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SiROLLER write gives im
pressions OF OUTSIDE CITIES
Editor E. J. White, of The Stroller’:
Weekly, returned to Juneau recently
from a visit of six weeks in Pacifii
- Coast States, Washington, Oregoi
and California. The following obser
vat.ions were made and conclusion
reached by the editor on his trip:
Those for whom the ghose walk:
regularly in Alaska shoudl seriously
appraise their conditions before leav
ing the North to cultivate vines an<
fig trees on the Outside. Many wh<
have done so now regret such a movi
and yearn for the great big, broa<
land ’way up yonder.
While ’tis said that Los Angele
has more people, San Francisco stil
ranks as .the greatest industrial cit;
. ®f. theiPaeific .coast, and if hotels am
restaurants, constitute industries, it i
- doubtful if she.has a peer on the con
tinent_Of- the three-quarters of i
million, people in San Francisco, a
Least,.haif of them take their dinne
out.
. Hotels, in San Francisco are no
. crowded, this winter, the earthquak
ings. of early October having had dis
astrous. effects therp. It s said tha
omaho-dny on which the earth vibrat
-afoVftther violently at-6:30 a. m. thou
sawdsfof visitors decided they hai
business elsewhere, 165 persons hav
ing checked out from one of the larg
hotel&'hy 11 o’clock of the same fore
nooiv and that within 48 hours afte
the ’quake 5,000 reservations for Sai
Francisco were canceled in Chicagi
alone. And at that, the citty appear
. ed lively to Alaskans. It is a won
derful industrial city and social cen
ter and can boast the poorest qualit;
* drinking water to be found anywher
except in other California towns am
. cities, and the result is that .an Alas
turn’s thoughts revert to the home h
elft behind-him every time he takes :
• drink of water. And as evidence tha
. RUDSMtutes lor water are scarce tnerc
not a'drunk was observed during 11
• days’ -stay, there.. (Not saying tha
there was n odrinking of intoxicants
but that no. effects of drinking wer
seembji the writer. He was- not. ther
■ as p TJrohibition agent.)
Just .what Californians-did and hov
they all .made livings Jaefore gas am
* bnl-dog •stations littered up the high
ways is a mystery, as a large portioi
of the population, both ujcban am
rural, is-, now engaged in ‘both o
these industries, and competition i
■so keen, especially With venders o
the latter commodity, that a nicke
will postpone starvation almost in
definitely.; It is said by Californian
that if one man starts a gas and re
freshment industry and shows synip
toms of making a bare living, ont
two or more stands will open as clos
to him- as -possible within a shor
time, eggs costing 45 cents a doze
will be sold at 60 cents—5 cents eac
McGrath
Pool Hall>
. Fresh Fruits
UCandies,
Tobaccos
Pipes
Cigarettes
Soft Drinks
Cigarette Holders
r
Geo. Mutchler
' Proprietor
—and they include bread and butter,
; the latter somewhat thin.
! For “a dollar down and a dollar a
i mqnth,” homes, furniture for the
' same, automobiles and everythin#
■ else except immunity from collectors
i can be purchased all over the Pacific
■ coast. At east that is the system
> being followed by many people, gaso
line and postage stamps being about
* the only things that can not be pro- i
r cured on that basis.
Aside From California.
! While Californians allow that there j
’ are other tSates bordering on the Pa- (
j cific ocean, they look with compassion!
upon anything not within her own
confines. But all the same, California
| s not the only clam shell on the Pa
r cific beach, great as she is. There are
I other States with cities and towns,
,: gas and “dog” stands. There is Port
’ | land, Oregon, for example. It may
| sound some/what incongruous, but as
, j Portland has never had a boom, she
, j is still booming. That is, Portland is
going ahead in her usual, quiet style,
t and spreading over new territory like
measles, no town on the Pacific coast
having made more substantial ad
vancement within the past few years
than that same Rose City.
