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 weie do
nated by the city, all of which is first class agiicultural
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 watei foi 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.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Eric Nelson who is running a log
ging camp at Days’ Harbor is getting
a crew of men together* and will take
three horses over to the camp. Mr.
Nelson left on the Admiral Evans.
Mr. W. T. White, wife of the super
intendent of the agricultural station
at Kodiak was taken with a severe
hemorrhage on the Admiral Evans last
Saturday, and was transferred from
the Evans to a small boat and sent
back to her home in Kodiak. Mrs.
White and daughter took the Evans
for Seward and when about five miles
out from Kodiak was suddenly strick
en with illness. Capt. Foster of the
Alitak Packing Company came by in
a company boat and it was believed
best for the patient to return her to
her home. It is reported Mrs. White
has been suffering from heart trouble
for some time.
A crew of men started work on the
road from the railroad spur to the
Jesse Lee Home this morning, and the
force will be increased as fast as the
necessary tools can be provided.
Charles Tecklenburg gave twelve
lots toward the Jesse Lee Home site.
Every citizen with property in the
vicinity of the school site has been
extremely liberal with land grants.
At the *ite for the Jesse Lee Home
yesterday a large bowlder was hurled
by a blast several hundred yards, go
ing through the side of A1 Davis’s
car and shattering the windshield.
Two children in the car were un
hurt. Had they been in line with
the rock some one undoubtedly would
have been killed. The auto at the
time was standing several hundred
yards away from the scene of the
blast.
Frank Skeen and a small party de
parted from Seward yesterday for
Nuka bay.
Frank Foster, attorney from Cor
dova, will arrive in Seward on Sat
urday’s train.
SEATTLE, May 20 (JP)—J. H. Kline,
general Alaska agent for the Pacific
Steamship Company formerly station
ed at Juneau, tendered his resignation
to the company Saturday night and
taking a pistol and his automobile dis
appeared, saying, “I guess I’ll end it
all. I have had financial difficulties I
cannot meet.” No trace of him has
been discovered and it is feared he
has suicided in some remote spot.
Officials of the Admiral Line state
that Inline has been with them for the
past eight years and that their busi
ness relations with him have always
been pleasant and satisfactory. They
professed ignorance as to why he was
despondent.
Mr. Kline recently made a tour of
Alaskan ports returning to Seattle on
the last trip of the Admiral Watson.
He was well known in Seward and
was universally liked by all who knew
him.
J. L. Waller, assistant district at
torney cf Anchorage, was taken to
the hospital this week where he un
derwent an operation.
The Alaska Steamship Company’s
freighter Redondo will be placed on
the westward run from Seward again
this summer, making Kodiak and all
westward points. She will make her
first sailing June 10. The vessel has
been greatly improved and can carry
more passengers than last year.
A large shipment of powder con
signed to the westward, was left at
Seward by one of the freighters call
ing here and it will probably be tak
en to the westward on a small boat.
E. F. Medley, who is attending a
meeting of the board of regents of
the Alaska college, at Fairbanks, this
week, will return on Wednesday’s
train. He intended to return Satur
day but it is doubtful if he will be
able to get through his business in
time.
Mrs. James Kennedy and daughter,
Katherine, are returning passengers
on the Northwestern en route to their
home in Anehora'ge after a brief ab
sence in the States.
Harry A. Davis, a sourdough resi
dent of Nenana will arrive on the
steamship Northwestern from the
states, where he has been undergo
ing medical treatment. Mr. Davis is
interested with Mayor Joe O’Connor
in the Terminal hotel and cigar store
at Nenana.
Dan McDonald, an employe of the
Alaska railroad, left on the Yukon for
the states.
Miss Carrie Reece, employed at the
Anchorage hospital, left on the Yu
kon for Seattle. Miss Reece was for
merly a teacher in the Valdez school.
George Johnson, tie inspector for
the Alaska railroad, was a business
visitor here for the last two days, de
parted this morning on a speeder for
his headquarters.
George Colwell, roadmaster of this
division of the Alaska railroad, ar
rived in town Thursday to visit his
family, and left for the north this aft
ernoon.
Hawley Sterling, superintendent of
the Alaska Road Commission, left
for Anchorage headquarters yester
day. Mr. Sterling arrived in Seward
the first of the week from the west
ward where the season’s road pro
gram is now under way. Trails are
under construction leading to Iliamna
lake and a two-mile road is being
built along the beach at Kodiak.
Miss Alice La Coursiere and Miss
Flavell, school teachers from Kenai,
arrived in Seward on one of the last
trains, en route to the States.
C. F. Rhind, an old time resident of
Dawson and Fairbanks is returning
on the Northwestern.
The first large number of tourists
to leave the States this spring for
Alaska are booked to depart from Se
attle next Saturday, a week from to
morrow, on board the steamship Yu
kon, according to the local agent of
the steamship company. Most of
these tourists will proceed leisurely
over the railroad into the Interior,
and will return to the coast again via
the railroad. It is expected a num
ber of them will spend a few days in
Seward.
Tentative arrangements have been
made with the Van Gilder hotel to
take care of a party of 25 tourists who
are booked to depart from Seattle
July 11. This party is in charge of
W. Roy Breg, southwestern secretary
of the United Society of Christian
Endeavor. According to the schedule
they will spend twro days in Sewrard.
They will make the round trip over
the railroad and leave Seward for the
States probably July 26.
John H. Hughes, formerly in charge
of the commissary and stores depart
ment of The Alaska Railroad, under
the management of Col. Lee H. Lan
dis, is now located in San Francisco.
Seward friends received letters from
him in the last mail from the south.
Information contained in the letters
say that Col. Landis is in San Fran
cisco at the present time.
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