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Sailings subject to change without notice. Tick
ets to Seattle. Tacoma, Victoria, Vancouver' B. C.
Jefferson Northbound March 30, April 11—23
and return southbound 4 days later.
SS. Alaska Northbound March 29, April 18 re
turning 10 days later
SS. Alameda, Northbound April 3, Returning
10 days later
Northwestern Northbound April 10, May 3 Re
turning 8 days later
C. M. TAYLOR, Agent TELEPHONE 64
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❖ ALASKA DELIVERY *
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ROSS & CO. TRANSFER
Coal Hauled from All Docks
Goods of All Kinds Stored
At Reasonable Rates
ROSS & McKAY Props.
-PHONE 64
Office Phone 76 Res. 121
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GENERAL TRANSFER
AH Orders Promptly Attended
To
PHONE 222 DAY OR NIGHT
BAGGAGE DELIVERED DAY
OR NIGHT
GEO. F. FORREST, JR.
KETCHIKAN WHARF CO.
C. M. TAYLOR
Phone 64
Agent
<£•.' Jr
MAKE A NOTE OF
OUR NOTICE
that we are making summer deliver
ies of coa! now for next winte's use
Tell friend husband ho should take ad
vantage of summer prices and ordei
the coal now Better be prepared
for any emergency and the saving Is
not to be despised. Phone us how
much and what Kind. We’ll start the
delivering at onse.
Bowling Ally
And Pool Hall
Everything New
and Up-to=Date
K. TAKATA and J. K. TATSUDA
PROPRIETORS
INDEPENDENT
DRAY I NO CO.
Coal & Frsight Hauled
From all Docks
Office Phone 64 Res. G 121
j CHRIS SORENSEN,Prop.
ALASKA RESTAURANT
F. C. HAGJWARA, Prop.
NOODLES AND CHOP SUEY
Special From 4 P. M. to 2 A. M.
| BOX SEATS FOR LADIES
End of Mission Street
AT THE POODLE DOG
GRILL
^estaura®
AFTER AN AUTO RIDE
or a walk or the theatre whtn yoi
I feel lieke eating something nice anc
i tasty stop in this restaurant anc
! yoi.'ll be sure to get what you want
j You'll find our service prompt anc
dtft and our food cooked to perfectior
i'o eat n<jrc once is to decide or
■making it a habit.
WICKERSH AM LETTER
TO SECRETARY LANE
(Continued from yesterday)
The Project Is Left Disjointed And
Wrecked
From Mile 225, at Ta.ikeetna. there
is an unconstTUCtee sap of 14S miles,
to Mile 373 on itlie Nenana River;
there is also an unconstructed gap in
1 the narrow gauge line between Ne- ;
nan a and Fairbanks, no provision or
estimate has 'been made for a bridge
pr.osg |ho Tannna River, which makes
the gap doubly difficult, for no coal
i anav reach the Faiiibanks mining
camps until further action by Con
: gross The project Is thus left in a dis
jointed, demoralized ana wreoKeu
| condition, wit'll tile various parts of j
| constructed road north of Matauuska!
| Junction entirely useless until, in
rsoiue future time, they can 'be united
and combined into cue complete thru;
| line. Immediate loss and depreciation
| and immoderate expense for protection
i and watchmen must follow the cessa
I tion of construction while waiting for.
! future legislation and appropriations.
! N’o part of this disjointed main line
i north of Matauuska Junction—more ;
| than one-half the whole line mileage
j —is capable of performing useful eerv
i ice in this dismembered condition.
’Unless Congress shall make invnic
j diate provision for closing these gaps
i and completing the main line to Fair
banks. the whole project, except the
j Matauuska Branch, is a waste. The
j relief from excessive rates On the
Yukon and Tanana Rivers so long ex
pected by the mining, mercantile and
home-making interests of these river
j regions will tbe postponed indefinite-!
[ ly, and the White Pass and Yukon
Route steamboat monopoly in the riv-;
i rs will have gained all it fought for
' before the Senate Committee on Ter
1 ritorics in 1914—because of the aiban-:
donnient of the uncompleted through
line.