And when it comes to a multiplicity
j of sawmills and other industries, Ta
come, the city with more residents
that look like farmers than urbanites,
has kept pace with her neighbors if
not outstripped them. The water
front from the extreme border of
South Tacoma almost t oSteilacoom
is solidly built up with manufactur
ing industries, largely lumber mills
and other wood product plants. While
Tacoma may have a larger percentage
of populace with milk specks on
| their shoes than any other city in the
West, it s a substantial and rapidly
growing business center.
, Then There Is Seattle.
. There was a time not many years
ago when the suburban villa of Fre
; mont was on the very north from Se
t attie, but it is now saia tnat bu per
cent of Seattle’s population .resides
; north of Fremont. In fact,.the course
, of empire has. taken its way north
ward in Seattle to the extent that res
, idents of the extreme northern border,
j of the city now find it almost as con-!
venieat to send their children to j
, school in Bellingham as in South Se
1 attie.
f Seattle has grown, is still growing, 1
5 and will continue to grow-. There |
f were not the usual crowds of people
j on Second and Third avenues during
.. the afternoons of last week, but the
3 temperature was low for Seattle at
that time, and—well, thos esalt-laden
. zephyrs are very pentrating when
only thin silk is betw'een them and
» bare knees, and under the circum- i
t stances it was natural that Seattle- j
1 ites should not wander far from their
1 firesides.
Seattle is growing to the extent'
| that good, substantial buildings are j
| being pulled down to.be replaced with 1
larger and better structures in compli
ance with the demands of increasing
[ business.
| It is not true that everybody in Se
1 attie lays for the unsuspecting North
j erner with the view' . of selling him
! something. The writer, met and talked
with probably a thousand Seattleites
last week, and as many as a dozen of
! them—possibly more—never said a
I word about selling him anything.
1 Victoria and Vancouver.
| : In Holy Writ the sun is reported to
| j have stood still, but Victoria, B. C., is
j ! probaby the only town on the North
I j American continent that can be said
j to have followed th eexample of the
| sun. Many cities and towns have'
! gone .back until they were down and
J out, but not so with Victoria. She
j has not advanced and she has not re
j ceded—not changed in any wray dur
I ing the past dozen years, but is still
i the same conservative, quiet little city
that, takes its tea at 4:30, and always
has time to courteously supply
strangers with any information
sought. Onlall the fringe of the Pa
cific from Point Barrow to th eMex
I ican border there is not a more oblig
ing or distinctly British people than
are the Victorians.
Vancouver is very much like its
Yankee cousin in that it gets up
early in the morning, foregoes after
noon tea and is on the job all day and
far into the night ..Vancouver is
rather quiet this -winter.- hut sees
things in the offing, -that will mean
prosperity when the springtime
comes, gentle Annie.
Small Eut Growing.
In the Pacific coast States hun
dreds of small towns line the- thor
oughfares from Seattle to San Fran
cisco, towns that had but a few resi
dents twenty-five years ago now
boasting several thousand and still
growing, not rapidly, but steadily.
But they are hoeing difficult, rows for
the reason that interurban and nu
merous bus lines hring them in such
close touch with larger cities and
business centers -that their own inter
ests suffer in consequence.. In fact, it
seems that about the only use for
small towns outside i sto furnish
homes for city workers who desire to
live where they can be awakened in
the morning by crowing roosters. It
saves the expense of buying alarm
clocks.
Vi here Northerners Homeport.
I hose who desire to meet forme
•aska..s outside, are not required ti
j farther than Seattle, as there ar.
i many former Alaskans there a.
here are Alaskans in Alaska. Thej
.re met everywhere in Spirit City
a the streets, in the hotels, in offices
; their homes, and in bread lines
/hen the latter are maintained. Bu;
or former Yukoners, Vancouver, b
C., and San Francisco are the great
est rendezvous, Canadians being
found in the former, and both Cana
dians and Americans swamping the
latter. At present, there are more old
Yukoners in either Vancouver or Sen
Francisco than there are in Yukon.
