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GCfTORIAL
PARIS IS KKADY TO U ELt'OMK
TIIF AMKRH'AN TOl'RIST
AXI» HIS MONEY
Any American expecting to visit
Franco this summer is advised to
provide hi nisei ( with a Simon-pure
French accent, an oiied mustache, a
[■air of blue spectacles, or any other
disguise by which he may hope to
convince the Europeans that he is
one of themselves. The tradition of
the "rich American." it is predicted,
will co strong in Paris this summer,
and the poverty-pinched Parisians
are preparing to take in all the
francs they can gather from any one
whose accent suggests a connection
with that dear and wealthy I'nited
States. At least this is the word
that a Paris correspondent of the
I'niversal Service sends to the New
York Evening Journal. He goes in
to details and figures by way of
showing just how expensive Paris
may be:
Tourist bureaus figure that the
number of Americans visiting Europe
this summer will he in excess of
ino.ooo monthly. Figuring the
tourist as spending $1.000—enough
for two weeks, without any high liv
ing—this means that the nice little
total of i'U'O.OOO.OOO will be spent
by Americans in Europe this sum
mer
At the rale of 14 francs to the
dollar thf above sum represents the
somewhat staggering total of S.400.
iIimi.mOO francs—nearly a fifth of the
total amount owed by France to Am
erica—and French tradesmen, cus
tom hounds, guides, hotels, cafes,
restaurants, and theatres have had
rhoir weathereye fixt on that sum
for u long time.
People who were in France last
summer will tiud among other things
that the general cost of living has
increased nearly 300 per cent, since
they left. This is due to the appal-j
ling financial situation of the coun-|
try. this year's budget showing a to-1
tal deficit of nearly 37.000.000.000 (
francs, no way to find which has yet
been devised.
Hotel rates have advanced from
100 to 200 per cent. Restaurant
prices are in some cases staggering,
t'tiampagne has tripled. Taxicab
fares have doubled. Railway fares
have more than doubled.
Rooms with bath can be obtained,
providing they are booked well in
advance, at the Ritz. Metirice. Con
tinental. du Rhin. Claridge's Carlton.
Crillon. Westminster. Mlrabeau. Ma
jestic. and other first-class hotels for
from eighty francs a night upward,
not including service, soap, or break
fast.
Meals at tl.ese hotels or such
places as the (,'afe de Paris. Hizzi's.
Henri's. I. rue's. Voisin. Fayot, Tour
d'Argent. f:'fe de la Pais, or Ciro's,
will cost a minimum of 100 francs,
or on an average about 150 francs.
For room and meals alone a tour
ist may figure a minimum absolute
of 450 francs a day. not counting
supper. His taxicab fares will ac
count for another 100 francs, his
laundry 20 francs, atul incidentals,
such as barber, shoe-shine, tea. etc..
about 60 francs.
t7p to seven o'clock at night his
expenses will have been for the day
about 700 francs. Then he will want
a good seat at the theater. The best
theaters, such as the Theater de Par
is. Casino, Kolies. l'aleis Royal.
Odeon, Comedie-Franeaise, Lyric,
etc.. charge an average of 30 francs
for fauteuils. Boxes can be had for
from ISO francs. Tips amount to
another 10 francs and refreshments
an extra 20. With his taxi to and
from the theater, the tourist's day
will so far have cost him about SOU
francs.
Tnen, li me .'lineman i» .> uunf.,
vigorous, and no total abstainer, his
real expenses will begin. First, for
instance, he may tj>ke supper at
Maxim's. He will naturally not sup
alone, so his bill will come to about
300 francs—if he is lucky—for sup
per anil one bottle of champagne.
From Maxim's his guide, if fem
inine (and while guides of the other
sex abound they are not extensively
I used in Paris), will probably take
him to the Paon Royale, in Rue Cau
martin. the new White Way of Par
is. They will have a bottle and a
trot there—price 100 francs—and
will return to their retained taxi—
200 francs for two hours—and com
mand him to "climb the hill."
