FORMER SWAY BOY WRITES
UPON HIS ARRIVAL IN FRANCE
The following letter, written hj
John BUnchard, formerly of this
city but now with the America!
lighting force® in France, was re
ceiived in th® last mail, and in a;
much as it has a personal tone, ant
KiTea little insights into the armj
life that our hoys are now expert
encii-P, a request to Mr. Wheelei
tha- we be permitted to repriut i'
wan gladly granted. The le'ter wa;
onl. censored in a few places, anc
therefore is of grater interest.
Somewhere in France,
July 23, 1»18
l>ea- Mr. Wheeler:
1 *rote you a note from on boari
»hio before we arrived on this Bide
We landed at an old French port
wher^ 1 anticipated we would land
aud •vhich looks as though the A'
meriiTb engineer has <X>ue a lo:
of work.
Wi were marched, about an hour
hUte to a so-called rest camp
through the narrow streets of th«
old ci'y. It was very interesting in'
de*d, and the Btreets were lined
wltt» children begging for peunies
au<* cigarettes, and old men and
women leading cows and carrying
fiiv wood, and in fact everyhtlng
imaginable. The peasant g»rb ol
the inhaoitants wag very interest
ing, especially the wooden shoes.
Our rest camp was inside a wall
enclosure built by Napoleon, so
w* were told, a# a prison camp, and
it most certaiuly shows its age
although the walls and buildings
seem to be as solid as ever. We
wer« quartered in a portable type
of barracks, four hunks deep, in
which every available inch of space
wa« used. Thes» barracks are A
mericac "structures." We were very
fortunate to get quartes at all,
for most of the men that came over
with our bunch were out of doors it
*hn: we call "pup" tents and had
to carry their provisions from the
supply depot. It was a common
<ight to see about an hundred men
waning along with half dozen
loaves cf bread under one arm and
"canied willie" under the other,
ar.' »h» rain just pouring down. We
only remained at rest camp two
days, just long enough to lose
our sea-legs and get a few army
meals, which were most welcome.
Wo were marched from rest camp
in tho early morning to an entrain
ing ooint where we were placed on
a tn a composed of box caps, and
numerous class of compartment
cars, which were an interesting
sight to tne Americans. I am not
permitted to describe them, but
you, of course, know the kind of
equipment they have over here Mo
tive power is much superior to what
I expected to fin-* anC' I imagine it
hag oeen greatly improved in tne
last four years. We had a trip of
a fe# days and a few Bleepless
uishta, and our train seemed to havel
1 the right of way till we cam0 with
in sioht of the great tower, tnen
we *ound other Duginess more im
oortanf than ours, so we were de
layed a few hours every few min
utes and finally reached our des
tination in the early morning hours,
but the most of the last nigttt on tlji
•ra* we could hear rumble anti'see*
♦ he 'lash of the suns at the front,
where they have been doing things
since about the time we left the
coast. After detraining we were
marched, not many in a group, a
few kilometers beyond the Btation
and everyone was very quiet, as if
1 listening for something to happen,
and occasionally a shell would come
shrieking along and burst nearby,
continually reminding us that we
were not on a pleasure trip.
We are billeted in an old French
vlllasp( in abandoned stables and
out-buildings, which was evidently
deserted about the time of the first
German invasion, but the town has
practically no ear marks of having
been in enemy hands. They were
probably moving too fast to do mmt
damage. We had scarcely lost the
train motion when marching orders
were received for a portion of our
outfit to move up, as the front line
hns advanced quite a little since our
arrival. We seem to be in the lane
used by the aeroplans, as there has
Deen a'r combats overhead both day
and night, and on several occasions
thev were very intense. Motor traf
fic through our village has been
qui'; heavy. We are only out
about a <iay's ride from the coast,
although we are not in the thick of
it but are in, what some would call,
reserve. )
This old village and surround
ing country U very interesting, num
erous Chateau all about us, and
we are very grateful to b$ a sort
of a hiP^e of a calliper. The Ameri
can." are doing some great work,
hut I presume you have as much
news about it as we have.
