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S. S. ADMIRAL WATSON
Sails from
Seattle
Oct. 15
Nov. 12
Dec. 10
Arrives
Seward
Oct. 22
Nov. 19
Dec. 17
Seward
South fm
Oct. 29
Nov. 26
Dec. 24
Watson connects with train Southbound.
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports including Anchorage and
Kodiak.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main SI Res.. Madison 40
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Pacific Coastwise Service
a?ADMIRAL LINE
BW—BH.F.AlEXANpgp. PP7SIOEMT
FRYE’S DELICIOUS BRAND
HAMS AND BACON
Frye-Bruhn Company
Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes and Confec
tions Constantly in Stock
Seward Bakery
HOTEL SEXTON
GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor
SEWARD’S HOMEY HOTEL, WHERE THE OLDTIMERS
MEET
SEWARD NEWS COMPANY
GEORGE PHELPS, Proprietor
BOOKSELLERS STATIONERS NEWS DEALERS
SEWARD MACHINE SHOPS
Ford Authorized Sales and Service
INDUSTRIAL SEWARD NEAR DOCK
SEWARD WATER &
, POWER COMPANY
SEWARD, ALASKA
“Good Water a Necessity in Every Home”
JOHN NELSON, Manager, WAYNE BLUE, Agent
OFFICE ARCADE BUILDING
“SOUVENIRS” FROM
HOTELS BIG LOSS
NEW YORK, Oct. 4.—Mystery
may always surround the tale of the
twenty-four gold coffee spoons that
did or did not disappear from the
Elysee in Paris during the visit of
a party of Americans, but there is no
mystery about the fact that in their
native land Americans have the habit
of collecting various and sundry “sou
venirs” without Jfs much as by your
leave. On the books of the hotel
companies, the facts stand out very
plainly that the traveling public lacks
a keen sense of property rights. It
is not so easy to explain away or
smooth over losses that the hotels
must be prepared to meet yearly re
sulting from the continual disappear
ance of their property from the gun
rooms.
The American hotel man is said to
have raised the art of pleasing his
patrons to a new height in both serv
ice and accommodations. He has al
so learned to know intimately the foi
bles, weaknesses and sins of his
guests. The American hotel man
would never get highly excited about
the incident that disturbed Paris, be
cause, in the first place, he is used
to that sort of thing, and secondly, he
takes care that he gets paid for the
hotel’s "lost” property. The word
| “souvenir” has come to cover not on
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Classified Advertising
WANTED—Salesman or woman to
call on private homes, something
new. Good proposition. Average $50
per week. Write O. M. Sinclair,
5018 43rd Ave. S., Seattle, Wash.
FOR SALE—Singer Sewing Machine
in fine condition with all attach
ments, cheap for cash, $25 takes
it; inquire Gateway. tf.
FOR RENT—Eight totm furnished
flat ,with bath. See Dougherty —
Phone Madison 58.
FOR SALE—Some slightly used over
coats at a bargain while they last.
See JORDAN VALET SERVICE.
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
8 A. M.
Monday and Thursday
TRAINS ARRIVE
8 P. M.
Wednesday and Saturday
ARON ERICSON
Painter and Decorator
SIGNS WALL PAPER
Take
THE FUR FARMER
MAGAZINE
and know the fur business. It
deals with every phase of fur
farming. Learn howr others made
a success of farming fur bearing
animals.
Address
21 COLMAN DOCK
Seattle, Wash.
SEWARD GRILL
PRIVATE DINING ROOMS
Pleasant Surroundings
Courteous Treatment
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
Keen Reductions on
SWEATERS
Ladies’ and Children’s
DRESSES—
—at—
BANBURY & OGLE
0. K. BARBER SHOP
Clean, Santiary Baths, Expert
Barbers and Reasonable Prces
Keep Us Busy.
Thomas Jasper, Propr.
SEWARD CLUB
CHRIST LARSON Prop.
POOL, SOFT DRINKS, HIGH
GRADE CANDY
ly a multitude of sins but a quanti
ty of property as well.
Towels are first in popularity, and
j they disappear in quantity. Then
come bathroom rugs, blankets, linen
from the beds, pictures from the wall
—anything, in fact, that is not nailed
down or too big to get in a suitcase
or trunk. Where blankets bear the
stamp of the hotel at top or bottom,
this will perhaps be cut off and left.
One hotel manager told of a parti
cularly avaricious guest who, besides
trying to beat his bill, had taken the
little table on which the telephone
stood. The legs had been unscrewed
and the whole neatly packed in a
trunk.
The hotel man endeavors to cut
down his loss as much as possible.