Climbing the hill means Mont
martre in Paris. Montmartre is still
as before the war. the center of
pleasure. Radiating from the Place
Pilgalle are five streets on both
sides of which, touching each other,
are the tango and supper palaces ex
pressly designed with a view to see
ing that the tourist goes home broke.
Protestations by Americans that
they could not have a good time with
the "lid" put on at 11: JO led to a
new reign of police tolerance, and
now everything is wide open until
2:30 in the established restaurants,
with no lack of places to go after
ward if desired.
On the Place Pigalle are PigaU's,
the Rat Mort. the Monico. the Ab
baye Theleme. the Savoy, the Royal,
the Rat Qui N'Est Pas Mort, and
one or two other establishments
which charge 100 francs and up for
champagne, 300 and up for a light
supper, and where life—or a fair im
itation of life—is at its gayest.
Counting in a few more expenses,
says the writer, tho visitor will dis
cover when he wakes tiie next after
noon that his day and night in Par
is have cost him nearly 3.000 francs,
which is a respectable sum even in
American dollars.
THK GAROEN CITY
If one wants more and belter tes- I
timony than our word for Skagway
as the Garden City of S. E. Alaska. :
all he need do is spend a day in and
about this town and see what is be
ing done. The additions to gardens
Is going merrily on. There is scarce
ly an occupied house in which the
sole topic of conversation does not
limit itself these days to tiowers and
garden truck. There is scarcely a
man in the town who is not busy all
his time outside working hours with
his garden and his house grounds. |
Some hav been at it for two months '
and are still at it determined that
this summer shall see their house
and garden loking at their best. And
they will look well. The tourists
will testify to that when they come
in large numbers. The thing which
minimizes all this labor and casts it
in the shade is the disreputable tum
ble down, old shacks, barns, out
house and sheds, which absentee
landlordship continues to make a
blot on the appearance of our fair
town. It is a case of a long suffer
ing people having to drag along the
bones of a town's former greatness
and display them to their friends,
when they come to see them.
But our gardens and our flowers
are none the less attractive and they
do reveal the fact that Skagway is
the Garden City of Southeastern Al
aska.
Some of the Representatives must
have palpitation of the heart. They
actually voted to raise the tax on
red salmon from five and a half cer.ts
a case to seven cents. For their
temerity we may expect to see the
price of salmon go up a dollar a
case. Such recklessness should be
properly rebuked.—Ex.
Oh. you "miner of the hills!"
How many bones are pulled in tliy
name? Everything must be wide
open on Sunday for thy entertain
ment, the only oversight being that
the bill does not provide for a steer
ing committee to show thee around
and run thee against skin games
where thou canst be separated from
thy gold dust—if thou hast any.—ex.
Anyway, the new governor won't
be called by his front name for the
first few months. It is hard to tell
what he may be called later on.—Ex.
WHY THE DOLLAR LEADS
Many o[ Europe's difficulties are
attributed to Uer enormous amount
of inconvertible paper currency, and
Europe's greatest single need to-day,
we read in the current EconomJc
Hulletin of the Chase National Bank,
of New York, is a restoration of sta
bility iu public finances so as to make
possible the restoration of continence
in the value of money. Similarly,
The Index of the Liberty National
bank of New York emphasizes the
enormous volume of paper money in
Europe as compared with the amount
of gold holdings. A comparison of
gold holdings in note circulation in
the six leading powers of the world
shows that all of them have increas
ed their paper money since 1914.
but tliat only Great Britain, the Unit
ed States and Japan added to their
gold supplies. The figures on com
parative gold holdings and note cir
culation are given as follows, in mil
lions of dollars at par.
10H (.Inly)
Cold Notes rercent.
United States .$1,023 $1,056 96.9
Creat Britain . 195 140 139.3
France S96* 1.301 02.S
Italy 299 532 56.2
Japan 106 159 66.6
Germany 29S 692 43.0
1 ( XollH'VlH'l )
Gold Notes Percent.