We ar* eating three square meals
a day, occasionally having fresh
meat. We think that i3 wonderful
for this particular location. We
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Pata^igers niiut bo At depot in time to have Baggage In
spected And checked, Inspection to (topped 30 mlxiute* before
leaving time of train*.
150 pounds of baggage will be checked tree with each foil
fare ticket and 75 pounds wlUj each half far* ticket.
If It Isn't An Eastman
It Isn't A Kodak
Brownies At $1.00 Up
KodaksIAt $6.00 Up
Print Papers
Photo Supplies
Keller Bros. Drug Co.
"can also buy for ouraelrofl ttillk &nd
eggs i* wa hay© enough franca.
Got a French haircut the other
day for 12c, but that is about all
12c will buy, &a the French will Boon
liave 4he Americana cheated in the
art of "charging-.'^
Have had naother experience too
—a swim in a widely known canal
Just outside of our Yiiltgfc.
/s we ar» expected to keep our
correspondence down to the mini
mum I am making a copy of this
letter for Cliff and* Mr. Zipf, and
1* v0,i don't hear rom me for from
six weeks or a month at a time
don'» think I am lost, for when
things begin to happen the mail
service, as well as other secondary
matters are forgotten. We have
had no man as yet, and it may De
some time before we receive any,
but I am in hopes I will hear from
vou all before long.
Pieasr* give my best to all the
bunch and tell them I am verjr well
and sretting some sleep, although
occasionally airmen seem to Belect a
spot directly overhead to settle an
argument and disturb our sleep.
Sincerely,
Sincerely,
John.
Wo expect to strip ourselves of
every pound possible in the way of
equipment and' personal effects very
shortly, and from reports we have
received we will never see them
again, but am figuring on holding
or*» the raincoat, which so far is
doing me lots of good as it can
rain very hard and gets quite cool
at night.
FwolSitt
MING pi
Juneau. Aug, 26.—John Reck,
tresaurer of the Armenian-Syrian
Relief Fund, hag received a check
from Petersburg In the sum of
245.00 which was contributed' by
the people of that town. W. C.
Blanchard, chairman of the Skag
way committee on Saturday report
ed to the Central Committee that
the people of skagVay had con
tributed $196.00. Douglas reports
$265.10 to date. This brings the
total collected to date up to $1,"
975.40, which Is made up as fol
lows:
Juneau and Thaae
Perseverance
Alaska Juneau employes
Douglas and Treadwell
Petersburg
Skagway
Thllnket Packing Co.
Tea Harbor Packing Co.
| Total l • $1,975.40
| The committee will put forth ev
ery effort during this'week to col
lect $524.50, which Is needed to
make uo the Quota. The lists will
close August 131st and the $2,500.00
which was requested of us must be
subscribed by that date.
IP IT ISN'T AN EASTMAN
IT ISN'T A KODAK
Keller Bros. theSkagway agents
for the Eastman Kodak company,
have received ft large shipment of
all sizes of N. C. and AutogTaphio
Kodak film, and printing out pa
pers both Azo and Velox. tf
$ 785.05
190.75
143.50
265.10
245.00
196.00
100.00
50.00
Subscribe for the Dally Alaskan.
PROBABLY SET Him THINKINu
Reply of War Department Official to
Slacker's Request Might Almost
Be Called Caustic.
The following letter, addressed to a
certain branch of the war department,
and dated from a town somewhere in
the West, arrived In Washington a few
days ago:
"Deur Sirs: lama young man who
would like to get into the fray against
the kaiser and his hordes. I am twen-g
ty-one years of age, of splendid phy
sique, being five feet and ten inches
In height. I weigh about 180 pounds,
am quite an athlete and a graduate of
the local high school. Together with
these qualification*, I have had con
siderable experience in business, hav
ing managed for some time various
automobile agencies. I am quite fa
miliar with many kinds of automobiles.
"I would like a position in some
branch of the war department as a
typewriter and stenographer."
