SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY;
OF SEWARD. ALASKA
Established. August 19, 1904
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TALES OF THE ARCTIC
Roald Amundsen's recent daring j
airplane flight with the North Pole
as his objective has revived stories
of Arctic explorations, some true !
and others mythical).
Dr. Frederick A. Cook, achieved
world-wide fame through his claim
to have reached the Pole in advance
of Peary, but his story was later de
clared to have been a clever impos
ture.
For vivid imagination, however, no
tale of the North has ever exceeded
that recorded in Henry Hudson’s log,
during one of his attempts to dis
cover the much-sought “northwest
passage to .China” in 160S.
It tells of sighting a “mermaid,” j
in the following record, dated June j
35, in latitude 75 degrees 7 minutes j
north:
"One of our company looking over- j
board saw a mermaid and, calling up
some of the company to see her, one
more came up and by that time she
was come close to the ship’s side,
looking earnestly on the men. A
little after, a sea come up and over
turned her; from the waiste upwards
her back and breasts were lyke a
woman’s, her body being as big as
one of us; her skin was very whyte,
and her hair hanging down behind
•being of solour blacke; in her going
downe, they say her tayle, which was
lyke the tayle of a porposse and
speckles lyke a marcrell. Their
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names that saw her were Thomas
Hitler and Robert Rayner.”
Like many other myths and super
stitions this yarn was for a long
time believed by thousands. Stories
equally foolish are believed to this
day.
MEXICO’S AWAKENING
Under the presidency of General
Calles, Mexico appears to be making
real strides toward a better civiliza
tion, one of the best evidences of
this being the tremendously increas
ed attention now given to education.
According to a recent statement
of a high official, the impetus given
to the schools by President Obre
gon is being carried forward splen
didly by the present administration.
Ten years ago there were only
3,000 schools in Mexico. Today there
are more than 9,000. In 1910 Mexi
co spent only s million pesas for
education. In 1924 educational ap- j
propriations were 34 million pesos.
President Calles is stressing eco
nomy in most department to his gov
ernment, but is wisely liberal in his
attitude toward the schools of the
Republic. As a result the official
quoted declares that “the future of
Mexico is on a very sound founda
tion.’’
FORMER RAIDER
AT HER MOORING
IN BRISTOL BAY
ONCE THE PRIDE OF GERMAN I
NAVY IN ITS SECOND YEAR AS ;
CANNERY VESSEL
The former German raider, the
“Prince Eitel Frederick,’’ is still lay*
i ing at her moorings at Naknek, Bris
tol Bay district, converted into a
cannery vessel. This is the second
year the Libby, McNeil & Libby Co.,
i owners of the vessel, have used the
j once famous and, said to be, one of
the finest vessels of its type in the
world. Visitors to the far Westward
the sight of the huge steel ship, ly
ing Quietly at anchor, always aston-1
ishes one and the exploits of the j
vessel during the World war, are j
generally recalled or related to them, j
The skeleton crew, now aboard j
the massive vessel, has its choice
of luxurious quarters, for with the
exception of the removal of some
of the beautiful oil paintings, cer
tain portions of the splendidly up
holstered furniture, and the taking
away of the finer grades of rare
wood finishing, the ship is practic
ally the same as when 800 men were
comfortably accommodated on the
warship. The same quadruple ex
pansion reciprocating engines are in
the engine room as when she raid
ed vessels off the West coast of
South America. All guns have long
since been dismantled.
Gunner Kasson Has
Hard Time In States
Gunnax* Kasson, an Alaskan taking
serum from Nenana to Nome last
winter, has not had as good sledding
outside as Solomon and his wife. On
Mr. Kasson’s arrival at Los Angeles
he got a contract at Leow’s State
theatre and after the completion of
I the contract the ghost refused to
I, walk. He appealed the matter to Ma
jor Harry L. Suydam. president of
the Alaska-Yukon Club, who went be
fore the State Labor Commission, who
finally got a settlement or compromise
by which Kasson received SI,275. Mr.