One system is to have a girl make a
hasty suivey of the room as soon as
die patron has left. If property is
I missing the departing guest is stopped
at the desk on “checking' out” and
asked to leturn the “borrowed” sou
venirs. If lie is gone, then the police
letter is dispatched requesting the re
turn of the property,
i “After all is said and done,” said a
I hotel manager, “it must be admitted i
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that the traveling public thinks light
ly of taking things that do not be
long to it. By no other method of
reasoning can you account h r die dis
appearance of a quantity oi valuable
property in the course of a year. And
the joke il it is a joke, is on lhe
public, ior it pays the bill.”
But if die public is can less about
carrying oi> hotel property it is also
careless accut leaving its own One
chain of hotels, operating eight units,
lound tha: the property returned to
its departed patrons each year am
ounted to approximately $100,000.
This caused the head of the depart
ment making the returns to say that
the “traveling public is the most care
less fraction of the population.”
The material left behind is a
strange assortment of valuable and
worthless property, including poetry, |
theater tickets, pearl necklaces, wed
ding rings, engagement rings, stock
and mining certificates, postage
stamps, a Thomas A. Edison que*
tionaire and a corkscrew.
As things stand, the hotel man feels
that he has ground for complaint on
the score of both souvenir collecting
and carelessness.
SHARP EYES IN ALASKA
COUNT SWIMMING SALMON
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 6.—
For the fourth consecutive year hun
dreds of thousands of red salmon
have been stopped and counted as
they made their spawning “run” from
the Karluk river into Karluk lake on
Kodiak island. The work was under
the direction of C. H. Gilbert, fish
eries expert of Stanford University.
A weir, or fish fence, was built
across the river during the fishing
season. The salmon were forced to
pass through small gates in t he
fence to enter the lake. A watchman
counted them.
Professor Gilbert points out that
if the number of fish return at ma
turity to the spawning ground in
a certain year can be ascertained,
there will be definite information as
to the number to be saved each year
for reproduction. The count also will
determine the maximum of the sal
mon run. Tabulation for the fourth
consecutive year will enable the pack
ers to ascertain the number of four,
five, six and seven-year salmon.
New Fall Suit. Samples at Urbach’s.
Suits made to measure. See Ur
bach. tf.
Ladles’ and Gents’ Alfalfa Harvest
ing—O. K. Barber Shop. tf.
PIONEER CLUB
John Nash, propr.
SOFT DRINKS, CANDY
CIGARS AND FRUITS
GERHARD JOHNSEN
Mason and Plasterer
Phone Adams 60 Box 1423
Fresh Milk, Cream,
and all Dairy
Products
Our Motto: “The Best”
SEWARD DAIRY
CITY EXPRESS
Billy Patterson
Meets All Boats and Trains
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO,
SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA
ROUTE SCHEDULE
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Vessel
YUKON
NORTHWESTERN
ALASKA
YUKON
NORTHWESTERN
Scheduled
Lv. Seattle
Sept. 20
Sept. 27
Oct. 4
Oct. 11
Oct. 18
Scheduled Scheduled
Ar. Sev'ard So. fm Seward
Sept. 27
Oct. 4
Oct. 11
Oct. 18
Oct. 25
Sept. 29
Oct. 4
Oct. 11
Oct. IS
Oct. 25
Ships in the above schedule sail from Pier Two, Seattle, at 9 A. M. each sail
ing date and will call at Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez, I,at' icie
and Seward, both north and southbound.
STEAMER REDONDO connects at Seward every Saturday with ships in the
above schedule, carrying passengers and freight for Seldovia. Halibut Cove, I >rt
Graham, Port Chatham, Ninilchik, Kenai, Snug Harbor, Anchorage, Kodiak, K ak
Bay, Red Pox Tray, Afognak, Ouzinki, Uyak, and Uganik, when amount if
ness warrants.
Above steamers are scheduled to sail from Seward at mid:
sailing date, beginning October 4th.
J. H. FLICKINGEU, Agent
Phone Mad. 149 Seward, Alaska
STEAMSHIP STARR
The steamer Starr Sails for Unalaska October Fifth
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON. Agent
SEWARD. ALASKA
PHONE MADISON
AN EMPIRE BUILDER
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 method of transporting supplies of whatever character
over rough trails from the coast, there is now a modern rail
way 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 in
formation write
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
McKinley park route
ANCHORAGE ALASKA
Special week-end tickets (one and one-tliird actual fare) on
sale at all ticket offices
VAN GILDER HOTEL
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
•TEAM HEAT
J. S. BADGER
HOTEL SEWARD
OSCAR DAHL, Proprietor
HOMEY, COMFORTABLE ROOMS AND BATH
Convenient to Depot and Dock
CAL M. BROSIUS
Builders’ Supplies
QUALITY COAL
NONE BETTER
Lump Mine Run Steam
YOU need our coal. WE need your business.
Give Us A Trial
EVAN JONES COAL CO.
Office Mines
ANCHORAGE, Alaska. JONESVILLE, Alaska