SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
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WINTER AT HAND
Signs of winter are sweeping dowrn
over the land. Here in Seward much
fresh snow is seen on the surrounding
mountain tops. A slight chill is be
ginning to permeate the air which
makes the coal dealer smile. Eider
down comforts have been ii^ use for
at least two weeks. Jack Frost has
arrived wearing his usual mantle of
white. Woolens are being dragged
out of the bottom drawers while much
trafficking in this staple commodity
is reported from local stores. Cam
phor balls have been shaken out of
the furs which have been lying in
the old cedar chest, said furs now
adorning fair ladies.
This is as it should be and here in
Alaska, the approach of winter is no
different from any place in the South.
In fact the seasons in Alaska are
more dependable than the average Out
side. They certainly are not more
severe, and not nearly so many acci
dents occur in this fair land of ours,
during the winters, as are reported an
nually in the States.
We have had our fun during the
summer months and what a beautiful
and idealistic summer season it w'as.
Now the winter fun begins and these
are many and varied. In Seward the
basketball teams are forming, social
activities are beginning to take a
spurt, and the civic bodies will lay
plans all through the winter for a gen
eral improvement of the community,
the adjacent districts and for the bet
terment of the Territory, as a whole.
MORE WORK FOR HENRY
If anybody is ever to build mech
anical cows on a commercial scale,
Henry Ford is the man to do it, and
he has popular opinion behind his
nomination of himself for that re
markable enterprise. Ford’s sugges
tion that something of the sort might
be done will be widely accepted as
a hint that he himself is getting
ready to do it, and there are probably
even now any number of weary agri
culturists who expect before very
long to trade in Daisy and Helene as
first payment of a pair of tin bossies
with the Detroit manufacturer’s well
known brand upon their metal flanks.
It Is true that the professor of
dairy 'husbandry at th§ University of
Minnesota has publicly asserted that
the mechanical cow is impossible, but
the shrewd public will note that his
argument simply was that it never
had been done. This is no argu
ment at all where Henry Ford is con
cerned.
Mr. Eckles, the dairy husbandry
man, further asserts that cows—nat
ural caws, that is—are already much
more efficient than Mr. Ford’s best
known mechanical toys. A cow will
return 15 to 25 per cent of her feed
milk, he says, while a .flivver converts
only about 15 per cent of its fuel
into power. The inference is that
Henry ought to perfect the flivver
before he begins tampering with the
cows. This by no means follows,
however; it is like telling a man that
he ought to be able to run the 100
yard dash in 10 seconds flat before
he permits himself to graduate from
his legs to a limousine.
When Henry finishes his mechani
cal cow, he should invent some sort
of a menchanical house pet that
won’t bark at night or scratch up
the new lawns.—Selected.
LINERS OF THE AIR
The American immagination has
been profoundly impressed by the
prophets who are predicting the dawn
of a new day in aerial navigation,
and recent disasters, while discour
aging, cannot dispel the glamor of
the prophets’ visions. We are asked
to remember the slowness of early
progress in other revolutionary in
ventions—the steam engine, for ex
ample, was invented in 1781, but the
first steam railroad came almost half
a century later—and we are asked
to contrast this halting pace with
the speed with which the navigation
of the air has been developed. We
are assured that, great as the prog
ress has been, it is only the slow be
ginning of an amazing change in our
habits of travel—and, perhaps, in
our methods of making wrar.
There is a great deal to justify
this view; and although the Ameri
can public may be divided as to the
best methods for stimulating aviation
progress, there is no doubt that the
progress will be made—if not in
America, then abroad, to be adopted
and capitalized by America as other
great inventions have been.
In the history of air navigation
there is perhaps no more fascinating
story than that of Count Zeppelin
and the tremendous development
which the German government, with
Zeppelin’s ideas, gave to lighter-than
air transportation.
Few know that Count Zeppelin was
nearly 60 years old when he finished
his first design for a rigid dirigible.
He was 62 years old when he pildted
his first Zeppelin aloft over Lake
Constance, disappointing the gloomy
predictions of hundreds who had gath
ered to see him fail.
Nearly eight years of brilliant
achievement and popular inertia fol
lowed that first flight; but when at
last the inventor succeeded in con
quering his indifferent public (his
flights were made for “propaganda”
or “political” purposes, just as it is
charged that the last flight of the
Shenandoah was), the response was
overwhelming. The Zeppelin foun
dation was made possible by public
subscription, and more progress fol
lowed.
It will interest Americans to real
ize that one Zeppelin ship alone made
1000 commercial flights before the
war, carrying a total of 22,000 pas
sengers over 40,000 miles of coun
try—in all sorts of weather condi
tions—without any loss of life or
injury of any kind. Before the war
the German commercial airships had
a regular schedule with eight large
and fully-equipped airports for land
ing the ships, dischai ging passen
gers and taking them on. Nine Zep
pelins were in regular commercial
operation, while later on, during the
wai, more than 100 were delivered to
the German army and navy.
