HIM GOOD WISHES EDOM FIB IE
Along towards the wee small
hours on New Year eve when the
town of Chitina lay in the arms of
Morpheus and nothing but a stray
dog with about six inches of broken
tail sat dismally on the railroad
track, occupied in making a frantic
hunt for a flea that would persist in
taking a midnight supper in the mid
dle of his back, an old man wander
ed over the hill on the east side of
the town, where the tunnel had just
been finished. He was scantily clad
for so rigorous a clime as Alaska,
and with only sandals on his feet
one would have thought that he
would freeze to death—but he was
Father Time. He carried over his
shoulder a scythe and holding an
hour glass in the other hand he paus
ed on the hill above Chitina, gianced
at his hour glass and said to himself:
“I have still three days of my holi
day left to me for this is the only
night in the year that I do not have
to work.” He was about to pass on,
but on looking at Chitina a second
time, said: “These pioneers deserve
all the good wishes that both mortal
and immortal man can give. I think
I will go around and wish them a
happy New Year myself.”
So on lie passed down tne mu
stopping at Frank Alba's stables and
wishing that ne would have all the
wood, eoal and freight he could haul
in 1911, he passed on down by Peter
Corde’s, and looking in wished that
all the bunks would always be filled
for the coming year, and on down
the hill, wishing John Gage luck as
he passed but, stopping on the way
he picked up the dog with the broken
tail and healed it.
Father Time has the greatest heal
ing powers in the world, especially in
the case of broken hearts. Then on
to the Copper River & Northwestern
depot where Agent Lawson and as
sistant Durham live, and wished them
an increase in salaries and plenty
of freight to handle in the coming
year.
Then to the Chitina Townsite com
pany and prophesied for the com
pany they would be sold out of lots
before the coming year was over
witn, and that Messrs. Exum and An
derson would be kept busy making
out warranty deeds. Crossing over
to the Log Cabin restaurant, he wish
ed Messrs. Chase and Burkhart a
steady run of business and a contin
uation of good coffee, and also in
the same building, where he found
Thos. Cloninger and Ivory St. Clair,
of the Log Cabin bar, he wished
them the continued prosperity for
the New Year which they at present
enjoy. Dropping into the Chitina
Trading company, where he found
Manager Hull and M. Finkelstein, he
wished the firm of Kinney & Mac
Cormac much success for 1911, and
hoped Mr. Hull and Assistant Brim
mer would be kept continually on the
jump, while he hoped all the pros
pectors and people of the interior
would secure their outfit of clothes
and supplies at Finkelstein & Sap
iro’s.
On finding the genial Pete Sher
man, of the Northern Meat Market
at his back, he wished, shou’d there
be a meat famine in this vicinity,
that the Northern market would have
no competition and be able to supply
the demand.
Gliding over to the big Hotel Chit
ina he hoped the enterprising Oscar
Breedman would soon have to build
an addition to his already fine hotel
and that his commepdable efforts in
affording Chitina a hotel this win
ter would meet with great financial
success in 1911.
Next to the hotel lobby he found
Postmaster Cliff Johnson busy with
the mail and the postoffice store. He
wished him a big increase in cancel
lation ana that the sale of tobaccos,
candies stationery, papers and mag
azines would necessitate several as
sistants before many •weeks.
At the Cliitina Grill he wished suc
cess to John Schafer, and stopping
at the Orr Stage company’s office,
hoped the trail would continue fine
until late spring, and that Manager
Jesse Martin, with Assistants Starr
and Mulroy, would be kept busy
making out tickets for interior and
outside travelers.
Before going up the other side of
the business street, he spied the Chit,
ina laundry and wished John Rauson
and Fay Scott would be kept so busy
they couldn't get out of the wash
tub during the New Year. Passing
the Savoy restaurant, he wished the
proprietors the best of prosperity,
and hoped the Tibbs brothers would
soon complete their building for bus
iness. Drifting into the Home Bar
he drank to the health and future
prosperity of Geo. Blouen and Ru
dolph Pohlner and hoped the Chit
ina hotel would soon have to be en
larged. Hoping that the Owl cate
would soon be catering to many nood
le and chop suey parties, he walked
into the resort run by Al. Church
and Tommy Brady. He hoped they’d
soon have to put in another pool and
billiard table and that their line of
. tobaccos would soon have to be doub
led.
