SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
Published daily except Sunday by
Gateway Publishing 'Co.
Entered in the postoffice at Seward,
Alaska, as second-class mail matter.
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THE MEN WHO BUILT SEWARD
The page in the Prosperity Edition
giving biographies and illustrations of
“the Men Who Built Seward,” is al
ready attracting much attention among
local residents. Take Cal Brosius,
for instance: He left the States when
but a bit of a gossoon and can tell
more interesting tales about Alaska
than we would have space to print in
twenty special editions. But we’ll get
the best of his collection, and he has
had some rare adventures in the
Northland, at that. Cal has resided
in the Territory at many camps, but
he picked on Seward as his ultimate
abiding place because he had the
faith that moves mountains. And
he has made good, having built up a
tremendous business during the time
he was not dodging the fair sex, for
he is a bachelor.
And John Nash: John has been in
Alaska so long that he has forgotten
how to pronounce the name of his
home town in the States. He came
here and picked out .a homestead and
was doing well when misfortune over
took him, frozen feet causing amputa
tion. But John is as spry and full of
pep as a young lad, and twice as op
timistic over the future of Seward. He
is going strong for the “Prosperity
Edition,” and believes that it is the
best advertising the town has ever
had.
And take any other of a dozen old
timers walking about the streets of
the city, and there are stories and ad
venture enough to fill several books.
Our representative will endeavor to
pry all the information possible out
of them because it is good stuff for
the younger generation to read. It
gives the man who imagines he has a
tough time with our modern conveni-1
ences an insight into what hardships
really were.
If you have a good story of olden
days, send it in to us, or tell our rep
resentative and he will gladly write it
down for you. This is history in the
making and what may seem common
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place to you will be of interest to oth
er oldtimers.
We want this edition to go over big.
So big that the towns of ten or more
thousands in the States will wonder
how in the name of the immortal Je
hovah and the continental United
States we can do it in a town of one
thousand. But one thousand boosters
are worth twenty thousands indiffer
ent citizens who are merely living at
the expense of the old pioneer who
smoothed the way for them.
You have the stories; we have the
readers and the space.
Let’s swap!
According to the income tax state
ments it appears that many men have
untold wealth.
So far as the French debt to us is
concerned, money seems to be the only
thing we haven’t been able to get.
It seems there are two ways to lose
money in Wall Street, the other being
to send it to the bank by an errand
boy ybu never saw before.
An English professor asserts that
man’s intelligence reaches its zenith
at sixteen years, a finding anticipated
about 720 years ago by all persons ag
ed sixteen.
The Spaniards ace getting rough.
Football is taking the place of bull
fights over there.
We fancy that if Senator Borah has
a pet cat, he strokes its fur up toward
the neck.
As rapidly as those sn ivel chairs in
Washington become empty under the
economy ^program, they might be tow
ed out to sea and sunk under gun
fire so that nobody else will fill them.
A New York judge pronounced
Frank Harris’s book, “My Life” as
“obsence, lewd, lascivious, filthy, dis
gusting, revolting.” Thus encouraged
the publishers prepare to reap their
harvest.
Ecuador is now a republic without
a president. It is reported that since
the “peaceful revolution” in July af
fairs have been administered by a
cabinet of seven membrs, who take
turns in acting as chairman. This is
a slightly different arrangement from
that in Italy, where Premier Mussoli
ni takes turns with himself in acting
as the cabinet.
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 I
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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 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
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 1
(McKinley Park Route)
Seward Anchorage Curry Nenana Fairbanks
From London comes a pitiful story
of a hero’s downfall. Coins had been
stolen from a telephone booth, so
marked pennies were placed there to
trap the suspect. The trap worked as
intended and a man caught red-hand
ed. He was Major Robert Kerr, D. S.
O., who was no less than six times
cited in dispatches for bravery in bat
tie during the World war.
England is experiencing a series
of labor troubles in which Com
munists are active, as usual. Some
of them styling themselves tne Na
tional Minority Movement, have dis
tributed pamphlets and posted signs
iurynue l *i. on •* i* T' rf an
nounce this naive program: “A
pound a week more wages and an
hour a day less work.” At least
there is no reason for misunder
standing what they are driving at.
Peggy Joyce’s numerous marital
adventures have been the inspiration
of a lot of human interest stuff in
the Sunday magazine sections and
elsewhere. Nqw they have inspired
a current joke in a New York play,
in which it is asked why Peggy Joyce
never married Santa Claus, to which
the rather obvious is that there
isn’t any Santa Claus. Possibly it
was for a similar reason that the late
Not Goodwin never married a mer
maid.
President Von Hindenburg of
Germany has not turned out to be a
sword-rattling imperialist as his mil
itary record had led some to fear
when he became the head of the
Teutonic republic. His utterances in
his new capacity have all been paci
fic and he recently said; “Condi
tions will continue to improve in
Germany as peaceful conditions are
restored among the peoples of Eu
rope. I for my part, am determined
to do my best toward such restora
tion and preservation of peace.
