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The
Route of
Comfort,
Speed,
Service
Safety.
Through Tickets to and from Dawso*. Fairbanks and all
Interior Alaska and Yukon River points.
YUKON RIVER SERVICE
During the season of navigation our fleet of modern, up-to
date steamers will operate regularly the entire length of the
| Yukon River and tributaries, giving a service never before
equalled.
Our daily train service between Skaguay and White Horse
has been improved bv the addition of modern
PflRUOR OBSERVATION CARS
which are splendidly equipped with comfortable leather
chairs, writing desks, card tables dressing rooms, etc., afford
ing travelers an opportunity to view the famous White Pass
scenery in ease and comfort.
For full information apply to
J. E. DEMP5EY, Traffic Manager
Skaguay, Alaska
fheWhitePass &Yukon Route
T1MK TABLE No. 84.
Tuesday and Friday.
1, X. Bound
1st class
!f
8:30 a. m. Leaves »K161lAV
11:0O p. m. " WHH.H PASS
11:40 p. nj. " LO« CABIN
li:3i p. m. " BENNETT
2:Oo p. ni. " CARIBOU
4: n p. m. Arrives WH1XEH0RSK
Passengers must t» at depots la time to hare Baggage Inspected
»ud checked. Inspectioa ia stopped 30 minutes before leaving time of
rallS. ~ f |
150 oouuda of baggage will be checked fres with each lull fare
ticket a«d 7R pounds with each half fare ticket. ^
No. 2, S. Bound
1st class
Arrives 3:20 p. ni.
Leaves 1:45 p. ni.
" 12:47 p. in.
" 12;15 p. ui.
" 10:25 a. m.
" 8:15 a. w.
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Golden Wedding Whiskey:
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Has Had no Peers]for Fifty'Years
SOLD BY ALL DEALERS '
ULU^l BANA JW ALAAIVA
THE B. M. BEHRENDS BANK
Juneau, Alaska
Capital. $30,000.00. Surplus, $20,000.00
B. ,\L BEHRENDS, [R. WILLIS GUY.MeNAUGHTON.
Prendcnt Vice Pre«. CatKici
RUSSIA'S IMPERIAL INFANTRY.
Photo by American Press Association.
Tills is a picture of the czar's troops made In Galicla.
ML GUN CREWS
Warm Work Is Theirs When a
Warship Is In Action.
RANGE FINDING MID FIRING.
How the Target or the Enemy Is Lo
cated and the Way the Monster Guns
Are Operated—The Scene In the Con
ning Tower and In the Turrets.
The {{ray battleship seems strangely
deserted uml bare, for her decks are
denuded el' uieu. while all rails and
other upstanding encumbrances have
been laid Hat on dock for big gun
practice.
In th.* conning tower, with its twelve
Incli armor. <tands the captain, bis
navigating otticer. a iiiidshipinan or
two ami several other ollicers and men.
I'lie small circular erection, barely tun
feet in diameter, seems very cramped
fur all it lias to contain.
Above the conning tower is another
aruioivd erection, containing a range
lindcr. and inside this is the gunnery
lieutenant, with half n dozen more
oft i ■ crs and men. lie is "surrounded by
straugc looking instruments, while the
tnau at the ra^ge linder. with bis eyes
at its rubber eyepieces. Is monotonous
ly chanting out the distance of the ap
proaching target.
Inside the turrets themselves the ex
pedant men are grouped around their
monster thirteen Inch guns. The great
projectiles and the cordite charges be
hind them have already been pushed
home by the hydraulic rammers, and,
since their weapons are thus fully load
ed. the guns' crews nre idle for the
time -bcHlg.
Bnt the gun layers—the men who aim
and tire-the guns—and the trainers—
those who keep them pointing In the
right direction—are anxiously keeping
the sights on the target, and every now
an ! then, as they move their small
brass bandies, there is a wheezing of
hydraulic machinery, and the great
breeches rise and fall ever so slightly,
while the whole armored structure con
taining them revolves au inch or so at
a time to keep the sights on.
A minute or two later, after an order
has come through from the control
position, the lieutenant in charge of
the foremost turret suddenly raps out
the order. "Uring both guns to the
ready"'
The men standing by the breeches
flick over their small levers. "Right
gun ready! I .eft gun ready!" they re
port In rapid succession
The range meanwhile is decreasing
rni ml I v and about ten. seconds later
there comes the strident rattling or an
electric bell.
