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The
Gate-way
Route of
Comfort
Service
Safety
To Yukon Territory, Atlin District
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 bjtween Waitehorse and Dawson, affording every possible
facility fo: c >"nfo:tab!e winter travsl by nmns of a
Tho'oaghly Equipped Stage and Automobile Line
Interior
For full information apply to
c. W. CASH
Supt. Mail Service D
WHlTEMOaSE. Y. T.
A. F. Z1PF
—OR— Traffic Manager
612 Second Ave.. SEATTLE. Wash.
White Pass & Yukon Route
TIME TABLE No. 38.
Mopriay, Wednesday and Friday
No. l, .\. Dound Now 2, 8. Bound
1st Claaa 1st Claaa
8:30 ». m. Leave* 8KAGWAI Arrives 8:50 p. m.
11:05 ». m. " WHITE PASS Leave* 2:20 p. hi.
11:45 a. m. " LOO CABIN M 1:80 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# UHIliHOUSE " 8:00 a. m.
Pasaengert most b« at depot 1« time to have Baggage in
spected and checked. I»J»pe«Uon la stopped 80 arinotaa before
tearing time of train* « ■ —
150 pound* of baggage will be checked free with each foil
fare ticke* and 75 pound* with each half fare ticket.
Relieves CATARRH of
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when you put la your now system.
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PRICE
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PHIL. ABRAHAMS
Established in 1897
Actual and Potential Resources
Never Equaled by Any Other
Nation—Army at Atten
tion, Navy's Decks
Cleared
All Industries Ready to Mobilize.
Nation's Finances Never So
Strong—Wave of Patri
otism Sweeps Over
the Land
TUAL and potential resources
which, all told, probably never
have been equaled "by any other
nation In the history of the
world" are brought Into the great war
under the American flag.
Into the balance against Germany
are thrown a navy In strength and ef
ficiency among the foremost afloat, an
army comparatively small, but highly
efficient, backed by a citizenry of up
ward of 20,000,000 capable of military
duty; Industrial resources incompara
bly the greatest In the world, already
mobilized for public service, and the
moral force of more than 100,000,000
Americans awakened to their country's
peril and united behind their president
with a patriotic fervor reincarnating
the spirit of 1776.
What more the nation will do, the
president believes, can be measured
only by what the administration finds
will be necessary.
Navy's Deoks All Cleared.
The nary, always the first line of de
fense, has cleared Its decks .of anti
quated Incumbrances, has added new
units modernized to meet the German
tactics and through the patriotic co
operation of ship and material makers
is hurrying to completion other mighty
fighting craft that will be the last word
in power and efficiency.
Authorized but ten days ago to re
cruit to the full war strength of 87,000
men, the navy already has almost at
tained the total To provide additional
officers a class of midshipmen has been
graduated three months ahead of Its
time. A newly organized coast patrol
of submarine chasers Is on duty, and
hundreds of small craft to augment it
are under construction.
Army preparations are less complete
because of the uncertainty over what
congress will authorize for that branch
of the service. The regulars, number
ing nearly 120,000 and trained and
equipped in a way which their officers
believe matches, unit for unit, the
boasted efficiency of Germany's best,
are ready to respond overnight to what
ever call may come. The national
guard, 150,000 strong and hardened by
months of service at the border, al
ready has many units in active service
for police duty throughout the country
and can be fully mobilized on short no
tice.
Without additional authorization by
congress the regulars and guardsmen
could be recruited to a combined
strength of 700,000, and detailed plans
for whatever larger army may be au
thorized have been prepared and great
quantities of equipment for It pur
chased.
Industrial Resources.
Industrial preparations, thanks to
lessons of the war and the patriotic
attitude of industry, have produced a
irreat, compact scheme of national re
sources with almost unlimited possibil
ities. The Council of National Defense,
in dally conferences with the nation's
leading financial, commercial, scientific
and labor chiefs, not only has worked
out a definite and detailed industrial
mobilization plan, but has secured the
indorsement and pledges of the men
who can put it into effect at a mo
ment's notice.
