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Of SEWARD, ALASKA
Established August 19, 1904
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A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
The past year has been a prosperous one for
Seward. Many new buildings have been erected,
including the Tecklenberg Block, Ogle’s garage, and
several residences, and business conditions have
steadily improved. But one business failure has
been recorded, and this was a removal to another
city, on account of that particular branch being
overdone. The stork has been busy, as usual, and
the Grim Reaper has touched us lightly.
And the New Year is fraught with still greater
promise. Other new buildings are contemplated,
and the pulp mill engineers will undoubtedly be w7ith
us before the end of the present month. Work on
the glacier stream involving many thousands of dol
lars is contemplated, considerable railroad work, in
cluding the cutting of thousands of ties, is under
way, and the local mining district gives promise of
considerable activity. The San Juan company will
also prepare for a larger halibut business, and many
new boats will appear in port. When one consid
ers that this company purchased a million and a half
pounds of halibut last season, the immensity of the
fishing business here will be better understood.
The Gateway also has many improvements un
der way. among which is the starting today of the
Associated Press service, with its thousands of agents
in the states working in conjunction with the Alas
ka papers. The past year has been a good one for
The Gateway, owing to the liberal patronage of our
citizens. We have increased from four to eight
pages, and have added several thousand dollars in
new machinery and type faces. In case our patron
age continues The Gateway management will give
Seward one of the best papers in the Territory, and
one which will be a valuable asset to the town. Al
ready our payroll runs well over one thousand dol
lars per month, and to keep this large plant going
requires unflagging energy and unremitting toil.
One or the best assets the town can show tor
the past year is a better spirit and cooperation and
civic pride. Many of the petty jealousies and quar
rels of former years have been smoothed out, and
our people are working better together than for
many years past. Nothing succeeds like amity and
good will in a community, and one of the first reso
lutions that should be made by every citizen is to
stop talking about each other, resolve that your
fellow man is a mighty good citizen and neighbor,
and help smooth out the rough spots in his daily
path. Seward will then grow into something worth
while. Envy and malice have no place in the hearts
of a busy man or woman, and the canker of disloyal
ty should be eradicated from the body politic.
Seward is a good place to live, and is daily
growing better. Let this year find us in the van of
every projected improvement, and already go down
to line unanimously for each other.
We wish our readers a happy and prosperous
New Year.
THE VALUE OF FISII HATCHERIES
One of the questions being discussed at present
is the value of fish hatcheries, says the Prince Ru
pert News, of Prince Rupert, B. C., aditorially
There is one located at Lakelse Lake almost one hun
dred miles from Prince Rupert, so people of this
district are vitally interested in the matter. A
great deal of money has already been spent in equip
ment for the hatchery there as well as for those at
other points in the Province and the annual upkeep
costs a lot. If the work is in vain it is time we
knew it so that the expense may be lopped off. If
the hatcheries really are efficient, they should be
kept working to the limit.
While most of the men interested in fish cul
ture declare that the work of the hatcheries is very
important, many cannerymen declare they are use
less. It is understood, too, that W. A. Found, Di
rector of Fisheries for Canada, is not at all satis
fied of the utility of the work done by the hatch
eries. Ilis opinion in regard to tlje'.yalue in other
branches of the fisheries has been proved to be cor
rect and it is thought possible he may be right this
time. At any rate the Biological board is to go into
the matter thoroughly and make a recommendation
to the Department in regard to this matter. The
meeting is being held in Ottawa in January and the
local member of the board, John Dybhavn, will be
present on that occasion.
PITY THE ESKIMOS
There is much in the observations by Captain
Donald B. McMillan, the Arctic explorer, on the cul
ture and civilization of the Eskimos on which to
meditate. We are prone to patronize these hardy
children of the ice and snows—and the fact that
their culture extends back farther than our own
does not touch us with humality. We are civilezed,
they are not.
The Eskimos have a religion that has withstood
the missionaries of other religions for centuries—we
are losing ours. They observe the law without the
threat of a club—we are lawless despite the club.
They have sense enough to respect the authority they
set up—we have not. They live in peace and covet
no man’s land—we slaughter wholesale to grab an
other man’s ground and call it “patriotism.”
Our civilization is a cultivation of a distaste tor
labor—they are not so far advanced. They have
priests to drive away the evil spirits—we flirt with
ours. They believe, like us, in a hereafter, but
their heaven is in the earth—ours in the sky.
When they marry they require no parchment
with written words to remind them of the marriage
—we frame the license. They always respect the
woman that they take—we don't. If they take
three wives they provide for all—our courts proclaim
that we often fail to provide for one. There are
no regulations prohibiting children in the igloos.
But they are heathen!
They have no slums, no jails, no madhouses,
no degenerates, no wealth, na poverty, no sham, no
Andersons, no Summers—but they are heathen.
Pity the poor, benighted Eskimos! New York
World.
The Arcade tenants are a chesty bunch. They
copped off half the prizes at the Firemen's Ball, and
would have taken more if the supply of tenants had
held out.
Every nationality was represented at the Fire
men’s ball but the Irish, and they were all there
dressed as other characters.
One man who swore off the first of the year
and threw his snuff out the window, caught a severe
cold yesterday crawling around in the snow hunting
for it.
Curtis Morford was the only man in town be
sides the undertaken who did not do good Christ- |
mas trade. Mr. Morford issues the marriage li
cense—the other embalms the embalmed.
Lest we forget, today is 1925.
Here’s wishing the members of the city council,
the mayor and the chamber of commerce a hearty
Good-speed for the coming year. They have all work
ed unswervingly the past year, and are deserving
of credit.
One of the first resolutions to be made this year
is to join the Seward Chamber of Commerce. It
needs your assistance both, financially and morally.
One of two more functions like the New Year’s
Eve and our people will begin to understand one an
other better.
Though La Follette made an awful mess of it,
he was a promising candidate.
One reason why the Britons failed to enjoy those
baseball games is that they did not know how to
heckle the umpires.
The election returns also showed that the Third
Party is about as popular as a dry agent.
Personally, we can’t see why scientific hypothe
sis can’t be relied upon to prove Mt. Everest has a
top without going up to see.
Cold weather, not the close of the political cam
paign, as many radio enthusiasts may have thought
is responsible for the marked reduction in static.
The Republican Campaign Committee reports a
surplus on hand. Why not? They could not pos
sibly have spent all the money they raised. *
The W. C. T. TJ., which has pledged itself to
the outlawry of war, is used to tackling tremendous
problems.
Liberty
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8:00 P. M.
LAST TIME TONIGHT
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“ROSITA”
A SPANISH ROMANCE
You will see your own Mary Pickford
in a new role with her curls of gold
coiffed on her head. A capricious Mary,
coquettish, beguiling, intruiging, vitally
alluring and intensely appealing.
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