SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
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OUR ANNUAL CROP
Alaska is now harvesting its best
paying crop—the tourist. From the
first of June until the frost is on the
pumpkin, which is some time late in
September, the peripatetic tourist is
with us, in person instead of in spirit.
Arrayed as the lily or the rose, with
expectant and eager mien, the young
tourist of the feminine gender causes
the hearts of the old sourdoughs to
<lo a flipflop as the compare them with
feminine charms of fifty years ago,
back east or down south, or where
ever the old boys came from before
the lure of the auriferous metal be
guiled them from home and relatives.
When many of us left the States the
bustle, the high-necked, tight-sleeved,
dust-sweeping dress and banged hair
prevailed. Maidenly modesty forbade
showing more than the tops of the
shoes, and lipsticks and rolled sox
would have caused a stampede in the
sleepy old towms in Kentucky and
Tennessee. The pillion and the spin
ning wheel, and linsey woolsey gar
ments were in vogue, and out “be
yond” bare feet and corn shuck hats
might still be found. Chewing tobacco
was cut, hung in the barn and rolled
into twists with licorice and sorghum
molasses to bind it together, while
grandpap and grandmam smoked
Kentucky twist in Missouri meer
schaums, and kicked the hounds but
of in front of the fireplace.
The advent of the tourist is eagerly
awaited by we old sourdoughs. We
know that we are moss-growrn and an
object of curiosity to the visitor, but
we overlook their frailties and idio
syncracies, their rolled socks, lip
sticks, bobbed hair, and abbreviated
costumes, age having brought tolera
tion and broad-mindedness. We wel
come their changing styles of dress
and impertinent questions, and are
glad to have them with us once more.
But many of us long for the styles
when “Fire in the Mountains” and
“Hell Amongst the Yearlings” were
popular dance tunes, and when the
square dance superseded the dizzy
fox trot and ice worm twist. The
five-gallon Stetson and four-inch heels
on riding boots have gone out of style
since many of us hit the country, but
they were gosh-awful comfortable
while they were in vogue.
The Outside w'orld may be topsy
turvy but it is a good old world at
that.
STRIKING OUT “OBEY.”
Civilization as we know it has its
failures and its shortcomings, but in
spite of these it has to its credit a
glorious achievement in the emanci
pation of womanhood.
That emancipation is not yet com
plete, but the principles of sex equal
ity are now so firmly established in
the minds of enlightened peoples that
its application to the fullest extent
is only a matter of time—and not so
long off at that.
In line with advanced ideas of wo
man’s equal dignity with man is the
proposal to eliminate the word “obey”
from the marriage service of the Pro
testant Episcopal Church, which will
be presented for final ratification at
the triennial general convention in
New Orleans next October.
Not that the word has ever been
accepted by modern woman in its lit
eral meaning, as few obey anything
or anybody save the dictates of their
own conscience and their likings and
moods.
Already the pledge of obedience is
virtually a dead letter and in many
instances it is omitted from the mar
riage vows by mutual consent of the
I wedded pair. It is becoming almost
universally recognized among civilized
peoples that the woman is in her own
right a full partner in the marital re
lation, and is not a slave or servant,
as in the past.
As was recently so succinctly ex
pressed by Bishop Slattery of Massa
chusetts, referring to the proposed
new rule, “The pledge of the man
should be the same as the pledge of
the woman.”
Wedded success depends upon the
mutual love and respect in which hus
band and wife hold each other rather
than upon an exchange of formal
and meaningless vows.
ALASKA COAL THE BEST
Whether or not Seward will have
coal bunkers for the convenient load
ing of freight steamers with the car
boniferous deposits so valuable as a
means of eradicating cold zephyrs in
the Northland, depends upon the mar
ket established for the product. In
other words a market must be built
up by the operator under most ad
verse circumstances, without regard
to time or cost of operation. That this
is impossible is demonstrated daily in
Outside markets, where the difference
of a few’ cents on the cost of a staple
will place a firm in the hands of the
sheriff. With the best of conditions,
cheapened to the last penny in cost
of production, Alaska coal will find
no waiting market, as transportation
companies prefer to bring coal north
from British Columbia mines, using
their cargo space southbound for oth
er products. To place Alaska coal in
competition with Outside coal, spe
cial vessels must be constructed using
electric conveyers and the coal must
go into the hold by gravity instead of
by slings.
Alaska coal is as good as the best
and even with the high cost of mining
and transportation is cheaper than the
Outside product, especially along the
railroad belt.
NO PLACE FOR A DEBUTANTE
The Gateway is in receipt of a let
ter from a sweet young pedagog in
what is called the effete East seeking
a position to teach the young aborigi
nes of Aleut extraction how to shoot.
Evidently the glamor of Robert Serv
ice hangs over Alaska, and she wots
not of what she wots. To our mind
teaching a negro school in South
Florida during the dog days would be
more pleasant from an olfactory
standpoint than being cooped up in
a ten by twelve room with fifteen or
twenty husky Aleuts whose ablutions
have been as badly neglected as their
social amenities, and whose number
10 mukluks are working overtime in
an effort to throw off decaying odors.
