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Valdez daily prospector., 1914-11-11
LOCAL RREVITIES.

LOCAL sREvITIEs. 1 A. Props is in town from Chitina. Robert Small is in Valdez from Chitina.
 The War Correspondent at the Or pheum tonight
 1 The Katalla Queen left this morn- ing at a. m. for Cordova.
 c. s. Bratton, of Cordova, is at- tending court as a grand juror. 1 z w. Dunkel arrived in town on the steamer Northwestern from Juneau. 1 Judge Medley, of Cordova, is at- tending court as, a witness in the Pa pas case.
 Going out of business. The entire stock of jewelry at soc on the dol lar at Plant & Co.
 G. A. Vinger left for Cordova this morning on the Katalla Queen. 1 Thitry-five per cent. discount on diamonds and nuggets. Plant & Co. U S. Deputy Marshal Sam Bright well, of Cordova, came over on the Northwestern to attend court FOR SALE-Oak extension dining table, chiffoniers, etc. Guy F. Cam eron.
 w. c. Harrington, the mining en- gineer, will leave in the morning for | the Tasnuna.
 Solid gold and gold filled watches | with all kinds of movements at soc 1 on the dollar. Plant & Co.
 See Tod Winter TOT your watch and | jewelry repairing at E. Winters store All work guaranteed. If |
 FOR RENT-Three room flat with l bath. Apply to George White, the l assayer. If 1
 Will A Steel, editor of the Cor | dova Alaskan, arrived in town this ! morning.
 Suits pressed for $1.O0 at Silver mans the tailor. Telt phone 198.
 One dollar clocks SOC at Plant & i Go.
 Tom Scott, the cashier of the First 1 Bank of Cordova, is in Valdez at- | tending court as witness in the Pa pas case.
 G. o. Reinke, the watchmaker and l jeweler, is at the Valdez Drug Co. l All work guaranteed.
 ?-Men's heavy wool hose 25c pair l at Emporium. If !
 Miss Mildred Clancy, professional | nurse of wide experience, arrived on l the Northwestern to take position 1 at the Valdez hospital.
 Suits pressed Tor $l.OO at Silver l mans the tailor. Telephone 198.
 If you want to buy Granite stock 1 see John Emel. If l
 FOR RENT-Furnished house with l bath; close in. 12O both phones.
 A ten days mail was received on | the Northwestern for the local office l and the clerks have been exception l ally busy sorting and distributing it l today.
 Judge F. M. Browns shorthand l class will meet at the public school this evening. All members are re- Quested to be present. New Hot Point electric heaters, cooking appliances and six.pound
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-11-11

Great war pictures at the Oprph- cum tonight 25c.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-11-11

FOR RENT-Furnished house with bath; close in. 120 both phones.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-11-11

If you want to buy Granite stock see John Emel. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-11-11

Suits pressed Tor S1.oO at Silver mans the tailor. Telephone 198.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-11-11

If you want all the news all tho time. read the Prospector.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-11-11

Roger Bros. 1847 silverware ant sterling silverware at 60c on the dol lar at Plant G Co.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-11-11

A ten days mail was received on the Northwestern for the local office and the clerks have been exception. ally busy sorting and distributing it today.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-11-11

Miss Mildred Clancy, professional nurse of wide experience, arrived on the Northwestern to take a position at the Valdez hospital.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-11-11

Judge F. M. Browns shorthand class will meet at the public school this evening. All members are re Quested to be present.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-01

pie have different ideas of hades. Mine
is just being alone
When you are alone, if you are such
girl, thoughts assail you. You see your
self deserted, starving, dying and alone.
You think of a way out. You plan sui
eide but you are afraid. In those long
hours alone while l was waiting for
Charles Wilson to keep his promise !
learned to drink.
girl who was blue and lonely like
myself advised it. 1T will drive away the
blue devils. You'll think you are a prin-
cess-for little while" she said.
Two glasses of champagne made my
head whirl, made me dance and sing,
made me laugh, made me build air castles
of the time when | should go home and
introduce my husband and when my
mother should take me in her arms and
say, Daughter, | forgive you
The next time was alone and blue
drank again, this time three glasses |
kept on comforting myself thus in secret.
Once Wilson came to call and found me
unconscious, with the empty bottle and
glass beside me. He was very angry. We
quarrelled. He stayed away. | entreated
him to come back 1t was the beginning
of many scenes between us.
Whether he would have willingly kept
his words had | not in those months of
waiting formed the habit of drinking, l
don't know have never been sure. But
of this am sure. 1t gave him an excuse
for procrastinating. 1t gave him reason
to tell me that his love was gone because
the girl who had come from Norfolk with
him was gone.
My mirror told me that this time he told
the truth. / was not the same girl. My
figure was losing its slim, youthful lines.
My features were bloated My eyes were
smaller and the lids were heavy. My
fresh color had disappeared and had given
way to a gray, pasty look. | was sober
the morning looked into the mirror and
saw the truth that all | had, my beauty,
was vanishing. | threw myself on the bed
and cried for hours. I promised myself
to stop drinking.
Copyright, 1914. by the Star Compa
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-01

