SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
Published daily except Sunday by
Gateway Publishing Co.
Entered in the postoffice at Seward,
Alaska, as second-class mail matter.
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OUR “PROSPERITY” EDITION
On Saturday, December 5, The Gate
way will issue its annual “Prosperity"
edition.
Few of our citizens realize the vast
sums spent for building in Seward this
year and last fall, the total reaching
well over $200,000 if one takes into
consideration the repairs made to the
buildings in town, in connection with
the new structures.
This edition will consist of between
5,000 and 7,500 copies, of thirty-two
pages, well bound in an attractive cov
er, and will contain a complete resume
of the year’s doings up to the date of
issue, a two or three page write-up of
the Alaska Railroad with copius illus
trations, a description of the Alaska
Agricultural College with cuts of the
building, president and personnel; a
page write-up and history of the Jesse
Lee Home, the Standard Oil Company,
the San Juan Fishing & Packing Co.,
the court house and court officials,
a fine half page cut of Seward, a syn
opsis of mining, fishing, agriculture,
timber, and roadwork, with the sums
expended for roads and trails, and a
brief history of the activities of the
Bureau of Public Roads and the Alaska
Road Commission.
A fine cut of the radio station has
been secured and a history of the sta
tion with its activities and personnel
will also be run.
That Seward is forging rapidly on
ward can be showm the most skeptical
by a glance at the rapid growth of our
subscription list which has increased
nearly 200 in Seward alone since last
fall.
Already we have received much en
couragement from Sewrard citizens,
some 16 pages of advertising having
been signed up. In case the advertis
ing exceeds the limit allowed by the
postal authorities, an extra eight pages
will be added making this the largest
and best illustrated paper ever pub
lished in Alaska.
And this edition will also include
the towns of Seldovia and Kodiak, long
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stagnant because of lack of publicity
and just emerging from obscurity into
prominence as fishing and agricultu
ral sections. Our representative will
visit both towns and they will have
their own sections in the this great
edition.
One of the best parts of the edition,
to our way of thinking, will be a page
devoted to “The Men Who Have Built
UP Seward,” containing photographs
and a brief biography of those citizens
who came here in the early days, and
whose faith has never faltered. Such
men as T. W. Hawkins, H. V. Hoben,
A1 Davis, Judge Whittlesey, Curtis R.
Morford, George Phelps, Pete Ander
son, Charges Krefting, Chas. Tecklen
berg, Joe Hofman, H. E. Ellsworth,
and a host of others, who with Mrs.
Lillie Schallerer, helped found the
town and brought it to its present
greatness.
It has long been our idea of public
ity for Seward, and to our idea, it will
be far better than any booklet or oth
er advertising that could be issued, as
it will reach many states and towns in
the union, as well as many parts of
Canada, New Zealand, Africa, Nor
way, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and
England, where Gateway subscribers
now take the paper.
We will have a limited number of
extra copies, probably some 2,00, which
will be retailed at 10 cents each. It
would be well to place your orders
with our solicitor when he calls, as
stock must be ordered and arrange
ments made.
Let’s get in and boost this edition,
and give Seward publicity badly need
ed. The Gateway as an advertising
medium has long been considered one
of the best in Alaska, by Outside
agencies. We can put this issue over
with the help of every citizen, and
only by their help.
Let’s go!
Fred Nichol, a manufacturer of
Dayton, O., held up the employes and
robbed a bank in which his daughter
worked.
A thief at Oxford, N. J., not only
stole Charles Fichtel’s car but had a
tank of gasoline charged to him at a
local garage.
Ike Elkins, automobile dealer of
Newport, Wn., Was among the local
arrivals last night from the Inferior.
Mr. Elkins has been hunting big
game in the vicinity to the McKin
ley National Park. He is a guest
at the Van Gilder.
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
7:30 A. M.
MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS
TRAINS ARRIVE SEWARD
7:30 P. M.
WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS
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SEE THE INTERIOR
-VIA
THE GOLDEN BELT
To the end that the countless places of scenic and other inter
ests in the Territory may be thoroughly enjoyed and understood, and
to enable them to acquire first hand and accurate information con
cerning all Alaskan activities and development; travelers to the
Northland are urged to visit
ALASKA’S “GOLDEN HEART”
Interior Alaska and places en route—including Kenai Lake, the
“Loop District,” Spencer and Bartlett G-laciers, Turnagain Arm, An
chorage, the Matanuska Valley, Curry, Nenana River Canyon, Mt. Mc
kinley National Park, Nenana, the Tanana Valley and Fairbanks, hold
much of interest to everyone, whether on business or pleasure bent;
and a tour through these regions creates a true conception of the
good things that Alaska has to offer.
For train and automobile schedules, passenger rates and other in
formation, 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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PASADENA VISITOR
TELLS OF VALUES
ROADS ARTERIES
MEMBER CALIFORNIA SENATE
INTRODUCED FIRST BILL
FOR ROAD SYSTEM
STATE GAINING IN POPULATION
Prospectors and Miners of Alaska
Handicapped By Lack
of Roads.
“When the time comes that the Al
askan with limited means can get
into the outlying regions of the Ter
ritory with his outfit, with the least
possible expense, which can be done
when an artery of roadways radiate
out from all points, then, I believe,
Alaska will forge ahead with great
rapidity,” stated Benjamin W. Hahn,
attorney and publisher of Pasadena,
Cal., who was a visitor in Sewrnrd
the first of the week. Mr. Hahn,
accompanied by his wife, arrived in
Seward last week from the Interior,
having come down the Yukon river
from Dawson, and departed for Seat
tle on the steamer Yukon.
