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WE ARE NOT RUNNING THE RAILROAD BUT
The Gateway's “Snow-shoe wireless" flashes the
report from Anchorage that about 20 more heads are
to be lopped-off. Whether this is true or not we we can
not say but if so we wish to take this opportunity of
-speaking a little piece.
In years gone by, with few exceptions of course,
it has been the rule to import heads of departments.
This system is rank injustice to those who have serv
ed the railroad faithfully for years. What incentive is
there for a fellow if he feels there is no chance for turn
-to work up to the boss's desk?
We do not claim an Alaskan is better than others
but we do know they are as good. And having knowledge
of conditions gained through long residence and appli
cation to their work, we believe in this instance that
without question they are bound to be of more value to
the general operation of the railroad than imported ex
perts. This is just a suggestion, of course, but we do
feel that when the opportunity warrants, promotion
from the present rank and file of employes is just re
ward for the deserving.
However, we are perfectly content to leave this
matter entirely in the good hands of Colonel Ohlson.
THE INEQUALITY OF JUSTICE
One time not so long since we met a man who had
lined up with some notables at a polished bar in a
swell bootlegging joint right next to a big bank build
ing in a live town in a western state. The governor of
the state was there, a member of the supreme court,
the United States district attorney for that district and
the shenff of the local county. The man behind the bar
who ran the joint was an oldtime bartender and a real
mixer. He had silver fizzes, dry Martinis and Manhat
tans and the drinks were a dollar each but they were
worth it.
Nearly all kinds of gambling had been legalized
in that state and the talk was about whether they would
go a step further and let them put in roulette wheels.
-Anywhere in town you could get a run for your money
at stud poker, craps, faro, keeno, black jack,—anything
but the wheel. Down the line the girls were herded to
gether in one block of cribs and dance halls and you
could call for your favorite liquor over the bar and the
moll drew down her percentage as in the good old days.
We saw as many as 60 girls hustling in one dance hall.
We had nothing on our mind for a few days so we
paled around a good deal with this bootlegger who was
an old friend. Every afternoon at the cocktail hour a
big limousine with liveried chauffer would pause in ;
front of this cigar store-bootlegging joint and a smart
female would step out and trip blithely in. To buy ci
gars? Not so you'd notice it. She would nod gaily to
the cigar man and push on to the back room where the
lookout would bow profoundly and let her into the bar
room.-It made no difference how many men were there,
ner nrst greeting was .Lets ail nave a arniK. sne
was a wealthy woman from Boston and she was having
the time of her life in the wide open spaces. She was
good for $50 every afternoon, the bootlegger said.
That joint had been running for some, time and
the ‘‘speakeasies” were making a nice cleanup. Our
bootlegger friend got good likker every week from the
south and he had all the notables in town. There was a
real brass rail and the leading doctors, lawyers, ban
kers, state and government officials put their feet on it.
That’s all right by us, but it made us kind ‘o sore
the other day when we heard of a poor misquided native
here in Alaska stopped by a government peace officer.
1 he poor fellow had a little too much under his belt
and a couple of bottles of home brew in his pockets but
he was trying his best to make it home without dis
turbing anybody. Now he is doing 90 days in a lousy
jail. Isn’t that spreading the mantle of justice equally
over our fair land?
What is it in a man who, after attaining sufficient
°r the world’s successes—honor and wealth—that makes
him continue in harness until his health, wrecked by
the struggle, brings him to death bed?
What to do with the unemployed in the United
States is engrossing Washington. Sounds like a con
demnation of our politicians and prohibition pap-suckers.
St. Patrick’s Day
Dance Is Plannet
Arrangements to give Seward ;
gala St. Patrick’s Day dance an<
entertainment are being made ty
the local American Legion Post, ac
| cording to plans formulated at th<
| Post’s meeting Wednesday. Spec
!ial musical numbers appropriat(
jfor the occasion are being rehears
I ed by the orchestra and hall i:
to be fittingly redecorated in keep
ing with the day.
But, the Legionnairees seem tc
have something else up their sleeve
that they are not devulging as yet
I HI II ITUS
i VAN GILDER—Mrs. Wm. Apple
by, S. O. Burclman, J. L. Freeman
]Dr. Chase, Frank McCofferty. L. M
jCarrlgan, Sam Sharklin, G. J. Love,
|Ralph Wein, N. C. Edwards, W. A,
O’Neil, John Luyden, M. Goldstein;
SEWARD—Frank Balvick, Owen
Celil, L. Patterson, Carl Johnson,
N. G. McRae. L. V. Lowell, Mrs. W.
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| Motors! lip
Discoverer
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| For Hire or Charter 1
| Next scheduled trip to ':he
| Cook Inlet ports of Portloek
fj
| eeldovia, and to Iliamna
Bay, February 5
Captain Heluie Berger
Seward, Alaska
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NOTICE
MAIL BOAT EL HURD
makes monthly trips around
all the Shumagin Islands
and Herindeen Bay and will
land anyone anywhere on
either side of the Alaska
Peninsula
K (iUOSVOLJ) Capf
Sand Point, Alaska
Erwin, Jce Johnson, Wm. Lyons, E.
