I HE PASS 8
=!IIK! ROUTE =
The
Gate-way
Route of
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COMFORT
SERVICE
S/FETY
To Yukon Territory, Atlln District, Iaterlof Alack*.
During the winter season of 1917-13 our regular train, ser
vice will be maintained No rtfc »*d South Bound between 8kag
wajr and Whitehorse, trains leaylsg botfc terminal! on Tuesdays
and Friday^. imiif i iii u.a;u;.j
WINTER STAGE SERVICE
Our through Mail, Passenger ui Freight Service will t>®
operated between 'Whltehorse «ad Daw&on, affording eY»d7. pos
sible facility for comfortable w!«t«r traTel by means of a
THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED 8TA0E AND AUTOMOBILE LINE.
For full information apply to
C. W. CASH or A. F. Z1PF
Supt. Mail Service Department Traffic Manager
WHITEHORSE. Y. T. 612 Second Ave., SEATTLE, Wa»h
White Pass & Yukon Route
XXME TABLE No. 40.
Every Tuesday and Friday
No 1, X. Bound j. j- I '. a» 8* Bound
1st Class I i ' ! '• \ r 1st CUsj
8:.'*0 a. m. f.(-avert 8KAGWAV Arrive* 8:00 p. ni.
11:03 a. iu. " WHTTB PASS Lww 2:20 p. m.
11:4-5 a., m " LOO CABIN " 1:80 p. m.
12:40 p. ml " BENNETT H 13:60 p. m.
2-20 p. m. " CABCROSS - 10:48 a. m.
4:50 p. n Arrive* AVHIIEHORSB H 8:00 a. m.
l'ass^rgtrs must be at depot In tin* to have Baggage in
spected and checked. Inapectioa 1a (topped 30 minutes before
leaving time of trains.
150 pounds of baggage will b* cbodted free frith each full
fare ticket and 75 pounds wit/l each ball fare ticket.
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THE
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Electric Lights
Rooms Single or en Suite
Baths on each Boor
Famous for its Home Cocking,
Milk. Cream, Cottage Cheese and
Buttermilk from our own da«*v
^ Fresh Eggs, etc'
j Rates $3.00 Per Day and Up
I Well Lighted, Large Sample
| Rooms for Traveling; Men.
I H. S. PIJLLEN. Prop.
| Skagway. Alaska
THE POWER OF STEAM.
Miir Mar See But It Takes Genius te
Heallae.
When James .Watt saw the steam
causing tl.e kettle l.d to Jump up and
down he said "Ttaer* must be power lr
that steam that U van lift auch a
weight."
There was.
Millions prior to hlra had seen the
sa.ve phenome ion and regarded it a:
an unexplalrwd mystery.
Recent scientific research has put It
finger on the 'cause" of Dandruff, Fall
1.1? TTalr. and consequent Baldness, am
has unearthed a tiny germ which eat;
the life from tbe roots of human hair.
Xewbro's Herplclde destroys th!.<
germ t..id consequently restores tht
hair to Its natural state.
Bold by leading drugKlsts. Send 10c. 1r
stamps for -ample to The Hcrplclde Co.
Detroit. Mich.
On* Dollar bottle, guaranteed.
At all Drug St owe. Adr.
If you want a Box of
Lowney's
Candy
Go To
Tony Dortero
428 Broadway
FAMOUS TUNNELS
1
The Simploh Is the Greatest and
Costliest of Them All.
LONGEST HOLE EVER BORED.
This Road Through tha Alp* I* Mora
Than Twalva Mile* In Langth and Ita
Coat Excaeded Fiftaan Million*—Our
Own Hooaao Tunnal.
The costliest as well as tbe biggest
railroad tunnel In tbe world Is the long
hole burrowed below the Alps between
Brlgue, Switzerland, and Iselle, Italy.
This tremendous tunnel, the Simplon,
Is 12 miles 637 yards In length and cost
more than $15,000,000. Several mil
lions more will be spent lu completing
the second chamber. Work was begun
ou It lu lS'JS, and traffic began to move
through lu 11XHI.
The Slmplon Is about three miles
longer than the St. Oothard and the
Loetschberg tunuels and more than
four miles longer than the Mout Cenls,
the three next longest of the world's
railway tuuuels.
The Mont Ceuls was tbe first of these
big bores. It was completed In 1871
and at ouce diverted passenger and
freight transportation away from Swit
zerland, as It furnished a direct route
to Italy from southeastern France.
The Swiss determined to win back
their lost traffic, and in 1871 work was
started on the St. Uothard, which was
not finished until eleven years later.
The St. Oothard is about niue and one
third miles lu length and cost $11,600,
000.
In Its toll of lives It whs the costliest
of all. Faulty ventilation, tlie terrific
heat anil th? lack of care In keeping
down the dust caused the deaths of 800
laborers. This tunnel Is wholly lu
Swiss territory, and el«ht years ago It
was bought from the owners by the
government.
