Blindman Leads Blind
To Better Education
CHICAGO, Fob. 2S.—A teacher
whose career was suddenly interrupt
ed by blindness is now directing what
is believed here to be among the first
free correspondence schools for the
adult blind. He is William H. Had
ley, of Win net ka, a suburb. The school
is maintained by Mr. Hadley’s friends
m! nn t'vnpnsp to the students
“If I had to choose between having
my sight back and my work,” lie re
marked to one of his friends, “I
would choose my work.”
Mr. Hadley was long active in edu
cation in Chicago. For five years
he sat in darkness and thought, his
mind devolving about statistics re
porting that SO per cent of the blind
become sightless after maturity.
There were, he understood, no edu
cational facilities meeting their needs.
A three line advertisement offering
to teach by correspondence, on a
Braille typewriter, any course that
might be desired by a blind person,
brought an avalanche of requests.
Friends rallied to organize the Had
ley Correspondence School for the
Blind. It now has students in In
dia and China.
“When the light went out of Mr.
Hadley's eyes,” wrote one of them,
"the windows of heaven were opened
for the rest of us.”
Americans Beat Dutch
In Appreciating Guiana
AMSTERDAM, March 2.—That Am
ericans seem to take far more inter
est in Dutch Guiana than do the peo
ple at home was the plaint of Baron
A. J. Van Heemstra, Dutch governor
of Surinam, who has been spending
a business vacation in the mother
land.
To an interviewer the governor
mentioned the activities ol strong
American exploration syndicates,
whose experts passed through Para
maribo last month and who are now
prospecting for gold in the interior
of the colony.
German industrial firms, the gov
ernor added, also have shown great
eagerness in taking up various de
velopment propositions, but curiously
]y enough the Dutch themselves are
not coming forward very readily, ex
cept for a proposal to erect a sugar
refinery in the colony.
Britons Eager to i ry New
Pipes Now Puff Corncobs
LONDON, March 2.—The cheapest
pipe on sale today in London, the
city which has perhaps two or three
times as many pipe smokers as any
other city in the world, is the old
fashioned corncob pipe from Missouri.
The corncob pipe here retails at 4
to 6 cents each, but even at that can
scarcely be considered as having
made any noticeable inroads upon
the British pipe industry.
In tact, it may be said that the
corncob pipe is considered more of
a freak than anything else, and is
bought chiefly by Americans, as a
reminder of the old corncob days back
home, and by a few Britons who have
lived at intervals in the west or
middle west when corncobs were in
their prime.
Pipe dealers say here that the corn
cob will never become really popu
lar in London, despite the low cost,
because of the fact that it does not
last any length of time. The Eng
lishman is always eager to try a new
pipe, say the dealers, but he prefers
hardwood ones, and in buying a new
pipe endeavors to get one which
will last a year or two, or longer.
Premier Baldwin, the best known
pipe smoker that this country has
produced, has smoked one pipe in
particular, almost daily, during the
last seven or eight years.
BERLIN, March 2—More than
200,000 German war widows have re
married, according to official statis
tics of pension officials, and 366,00(
war widows are still open to matr
monial proposals.
A total of 597,380 widows and chil
dren get support from the state b}
virtue of military service rendered bi
their deceased husbands and fathers
The Seward Trading Company out
fitted the fish boat Orient Saturday
Apt. Reed of the Oirent reports verj
heavy gales outside, losing some gear
FLOYD COLLINS, WHO LOST LIFE IN KENTUCKY CAVE
CORVRIDMT UNDERWOOD * UNOERWOOO. N. V
Floyd Collins (insert) native of Kentucky, who lost his life in a cave
when he was caught by a falling rock and entombed alive. The large photo
shows the entrance to the cave and some of the men who attempted to
rescue him.
AIRSCOUTS FAIL DISCOVER
ELUSIVE SCHOOLS HERRING
EMNDEN, March 2_During the
fishing season of ’24 herring fisher
men tried out airplanes to aid in
locating of schools of herring at sea,
but the results were distinctly disap
pointing.
Equipped with radio apparatus to
report back to their base the air pi
lots cruised over the water looking
for signs of the fish, but it was dis
covered that the planes move too
fast, and that the herring swim too
far below the surface of the sea for
the observers to detect them.
