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SIXTH AVENUE “L” NOW BE RAZED
New view of the Sixth Avenue elevated railway structure, New York,
looking north from 29th street. Darkened and deafened by this overhead
transit system Sixth Avenue is now “a very long block from Fifth Av
enue.” Now the noisy, unsightly thing is being torn down and replaced
by a new Sixth Avenue subway.
POLICEMEN CAN DO MUCH TO HELP
CITY BY COURTEOUS TREATMENT OF
TOURISTS, AUTO CLUB CONVINCED
SEATTLE, May. 1.—Treatment
ol the tourist which shall be satis
factory to the visitor and profitable
to the community can result only
from carefully thought-out plans,
formulated and generally understood
well in advance of the touring sea
son, according to a bulletin of the
Automobile Club of Washington sent
to every commercial body in the
state. The bulletin asks that com
munity organizations as well as in
dividuals give some thought to tour
ist needs and desires and prepare to
meet them.
“What about the policemen in
your home town?” the bulletin asks.
“Did it ever occur to you that the
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policeman is a walking, talking ad
vertisement of your community?
Did it ever occur to you • that your
town is judged by the people with
whom the stranger comes in contact
—such as your police—that just such
is your town so far as the stranger
is concerned? If the policeman is
courteous, pleasing and polite, you
have a good town. But if he is
dumb, hard-boiled, discourteous, you
have a heck of a town. That’s how
it works with the stranger every
time. The moral is self-evident.”
As to tourist purchases—“if the
parking laws in a city are such that
the stranger cannot find a place to
leave his car while he gets out to
make purchases, he will drive on to
the town that does provide conven
iences which make the spending of
money possible. If business men of
the small towns only knew it, they
could take seventy-five per cent of
| this tourist trade away from any
large town, for the small town can,
if it will, arrange parking and other
shopping conveniences better than
the larger town.
Opportunity Knocking
“Trade from the motor tourist is
knocking at the door of every town,
but the business men in many of
them have not yet heard the knock,
or recognized it if they have heard
S. S. ADMIRAL WATSON
Sails from Arrives South from
Seattle Seward Seward
April 21 April 28 May 3rd
S. S. ADMIRAL EVANS
May 5 May 12 May 19 Tues., 9 p.m.
Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports including Seldovia and
Kodiak.
WAYNE BLUE, Agent
Telephone Main 81 Rea.. Madison 40
Pacific Coastwise Service
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STEAMSHIP STARR
NEXT SAILING STR. STARR MAY 10,1925
San Juan Fishing and Packing Co.
G. C. HENDERSON, Agent
PHONE MADISON IS*. 8EWARD, AL - ,KA
it. The restaurant man who fails
to supply and advertise box lunches
for motor tourists is losing a lot of
exercise on his cash register. When
the weather is warm, the restaur
ant are warmer, and who wouldn’t
rather stop the car under a fine
large tree somewhere on the rural
highway and eat a good lunch than
to eat it from a restaurant table?
When folks tour, they want to be
out in the open. That is one of the
reasons they are touring, and the
restaurant owner should give them
helpful encouragement to this end.
“In the distant past the business
men of about every town of size
felt the importance of renting a va
cant lot near the business center
where farmers could hitch their
horses and spend the day trading in
the stores and visiting with their
friends. In these days it is just as
important that business men obtain
the use of a plot of ground of gen
erous size with sign boards directing
the way to it that motor tourists
may easily find their way to it and
know that they are welcome to free
parkfng space while buying their
supplies. Such hospitable treatment
as this will give these visitors a last
ing and favorable impression of a
community to carry away with
them.
Cordiality Counts.
“The commercial club in the
towns, and few are without a busi
ness organization of some kind, can
make its influence felt in the cash
registers of its members by ever
being on the alert to give motoring
tourists cordial treatment and con
venient facilities for paiking. Cor
diality from a town spreads the fame
of the community as far and as rap
idly—and much more favorably—
than does the best speed trap ever
devised.
“To the motor tourist nothing be
speaks the character of a town or
city as plainly and emphatically as
the condition of streets. A belittered
roadway with the surface studded
with chuckholes, indicates to the
tourist a carelessly governed com
munity, one that is lacking in pride
and disregard of the opinion of pass
ing visitors. There are many cities
in the United States which boast
chuckholes so thick along main
traveled streets that motoring tour
iss who know of these conditions
will detour around the city rather
than experience the discomforts of
riding through it. This is commun
ity advertising of a kind that spreads
widely and rapidly among the tour
ist population.
“The community that gives con
stant attention to the wants and
pleasures of the motoring visitors
is just as constantly reaping liberal
dividends on time, effort and money
expended.”
