The daily morning Alaskan., 1899-05-19
ApvERrIsE skAGwAY.

The SLagwav Chamber of Commerce Is at las, on the right track and has started movement for the advertising of Sl<agway ss an outittlng point throughout the Pa eIhe coast states that should not be allowed 10 rest until success Is assured. The lm- portance of educating the people of the States cannot be over-eStimated, for there are too many of them who have "wlld and woolly" conception of Skagway and are s,ill eonfounding it with some point along the shores of the Arctic ocean. The Chamber of Commerce at iiS meeting Wednesiay night selected a committee ot seven, each member Oi which IS repre- sentatlve business man with views Of his own on the question of ways and means, but all united on the one great important fact that the time has come when Skag- way, her interests and her possibilities, from a mineral. commercial and manuiatt- uring standpoint, should no longer be hlt- den under buShel but brought out prominently and placed before the travel ing publle of every state and city on the Paeifc coast. This Is a matter in which the committee should meet with the heart test possible support from every business man and woman and from every one hav' ing a dollars worth of interest in the com munitv. Some excellent suggestions were made bv various members aI the last meet ing of the Chamber. First it will be nec- essary for this special committee to md out positively what money can be received or how muth each business man and prop srty owner is willing to contribute each month for the next six months. Every man so contributing should be bound down by an agreement to insure the money when the proper time comes This sum should not be less than say $500 a month, and it the committee can Secuie enough business men to give according 10 the im5 ortanee of their several business, then trs question of the best method of advertising Skagwav can readily be disposed of. Several good suggestions were also made along that line, some advocating advertising in the Paeihe coast papers, principally the PoSt-lntelli' gencer, and others flvcring patronizing home industry and securing several thou sand copies of the local papers and ship ping them down to Seattle bv every steam CT leaving this port. The majority Of the members appeared to favor the lotol pa perS, baSing their opinion on the fact that a stranger would preter to see a paper from the town he Is asked to come 10 than to sec an advertisement Of that town in one ot the Sound papers. A local paper, that Is clean, respectable, daily journal, like ihe DAILY ALASKAN, Is the best possible in' dex that stranger could want as to the standing of Skagwav, ltS business houses and varied commercial interests. These, therefore, with all the local news would give them a better understanding of the town and itS people than all the advertise men.S that could possibly be published in the largest dailieS of the country. The first question then to be settled by this committee Is ways and means for carving ! out the prolect-namelv, how mueh money l are merchants of Skagwav ready to put up for the purpose of advertising the town in a systematic and aggressive manner for . the next six months?