The officer to wlsom this letter came
for a reply has sseu considerable ac
tive service, not only in this war, but
In others. He notified his stenographer
that he would write a personal answer
to the young man who desired war
sen-Ice. A portion of his letter was as
follows:
"Young man, your letter has been
received in this office, and I am writing
you a persoual letter. It will be short
und to the point. I have a son. He Is
just your age, height and weight He
has a splendid education and has been
considered quite an athlete. You have
the advantage of him In business; he
has never had any business experience.
"My son Is in France—where you
should be."
MAKES SACRIFICE FOR SONS
Spirit of Self-Denial Shown by Little
New York Jew as Beautiful as
It Is Rare.
Essex and Delancey streets are the
heart of the great many-tongued city
which lives over near East river—
the Ghetto. The streets are always
crowded—crowded with bearded men,
old women with shawls and sheltels,
eager dark-eyed children; handsome
girls, and young ruen clothed in the
East side's version of what Fifth ave
nue wears.
On the corner year in and year out
Is a little Gallclan Jew. His small
shrunken face Is smeared dark by the
stubble of a sparse beard; his flat lit
tle derby is pushed down over his
ears; his clothes fire a mere covering.
For years he has been peddling the
large salt pretzels which are strung
on sticks and stand upright from his
basket.
He never tries to force a sale. He
never solicits patronage. He lives In
a little room over a small bakery. He
speaks very little English—and yet In
a large Eastern college there are two
of his sons being educated so that they
will not have to live the life of drudg
ery the father has led. And the
world-weary little father Is paying the
bills by self-denial.
War Strain Causes Nerve Shock.
The term shell shock has misled
many persons to believe that It Is due
to the profound impression or shock
produced on the nervous system by
the detonations of high explosives.
No doubt, there are cases of actual
brain or nerve Injury due to concus
sion of the air accompanying shell ex
plosions, but these mechanical causes
are a great deal less frequently re
sponsible for war neuroses than the
mental effects of general war strain.
It Is remarkable that these war neu
roses, common as they are among pri
vates and officers alike, are seldom
found In men who have been actually
wounded. Perhaps this seeming anom
aly is due to the actual wound shock
offsetting the mental impression af
fecting the controlling nerve-center in
such cases.—Popular Science Monthly.
Foch Keen Student of War.
General Foch, like General Joffre,
is a home lover and avoids society.
He is said to live In a small flat near
his office, when not at the front, and
to be devoted to his family. The con
ventions of society bore him. Like the
proverbial Englishman, he is fond of
taking long walks, and never knows
when he is beaten. His saying that
"the battle Is never lost until its loss
Is admitted" is famous and indicates
not only his military wisdom, but his
sane and courageous philosophy. Al
ready a master of strategy before the
war, he has not been slow to learn the
new lessons of the present conflict;
rather, indeed, has he developed added
Initiative, decision and military audac
"y- ..te ;i
Gas Well Finally 'Tamed."
Out in the sagebrush-covered wastes
of eastern Washington there has just
been tamed a big gas well, and devel
opment work on the property is now
under way. The flow of gas was dis
covered three years ago, when a mis
guided settler drilled for water and
had a four-Inch pipe blown out of the
ground. A year later a passerby threw
a lighted match into the gas and for
18 months the well burned day and
night, a beacon visible for miles
around. A few months ago the old
well was capped, the gas used to pro
vide fuel for a modem drilling engine,
and an 18-lnch pipe has just been sunk
into the gas reservoir.
Mat Restorer.
Rubber matting that has been in use
for gome time and Is beginning to look
the worse for wear may be restored
to respectability by painting it with
lead-colored paint This gives a.Tar
nlsh surface that Is not only ollproof,
but Is easily cleaned with a cloth.
GERMANS HUB
ALSACE MS
Systematic Stripping of Industry
Before the Day of Reck
oning.
INDIGNATION IS WIDESPREAD
Even Official* Responsible to Kaiser's
Government Forced by Public tQ
Give Voice to Emphatlo
Protests.
Amsterdam.—German carpetbaggers
age overrunning Alsace to grab all
property confiscated by the state ud
der various pretexts. Indignation
among the people is widespread, and
even officials responsible to the kai
ser's government are forced by public
opinion to give voice to emphatic pro
tests.