MUSIC MASTERS GRIEVE
OVER INROADS OF RADIO
BERLIN, May 4.—Radio broadcast
ing in Germany is ruining their bus
iness, is the constant complaint of
concert managers, music teachers
and the sellers of musical instru
ments._ Since people now get their
music at home, they are not inclined
to go out for it, or study for it.
The public attendance at concerts
and grand opera is falling off; music
teachers who a year ago had five or
six pupils a day now have but two
or three a week, and people are no
longer interested in learning to make
music for themselves.
SINGING MORO WINS
CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
MANILA, May 4.—Datu Alip, a
Moro, recently won the chess cham
pionship of the Philippine Islands in
a tournament in which 16 players
from various parts of the islands con
tested. Out of 34 games played he
won 32, lost one, and one was a
draw.
Datu Alip, who had never been out
of his native province of Lanao, Isl
and of Mindanao, until two years
ago, learned to play chess with his
father who was a prominent Datu
in Lanao. He has taught his son,
a lad of 14, to play chess and the
boy finished fourth in the tourna
ment.
Datu Alip, who can neither read
nor write any language, sings contin
ually while engaged in a chess game.
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the Alaska Shop. tf
Excessive Taxation of
Utilities Fall In End
On the Taxpayers
LOUISVILLE, Ky. , May 4.—Dis
criminatory and excessive taxation
of public utilities creates an extra
and unnecessary burden for custom
ers of the light, water, gas, traction
and telephone utilities, declared H.
Carl Wolfe, engineer of the Mary
land Public Service commission,
speaking last Saturday before the
American Water Works Association.
He said there are virtually as many
utility patrons today as there are
taxpayers and that “efforts to shift
the tax load to the utilities are fu
tile because to obtain money with
which to pay taxes, the utilities turn
to their customers.”
“If the principle of equality is to
prevail,” Mr. Wolfe continued, “the
burden of the taxes upon public util
ities should correspond to the tax
es levied upon other kinds of prop
erty and business. Possession of
property by the public utility should
measure taxpaying obligations to the
extent that similar property is actu
ally taxed to other owners. But the
factor of assessment at less than true
value must not be overlooked.”
Water Supply Sound.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 4.—The
water supply industry of the United
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ORLANDER, the Jeweler
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Southwestern Alaska Route Schedule
Vessel—
Scheduled Scheduled Scheduled Sail
Lv. Seattle Ar. Seward from Seward
Northwestern
ALASKA
YUKON
Northwestern
ALASKA
April 25
May 2
May 9
May 16th
May 23
May 2
May 9
May 16
May 23rd.
May 30
May 2
May 9
May 16
May 23rd
May 30
Steamers in the above schedule will make all regular ports of call
in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
Steamers in above schedule leave Seward every Saturday midnight.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
PHONE MAIN 125 SEWARD, ALASKA
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Prosperity
1 The prosperity of any community depends very
1 largely upon the co-operation manifested by the
I many individuals and institutions forming the com
= munity There can be no lasting prosperity or gen
i eral progress in the life of any community without
| honest co-operation between all elements that in
| any way affect the common welfare.
| So it'is with Alaska. No one section of this
I great land can prosper for long at the expense of
= any other section; all constructive efforts must be
i so co-ordinated that but one outcome will result—
| Co-operation; and Co-operation means Prosperity,
f It is the constant aim of The Alaska Railroad
1 to at all times render such service as will best serve
jjj the citizens of the entire Territory.
I Department of the Interior
| The Alaska Railroad
1 (Mt. McKinley Park Route)
| Anchorage Alaska
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States is in a generally sound and
healthy condition, although it has
not entirely recovered from losses
encountered in the war period, as
serted Leonard Metcalf, engineer of
Boston, speaking today before the
American \\ ater \\ orks association.
He said the industry suffered a loss
of approximately a quarter of a bil
lion dollars during the war.
Hate increases have enabled water
works to recover earning power to a
point probably one-fifth above the
pre-war basis, Mr. Metcalf declared,
but the war loss probably would nev
er be made good. He characterized
it as the industry’s contribution to
the fighting in the World war.
“This earning power basis is far
below the actual plane of costs and
values, however, and the works have
not been able to earn anything like
legal fair return upon the fair value
of their properties,” the speaker con
tinued. “It gives point to the fact
that in times of serious crises the
commissions can not give fair rate of
return to such properties and there
fore do not in fact remove the haz
ards of operation from them as has
frequently been asserted.”
Gateway want-ads bring results.
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
6 A. M.
Monday and Thursday
TRAINS ARRIVE
8 P. M.
Wednesday and Saturday
Gas Launch
KENAI
FISHING AND HUNTING
PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
LAKE KENAI FOR THE
DAY OR TRIP. TELE
PHONE ARRANGEMENTS
TO MILE TWENTY
Louis Bell, owner