while Her Majesty's living expenses and
the wages at Sandringham amounted to
100000; thus in living expenses alone
Queen Alexandra last year spent $250,0OO
more than the sum which she receives
from the nation, which was supposed to
cover the cost of her maintenance and the
upkeep of her two establishments.
Before Queen alexandra went with her
sister to Balmoral she ordered a special
through train from London to Ballater.
and then almost at the last moment,
altered the hour she had arranged to
leave London at from 2.30 p. M to 3.45
p. m. The alteration in the special serv-
ice naturally caused great inconvenience
TO the railway company and put an ad-
ditional $500 to the cost of the special.
and the only reason why Her Majesty
made the alteration in the hour OF her
departure from London was in order to
allow her time to see some new designs
for the papering of one of the rooms at
Marlborough House, which could have
easily been sent on to her at Balmoral
Queen Alexandra's expenditure on gifts
to relations and friends is lavishly ex-.
travagant. Her Majesty paid $4,000 for
a gold vase which she presented to the
Duchess of FIT for a wedding present.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-01
The Dowager Queen Who Is Always in Debt

Her Majesty, when at Balmoral, ordered
pearl and diamond necklace as pres
ent for the Princess Mary to wear at the
royal wedding. Four necklaces were sent
from London to Balmoral by special mes
senger for Her Majesty's approval Ono
of these was valued at $4,000, and this
she would have given to the Princess, but
Queen Mary would not allow Her. Majesty
to do so.
A couple of months ago Queen Alex
andra was forced to face the fact that her
expenditure was exceeding her income by
a notification from her bankers that her
private account was overdrawn by nearly
$4,000 To meet her bankers overdraft,
Queen Alexandra has had to realize some
of her securities, and at the urgent solici
tations of King George. Her Majesty has
allowed Mr.. Leopold de Rothchild to GO
into her financial affairs.
Only last week, on the suggestion of
the chief groom at the stables at MARI
borough House, she allowed an order to
be sent out for three motor luggage
wagons at a cost of $4,000 per wagon,
which will put commission of at least
y75O in the pocket of the groom, and the
wagons, which are not required, will prob
ably never be used.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-01

London, Jan. "a.
~ OR some time past Queen Alex
- andra's financial affairs have been
the subject of a good deal of talk
among those in her immediate encourage.
Her Dowager Majesty is perhaps enc
of the worst wo menof business who ever
had the unfettered control of a consider
able fortune. Her income from the state
is $350,000 per annum and her private
fortune in the way Of charges on the es
tate of the late king and interest from
invested monies amounts to about $500, 900
This income, properly managed, would
far more than have sufficed to meet the
needs of Her Majesty after King Ed
wards death, and would have been suf-
icient to have kept her in the dignity and
state which the widow of the sovereign
might have naturally desired to have
maintained.
But her expenditures have been steadily
increasing until during the past year, 1t
has exceed her income by several tens
Of thousands.
The catering bills and wages at MARI
borough House, which Sir Dighton Probyn
considered should not exceed 100000 per
annum, last year amounted to 100000,
: Great Britain Rights Reserved.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-01

