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The Alaska daily empire., 1913-04-02

DOUGLAS, April 2.-For tn e last week or more an agreement has been in circulation among the grocery, dry goods, clothing, hardware and other general merchandise stores binding those who signed it to close their plac- es of business at 6 p. m. It was pretty generally signed, and those proprietors who signed it have kept their agree ment to begin the six o'clock closing April 1st. and last night they shut up shop promptly at that hour.
 While a few of the stores are still kept open after that hour, it is thought that all will close as soon as the S.hour law goes into effect, it should be- come a law.
 The largest crowd that ever packed the Lyric theatre witnessed the great masterpiece. Homer's odessey in three reels last night.
 A large number attended the tea at Mrs. L. S. Ferris home last night, and it was success all the way through.
 There will be dance at the Tread well Club tonight.
 Stanley Cizeck returned on the Prin- cess Sophia last night from visit to Vancouver.
 The steamer Al.Ki landed at the City Dock this morning with freight and passengers.
 The Nikkado House, Noodles and Chop suey. Behind Owl Restaurant. Phone 2-S. 4-2-6 l2t
 GO TO "Leivers" for you milk shakes. ice cream cones and sodas. 6t'
 PAUL KEGEL-Piano and Organ tuning and repairing. All work guar anteed. S-26-t'L
 GO TO "Leivers" for a good chew or smoke. 3-Z4-ot'
 Chambers Bros. Butchers-Choice cuts a speciality.
 "LEIvERS" keeps Augustine & Kyer's candy-the best on the mar ket S-24-St'
 Coffee, chocolate and cocoa will be served with whipped cream, every night at "LEIvER'S". S-27-6t
 Fragrant toilet soap TW MY CENTS A BOX this week at SWI- HART'S. 3-2S-6t.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-04-02
COURT NOTES

Tomorrow morning Joe Macdonald will plead to the indictment against him and the matter of continuing ap- plication for bail will be argued.
 Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock the drawing will take place for the grand and petit juries for the Ketchikan term of court.
 Deputy Marshal William Fels will leave on the City of Seattle for Morn ingside with Robert Cameron an in- sane man from Sitka and will also take an Indian insane man from Ket- chikan to the same place.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-04-02
NEW BUILDING
 CONTRACTS LET

Cleveland & Cleveland have been given the contract to build an up-to' date residence for V. H. Wilhelm. It will be a cottage consisting of five rooms and is to cost $S,OOO.
 The same firm of contractors have been given a contract to build five cabins for I. Goldstein near the old Alaska Steamship dock.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-04-02
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

Any subscribers to The Daily Elm pire not receiving papers regularly either by carrier or mail. will confer favor by promptly notifying The Empire ofice.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-04-02
Forced Out of Business

by owner of building. Had no lease, no available house to move into. Watches clocks, jewelry, silverware, cut glass, hand-painted china, white and gold band china must be sold at any sacrifice. I. J. sHARICK, optician
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-04-02
DR. R. C. MATHIS
 DENTIST Opp. Postoffice, Over ReXall
 Drug Store DOUGLAS, ALASKA
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 Mrs. Rita Leak is confined to her room and has been for the past few days with an attack of lagrippe.
 H. Turner, auditor of the Northern Commercial Company with headQuar- ters in Dawson, passed through on the Princess Sophia yesterday en- route to the Yukon metropolis.
 w Dickinson, agent of the White Pass and Yukon route at Whitehorse, accompanied by his wife, passed through on the Princess Sophia yes terday enroute to Whitehorse.
 Jack Horn, an old timer of these parts, recently passed through Ju- neau coming from Prince Rupert en- route to the Jennings river strike.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-04-02
To Arrive

The Commercial Cafe has just in- stalled a steam serving table which will expedite the service and insure everything being served on piping hot dishes. S-2O-tf
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-04-02
B. p. o. ELKs SPECIAL NOTICE

Regular meeting this evening at s o'clock sharp. The installation of of ficers will take place. A good attend ance is expected.
 H. J. TURNER, Sec.
 J. w. BELL, E. R.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-04-02

The seven highest were elected pr. Sargent was elected without op- position.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-04-02
Sparks From
 Douglas
Douglas Chooses
 City COunCiImen

