I Low Sea Rates Lure
* White Collar Steerage’
. Kew York.—'“White collar steerage”
• has turned the tide of vacatiou travel
from America’s playgrounds toward
. JEarope, tourists bureaus in New York
aaid'today.'-after snaking a survey of
. .forthcoming-business.
Travui across the Atlantic will be 20
por cent heavier this year lhau iu 1024,
i the. bureaus said. “White collar steer
age,” as they characterized it. was ex*
. plained to be the old-time steerage
which immigrants used and which, be
• cause of the Americau immigration
laws, would be empty hut for the cheap
. rates -.the* steamship companies are
i. making to offset the loss incurred
through restricted immigration.
JLast year the tide of tourist and va
cation travel was westward, the Great
Lakes.. Galveston, Fort Worth, Sail
Antonio, Colorado, Utah, California,
Seattle, and Portland. Why it has
> changed was told by the tourist bu
reaus. ..The present round trip railroad
. fare to the Pacific coast is approxi
.» mately-»150. Added to this is sleeper,
• berth, and meal expenses, running the
total to around $200. tn contrast to
- this, it is now possible to go to France,
i Belgium, Holland and other countries
lor auvwhere from $155 to $171 for the
- i roond trip.
“It’s the- old idea of a bargain,” said
one manager, ”and don’t think that
the American people overlook any bar
gains even in their traveling.”
t Science and Invention.
A 200-foot mooring mast, capable of
holding giant dirigibles, such as the
.. Los Angeles and Shenandoah, is to be
constructed at Scott Field, near Belle
▼tile. 111. _
Shoes are cleaned and polished at
the rate of three a minute by a newly
invented machine. > By means of a
running belt the footwear euters a tun
nel dirty to emerge again clean and
polished.
The Pasteur Institute of France is
raising monkeys and apes on a large
-scale in French Guiana. Africa. These
animals are desired for exoerimental
. purposes in studying typhus, typhoid
and other diseases.
Among the newest inventions in Ger
many are a vacuum cooker that may
enable the housewife to cook meals
■ months ahead; a phonograph for stand
ard records, selling at 8(3.50 retail; a
standard sewing machine for $7.50, and
% typewriter for $10.
An X-ray photograph of a human
< hand was transmitted recently from
.V Hew York to Chicago within seven
• minutes. The negative was so clear
i> and distinct that it could readily be
■•-•used by any phvsician for diagnostic
u.,'purposes, it was announced.
Aandcuffed, shackled and blindfold
>1 ed, Sergeant C. E. Conrad, of Kelly
» "Field, San Antonio, set a new record
- when thro ’n from an airplane 4,820
i feet. w The purpose of the stunt was to
< prove that it would be possible for avi
ators to laBd safelv, although wounded,
- wiih the aid of parachutes.
More than 300 miles of Cuban coast
line will be mapped photographically
from the air bv a torpedo airplane of
*■ the United States navy. The work will
be done in co-operation with the hy
• drographio office, which for some time
has been engaged in making naviga
• tion charts of the sea and laDd areas in
the Caribbean.
A billion candle-power lighthouse,
the most powerful in the world, was
recently put into operation on Mount
St. Afrique, near Dijon, France.
Mounted 2,000 feet above sea level, its
i lights are visible from cities within a
(.. radius of 500 miles, ft is the first of a
series intended to guide aviators ou
long distance night flights over Eu
rope.
An oil has been developed from com
mon red pepper that can save many
lives now lost through asphyxiation. ?f
this oil is introduced intogas masus its
presence is not noticed as loDg as the
gas is properly burned. But, if Anyone
leaves a gas burner turned on acci
dentally or otherwise, without burning
t he gas, or if there is a gas laak in the
house so the gas is not burned, the oil
will make all persons in the gas filled
room sneeze so violently that they will
dash out for relief in the fresh air.
PRESS SQtJIBS.
War makes fright, fright makes al- !
lianees, alliances make war.—Vaocou-I
ver Sun.
Ileeent vital statistics indicate that,
too much of the midnight oil is fuse!
oil.—Pittsburgh Sun.