Mr. Hahn described the trip in de
tail and stated both he and Mrs.
Hahn appreciated the journey im
mensely and had already made plans
to return to this district next sea
son, with his son, for a big game
hunt. On the recent trip they hunt
ed in the vicinity of Donnely for a
whole month and secured, what they
considered, some wonderful speci
mens, but he is intensely interested
in procuring an exceptional fine
moose head which he proposes to add
to his collection of wild game tro
phies in his beautiful Pasadena res
idence. His home, according to a
photograph, with the surrounding
gardens and over 20 acres of field,
resembles more closely a city park.
It is a beautiful thing, the house be
ing constructed of redw'ood logs.
Interior Regions Handicapped
Continuing, with reference to roads
in Alaska, Mr. Hahn, who has made
a special study of roads and high
ways in his county and state, where
he serve*! in the Senate from 1903
to 1907, land during wrhich time he
introduced the first bill for a pre
liminary survey for new road con
struction, and to which a bond is
sue of $18,000,000 was successfully
floated in 1910, said: “Our thought,
regarding this large expenditure for
highways and road3, was two-fold.
First, we thought with the comple
tion of the series of connecting roads
we would bring visitors to Califor
nia from all States in the Union
and secondly, we believed when once
they came a great many would want
to stay in California. With the
completion of the roads our idea
proved true.
“I can see in your Interior dis
trict, that the prospector and miner
of average means, is badly handi
capped in the matter of getting into
the outlying regions. It is hard for
him to move about at a small ex
pense.
California’s Biggest Move.
“The road system in California has
proven to be the largest thing ever
accomplished, with respect to pop
ulating the country. It gave the
tourist and visitor the opportunity
to visit, at the minimum of expense,
regions which otherwise would have
been missed. The residents of the
State little realized what effect a
system of roads, like we now have,
once they were completed. Where
formerly the railroads charged high
freight and passenger rates, this
cost has been reduced materially.
However, the auto stage companies,
truck lines, took advantage of the
splendid roadways and installed ser
vice to all points in the States with
the result that today, stage lines
are operating all over the entire state.
An auto truck service has been oper
ating for some years now between
Los Angeles and San Francisco, an
approximate distance of 450 miles.
Providing a system of roads are fin
ally established in Alaska, connect
ing all points, I know of nothing in
the way of freight which cannot be
handled over them. The State of
California recently put over anoth
er bond issue for the construction
of more highways and roads, to the
amount of $48,000,000. Hundreds of
road* arteries are being built to con
nect with the main trunk highways.”
LIBERTY
ONE SHOW TONIGHT AT 8:00 O’CLOCK
REGINALD DENNY
In
M. Byron Morgan's Dazzling Story of the
Younger Set,
Sporting Youth
The thrillingest, speediest tale shown in
Some Months
Innocently he assumed another man's name
* * * uunconsciously he won the love of a
golden girl * * * helplessly he found himself
plunged into a great international road
race * * * then he had to make good or lose
everything that made life worth while.
That's Reginald Denny's little job in
“Sporting Youth," a thrilling, whirling,
speed-mad picture of the pace that kills.
WONDERFUL AUTO DRIVING, GABLING
WITH DEATH WITH A LITTLE BIT OF
LOVE MIXED IN WITH A BIG LOT OF
EXCITING THRILLS—
LAURA LA PLANTE SUPPORTS
REGINALD DENNY IN THIS
THERE IS ALSO A FINE PATHE NEWS
AND A FABLE REEL
The piano recital by the pupils of
Mrs. George Schmidt, will be held
tomorrow evening at the Odd Fel
lows hall.
Dr. James A. Jackson and Col. J
M. Jackson, of Madison, Wis., arriv
ed in Seward last night from the In
terior. They are guests at the Ho
tel Van Gilder.
Dr. C. P. Getzlaff, M. D., of Priest
River, Idaho, who has been in the
Interior regions on a big game hunt,
arrived in Seward last night. Dr.
Getzlaff is a guest at the Van Gil
der.
Mrs. C. A. Pollard, wife of the An
chorage dentist, departed for her home
this morning. Mrs. Pollard and baby
have been over at Kodiak the past
week.
New Hand Laundry
This is to infprm the public that I
am opening up the hand laundry lo
cated on Fifth avenue known as the
O. K. Hand Laundry, and will open up
foor business Monday, Sept. 21. Hav
ing had sevferal years erperience in
the laundry business I solicit your
patronage. Special care will be taken
of silk woololens, also dry cleaning
for ladies. Mending, darning and al
terations. This laundry in the future
will be called,
AMANDA’S LAUNDRY
Phone Madison 126
251-tf
CLOSING OUT SALE
Beginning Wednesday
9A.M.
BANBURY & OGLE
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, residents of
Fairbanks, were among the arrivals
in Seward last night from the Inte
rior. They will go South on the
steamer Northwestern. Mr. and Mrs. ^
Taylor are registered at the Van
Gilder.
A heavy frost, the first of the sea
son, settled down in Seward last
night.
FOR SALE—Fruit Jars. J. L. Graef.
If men wear it, we have it. Urbach.
Cabin for Rent
On Fine Trout Stream
Bungalow with fine fire
place. large living room,
furnished for six persons,
plenty of bedding and
essentials, stove and all
cooking utensils. Will be
rented by the day or week
end to responsible parties.
Good fishing in lake and
stream and hunting in
season.
Apply A1 Davis
SEWARD, ALASKA
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HOTEL ST. CHARLES
When in Seattle, make the
Hotel St. Charles your head
quarters.
Strictly Modem and
Fireproof
And Managed by an old
Alaskan
J. A. FARNHAM.