Bureaucratic Railroad Construction
| In the light of experience it is plain
that it was a mistake to attempt to:
I build this railroad through a ne.w Bu-j
rcau organized in the Interior De
partment. The Act authorizing the |
j construction provided a well devised:
plan for doing it toy contract. But
you declined to ask for competitive'
bids, to let a contract for construct
j ing the whole job, or any large part
: of it, and formed the elaborate Bureau
| called the Alaska Engineering Com- j
mission, in the Interior Department,
: and began its construction toy day -
1 wages.
On page 763-5 of the Book of Esti
■ mates, 1920. that organization is'
spread out for official inspection, j
headed by three Commissioners, each
■ drawing 110,000 a year salary, a great
,'er sum than either of them ever toe
; fore received. There they are —!
i Commissioners; Managers, Superintend
I ents, Editors, Disbursing Officers, etc.
I—726 of them, all drawing high annu-,
I nl salaries, winter and summer, j
! whether they work or not, for build
: ing a pioneer railroad line in Alaska.
Then follows a long line of lesser of-,
ficials,—Foremen, Pack Masters, Cap
tains, Stewards, Engineers Electri
\ clans Sawyers, Butchers, Bakers, etc, I
! —1345 other men who draw good wag-|
| es but .who do not build railroads,—a
i total of 2,071 11011-railroad builders in |
j the ,‘organization” or “overhead”
class. I,
i On page 765 is the list of laiborers,
! railroad builders,—tho “pick and shov
’ el .men”—they who build grades, lay:
i ties, place rails and spike the road to
! gether 2,061 in number,—less than 50
percent of the total number of om- -
1 ployees. And that conditions has toeen j
! the rule since the Alaska Engineering:
■ Commission began the creation of this,
Bureau in 1914—there have been swore j
, civil employees in the. offices and
'cards than laborers in the construe-1
; tion camps. There has 'been porfec
I tion in 'bureaucratic organization, ex-;
j cessive overhead attachments, gross j
j expenditures for plant and useless
; buildings, and too little attention to
' the grading and track laying along
[ the main line.
Book at the estimate on page 765
for payment of employees for the fis
cal year 1820, “salaries $967,295”
•wages" $305,465,” “Salaries” in the
bureaucratic organization, "Wages” to
railroad builders. Seventy-five per
cent for overseeing, and twenty-five
percent for construction work. Notice,
too, that the 25 percent includes a
large number of employees who do
not construct railroads,—so the true
sum to toe ..paid to actual railroad
builders is really much less than 25
percent of the total sum expended for
salaries and wages.
The following statement was prepar
ed from your official figures for tilio
Anchorage Division, as stated in tlic
Alaska Railroad Record, to show what
percentage of all die employees on
that Division was engaged in 'building
railroad, and what in “overhead” or
official work;
Statement showing percentage of To
tal Employees, Anchorage Division, at
dates 1918, engaged in Railroad Build
ing and Overhead Service:
Total Laborers
Employees
Week
Ending
May IS
June 8
July 6
Aug. 3
Sept. 7
Dct.
Nov.
Nov.
Overhead
15
o
1275
1509
1438
1675
1586
1485
1370
1097
May
June
July
Aug.
Sept.
Oct.
Nov.
Nov.
602
754
652
865
77t
711
636
7 505
Laborers
47
50
45
51
48
47
46
46
673
753
7S6
810
S15
774
734
593
% Overhead
53
50
55
49 •
52
53
54
54
AH the employes stated In your
official Weekly Force Reports for the
Anchorage Division as engaged in
track, 'bridge and 'ballast, Turnagain
Arm district, Talkeetna district and
station men and laborers are classed
in the foregoing table a3 laborers in
construction work; all others are
charged to the official and overhead
class.