In connection with his duties as
president of the Tacna-Arica plebis
cite commission, General Pershing
was called upon to protect Peruvians
from Chilian potatoes. This requir
ed no tariff measure, however, but
merely the protection of Peruvian
newsboys from being pelted with po
tatoes, hurled by--Chileans wrho ob
jected to a certain newspaper being
sold on the streets of Arica. It will
be remembered that the General had
a hand in stopping the throwing of
German “potato-mashers” on the Al
lied front a few years ago.
Much official correspondence and
a suit in the court of claims follow
ed the refusal of Comptroller Gen
eral McCarl to allow a bill present
ed by a government employee for
$1.50 spent as lunch money while
on duty across the river from Wash
ington one day. The court after
grave deliberation awarded the em
ployee his $1.50. McCarl was mad;
criticised the attorney general’s of
fice for not winning the govern
ment’s case; said an important prin
ciple was involved. How wonderful
are the intricacies of red tap.
TOKIO PLAN ON A
BEAUTIFUL STREET
TOKIO, Sept. 25. (£>)—The Ginza
Merchants’ League has inaugurated
a movement for improving and beau
tifying Ginza street, the Broadway
of Japan’s Capital.
It is planned to place the recon-,
struction work in the hands of an
American contractor, the cost of the
improvements being estimated at 60,
000,000 yen. This sum it is hoped
to raise by a loan in the United
States under a government guaran
tee, with dedemption provided for in
20 years. <
When you think Oxfords, think Ur
>ach. 229-tf
New Hand Laundry
This is to inform the public that I
m opening up the hand laundry lo
ated on Fifth avenue known as the
). K. Hand Laundry, and will open up
oor business Monday, Sept. 21. Hav
ng had several years erperience in
he laundry business I solicit your
latronage. Special care will be taken
f silk wroololens, also dry cleaning
or ladies. Mending, darning and al
erations. This laundry in the future
/ill be called,
AMANDA’S LAUNDRY
Phone Madison 126
251-tf .
LIBERTY
ONE SHOW TONIGHT AT 8:00 O’CLOCK
REGINALD DENNY
In
M. Byron Morgan's Dazzling Story of the
Younger Set,
Sporting Youth
The thrillingest, speediest tale shown in
Some Months
Innocently he assumed another man’s name
* * uunconsciously he won the love of a
golden girl * * * helplessly he found himself
plunged into a great international road
race * * then he had to make good or lose
everything that made life worth while.
That’s. Reginald Denny’s little job in
“Sporting Youth,” a thrilling, whirling,
speed-mad picture of the pace that kills.
WONDERFUL AUTO DRIVING, GABLING
WITH DEATH WITH A LITTLE BIT OF
LOVE MIXED IN WITH A BIG LOT OF
EXCITING THRILLS—
LAURA LA PLANTE SUPPORTS
REGINALD DENNY IN THIS
THERE IS ALSO A FINE PATHE NEWS
AND A FABLE REEL
CALIFORNIA, TOWN PICKS UP
AND MOVES TO NEW GROUND
BARSTOW, Cal., Sept. 25. (/P)—This
little town of approximately 3,000
persons, lying on the outskirts of
the Mojave desert, an important
link in ti^nscontinental railroad
traffic, is on the move. The business
section is being shifted to a new
site a quarter of a mile away.
Two conditions were largely re
sponsible for the transplanting. One
was that the National Oil Trails
highway runs thru Barstow three
blocks from the business center.
The other was that the old town
site lies between passenger tracks
and freight yards used jointly by
the Santa Fe and Union Pacific.
Both were in the market for the
land, for its acquisition would en
able freight and passenger yards to
be united.
Legal Blanks at the Gateway.
LABOR DISPUTES CAUSE
LOSS OF MILLIONS OF
DAYS OVER IN ENGLAND
LONDON, ept. 25. (/P)—Over 8,
000,000 working days were lost dur
ing 1924 in England owing to labor
disputes, which numbered 709 and in
volved 622,000 work people, says the
Ministry of Labor Gazette. The an
nual loss of working time owing to
industrian disputes during 32 years
averaged 12,400,000 days, equivalent
to less than one day per head of the
CLOSING OUT SALE
Beginning Wednesday
9 A. M.
BANBURY & OGLE
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whole employed population. During
1919-22 the figures were much above
the average, but in 1923 and 1924 as
well as the first six months of 1925
they have fallen to considerably
less than an annual average of one
day per head of the employed popu
lation.
In 1921 nearly S6,000,000 days were
lost thru disputes mostly in the
coal trade.
FOR SALE—Fruit Jars. J. L. GraeL
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.
Apply A1 Davis
SEWARD, ALASKA *
HOTEL ST. CHARLES
When in Seattle, make the
Hotel St. Charles your head
quarters.
Strictly Modern and
Fireproof
And Managed by an old
Alaskan
J. A. FARNHAM. I