The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-03-23
SUNDAY SOCIAL.
THE VOLTS MAGAZINE.

The So-ealled Alaskan Magazine and Canadian Yukoner" Is a recent publication to which the attention of the DAILY ALASKAN has been called by readers in- tsresteI ln the welfare and development of the country, and any attempt in this di> rscton Is worthy of comment in any case. Certainly Such a magazine might at this time. when public attention is drawn to Alaska. assist materially in informing the outside world of the conditions exiStant here and the opportunities the district has Co offer. but it should be well written, and well edited and well illustrated. This would neteSsitate the employment Of eul- turel intelligence and Of some amount of capital. and the result would be maga- zine in which AllskanS could take some pride
 But the magazine under consideration shows not not the flinteSt Scintlla of these two necessities to the making ot a maga- line. Persival ie Wolf Whitehead We In SNagway know. and we know also that his magazine was intended to be merely a speciouS advertisement Of the mining schemes in which his millionaire friends Of Chicago were Co invest a great part Oi their capital and Sklgwav merchants were to be ''let in on the ground floor. A few of them were let in, very few.
 Percivll the wolrwls we'll and tavorao- lv know as blower, and many will be amused Co read how he blows himself in hs own magazine. He wr,eS-or has written for him:
 Like every citizen ot Alaska, the rub fisher owns mining properties from which he expects to reap good returns. In send ing Co and from these mines he gives in- structions to his proSpet,orS and miners to secure every photograph and every news item that may prove interesting to readers ot the magazine.
 Upon this slender oasis tor magazine making. the reports ot illi,erate miL> CTS, he purposes making a monthly maga- zine devoted Co the interests of Alaska. " |, is upon this show oi magnificent maga- zine enterprise that he offers to the cham her of eommerSe of Sl<agW1y, a hye thou- Sand WOfi write up in tOnSdefauOn Ol one hundred subscribers, namely two hundred and fifty dollars.
 AS for the magazine itself, t Is about wha, one would expect from a conscience less SpeculatoT in hisenteavor to sell some thing for what lt is not. lt Is not, for ln- stance, an Alaskan m1glzine,but Tacoma magazine and the bulk of it Is made up of clippings from the Tacoma and other news papers. much oi this no, even having the merit oi being up to date. There are onlv two articles with names attached Co them, and one for which credit Is given to the e5itor of the Atlin Globe and whlch is a mere adjunct Co the advertisement Of Vancouver. Of these two articles one IS stock boom article of the City of Sc a,tle. bearing the name ot the secretary of the Seattle chamber Of commerce; the oth- CT Is "A Quartz Discovery" by A. B. Le Fevre, and Is the only original magazine article this preten,ilus periodical contains. Mr. Le Fsvre is a clever writer, and no one could have told Of the wonderful richness Of the Engineers Group oi claims in a more inSiduouS and interesting man ner than he has done.
 AS to the illustrations, there Is one of some boys and dog team that started rom Percivll the WOlPS little hotel for Nome. and which in the magazine Is labelled as the Alaskan Magazine expeii- tion;" the rest arc railroad views already used and we'll known. In short the whole thing Is a catch penny" of the most transparent description, and in every way worthy oi the Co.,. Sellers genius of Per cival the Wolf.