With the jolly Dutch boys of the
Chitina bakery, Messrs. Gessner &
Staugneth, he hoped they’d make ten
times the amount of “dough” during
1911 as they have had to do in the
old year, and that their sale of coffee
cake and pastry would be also great
ly increased.
Stepping into the sheet metal
works of Fred Schaupp. who was
busy with stovepipes and flues, he
hoped his plant would treble in ca
pacity by the summer of 1911, and
that he would have to hire plumbers
and steamfitters to carry on his wora
in Chitina.
Wishing Cook and West and the
Nelson brothers success for the New
Year, Father Time went up the new
road as far as Harry Chamberlain’s
feed stables and hoped Harry would
have his barn full of horses to feed
all spring and that the price of hay
and grain would drop sufficiently tor
him to make a good margin on his
work. On returning to town he
couldn’t overlook Tom Holland’s res
idence and that of Deputy Marshal
Brow’n. Hoping that Mr. Holland
and the deputy secure a raise from
Uncle Sam for feeding prisoners in
1911 and that there will be no ob
streperous cases to handle, he made
a visit to the commissioner’s office,
where he found Judge Ferguson at
his desk. He wished His Honor vol
umes of recording, notary public
w’ork and legal fees sufficient to gar
ner enough of this world’s goods in
1911 to enable the judge to purchase
that longed for coacoanut plantation
on the island of his beloved Hayti.
Glancing at his hour glass, Father
Time realized that he now’ had but a
short time to w’ish the rest of the
Leader patrons good luck for the
New Year, so dropping into the Lead
er office, which is now’ located in the
postoffice store, he told Editor Ben
nett he could not overlook the bus
iness people across the river or at
Cordova, so spreading his wings he
alighted at the Chitina roadhouse
and hoped that C. M. F. Cole would
be kept busy with freighting and
taking care of guests in 1911, and
that Mrs. King, of the Red Cross
Drug Co., directly opposite the road
house, would find a ready sale for
her drugs and sundries during the
New Year. At the Newhouse Trad
ing company he found the proprie
tors busy selling supplies to some
prospectors and wishing them a still
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larger demand for their stock of
staples and general outfitting goods
he flew down the Copper river to
Cordova. Wishing the S. Blum Com
pany a prosperous New Year and a
larger increase of interior sales he
dropped into the MacCormac hotel,
where he found this first-class house
full of commercial and transient peo
ple. Wishing Mine Host Breedman
continued prosperity he called on
L. L. Dodge, of the Pioneer Drug
store, and hoped he would enjoy a
larger demand in mail orders than
ever for drugs from along the line
of railway during 1911.
He found Osborne, the jeweler,
busy as ever repairing watches from
Chitina and along the line of rail
way, and hoped that 1911 would
bring him still more business from
the Copper River way. Stopping at
the Alaska Steamship Company's of
fice, he wished Agent Barry and h>s
employes, as well as the Alaska
Steamship company, added prosper
ity for 1911, and hoped that several
new steamers would soon be put on
the Alaska run and that the Alaska
Steamship Co. would carry many
times the number of passengers and
tons of freight as it did in 1910.
Looking at his hour glass for the
last time, Father Time saw he had
only a few minutes in which to wish
the railroad officials and employes of
the Katalla company good cheer and
prosperity for 1911, and after hop
ing that the Katalla company would
continue to run trains on schedule
time, increase their passenger travel
ind transport thousands of tons of
freight for the interior, begin haul
ing ore from the copper belt, as well
as coal from the Katalla fields next
year, he darted away, after wishing a
happy New Year to all in Cordova
and returning back up the Copper,
wishing Chitina and every one in it a
happy and prosperous New Year, as
he passed by, stopped a few seconds
at the constructing company’s camp
at mile 146, and wishing them god
speed and good luck toward the goal
of the Bonanza mine, as well as a
happy New Year to all the officials
and men at the front, he disappeared
in the mist of the great Copper River
way, just as the clocks were striking
the midnight hour on Sunday morn
ing 1911.
J. W. McCord, formerly of Cor
dova, is matched to run Dumbolton a
mile race at Fairbanks on Tuesday
next. The two men are keen rivals,
and a number of wagers have been
laid on the event.
Buy your friend a book for Christ
mas present at the Red Cross Drug
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