Bucking coal and water through a
fifty mile blizzard with the big boys
on the trap line may seem romantic,
but my gosh! How do they get that
way? If we were Guinevere we would
tackle a whaling station or a ranch
where mephitis mephitica are abun
dant before going to the far westward
on a job which may send her pedigog
ical aspirations to the laundry.
Although suffering from bruises and
two broken fingers caused by falling
through a pit in the stage of the Me
tropolitan opera house in New York
Curt Tauchenor, the operatic tenor,
finished out the performance.
Fearing he would forget his wife’s
birthday, Otto Kuehne of Berlin mail
ed himself a letter timed to reach him
on the anniversary, it was delivered
four years later and reminded him of
another of her birthdays.
Lieut. K. R. Lincke, son of Jack
Lincke, former newspaper man of
Anchorage, is on the Yukon, which
departed from Seattle this morning
for Seward.
Fifi, a poodle dog owned by Theo.
Gauthier, of Springfield, Mass, moth
ers! a brood of 15 chickens.
Mrs. Eliza Baker, owner of a small
English circus, was born in a tent
and died in one at the age of 92.
A chicken hatched by the rays of
the sun is alive and well at the home
of Joseph Norton, Wellesley, Mass.
Down in Arizona where the Salome
frog is seven years old and has never
learned how to swim, any kind of li
quid so it is wet, and doesn’t take the
skin off one’s throat, suffices. Here
in Alaska where the ice worms wrig
gle and twist on the moonlit glaciers,
we have become so used to A1 aqua
pura that we take it as a matter of
course. Seward’s water system pro
vides an unlimited supply of water so
pure that chemists analyzing it be
lieve it is filtered. It contains all the
const!tueaits for bone, muscle, and
good teeth, and our children are so
healthy from drinking it that our only
physician remains here on account of
his fine neighbors and relaxation from
exercise. Good water is one of the
greatest blessings of the Northland,
and one least appreciated.
H. H. McCutcheon, past exalted
ruler of the Anchorage Elks lodge,
who represented the Anchorage Or
der at the recent Portland B. P. O.
Elk’s convention, returned to Seward
today on the S.S. Ala^i.
Katherine C. Kane, teacher at Ak
utan for the Bureau of Education,
was a returning passenger on the Al
aska this afternoon.
Mrs. Pearl Harrison, resident of
Anchorage who has been making a
short visit to the States, is a return
ing passenger on the steamer Yu
kon, which departed this morning
from Seattle for Alaska.
Mrs. Ella Parsons of Chicago on
trial for perjury, declared that a wife
should always lie to protect her hus
band.
Dr. S. G. Vinter of Saltash, England,
whipped a disobedient girl patient
with her mother’s consent, but was
fined $50.
J. C. Culver of South Orange, N. J.,
drove a golf ball 160 yards where it
hit a tree, then a rock and rolled into
the hole.
Getting into a power plant at Hull,
England, a rat was electrocuted caus
ing a short circuit and damage of over
$60,000.
B. W. Morgan, of Port Jervis, N. Y.,
declares one of his hens hatched 14
chicks from 13 eggs, one of which had
a double yolk.
Holding three iron washers in his
mouth while working on a car, George
Lennon of New York, swallowed them “
all. ^
Charles Emmons of Waukegan, 111.,
pushed three children from the path
of a runaway truck but was himself
struck and killed.
Part of Earl Kennock’s farm near
Richmond, Ind., sank into an under
ground stream burying and suffocat
ing two of his horses.
Mrs. Thomas O’Brien of Minneapo
lis, was seriously hurt when she and
her husband fought over a pie she
had cooked.
Joseph Hicks, imprisoned London
burglar, went on a hunger strike, but
decided to eat after he had been for
cibly fed for several days.
Brian Lawrence was convicted of
posing as a woman and swindling
Harry Bailey out of $600 upon a pro
mise of marriage at Hull, Eng.
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
LIBERTY THEATRE
Tonight: Two Shows, 7:00 and 8:45
HOUSE PETERS
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H
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TORNADO
This is the best thing Peters has done; the story being
from Lincoln Carter’s great stage play.
THRILLING MELODRAMA
SEE
The tornado crush a town;
A mountain flood sweep a village;
A touring car tossed by wind;
Giant trees easily uprooted;
A railroad bridge collapse;
A railroad train plunge into the water;
A man ride the logs to instant death;
The greatest number of thrills ever crammed into a film
AND THRU IT ALL AN INTENSE LOVE STORY
You will surely be entertained every minute by this picture
AND A PATHE NEWS
And after giving your eyes and head a good time at the show
go up to the
BIG DANCE
IN ODD FELLOWS HALL
AND LET YOUR BODY AND LEGS HAVE THEIR TURN
AT THE FUN
SUNDAY ONLY-BOOTH TARKINGTON’S GREAT STORY:
BOY OF MINE
with four stars in the leads.—With it will be “MIXED TRAILS,”
and an interesting PATHE NEWS.
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