The Slmplon, located about halfway
between the Mont Cenls and the St.
Gothard, is a double tunnel, although
only one chamber has been wholly ex
cavated. ■ The other will be enlarged
and put Into service when the first be
comes overtaxed. Belter arrangements
for veutilation kept the death roll
down to sixty, twenty-five cubic feet
of fresh air being supplied to the labor
ers for every one blown into the St.
Gothard.
The difficulties conquered were tre
mendous. The Slmplon Is not ouly the
longest, but the lowest of the Alpine
tunnels, and the rock temperature
sometimes reached 133 degrees.
When the workmen from the Swiss
side reached the center of the great
bore they were halted by an enormous
spring of hot water. Then the Italians
were stopi>ed, and for some time it
looked as though the whole work might
have to be abandoned. But the engi
neers refused to be daunted, although
six months were required to dig out
the last 300 yards of the tunnel.
So slight were the errors made In
the dlgglug that the headings from ei
ther side met with deviations of but
eight inches Internally and three and
one-half Inches vertically. The total
length of the tunnel was thlrty-slx
Inches less than had been calculated.
Trains are pulled through the tunnel
In eighteen minutes, at the rate of
fortv-two miles an hour, by powerful
electric locomotives.
The Loetschberg is the latest of the
big Swiss tunnels. This Is about the
same length as the St. Gothard and
Is also wholly lu Swiss territory, being
located to the north of the Slmplon.
It Is a part of the Bernese Alps rail
way, which has thirty-four tunnels In
its forty-eight miles between Thun and
Brigue.
The Siinplou will apparently remain
the biggest of railway tunnels until a
submarine one is driven under the Eng
lish channet or perhaps under Bering
sea. At present the longest projected
mountain tunnel In Europe is a French
undertaking, which is planned to pass
directly under Mont Blanc, the high
est mountain in Europe, and to form
auother highway between France and
Italy. But this tunnel will be only a
little over eleven miles long, so that
It will be merely second in rank If it
is carried out.
The lloosac tunnel, in western Mas
sachusetts, was the first really big tun
nel in the United States. Begun in
IS55, It was not finished until 1S7G.
Air drills and nitroglycerin were used
in this work for the first time on a
big scale In any American engineering
work. The Hoosac tunnel is four and
three-quarters miles in length.—Boston
Post
Geologist'* Thermometer.
Quartz is tlie ^eulogist's thermome
ter, for It Is formed between narrow
ranges of temperature. If the mate
rials from which nature makes it are
subjected to more than so much heat
they take on an entirely different char
acter from quartz. The same is true
If they are subjected to less than a cer
tain amount of heat.
None Worth While.
"There is one thing I am rather
worried about iu this suburban club
business."
"What Is that, my dear?"
"Do you know if they serve cakes
with these golf tees?" — Baltimore
American.
An Improvement.
"He left his home all for her."
"Why so?"
"Well, you see, hers was the better
home."—Penn State Froth.
To double your troubles and lessen
your friends talk about them.—Youth'a
Companion. ..
IT WAS A NOISY CARGO.
But It Completely Cured the 8kipper
of Hi» Fear of U Boat*.
A skipper who took a cargo of loco
motives across the Atlantic when the
U boat warfare was at Its worst gaVe
this ringing story of the trip:
"We left Philadelphia with sixty lo
comotives. all incased in huge wooden
boxes, intact and ready to be taken off
the ship and placed immediately on the
tracks to start dragging ammunition
trains to the front.
"The Delaware was as smooth as a
pond as we made our way down to
the bay, but the first wavelets that
struck us at the capes started some
thing that made me want to take a
header off the bridge. Every one of
the sixty locomotive bells in the bold
began to ring! And they all kept ring
ing all day and all night all the way
across the Atlantic.
"At first I thought of going back to
dock to have the bells taken off. But
that would have amounted virtually to
unloading the whole cargo because of
the manner In which the locomotives
were stowed. It would have meant a
week's delay, and I was supposed to
get to sea as quickly as possible. So
we put out that night with those sixty
mad bells going hammer and tongs
continuously.
"I thought we would alj lose our
senses. Sleep was out of the question.
It was like ringing 'eight bells' eighty
times a minute lu sixty different keys.
You've seen Sir Henry Irving In tho
play 'The Bells?' Well, it was like
that, only this was 110 play, but real
life. It seemed, as one member of the
crew who is by far too imaginative
said, as if the ghosts of all the mur
dered ships were claugtng up at us out
of the depths of the ocean, warning us
of tho U boats that had Uttered the sea
floors with their bones.
"We fell in with some nasty weath
er as we neared the other side. The
vessel rocked und tossed, and every
time she plunged a whole cataract of
bells went tearing down toward perdi
tion. 'We're In the U boat zone,' re
marked the man at the wheel to me
one night. 'Good!' I cried. 'I hope a
torpedo hits us soon. Then perhaps
I'll get some sleep.'
