I WHITE PASS 8
YUKON ROUTE
The
Gate-way
Route of
Comfort
Service
Safety
To Yukon Territory, Atlin District
^Interior Alaska
During the winter season of 1916-17 our regular train service will
be maintained North and South Bound between Skaguay
and Whitehorse, trains leaving both terminals Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays.
WINTER STAGE SERVICE
Our Through Mail, Passenger and Freight Service will be oper
ated between Wnitehorse and Dawson, affording every possible
facility for comfortable winter travel by means of a
Thoroughly Eqaipped Stage and Autombile Line
For full information apply to
C. W. CASH
Supt. Mail Service Dept.
WHIT&H035E. Y. T.
A. F. Z1PF
OR— Traffic Manager
612 Second Ave., SEATTLE. WasH.
Whits Pass & Yukon Routs
TIME TABLE No. S8.
Mopday, Wednesday and Friday
No. 1, N. llound fi > No. 2, 8. Bound
1st Clau 1st CIa«s
H::JO a. m. 8KAGWAY Arrives 8:50 p. m.
11:05 ». m. ** WHITS PASS LcAvea 2:20 p. m.
11:43 a. m. " LOG CABIN " 1:30 p. m.
12:40 p. m. *• BENNETT * 13:50 p. m.
2:20 p. m. " CARIBOU ** 10:48 a. m.
4:50 p. m. Arrive* WHITSHORSE *» 8:00 a. m.
Passenger* mM be at depot la time to have Baggage in
spected and checked. Infection la stopped 80 minutes before
leaving time of train* *■
150 poonda of baggage will be checked free "with each fall
fare tick«e and 75 pouada with each half face ticket.
Relieves CATAR RH o1
the
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and all
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HOURS
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THE
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Electric Lights
Rooms Single or en Suite
Baths on each floor
Famous for its Home Cooking,
Milk, Cream, Cottage Cheese and
Buttermilk from our own da>*v.
Fresh Eggs, etc
Rates $3.00 Per Day and Up
Well Lighted, Large Sample
Rooms for Traveling Men.
H. S. PULLEN. P,op.
Jkagway. Alaska
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promptly executed. tf.
I SPRING
BARGAINS
IN
REAL
ESTATE
—IN A FEW DAYS— *
PHIL. ABRAHAMS
WOMEN OFFER AID
Militia of Mercy Expect to Enlist
Five Millions.
PROFFER HELP TO LANSING.
Took Part In Combating Infantile Pa
ralysis Scourgo by Furnishing Ambu
lances—Ssnt Comforts to Militiamen
on Mexloan Border— Well Known
Names on Executive Committee.
New York.—When the break with
Germany came the Militia Of Mercy, of
which Mrs. John Haya Hammond Is
president, offered to the government the
services of many thousands of women.
Mrs. Hammond sent a telegram to
Secretary of Stat© Lansing as follows:
"On behalf of our executive council
and the many thousands of women
throughout the United States whose
names are on our membership lists and
who stand ready to respond to our na
Photo by American Press Association.
MBS. JOHN HATS HAMMOND.
tion's call with their concerted strength
wo beg through you to offer to our pres
ident and our country such service as
women can render toward national
needs."
In New York state the militia received
the official promise of co-operation of
tlio New York State Federation of Wo
men's Clubs, which represents 000,000
women. Throughout the country the
Militia of Mercy expects to enlist the
services of 5,000,000 women.
Among those on the executive coun
cil of the Militia of Mercy are Mrs.
Champ Clark, Mrs. Harry Fayne Whit
ney, Mrs. Robert Lansing, Mrs. Wil
liam Randolph Hearst, Mrs. James
Speyer, Mrs. Isaac Guggenheim, Mrs.
Felix Warburg and Mrs. Ogden Goelet
The militia took part in combating
the Infantile paralysis scourge last
summer by furnishing three ambu
lances as well as after care for many
of the stricken. The Militia of Mercy
also was interested in sending comforts
to the militiamen on the Mexican bor
der.
Up on the roof of the Hotel Majestic
women volunteers of the Woman's
Military Reserve of the United States
began their drills. The "rookies" are
uniformed. At the same time an exhi
bition drill was given in the armory of
the Sixty-ninth regiment by the Ameri
can Woman's League For Self Defense.
SUN'S SPOTS VERY LARGE.
One 125,000 Mile* Across, Naval Ob
servatory Estimates.
Washington. — It was said at the
Naval observatory that exceptionally
large spots on the sun's surface had
been noticed recently. At its maxi
mum dimension the largest was esti
mated at 125,000 miles across. One
spot in lSfil was 140,000 miles across,
but they seldom are larger than this.
The appearance of large sun spots,
according to scientists here, generally
is followed by magnetic disturbances
in the earth's atmosphere. That it has
any connection with the weather Is a
theory not credited by professors at
the observatory.
NAVY RECRUIT'S BIG SHOE.
Wagner of Chicago Fears His Large
Feet May Bar Him.
Chicago—Peter J. Wagner, recruit at
the Great Lakes naval training sta
tion, feared that he might have to
leave the United States navy because
of the size of his feet Wagner is
eighteen years old, weighs 176 pounds,
Is six feet one and one-half Inches tall,
and his feet require a shoe sized 15%.