G. Wetzler, Mrs. N. Clinton, W .R.
- Macpherson.
f OVERLAND—Harry Brown, Roy j
Norman, Joseph Rout, Frank Nash, j
Jim Spears, John Nemore.
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r Rev. Macpherson came over from I
Anchorage on Friday’s train and I
• held services in the Episcopal I
• church Friday evening. He will
: return to Anchorage Sunday.
Try the Alaska Shop CHOCO
LATE ICE CREAM.
“HBOS’ i
lilt AMKK1CAN LEGION
SEWARD POST No. 5. |
Meeting on the first and £ ; |
- third Wednesdays of each l'. -JF
month. James Campbell. ^$0?
Post Commander; Ben V. High,
Adjutant.
Seward Chapter No. 10. Order of
Eastern Star
Meete the second j
and fourth Monday’s i
of each month in j
Odd Fellows’ Hall, at
8 p. m. Visiting mem
_ bers always welcome, i
Mrs. Emma Banbury, W. M., Mrs.
Martine Johansen, Secretary.
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fUs* WiJ
Seward Lodge No. 1425. L. O. O
M. Meets every
first and third
Fridays of each
month at 8 p.
m. at I. O- O.
j F. Hall. All wel
come. Peter N.
Anderson, Dir
| ector. M. A. Horner, Secretary.
! PIONEERS OF ALASKA—IGLOO
NO. 9.
i Cal M. Brosius, Secretary and
Treasurer.
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SEWARD REBEKAH LODGE NO. j
] 6-A L O. O. F.
Meets the .first j
and third Mon- j i
days of each1
month in I. O. O. -
F. Hall at 8 p. m.
... « Vistiing members
are always welcome. Margarete
Lechner, N. O., Ludwig Larson, .
Secretary.
Ressurection Lodge No. A-7, I. O. j
O. F.
Meets every Thursday at
8 p. m. in Odd Fellows |
i Hall. Visiting brothers welcome, j
! Frank Cooper, N. G., Ludwig Lars
son, Secretary.
Seward Lod- .o. 219, F. and
A. M.
Stated communications
first and third Tuesdays
each month. V is i t i n g
bretheri welcome. Elwyn Swet
mann. W. M., Martin Banbury,
Secretary .
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ONE SHOW TONIGHT 8 O’CLOCK SHARP
LAS I SHOWING OF THIS FINE FEATURE TONIGHT
The Red Dance ’’
A very thrilling story of the exciting times just before and.
during the outbreak of the
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Sunday
One Show
7:30 Sharp
Here we have an all comedy program
TELL IT TO SWEENEY”
An uproarious tale of two locomotive engineers-one
GEORGE BANCROFT
running a big express locomotive on the main line; the other
CHESTER CONKLIN
T~g the mt,e’ o'- ■»«»* -ngine „„ . branch lin,
* mixup these two men get into over their engines, over
the daughter, over the president of the road, over a eountrv
' “ ab,°U‘ “ ■,"nny a »la>' as you’ve seen lor , fong time.
LAUGH! - LAUGH!— LAUGH'
nt! to start the fun off we> are: going to show you
LUPINO |LANE
in an extra good comedy; California gold fields
ALSO AN INTERESTING NEWS REEL ^
/F U)( WAXr T° llAVE A OOOI) TIME SEE Tins
Builders Supplies
NgMecm n
Stalls WVL D.
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STEAMSHIP STARR
V . CAPTAIN c. E. ANDERSON
Next Sailing of Steamer Starr out of Seward
MARCH 10th
Chas. A. Jansen, ’Agent
SAN JUAN FISHING & PACKING
COMPANY
Phone Madison 139 Seward, Alaska
Pi
no East
California
via j
and 1 SERVING ALASKA
the Panama Ca- I
nai thru ser- t
vice via the
Panama Pacific
Line. Ash for
details.
Vessel Sails Arrives South
from in from
Seattle Seward Seward
Evans Mar. 12 Mar. 19 Mar. 21
Watson Mar. 19 Mar. 26 Mar. 31
Evans Apr. 2 Apr. 9 Apr. .14
Watson Apr. 9 Apr. 16 Apr. 21
Evans Apr. 23 Apr. 30 May 5
Passenger accommodations mi *11
Admiral Line vessels have been cam
■ ieteljr and materially Improved Too
will find them very attractive and
comfortable.
Wayne Blue, sewara Agent
Vessel Leave Seattle
Leave
Seward
Northwestern
Alaska
Yukon
Northwestern
Agent—J. H. Flickinger,
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