Kasson did not own the dog team he
drove when taking in the serum, later
purchased from the owners at San
Francisco, and who featured Balto,
the leader of the team instead of the
■ driver^ thus side-stepping their con
■ tract with Kasson. The latter in
I tended to start for Nome last week,
but has a contract to show' at a mo
vie house for a week. Balto has the
distinction of having a monument un
veiled at New York to his memory,
but because of the mixup was not on
hand as was planned, to witness and
| examine the work.
; BIRMINGHAM Ala., July 2 (#>)—
| Senator Oscar W. Underwood an
; nounced in a letter to the Birmingham
! News today that he wTould retire at
I the end of his term in 1927 and ex
j pects to devote all his time to writ
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SPECIAL
ONE SHOW TONIGHT AT 8:00 SHARP
SHOWN JULY SECOND AND THIRD
SPECIAL
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The Magnificent 12 Reel Super-Feature
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Notre Dame
■ From Victor Hugo’s Masterpiece
LON CHANEY
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The greatest character actor of the age is the
star in this picture
Who was the star in the great picture, “The
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WITH PATSY RUTH MILLER, RAYMOND HATTON, NORMAN KERRY,
NIGEL DE BRULLIER TULLY MARSHALL AND 62 OTHER ARTISTS,
BESIDES 3500 ADDITIONAL PLAYERS.
This is noted as one of the half dozen greatest pictures ever produced. A stu
pendous and wonderful play that has taken the East by storm. A drama of the
period of Louis XI. and faithfully reproduced with costumes of that period
This is one of the unusual entertainments and one should not miss seeing it.
The L-iiberty
NOTE:
We had to pay a large additional fee to show this picture
in Seward and consequently will have to charge 75c for
adults and 25 cents for children. This is cheap at the price
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RECORDS REVEAL
MANY AUTOS IN
THE TERRITORY
F. W. Donoghue, assistant manager
of the Ford Automobile factory at Se
attle, who recently passed through
Seward on his way to the Interior,
gave out the following facts relative
to automobiles in the Territory:
A list of all makes of autos in the
Territory on which licenses were paid
show a total of 1833 machines as fol
lows.
First Division—Juneau 265, Ketchi
kan 188, Hyder 25, Wrangell 10, Sitka
6. Petersburg 16, Skagway 21. Haines
18.
Second Division—Nome 47.
Third Division—Valdez, 25; Cor
dova, 27; Seward, 60; Chitina 33;
Anchorage, 130; Kodiak, 1.
Fourth Division—Fairbanks, 202;
Nenana, 10.
Mr. Donoghue says there were 120
Fords sold in the Territory last year,
while for the first five months of this
year 114 have been sold.
Complete Program
Be Published Friday
The complete Fourth of July pro
gram will be completed at this even
ing’s meeting of the general commit
tees and will be published in tomor
row's issue of The Gateway. This
will include all the events and enter
tainments starting from the first one
in the morning until the curtain is
rung down late in the evening. It is
stated there will be several revisions
in the program making it consider
ably more attractive than the pres
ent line-up. Everything possible in
connection with the day’s activities
will be published in order that no
confusion will result by the public.
Gateway want-ads bring results.
CANNONADING IN
SEWARD MORNING
OF JULY FOURTH
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A salute of 21 guns will be fired at j
6 o’clock Saturday morning, July 4,
reviving in Seward the custom of fir
ing a sunrise volley or salute in hon
or of the day. Martin Lanning, former
Spanish-American war veteran, with
an assistant, will be charge of this
single occasion.
The powder and charges were pur
chased today. From which point the
cannon will be fired is to be kept a se
cret owing to the many interested
children who w’ould want to be a wit
ness to the firing. As more or less
danger is attached to the firing Mr.
Lanning prefers that no one be around
at the time.
Gateway want-ads bring results.
Gateway want-ads bring results.
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