It is interesting to no.e that the
world's record for sustained flight
was made by a Zeppelin dirigible
nearly eight years ago, when the L
59 flew from southern Bulgaria to
Khartum w.ith supplies for beleaguer
ed German troops in Africa, learn
ing by wireless that the troops had
surrendered, the L-59 turned back
without stopping and crossed the Me
diteranean again to its base—having
covered 4225 miles in less than four
days.
These facts—particularly those
dealing with pre-war development—
contrast 'curiously with what Ameri
ca has yet been able to do; but tho’
they indicate what still remains to
be done, they also give a hint of
the even; greater things that may be
done in the future.
Dempsey and Wills signed up yes
terday for a ten-round no-decision
fight. The scrap will be held at
Michigan City, a year from this
month. What are they going to do
in the meantime, Torrence? Why,
nothing, Ignaz; only draw down a
few hundreds of thousand more
bucks of kale, and advertising! They
got tuh live!
Earthquake shocks were felt in the
South and in Montana yesterday, but
everything was calm in Seward. No
doubt the shocks felt in the States
were the earth vibrations of several
people hitting the ground with a
dull, monotonous thud, when they
received the flash that Dempsey and
Wills have signed up for a fight “A
YEAR FROM THIS MONTH.”
HOW IS THE LIVER?
Do you awake in the morning with
that tired feeling? All run down?
We can make a new man of you in
a few weeks.
PARENTS!
Do you want your children sickly,
stoop-shouldered, unable to hold up
their heads? Join the Seward Ath
letic Club and let us be their doctors.
We will have a personal instructor
to give them the proper training.
SEWARD ATHLETIC CLUB
Brings Health and Happiness
See Louis Tinkler, at the Cable Office,
and
WATCH TOMORROW'S PAPER
Ban M’cDOnald lost the end of one
of his fingers out the line this week
and was compelled to go to Fairbanks
to have the member attended to.
Dan is known all over Alaska, hav
ing won recognition in the “early
days” at Lake Bennett where he own
ed the famed “Arctic Bar.”
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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SEE THE INTERIOR
THE GOLDEN BELT
To the end that the countless places of scenie and other inter
ests in the Territory may be thoroughly enjoyed and understood, and
to enable 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’. Me
kiniey 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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LIBERTY
ONE SHOW TONIGHT AT 8:00 O’CLOCK
COME EARLY
SPECIAL FEATURE TONIGHT
The Celebrated Actor
George Arliss
in that marvelous play
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THE
Green Goddess”
BEAUTIFUL—SENSATIONAL
Now here is something great that no one should
miss. A lavish spectacle of the plots and coun
ter plots, and life of
Tense
Situations
INDIA
Full of
Thrills
A wonderful play and back ground for the
famous Star
TEN BIG REELS
And a Pathe News
We can give this wonderful program at the reg
ular prices, and the house should be packed
Girls Arrive Seward
from the Westward
for Jesse Lee Home
The coast guard cutter Haida ar
rived in port yesterday afternoon
from Unalaska with thirty-six girls
for the local Jesse Lee Home. The
Gutter Bear is expected in port this
evening with twenty-four boys. The
remainder of the children from the
Nome Mission, will be brought to
Seward within a few weeks, it is
stated, on either the Boxer or the
S.S. Victoria.
The arrival of the little girls from
the Westward yesterday was the
signal for a large number of citi
zens to convene on the wharf and
assist in what manner they might,
the work of the Rev. and M^s. R. V.
B. Dunlap. The girls arrived bag and
baggage, wThich was carried ashore
by the sailors from the vessel and
loaded onto several auto trucks. A
number of the little tots, were car
ried ashore in the arms of the sail
ors and upon the children clamor
ing aboard some <jf the many auto
mobiles, placed at the disposu of
Rev. Dunlap, some of the little
ones appeared frightened, it being
their first ride in a car of ev:?i see
ing one. A number of school desks
also were brought from the West
ward.
Legal Blanks at the Gateway.
CLOSING OUT SALE
Beginning Wednesday
9 A.M.
BANBURY & OGLE
When you think Oxfords, think Ur
bach. 229-tf /
EVERY THIRD CHILD IN
MOSCOW DRUG ADDICT
MOSCOW, Sept. 28. (£>)—Every *
third child among the homeless boys
and girls on the Moscow streets is
a drug addict, according to an an
nouncement made by the Soviet
Health department.
FOR SALE—Fruit Jars. J. L. Graef.
If men wear it, we have it. Urbach.
Cabin for Rent ■
On Fine Trout Stream
Bungalow with fine fire
place. large living room,
furnished for six persons,
plenty of bedding and
essentials, stove and all
cooking utensils. Will be
rented by the day or week
end to responsible parties.
Good fishing in lake and
stream and hunting in
season.
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Apply A1 Davis
SEWARD, ALASKA
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Hotel St. Charles your head
quarters.
Strictly Modern and
Fireproof
And Managed by an old
Alaskan
J. A. FARNHAM.