United States . $2.1 lti $4,615 45.9 I
Ureal Britain . 740 2.301 32.21
France 6901 7,040 9.0
Italy 231 3.9U4 5.S
■Japan 52l){ 519 100.2
Germany 260 IS.4103 1.4
csliti 5 etnoin inoiit aoinoinoin
• Includes gold held abroad, not
separately stated, t Excludes gold ,
held abroad. i Gold and silver.
J Including $:!.155.000.000 Kassen
scliein notes.
Why this state of affairs makes the|
American dollar the "international J
currency" of the world is explained |
as follows by The Index:
While normally the currency of
other nations is on a gold basis, the
difference between the United States |
and the larger European countries j
is that the United States is the only
one which is on an actual gold-re-1
demption basis. This fact has en- I
hanci'tl the position of the dollar as
standard currency tliroughout the I
world. That is to say, a trader in i
any part of the world can buy or j
sell cm a dollar basis with assurance ;
as to what is t'ae universal value of
the medium of exchange in which he |
is dealing. The extended penetra- ]
lion of our trade, and the fact that |
a larger part of it than formerly is
carried on directly with the buyer or i
seller in foreign lands, have had a ,
further influence in making the dol- |
lar the only available "international
currency." In tills respect it has
occupied by the pound sterling.
Favors Young
Men for Posts
of Importance1
London.—All responsible positions!
should lie in (lie hands if young
men.
That, in lirief. is the coupe! preach
ed by Mr. A. Biirtensliaw. J. P.. the j
SO year old chairman of the Hail
sham Water Company.
Mr. Burtenshaw advises the share
holders to "sack" himself and his
fellow co-directors, and put yo.'ng
men in their places, because
Age brings a failure of faculties ]
essential to success.
Old men have not the necessary j
mental and physical alertness.
They have a growing prejudice >
against new discoveries; and j
Are given to garrulity insteiT o£ I
action.
This doctrine, however, finis :i
staunch opponent in Sir James Cant
lie, the famous specialist, who has
declared to the world thai old age j
is a pose.
"None of .Mr. Eurlenshaw's con
clusions ought to be true," he de
clares. "An old man need not lose j
his mental and physical alertness nor
the facul-essential to success.
"He should not be prejudiced j
against new discoveries—and very
often he isn't.
"It is true a young man may iiavt
the best of ideas, but he hasn't the |
experience to bring them to a suc
cessful issue. We hear a lot about |
the hardened arteries of the man !
past middle age. but the man who
strives to retain his health isn't to }
be hampered by hardened arteries, j
"1 am in my 70th year, and I am j
still responsible for bringing inlc ef-1
feet my own new ideas."
Subscribe for the Alaskan and j
get all th« news while it is news. '
SOME EARRINGS!
Count Ym. Forty on each ear. It
Is one of the big customs of the
"Cnro Fills" tribe In India for a
warrior's widow to wear these unique
earrings as a ineuns of showing her
sorrow.
GREENLAND IS MOVING WEST
Danish Scientists Figure It Has Trav
eled 875 Miles in 100,000
Years.
Copenhagen.—Greenland Is slowly
moving in a westerly direction. Ac
cording to observations made In 1907
by J. 1*. Koch of the Danish Sfyllus
Erlchson scientific expedition,- Green
land was three minutes further west
than in 1S70, when a German expedi
tion made astronomical observations,
in boih instances the same northern
latitude was fnuml. Therefore, Green
laud moved west 1,333 yards in 37
years.
The first observation of the longi
tude of Greenland was made in 1823.
Comparing the findings In 1823 and
1870 one arrives at the conclusion
that Greenland "wandered" ten yards
westerly every year. That tends to
show that Greenland and Norway,
now about N7"i miles apart, once were
connected, the separation taking place
50.000 or 100.000 years ago.
