SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OP SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
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OUR SPECIAL EDITION.
After a week’s delay the Gateway
today presents its “Prosperity Edi
tion’’ for the edification of our read
ers. The issue is far from complete,
as we have many dozen cuts and nu
merous specially written articles which
should have gone into this issue, but
which time and space prohibit.
The photographs in this edition were
made by Mr. Otto Schallerer, to whom
we are under many obligations for his
untiring efforts to obtain good pic
tures. Miss Laddie Kyle also contrib
uted several articles, as well as doing
considerable detail work. Mr. E. F.
Jessen, who drew the special cover
page, has also worked indefatigably
to make the edition a success as has
everyone on the Gateway force.
The citizens of Seward have given
us generous advertising space and we
trust the results will be all they could
wish. The limited time at our dispo
sal and the lack of sufficient help
is the cause of any shortcomings you
may find herein. We have had an
eight page daily to get out, as well as
considerable commercial work, and
this has kept our force going almost
continuously.
Numerous cuts have been omitted
on account of delay in receiving them.
The cuts of the magnificent Standard
Oil plant, dozens of game pictures,
and fine views of the district surround
ing Seward were omitted on account
of lack of space. These, cuts have been
saved and will be used from time to
time in the Gateway’s columns. We
are under many obligations to the
Pathfinder and Mr. John E. Meals fo?
cuts and assistance furnished, also to
the Anchorage Times for its assist
ance.
It has been suggested by a number
of local business men that The Gate
way make its Prosperity Edition an
annual event. This will probably be
done, with the date of issue just before
Christmas.
Seward has had a most prosperous
year, and a majority of the buildings
shown have been erected or completed
this year. No snow pictures have
been printed, as we desire our Out
side readers to see Alaska as it really
is—with beautiful homes, fine gardens
and all modern convenieces for the
home owner.
GOSSIP
By J. S. ROOD
Man is a gregarious creature. He
enjoys^ association with his fellows. In
the beginnings of tribal formation men
banded together for mutual protection
each smooothing his own habits and
I customs into those recognized as ne
cessary to “life, liberty and the pur
suit of happiness” by the majority of
those coming the group with which he
associated himself. He relinquished
some of his personal freedom for the
protection he could gain from group
strength, and by that protection his
enjoyments became more numerous
than ever. His fears became less, his
labors easier. He gained knowledge
from his human contacts; his stand
ards of life rose, his groups became
larger and his political machinery
more complicated. His superficial en
joyments were more and more con
trolled in the interests of general wel
fare, and he came to understand for
bearance, tolerance, and forgiveness
toward his fellows. Truer happiness
for him ensued. Consideration colored
his actions and appreciation of the
endeavors of his fellow men influ
enced his mind; his tongue became
softer, his laugh more infectious. He
had learned to “give and take” with
grace—he came to know the spirit of
the trail.” His philosophies Jiave
changed and with their evolution, he
has routed many evils out of the so
cial and political structure; he helps
his fellows and is helped by them.
But there are evils remaining, of
all sorts and wearing many masks,—
of course evils will persist as long as
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man is mad. One of these is "Gossip,’'
—"Gossip” is yet with ps, perhaps
will always be. ' Her touch, is every
where and her breath is carried by
the winds from all earth’s corners.
She is* a hard beast with which to
deal,—a stiletto in the night, a barbed
rapier darting from the shadows.
Of those vituperative serpents, by
the vile venom ,q(-whose breath the
body of society is contaminated, the
spectre of that, toothed-monster, “Gos
sip,” is the most abominable. She
poisons the systems of those who em
ploy her; she! would blacked the char
acter of those at whom her sting is
flung; she deadens the social mind
and sours its spirit; she understands
not and—while holding a dull sense
of inflicted slight or wrong—will not
attempt to under stand. She is never
constructive; her purpose is always
to destroy. She chooses to smear her
victims with the ill-smelling and bit
ter vomit of vague resentment, noxi
ous, vitiating. She crawls, wriggling
on her slijne,-touched belly, into the
hearts and minds where access can
be found. In them she coils herself,
a fanged and grinning ghoul, claws
sunk to spring, tense-muscled, unre- j
lenting, watchful. In them she digs j
her dark beast’s den—no more they’ll
laugh to summer’s sun nor thrill to
winter’s tuneful gale—; she feeds
upon herself, still strengthening, cu
mulative.