For military reasons only a small
part of the detail of these preparedness
plans has been permitted to reach the
public. It is known, however, that for
many months the government has con
sidered war more than a possibility
and has strained 1^ every resource to
make ready.
In the tense waiting period since re
lations were broken the president,
while hoping fervently that hostilities
could bo avoided, has kept the whole
machinery of the government in mo
tion day and night to prepare against
eventualities.
The navy, in order to complete in
record time the enormous building pro
gram authorized by congress, has en
listed in the public service virtually the
entire shipbuilding facilities of the
country. Surveys have been made of
merchant craft that would be avail
able as auxiliaries In wartime, and
guus have been placed on many of
them.
Plans are complete for Immediately
taking over into the naval establish
ments the cutters of tie coast guard
service, more than a acore of steamers
equipped for mine laying and belong
ing to the lighthouse service and the
scientically fitted vessels of the bureau
of fisheries and the coast and geodetic
survey.
Shipbuilders Busy.
In order to expedite naval construc
tion more than $100,000,000 authorized
by the last congress la being spent on
naval and private shipyards. The
eight hour labor regulation as apply
ing to naval work has been suspended
by order of the president, and various
agencies are helping Insure an adequate
supply of skilled and unskilled labor.
Builders have laid aside private work
on which profits amount to as much as
50 per cent to give precedence to navy
work on a basis of cost plus 10 per
cent profit
Detailed plans have been worked out
by a special naval board for realigning
the whole system of naval bases. Rec
ommendations are before congress, and
as soon as authorization Is given the
establishment of new bases and the en
largement of existing ones can begin.
Around some of these bases and other
strategic coast points great steel sub
marine nets have been swung, and con
tracts have been awarded for 1,000
more nets, each 1,050 feet In length.
In addition to the 1S3 midshipmen
commissioned ahead of time, another
class of more than 200 will be gradu
ated at Annapolis In September. For
the first time clerical and other shore
positions In the navy have been opened
to women, and recruiting stations have
been unable to handle the flood of ap
plications of men and women which
has followed Secretary Daniels' call
for recruits.
There is a boom In recruiting for the
marine corps, too, which has been rais
ed to an authorized war strength of
17,400 and soon is to be further In
creased. Passage of the war resolu
tion is the signal for mobilization of
15,000 naval militiamen and reserves
to support the regulars.
A Large Coast Patrol.
For the coast patrol of submarine
chasers hundreds of contracts have
been let and many other small craft
have been offered by private owners.
So far has the organization of the mos
quito fleet progressed that more than a
score of bases have been established,
and a senior officer has been detached
to command this new navy unit The
vessels, ranging up to a length of 110
feet and armed with guns large enough
to sink the largest submarine, will be
officered in many cases by their former
owners, who have volunteered in large
numbers.
Secretary Daniels hopes within a
short time to have at least 2,000 such
boats in operation, and should the
facilities for their construction or for
the building of other naval craft prove
inadequate all plans are ready to com
mandeer private shipyards under the
authorization of congress.
The army, whose great need is train
ed men and officers, is employing un
usual means to prepare for the organi
zation and training of any force con
gress may authorize. Hundreds of
applications for commissions in the
officers' reserve corps are being accept
ed, and for the grade of second lieu
tenant the bars have been let down to
men who never have had military
training. More comprehensive plans
than ever have been drawn for train
ing camps for fitting these officers and
others for duty.
Units of the reserve officers' training
corps have been established In many
colleges, where thousands of students
are under training, and enlisted men
who could take commands have been
designated for commissions from ev
ery regiment of regulars. Graduation
April 20 of the June class at West
Point has been ordered by Secretary
Baker.
Supplies For the Army.
For increasing the enlisted strength
a vigorous recruiting campaign Is un
der way, with the co-operation of other
branches of the government, Including
postal officials and many patriotic so
cieties. To decentralize the military
organization, the United States has
been divided Into six military districts
Instead of four, with two extra de
partments added to the Atlantic coast.
In the matter of supplies the army Is
well provided for. With rifles and
other equipment for a vast army al
ready on hand. enormouB contracts
have been placed by the quartermas
ter's department, and the contracts are
elastic, so that other millions can be
spent as soon as appropriated. Cloth
ing manufacturers have united In ex
pediting the making of uniforms.