Squirrel Found in J
J Stomach of Trout J
> Columbia, La.—Can fish climb «
J a tree or do squirrels take a '
' bath occasionally? This Is the <
, question being asked by G. T. J
' MeSween. While he and his i
, daughter, Mrs. Annie Wear, {
' were fishing In Horseshoe lake t
, they caught five unusually large J
' trout, two of which appeared to '
< be somewhat overfed. On open- ,
' Ing them, a squirrel was found t
4 iii one. and a two-pound gar fish
J in the other.
> How that trout got that squlr
| rel is die puzzling proposition.
■OLIVER TWIST'S' JAIL CLOSED
Gruel Pot of Famous St George's
Workhouse in London Goes to
Museum.
London.'—St. George's workhouse,
lust south of London bridge, where
Oliver Twist had the audacity to ask
for a second helping of thin gruel, has
I,ecu closed by the poor law authorities
and the Inmates have been transferred
elsewhere.
The gruel of which Dickens' child
hero and his fellow sufferers partook
was made In n copper cauldron, which
Is to bp presented to the Souilvmark
borough council's museum.
Ancient Usee of Fire.
Fireworks, as we know them today,
remarks London Answers, were not
known to antiquity, but the ancients
employed works of fire in connection
with their religious festivals. The
early monarehs of Asia, according to
Herodotus, commanded that ensigns of
fire, considered holy and eternal,
should be carried at tile head of their
armies on little altars of silver. Fire
was used by the Romans In their reli
gious rejoicings; but th? Greeks Intro
duced Illuminations. Lighted lamps
were held at a certain feast In honor
of Minerva, who gave them oil; of
Vulcan, their Inventor of lamps; and
of Prometheus, who was said to have
rendered them service by the tire
which he had stolen from heaven.
Alliteration's Awful Antics.
Adam, an ancient antediluvian, ate
an apple. Adam's angry Author
aroused angrily at Adam's audacity;
and, as all admit. Allah's a (Trout ad
mits approval. Adam admitted all,
and as admonished, accepted .Yllali's
alternative. "Abscond, Adam!" added I
Allah. "Amble away and act as awak- |
ened acolyte. Adieu, absent-minded
Adam, and abhor absinthe always. ,
Adam ambled away, and at all ac- I
counts admitted accountability. "All |
acts are awry," asserted Adam, and ■
alas, after all, Adam and apples are [
always aptly and abjectly associated, j
Ain't apple acquisition awful? (Any
how, as Adam acquired apples.)— I
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
It is necessary to go far from home
to get the news that Europe is alarmed
over "military activity in the United
States."
That work will be plentiful In the
spring Is good news to the fellow who
faces steady unemployment during the
winter. !iiJ
Daughter Says
"JPers Dnality depends largely on
your person. An unattractive face
is a handicap, oftentimes too great
to overcome. Yet it is a handicap
that cnc can often prevent."
Half of a woman's beauty lies in
the proper care of the face, hands
and hair.
Cars Preserves Beauty
Care ;iot only preserves beauty but
often creates it. For the proper
care, good creams, lotions, mani
cure preparations, etc., are essen
tial. Naturally the most efficient
help you can get will be from the well-known,
time-te< :ed preparations — the kind you get
here. We have a full supply of tonics, per
fumes, :oilet waters and other beauty aids.
Jtor
Keller Bros., Skagway, Alaska
G0VER1ENT TO
OPERATE SBAHD
trunk iny
Ottawa, M,ay.—A bill providing for
the taking over and operating of
the Grand Trunk Pacific Rxilxvay
has passed the House of Commons.
It is claimed that the railroad
will bo taken over inlmeliately
without awaiting the results of the
arbitration proceedings as the Can
adian Government claims the com
pany was dragged into the proceed
ings unnecessarily.
-NOTICE TO PA Y SCHOOL T \\
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the undersigned has been duly ap
pointed School Tax collector for
Skagway, Alaska, in conformity with
chapter 29, Alaska Session Laws,
1919.
