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21 COLMAN DOCK
Seattle, Wash.
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.
SEWARD LODGE NO. 1425, L.O.O.M.
Meets every first
and third Tues
day each month
at 8 p. m., at
Odd Fellows
Hall. All visit
i n g members
welcome.
PETER N. ANDERSON, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER, Secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO 219, F. & A. M.
A Stated communications first
and third Wednesdays of each
/\r\month; visiting brethren wel
come, J. P. Hannon, W. M.; Harold
Painter, Secretary.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thursday at
'8:00 p. m. in Odd Fellows’
Hall, next to the postoffice. Visiting
brothers welcome. Fred Martinides,
N. G.; Chas. Lechner, Secretary.
IGLOO NO. NINE, PIONEERS OF
ALASKA
Meets every Second and Fourth Fri
day nights in Odd Fellows’ Hall; John
Flowers, President; Coll A. McDou
gall, Secretary.
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Meeets the second and
fourth Mondays of each
i month in Odd Fellows’
I Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
come; Goldie Blue W. M.
Mrs. Viola T. Swetmann, Secretary.
SEWARD REBEKAH LOGE NO. 6-A,
I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
each month in Odd
Fellows Hall at 8:00
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. John
Rosness, V. G.
KODIAK ASSISTS
COMMISSION IN
STOCKING WORK
COOPERATES IN WORK OF THE
GAME COMMISSION AND IN
PROTECTION ANIMALS
To aid in promoting the growth of
the fur industry on Kodiak Island
and protecting the animals placed
there by the Alaska Game Commis
sion in carrying out the Territory’s
game and fur-bearing animals stock
ing program, .residents of Kodiak
have organized a Game and Fur
Bearing Animals Protective Associa
tion with a large membership, ac
cording to reports received by the
Commission. The Kodiak organiza
tion, said E. P. Walker, executive
members of the Commission, has al
ready rendered valuable assistance
in that district.
It furnished funds, men and boats
to the Commission in liberating bea
ver and muskrats on Kodiak Island
recently. This lessened materially
the expense to the Territory. The
interest taken by the residents of the
best kind of protection to the ani
mals liberated while they are getting
established and during the period of
propagation.
Reports from Kodiak to the Com
mission said both the beaver and
muskrats are taking kindly to their
new homes. The beaver planted in
Kelson Bay have been observed cut
ting trees and brush to go into their
winter houses. Muskrat houses are
also showing up on the upper end
of Latnik Lake where they were
planted. Both spots are said to be
extremely favorable for the stocking
experiment which is expected to
produce tangible results within a rea
sonable time.
§1.00 sale, Alaska Shop.
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CIRCULATING
LIBRARY HELPS
Over 1500 volumes of choice fiction
are now on the shelves of Urbach’s
circulating library, a $1.00 member
ship and 15 cents giving the members
a right to read any book. The $1.00
deposit is returned if the subscriber
leaves town. These books can be
taken out and held as long as desired.
Recognizing the need for a library
for Seward, Mr. Urbach started in a
small way in 1916, which has now
grown to considerable proportions.
One hundred new books were receiv
ed November 19, and new books are
being ordered from time to time.
$1.00 sale, Alaska Shop.
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SEWARD WATER &
POWER COMPANY
SEWARD, ALASKA
“Qood Water a Necessity in Every Home”
JOHN NELSON, Manager, WAYNE BLUE, Agent
OFFICE ARCADE BUILDING
HOTEL SEXTON
GEORGE SEXTON, Proprietor
SEWARD'S HOMEY HOTEL, WHERE THE OLDTIMER8
MEET
VAN GILDER HOTEL
HOT AND COLD WATER IN EVERY ROOM
•TEAM HEAT .