When had served my term l
searched London for friends and help.
went to Paris and was arrested at the sta
ton for disorderly conduct Thirty days.
When l spoke people looked at me with
contempt and drew away My story was
written in my bloated features, in my
eyes, that betrayed my secret | was
drunkard.
One night | sat all night while the cold
gray fog came up from the river and
wrapped me round, on one of the benches
on the Embankment, with other human
wrecks.
Once tried to kill myself, but in that,
as in everything else in my life, failed
I drifted back to America, half of my
passage paid by charitable Americans. !
told my story to those had known in my
first days in New York They doled out
money to me, little at a time. saying,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-01

people who belonged to the smiling world,
where there is no fear mingled with the
thought of paying next months bills.
had forsaken the work world where | had
been stenographer, working in the Fair
Grounds at the jamestown Exposition at
seven dollars week. and had entered the
play world, where l had nothing to do but
look pretty and be gay spirited
This alone would not have seemed justi-
hcation to me for leaving my home. But !
had at my elbow and figuratively at my feet
man with whom i was infatuated Charles
Wilson, whom / had met at the Horse
Show, while l was admiring the Wander
hlt horses / saw that he admired me and
/ was fiattered. When he began to make
love to me / believed him. When ! got
aboard the Wayfarer l believed that he
would marry me when we reached New
York.
Instead he took me to his home at New
port when a sweet faced, grayhaired woman
greeted me kindly and called him Charlie
When l asked him who she was, he said;
Don't make fuss about it. She's my
wife!"
left their home in Newport and came
to New York He followed me here. 1
threatened to go home and tell my father
everything.
You'll not stay long he sneered.
They'll kick you out. Do you suppose an
f. F. V. will have such a girl as you now
are under it's roOf?'
Although he spoke in anger, knew he
told the truth. | had always admired
and loved my father, but | knew him as
he was, proud, stern man with little
sympathy for the weaknesses OF human
nature l had been very weak and TOOL
ish. That | loved this man who had
with
| was only seventeen years old would be
little excuse to him. Southerners are hot
headed as well as high-spirited. If told
father the truth he might follow Charles
Wilson and kill him. Before that thought
I quailed. Often womans heart is tral-
tor to her own best interests | remained
in New York Wilson told me he would
divorce his wife and marry me.
| tried to believe him and | waited.
hoped and prayed for the time when, re-
habilitated, as his wife, / could pay visit
to my home. But waiting is dangerous
pastime in New York. Especially if you
are young and beautiful.
If went out for walk my appearance
attracted attention. / was always &C.
costed, or was followed home, by some
man, usually one with cruel eyes and
predatory mouth. Often | reached home
Just in time to slam the door in his race
II / dared to go to a play in the after
noon, it was the same.
was very lonely. Charles Wilson's
travels with the Vanderbilts' horses and
his care for them at the stables in New
York and in Newport Kept him busy l
saw him seldom, and then for only short
time. If you are very clever you can
amuse yourself. You can study and read.
Your thoughts are excellent companions.
But If you are only pretty and dependent
the hours you are alone are hours of tor
ture.
| have heard girl like me say: "Peo.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-01

But that evening some gay friends tele-
phoned me of party that was being made
up at rathskeller to watch the old year
out and the new in. | knew | should be
alone. l went | slept all of the next
day. When l awoke l knew what that
heavy torpor meant. / had drunk TOO
much, far too much
had become a slave. Let me tell you
what it is to become a slave to drink. 1t
is to become utterly hopeless. 1t is to
become incapable of effort of any kind,
even effort of the will. Friends tried to
pull me up" They suggested Paris. But
felt only the call of the cafes in Mont
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-01
THE MORGUE.

The Last Road House of the Gay Life"
TT is only a few days ago that Florence
Schenck, the gay, wilful Virginian
= beauty, whose escapades made her
notorious in two worlds, died the day after
she arrived at her old home.
Three days before her death, she die
tated the article that appears on this page.
Florence Schenck thought that she had
at least year to live, and she had de-
termined to devote every working hour to
warning other girls of the path she had
taken-the gay primrose path, whose end
is the unnamed grave of Potteris Field
This article was to have been her first
move In her fight
The lesson she would have taught in it
has been vised by Death, and it is more
important now perhaps than it would
have been with it's writer still alive
Miss Schenck, it will be remembered,
was the daughter of DR.. Powhattan
Schenck, a retired surgeon of the United
States army and member of one of the
First Families of Virginia" She ran
away with Charles Wilson, a whip in the
Alfred Vanderbilt stables. She had tired
of the humdrum, respectable life in
modest home in the seaport town of Nor
folk, Va She wanted to see the world.
She saw it. And what she saw and ex.
perienced killed her.
She led the gayest of lives in New York,
= in london, in Berlin.
I,ere follows her story, her warning to
Naec girls, who may be tempted to tread
. path she trod:
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-01


