berlin has no executioner and the
discussions in the papers as to the
advisability of restoring capital pun
ishment have brought more than
100 applications from men who want
to serve as hangman.
Seldovia is again in communication
with the rest of the world, wireless
operator A. W. Lipke having returned
from the states.
Much gold has been found in the
Alden region in Siberia.
Eaton, Crane, Pike Stationery at
i the Alaska Shop. tf
Ladles’ ana Gems' Alfalfa Harvest
ing—O. K. Barber Shop. tf.
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
8 A. M.
Monday and Thursday
TRAINS ARRIVE
8 P. M.
Wednesday and Saturday
Let Morrison Fix it for you
Next to Crawford’s Shop
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COMPANY
Southwestern Alaska Route Schedule
Vessel—
Northwestern
Alaska
Yukon
Northwestern
ALASKA
YUKON
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
April 4th
April 11
April IS
April 25
May 2
May 9
Scheduled
Ar. Seward
April 11th.
April IS
April 25
May 2
May 9
May 16
Scheduled Sail
from Seward
April 11th.
April IS.
April 25
May 2
May 9
May 16
Steamers in the above schedule will make all regular ports of call
in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
Steamers in above schedule leave Seward every Saturday midnight.
NOTE—Northwestern due April 11th will go to Kenai before sailing
south.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
PHONE MAIN 125 SEWARD, ALASKA
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As all railroads in years gone by have been the greatest
contributing factors in development of the regions through
which they passed, so also is THE ALASKA RAILROAD each
day accomplishing much towards the building of an empire.
In place of the old, tremendously expensive and inconve
nient methods of transporting supplies of whatever character
over rough trails from the coast, there is now a modern rail
road that carries supplies and equipment in greater quantities
to and from the Interior, and along the way, in much less
time and at far less expense than was formerly required.
This great steel highway offering regular twice weekly
freight and passenger service between Seward, Anchorage
and Fairbanks; and tri-weekly mixed service over the
Chickaloon and Chatanika branches, is at your service. For
further information write
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
McKINLEY PARK ROUTE
ANCHORAGE
ALASKA
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sale at all ticket offices
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Barbers and Reasonable Prces
Keep Us Busy.
Thomas Jasper, Propr.
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Also fresh Lettuce, from
our hothouse, delivered
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