SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
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ABANDONING THE RAILROAD
All this talk by alarmists about
abandoning the Alaska government
railroad should not alarm residents of
the Territory to any undue extent.
Congressman Free may be sincere
in his efforts to place Alaska off the
map, and again he may not. The gen
tleman evidently came to Alaska with
his mind made up as to what he w’ould
find, and judging from press reports
he is not wobbling any whatever.
Suppose the Government railway be
abandoned, and a highway made of
the roadbed? Would this cheapen the
cost of transportation to the Govern
ment or to Alaskans? We believe not.
The Richardson Road has cost the
Government nearly six million dollars
and requires a large sum each year
for upkeep. Up to the present time it
has been impassable more days in the
year than the railway, and one train
takes out more people than travel the
road in a season. But is this any rea
son for abandoning the Richardson
Highway? We should say not. It is
the only road to the Interior over
which freight may be hauled, and
the country traversed by the road is
rich in natural advantages.
So with the Government Railway.
In case it were abandoned every camp
and town along its right-of-way would
go out of existence within the month.
Seward, Anchorage, Wasilla, Mata
nuska, Talkeetna, Curry, McKinley
Park, and Nenana would be only bit
ter memories within a short time.
Freight, mail and passengers could
no more be transported over the high
way substituted for the railroad than
they could from Seattle to Chicago.
The tourist trade would be killed im
mediately. Hundreds upon hundreds
of families would be ruined and would
require government aid to get out of
Alaska.
Vast sums spent on the development
of the coal mines, placer mines, farm
and homesteads would be lost.
Property rights guaranteed by the
sale of government lots in the towns
of Nenana and Anchorage would not
be worth the paper they were written
on.
Knowing the general cataclysm that
WONDERFUL
BARGAINS
The last week of our
CLOSING OUT
SALE
Everything must go
BANBURY - OGLE
would ensue we believe the govern
ment will hold on to the railway and
continue its policy of development. It
is gradually overcoming the deficit
and in the next quarter of a centurj
may begin to pay dividends.
It is true that a vast sum of money
has been spent in its construction, but
when one considers the mistakes of its
builders, and the fact that three towns
were constructed with the appropria
tion, the cost was not so great.
The vast military and naval opera
tions in California cost the govern
ment far more money than does the
administration of Alaska. Can any
one say the vast fortifications, aviation
camps, forts, barracks, and naval dry
docks are necessary? If we are to be
a militant nation, they may be; but
in view of the peace note continually
sounded by the administration, we be
lieve millions of dollars could be cut
from the California appropriation and
her people live and prosper in excess
of those of Alaska. And Alaska is
helping pay for money spent in Cali
fornia, just as the latter is paying to
ward our support.
The administration could cheapen
its expenses in the Territory by hun
dreds of thousands of dollars. It
could remove its barracks from the
Territory, thereby saving a large sum
in the transportation and maintenance
of soldiers here,—a branch of the ser
vice unnecessary to our safety or
comfort. It could reduce the number
of Federal employes by half and still
have 25 per cent too many. It could
reduce its court costs by having a
floating court, saving thousands of dol
lars each year in witness and jurors’
fees. It could eliminate its aerial
mails in the States, giving merchants
and others a cheaper telegraphic rate,
eliminating the necessity of aerial
mails; it could keep its large war
fleet at home, saving oil and wear
on machinery; it could reduce its
army and naval forces and its appro
priations for war purposes.
And it could abolish the senate and
have a session of congress once each
ten years, and save the country from
having a bunch of nitwits and hum
bugs traveling over the nation at its
expense, finding fault with its pro
jects.
NO PAPER TOMORROW.
Tomorrow being a National holiday
the Gateway will not be issued. We
hope that our readers will enjoy a
happy Thanksgiving. We have much
to be thankful for. Winter is upon
us and the horde of special investiga
tors and gum shoe congressmen have
departed for their various “stomping
grounds,” leaving us free to pursue the
even tenor of our ways. We have
had a most prosperous year in Sew
ard. Those of us who have made no
money during the past twelve months
may rejoice when income taxes are to
be paid. Many new buildings have
been erected, business has been good
and the Nation lives. We may be
thankful that we are not in politics,
having our past lives exposed to a
blase government. We may be thank
ful that we are single, and thankful
we are married. In sickness and in
health there is still much to look for
ward to, and every citizen should be
thankful that he is Irish and a resi
dent of Alaska.
THE TIME TO ADVERTISE
Now is the time to advertise Alaska
to the world. With the publicity the
government railroad is getting, and
with the last crop of tourists snugly
ensconsed in their own firesides, re
lating the marvels of the Northern
Wonderland to avid hearers, our seed
will fall on fertile soil. Alaska has
much to offer the homeseeker and
the laborer who is weary of perpetual
warring for subsistence. Its nights
are conducive of restful sleep and its
day are free from arduous toil. The
cost of living in Alaska is about one
half that in the States, and the home
owner is free from special assesments,
grade taxes and political chicanery.
Life swings along so easily here that
the man of eighty looks to be forty
five. Our climate is not severe, our
people are hospitable, and our child
ren among the most healthful in the
world.
The truth about Alaska is good
enough.
Hexeton, a new synthetic product
made in Germany, is said to possess
all the properties of camphor but with
much greater strength and capable of
being produced at a very low cost.
