SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
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A VALUABLE LESSON
The Washington hearing of testi- ■
mony touching on the Shenandoah |
disaster and the condition of the air I
service in general which is being con
ducted by the president’s special board
of inquiry should be of inestimable
value to the government and to the
people generally. Charges are being
hurled at the administration of the
army and navy in respect to their
air departments. Emphatic also is
the testimony of some of the defen
ders of the service.
The attacking forces are led by Col.
Mitchell, former assistant chief of the
army air service and apparently he
needs little assistance in making
charges of neglect and incompetency.
His statements before the board were
largely a repetition of his charges
made in a 7,000 word statement just
after the Shenandoah disaster and
the apparent complete loss of the
PN-9, No. 1 off Honolulu.
Mitchell has been suspended from
the service aid is being tried by court
martial for insubordination. He says
he courts an opportunity to show up
his superior officers and the special
board at Washington has given him
carte blanche. He will not be in a
position to charge that he was gagged
if his charges fail and to that extent
the board acted wisely in telling him
in the language of the street, to "hop
to it.”
Some of the evidence brought out
has been of an interesting and startl
ing nature, particularly that relating
to the fateful flight of the navy diri
ble. Already the hearing has given
the public more information about
airships and their ways than it had
accumulated during the entire period
of dirigible development.
Out of the hearing will probably
come a better idea on the part of the
public as to the air service. Some
reputations on both sides of the
clothesline may be damaged, but the
public, which is the final arbiter in a
controversy of this character will be
better able to form a judgment as to
the merits of the air service. Prima
rily, Mitchell’s aim is for a unified air
service with a representative in the
cabinet. He wants to place it on a
par with the army and navy, to which
it now is subordinate. It perhaps is
natural that he and his supporters in
the air service should strive for inde
pendence of the service and for rec
ognition of its value. The question of
whether he overrates his importance
or whether the army and navy heads
are right in regarding it as an auxil
iary arm of defense is the main fact
to keep in mind.
When congress takes up the prob
lem of an air policy, the success of
which will depend largely on the mon
ey appropriated for it, it probably will
have a more comprehensive knowledge
of the progress made in aviation, par
ticularly from the standpoint of na
tional defense. The investigation at
least should have that beneficial re
sult.
JONES FIGHTS FOR ALASKA
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Seattle’s fight to prevent the Post
office Department from carrying out
plans to curtail the Alaska mail serv
ice by eliminating numerous mail
routes in the North and having mail
matter handled by Alaska steamships
as freight received the indorsement
of -United States Senator Wesley L.
Jones today when he sent Postmaster
General New a telegram urging him to
consider the Territory’s needs careful
I ly before recommending the cut.
j At the same time the Seattle cham
Send 2c Only
to cover post*
age of FRYE’S
MEAT GUIDE.
Tells all about
th.e choice and
cutting of
meats and con
tains 100 test*
ed recipes. Ad
dress Frye A
Co., Seattle.
exclusive
irye process adds
delicacy to quality
The Quality of Frye’s “Deli
cious” Brand Hams and Bacon
is assured by the careful selec
tion of only choicest young
grain-fed porkers.
Delicacy is added by the ex
clusive Frye method of curing,
which provides for your table,
products that are both mild
and sweet.
You will find Frye’s Delicious
Brand Hams and Bacon
66Everything the Name Implies
br of Commerce which is leading the
fight for the Chambers of Commerce *
and Commercial Clubs of a number of i
Alaska cities and towns, sent the Post- 1
master General resolutions adopted by j
its own Board of Trustees and by the
Young Men’s Business Club and the 4
Seattle Mining Club, protesting the
threatened curtailment which the Gov- !
ernment is considering as an econo- <
my move. ^
The Alaska Committee’s brief takes ,
issue with the head of the Postoffice
Department, declaring that the white 4
population of Alaska is at least 50,000;
that there is a transient white popu- :
lation of at least 30,000, and that all <
of the rights of citizenship recently *
were conferred upon the Indians of
Alaska, raising the population entitled
to adequate mail service to at least 4
100,000.
The per capita cost of the mail serv
ice thereto is about §6 a year and not <
$30. the brief asserts. s
It is further argued that charges
for carrying mails on the Alaska Rail
road and on Government owned ves- <
sels connecting with the railroad are
included in the cost of service figured
by the Government, although they are 1
in matter of fact only “bookkeeping j
costs,” and involve no payments to
mail carrying contractors.
To carry the mail as freight, the
brief says, would make a saving of
only $30,000 a year, which would be
insignificant, while the detriment to i
the service would be so far reaching
as was proved during the war when
the experiment of carrying mails by
freight was tried with disastrous re
sults.
In conclusion the. brief points out
that 75 per cent of all the parcels post
business to Alaska originates in Se
attle, showing plainly that the curtail
ment of the service would seriously
affect the business of Seattle whole
sale and retail merchants who make
large use of the parcel post in their
dealings with Alaska customers.
The Mining Club resolution declares
that the threatened curtailment of
mail service would interfere with the
progress of mining development in the
Territory and urges the giving of a
“comprehensive and efficient mail ser
vice conducted along liberal lines as
one of the important factors in the
upbuilding an development of the Ter
ritory.”
The resolution of the Young Men’s
Business Club protests on much the
same grounds as those set forth in the
Chamber of Commerce resolutions.
Dunhill pipes, $10.00 and up, Sckal- <
lerer’s Alaska Shop. tf. *
Sheaffer’s Lifetime Pens, $S.75, at
Schallerer’s Alaska Shop. tf. \
Last of Furniture for •
i Curry Hotel In Hands
of Paint Shop A. R.R. ;
The last of the new furniture, man
ufactured in the shops of the Alaska <
Railroad, for the Curry hotel, is now (
in the paint shops, Seward arrivals
state. These consist of rocking
chairs, dressers, writing desks and
seminoles. A force of expert furni- j
ture makers have been engaged in ,
turning out new pieces for the ho
tl for almost the entire past year.
Much of the wood used was Alaska
birch.
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
LIBERTY
ONE SHOW TONIGHT AT 8:00 SHARP
AND MARYASTOR
IN —
“UNGUARDED
WOMEN”
FROM THE BRILLIANT SATURDAY
EVENING POST STORY
A DRAMA OF ADVENTURE AND
ROMANCE IN CHINA
Is there something in the poppy-scented
Orient that makes young American
girls “Unguarded Women.
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SELDOM IS A PICTURE WITH THE
THE DRAMATIC INTENSITY AND
GRIPPING INTEREST SEEN
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A SURE FIRE TWO REEL COMEDY
“Misfit”
AND A FINE PATHE REVIEW
SEE THE INTERIOR
-VIA
THE GOLDEN BELT
To the end that the countless places of scenic and other inter
ests in the Territory may be thoroughly enjoyed and understood, and
to enhblei them to acquire first hand and accurate information con
cerning all Alaskan activities and development; travelers to the
Northland are urged to visit
ALASKA’S “GOLDEN HEART”
Interior Alaska and places en route—including Kenai Lake, the
“Loop District,” Spencer and Bartlett Glaciers, Turnagain Arm, An
chorage, the Matanuska Valley, Curry, Nenana River Canyon, Mt. Mc
Kinley National Park, Nenana, the Tanana Valley and Fairbanks, hold
much of interest to everyone, whether on business or pleasure bent;
and a tour through these regions creates a true conception of the
good things that Alaska has to offer.
For train and automobile schedules, passenger rates and other in
formation, confer with any steamship agent, or
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
The Alaska Railroad
(McKinley Park Route)
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