J. S. BADGER
HOTEL SEWARD
OSCAR DAHL, Proprietor
nr. a" it tut i i>. }
HOMEY, COMFORTABLE ROOMS " AND BATH
Convenient to Depot and Dock
ANTI-AIRCRAFT
FORM OF FIRING
IS EFFECTIVE
MAJ. GEN. F. W. COE, CHIEF OF
COAST ARTILLERY ASSERTS
IN HIS ANNUAL REPORT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 1. (ff)
—A year’s experience with anti-air
craft firing has “demonstrated that
this form of fire is more effctive upon
bombing planes than tnat of other
classes of artillery against their nor
mal taigeis,” Major Gen. F. W. Coe,
chief of Coast Artillery, asserted in
his annual report made public today.
General Coe referred to the spe
cial anti-aircraft training ordered b^
the War department and conducted
at Ft. T'lden, N. Y. with the as
sistance of air personnel from Mit
chell Field “with a view to deter
mining th edegree of efficiency which
may be expected from anti-aircraft
guns and machine gun fire against
air targets.’’ The anility of search.
lights operating on data obtained by
listening devices 10 illuminate a tar
get continuously while in range of
the gurs formed a part of the prob
lem. General Co 3^ judgment as to
the effectiveness to be expected from
anti-aircraft batteries wa3 based not
only on this special test but upon
firings during the year by other coast
artillery units.
The report pointed out that up to
this year no methods had been found
to furnish training to the personnel
of the seventeen anti-aircraft ariil
lry regiments of the organized re
serve allocated to the central part
of the country. The distance to the
seacoast anti-aircraft batteries pre
vented sending officers as no funds
for transportation were available.
Only three anti-aircraft regiments are
maintained in the regular establish
ment, all located on the coasts but
during the,last summer special train
ing teams from these regiments were
!'sent into the interior and arrange
ments also were made for reserve
training with national guard regi
ments at Ft. Sill, Okla., and Camp
Sparta, Wis.
“This arrangement is not satisfac
tory, General Coe said, “and proper
training can be given to these units
and the three national guard regi
ments similarily stiuated (in the in
terior) not only by organizing and
stationing a regular anti-aircraft reg
iment at some point in that region.”
The report said that all anti-air
craft regimnts should be supplied
with the new 50 caliber machine gun
in place of the present 30 caliber
equipment “as soon as funds can be
made available,” and that similar
steps should be taken to replace the
model 1918 3-inch anti-aircraft guns
with the new model 1923-E. weapon
on mobile trailer mounts which “em
bodies many improvements” and will
be approved for manufacture when
minor defects, developed in tests
at Ft. Monroe, Va., have ben correct
ed. The urgent need for sound lo
cating devices to detect airplanes
at night was being met through or
dinance department experimental de
signs, General Coe added, and this
development would be pushed as
fast as funds permitted.
“I wish specially to urge the ne
cessity for increased activity in de
velopment of our anti-aircraft serv
ice,” General Coe insisted. “Other
coast artillery developments are eith
er refinements or extensions of well
tried out ideas. The anti-aircraft
service is, however, at a point where
original investigations and extended
trials of new designs and methods
are imperative.”
Stores Being Dressed
Up In Holiday Attire
—
Today, the first of December was
the occasion for the local business
houses to begin trimming their dis
play! windows in holiday attire, Christ
mas being but a few weeks away.
Among the first Xmas window dis
plays was a- fine show window in the
Brown & Hawkins store. The interior
of practically all stores have had
Christmas suggestions on the coun
ters for the past week. Beautiful and
practical gifts of every description run
rampant, and local citizens should
have no trouble in selecting something
appropriate. The universal slogan
remains the same this year, the same
being “Shop early.” The postoffice
department likewise should be given
considerable attention. The only sug
gestion offered by Postmaster Shel
don to the local public is for them
to do their shopping immediately and
get it in the mail.
Licensed Guides To
Leave for Skilak Lake
_
Henry Lucas and George Nelson, big
game hunters and licensed guides,
who accompanied a number of parties
into the wilds the past season, plan
to leave Seward this week for Skilak
lake, where they own a fine home.
They expect to remain at the lake
throughout the winter months return
ing to Seward again next spring.