Douglas, April 2.-The following was the result of the spirited municipal election in this city yesterday; for city
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-04-02

Phone your subscription to The Daily Empire. Phone S-74.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-04-02

"LEIVERS" keeps Augustine & Kyer's candy-the best on the mar ket. S'Z4-Ot'
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-04-02

Fragrant toilet soap TWENTY CENTS A BOX this week at SWI' HART'S. 3-2S-6t,
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-04-02

Coffee. chocolate and cocoa will be served with whipped cream, every night at "LEIvER'S". S-27-6t
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-04-02

The Nikkado House. Noodles and Chop Suey. Behind Owl Restaurant. Phone 2-S 4-2-6 l2t
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-04-02

Chambers Bros. Butchers-Choice cuts a speciality.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-04-02

GO TO 'Leivers" for a good chew or smoke. S-24-6t.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-05
Test Models to Determine Speed of Warships

fifty to something less than two hun
dred, and this gives some fair idea or
the activities OF the plant. But this Is
not all that is done there. For years
Naval Constructor Taylor has been rec
ognized as one Of the leading authorities
upon the involved problem OF the screw
propeller. II Is hopeless to try TO lead
the Iayman into the seemingly endless
mazes OF this necessary adjunct to the
steamship. but the naval architect and
the marine engineer cannot dispose Of
the subject so easily. Naval Constructor
Taylor devised very ingenious machine
for the making of model experimental
propellers, and his investigations with
these screws have been OF the utmost
importance. This is one of the associ-
ate lines Of research carried on at the
tank in connection with the models OF
vessels, because. in measure, each ship
and a proper propeller for her are allied
problems.
But for the services OF a model tank
built especially for the purpose. we might
still be waiting for the Mauretana and
the Lusitania, and, too, the millions In
volved In the building OF those ships
would not have been ventured had not
the preliminary model trials shown both
the engineer and the naval architect what
they had to do to win success. We are
now on the eve of the 1,0oo-foot liner, and
who shall say offhand just where the
builders are going to stop? Once upon a
time the ship Of the present would have
seemed utterly chimerical in the minds OF
the shipbuilders of the not distant past.
but now our designer can look forward
to the future with measure OF confidence
which Is wonderfully impressive, IL one
but stop to make comparisons. The model
experimental basin has given him an In
strument Of everincreasing value, be-
cause studies of a great variety of d.
visions of the complex movements of the
water about a ship in motion have been
carried forward and are still under way
These are disclosing some things of
revolutionary character, but we cannot
discuss them now, important as they are.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-05
A REAL PHllANTHROPlST.

George AIDE was talking about his last
visit to London
81 like 10 knock about London Alone
he said. studying the places of histori-
cal interest. and at this kindly Christmas
season remember with particular pleas
ure a good deed that / performed at one
of I.ondons historic landmarks for
Chicago woman.
ut was a rainy fall day. and | sat over
a beefsteak pudding and mug OF bitter
AT the Cheshire Cheese, in Fleet street.
"The Chicago woman entered, Bos-
wells johnson IN her hand. The
Cheshire Cheese was, you know, John-
sons favorite tavern, and the woman had
been told that the great mans autograph
could still be seen, pencilled on one of
the walls
THE walters told her they knew of no
such autograph; but the woman, with
dauntless Chicago spirit, began long,
long search, upstairs and down.
while she was upstairs a warm glow
OF benevolence suddenly rose up in my
breast, and, taking pencil from my
rocket, | wrote with quaint eighteenth
century fourishes on the wall behind me:
Sam Johnson
"The woman on her return from up
stairs sped the autograph and was over
loved. Is Il not amazing how much hap
piness we can give to others by these
little acts of kindness?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-05

