The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1914-10-05

The picture is of the old place
where General Grant died on Mount
! McGregon The verse was written
about the cottage by Col. George
/ II has been printed for distribution
I in large type on individual sheets.
one OF which has been received by
! The Citizen from Miss Waters. The
verse describes the features of the
| Grant cottage, and ends as follows:
All these the artist has portrayed
! With faithful eye for wood and
shade,
| This humble spot become a shrine
And sacred every leaf and vine"
! In letters sent to The Citizen, Miss
Waters says that she is being ex-
tensively entertained by her friends
in the East In one letter she says:
| Il seem to have no time for a
quiet rest hour Only think. since
June 2. have been sizzling through
| a catapult,"
| In another letter she says:
Keeps me all the time going
somewhere and talking, talking about
my trip. Did not realize my light
was under bushel' until automo-
bile rides and suppers and teas
until Wee wee hours, and in mid
night auto ride-six times-big times.
too.
Have not since left Fairbanks
June 2, had week of quiet rest
| II excitement was what | needed
to get me out of the rut, sure enough
4 have it now While writing this
scrawl. comes this call on the phone:
! Are you in? Well come down for
fish dinner ct is Friday Come
right away GA bachelor at that
of ye old time days. Really there
ought to be two Of me"
Fairbanks While the people of Fair
Statistics banks have been spend
Prepared ing their time talking
war. the Commercial
club has been accomplishing a big
task in their behalf. The club has
been busy for some time preparing
data to be submitted to the govern
ment to show why Fairbanks is the
proper place for a terminal for the
railroad
This work is nearly completed. and
the data that has been collected will
be sent soon to government officials.
1t includes statistics regarding the
amount of wood used here in year.
the cost of the wood to the users,
the amount of placer ground mined
each year. the amount of low grade
ground that cannot be worked I'M
til cheaper fuel is obtained, and
many other important things.
Another feature of the data pre-
pared by the Commercial club is
the figures that prove how import
ant is Fairbanks as a commercial
center. Statistics have been compil-
ed to show how many dollars worth
of goods is sold by Fairbanks mer-
chants in a year, and the extent of
the territory which get supplies from
Fairbanks.
Copies of all the figures prepared
by the Commercial club for sending
to the government are being retain
ed here to be used in other ways
for promoting the development of
the district.
Her Car Automobile owners in
Must Be Fairbanks, of whom there
A Freak is constantly increas-
number, will find some
novel ideas in the following descrip-
ton of a car, said to be made by
a Southern California woman after
she had purchased a machine, and
was still uncertain what the agent
had really told her about it:
MY car" she said, "is the very
latest 1915 model and is equipped
throughout with imported annuled
ball earrings. 1t has lean-line
body dispatchable and denounce-
able rims, epileptic springs in front
Iand flatiron springs in the rear, full
sloping rear axle, most internal ex-
banding brakes, electrict stopper and
starter, autocratic glass front. uniced
power plant, flash jubilation, tree
point detention, sailor radiator, three
speeds horrid and one perverse, anna
teur on dash board, gasoline tank
asleep. sixty-mile speedy greeter, ag
gravated ebony rim on spearing reel,
sliding near TRANSMISSION, licorice,
lights and horn, trimmers in head
lights, frigid suspenders, handcuffed
leather upholstering, dippy curtains,
bar type foot rest, and many other
latest susceptibilities."
Speaks To see ourselves as
We'll OF others see us would be
Fairbanks a source OF probable dis
appointment to many of
us. as individuals, in Fairbanks, but
as a community it is different. 1t
seems that people generally go away
from this place pleased with it and