XMAS CARDS HERE
The Gateway received its shipment
of Xmas cards ordered for customers,
and will have them ready for delivery
the first of next week. The Gateway
accepts no orders for Xmas cards ex
cept where customer desires name
printed in.
HERE IS A HOUSE THAT NEVER RESOUNDED
TO THE WHACK OF A CARPENTER’S HAMMER
I r?r***r-’I
F the Walrus and the Car
penter, of “Alice in Won
derland” fame, could go
strolling hand in hand
along the Florida seacoast
in this day and time when won
ders, because of their very frequen
cy of occurrence, are no longer
wondered at, they might wrell be
pardoned for shedding bitter tears.
The Carpenter would have a good
cry coming to him, while his friend
the Walrus would be a cold and un
sympathetic sort of chap indeed,
did he not feel the most acute
pangs of sorrow for the plight of
his companion.
For in Florida, these days, they
are building houses without nails,
without screws and without wood
—-houses through which the re
sounding whack of the carpenter’s
hammer is never heard.
The first of these new houses
without a nail has just been com
pleted at Coral Gables, the newest
and most remarkable city in the
world. The only wood used in the
construction of this house is in the
doors and the buillt-in kitchen cabi
net. 9
Novel Construction Methods
This unique Coral Gables struc
ture is the home of J. F. Bernet, a
retired clothing merchant of El
mira, N. Y. It was planned by J.
Mack Sawyer, a North Carolina
architect now in business in Mi
ami, and its major construction is
of concrete slabs patented by this
architect. These concrete slabs
hare interlocking edges and the
joints are cemented with concrete.
The outside wall slabs are eighteen
bttiSiakikXZiui,. am
9
inches thick and the ceilings and
inside walls, which are of the same
material, are six inches thick.
There is an air space between the
outer and inner walls to keep out
moisture and to maintain as even
a temperature as possible in the
interior of the house.
The window trims in this Coral
Gables home are of magnesite com
position and the windows are of
plate glass, sliding in grooves and
without any of the customary
hardware. A small glass knob on
the inside of each huge plate glass
pane serves to raise and lower the
window.
The floors in the Bernet dwelling
are of cement tile and the roof is
of genuine Spanish tile, hundreds
of years old, while the chimneys,
portico columns, etc., are of the
same concrete slab material used
in the wall and ceiling construc
tion.
Mediterranean Architecture
The architectural design of the
house is of the Mediterranean type
so largely the vogue at Coral Ga
bles. This Mediterranean architec
ture is particularly emphasized in
a large inner garden which is part
ly within the main body of the
house and partly in the open, sur
rounded by typical Italian walls, f
The Bernet dwelling has four
teen rooms, three conventional
bath rooms and one shower room.
The living room has a depth of thir
ty-six feet and is eighteen feet
wide with a ceiling sixteen feet
high. The entire cost of the house
is said to have been approximately
175,000.
Aside from the novelty cf it3
nail-less construction, this Coral
Gables home represents another
unique departure from modern
American architectural practice. Its
structural design is much more
massive and age-resisting than the
great majority of dwelling struc
tures that have been erected in
America, particularly in the South,
during recent years. Eighteen-inch
outer walls of concrete construc
tion, with inner walls six inches
thick and also of concrete, are cal
culated to outlast by centuries the
wood or metal frame and stucco
walls of so many of the private
homes being built in this day.
Something New in Building
Even in Coral Gables, which from
a structural and architectural
standpoint is one of the American
wonders, this house without nails
has attracted considerable atten
tion and no little speculation
among architects and builders.
Does it mark the beginning of a
new architectural and structural
era In American tropical homes, or
is it simply a novelty? That is a
question to which only time will re
veal the answer. Neither archi
tects nor builders seem to have the
solution. The construction method,
however, will be followed in some
instances. The permanency of
such construction and the insur
ance that those thick walls provide
against the effects of outside heat
and moisture on the interior of a
dwelling will have an appeal to
many who may not have to weigh
so carefully the first cost, on one
hand, and the reduced upkeep and
constant comfort on the other. ,