Jo ,Bible times the devil got into
hogs, and that may explain why some
ears need all the road.—Peru (Ind.J
Tribune.}
An Englishman says he will convert j
America into a nation of tea-drinkers.
Possibly he intends to introduce the
English kind of coffee.—Pittsburgh Ga
zette-Times.
The fool and his money are soon
parted. If only nature would arrange
a similar alienation of 'he fool and his
car.—Associated Editors.
If the printing of crime Dews makes
criminals, why doesn't the printing of
recipes make good cooks?—Greenville
N e ws.
“Women dress better than men.’’
Thev wouldn’t if they paid for men’s
clothes.-—Wall Street Journal.
Heresy is what you are guilty of if
you can’t persuade the majority to side
with you.—Oii City ITerriek.
It is a good idea to abolish poison gas
in war. And the same goes for guns,
bullets, shells and soldiers.—St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
Mr. Brisbane savs at the age of 85
George F. Baker is doiog the work ol
ten men. That depends. What ten? —
Houston Post-Dispatch.
By the time cotton get all ginned up,
it can't tell whether it’s going to be a
bottle of olive oil, a pail of lard, a pat
of butter, or a pair of silk stockings.—
Little Rock Gazette.
Ooe of our great educational cross
word puzzles called the other day for a
word in three letters meaning whore
vou sit on Sunday, and the neighbor
Max Simelj
The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
Sold
Miners’, Prospectors’
and Trappers’
Supplies
Steamer Service On the Inoka
River.
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Ask the People of Ophir about us.
STATION
Fairview. innoko River
women of tbe older set thick it’s paw,
while those of the middle-aged and
younger sets feel sure .it's car. -Colum
bus State Journal,
Western poorhouse refuseu to admit
a man because* >he owned aa automo-'
bile. Which is-somewbats Ilka a hos- j
P'tal refusing to admit a man because j
he Is sick.—Little Hock Ga ette.
Just when the world was hoping to
abolish war by abolishing the cause of
war, along comes Admiral Fiska and
! says that women are the cause of r/ar.
So now all bet; are o.T.—Detroit Tews.
Some husbands have a Jeu. whi|e
others growl all over the house.—New
York American.
Albrecht and Taylor
LAWYERS
George W. Albrecht,
lditarod, Alaska,
Charles K. Taylor,
Fairbanks, Alaska.
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CHARLIE’S
LAUNDRY
McGrath, Alaska
A Bath in a Real
Bath Tub
Shoe Repairing
Sign Writing
Paper Hanging
Charles Rebhun
The Handy Man
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Are You Going to Build /
We have in stock lumber of alJ kinds, rough and
dressed. Lately we have added a few lines, such
as Rustic and Sbiplap. 4 and 0-inch Flooring, Win
dow and Door Casing, Window and Door Stopping.
Boat Lumber of all kinds.
And if you are goinn to buiid si sled, call on us. We have the
best hickory in Alaska.
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About V miles long1, extending from
No. 1 below discovery down to_the
mouth of the creek
Pay located ah along for a, distanc e
of about 3 miles from upper end, and
pretty wrll prospected, and cross-cut.
Average depth or ground is from 7
to 20 feet. Top m all black muck,
that can be scraped freely. No rock
bigger than one’s fist.
Ground will go from 15 cents to $1
persquare foot of bedrock.
Ditch on the ground, 3 miles long,
together with water rights Ground
is pretty cveli cleared. There is also
a drain, 3 miles long. Also a water
right on Ready Bullion creek, from
which water can be brought to
Yankee creek with a ditch less than
a mile long [4,900 feet], with a pres
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sure or fall of 120 feet, being 16QG
feet to the work from the ditch.
After doing away with muck there
will be from 4 to 6 feet of dirt to
handle.
Only about $11,000 has been taken
out.
Prospecting work during the past
winter has resulted in finding values
that run up to $1 per square foot of
bedrock.
I will either sell the ground or give
a lease on it. If the prospect is sat
isfactory to the buyer, a cash pay
ment will be expected. »
For further information, terms,
etc., call on ground, or write or tele
graph me.
ED NOLLETTE,
Tokotna, Alaska.
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