Meanness, hardness and coldness,
are called by Ruskin the three unpar
donable sins; Gossip voices them. A
political machine may rebuke the gen
eral welfare of the people; crime may
affront law; greed may sanguinize
commercial dealings; inequalities of
wealth may be flagrant and distribu
tion in proportion to efficiency not
always just; vicious “dances of death”
may tempt the people and be rife
among them; but the insidious and in
vidious monster, “Gossip,” makes snap
ping animals and snarling reptiles of
the states of man and womanhood.
Shei blights the radiance of the cheek,
dulls the sparkle of the eye, and if
there were set in our midst a guillo
tine for gossips, what a sweetly order
ed, harmonious and pleasantly dispos
ed society we should have.
WILSONNOTPLAY
AS PROFESSIONAL
SEATTLE, Dec. 12 (JP)—George Wil
son announced that he had declined
$3,000 to play football in Miami and
other Florida cities during the Christ
mas holidays against the Grange’s
team.
Elmer Tesreau said he had received
no offer. Wilson and Tesreau are
busy preparing for the Rose Bowl
game at Pasadena, January 1, which
the Purple tornadoes yesterday con
tracted to play with the University of
Alabama.
Wilson said: “I am getting a col
lege education of which I always
dreamed. Baggy and the boys will be
out for practice this afternoon for a
game of our own.
Wilson was told if he signed he
would be in the same series as Ernie
Nevers, who yesterday announced he
had accepted §50,000 to play.
COURT MARTIAL CONCLUDED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 12 (JP)—
The Mitchell court martial will be
concluded today. This week is ex
pected to be the last of the testimony.
Army Moleskin Parkas, Urbach’s
The Alaska Railroad
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LIBERTY
Two Shows Tonight—7:00 and 8:45
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A STORY OF THE WILD WEST
The Man Whom All People Like
EUGENE O’BRIEN
AND THAT PERFECT ACTRESS
MAE BUSCH
With Mitchel Lewis and Mildred Harris in
“FRIVOLOUS SAL”
A FINE 8-REEL WESTERN STORY
Mostly staged on the slopes of Mt. Rainier
This is the first play here for some time that
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shows the Frontier Days in the Great West.
SOMETHING THRILLING and EXCITING
SUNDAY ONLY
“Silent Accuser”
A wonderful drama
featuring the famous dog, Peter the Great, and
Eleanor Boardman.
SOMETHING DIFFERENT AND GOOD
M’KENNAS GOING OUTSIDE
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. McKenna, Seward
residents, depart this evening on the
steamer Alameda for Seattle. Accom
panying them will be the two children
of Mr. and Mrs. R. Merril, who resided
in Seward for a few months during the
past summer but who left for Port
land two months ago. Mr. Merrill is
the Aviator who operated out of Sew
ard for a few months last summer. Mr.
McKenna is employed in the offices
on the local wharf. They expect to be
I absent for about a month.
H. A. Anderson, homesteader on Car
ibou Island, Lake Kenai, who arrived
in Seward the past week, accompan
ied by his wife, leaves tonight for La
ing here. Upon Mr. Anderson’s re
turn from Latouche it is quite proba
ble that they will spend the winter in
town.
Five soldiers arrived on the Alame
da yesterday from the South en route
to the Anchorage army post. The par
ty included William Tomalla, Frank
Lukon, Garland Frank, Jack G. Bight
on, G. C. Stbgeman. The party is reg
istered at the Sexton hotel.
One of the best shows of the season
will be at the Liberty tonight. “Frivol
j ous Sal,” a comedy drama of the west
I coast, and a good Pathe News.
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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)
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Anphorage
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