PRINCESS ALICE
GETS INTO PORT
Tito Princess Alice, the magnifi- j
cent steamer of the C. P. R. Paci
.■ coast fleet, which has been run
ning between Vancouver and Vic
• ri.i. H. C'., has been transferred to
rhe Skagway route in place of the
Princess May and will continue on
the rtti. until some time iu October.
The Princess Alice, in command
.>!' J Mcl.eod, arrived in port
early Thursday morning and
u;is visited by a representative
>•' the Daily Alaskan, who was
taken cn a tour of inspection over
i^e boat by Mr. F. F. W. Lowle,
local agent of the company.
Wj have neither the time uor the
ice tu give a detailed description
of the vessel and its interior fit
We will say, however, that
■vrytNiig is first-class and of an
- inco of appointment and fine
ness of lex'ure and design that
leaves nothing to be desired on
:hc part of the traveling public,
.c social hall, observation room
1 st .ierooms are models of lux- i
-i.iace and comfort, while (he din- !
oi ai, with its tables for seating j
-r to six persons, the grille room
low and the first and second
's smokers are all most modern
furnishings and fittings.
There are four elegant bridal j
b- :s, one of bird's eye maple,
hangings of green; one of j
.. l:ite enamel, with heliotrope |
■ : - ,-s; one of blue, with enibos
■<d s;:tin hangings to match; and i
of salmon, with hangings to
\ \: t:;e dining room are two or
ors" ruess rooms, and to the rear
the galley, presided over by I
i Si who was ou the steamship
nder when she went down off >
>ou..' .s island in 1901, and who
. s! ruuieutal la saving the lives j
;e of the passengers who
d erwlse have perished.
■ first-class smoking room,
,• wall above the entrance, j
■ bronze medallion of the
■t'ss Alice, the royal lady in
- i >uor the boat was named.
1 romenade deck is wide and
"us, the doors of all the
rooms upon it opening out
1 e vessel is also equipped with
and a full complement of |
'a and other life-saving ap
Vrday at 2:30 the stand
■■.> ,'ivea the vessel by the
ten of Skagway was placed
r<! and aa appropriate preeen- '
tation speech made bv Dr. L.. S.
Keller.
After the presentation, under
direction of Mrs. Albert Reinert and
Mrs. Frank Suffacool, eight little
girls, with variegated paper baskets
filled with flowers, gathered in the
main social hall and sang a song.
The names of the little girls are:
Francis Kennedy, Karherine Hahu.
Bessie Conway, Mary McCann, Pau
line McCaun, Birdie Selmer, Esther
Fiedenthal and Beatrice Olson.
After the song they presented the
baskets of flowers to the officers
of the Princess Alice.
There were about 200 people pres
ent to witness tho presentation,
who were afterward escorted over
the vessel by those in charge, many
expressions of approval and admir
ation being indulged in liy the
ladies while making the rounds.
ON THEIR WAY
10 MARSH
Mis. F. H. -iV'askoy and two
young sons, Miss Kate Blodgett,
Miss Mcintosh and Ward Blodgett
comprise a party that has been stop
ping at the Pulieu hotel since their
arrival here on the Dolphin until
this morning, when they left on the
train on their way to Marshall, a
new mining camp near Audreafsky,
on the Lower Yukon river.
The two young ladies will only
remain in the interior a short time
and will then return home via St.
Michael and the -Bering Sea route.
Peudeiton, Oregon, July 3—Sev
eral suspects have been arrested
here today for complicity in the at
tempted train robbery near Kalama.
Wash., yesterday ^n which one of
the robbers was killed, another bad
ly hurt and a deputy sheriff thought
to have been fatally wounded.
FIFTY EXCURSION ISTS ON
TODAY'S SOITHISOI M) TliAIN
On the train which left White
horse this morning at 9 o'clock
there are fifty excursionists who
are coming over to join with us in
the celebration of the glorious
Fourth.
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Spring and Summer
Suits
Hats, Shoes
Rain Coats, Furnishing Goods, Etc
Are Now On Display
Suits flade to Your Heasure
At $18 and Up
When in Need of Goods in Our Line Come In
|and Look Over Our Stock
No Hard Feelings and No Harm Done
If You Do Not Buy
STORE OPEN EVENINGS
H. J. LYNCH
The Up To Date Haberdasher
and Ladies' Furnisher
PHONE 41 SKaGWAY
Skagway's
1914
Fourth of July
I Celebration
PROGRAM
EVENT 1st.
• Prize
100 yard race. Boys under 16 S 5.00
50 yard race Girls under 10 $ 3.00
100 yard race. Girls under 15 $ 5.00
100 yard race. Boys under IS $ 3.00
Pick a back race. Boys under 12 * 2.00
Potato race. Boys under 14 ? 3.00
Truln from Wldteltorse arrives.
ATHLETIC EVENTS
100 yard race. Open to all ? 7.50
Wheel Barrow race. Open to all ? 5.00
First base ball game. $ 175.00 $ 125.00
Hop Stop and Jump. ? 5.00
High Jump. $ 5.00
Second base ball game.
Running Bases. C 5."0
Chewing Rag. Girls under 12 $ 2.00
Hurdle race. $ 7.50
220 yard race. $ 7.50
Pie Eating Contest. Boys under 14 * 2.00
Bicycle race. Boys under 14 S 3.00
All races, where two prizes are given will require three entries.