The Anchorage division is your
best showing for construction work on
this government railroad; more work
has 'been done there, more men em
ployed than on all the rest of the road
combined, yet your official overhead
and non-railroad builder list there a
mounts to more than 50 per cent of
the total employes! You have had
more “pencil holders’’ on that work in
1918 than actual railroad construct
ors Xo contractor would have such
overhead organization or any such
extraordinary waste of his or corpo
rate 'funds.
You could have saved much if not
all of this official overhead or organi
pation waste by a judicious contract
in 1914 for the construction of the
road When the bill 'became a lanv on
March 12, 1914, railroad contractors
came to Washington to offer competi
tive bids foritsconstruction under that
plan, None were called for, no con
tract was let, 'but the scheme of (bu
reaucratic construction by wages out;
of tlie fund was entered on “to save;
(he contractors’ profits," Contractors'
offered to build on the Copper River1
route from Ghitna to Fairbanks, a |
listance of 313 miles, for $13,971,000
of an average of $44,640 per main line
mile, but that offer was declined It
s mentioned here merely as a stnnd
trd of compariaion with the line
which you have built at an estimated
'ost of about $50,000 per main line
nile, though at an actual cost about
1140,000 permain line mile, It also ill
ustrates the difference between a po
itical bureau control and a live rail
mad contractor on the ground under
vsoosLbility,
(Continued Tomorrow)
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STREET CAR A KITCHEN
The first traveling national kitchen:
' single-deck tramway car, ni de
scribed in the nlterborcugh Bulletin.
It was put into service at Halifax,
England, the idea being that of Al
derman Charles F. Spencer, Director
af National Kitchens, who is also
ihairman of the Halifax Tramways
Committee. The food is stored on the
platform vestibules, the cooking appa-;
i atus being fitted within the body of
the car. This apparatus includes two
electric ovens, two steamers, and,
tnree not-piates with boiling pans
placed at one end, and two steamers
one larfe boiling pan, and three hot
plates with boiling pans installed at
the ether end. Water is supplied
'rom a 100-gallon tank placed on the
roof over one of the vestibules.
DISEASE KILLS OFF
CATTLE IN ITALY
Romo.—The serious food situation
in ll-alp is further aggravated by a
serious outbreak of foo-and-mouth di
sease among cattle which already iej
inking ravages e<iual to those of the
i rribie epidemic of 1908,
Already the prices of ancat have
►ared to unknown heights. Beef
with 2:" per cent of 'bone, costs $1,40
:■ pound; bacon, $2 a pound; hamt
*3.50; mutton, formerly 30 cents ..a1
pound, now is hardly obtainable ..at
;90 cents; a small porkchop costs 35
Icents and canned beef $2,20 a pound,
Any further increase in price will en
tail much hardship,
FOR SALE—Silver-tone phonograph
and records. Phone 205. —Adv, 6t, p,
SALE STILL ON at the Ketchikan
Bazaar. Scores of Bargains—adv tf.
FOR SALE.—Kimball Organ cheap.
Phone 205 —Adv. tf.
FOR SALE—Two-chair barber out-1
fit and cigar case to be sold below :
cost, Enquire this office,
Adv 6t,
MRS. <f. A. RUMMER, late of So
attle, will do plain and fancy dress-1
aking. Phono 222.—adv. Imp.
STEAMER TUG IVERNESS
Tug Iverness for charter, For par-1
ticulars inquire Stedman Hotel office, j
—Adv, 2 wks, p,!
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FOR SALE:_12 h. p. 2 cylinder 4
cycle medium duty. Apply H. C. Hen
kins, first house south of Heath's!
store. —Adv. Imp j
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FOR CHARTER: A 40 ft. boat suit-!
able for fish bjper or general utility, i
New Standaid engine. Addresli Box
547 Ketrhikan. Adv.Imp.
FOR SALE.—Gas Boat 25 feet long
i in good condition, with 8 h. p. Palm
er engine, 4 cycle, in good working
order, for $550, at the Mather Iron
Works. —Adv. 1 mo. p.