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THANKSGIVING DAY
CHURCH SERVICE
TOMORROW MORNING 1
BUSINESS HOUSES TO CLOSE— [
BASKETBALL GAME—SPECIAL
DINNERS AT CAFES
Tomorrow, November 26, Thanks
giving Day, will be observed as usual
with church services. All business
houses will be closed, including the
postoffice, bank, city offices and a
majority of the business houses. No
paper will be published. The day will
be featured by the first game of a
series of three between the inter-city
basketball teams.
Rev. Graham will hold a special
Thanksgiving church service tomor
row morning at 11 o’clock, at the
Methodist church. Special music is
being prepared for the occasion.
The basketball game will start
promptly at 2:30 o’clock tomorrow aft
ernoon at the S. A. C. gymnasium.
All restaurants will serve special
Thanksgiving Day dinners and at the
Liberty theatre Manager Brownell will
present special feature films for the
amusement of the public.
THANKSGIVING
(Songs of the Harvest)
The glad harvest greets us. Brave
toiler for bread,
Good cheer! the prospect is brighter
ahead;
Like magic, the plentiful sunshine and
rain
Have rippened our millions of acres
of grain;
And the poorest the wolf may keep
from his door,—
There’ll be bread and to spare anoth
er year more.
—Henry Stevenson Washburn.
UNION THANKSGIVING
SERVICES AT METHODIST
CHURCH TOMORROW
There will be union Thanksgiving
services held at the local Methodist
church tomorrow morning at eleven
o’clock. Prof. H. A. Trumbel of the
Jesse Lee Home will have charge of
the music; and the pastor of the
church will deliver the sermon. Let
us gather and worship the Good Father
of us all, and '‘give thanks unto Him”
for his manifold mercies unto us indi
vidually, and as Nation, during the
past year.
THOMAS PHILIP GRAHAM,
Minister.
Prof. H. A. Trumbel of the Jesse
Lee Home has been somewhat indis
posed the past few days, but is up
and around again it is reported.
Tired After Eating?
Try this Simple Mixture
If you feel tirec after eating, it is
often a sign of gas and undigested
matter in your stomach or bowels.
Simple buckthorn bark, magnesium
sulph. c. p., glycerine, etc., as mixed
in Adlerika, helps any case gas on the
stomach, unless due to deep-seated
causes. The QUICK action will sur
prise you. Adlerika is wonderful for
constipation—it often works in one
hour and never gripes. Seward Drug
Co. G-3
WASTING MONEY
IS
Buying New Shoes
WHEN THE OLD ONES CAN
BE RESOLED.
Seward Leather Works
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
7:30 A. M.
MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS
TRAINS ARRIVE SEWARD
7:30 P. M.
WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS
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ONE SHOW TONIGHT AT 8:00 SHARP
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A VERY FINE MOVING PICTURE
OF THE FAMOUS PEARL DOLES
BELL NOVEL—
“Sandra”
-WITH
BARBARA LA MARR
-and
BERT LYTELL
IN THE PRINCIPAL ROLES
An absorbing story of a girl’s double
personality. First one and then the
other controls here Something differ
ent from the ordinary picture.
WITH IT THERE WILL BE A BEAU
TIFUL PATHE REVIEW
| THANKSGIVING EXCURSION RATES (
E For the interest and benefit of those who wish to I
| “vacation” during the Thanksgiving Season and to 1
E spend a few days with friends and relatives away E
| from usual haunts, The Alaska Railroad is offering §
E reduced passenger rates of one and one-third the reg- |
| ular one-way fare for round trip between all sta- I
| tions. Reduced rate tickets may be purchased at all §
| agency stations on November 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26; i
| final return limit December 1, 1925. Stopovers in 5
1 either direction, on these reduced rate tickets, not |
| permitted. I
| Passengers boarding trains at non-agency sta- i *
| tions may avail themselves of this Special Excursion I
1 Rate by purchasing reduced rate tickets at first I
= agency stations. =
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1 The Alaska Railroad |
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5 Seward Anchorage Curry Nenana Fairbanks E
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MOST STORES WILL BE OPEN
REGULAR HOURS TOMORROW
The Seward Drug Store will be clos
ed tomorrow afternoon at 1 o’clock,
but will reopen for two hours in the
evening between six and eight o’clock,
the regular winter Sunday hours. The
P. C. McMullen grocery store and Or
lander’s jewelry store will be closed
the entire day. With few exceptions
the remainder of the business houses
will be open until the noon hour.
Bud Dyer, wrho has been working in
the Moose Pass district the past sea
son is expected to arrive in town to
night.
The regular weekly meeting of the
Seward Boy Scouts, scheduled to be
held Friday evening has been post
poned this week on account of the
basketball series.
For use in mines where gas is a
danger, a new motor has been built
totally inclosed to prevent ignition of
the gas by sparks.
Dunhill pipes, $10.00 and up, Schal
lerer’s Alaska Shop. ^
Bunch of keys on six-sided ring. If
found please return to Gateway.
Shoes on Skates, Urbach’s. tf
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 25 (^P)_ *
Noel Smith, general manager of the
government railroad in Alaska went
into conference today with Secretary
Work and other officials of the Inte
rior Department. Mr. Smith is ex
pected to make a statement soon*
Skates on shoes, Urbach’s. tf
There will be no issue of the Gate
way tomorrow.
Do not forget to see the basketball
game tomorrow at 2:30 between the
Seward and Anchorage basketball
teams; admission 50 cents.
Mrs. Jess Lander will return tonight
from Anchorage.