w pleadings' came to see me in my y
w little room at the hospital,
could not see him through my tears. l
could not speak for the sob in my throat.
/ chung to his hand, thinking: Poor father!
He has seen many a shipwreck down home,
but never one more terrible than this of his
daughters life" / stared up into his face
that was very stern and sad. Whlspered'
kiss me, father"
He pressed his lips upon my forehead and
I heard little choke in his throat.
Then my lovely sister Ann came in and
kissed me and cried. She went out OF tne
room and two doctors came in and they ana
father looked at my bruised side and the
purple cash where the surgeons mad mace
an incision, and all of them looked very
grave. Afterwards l looked up at tather
and he shook his head.
"You cannot live long, my daughter, he
said. "At best it will be but short time.
If YOU seem to recover it will only mean
that YOUR short life will be that Of an in
valid. You have repented, have you not:
Then spend whatever time is left to you IN
warning other girls against the path you
have followed"
ssThe path that leads to the morgue ana
then to Potter's Field" l thought.
with my hand in his and our tears min
Cling | promised. And this is the way
shall do it. 49,,
shall grow a little better. That they
an expect for me- knowing tnat IL
will only be short time and that lneVlta
bly, l shall grow worse and then the emu
will be very near, that time of being III
tie better will be my golden time. IL Is theh
that I will carry out by plan.
shall not go back to my old home at
Norfolk. That would be too severe cross
for NV proud family though they have not
refused me shelter. But / shall leave New
York. whose other name is temptation, Ior
girls who have not great talents OF the
greatest talent of all, which is the ability 10
resist the lure of idleness and gayety. even
now with the shadow of death upon me
fear it, for its fingers, though wreatned III
flowers, are strong and cruel
I should like to go to a small city, Tor
instance Richmond, and there live quietly
and either lecture from the platform or
with nv pen. until the end comes Always
NV sermon will be "The wages OF sin is
DEATH" and always will address myself
to girls weak, pleasure-loving girls, VINO
know not what they say when they utter
those ominous words, ~ want to see the
world"
Seven years ago | slipped out OF my quiet
home on the outskirts of Norfolk and came
~ New York in Alfred Vanderbilt's private
car. the Wayfarer. The name OF the car
was an omen. But did not know it then
II was the most luxurious sight had ever
seen. with velvet draperies and the scent of
sandalwood and of fine cigars and of old
wines hanging about it. People who
boarded the car and got of again were
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-01

martre. | went to London. |
handled the Vanderbilt horses
now and then. and the papers
talked of the Virginia beauty
who was so clever whip. But
all the while a voice whispered
to me when was alone, you
are not beautiful. You are not
happy. You are not gay. You
only seem to be. You and your
kind are apples of Sodom, beau.
tiful outside, but ashes within
the ashes of despair.
Charles Wilson's mood to-
ward me varied. Sometimes he
was kind. At others cruel. He
secured his divorce. There
was a ceremony. / have brought
a suit to prove that l became
his legal wife. That suit is
pending.
But he afterward married an
other. A young, lovely girl,
with such a face of innocence
as / had when / first met him.
The news drove me frantic. ]
watched for them one day, and
when they drove up to the sta
ton threw myself in her path
and told her my story. HE is
not your husband. He's mine
said, pointing at him. A crowd
collected. He had me arrested.
/ served a term in Holloway
Jail, with my golden hair, that
he had often said was my chief
beauty, cut off.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-01
Beware the Path / Trodw
By Florence Schenck.

dictated by Her Three Days Before Her Death)
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-01

Florence
Schenck
AS She
Was When
She Ran
Away
From Home
with
Charles
Wilson,
Vanderbilt's
Horse
Trainer.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-02-10
SUMS
 F0R BUILDINGS

Philadelphia, Feh. 1O-Four-eeu millions ,f dollars will be spent by Philadelphia in the erection of pub lie buildings 70 comprise what is claimed will be the most notable group of municipal structures in the world, according to plans near ing completion. Starting at the City Hall the buildings will be cree ted along q broad Darkway with the Municipal Art Gallery at one end, and a Temple of Justice at the oth- 'r. Other structures viii be a cell traI library, central manual train ing school, Franklin institute, Am erIcan Philosophical Society building and a sc4col of industrial art. The Municipal Art Gallery and the Temple Of Justice wiI cost $3,O0O,- U0O each, and the central library $&,5O0,OOO. The school of industrial art is to cost $1,OO0,GO0.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-02-10
BUILD GRAND
 CANYON REPLICA

