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ALASKA REALLY A COAL COl'X- j
TRY.
The Alaska and Northwest Mining'
Journal: The nows that the sam- I
l>le obtained last spring of the!
.Matauuska coal has withstood the'
exacting requirements or the na
vy aud that Secretary Daniels has i
made au enthusiastic report recoiu-i
mending its use will l>o received ]
without any surprise but with a [
• reat deal of gratification by the
people of Alaska. This coal was
thoroughly tested by the cruiser
Buffalo when she visited Alaska sev
•v-il vc.vrs ago on a surveying trip,
but for some inexplicable reason the •
government continued to pay high I
prices for tie Pocahontas coal and |
l?uy freight on it around the!
Horn. No comment is necessary I
hero oil tho mysterious methods j
adopted by congress iu its efforts j
; o make the people's money go as '
tar as possible. Alaska has been
simply neglected, or worse, the laws,
have been suspended i:i order that
no development could possibly occur,'
.uid valuable coal beds known to |
contain a grade of coal suitable for j
a-vy use, and as a consequence high
ly desirable for any kind of steam-1
;ng purposes, have been allowed to
lie idle in order that the government
might purchase its coal from a
private corporation and transport it
several thousand miles.
There is no question but that
t'aere are vast areas of coal equal
to, if not better, than the sample
recently tried out, as George Wat
kin Evans, the engineer in charge
o' expedition, has had too much ex
perience to either intentionally or
unintentionally select a sample j
t hat would be misleading.
Everything indicates that a new ^
era for Alaska has set in, and we;
i redict that when work Is commenc
ed on the government railroad next j
year there will be an influx of men
and capital into that country thai).
will cause the residents to forget ■
the many years of famine through j
which they have passed.
KNOW out OWS COUNTRY
BETTER
For several years past the ex
penditure by Americans traveling
in Europe has been nearly $300,
'.'00,000 annually. This is not
saying we did not get cur money's
worth at that, for quite the con
trary is true. -N'ot one per cent of
returning travelers regret what it
cost them to see the works of art,
historical monuments, beautiful ci
ties, and how the other nations
live. Even if war should end with
in a month or two, not many would
care to cross this year. The facili
ties of ocean travel to other than
European ports are either so lim
ited or inadequate that our chrcnic
travelers find themselves in a
condition of "all dressed up and no
1 lace to go"—that >s abroad.
Europeans who nave visited us
;.re constantly amazed at the utter
indifference with, which Americans
confess to a lack of acquaintance
with the natural wonderc of our
own country, which they had seen
when on our side. It is high
time >ve did know our own country,
and while our town halls and
churches are not a thousand years
old, our Niagara Falls and Rocky
Mountains and Glacier Park are
older than either Rome or the ruins
of Herculaneum. And where else
on earth can one go in a palace
car and find a Yellowstone Park,
or a Grand Canyon of the Colorado,
or a Ysemite or a Mammoth Cave,
or a Great Salt Lake? Ours is a
land of wonders, and though new
in a constructive sense, is not
lacking in interest. The South is
full of surprises, the vast prairies
of the Central West have no coun
terpart in Europe; our Great Lakes
float steamers with all the luxur
ies of an ocean liner. The magni
ticent Pacific coast this year has
the added attraction of a great
world's fair.
Even the adventure;- need not
miss the excitement of mountain
climbing; both Washington and Al
aska furnish all the danger tho
most reckless might desire; and
the explorer may spend years among
the ancient cliff dwellers' towns In
New Mexico and the petrified for
ests of the Bad Lauds. .He may
search for gold and precious stones
in the Death Valley; or for dia
monds in the Ozarks; and hidden
Lroasures which the pirates who
sailed the Spanish Main - buried
along the Florida coast
Already California and Florida
are filled with winter guests as
Lever before, and it will be a real
asset if our people tako advantage
of this year to travel and learn
their own grand country which has
made them what they are.—H. H.
Windsor, in the January Popular]
Mechanics Magazine.
