Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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VOTE OF THANKS DUE
The public as well as the press owes a vote of
thanks to the men of the U. S. Army Signal Corps for
the team work they displayed in reporting election re
turns. Never before in the history of this city has such
a comprehensive report come in from so many points
of the compass in so short a time.
The boys had lined up the entire organization
throughout the Territory and everybody evidently got
on his toes and started shooting the stuff through as
soon as it hit the desk.
The whole network of Uncle SanTs air and wire
facilities was aspark with the doings. We for one news
paper, hereby acknowledge our appreciatoin of fast,
excellent and genial service.
HORSE OF ANOTHER COLOR
Those of us who are going to get it in the neck
when they raise the rates on the Alaska Railroad, as
they are almost certain to do, can get a certain amount
of unholy joy out of the fact that the railroad will be j
hoisting itself on its own petard or giving its ownself
a crack on the Adam’s Apple.
Take for instance, this airplane traffic from the
coast to Fairbanks. What a wallop they will hand the
railroad in passenger traffic if the railroad puts on
chat proposed ten cents a mile rate!
As it is, it costs about $34.50 to go from Seward
to Fairbanks over the Alaska Railroad with the stop
at Curry. If they raise the rate to ten cents a mile and
add $2 to the current Curry stopover price, which is1
possible, it will cost about $56 to get to Fairbanks.
The airplane-transportation companies have al
ready announced that they will be glad to carry anyone
from the coast to Fairbanks for $50. What "that will
do 1 o to the railroad will be a plenty. They will be lucky j
if they get any passenger traffic at all.
It will raise particular heck with Seward, as well
as Anchorage, but will benefit Cordova, be
cause the air companies can take them in from Cordo
va as cheaply as they can from Seward, cutting out 18
hours steamboat time and the additional fare from
Cordova to this port. Likewise there will be no Curry
stopover.
In other words the railroad seems to b£ fixing to
horse itself out of most of its mainline traffic and
throwing all passenger traffic entirely out of its dis
trict. Is that near sighted, long sighted, short sighted
or blind staggers?
A CASE OF VIEWPOINT
» The editor of the Fairbanks-News Miner recently
added a foot-note to a Gateway Associated Press dis
patch which read something like this: ‘‘And we had to
pay for this d—fool message.” Taking the same item
the Juneau Empire saw in it a subject for creditable
editorial comment of some length. The Seattle Times
thought so much of the item that they had one of their
staff artists enhance the dispatch with a cartoon.
Oh Hum!
It is written that the meek shall inherit the earth,
and that’s the only way they’ll ever get it.
Dumb Dora thinks it wonderful that the world is
timed to go around exactly once a day.
Venezuela will celebrate its founder’s 100th anni
versary by paying all its debts. This newspaper hopes
to follow Venezuela’s example.
A Nebraska man will remain a bachelor, he says,!
because his sweetheart will not marry him when he* is
drunk and he will not marry her when he is sober.
JAPANESE VESSEL NOW
OOT OF DIFFICULTIES
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov., 7, (/F) |
—The Japanese steamer Sieyo'
Maru which lost her rudder and
developed a dangerous list as1
she drifted helplessly off the |
Aleutian Islands was believed to |
be safe as Associated Press dis- j
patches from Portland, Ore., re
ported vessels were standing by.
Reports from Cordova were;
that the Sieyo Maru had resum- I
ed her voyage convoyed by the!
SS California but radio stations j
here had no confirmation to
this effect.
ROAD CREW IN
Further clamping down of
winter conditions has practically
brought to an end reconstruction
work on the Moose Pass High
way. Eleven members of the
crew of 30 men who have been
working on the widening and
surfacing of the road came to j
Seward during the week and the
balance of the crew will cease
work at once, R. C. Ingram, res
ident engineer for the Bureau
of Public Roads, said prior to
leaving for the Pass to check up
on the closing of operations and
storage of equipment.
LADS ROMP
The Seward high school bas
ketball team, the internationally
known “Ponies,” had another
stiff practice Wednesday night
in the Seward Athletic Club’s
hippodrome, bowl or what have
you? The evening was spent in!
shooting for ye olde cage. The i
practice ended with a lightning-!
like scrimmage between the j
two teams. The high school have
a sweet-looking squad as all are
veterans of last year.
R. T. McCulloch, who is inter
ested in fur farming to the
Westward, is in town from Cor
dova. He expects to leave for
the Westward on the next sail
ing of the SS Starr, Nov. 15.
W. N. Cuddy, U. S. District At
torney, is in the city, a passenger
on the SS Admiral Farragut, af
ter a trip to the Westward. He
is trying to get back to Valdez
before the next term of court at
Anchorage brings him hurrying
back.
Mrs. Hattie Johnson, of Sel
dovia, is a patient in the Seward
General Hospital and is quite ill.
J. A. R. Simmons, who has
been with the local Signal Corps
for the last couple of years, has
gone thru the crisis of an ap
pendicitis operation at the Sew
ard General Hospital, and is re
ported out of danger.
Mrs. Katie Hubley of Unga
was to undergo a major opera
tion today at the Seward Gener
al Hospital.
General Manager Otto F. Ohl
son of the Alaska Railroad handed
over to the Eielson Memorial Fund
at Fairbanks recently the sum of
$1,106.50 collected in the rail belt,
says the News-Miner. Nine other
subscription lists are circulating
along the railroad and are still to j
be heard from.
3 '"'TKe a"teT""' |
8 O’CLOCK — ONE SHOW — 8 O’CLOCK
I siiom liMiGHT. j
We have to give you one of the greatest assemblages
of stars ever used in one feature.
GRETA GARBO — JOHN GILBERT I
LEWIS STONE — DOROTHY SEBASTIAN
HOBART BOSWORTH — JOHN MACK
BROWN — DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR.
g lo portray the strong parts in the melodrama
I “WOMAN OF AFFAIRS" i
In 10 Reels
A story laid in London and some action in different
Ij parts of Europe.
| INTENSELY DRAMATIC
UNUSUAL CLIMAXES
Not a war or military drama, but one of cruel life
showing great emotions. Superb acting makes the play
one of unusual merit, entertaining everyone.
WE WILL SHOW A NEWS REEL WITH IT
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