Three base ball trains to compete or only oue prize will he given.
All athletic events open to all.
Tir.ie of events may be altered by judges.
International Tennis Match. (See secretary of Skagwny Tennis Club
lor prizes.)
International Bowling contest. $ 10.00
I All the business houses in town
: are decorating and fixing up their
J show 'windows and the interior of
] their stores for. the grand cele
j bration of the Fourth of July which
is to take place here tomorrow and
which, from all indications, gives
pomise of beiug one of the most
numerously attended anniversaries
of that day that has occurred in
Skagway in several years.
All the committees met last night
:it the town hall and completed
the final arrangements to insure
everything going off smoothly and
without a hitch.
The sports committee has made
out a program of athletic events
which appears elsewhere in the
Daily Alaskan today and lor each
one of which liberal prizes have
been hung up to be competed fur.
Tho events of the day will open
at 10:30 a. m. with the juvenile
sports, consisting of rart s, for
which purses ranging from $2.00
to $5.00 are offered ;is first prizes
and $1.00 and §2.00 as second.
At 11:30 the excursion train
from Whitehorso is expected to ar
rive and from that time on the
time win be taken up with the
principal athletic contests of the
day, among which will be tho base
ball games, of which there will be
two, the winner to take down ;i
purse of $125.00 and the second
best, $50.00.
At uight there will be a grand
ball In tho Elks' hall, tho use of
which for that purpose was donated
to the celebration committee at a
meeting of tho ledge held last night.
Today the reception and dance com
mittee consisting of Mrs. Ganty,
Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Kirmse, Wm.
Bunting, Geo. Black, \V. B. Batson
and V. A. Peterson, Is busily at
work decorating the room, out of
which they are producing designs
and effects to delight the eye as
woll as appeal to the artistic taste.
Received on "Dolphin"
Fancy Celery, 15c bunch 2 for 25c.
Cucumbers, 15c each 2 for 25c.
Now Potatoes, 5c per pound.
New Cabbage, 7c per pound.
Tomatoes, 25c per pound.
Peaches, 15c per lb. 2 for 25c.
Plums, 15c per lb. 2 for 25c.
Canteloupes 10c per pound.
Dauanas 12c per pound.
Apples, Oranges, Florida Grape Fruit.
P. H. GANTY, GROCER
It will be a program affair and tlio
music v.Ill bo furul&hcd by Scl
lner'g orchestra. Ad it will be
lengthy the committee desires us
! to state that the music will be
ready and the dancing st;irt prompt
ly at 9 o'clock.
The ball tonight is designed prin
cipally for the entertainment of
home f(.lk, although everyono will
be made welcome. Tomorrow night
another i" since will bj given for the
imtertniiiment of visitor!, but which,
like the one tonight,' will be open
to all.
The first contingent of visitors,
numbering fifty from Whltehorse
and no doubt several from inter
mediate points, will re;jtti here on
the regular train tonight, and from
what we can leara there will be
many more on the excursion train
which is due to reach Skagway
about ncou tomorrow.
The Northwestern l.rouglu up 35
tons of machinery consigned to C. J.
[Jerry at Circle and the freighter
Seward, this morning finished nu
ll ailing s2,U0u feet of dredge lum
ber for the same party and the
sumo destination.
There were alto two Overland
autos each on the Northwestern
and Seward for A. Rystoge, Dawson.
The greater part o. the G,~»0 tons
ol freight o.i the Sewivd was hay
. ud sr..in ton-i. ■ i to interior
Mr
IfciTlTlfll
Vienna. July :i—Tim ant i-5ervlan
agitation shows no sii.is of abate
ment here but is growing mora
threatening all the time.
i lie route traveled Ijy t ii«• royal
itinera] cortege today.
xotici;
The members of the Skagway
• brass band will 5>le:ise arrange to
| oo at the Broadway i• ■ :»ot. »■ itli their
| instruments and music to play on
jihe arrival of the excursion train,
at 11 a. m. tomorrow.
I/E5B C. GAI'LT, Secty.
Washington, D. C., July 3—John
Silliman left hero today for Saltillo,
Mexico, us President Wilson's agent
to see General Carranza and try to
iieal ttaa breach, between he and
General Villa.
He is also to impress upon boili
these laen the urgent reasons for
early peace in tho whole of Mexico.
CONFERENCE
W1THJ0RGAN
Washington, D. C., July 3—J. F.
Morgan had a long conference with
President Wilson today on tho bus
iness conditions of tho country.
Next week Henry Ford will confer
with the president along the same
lines.
WILL 101 ATTEND
TIE FUSE!
Berlin. July 2—Tlie Kaiser, fear
ing a plot for his assassination,
did not attend the funeral of the
Archduke Franz Frederick aud th 1
Duchess of Iloheuberg, which took
I'lace at Vienna today.
New Westminster, B. C., July 1—
A large number of natives of Scot
land w»a-o gathered hore today cel
ebrating the GOOth anniversary of
tl:o Battle of Banuockburn. The
anniversary falls on June 24, but
this was so close to Dominion D;o*
that it was decided to celebrate
both events today.
There were two cooi>6ful of
chickens on the train this morning
I consigned to Mrs. C. S. Peterson
at Fairbanks.
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There is no better
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