Alsace Is a great industrial center
and one of its principal industries
[ is the manufacture of textiles. Most
j of the textile factories in Alsace were
taken over by the state as a war meas
ure. As some of the stockholders were
Frenchmen, the mills, It was alleged,
were partly enemy alien property. Bo
the state took charge of the mills and
I prepared to liquidate them. This liqui
dation was carried out recently.
Alsatian business men and capital
ists had formed a corporation to buy
the mills in an effort to keep them in
Alsatian hands. Even city administra
tions, euch as the municipality of
Muhlhausen, where a number of fac
tories are situated, bought stock in
this corporation. The name of the
corporation is the United Alsatian Tex
tile Factories.
Forbidden ny Benin.
But It was decided in Berlin that the
Alsatians should not be allowed to buy
what was practically their own. An
other concern, called the Blelchroeder
group, was more successful. Their
bid for the property was accepted by
the government, while the Alsatian of
fer was rejected. It was announced
the Blelchroeder bid was preferred be
cause It accepted state supervision as
one of the conditions of the sale. Baron
von Stein, undersecretary of state, in
defending the government's action be
fore the main committee of the relchs
tag, said the Blelchroeder group had
offered a million marks more than the
Alsatian corporation. Besides, the Al
satians had refused to subscribe to the
conditions, including state supervision
of management
Consternation and indignation
reigned at the meeting of the city
council of Muhlhausen when the gov
ernment's decision was made known
by Mayor ZopfeL He said not only
had the offer of the Alsatian corpora
tion, of which the city of Muhlhausen
itself was a component part, been re
jected by the government, but he also
had been Informed on good authority
all the other Alsatian factories to be
liquidated would be sold to "old-Ger
man" concerns beyond the Bhlne.
RuthlewnsM Condemned.
This attempt to Germanize Alsace
by ruthless industrial methods was
condemned by several members of the
city council. Councillor Emmel de
nounced as a subterfuge the statement
of Undersecretary von 8teln, who had
said the Blelchroeder offer had been
accepted because It was the more
favorable one. The speaker saw in
the government's action a systematic
effort to take Alsatian property away
from Alsatians.
The Blelchroeder group, the success
ful bidder, is headed by the banking
house of Blelchroeder in Berlin. The
original Blelchroeder was Prince Bis
marck's financial mtn and his heirs
are still in control of the blinking
house. Old Blelchroeder was not very
scrupulous In his financial methods,
but this did not prevent Bismarck
from conferring the title of nobility
upon his moneymaker. This was one
of the greatest Jokes perpetrated by
Bismarck.
However, Baron Blelchroeder's heirs
are still barons and their influence in
the highest circles Is etlll formidable.
It seems they had little trouble In ob
taining the Alsatian properties at fav
orable terms—favorable to themselves,
for to them state supervision means
supervision by friends.
GAS MASK SQUAD FINDS
LEAK IN AMMONIA PIPE
Cincinnati.—The first run
made by the "gas mask squad"
of the local fire department waa
In response to an explosion in
an ice plant. The firemen used
their gas masks in locating a
leak in an ammonia pipe. Not
only had the fumes filled the
plant, making it impossible for
anyone to stay in the building
•without a gas mask, but pa
trons In a drug store across tha
street had to get put into tha
open air.
Girl* to Do Farm Work.
Los Angeles, Cal.—An army of 1,933
high-school girls of this city have vol
unteered to harvest crops and will be
ready for call by the Woman's Land
Army of America after June 21, when
the local schools close. By that timt
the high-school farmerettes expect tt
hail) at least 8,000 in their raa^J.
Doi taxes aye dug th® first d
of September. Owners or keepers
of dogs are required to pay a 11"
cense of ?2.00 per dog each ye*r
or fraction thereof. People » *h0
have dogs should pay the towa
treasurer Immediately.
(Signed) Frank page,
9-l-4t. City Marshal;
LOST
Palrr silver round headed shftwl
pinjg connected with chain. Will *9'
precla'e their return If found.
Mrs. Jj. H. Pedersen.