lens OF that adjustment Of the immigrant
which the new situation requires. and It
IL exactly in the Offering OF this kind
OF help that the skilled foreign criminals
get hold OF the newcomers.
They make the immigrant their per-
petual victim. as the conditions in Amer
lea are so different and, therefore, more
difficult than those which confronted the
first settlers. II would be an excellent
thing TO fiji this lack and to create an
information service which would cover
the field OF the needs OF the immigrant
and put him on the right track
You are too easy with your charity to
aliens. This has been discovered. and ac-
counts for the sudden influx OF Italians
into your institutions. The result Is that
a certain percentage OF the immigration
is due to the comparatively easy means OF
obtaining support here. You ought only
to provide work, better living conditions,
enforcement OF the law and protection
against the parasites who prey upon i'm
migrants You ought TO take advantage
OF certain characteristics, the presence Of
which too many Americans forget. the
yenturesome and ambitious spirit which
the present immigrants possess In the
same measure as did the first corners. You
ought to put them in a sane environment
and let them work their own way by
themselves If they do we'll, they should
be welcome. If they do wrong: If. even,
for some reason independent OF their
good will, they do not succeed. you should
send them back to their native country.
There is no reason why the United States
should become the eleemosynary institu-
ton, the insane asylum and the prison
OF the world"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-05
MONTE CARLO PRICES.

Judge William II. Moore at horse
show supper in Gotham's newest hotel
discussed hotel prices.
"They are worse at Monte Carlo, per-
haps," he said, than anywhere else in
the world The German tourist is sneered
at in Monte Carlo because. when he en-
ters a barber shop for a shave. he always
asks what the charge is to be before he
sits down in the chair.
But what is a man TO do in barber
shops where it is no uncommon thing to
be charged 81 or 50 for the simplest opera
ton?
And it's the same thing In the hotels.
know a man who took a suite at a
Monte Carlo hotel without asking the
price of anything--and in the restaurants
Of such hotels it's a common thing to find
no prices even on the menus.
well. when this man came to pay his
bill, 1t was enormous. But he paid 1t.
Then he said:
"'Have you any % centime stamps?'
Eyes. monsieur said the clerk. How
many do you wish?
MY friend smiled blandly.
"Tell me first. please he said. what
you charge for them here"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-05
A COOL STAND.

Apropos Of a railroad wreck due TO
defective bridge, Jerome s. McWade. the
Duluth sociologist, said the other day:
THE railroads cool stand about TINS
bridge reminds me OF worse case-a
case about toll bridge in the South
1.-THE toll bridge was rotten. and wom-
an fell through a hole in 1t and was
drowned. Her indignant townspeople held
a mass meeting, and in response to their
resolution Of protest the company wrote:
"'Gentlemen: Your resolution about our
bridge has been duly received. 1t will be
laid before the board at our annual meet
ing, eleven months hence. In the mean
while, to prevent, II possible, recurrence
of the small accident to which said reso-
luton refers, would it not be better II
all your citizens used the company's other
bridge, three miles to the north of the
town? The water there is scarcely deep
enough to drown a man OF full height.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-05
Continued from first page.

six knots an hour, were first designed to
be $50 feet long. Experiments at the
basin in Washington disclosed the aston
ishing fact that by making them 40 feet
long, but slightly narrower and shallow
er, the displacement remaining the same,
only half the horsepower was needed TO
obtain the desired speed. AS an average
proposition every horsepower represents
In cost Of engines and boilers probably
quite SEQ, and the power saved in each OF
the three ships of the class was fully
1900 horsepower. You can easily figure
what money was thus saved in the case of
these particular ships in the way Of first
cost. and you must not forget the other
economy involved during the active life
Of the vessels in the way OF a reduced
consumption Of fuel.
Here is another instance of still more
recent date, but OF another type. The
gunboat Nashville was built about sew
enteen years ago. She has displacement
Of 1875 tons and, with engines developing
900 horsepower, can make sixteen knots.
The gunboat Sacramento, now building.
has displacement of 800 tons greater
than that Of the Nashville. and yet. be-
cause Of the superior form of her null,
she can make sixteen knots with oo
horsepower less. This saving in horse
power represents good many tons, ana
IN the new craft this weight has been put
10 other desirable uses, resulting In a bet
Ter vessel in a number Of particulars
There is another way to look upon the
economies resulting
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-05
Literacy Test for Aliens
Continued from fifth page.

channel. Results are sure. Here. II rooms
are overcrowded or there is a disease. the
newcomer may think IL Is his duty ia
report It to the police, and he does so.
There is no tangible result, because the
enforcement of the ordinances which have
been violated lies with the Tenement
House Department or the Health Depart
ment and 1t is not recognized by the po-
lIceman as his duty to take the complaint
and direct it into the channel into which
II should go. The immigrant gets COM
pletely lost here because there are no or
carnations provided. public or private.
v hich have the aim Of solving the prob
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-05
BOTH vows BROKEN.