"The destroyers that met us didn't
know what to make of us. They
thought we had all gone crazy drunk
and were trying to tell the U boats
exactly where we were. But I told
them I was cured of the fear of U
boats forever."—Philadelphia Ledger.
What It a Sapling?
The soldier who thought a "sapling"
was a young pig was evidently a Som
ersetshire man, for a correspondent
writes: "Highly amused, I read aloud
your 'sapling' story to friends. When
I hud finished a Somersetshire woman
who was present asked, 'Well, what do
you call a sapling?' 'A young tree,' I
replied. 'Is It?' she replied. 'Now, I've
always heard a young pig called a sap
ling in Somersetshire.' Further Inquiry
revealed thut others say the same."
From which we gather that the soldier
came froiu Somerset, while evidently
his officer did not.—London Chronicle.
Fooled Both Ways.
A sportsman came to grief at the
first fence. Plucklly remounting, he
met the same fate at the second at
tempt. Asked the cause of his dis
asters, he said: "It vos like zis. Ven
ve kouus to ze first fence I did elnlc my
horse vud jomp, bot he did not Jomp,
so I vent over his head. Ven ve koms
to ze second fence I did zlnk he vud
not Jomp, and he did Jomp, so I vent
over his tall."—Milwaukee Free Press.
Gleam of Intelligence.
Woman—I wish to sue my husband
for divorce on the grounds of Insanity.
Lawyer—Will he contest? Woman—
Oh, no! He is not so crazy as that—
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Oapenda on Circumstances.
"Do you believe In autohypnotism?"
"That depends on whether you own
one of the blameil things."—Baltimore
American.
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The Daily Alaskan
ou will find advertising that bring results
Skagway Merchants
Th, next few days before the holiday* is
the banner season of the year.
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HEROISM IN THE NAVY.
It la Not an Evant, but a Mere Matter
of Evaryday Duty.
Our nary Is crowded with men who
will face any danger. Some years ago
one of our battleships was on the bat
tle range, with bags of powder stowed
In her turrets to save time in loading
and firing the guns. A spark got to
the bags of powder. There were an ex
plosion and a Are. Dircctly under
neath waa the handling room. Burn
ing pieces of cloth fell from the turret
down into the handling room. The
crew of that handling room could have
jumped Into the passageway, made
their way up a ladder and so on to
the free and safe air of the open deck.
What they did was to stand by to
stamp out what Are they could.
Leading from tbe handling room were
the magazines. The doors of the mag
azine* were open. Men Jumped into
the magazines and buttoned the keys
of the bulkhead doors so that there
would be no crevice for sparks. In
doing that they locked themselves in,
and once in they had to stay in. Above
them, they knew, was a turret full of
men and officers dead and dying. They
knew that fire was raging around them,
too, and that the next thing would be
tor the people outside to flood the mag
azines. The magazines were flooded.
When things were under control and
the doore opened the water in the mag
azines was up to the men's necks.
While that was going on below decks
In the turret were other men and offi
cers, including the chaplain, not know
ing what was going on below and ex
pecting every moment to be blown up
Into the sit}'. But there they were, eas
ing the last moments of the men who
were not already deud. Thirty all told
were killed in the turret. All concern
ed behaved well, but no better than
they were expected, to behave.
A few years ago there was a destroy
er off Hatteras. It was before day
break of a winter's morning ill heavy
weather. A boiler explosion blew out
her side from well below the water
line clear up through to her main deck.
Men were killed by the explosion; oth
ers were badly scalded. A steam burn
Is an agonizing thing, 'yet some of
these scalded men went back into that
hell of n boiler room and hauled out
shipmates who, tx> their notion, were
more badly burned than themselves.
One such rescuer died of his burns.
The hole in the deck and top side of
that destroyer was twelve feet across,
yet her commander and crew got her
to Norfolk under her own steam. Com
mander and crew behaved well, but no
better than they were expected to be
have.—James U. Connolly In Collie-'s
Weekly.
How Norway Finds Sailor*.
Norway's navy, being a young serv
ice, is built expressly for defense and
not defiance. But, though her ships are
few, the quality of her men is high, the
hardy fishermen of the coast providing
an abundance of excellent material,
and her officers are chosen and trained
with the utmost care. A cadet has to
serve at least one year in the merchant
service before he can enter the naval
college at Horten, and his qualifica
tions before obtaining the rank of sub
lieutenant must include a thorough
knowledge of English, French and Ger
man, with ability to speak English and
one of the other two languages fluently.
Havo to Be.
"I have been visiting one place, at
least, where men are always guarded
in their conduct."
"And what might that remarkable
place be?"
"The penitentiary."—Baltimore Amer.
lean.
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