It Is the signal ro open Ore. The gun
layer holds his breath, sees the cross
wires of his telescope cutting the lat
ticework of the target and then presses
an Innocent looking brass thumb piece.
As he does so there Is a roar, and, with
a blaze of orange flame and a pall of
brown smoke, a projectile weighing
more than half a ton is sailing through
the air on Its way toward the target
Outside the turret the concussion is
terrible, but inside it Is barely felt, and
the only means the gun's crew have.of
knowing their weapon has gone off is
by the rocking of the turret and the
recoil of the gun. Back she slides,
with the water whistling and guigling
through the hydraulic valves far be
low. She stops and then, as the run
ning out springs esert their strength,
is driven bark to the firing position.
The men meanwhile are working
like demons. Some one, by moving a
small lever which actuates a hydraulic
engine, has opened the breech. A cloud
of acrid cordite smoke fills the turret,
but another man, turning a tap, sends
a Jet of water spouting Into the cham
ber to extinguish any still burning
fragments.
Everything seems chaos, but every
one knows what to do—he has done
it time after time—and in less than
thirty seconds we hear a sharp order,
"Right gun. load!"
A man moves an upright lever, and
an arrangemeut looking like a minia
ture lift climbs Into view through the
floor. It has come up from the shell
room below laden with the new charge
and projectile and stops dead In the
rear of the gun.
Reposing In a tray is the shot itself.
Another lever is worked, and a flexible
chain hydraulic rammer, looking like a
snake, darts out of Its resting place and
pushes the shot before It Into the
breech of the gun.
It is driven home with a dull thud.
The rammer Is withdrawn, another
handle is pulled and two enormous
brown cylinders of cordite fall Into
the tray just vacated by the projectile.
They, too, are Rimmed home, and be
fore we quite realize what has hap
pened the rammer and lift have disap
peared, the breach of the gun has been
-swung home and the great weapon Is
ready for firing.
In the fire control position the gun
nery lieutenant has seen the first shot
tear a jasged hole in the target and
promptly whispers an order to a man
at bis side. The latter moves a small
handle, and thirty seconds later there
Is another discharge.
In about ten minutes it is ail over
and the ship Is approaching the target
to see the result of her shooting.—Lon
don Answers.
Germany Owes Existence
to Well Thought
Out Wars
By RUDYARD KIPLING. Author
THROUGH no fault nor wish of
ours we are at war with Ger
many, the power which OWES
ITS EXISTENCE TO THREE
WELL THOUGHT OUT WARS;
the power which for the last twenty
years has devoted itself to organiz
ing and preparing lor this war; the l
power which ie now fighting to Con- '
quer the civilized world. 1
FOR THE LAST TWO GENERA- I
TIONS THE GERMANS IN THEIR j
BOOKS, LECTURES. SPEECHES !
AND SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN CARE- j
FULLY TAUGHT THAT NOTHING j
LESS THAN THIS WORLD CON- •
QUEST WAS THE OBJECT OF !
THEIR PREPARATIONS AND I
THEIR SACRIFICES.
We must have men and men and <
men if we, with our allies, are to t
CHECK THE ONRUSH OF OR- j
GA.YIZED BARBARISM. Have J
no illusions. We arc- dealing with <
a strong and magnificently equip- [
pod enivny. whose avowed aim is ,
mir complete destruction.
Another Way Out.
Walter Dnmroscb, the musical con
ductor. played in his youth in a noted
orchestra. He wore, as is the way
with musicians, long hair and unusual
ly bushy besides.
A thin haired violinist seated behind
Mr. Damrosch in the orchestra used
to take exception to the young man's
coiffure. He said one day:
"Look here, Damrosch. Why don't
you get your hair cut? Then maybe
1 could see the conductor."
Sir. Damrosch answered calmly over J
his shoulder:
"Why don't you learn to play better? I
Then yon'd sit in front of me.
Why She Prized It. i
At a whist party an unmarried lady ;
won a consolation prize which proved ,
to be a small dressed doll in male at
tire. Unwrapping the toy. the donor
discovered that the head had been
broken off.
"Never uiind!" esciaimed the recipi
ent. good natu redly. "I will prize it
all the more on that account. It's the
first man that ever lost his head over
me in all my life."
