THE KUSKO TIMES
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Entered as second-class matter Febru
ary 1, 1922, at the Post Office at
McGrath, Alaska, under the
Act of March 3,'1873v
MCGRATH, ALASKA. AUG. 16, 1322
NEW RADIO
EQUIPMENT
Means Much to Alaska
in Commercial and En
tertainment Ways..
■Speaking of the - rehabilitation of
the Alaska radio telegraph system,--the
Tolldwiog article, from the -Seattle
Times, wili be found quite interesting:
Thirty thousandpounds of Jradio
equipment will Idave'&osttle June 3 tor
Nome, accompanied by Captain G EL
Burfchfead, It. S. A., radio engineer<i*r
cbargre ofconstruction of the Washing
ton-AIaska military cable system, amt
a working party of enlisted men of the
United States Army Signal Corps.
Working from Nome as a base, there
will 5e carriednut during the next
four months a complete rehabilitation
©f the radio telegraph system of the
Northland and the introduction and
the addition of a supplemental tele
phone system.
Briefly summavized, nine old stations
will be completely re-equipped with
•radio telegraph sets; one new sta
tion" will bef-opened, and seven of the
stations will be equipped with both
radio telegraph and radio telephone
sets of transmission and reception.
All told, there are forty-seven cable,
radio-and land telegraph stations em
braced in this Seattle-Alaska military
system of sfgnal communication, but
only the stations referred to will be at
tended to this year. - •
Importance of the Alaska radio sys
tem is illustrated in an order recently
issued by the War Department direct
ing that the Nome and Noorvik sta
tions keep in constant touch with Capt
Roald Amundsen when he begins his
Arctic explorations this summer.
The territory embraced in the great
i mpsovement scheme of radio inter
communication consists - of the Kusko
k wiin, Yukon' and Seward Peninsula
districts.
Into the social and this business life
of|thia vast Alaskan territory there
PROFESSIONAL
Albrecht and Taylor
• ecS. W. Albrecht, Iditarod, Alaska
Ghas. E. Taylor, Seattle, Wash.
Practice in ail the Gourts.
Ssaltie Lav* Office: L. C. Smith Bid#
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shall coroe a new note, a service which
wi\l bring the Northland people into
immediate touch with the happenings
of the world, a superior mercantile ar
rangement, and an enjoyment of varied
entertainment that the radio telephone
alone can give, and in its own peculiar
way.
Stations at Nome, Fairbanks and
Nulato will pick up world’s news items
even from the Atlantic seaboard as
they are broadcasted by code. In turn,
these messages can be -relayedjby code
signals to stations at Noorvik, Kotlik,
St. Michael, Holy Cross, Iditarod, Mc
Grath and Bethel.
Converted into the spoken word,
these coded messages may be broad
casted from tne seven stations indicat
ed by the telephone transmitting in
struments with which they are
equipped. Interspersing these news
bulletins at each station, it is possible
to'place the transmission of phono
graph. vocal and instrumental music,
supplemented with government bul
letins.
Out on thp broad reaches of the Kus
kokwim, Yukon,and Seward Peninsula
districts the residents will listen-in on
^tbis varied program of broadcast,
p But, business must first bo conserved.,
commercial service,, toe which the
)Army primarily installed the cable- V
wire Jtelegraph-radlo system 20 years
ago, has first call on the ten stations.
The entertainment side of the pic
ture is possibly a happier' one to look
at from the general public-standpoint
of these Alaskansrbut the greater-hap
piness and satisfaction and .the greater,
soeial and business development of the
^Territory depends upon tne prompt
service of communication.. which will
be established with the rehabilitated
system between Seattle and the Alaska
section; ..... -
It was the commercial aspects of the -
program of re-equipment that received
the first consideration of Captain, Burk
head^ the radio-engineer in' charge! of
construction work in the Wasbington
ASasfea district. The addition of the
radio telephone equipment, with its"
possibilities of entertainment for and
lightening the existence os Alaskans
came as a happy afterthought.
