WONDERS OF AMERICA
PREACHED TO BRITONS
TO INCREASE TRAVEL
LONDON, Apr. 4.—The middle
class, stay-at-home Britons are being
encouraged to go get a fleeting
glimpse of the new world this com
ing summer during their regular an
nual holidays. Vacations for the ma
jority of white-collared workers who
inhabit this island consist of 21
days. Heretofore the middle classes
have counted on no further holiday
excursions titan jaunts to the eoun
tries just a«ross the channel; rela
tively few get so far away as Italy.
And now the steamship companies
for a mere £50, less than $250, offer
to take them to that fabled city of
New York, whizz them rapidly for a
few days around the American me
tropolis, show’ them a few spots in
Canada, and deliver them back home,
all within those precious 21 days
of summer holiday.
It is a vision that to many of the
stay-at-homes seems too good to be
true. Every day, almost, they read
of America in their newspapers and
magazines and their eyes are gorg
ed with the splendor and glitter of
the new' world each time they go to
ENORMOUS DEMAND
FOR ALASKA FURS
We’re paying big prices for Alaska furs—demand strong.
We are the largest buyers of Alaska furs in this big
central market and we must have all kinds for quick sale.
Money sent same day shipment comes in—cash, draft or
money order, whichever you want. ACT NOW—if you
have one skin or a hundred. Ship to us at once.
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Every day in every way
You enjoy your meals
AT
THE FISHER CAFE
Seward, Alaska Chas. Fisher, Prop.
Bread—two loaves for 25c
Butcher Shop Remedies.
If you’re troubled with the Gout
Just spend two-bits for Saur Kraut
Then if you think you’re feeling worse
Spend two-bits for Weiner Werse
Or if your heart is all a quiver
Take home a couple pounds of Liver
Then if you still feel kind of Bum
Then we might prescribe a nice Beef Tongue
But if you’re troubled with sharp pains
Try Meadowbrook Eggs & Scrambles Brains
If this don’t make the world look brighter
Just tell your troubles to the writer
And anything he might suggest
Is guaranteed to be the best.
CARSTEN’S PACKING COMPANY
the movies. Their appetites are
whetted for this wonderland by the
annual visits of American golfers
and tennis stars, and the home-com
ing tales of the endless stream of
British authors, British lecturers and
British actors whose favorite pas
time would seem to be gathering in
greenbacks that grow so plentifully
in that rich republic across the sea,
whose inhabitants have a perfectly
astonishing eagerness to pay people
fabulous sums to lecture to them,
or otherwise amuse or instruct them.
Up to now the middle-class folk
who stay at home have never even
seriously thought for a minutes of
America as a possible place for mere
ly a holiday visit, in the sense that
so many Americans seem to regard
Europe. Leisured Britons by the
hundreds have, of course, visited Am
erica purely on pleasure bent, and
the trading travelers of England and
Scotland occupy a good many cabins
on every ship bound for New York.
But, except for these, most of the
Britons who set out for America in
the past were either the poor who
crossed the Atlantic to make a new
start and a new home, or else those
of roving dispositions who wander
everywhere.
This summer, however, or some
future summer, it may be that mid
dle-class Europe will romp around
America as middle-class America
scatters itself all over Europe in the
warmer seasons. The steamship com
panies are trumpeting their third
class “college cabins” in an effort to
make it so. Having tried the “col
lege cabins” out on Americans, who
have eagerly taken up the idea, the
steamship lines are now trying to
induce poor but white-collared Eu
ropeans to get in the habit of think
ing nothing of a trans-atlantic trip.
TRAIN OUT TOMORROW
A mixed train will leave for An
chorage tomorrow at about ten, car
rying passengers and mail.
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Seward, Alaska
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SOFT DRINKS, CANDY
CIGARS AND FRUITS
Tramps Made Comfortable
Keep Them from Tramping
—
NUNEATON, Eng., Apr. 4—In or
der to discourage gagrants from
tramping the road, Poor Law auth
orities have turned the local work
house into a work-mansion.
The old casual ward has been abol
ished and replaced by a cheerful
room with bright colored wall-papers,
linoleum covered floors and comfor
table chairs in which casuals may
sit while having meals at a long
polished table.
A supply of books and newspapers
is provided for evening reading in a
steam-heated room, and spring mat
tressed beds await the weary trav
eler at night. Regular inmates have
the use of a piano and a radio set,
and there is a supply of toys for
the children.
Women Hockey Players
Headed for America
BELFAST, Ireland, Apr. 4.—An
nouncement that a Scotch-Irish wo
men’s hockey team would make a
tour of the United States and Cana
da in September, has aroused inter
est here, and more than a score of
aspirants for the team have already
entered their names for the try-outs.
The team, which will include eight
Scotch and eight Irish players, will
be chosen in April.
Wearing of massive steel armor
was advocated by King James 1 of
England, on the theory that it not on
ly protected the knights from injury
but also prevented them from injur
ing anyone else. If disarmament
fails, we might try armor.
THE PALACE
John Mattich, Prop.
POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
Phone Main 55
ARON ER1CS0N
Painter and Decorator
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FLITTING SHADOWS
AT SUN’S ECLIPSE
CAUGHT BY CAMERA
TUCSON. Ariz., Apr. 4.—Photo
graphs of the shadow bands on the
sun during the recent total eclipse,
were made successfully in the east
with an apparatus designed and built
by Dr. A. E. Douglas, director of the
Steward Observatory here. The Ari
zona astronomer recently received
the first prints from exposures made
by his shadow-band camera, used at
Middletown, Conn., under the super
vision of Dr. H. T. Stetson, head oi
the astronomical department at Hat
vard.
At. the time the exposures were
made weather conditions were pei
feet. The temperature was four be
low zero. As the recording of these
shadow bands, a source of mystifica
tion to leading authorities, had never
been achieved successfully in previ
ous eclipses, the present attainment
is regarded important to science. Dr.
Douglas says the experiment proves
beyond doubt that the waves are
caused by irregularities in the den
sity of atmosphere, a theory he ha.
hekl for many years.
The prints show the shadow-band
distinctly. They were rendered vis
ible to the camera lens by the small
ness of the sun's crescent. The
pictures were taken during the min
ute preceding and the minute fol
lowing totality of the ellipse. Dr.
Douglas points out that the sann
effect is seen from distant electric
lights and on stars viewed through
a strong telescope.
The photographic outfit consisted
of a 13-inch converse mirror, focus
ing a beam of light through a small
opening on to a film six inches be
yond the focus. This concentrated
the light and enormously increased
the contrast, thus bringing out in
prominence these very faint shad
ows.
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