Arctic Brotherhood. —
Camp Skagway No. 1,
zneete every second and
fourth Tuesday erenlog
at 8:30 o'clock. Visit
Ill brtttcrs cordially welcome.
Mftrf JL, B»—BjOft Arctic Chief.
William K. Gray, Arctic Recorder.
Fraternal Oi-des
Eagles—
Skngwajr AerlA)
No. 25, Frater
nal Order of
fcswa meet toe first and «ura
Wednesday nJgfat of each month M
their ball on Fifth Avenue. VUlfc
lufc brothers cordially Invited to
atteud
John M. Keller, W. P.
J. M. Qrleebach, Secretary.
P. 4 A, M.
WhlU Pag* Lodg«
F. A A. M. No. Ill
meat* 2d and 4th
Saturday Ev«nln*i
of ea-h mouths. Visiting Brethrea
»r« welcome.
HAROLD TALBOT, W. M.
JAMB3 WALLACE, Secretary.
B. P. O. KLKH
Skayway Lode*
No. 431, B. P. a
E. meets «tmt
Tliur»<tay qt 8:80
p. m. VMttat
brcrtterB ooralally welcome.
OSCAR SELMfiR, E. R
f. J. VAWDEWAlXi, 8ecr*tW7.
Pioneer of Aiufat Igloo, Mo. 19,
meet* hi A. B. 11*11 first Mood*/ I*
eretj month at 8:80 p. m.
Visiting Brothers cordially irei
come. '
W. J. MULVmiLL, PT«.
J. G. PHELPS, Secy.
J HOPESSIONAL CARDS
DH. L. B. KELLER
DOOM
Mo** Mod era Mefthoda
Office Hours: 9-19 *. m. 1-6 p. *
Alaekan Building .... Broadway
8KAUWAK ALASKA
W. B. STOUT
Attorney At L » W
Pnutloe to oontt
In Tertlttij of Al»(**
BAIXES _ — — — ALASKA
You are Invited to visit Kaller
Bros Ice cream kitchen at any time.
It la always In a etrlctly sanitary
aud orderly condition. Thoea wbo
naut the best ice cram know tint
K. B.'s have it
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, U th«r
cannot reach the Beat of the dljeaia.
Catarrh Is a local disease, greatly In
fluenced by constitutional conditions, ana
in order to cure it you must take an
internal remady. Hail's Catarrh Medi
cine is taken Internally and acts thru
the blood on the mucous surfaces of the
system. Hall's Catarrh Medicine was
prescribed by one of the best physicians
in this country for years. It la com
posed of some of the best tonlca know*,
combined with some of the beat oloea
purifiers. The perfect combination of
the Ingredients In Hall's Catarrh Medi
cine Is what produces such wonderful
results In catarrhal conditions. Bend for
testimonials, free. _ . . ^
P. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O.
All Druggists, 18c.
Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
—Advert iJ»n«*t.
TO KILL THE DANDRUFF GERM.
(a the Only Possible Way of Hiflsf
An Effective Core.
If you see a woman or a man wltn lux
uriant glossy hair, you may be sure nei
ther has dandruff to amount to anything.
In nearly every case where women and
men have thin brittle hair, they owe It
to dandruff. There are hundreds o$ prep
arations that "claim'* to cure dandruff,
but not one but Newbro's Herplclde tells
you that dandruff Is the result of a germ
burrowing Into the scalp, and that per
manent cure of dandruff and ita conse
quent falling' and baldness, can only b«
had t>y killing the germ; and there Is no
other preparation that will destroy that
germ but Newbro's Herplclde. "Destroy
the oavse, and you remove the effect."
Bold by leading druggists. Send 10c. la
stamps for sample to The Herplclde Co,
Detroit. UtoH.
One Dollar DotOe, guaranteed.
At all Drug Stone. Mr.
—Advertlaemaat.
A femedy for inf«etioni
fl-M Ml of tlx Btin«ry tnct.
Klfl (i»s:
JBWWn BclNVMin 1 to 6 (Uyv
PRICE $1.20 MIByDjillUII
TfwitiM with each bottle or maikd oa raqoat.
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