The present.status, of the Washing
ton- Alaska cable service* maintained
by the ;Army. is that of a 2,000-mile
ocean cable that runs from Seattle to
Sitka,, and thence to Valdez, with Se
attle messages being relayed from
Sitka to Valdez, from! which point by
wire telegraph the messagesj&re sent
as far as Nulato, situated 325 miles east
of Nome.!”0
Nul&to becomes, at this stage in the -
communication, the radiating□ point
from which radio signals, in code, are
transmitted to Nome, St.Michael. Holy
Cross, Iditarod, McGrath, Kotlik (at
the mouth of the Yukon), and to Noor
vik, 200 miles north of Nome, - above
the arctic circle, on the Kobufc- fiver.
Bethek onj the Kuskofewlm river, is [a
new^station-that is to be set up this
summer. Fairbanks is on the land
wire, Valdez-Nulato system.
;.Jn 1902—twenty years ago—the cable
wasjopened between Seattle and Sitka
and Valdez, along with the wire tele
graph Jto Nulato. Five years later
ceme<the establishment of the wireless
stations. JDuring the period mentioned
all Northern and Western Alaska elec
tromagnetic communication has been
obtained in the manner described.
Time has brought only patchwork
changes to the cable and the wire tele
graph. The radio transmitting and
receiving sets haye become obsolete
as rapid-fire development in radio has
made them. To bring about a complete
rehabilitation of the wholes radio sys
tem became the work to which this
North Carolina Army radio engineer,
Captain Burkhead, was assigned, and
for which he specially came to Seattle
t&nd placed himself under*the direction
of Col. C. A. Seoane and Capt. W. B.
L
Persons, acting officer in charge of the
system during the absence of ColOne:
Seoane.
Captain Burkhead expects to coni'
plete his work by October. His plan!
call for a resumption of radio install*'
tion construction-work next year, whet
he expects t» place stations at Liven
good. Yukon, Eagle, Wrangell, Craig
Point Barrow and probably severs
other places..
The allocation of >the present-equip
ment has been made as follows:.
The allocation of the present equip
ment has bfeen made as follows:
One hundred-watt telephone and tele
graph valve transmitting sets at Noor
vik. Kotlik, St. Michael, Holy Cross
Iditarnd, McGrath and Bethel.
At Lome, two high-power arc sets.
At Nulato, one two-kilowatt arc set.
At Fairbanks, one;'bwo'kilowatt and
one liv«-kilowat arc sets.
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Widows Organize
Against Shysters
Chicago.—Twenty prominent widows
of,Chicago met Tuesday and formed an
organisation which, will be called “The
Widows’ League,”
It is proposed to extend the* organ
ization to all parts of the country. . It
■I was <»tated that the object will be tc
i pfoteet widows from unscrupulous per
sons, chiefly shyster lawyers. The
rqeeting was held at the home of Mrs.
i Frank ToWnsley Brown, 426 Surf street.
T;racy Alden, president of the Chicago
Bar Association, addressed the meet
ing and'promised that the league would
i be furnished with a list of reliable
lawyers “to whom they could turn
with Confidence in the first months of
, ,their bereavement.*”
; Mrs. Brown^told the assembled wid
ows how, after the death of her hus
band, she had placed her affairs in the
hands of a lawyer who had solicited
her. She was not able to obtain any
money from the estate for months and
in the meantime was forced to sell a
large part of her house furnishings to
buy food.
i For a Nice Lunch
or First* Glass Meal
Call At i
Durant’s Cafe'1
l Flat City
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Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley y
Napamute, Alaska
New Goods Have Arrived
One of the best stocks ever brought into the*
Kuskokwim Valley. Yes, the prices are right.
ALASKA RIVERS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
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Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
€apt, Wallace Langley, Manager.
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John E. Baker
Independent .Candidates
for
Territorial Representative?
—Paid Advt.
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