Non-Stop.'Bus Travel.
Don’t do- it* Well-meaning but mis
guided friends -persuaded the writer
to travel by-auto bus from Portland
to San Francisco, a matter of 71S
miles, but he did not re-tarn by a bus
line. Bus lines are operated between
Seattle and San Francisco that make
Shasta limited time; hut lines that,
like Young Lochinvar, atop not and
stay not but plug steadily forward
with their buffets, coon cooks and
other accessories. The busses run
from Seattle to San Francisco, but the
writer missed the first leg and was
taken aboard at. Portland. Incident
ally, those long-coupled busses have
a sort of farm-wagon jostle, so much
so that when meals are served on
them the dishes perform as though
they, had -been training on a merry
go-round. The result is, that after
•one meal on a bus, passengers usually
grab egg sandwiches, doughnuts and
other concrete products obtainable
during the short time the bust stops
for gas and for the purpose of chang
ing drivers, and then, if able to go to
a. restaurant instead of to a hospital
they take everything on the menu
after reaching their destination. The
reason the busses change drivers
every 150 or 200 miles is tna the poor
fellows cannot stand the jostle and
jiggle of the bus any longer, and for
the • same reason the writer returned
over the same route, by train. He
knew wfae.n he. was .licked,
' FORFEITURE NOTICE.
To John-H. Anderson, his heirs, ex
ecutors, assigns and successors in
interest:
You, and each Of yon, are hereby
notified that the undersigned, through
power of attorney from Frank E.
Johnson, has expended for annual
labor and improvements the -sum of
One Hundred Dollars {$100.00> per
year for the years 1919, 1920, 1921,
1922, 1923, 1924. 1925 and 1926,. a
total of years years, upon the follow
ing described placer mining claims, all
located n the Ruby Recording District,
Territory of Alaska:
No. 3 Above Long Creek, on':-half
interest;
No. 3 Right L;rr'f ■ ■'ffhnca, Long
Creek ,one-fc ;>, ••• -
Lone Pin* ir *, <©ne
half interes
Keyston. v . ---Creek,
one-fourth : .
That all ci i w.-t .vn<i improve
merits were required by law ^ anc
were put upon said claim in oompli
a nee therewith in order to ho&T the
same for each said year and there*
after, all of said work having been
performed by •Jensen & Wiklund.
And if within ninety (90) days aftei
the publication of this notice yoo and
each of yoo do not contribute to the
undersigned your proportion of-said
expenditure for each said claim far
each maid year, your interest in said
claims will become the property of
the undersigned, according to the pro
visions of Section 2324 Revised Stat
utes of the United States.
H. JENSEN,
Attorney in Fact for
Frank E. Johnson..
First publcation,- January 1, 1927.
Last publication, April" 9, 1927.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Max Altman; his heirs, executors
assigns and successors in' in
terest:
You, and eaeh of you, are hereby
notifitd that the undersigned has ex
pended for annual labor One Hun
dred Dollars ($100.00) per year for
the years 1915, 1916, 1917, 1920,1921,
1922, 1923, 1924 and 1925, upon the
following described mining claim, in
Ruby Recording District, Territory of
Alftstu*
The ' SANDBAG ASSOCIATION
CLAIM, on Greenstone Greek, a trib
utary of -Long Greek, in order to hdlfl
said claim under the-provisions of
law -protecting annual labor cm min
ing claims.
And if within-nhiety-f 96) days after
the publication of- this notice- you, or
any of -you, fail, to pay yotre'portion
of the amount expended on'the above
claim, your interest-in said claim will:
become forfeited to the undersigned
co-owner, according to the provisions
of Section 2324 Revised Statutes oi
the United States.
DAN SUTHERLAND.
First publication, January 1, 1921
- Last publication, April 9, 1927.
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