Hemnrd Daily Gntemay
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOLUME 20.
NUMBER 117
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS.
SEWARD FINALLY SELECTED AS SITE FOR NEW JESSE
LEE HOME-CONSTRUCTION WE START IMMEDIATELY
BUILDINGS TO BE ERECTED WILL COST $100,000.00, AND WILL BE
AMONG FINEST IN THE TERRITORY-MATERIAL ALREADY ORDERED
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GOOD WORK BY LOCAL COMMITTEE
LANDS ONE OF LARGEST ENTERPRISES
PLANNED IN TERRITORY FOR YEARS
Work on Buildings Will Be Started Immediately by Rev.
R. V. B. Dunlap, who is in Charge of Operations—
Buildings Will Be Four in Number 86x120 Feet—
Local Labor Will Be Employed Wherever Possible
BUILDINGS BE READY FOR OCCUPANCY BY FALL
About Six Hundred Tons of Freight Will Arrive Here on
Freighter in Near Future—City will Construct Road
to Site from Main Highway—Buildings Be of Con
crete—Site One of the Best in Alaska for the Purpose
Seward citizens are jubilant today over the decision
of Mrs. W. H. Goode, vice-president of the Home Missions
Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the United
States of America and secretary of education of the board,
and Mrs. J. Luther Taylor, recording secretary, members
of the committee appointed, to build the fine, new Jesse
Lee Home for Orphans in Seward. These ladies, accom
panied by Rev. R. V. B. Dunlap, arrived on the Alaska, and
after thoroughly investigating the proposed site, and se
curing several additional concessions from the city, an
nounced in public meeting at the Methodist church Satur
day afternoon that they were thoroughly satisfied with
the terms offered and would build here.
To Rev. R. V. B. Dunlap and his wife, local mission
aries, and to the members of the local committee, is due
the location of the Home at Seward, as they practically
put in all their time night and day, in waiting on the com
mittee, and showing them over the sites offered, the com
mittee finally picking the benchland near the Taylor home
stead as the" most desirable for the purpose.
The building material and cement has been ordered
and will arrive on a freighter sometime within the next
few weeks. Works of excavating will start immdiately,
Rev. Dunlap announcing that it was desired to erect the
buildings as speedily as possible in order that the children
enter the harbor. About forty acres of land were do
These buildings will face the road, and will be four in
number, of concrete and wood. They will be about 80x120
and several stories high. The site commands a fine view
* of the bay and will give tourists a good view as vessels
enter the harbor. About eighty acres o fland were do
nated by the city, all of which is first class agricultural
land, well drained and located within the suburbs of the
town on the north side. Some 160 tons of cement and plas
ter will be used in the construction of the home, and two
large boilers will furnish heat and hot water for the in
mates. A spur will be run) to the building site by the rail
road. The main building will have a large basement, and
all foundations will be of cement.
There will be between $30,000 and $40,000 expended
here for labor within the next few months, and Rev. Dun
lap declares that so far as possible all labor will be local.
Organzation a Powerful One '
The Woman’s Home Missionary So
ciety is an incorporated organization
h headquarters at Cincinnati, O.
J®was organized in 1880 and last year
rffported a total of 13,350 auxiliaries
d a membership of more than 458,
00?9. The income the past year was
than $2,812,000. This sum is
raided in dues, in thank offerings, in
mit<£ boxes and in bequests mostly.
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The Society does educational and
industrial work among negroes, moun
tain w'hites, Spanish, Mexicans, In
dians, Chinese, Japanese and Koreans
in all parts of the United States and
its possessions. Settlement work is
done in many large cities, immigration
work in the various ports of entry,
and hospital work maintained where
missionary work is needed. Seven
large training schools help provide
workers.
A School and Home have been op
erated at Unalaska since 1890, and in
1907 the Society began work at Nome.
The present plan is to provide one
well-equipped, up-to-date orphanage
for Alaska, to unite1 that kind of work
as it has been carried on at Unalaska
and Nome. In both places mission
work will continue to be maintained,
and in Nome the hospital will advance
with the needs of the community.
The Committee responsible for the
work of the Society in Alaska is head
ed by Mrs. T. J. Gambill, of Wilke- j
son, Washington. The committee sent
to determine on the location consists
of Mrs. W. H. C. Goode of Sidney, O.,
who is the general secretary of educa
tion and personnel, and Mrs. J. Luther
Taylor of Pittsburg, Kansas, who is
recording secretary of the National j
Society.
Has Charge of Many Orphans !
About lt>0 children and a large staff
of matrons and instructors will be in-!
stalled in the Home at Seward this fall'
work being hastened with all possible |
dispatch in order to get the buildings
ready. Rev. Dunlap has placed an or
der with Charles Lechner for a motor
truck which will arrive on one of the
next boats. Orders for beds, mat
tresses and a range capable of cooking
for 150 persons has also been placed, j
A road will be constructed at once
from the Kenai highway to the home
site, and everything possible done to I
expedite the work.
Jesse Lee Guild Formed.
At the request of Mrs. Goode and
Mrs. Taylor, a meeting of the ladies j
of Seward was called Saturday after-1
noon, at which Mrs. Goode acted as !
chairman. . She addressed the ladies ;
at length on matters connected with j
the home, and after the meeting a
Jesse Lee Home Guild was formed,;
consisting of all the ladies present, ir
respective of creed. After some dis-'
cussion the organization was perfect-!
ed with Mrs. Wayne Blue chairman,
Mrs. A. R. Roberts vice chairman,
Mrs. O. A. Johansen secretary, Mrs. P.
