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one cent a day
To build for yourself a vault of steel
and concrete, protected by the best
devices of modern times, would mean
a very expensive safeguard for your
valuables.
You could not be blamed for saying
that you could not afford this kind of
security. We can supply you with
just that kind of protection for almost
• cent a day.
Fireproof and burglar proof safe de
posit vaults.
BOXES $5.00 YEARLY
Bank of Seward
U. S. Depositary for Postal Savings
Territorial Depositary
City Depositary
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ARE YOU WET?
We Carry Raincoats
That ARE Waterproof
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Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes.
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Flash Lights
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Fresh Batteries
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IF YOU WANT QUALITY, TRY
Delicious Brand Hams Delicious Brand Bacon
Mayflower Butter, Wild Rose Brand Fresh Eggs
A full line of fresh meats and fresh dressed
poultry on every boat
Frye-Bruhn Company
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The Alaska Transfer
ARCADE BUILDING
COAL WOOD ICE
General Transferring
H. V. Hoben
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(From Seattle Times)
SEATTLE, Oct. 13.—Banff and Mon
treal in Canada, and St. Moritz in
Switzerland, have their toboggan
snow slides; Anchorage, Alaska, has
its airplane mud slide.
The Canadians and Swiss have be
came rich catering to the toboggan
ists; one man has tried to popularize
the mud slides at Anchorage, on Cook
Inlet, but had to give it up. He not
only was not making a living at it,
but wasn’t making enough to pay for
! gasoline.
To hear C. O. Hammontree of Se
attle, late of Anchorage; and now
j again of Seattle, describe the sensa
tion of that two-mile slide through the
mud with a final splash into the sea,
to be followed by a glide back in the
; same seaplane to the starting point
—no walk back as in the case of a
toboggan slide—is to intrigue one’s
interest to create a desire to try
' it once, anyhow.
Mr. Hammontree, alter a ten years’
residence here, went to Anchorage two
; years ago. First of all he was an au
tomobile mechanic, having conducted
j the Eastlake garage for a long time;
I but he had gone in for airplane me
J chanics on the side for several years
before leaving here for the north. At
- various times he had been mechani
cian for Edward Hubbard, Seattle air
pilot, and for the late C. E. McKelvey
in their commercial airplane Hying.
During his latter months here, sta
tioned at Bremerton, he had used his
own Boeing seaplane for commercial
purposes. This plane he" took to An
chorage. And now, after tw'o years
trial at putting over commercial flying
in Alaska, Mr. Hammontree came
back to Seattle on the steamship Ala
meda and th eseaplane will follow on
meda and the seaplane will follow' on
owmer’s hangar at the Westlake boat
house, adjoining the Brace and Her
gert mill on Lake Union.
It was while discussing the limited
flying areas in the neighborhood of
Anchorage that Mr. Hammontree told
of his experience with the mud slides
of Cook Inlet and Turnagain Arm. As
everyone knows who know's anything
about Alaska, the tide assumes a
height of 35 feet at times. It is the
second highest tide in the w'orld, and
when the run out is measured it
ranges up to an average of two miles.
Left exposed are two miles of blue,
slick mud, descending with an almost
imperceptible pitch down to the wa
ters of the inlet.
Mr. Hammontree discovered early
i in his landing on the inlet and on the
arm that he could send his plane aft
er landing in the water up to a few
feet of the beach by use of his mo
tor.
In launching when the tide was
out it was only necessary to throw a
bucket of water under each pontoon
to give the spark as it wei'e, and with
| a whir of the motor, the plane start
! ed down over the mud to the seas.
Forty miles an hour was attained by
the time the pontoons glided into the
water at the end of the long slide.
There was never an upset—not with
these pontoons and so nobody ever
got a speck of mud on him either in
boarding the plane in the long, slick
glide down to the sea, or in the ride
back to the starting point.
Many took this mud slide in the air
GATSWAY CLASSIFIED
ADVERTISEMENTS
FOR SALE: One large size ma
hogany Mandell phonograph, with
records. Call Madison 30. tf
WANTED—Position by Filipino boy;
hotel or restaurant; five years’ ex
perience in hotel. Call Belmont
Hotel. kwed
FOR SALE—Underwood No. 5 Type
writer, Seward Leather Works. 61
FOR SALE—Fairman’s home-raised
spring ehickens, killed and dressed
to order. Leave orders at Seward
Drug Co. knovl.
FOR RENT—Three room house; see
Chas. Cooper. tf
TO AGENTS
LIFE OF HARDING—Authentic, me
morial edition, 300 pages, lavishly
illustrated, $1.75; best terms guar
anteed; credit; outfit free; Federal
Publishing Co., 1325 Wabash Ave.,
Chicago, 111.
FOR SALE—Gas boat, 52 feet long;
draws 5% feet of water; 50 horse
power engine; for particulars and
terms address Box 1724, Anchorage.
BIG CHANCE to make a stake; fox
island, close In, 100 blue foxes;
three boats; good improvements;
Price $25,000. See Don Carlos and
Don Carlos, Sexton Annex. tf
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WHO’S YOUR TAILOR?
IF HE IS NOT HE SHOULD BE
STYLE that is just pressed on clothes wilts with
the wear; but style that is cut and tailored into
clothes lasts as long as the finished garment, no
matter how long or how hard you wear
TAILORED TO YOUR MEASURE CLOTHES
ITS STYLE WILL STAY TO THE END
See the New Fall Samples at
* AIE »RETAIL merchants
QUALITY FIRST
plane, but not enough to make It pay,
according to the originator. Nor will
it pay until Anchorage’s mud gets a
publicity bureau like Banff, Montreal
and St. Moritz snows possess.
Place your oraers for Christmas
Cards with Sylvia. Late styles and
prices lower than last year. tf
We guarantee Alligator Rain Coats;
Waterproof. Brown & Hawkins. tf
CHATANIKA ROAD GOOD
Foreman Wm, McLeod and crew
have completed their season’s work
on the road from Chatanika to Circle.
The road is completed for auto travel
for a distance of 15 miles' out of Chat
anika.
Dry Cleaning aone at Jordan’s Val
et Service. tf
Whale Amber Shoe Grease at J. L.
Graef’s. tf
Gamsborougn Hair Nets, single!
mesh 10 cts. Seward Drug Co. 184-tl j
Norway hemp halibut lines at J. L. !
Graef’s. 161-tf .
Fleischmann Yeast, fresh on every j
boat. Seward Drug Co. 184-tf
Doors and Windows in stock at J.
L. Graef’s.
For children, ladies and men, a wa- i
terproof Coat light as a feather; j
wears like leather. Brown & Haw-!
kins.
LISTEN?
Everybody is doing it now. What?
The Turkey trot to Dryden’s Grocery.
Why? Because the prices are right;
the more sales the lower the prices.
His stock is small and fresh on every
boat. Service day or night.
Fox trot delivery.
Phone Madison 62. tf
Trains leave Seward northbound 8 a.
m., Mondays and Thursdays, for
Anchorage, Curry, Nenana and Fair
banks.
Trains arrive Seward 7:45 p. m. on
Wednesdays and Saturdays from
the North.
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That Walk, Talk
and Sleep
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