EDITOR SPARES HIS READERS
REMINDERS OF THE GRAVE
LONDON, March 2.—In an endea
vor to brighten his parish magazine
the Rev. Cyril R. Brown, Vicar of
Littleover, Derby, has banished un
dertakers’ advertisements from its
pages.
“While undertakers are excellent
fellows in themselves,” Dr. Brown
writes in the publication, “we do not
wish to be reminded of them, and
when three such firms blandish us
in one magazine, it is in danger of
becoming the most depressing of
journals. I would rather think about
living, and I wish the undertakers
would join the doctors and dentists
in retraining from advertisements.”
STEAMSHIP STARR
STEAMER STARR WILL SAIL MARCH 1
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
6. C. HENDERSON. Agent
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STEAMSHIP ADMIRAL WATSON
Sails from Arrives South from
Seattle Seward Seward
March 4 March 12 March 14
March 24 March 31 April 7
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports in eluding Seldovia and
Kodiak.
MOTORSHIP ADMIRAL PEARY
March 27, with gasoline, oils and explosives, for
space reservations telephone or wire agent at
Seward.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81 Res.. Madison 40
ARGENTINA HOPES SOON TO
STOP IMPORTS OF GASOLINE
BUENOS AIRES, March 2.—The pe
troleum industry In Argentina is now
making such progress that in three
years the country will have all the
motor fuel its consumption requires,
according to Dr. Tomas Le Breton,
minister of agriculture, whose depart
ment controls the state oil wells.
Speaking at the opening of the
Argentine Industrial Exposition Dr.
Le Breton said the sage of experi
ment in oil production has passed,
the output of the state wells having
doubled in the past two years, now
exceeding 2,000 metric tons daily.
With the completion of big state oil
refining plants to be built by an Am
erican concern, and an electrical plant
for boring new wells, he said it would
no longer be necessary for Argentina
to import either gasoline or kerosene.
OREGON AND AGGIES TIED
SEATTLE, March 2.—Oregon tied
the Oregon Aggies in the Northwest
ern Coast Conference Championship
this season by defeating Washington
35 to 26.
SEND BILL BACK CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 2 —
The Interior department’s appropria
tion bill was sent back to the confer
ence committee.
YOUTH OF ENGLAND EAGER
FOR ADVENTURE IN TROPICS
LONDON, Mai*. 2.—The same ad
venturous youths who flocked to en
list under the flag when England’s
navy was called to Trafalgar, live to
day in modern England. Mitchell
Hedges, who recently advertised for
three youths* tq accompany him on an
expedition to the wilds of British Hon
duras, has had 2,300 applications from
boys. Most of the applicants gave
their age as 19, and finally Mr. Hedges
selected two boys of this age and one
four years older.
The expedition is ot search for cities
and relics of the ancient Maya civili
zation. Mr. Hedges is taking with
him a new invention called the amber
spray, which is to be used to spray a
varnish like liquid on any relics dis
covered to protect them from the air
and sun. The relic can be sprayed
inch by inch as it is unearthed and
later the varnish removed by spraying
the object with another liquid.
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above schedule will make all
and Southwestern Alaska.
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February 28
March 7
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March 21
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April 4
regular ports of call
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SEWARD, ALASKA
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eontnbutmg 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.
. !n 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.
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freight and passenger service between Seward, Anchorage
and Fairbanks; and tri-weekly mixed service over the
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GUDERUP GETS ON THE MAP
WHEN VIERECKS HAVE GIRL
GUDERUP, Mar. 2.—Marta Vier
eck’s arrival in the world was cele
brated by this entire village, which
hauled a gigantic cake that covered
an entire wagon through the town and
presented it to Hans Viereck and his
wife Gretchen in honor of the little
daughter’s birth.
The Viereck’s have seven sons anu
had always wanted a daughter. Sc.
when the villagers heard that the
stork was about to visit the Viereck’s
again, the parents were promised that
they should have the biggest cake
Guderup has ever seen if a sister was
born to the Vierecks.
When the announcement was made
that the child was a girl work began
on the gigantic cake. No oven was
big enough to hold it, so it was bakec
in eight parts, one for each of the
little Vierecks, and these were placeu
together and hauled triumphantly thru
the streets to the home of the liappj
parents.
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Monday and Thursday
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Wednesday and Saturday
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