All male persons between the ages
of twenty-one and fifty years, except
sailors in the U. S. Army or Revenue
Cutter Service, Volunteer Firemen,
paupers and insane persons, are sub
ject to tax in the sum of Five
($5.00) dollars.
Should you be living in Alaska on
or prior to the first Monday in April
1921, said tax shall be due and pay
able on said first date and shall be
delinquent after May 1st, 1U21.
Should you arrive In Alaska later |
than first date above mentioned, tax i
will be delinquent thirty (30) days'
after your arrival, or within ten (10) i
days after notice Is given you.
All persons, firms and corpora-1
tions employing labor shall furnish j
list of employees to collector and |
are authorized by law to d?duct
amount of tax from wages of env
ployees.
Fines and imprisonment are pro
vided by the Act above quoted fcr
those who fail or neglect to pay tax
or furnish list of employees.
Dated at Skagway, Alaska, May 3,
1921.
OSCAR SELMER,
School Tax Collector for
2t. Skagway, Alaska.
To Cure a Cold in Ono Day
Take Grove's LAX1TIVE IiUO.MO
QULMXE tablets. The genuine bears
the signature of K. \V. Grove. 30c.
UKPAHTMENT Ol Dili JXTEHIOIt
General l.aud Oilii'C
Juneau, Alaska, April il, 1921
Notice is hereby given that ttit
Arctic Brotlieruoud Cemetery Asso
ciation, a Corporation, by \V. B.
btout, It. .vl. Udell and H. U. Banta,
its trustees, has tiled notice of its
intention to suouiit final proof in
support oi it* application, serial
ul.nJ, for putx-nt under tue provis
ions of tlie Act ot ..larch 1, 1907,
(34 Stat. (or lauds embraced
within t:. b. Survey Mo. 1255, sit
uated on the left bank of the Chii
kat ltiver, one mile west of Haines,
Alaska, iu latitude 59 degrees 14
minutes North and Longitude 135
degrees 20 minutes West, and more
particularly described as follows:
Commencing at Corner 1,
whence U. a. M. No. 573 bears
North ill degrees 04 minutes East
69.40 chains distance; thence
South 15.ui chains to Corner No.
2; thenco West 10.29 chains to
Corner No. 3; thence North 8.80
chains to Corner No. 4, meander
corner ou line or ordinary high
tide of Chilket ltiver; thence me
andering the said river (1)
North 57 degrees 17 minutes East
12.26 chains to Corner No. 5 Al.
C.; thcncc East 5.95 chains to
Comer No. 1, tue place of begin
ning, containing an area of 21.60
acres. Variation 31 degrees 30
minutes East.
l'roof in support of the applica
tion will be submitted by the appli
cant and two of the following wit
nesses: Cari Bjornstad, Erik Os
lund, 13. A. Burnett and C. H. Lind
holm, all of Haines, Alaska, before
U. \V. liinchman, U. S. Commission
er at Haines, Alas. u, on June 1,
1921.
FRANK A. BOYLE,
Register.
First Publication April 14, 1921.
Final Publication May 14, 1921.
HOUSE FOR SALE
Four-room, substantial cottage, ad
joining my homo. Best offer takes
it. House must be moved from
present location. Cash or terns.
.Apply W. C. Blanchard.
White Pass & Yukon Route
TIME TABLE No. 40
Tuesday :i Frl;1ny
No 1, N. Bound
1st Clans.
8:30 a
11:00 a
12:40 p
2:10 p
4:30 p
Leaves
Leaves
SICAGWAY
WHITE PASS
BENNETT*
CAUCROSS
WHIJEHOBSE
Passengers must be at tho depot iu time to have Baggage in
spected, and checked. Inspection is stopped thirty minutes before
leaving time of trains.
160 pounds of Baggage will be checked free with each full fare
ticket, and 75 pounds with each half fare ticket.
Arrive
No. 2, S. Bourd
1st. Class
Arrives 3:45 p. m.
2:10 p. m.
12:45 p. m.
10:55 a. m.
8:30 a. m.