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January 9
LEAVING SEATTLE ON TUE Oth, 15th AM) 23th OF
EVERY MONTH AND ARRIVING IN SKAGWAi ON THE Oth.
19th AND 20th., WESTBOUND.
RETURNING FROM THE WESTWARD, SHOULD LEAVE
SKAGWAY, SOUTHBOUND, ATPRI XIMATISL Y ON THE Oth,
10th., AND 29th.
Seattia to San Francisco
S, S. ADMIRAL DEWEY S. S. ADMIRAL FARRAGUT
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Leaving Seattle every Wednesday and Sunday for San Francisco
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For Loa Angelofc, San. Diego and South am California points.
PACIFIC ALASKA NAVIGATION CO. j»
HUGH P. GALLAGHER, Agent. Skagwuy, Alaska,
THE CALL TO AR
Mobilizing a Monster Army When
War Is Declared.
Rapidity With Which the Reservist
Responds to the Summons and Is
Equipped For Action—Concentrating
the Troops at the Seat of War.
Tutting a modem army like that of
Germany in the tieldlliivolves two sep
arate processes, mobilization and con
centration. Mobilization consists not
only In fittiug out the men already j
with the colors, or the standing army. |
but more particularly of re-enlisting
and equipping the additional men that
aro necessary to bring the standing
army to war strength, which is.
roughly speaking, about twice its peace
strength.
The details of mobilization are very
simple. Every reservist or landwehr
man has a soldier's pocket book con
taining explicit instructions as to what
he has to do when called to the color:*.
He is moreover practiced in doing it at |
maneuvers In time of peace. Various I
means aro employed for transmitting
the call to individual men, but It is
usually spread by rumor or by the |
press and anticipated in execution.
The young clerk, artisan, student or !
teacher drops his vocatiou and betakes |
himself by a prescribed route to the |
depot, where be Is furnished a brand j
new uniform and set of equipments
Here he has perhaps a few hours in j
which to renew bis military acquaint
anceship aud to linger with his ciri- j
Man friends, his parents, brothers, sis- j
ters or sweetheart, if any of them have
followed or Joined him there. As a re I
servlst of the first class be Is uot likely |
to have a wife.
The mobilization being completed. \
the nest step Is the concentration. The j
assembly Is sounded, the roll called— j
the last time on that ground for many
» loyal name—the battalion is formed.
It breaks into column and. following
the band to the strains of some foreign :
equivalent of "The Girl 1 Left Behind
Me," escorted by throngs of youths J
and maidens, cheered and saluted with I
voice, flags and haudkerehlefs from
doorsteps, windows and housetops,
tramps impressively—aye. how iuipres
slvely to many a heavy hearted wit
ness—through the town or city t" the |
railway station.
A few minutes for parting words, I
looks, embraces, and the embarkation
begins. In perhaps twenty minutes
more it Is completed, the interval be
tween trains is attained, a whistle, the I
train moves. Is off, is out of sight.
Tills process 13 repemeu imiiu 1
whole field army Is under way or nt
Its destination. The unit of embarka
tion Is what one engine will draw, j
which, expressed in infantry, is about
a thousand men. The distnuce lie )
tween trains that is neressary to safe
ty and efficiency may lie taken as ten I
minutes.
L'nder favorable cohiKtions trains fol
low one another at this interval, with
only necessary halts for refreshment
and rest or exercise. The olDcers and
<ooie of the Men ride in passenger
coaches The rest have to put up
with Improvised seats in freight cars
hoard benches built across the cars
without backs. ' •
Both the point of debarkation and
the *one of concentration must be nt a
safe distance within one's own terri
tory and protected by troops which In
p*ace as well us in war are on the
frontier In full war strength. These
are called covering troops.
•'At the end of the railway journey
comes the debarkation. If this does
riot take place as fast as the trains ar
rive—and It is not likely to when they
follow one uuother at Intervals of ten
minutes—allowance must be made for
It in calculating the number of trains
to be dispatched per lino of railroad
per day, or the rate of concentration.