San Francisco, Fao. 10-Work started Saturday on the miniature of the Grand Canyon of Arizona which is to be one of the most expensive and attractive concessions of the Panama Pacific International Expo sition. This concession, which is being constructed by the Santa Fe Railroad at a cost of exceeding $350,O00, will be the exact replica of Natures masterpiece. While it will occupy only five and a half acres, scientific devices will show the can yOn in it's proper perspective and give the visitor true conception of the great heights and distances. A trainload of red sandstone from Winslow, Arizona, resembling the native stone of the canyon and large shipments of sage and cactus from which the canyon will be built arrived several days ago.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-02-10

The Alaska Cafe and Grill, short ly to be opened on the corner of Second and Broadway by Karaman & Clecak, is rapidly rearing com pletion and is now in the hands of D. J. Rich, the paper hanger, paint CT and decorator for the finishing touches. The opening will probab- ly take place about the 1st of March
 Jas. Sullivan, the painter and dec orator, returned Saturday from Ft. W. H. Seward, where he has been for some time engaged in the work of renoyating the interior of the pos hospital. While there he enamel led all the walls in the different wards and varnished the woodwork throughout.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-02-10
.ESPOUSIHG WO-
 MAN SUFFRAGE

Rome, Feb. 1O-The formal anal gamation of the Italian Socialists and Feminists for the attainment of their respective political ends, took place Thursday. The recent cleo ton of 80 socialist deputies to par liament was in large measure due to the campaign efforts of the Ital- ian suffragettes, the Socialists alone having declared themselves in ia yor of equal suffrage. In return for this the socialistic party today announced it's formal alliance with the later and will fight to secure parliamentary support for the so- cialist legislation desired.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-02-10
MEM0-
 RIAL UNVEILED

n.-ss. E.u. l0-Ju1er the aus ntcg. of ta. French Alpine Cl"b, a memorial x. Captain Scot, whose discovery .s ..s south Pole was followed ag ns death before he could reap tac ao.ars of his achieve u.u.. was uave..e- Friday in the Ere. .a A..s, ua tae Col Ge Laut- ...-. !. Ms .a.-e th.t the Bri,- .sa explore. won't tC try out his we-er a...-ss. which he intended to -se au ..s ..-. z. -ae pole. Funds Tor the u.....I we,a raised by Dr. Cnw.... u..ztaaor of the idea, through n-.-. subscriptions. A British At...aI.y delegation aJteno- .U the c.....-a0u. Representatives Q. ..c Trs... Ministries of War and Marin. were present, the for mg- a.5-- .a charge ot section or 5.. .--..s Chasseurs Aums.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-02-10
WOMEN JURORS
 ARE POPULAR

San Francisco, FC. 10-WOmen Grand Jurcrs seem likely to become very much the race throughout Cal ifornia in the near future. san Mateo county havi1o broken the ground recently with an inQuuisitor- IaI body on which women Outnumb- cred the men members 13 to 6, judges iu various parts of the state have been considering the advisabil- fly of repeating in their own dis Ttcts an experiment which proved SO satisfactory at the initial test.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-02-10
PROFESSOR TAFT
 GUEST OF HONOR

Boston, Feb. 10-Former Persi- dent William Howard Taft, now pro lessor of law at Yale, was the guest Of honor at banquet given by the Boston University Law School As sociation Thursday night. Professor Taft delivered one of his lectures on "LgaI Ethics at the Boston Law Schools in the afternoon.
The daily Alaskan., 1914-02-10
JyHEly TEAM
 G0 ID S.TH5

A subscription list circulated among tie. business meu for the purpose or raising enough money Q <. *. -.. Juneau high school team to s.-sa, aas been HbcraiLy saaso-ih- cd -0 ay almost every business house il Juneau. and as result the local high school team will be able to take the trip to S.cka where it will meet the Sitka athletic club in game for the champion ship of Alaska.
 The team will leave next We'd nesaay morning on the Georgia. .la..ng the day of its aarlival il" Ss,zu and returning immediately at- ter the gaue.-Juueau Dispatch.