HELEN DUNBAR.
YOUNG LORD VINCENT, who Is
known as Freddie, takes an au
tomobile ride Into the country
with several of his friends in "The
IJenl Agatha," and Freddie and hla
oidor companion, Archibald Terhuae,
wander to the castle of Lady Agatha,
heiress to the Wykhoff millions. Here
they learn that each suitor for the
hand of Agatha is allowed to remain
four weeks, and M iss Armistead,
Agatha's guardian, thinking they are
suitors, invites them to dinner and
show s them to a room. There are six
girls, who pose as Agatha, and to
make sure that the suitors are not
marrying for money the real Agatha
Is. introduced as Miss Arinistead's sec
retary and goes under the name of
Miss Marsh. Archibald immediately
i starts to tuuke love to all the eirla.
N%wsof wgMuvigs
SCENE FROM "THE REAL AGATHA."
Helen Dunbar, one of +he famous
film beauties, Is known wherever photo
play® are shown. Her talents would
have*made her a star wltlout the
good looks with which nature has en
dowed her.
"Sheep's Clothing." by Louis Joseph
Vance, Is In two parts. Thaddeus
Craven, a. notorioGs criminal, while
coming to America on a steamer, uses
his unsuspecting daughter .18 an ac
complice when he steals a valuable
necklace. The other members of the
gang believe he Is not treating them
fair and use an nnusual method to
bring about his death without Implicat
ing themselves. »
A clew furnished by a girl 'whose
sweetheart has been arrested on the
charge of robbing the malls leads to
the discovery of the real criminal arid
is one of the incidents of "The Lost
I Mail Sack."
Gaby Deslys was posing before a
camera In Paris in the days just be
fore the outbreak of the vrar ia a pro
duction called "Her Triumph." The
film was completed after war was de
clared and after an order had been
Issued forbidding the shipment of
photographs of any sort from the
French capital. The completed films
were given to two trusted messengers
who left Paris as volunteers ostensibly
to join their companies. They pro
ceeded to Calais and from there went
to England, the films in the meantime
being wound about their bodies.
Mary Plckford is soon to be seen In
"Such a Little Queen," a photo play
made from Channing Pollock's pretty
drama. The play will have more than
usual interest at this time because the
two toy kingdoms that formed the
foundation of the play-Bosnia and
Herzegovina — played a tremendous
part In the start of the present war.
THE
tiolden North
Cafe
Is serving meals at
restaurant prices.
We make specialty of
Lunch and dinner
Parties
J. IKUTA
MANUFACTURING
JEWELER
WATCHES
AND CLOCKS
Curios, Ivory Carvings
Indian Baskets
China and Cut Glass
Official Watck Inspector for the
W. P. & Y. Route
Mail Orders given prompt care
RAW FURS
—: WE PAY
HIGH - PRICES
FOR FINE FURSI
WRITE FOB PRICE LIST
Percey's Fur House
Othkoih, • WUcoiula
rtUS 8KAGWAY
Pioneer Dairy
H. F. HEEMAN, Prop.
THE SANIHRT BU «MC»
The largett and b«t oo*
ducted dPlrjr la Atatta.
Dally thlpmenU of para
milk and cream to ail pol*t»
oa White Pass k Tulto*
Route.
Juneau Steamship Co.
U. S. MAIL STEAMER
Geoigia
Elecric Lighted. Steam Jle&ted.
SCHEDULE of sailings
Sailing Date* and Steamer Sub
ject to Change Without Notice
Juneau-Sitka Route
Leave* Juneau for Douglae, Fua
t % Hoonah, Gypeum, Tea&kM,
Ivilllsnoo, Chatham ud Sitka
EVE1SV WEDNESDAY AT 13:01
A III.
Juneau-Skagway Route
Leayi-8 Skagway for Halnae, El
dred Itock, Comet, Jualin, Sentla
el Island, Eagle River, Dougla*
and Juneau.
EVERY SUNDAY AT 12:01 a. m.
WILLIS E. NOWELL. Manager.
Raleigh
Hotel
FIRE PROOF
MANAGEMENT
Stock Rumsey of Nome
Joe Rumsey of Dawson
Reasonable Rates
Every Convenience
1408 FOURTH AVENUE
Seattle