The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1915-06-21
Town Gossip and Stories
b. The TattIer.

road. and for the purpose of getting
data for her future articles along
that line. she recently made trip
TO Anchorage. where the work of
building the railroad is now under
way.
Concerning the work that is be
ing done at Anchorage. Mrs. van
Camper is quoted as follows in the
/ Seward Gateway:
Grading has advanced from the
mud flats to the camp itself. and
on May eighteenth gangs of men
were eycavating and filling in
through the busiest section of the
camp. Grading is also going on at
two gravel cuts about two miles from
! tidewater and tracks are being laid,
I and ties cut and piled for dump
| tracks at these spots. The tundra
| IS cleared from the ice. at present
about eight inches from the surface
and exposure OF the air melts at
gang in charge of Dan F.. Leach. a
veteran station man. from the Can
adam Northern railroad. is about
twenty-six miles out.
1T is all section work so far
Common labor is 37R cents an hour,
carpenters so cents. No Sunday
work on government construction.
This is smaller wages than Alaskans
are used to. Only one shift being
worked, which causes comment,
when the daylight is sufficient to
work all night without lanterns
"Stun9' One Of the after effects
At of the rummage sale,
Auctions. held more than week
ago by the n. C. com
pany, was the telling of funny eX-
periences by men who have been
stung in auction sales of a similar
nature, where it was impossible to
know the nature Of the things being
purchased.
Thomas Riggs, Jr., of the Alaskan
Engineering commission, was telling
just previous to his departure for
a trip up the Nenana river. how he
enjoyed going to sales of dead let
tiers in Washington, D. c., and of
how he found that he was not es-
pecially lucky in the matter of draw
ing prizes.
One of the things purchased by
Mr.. Riggs at one Of the dead-letter
sales was a package, which had
all the appearances of containing
something of much value. He took
the package, looked it over a mo-
ment, then opened it, and much to
the amusement of himself and his
friends. he found that it contained
sample brick that had been ad-
dressed to some contractors by
brick manufacturing firm.
In another package that he bought
at one Of these sales, Mr.. Riggs
drew some appliances used by some
ladies to make their forms appear
more perfect
New In an apparent effort TO
Fraud bunco unsuspecting Alas
Found. kans, certain alleged
mail order house outside
h9g hit sphayna hNt
far as can be learned, the efforts
to make people in Fairbanks bite
have failed
When the big shipment Of second
class mail arrived here recently, d
certain young man received pack
age from this firm, which had been
shipped last September, but had been
delayed. In the package was a lady's
knit sweater He was quite sur
prised, especially when he found a
bill of 50 accompanying it. He had
never heard of the firm previously
and had never ordered anything of
the description he had received.
In telling of this experience, the
young man discovered that a sim
liar package had been received by
certain other man, who had re-
fused to accept the goods that had
been sent him, owing to it's never
having been ordered. 1t seems that
the firm planned to send goods to
the people whose names could be
secured with the idea that the peo-
pie receiving them could be bluffed
into taking the goods at the prices
set forth.
Side Since the Lusitania was
Light On sunk by a German tor
Tho War; pedo and more than 100
Americans were drowned,
there has been much local discussion
about the matter and about the
claim Of Germany that she had warn
ed people not to travel on ships
owned by the allies.
With the arrival of a large num-
Der of Outside newspapers and mag
azines in Fairbanks, more details
have been received concerning the
sinking of the big steamship and also