On debarking the troops, or many of
tbem, are stiff and sore from long
cramping on a hard seat and in poor
condition for marching. So only after a
rest are they moved by short marches
Into the zone of concentration. It is
apparent from these general considera
tions that the railroads are factors of
capital Importance in seeking the ad
vantfl?j of the initiative, of determin
ing the general course of operations,
for the enemy as well as for oneself.
To secure and to keep this advantage
both in strategy and in tactics has long
beeen a first principle of good general
ship.—Major John Bigelow, U. S. A.,
Retired, In Century.
F. a A. Ma
,fv'AV White Pass Lodge
(r(F. & A. M. No. 113
!>': meets 2d and 4th
Fri. Ev'gs. of each
KM
month. Visiting brothers are wel
conte. Phil Abrahams, Secretary.
Elmer L. Wheeler, W. M.
jfT- v . It. 1'. O. KLKS
V» ''Ci? Skagway Lodge
No. 431, B. P. O.
10. meets every
Thursday even
ing at S o'clock.
Visiting brothers
cordially jvelcome. Jas. Kennedv,
Ex R. Geo. Mngee, Secretary.
Fraternal Order
Eagles—
Slcagway Aerie
No. 25, Frater
nal Order of
Eagles meets the fi;-s: and third
Wednesday night of each month at
their hall on Fifth avenue. Visiting
brothers cordially invited to attend.
Jhon C. Wood, W. P., J. W. Prit
chett, Secretary.
Arctic Brotherhood.—
Camp Skagway No. 1
A. B. meets every Tues
(lay evening at 8:00 p
m. sharp. Visiting brothers cordial
ly welcome. A. J. Achesoa, Arctic
Chief, \v. R. Hlllery, Arctic Re
corder
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Open Evenings.
Office Hours: 9-12 a. m. 1-6 p. m.
Alaskan Building - Broadway
SKAGWAY ALASKA
WILLIAM PALLISTER, M. D.
(Formerly of Seattle)
Specialist in the treatment of
diseases and deformities of the eye,
car, nose and throat.
Office; Goldstein Building, Ju
ueau, Alaska.
Dr. E. M. BE VIS
physician and Surgeon
JUNEAU ALASKA
Office—Second Street; in offices
formerly occupied by Dr. Simpson.
W. B. STOITT.
Attorney At La w.
Practice In all courts
In Territory of Alaska.
iTntnoc Alaska.
I Whitehorse
Kluane Stage
-—-Line
The Royal Mail Stage
leaves VVhitehorse the
fourth of every month
for Kluane and way
points and also on the
seventeenth of every
month for Champaigne
Passengers and Freight sol
icited, Rates Reasonable
and the Service First Class.
H.CHAMBERS, Prop.
OFFICE
Regina Hotel :: Whitehor»e, Y. T
Seattle, Tacoma, Victoria
Vancouver, Prince Rupert
Juneau, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan
Leave Skagmay
S*S, City of Seattle,. Jan, 2, 12, 22
Ami every ten days following. JVIodern comfortable ships,
excellent service Connects at Seattle with through passen
ger steamers.
CONGRESS, GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT AND QUEEN.
Sailing Tuesday, 10 a. m. and Friday, S p. m.
FOR SAN FRAN CISCO, LOS ANGELAS, SAN DIEGO.
Through tickets sold and baggage checked to all points in
United States and Canada. For folders and full particulars,
address V. A. PETERSON, Agent J
H. BRANDT, G. A. P. D. Phone 50. SKAGWAY
COS Second Ave., Seattle, Wash.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
WINTER SAILINGS
S. S. JEFFERSON
JANUARY 11-23
FEBRUARY 8-15-27
MARCH 11--23
APRIL 4
Passengers will be transferred to
Vancouver or Victoria without
extra charge.
TELEPHONE XO.
E. J. SHAW, Agent, SKAGWAY.
Twin Screw S. S.
Princess Iflay
Will leave Skagway for
I Prince Rupert, Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle
January 13 27
February 10 24
March 6 16 26
April 6 16 26
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