C. McMullen treasurer. The Guild
already numbers 27 members and it
hopes to include every lady in Sew
ard. The purpose of the Guild is to
have an organization of women who
will feel especially interested in the
Home, make friendly visits to the in
stitution and render such assistance
and co-operation as may from time
to time be necessary.
An advisory board of men will be
appointed by the president of the
Chamber of Commerce.
AGED MARINER TO
TAKE LONE TRIP
VICTORIA, B. C., May 18 (£>).—Eus
tace B. Maude, aged 77, of Mayne Isl
and, a commander in the Royal Navy
retired, is attempting a voyage to En
gland alone in a 25-foot ketch, named
the Half Moon. The aged mariner
was sighted off Umatilla light by the
steamer Canadian Rover today.
Someone stole the hand-organ be
longing to Chas. Bell, a blind Chica
go beggar, when he left it tempor
arily on the sidewalk.
“TWENTY PER CENT” JOHNNY
AND PALS HAVE THEIR
TRIAL SET FOR MAY 22
SEATTLE, Wn., May 18.—(J-P)—
Judge Ronald, Saturday, granted John
ny Clancy, called “Twenty Per cent,”
with two others, arrested a week ago
in a raid on the Regina Hotel and ac
cused of bookmaking, a continuance
of his trial until May 22.
FRISCH BREAKS FINGER
NEW YORK,, May 18— Frankie |
Frisch broke a finger while sliding for
home plate in Saturday’s game and
withdrew.
CANDLES FLAME
WHEN SAINT IS
NAMED BY POPE
ROME, Italy, May 18 (JP)—The lofty
dome of St. Peter’s cathedral flamed
last night with over 5,000 tallow
candles and lanterns announced the
sanctification of Blessed Sister The
rese of the Infant Jesus, a Carmelite
nun of Liseux, France, reviving a cus
tom abandoned after the illumination
of June 28, 1870. This illumination
is the first since the temporal power
of the Pope lapsed in connection with
the difference between church and
state. Premier Mussolini is ready to
go over half way to patch the differ
ences, and this is declared a fore
runner of the removal of the last ob
stacle but one to repair the breach,
the other being for the Pope to aban
don his voluntary imprisonment in the
Vatican..
France Celebrates Sanctification
LISIEUX, France, May 18 (/P;—The
bells of this Normandy town pealed
joyously yesterday when Sister The
rese was canonized by the Pope. She
was born here, a daughter of a jew
eler, and visited at Rome writh her
father when a child, asking Pope Leo
XIII to let her join the Carmelites.
She was refused on account of her
age, and waited patiently until she was
16 when she entered as a novitiate,
and spent eight years behind the walls
of the beautiful old Lisieux convent,
dying in 1897 at the age of 24, famed
for her goodness and religious work.
Thousands of pilgrims visited her
shrine from all parts of the world, and
many soldiers in the world war paid
her homage taking her as their pa
tron saint, calling her “The Little
Flower of Jesus.” Many French sol
diers carried her picture in their iden
tification books. s
Agnes Kelly of Chicago resented
criticism of her cooking and beat her
mistress over the head with a bread
board; $50.
Fred Rubeck of Indianapolis or
dered a blooded female police dog
from Germany and received 11, the
mother of. 10 puppies born on the
way.
Lee Goddard, grocer of Sayre,
Okla., found a young boa constrictor
in a bunch of bananas, the snake hav
ing come with the fruit from Central
America.
COCHRANE’S EBONY
TAKES HUGE PURSE
KENTUCKY DERBY
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 16—The
race at five o’clock, Central Standard
time indicated that an attendance o£
eighty thousand would be there. This
attendance is said to be the most of
any time in the history of horserac
ing in America.
CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville,
Ky„ May 18.—(A3)—The flying Ebony
won the derby here, with Captain Hal
second and Son of John third.
Flying Ebony led the first quarter,
Captain Hal led the half and into three
quarters. A violent rainstorm from
the south came down just before the
race and drenched the spectators.
The time for Ebony was two min
utes seven and two-fifths seconds.
CHURCHILL DOWNS. Louisville,
Ky., May 18.—Earle Sande, Ameri
ca’s premier jockey, who recently re
covered from a long illness from in
juries received in a fall which was
thought at the time to unfit him for
the track forever, rode Ebony in one
of the greatest races in Sande’s life,
and beat Hal a full length.
Jockey Sande won $52,950 for
Ebony’s owner, Gifford A. Cochrane.
The favorite, Quatrain, never had a
chance during the entire race, and fin
ished far back. Hal was regarded on
ly as a sprinter, but ran sensationally,
challenging every second to Ebony.
GOVERNOR DAVIS
BEING TRIED, BRIBE
TOPEKA, Kansas, May 18—
Former Governor Davis, who was on
the stand yesterday for two hours at
his trial on a charge for soliciting a
bribe in connection with a pardon for
a Kansas banker, turned to the jury
and said, “Gentlemen, I tell you that
I issued every pardon in good faith.”
The jury then adjourned until Mon- .
day when Davis will resume the stand.
WILL INVESTIGATE FAILURE
OF THE MILWAUKEE R. R.
; WASHINGTON, D. C., May IS,—(/P)
[—The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion has order an investigation into
the “history, management, financial
and other operating accounts and
practices” of the Milwaukee railway.
BOUGHT BABE FOR $100 CASH
NEW YORK, May 18.—(JP)—An un
identified woman informed the prose
cuting attorney here that she bought
a baby for one hundred dollars cash,
from the Helen’s Farm.
After being fined $25 for disor
derly conduct, Mrs. Clara Steinman
bawled out Judge Harris of Chicago
and he then made it 50.
Rev. Chas. S. Darron is working
as a carpenter in the building of a
new church for his congregation near
Alton, 111.