/
NOTICE! NOTICE!
Hereafter the Seward Steam Laun
dry will not accept “rough dry” laun
dry. Send it “H.K.” instead. It’s better
and cheaper. tf.
Good program at the Liberty.
5 Hofman’s Rooming
; House
] THE BELMONT
5 FOR LABORING MEN
i Call Adams 126 for Labor
' SEWARD, ALASKA
It makes a vast difference in your
appearance whether you wear
good or poor clothing.
Drop in and look over our new
summer lines.
Cleaning and pressing.
New Method Cleaners
T. B. McGRATH, Mgr.
—We call for and deliver—
Phone MADISON 103
VESSEL MAKES STOP AT STA
TION WHILE PLANT WAS OP
ERATING FULL BLAST; MYS
TERIES OF INDUSTRY REVEAL
ED
MEAT FERTILIZER IS SACKED
Spectators View With Interest, from
a Distance, Rapid Work of Big
Westward Station
The Starr, on it’s recent trip to the
Westward, stopped at the Akutan
Whaling station for an hour to fill her
water tanks, giving passengers a rare
opportunity to go thru the plant. How
ever, only a few were able to go thru
with the undertaking, the majority
electing to stay outside for reasons
at once understood by the initiated.
Two of the giant mammals had just
been towed in by the whaler Tangiak,
a distance of 90 miles and lay float
ing alongside the dock, ready to be
run through the following day.
The animals are first pulled on a
high platform, where the meat and
blubber are cut from the bone with
large knives, saber-like with handles
about three feet long.
Five bone tanks and 18 meat tanks
are used in extracting the oil, the
bone yielding more oil to the pound
than the meat. Blubber and bone both
yield first grade oil, while the meat
gives second and third grade oil de
pending on its state of decomposition.
Oftentimes the animal is so decom
posed that only the blubber can be
used, the carcass being dumped into
the bay. This is often the case as
the animals are usually brought in in
bunches and as a result cannot be
handled immediately by the plant.
After the oil has been extracted
from the meat and bone, the residue
is ground up into a black powder,
rich in nitorgen and phosphorous, and
utilized as fertilizer. Meat fertilizer
brings $6 per 100 pound sack on the
market; bone fertilizer $3 per 100
pound sack.
First grade whale oil is used in the
manufactude of rizual oil, medicines,
chemicals, and food substitutes while
the lowrer grades of oil used in the
manufacture of soap.
The blubber and meat are boiled for
12 hours in each of three different re
finings, being skinned each time and
the scum run through again in the
first process.
The completed product is barreled
and entire vessel loads are shipped
to the States. The plant near Kodiak,
at Port Hobron, is operated by this
same company.
PLENTY OF SCHOOLS IN
HUSH DISTRICT;
SI ARE ENROLLED
Residents of the lower Nusagak are
fortunate in having three territorial
schools within a few miles radius,
schools being maintained at Clark’s
Point, Dillingham, and Snag Point,
Mr. Kerr will teach the newly estab
lished Dillingham school, with an en
rollment of 19. Mr. Kerr is well
known throughout the territory, hav
ing been in Nome and later clerk of
the Territorial congress at Juneau.
The Clark’s Point school with an en
rollment of 12 pupils will be taught
by another well known sourdough
who has taught in Nome and Point
Barrow. He plans to return to the
University of Oregon next year and
will resume his medical studies.
The Snag Point school has an en
rollment of 20 students.
Picture rraming—Schallerer’s Alas
ka Shop.
LUCKY SAYS: He don’t
blow his own horn, but have
you noticed reductions in
prices, since he opened up
and wondered why!
“The foots well told." Subscribe
to the Seward Weekly Gateway.
$3.00 a year.
Ingersoll Watches, a full - stock—
Guaranteed Watches—Schallerer’s Al
aska Shop.
We Are Agents For
Chippewa All-Wool Clothes
A Full Line of Oil Clothes, Boots and Shoe Pacs.
Underwear — Sox — Blankets
S. & W. CANNED GOODS
SWIFTS PREMIUM HAMS AND BACONS
GOLD NUGGET EGGS and BUTTER
WE CARRY ONLY THE BEST
MAIL ORDERS SHIPPED PROMPTLY
SEWARD TRADING CO. Inc.
Phone MAIN. 135 for Courteous Service.
JOE STANTON, Mgr.
SEWARD NEWS COMPANY
GEORGE PHELP8, Proprietor
BOOKSELLERS 8TATIONER8 NEWS DEALERS
HOTEL SEXTON.
GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor
SEWARD'S HOMEY HOTEL, WHERE THE OLDTIMERS
MEET
VAN GILDER HOTEL
• HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
STEAM HEAT
J. & BADGER
HOTEL SEWARD
OSCAR DAHL, Prop.
HOMEY, COMFORTABLE ROOMS AND BATH
Convenient to Depot and Dock
OVERLAND HOTEL
SEWARD ALASKA
Clean, Comfortable and Warm Rooms
ON THE MAIN STREET
SWIMMING—TENNIS
INDOOR ATHLETICS
[ SEWARD ATHLETIC CLUB t
| HAROLD PAINTER, Pres. LEONARD HOPKINS, Sec-Treas. =
| Help this organization sponsor local sports by keep- 1
| ing up your membership. If you are not a member, 1
| join now. : =
I • •• v.i." |
| NOTICE TO MEMBERS : June dues payable |
| at next call of collector. §
uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiimiiiiiiiiuiiiil