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The Cordova daily times., 1915-06-04
RESIDENTS E ANCHORAGE FAVOR
 DISPOSAL OF LOTS BY DRAWING

A FEW days ago the Daily Times published a statement issued by Chief Christensen of the General Land Office
 giving the status of the townsite at Anchorage In hs connection the following editorial from the Pioneer pub llshed at the railroad terminal may be of interest,"
 1t might be desirable, fitting and useful purpose TOT the citizens of this community concrete to gve expression of their wishes with respect to the disposal of the lots in the ownse We persuaded that could our people get together and mutual understanding toward solution of the problem that such expression of opnon coming from bona de residents the ground who certainly interested in the than those residing elsewhere would have great weight and influence with the authorities at Washington having the matter in hand It not be doubted that Secretary Lane wishes abide by the dsres of the people, and such of public opinion would be distinct guide and aid to him in reaching definite conclusion Certainly, it would do harm, and it well within the of the local residents their case
 But short time ago. it will be recalled it was common street talk in Anchorage that the townse would be located
 point between the mouth of Ship Creek and the junction. Objection to this location eliminated in the circulation of petitions that the south side and mouth Creek be selected in lieu of the site These petitions were signed and handed by the writer representative o the land department here The site avord the people has been selected may have been chosen regardless of the petitions but nevertheless the petitions strengthen the hands o the land department men, because they know that selection meets with the hearty approval of the people living here.
 With regard to the disposal of the town ots we are sure and certain of ground when assert that with practically
 unanimous sentiment the people here vigorously opposed to an application of the leasing system against direct ship American citizens ws above all other material things to the land which they their homes or places of business It is to their credit that they inclined and our government should be slow indeed before naugurang any scheme system to deprive them of ths what might be termed an inherent right.
 If this newspaper to hazard opinion as to what the great majority of residents here wish with this townste matter it would be that they favor dnosa of inc lots by drawing with citizenship requirement and an obligation to register their in person with qualified official at Anchorage.
The Cordova daily times., 1915-06-04
MAN HAS NOT TRIUMPHED OVER
 OCEANS PERILS WITH UNsINKABIE SHIP

VX HEN the Titanic started her fatal trip three
 w years ago. she heralded over the entire world as the unsuitable ship, but with the sinking of the Lusitania off the coast of Ireland has again demon srated that perfection in shpbuiding has yet been reached.
 Every device that human ingenuity has invented to make travel on the safe had been utilized The legislative departments of the various countries have ved with each other in compelling shipping companies to install known devices to safeguard passengers Courts of inquiry after the tragedy of the Titanic in both this country and England laid down definite rules but though everything has done that could be- the ship which be called unsuitable has not vet been constructed and according to engineers probably never will be- It is impossible to build ship that will carry cargo that will not sink if enough compartments perforated
 It is said by engineers connected with shpbuldng firm that ship could withstand the explosion torpedo if it struck in the right place. with sufficient force blow out several of the watertight compartments.
 Ships today constructed, the Lusania with two bottoms, but it has been demonstrated that high explosive will blow through both bottoms strike above the inner Should it shatter any of the compartments in which the boiers-the Lusita had four boiler com parments-there would probably be explosion and the ship would undoubtedly sink On the other hand if hit the to the stern and dynamos would be put of comisson and the would be just hopeless
 Ships constructed with collision bulkheads at both and sern the forward compartment be not less than twentieth of the vessels length while the after compartment where the overhang greater of reasonable 
 According to the ruling of Loyds there shall be trans bukheads not than sevenyve feet apart the entire length of the vessel and these bukheads must extend from keel to main deck above the water ne In the vessels from 60 to 680 feet in length there shall be nine bukheads.
 Vessels usually constructed that the boilers are placed in waertght compartments amidshps while either slde between these compartments and the inner hull narrow water tight compartments in which the coal is kept with tracks So placed that in of emergency it be
The Cordova daily times., 1915-06-04

shifted transfer the weight one side of the ship to the other
 It may be seen therefore, that if torpedo strikes vessel the compartments which the boilers are placed before it reaches them must pass through only two layers of steel plates covering the inner and hus but the compartment filled with coal before it perces boiler compartment.
 If this happens and the boilers are thrown off the seats on which they supported the misplaced weight will the boat to list heavily The chances however that the thrush of water would cause explosion that would mean the destruction of the ship.
 In constructing the bukheads the engineers know just what the of water is and they built to withstand that strain In other words they so constructed that each bukhead ought to stand the strain of two filled compartments As the number of compartments shattered increases on the bulkheads reaches bursting point.
 In emergencies there is always the human element to be taken into account In the stress of circumstances some may have forgotten to close the wategh doors perhaps else has neglected to oil hem and they will close It IS things like these that count in moments of great peril
 Under the requirements of the United states law every ship must be equipped with sufficient lifeboas carry all passengers Practically all passenger ships have within the last three been fitted with the Wen davt improved dav constructed that it has overhng of about 12 feet whereas the old one only had reach of about six
 The feboats placed along either side of the boat deck and nestled in in the center of the deck With the old davit if sinking ship listed badly the on the upper side practically to be useless it impossible to get them But with the Wen davit which is turned by auxiliary machine placed the main deck or where else above the n it is possible the long arm of the dav to swing boats the of the deck where the davt the opposite side easily pick them up and swing them the side of the vessel.
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The Cordova daily times., 1915-06-04

According to information received from Anchorage the Cordova merchants located there doing fairly good business.
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Y deal, and bid club, A one heart
and two diamonds Il naturally sup
ported the hearts, bidding two. As Y
had moro strength than was shown by
his original club bid. there being two
hearts possible as well as tho clubs he
went three diamonds and A passed.
r figured that II y had the clubs and
Y had the diamonds, while r had all the
spades himself. A must he pretty strong
I'm hearts, as he could have nothing out
side, so he went TO three hearts This
satisfied u. who thought he could save
the game. and Y led the nine of clubs.
u made the jack and ace and ruined
with q third round. The king of dia-
nonds fell TO tho ace and Il went back
with small diamond. A taking the run
The next thing was trump lead, and
z made the two tops. These two tricks
with the three already In, set :he con-
tract for so and simple honors
There IL no justification for As hid
Give him the two or three sure tricks In
hearts which he should have had &c
justify the declaration, and BIS support
will be vindicated, as The hand Will &C
game. all that and Y can make being
two clubs and a trump.
II A passes the club bid II does no,
matter whether Y shows the diamond.
or not. r may bid royal as a pusher
having 70 In honors to offset any pos
diamond A will pass, having nothing
and b will save the game in the firs
three tricks by leading spades.
A correspondent in Philadelphia send
this hand as an illustration OF the i'm
portsnce OF an original trump lead
which was discussed in last week
article:
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THAT cRrPBAoE PRoBLEM