Apropos of the Observation-Disclosures fight
against the Nobel prize award to DR..
Alexis Carrel, Of the Rockefeller lnsti-
tute, Professor Herbert Satterley said the
other day In Jacksonville:
''These ants contradict themselves ter
ribly when they try to prove that animal
research is useless and futile. They just
put themselves In the position Of one of
their number whom l met at my hotel
tho other day.
"As this anti was dining I bent for
ward AMI said to him:
"'Pardon me, but you are, I believe,
both an anti vivsectionist and vege-
tartan?
"'Yes, sir, that Is correct" he answered
"Then,' said /, you will probably be
shocked to learn that you have just
eaten a live caterpillar with your lettuce
salad"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-05
CUlTIVATING THE FORK.

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, dressed af-
ter the best English manner In black,
tight. long-tailed morning coat, dark
trousers, gray topped boots. and a silk
hat worn at a rakish backward angle
discussed at the horse show his project
Of living part OF the time abroad.
"Why shouldn't one live lot abroad?''
he said THEY are not so bad over
there In dress, in books. in plays. In
music--really, you know, in nearly every
thing they are not so bad
81 fear we underrate them. j fear we
are all too prone to regard the foreigner
as he is regarded in the story of Count
Sans Terre.
"'Why, count cried a friend look al
your facel Such rapier cuts! Don't you
know that dueling is going out OF fash.
ion?'
~ have not been duelling.' growled
the count It's my American wife. She
makes me eat with fork"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-05
A TANK THAT PAYS.

In a paper read recently before the
Society OF Naval Architects and Marine
Engineers. e. II. Rigg gave some inter-
esting information in confirmation of the
benefits OF the model experimental basin.
10 quote him: THAT this tank pays Is
evidenced by the difference between the
connecticut trials and those OF the Mich
igan. The average ship of the Connect
cut class required 1890 indicated horse
power for eighteen knots. whereas the
later design, OF Identical displacement and
type Of machinery, required only 1890
indicated horsepower for the same speed.
Ihis means that for ten thousand miles
the saving in coal amounts TO 1,l00 tons
al eighteen knots. This can be fairly
credited to the experimental tank and its
able staff"
Again, Mr.. Rigg tells us OF two other
vessels. one an oil tanker and the other a
United States naval collier. The collier
is OF about six years later design and OF
1850 tons greater displacement than the
oil tanker. The collier. designed In con-
nection with the model basin, is more eco
homical In horsepower than its smaller
nval Either coal or oil fuel Is expen-
sive, and economies in power mean cor
responding savings In the cost OF making
steam, and upon given bunker capacity
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-05
CITY LIFE.

DR.. Harvey w. Wiley apropos OF pure
Christmas foods, said the other day In
Chicago:
81 know a woman, fresh from the coun-
try. who complained to her cook during
the holidays:
"'Our cider is watery. the turkey has
no flavor. / can't find any meat In the
mincemeat and back home they'd hardly
give TO the pigs such a mass OF adultera-
ton as that timed plum pudding we had
for yesterdays dinner
"The cook smiled tolerantly.
you'll get over them rural notions
after a while she said.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-05
ON WHICH ALL TASTES AGREE.

Theodore Dresser, the novelist, was
talking in New York about critic who
had condemned his 'dreary masterpiece
SISTER Carrie" With a smile. Mr..
Dresser said:
II should have answered him, perhaps.
as Whistler answered a critic of one OK
the 'nocturnes.' This critic said the
nocturne in question wasn't good.
Whistler screwed in his monocle and
grinned at the man.
".Don't say it isn't good he said. Say
YOU don't like 1t. Then you'll be safer.
And now, come over here. Here IL
something you do like
And Whistler led the critic to side
board whereon there stood whiskey
bottle"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-05
Ouiips and Tests from Here and There

other day it reminded him Of an absent
minded railroad president.
This absentminded man. waiting at ono
of the company's stations, chatted with
the ticket agents two little girls.
"'How old are your he asked the older
one.
"'Six. sir
land you, my dear?' he asked thas
other.
OF am FIVE
"'How can that be-? muttered the pres
ident why this station has only been
opened for four years and half.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-05
A Pertinent QUESTION.