When he applied for shoes it was
discovered that the largest size dis
tributed by the navy department is 13.
Officers at the station are attempting
to find footgear that Wagner can wear.
UNDERTAKERS REFUSE
TO LET HIM ALONE
New York.— If the death of
William Clinton 1b reported
many more times Clinton threat
ens to provide a Job for the un
dertaker himself and it won't
be his body either. Four times
hi a month undertakers hare
called at his home, bring-leg all
their paraphernalia and insisting
that he was dead.
BI6 AID TO TRADE
"Acceptances" Are Attracting
Merchants and Investors.
BROADER FIELD FOR BUYING.
Enable Seller to Handle Hla Business
•t Smaller Operating Cost—One Form
of Acceptance Consists of Extension
of Bank'* Credit to Customer Upon
Agreed Basis.
New York.—Rapid Increase In the use
of bank and trade acceptances marks
the development of a new form of
financing In this country, which Is at
tracting the attention of bankers, busi
ness men and Investors. Opportunities
for trade expansion, Increased credit
and desirable investment all accom
pany It and invite study.
Prior to the passage of the Federal
Reserve Act, one of the particular ob
jections to our existing banking sys
tem was the absence of a discount
market like those of London, Paris,
Berlin and other Continental centers
where bankers' acceptances could be
readily sold. Owing to a construction
of the National Banking Act by the
Supreme Court, our national banks
were not permitted to make accept
ances, because an acceptance Is in ef
fect the lending of a bank's credit
Today that situation is radically
altered. There Is in this country a
healthy and constantly expanding mar
ket for acceptances. According to the
combined statements of the report of
December 27, 1910, national banks in
New York City showed customers' lia
bility on account of acceptances at §00,
218,800. The combined reports of New
York City trust companies, as of No
vember 29, 1910, showed a total of
$77,5-10,200 for customers' liabilities on
acceptances. And according to the
November statements last year, na
tional banks and trust companies of
New York City reported an aggregate
acceptance volume of $120,850,800.
In an Interesting booklet issued
by the Guaranty Trust Company of
New York, that institution explains the
details of this method of finance and
the growth of the acceptance market.
In tho fall of 1914 the Guaranty Trust
Company of New York was the only
institution In New York City accepting
sterling drafts payable at a future date.
When the London market had to re
strict Its acceptances owing to condi
tions arising from the war, the Guar
anty Trust Company immediately be
gan using dollar letters of credit
When bills were offered from abroad,
drawn under these letters of credit, the
Guaranty Trust Company bid for them.
So did other banks. As a result dis
count rates were lowered. With a
clearing of the situation in tho Amer
ican money market in the beginning
of 1915, bankers and brokers began to
bid freely for acceptances, which cre
ated the first basis of a future discount
market. Sufficient acceptances, how
ever, were lacking, and the Guaranty
Trust Company supplied this deficiency
with its own acceptances. So rapidly
were these absorbed that the discount
rate fell to about 2y>j per cent Soon
the possibilities in this new line of
financing were seen throughout the
country and thus a discount market
was quickly developed.
Tiie superiority or the traae accept
ance over the open account for the
purchase or sale of goods is now per
ceived; in fact, its power to broaden
the buying field of the merchant, and
to enable the seller to handle his busi
ness at smaller operating cost, is being
fully recognized throughout the coun
try. Briefly, the trade acceptance Is
everything that the open account is
not. It gives the buyer credit for a
definite instead of an indefinite time,
ft is of service to the seller, for he
can take the acceptance to his bank
and discount it at a lower rate than is
accorded to any other commercial pa
per. The bank—not the seller—carries
the credit, and all parties to the trans
action are placed on an equitable basis.
Another form of acceptance is the
bank acceptance, which consists of the
extension of a bank's credit to a cus
tomer upon an agreed basis. When
Brown, in New York, buys of Doe, in
Galveston, and arranges with a bank
In New York to accept on presentation
the drafts of Doc, with documents at
tached, Doe's draft on the bank be
comes a bank acceptance. Again, the
customer can draw his own draft di
rectly on the bank, the latter accept
ing it for payment at a future date.
In this form the acceptance is a com
mercial credit bill. The accommoda
tion given the customer under an ac
ceptance is merely a loan of the bank's
credit responsibility until he can pro
cure the funds elsewhere.
Issued for commercial purposes or
against actual business transactions,
banks and trust companies can finance
through acceptances legitimate busi
ness transactions of their customers
properly and conveniently; while they
can also invest their surplus money
therein, at profitable rates, and with
the certainty of being able to convert
them at nny time In the open market
For short-term investments accept
ances of well-known banking Institu
tions are highly desirable, since they
are guaranteed by the standing and
credit of the accepting bank.
Boy, Fifteen, Digs Out of Jail.
Independence, Kan.—Dale Arthur, the
fifteen-year-old boy who has been the
center of attraction In criminal circles
here, chipped a hole through the brick
wall of the county jail end bade fare
well to the city. Ho had been sen
tenced to the reform school on convic
tion for thefts and was being held here
awaiting an order of admission.
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Many business enterprises that should be
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public attention and interest have not
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