PRIZE FOR REAL BATTLE CRY.
Oytter Bay Committee Seeks War Slo
gan Fop U. S. Army.
Three wise men of Oyster Bay are
going to help the United States prepare
for war by furnishing the army with a
battle cry.
When Zaeh Taylor's men and the
boys under Winfleld Scott swarmed
like an avenging host toward Chapul
tepec and Mexico City there was one
cry that rang above the noise of mus
ketry, "Remember the Alamo!" Grant's
army, battling through the Wilderness,
called "On to Richmond I" and got
there. The Rough Riders swept up
San Juan hill to the shout of "Remem
ber the Maine!" hence when America's
first field expedition drives Hinden
bnrg back the Oyster Bay savants be
lieve the ceremony will not be fur
nished with the proper eclat unless
some universal slogan accompanies It
The three wise men are Judge Robert
Duvall, Edward M. Summers and Mau
rice Townsend. They announced the
formation of a committee, with them
selves as members, to hold a contest to
which all Americans are invited to con
tribute suggestions. A cash prize will
be offered.
ERE AND THERE WITH ALASKANS
I
Cantata Edward Hickmaji, farmer
lv f* th* Admiral Watson, Is now
ch.ef nUct oX the Mariposa.
Mrs. Strong, wife of Governor
Strong, has offered prizes to the
school children of Juneau, Treadwell
Thane and Douglas, for tie t>est
gardens this summer.
Th.3 territorial legislature has
passed a bill providing for thie con
strue''on of shelter cabins far the
protection of men, horses and dogs
alena: Alaskan trails.
j Captain Frerick Hears of the Al
aa*a Engineering commission, ac
cording to the Sewand Gateway, has
recovered from an, attack of pneu
monia which, bad confined him to
his heme for two weeks.
A company of regularly author
ized Canadian reserve militia has
been organized in Dawson, with
these officers: George Brimston,
major; George P. McKenzie and
■Nicholas Richardson, lieutenants.
Cant, S. S. Cramer, a veteran
among Alaskan fishermen, will com
mand the cannery tender Minnie
B., recently launched at Seattle
for the Kodiak Fisheries company.
James Sheridan will be chief engi
neer,
A patent bas been issued by the
federal government for a coal mine
ou Corwin bluff, north, of Point
Ho;e on the Arctic shore and 160
mile# north of the Arctic circle. It
1® said to be the "farthest north"
coal mine. 1 .
Katmai volcano, 80 miles north!
of Kcdiak, is said by those who
have recently visited it, U> be
s'itl erupting lava and gases la
such quantiies and with euch fre
quency as to make "seeing Katmai"
a dangerous recreation.
Ine 600-tcn Patterson and the
330-f,>n, Explorer, government boats
which have been in port at Seattle
the past winter, will be used this
summer by the engineers of the
g&odetic survey in charting South
eastern Alaskan waters.
ITarry McClain, who entered Mora
ingside asylum In Oregon from the
Idjtarod district, August 20, 1915,
died there April 20. Jim Shaclaiu
of Ke'chikan and Massa Kotcluk of
St. Michael, also died last month at
the asylum where Alaska's Insane
are cared for.
Mrs Nellie -Neal, who conducts a
rcadhousc between Seward and An
chorage, is said to be the mosf
no'ed woman musher in Alaska. She
is reported recently to have walked
She forty-five miles from her home
*o Seward, carrying a thirty-pound
pack, between six in the morning
and 10:30 at night.
Ia Tiew of the extraordinary con
ditions found In the region of Mt.
Katmai, west of Cook Inlet, the
National Geographic society has
set aside ? 12,0 00 for a third expe
dition to areas around the scene of
tt0 greatest volcanic eruption re
cor&ed. 3 he expedition wi" bg In
charge of Professor Robert P.
Griggs of Ohio State University,
leader of the expe.lliions of 1915
and 1916. ,_j
TENNIS TIME
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Tennis Presses
Tennis Balls
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