Like many aristocrats, Craig Biddle.
the well known PhiladeI phian, holds that
the founder OF great family Is better
than the scion of greac famly-that fine
deeds are worth more than fine blood.
Mr. Biddle, In the smoking room of the
Adriatic. was conversing with young
Englishman.
81" the young Englishman drawled
complacently, IT can trace my descent
hack I'm an unbroken line to William the
Conquerer."
"And what else can you do! said Mr..
piddIa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-05

, insure wider range Of activity. Just
think what this means annually in pro-
vding fuel for our battle Meet, anu
YOU can realize that the early hesitauoh
OF Congress to provide for an expert
mental tank has probably cost the ma
/ tion millions. AS 81 matter OF fact the
running of the model basin in Washing
/ ton and the testing OF all Of the govern
ment models yearly does not exceed an
| annual expenditure Of S2o, 900! But we are
not only getting more economical shlps
| but we are actually securing inner UNITS
| for our seaboard defence.
In his annual report, the closing one for
! his administration, the Secretary or the
Navy has this message to the American
people: THE very satisfactory results
, achieved upon the trials OF new battIe-
ships and destroyers during the year were
due largely to the Investigations or the
| experimental model basin. This estap-
| ishment at the Washington Navy faru
has carried on for more than ten years
careful Investigations Of the most de-
| sirable forms and proportions for naVai
vessels with resulting steady improve
ment In them. By reference to the large
amount OF data accumulated 1t Is pos
sible to determine at once the sultaoie
form and proportions or the approximate
horsepower required for any type OF naval
vessel, and the results obtained upon
trials of the vessels that have been COM
pleted for several years past compare
most favorably with those shown In other
navies. Without the facilities OF the ex-
perimental model basin and its accumuia-
| ton of data, It would BIO impossible 10
predict with any approach to accuracy
the speed to be expected upon trial OF
vessel at all novel In type. The recent
| battleships and destroyers now In the
feet have each been the subject OF care
full and thorough investigation at the
model basin during the preparation OF de-
signs, and because Of this every one OF
them has developed materially greater
speed for a given power than could have
been obtained otherwise.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-05
ILLOGICAL AND UNREASONABLE.

Frank B. Williams. wealthy resident
Of New Orleans, has declined to pay a
surgeon $4,000 for an appendicitis opera
ton on the ground that such a fee Is ex-
orbitant. The case will be tried in the
New Orleans courts.
"The surgeons say they treat the poor
for nothing and take it out on the rich,"
remarked a friend Of Mr.. Williams, but
Williams aolds that such conduct Is IL
logical and unreasonable. He said the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-05
A HEAVENLY DISPOSITION.

Mrs. Belmont Mitchell. at a dinner at
her beautiful Fifth avenue house, with it's
sumptuous facade of white and gold, said
OF a very exclusive matron
THE dear woman reminds me OF Queen
Victoria. There's an anecdote that Illus
trates Queen Victoria's character wildly.
Lady Southampton, talking to the
Queen about the hereafter, said:
Don't you think. ma am. that one OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-05

the joys OF the future state will not only
be the reunion with long lost friends, but
also the opportunity Of meeting for the
first time the noble figures of Biblical
history? Think. ma'am-Abraham VIII be
there. and Isaac. Moses will be there.
And the sweet singer OF lsrael-Dayid-
yes. he. too, will be there
1.-THE Queen pursed up her lips.
Positively she said. I will not meet
David "
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-05
TEN YEARS INVESTIGATION.

"The law authorizing the model basin
provided that experiments might be made
there for private shipbuilders. at their
expense, and the department has taken
pleasure in authorizing our progressive
private shipbuilders and naval architects
to make use Of the facilities of this val
liable establishment
AS a matter of fact, private Interests
have profted considerably by the model
basin. not only in the designing OF mer-
chant craft and yachts Of various Sorts
but In certain experimental work associ-
ated with the flying machine. This has
been especially so In the working Out
of the most efficient shape for the boats
or floats of the hydroaeroplane Each
year the number OF models made ana
tried at the Washington Navy YARD
ranges anywhere from q hundred and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-05
FACT AND FANCY.

No man can be a model husband UNI
less he is a working model.
After fifty years the brain begins - iese