FOR SALE — A homestead two
: miles from Haines on Government
road and Chilkat river. Convenient
1 to saltry. cannery and good school,
See Mrs Steve Ragan. —Adv, 6t.
FOR SALE Trolling boat 26-foot j
double bunk New shipmate stove,
; new 7 h. p. four cycle engine, 40-gal.
fuel tank Electric lighted. Cuto
: sparker tender Some fishing gear.
Price $750.
One 24-foot Cape Cod Dory with 35
| h. p. E. M, F, Engine, $250 cash,
One 22-foot Gill Net Skiff $25.00. j
Enquire Looker's Camp, Mud Bay. j
—3tp. Adv. j
SAVE $10 TO $15
You can do this on every garment
you purchase from A. Greenbaum, and
If you have not purchased your East
er dress, suit, cape or dolman coat,
wait until Mr. Greenbaum’s return
from Juneau when he will bring to
Ketchikan the most exclusive line of
ladies’ ready to wear garments seen
north of Seattle. —Adv. 1mo.
NOTICE FOR BIDS
NOTICE is hereby given that the
Common Council of the City of Ketch
ikan hereby invite bids for the con
struction of a concrete sidewalk on
♦he east side of Front street between
Dock and Grant streets in said City,
*n accordance with specifications on
file with the city Clerk. All bids to
be accompanied with a certified check
for 10 percent of the amount of bid.
and such bid to specify the length of
time the work is guaranteed. Bids
must be in the hands of the City
Clerk on or before April 2nd, 1919.
S. A. Pl-UMLEY.
City Clerk.
Last publication April 2d. 1919.
NU BONE CORSETS
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Fancy Hand Sewing, Corset Alter- i
ing. Bungalow Aprons a Specialty
All style buttons made to order j,
Call and let u8 show you!
Mrs. D. Cooper and Mrs. O. Basse
Rooms 1 and 2 Tongass Building
Open from 9 a. m. till 5 p. m. Phone 208
ADVERTISED LETTERS
When requesting letters from this
office, please say that you saw the
letter ADVERTISED, and pay a fee’
one rent on cadi lottcr.
All letters not delivered by April [
12s 1919 will be disced of according
to law
Pvt Wilfred Anderson
' Nikola Bojanich
William Cleveland
Mrs- Grace Collins
Mrs, F, Cubin
Christ Christiansen
O Christinson
Hans M. Hansen
J, Infantz
Joe Johnson
Joe P- Johnson
J, F, Lane
EJthel Mose
Sam Nilsen
kOsar Olsen
Henfy Rudland
Ole Johnson Selnas, (2)
Tom Smitr
P, S, Thorstrand.
J. F. Warder, Postmaster. I
Jno.'R. Bcegle J. H. Davies
Jno. R. Beegle Co.
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CUSTOM HOUSE BROKERS
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Office Next Door to Customs House Phone 14'$. Night 25
Acme Sterling iRegal
—Engines of Quality—
For the finest boats th it float
For Sale by
H. R. THOMPSON C-Xo.
John Bams & Son
Pioneer Boat Builders
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Designers and Builders of Seine
and Trolling Boats, AH work Guar
anteed. Let us figure with you for
your new boat.
Place your order early to avoid rush
Can make quick delivery on new or repair work
John Davis & Son
Metlakatla, Alaska
FOR SALE SCOW ELLIOTT
. 75 by 20 feet— 43 Tons.
Home on Scow _18 by 62
Suitable for Saltery
All in good condition Inquires of W.
A. Bryant, at Heckman Co.
KETCHIKAN CLEANING
& PRESSING WORKS
Suits Sponged and pressed, Dry or
..Steam Cleaned. A|1 kinds of La
dies uarments. moves, snoes
spats, wool shirts & sweaters
All Work Guaranteed; Phone 222
BROWN & KUMER, Props.
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'<• S. A. PLUMLEY
;• Attorney and Counselor-at-Law
I* Offlce—Town Council Chambers
!• Ketchikan, Alaska.
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Expert grind ng and saw-fitting at
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