THAT CRrPBAoE PROBLEM.
Until this week only one correct so.
luton had come to hand for the last
of the series ~ cribbage problems pub
lshed some weeks ago
The proposition was this: and n
sat down to play six card cribbage. once
round the board for game, 81 points.
1t was AS deal. but r started 10 deal
the cards, A stopped him and pegged
= points penalty. dealing the. cards him
self. on his deal A went game on hand.
crib and pegging. What were the hands
and how were they played?
There are several solutions to this
problem. and as will be seen the .
points penalty is simply a bluff Some
Of the solutions are very improbable.
owing to the layout for the crib. but the
following from Frank d. Russell OF
Utica might easily arise in actual play ::
A deals himself two fives. two sevens
and two eights. Keeping his close cards
he puts two tves in the crib Il fnds
he has two fves, two sevens, a six and
an eight Keeping the runs that have
the tifteens. he lays out the two fives
and cuts jack for a starter, for which
A pegs two holes.
u playing first, the cards on the frst
round fall 7. I, Z. 7. which gives A .
for the pair and IL for the double pail
royal. with l for tho go: making him
| 10 holes pegged,
If b plays his six frst for tho mex,
round the cards fall 6. 3, s, 8, and A
gets for the pair royal and for the
last GARD. 7 more holes, putting him
/ 26 up.
AS hand counts ~ and his crib 2s
| WHICH added to tho 26 pegged makes
| him 66, or beyond the game hole
] sho hot ha a
| the start and even the Jack turned
were unnecessary. as any tenth card
! would do BUT " r mad started the
! second round with an eight and ther
played his six all that A would have
scored IL a pair and last card, the
begging stopping AZ % instead OF 20
In that case the penalty and for hi
heels would be useful.
Hero Is a little problem that came NJ
recently in boring for oil In the South
west. for which THE Sun Is indebted
to Roger Il. Hill Of New York city
man has a contract to sink an oil
well. The initial cost OF the plant h,
finds to be 10000. When he starts Il
sink the we'll no finds the operating
cost to be a certain amount for the frs
foot. so cents more for the second foo
than for the first, and 90 on. each ad
di.ia,sl foot of depth costing so cent
more than tho preceding foot,
He looks upon the original outlay o
$4,000 20 be invested beyond recover,
and starts to figure the total cost pc
foot at any depth az $4,000 plus tn
operating expenses incurred in reachin
that depth, all divided by the dept
in feet. This cost starts to decreas
as the well gets deeper, but finally be
: gins to rise again. due to the constan
increase OF 80 cents a foot in the cpey
ating expenses.
Wha; he wants 10 knew liz q. wha
depth tho total cost per foot In at
minimum.
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and dating from the third to the sixth
century.
at means" says Prof. Cobern, shat
every doctrine, faith and fact known
10 US in connection with the old Bible
was known to those early Christians
In the first century"
Many interesting finds were made
by the arch@ologists In reading litera-
ture on papyrus taken from the
stebaskets" OF ancient cities. In
Egypt he came upon placard an
nouncing to the Egyptians the Access
sion OF Nero In Rome. Another
placard was a public advertisement by
a father, who said his son was given
to rlotous living and the parent would
no longer he responsible for his debts.
Still another letter rescued from the
mists of antiquity contained the fol-
lowing request for Information ad.
dressed by one young woman to . girl
friend:
do tell me-" she wrote, -what has
become Of your friend. that bald
headed man? Has he been able to
make any hair grow YETI"
A letter from a prodigal son Of the
first century to his aristocratic par.
ents said II am down and out (thie
IS free translation). my clothes are
In rags. am miserable: send me
money. lest shame fall upon our fam
lily name" And another lad, lament
ing the death of his favorite fighting
cock, writes his parents that he In
tends to commit suicide.
From a mass Of ancient deeds. Wills,
wedding and funeral invitations. Prof
Cobern culled the following charge
made by a Judge TO an offender.
Thou hast been worthy of scourg-
ing. but ] win give thee to the people"
said the learned Judge.
The importance Of this fragment lies
In the fact that scholars have con.
| tended that PLATE acted without peec-
edent In giving Jesus over to the
people to be crucified. The papyrus
, rescued by Prof Cobern from one Of
the waste heaps Of antiquity shows
that the practice was quite common.
From the letters and documents OF
the ancients discovered by Prof. Co
bern many OF the difficult passages
OF the Bible are made plain. For in.
| stance there is the passage In whicf
Jesus speaks OF the Scribes and Fhari
, sees who pray on street corners. WHERE
all may hear them. and the Master
adds this cryptic comment: Verify
they have received their reward"
No one has understood the meaning
Of the Saviour's comment. no one until
Prof. Cobern in his investigations
turned up hundreds OF butchers and
bakers bills cf ancient Palestine. AND
across every bill he found the word
Jesus used for reward" meaning IRE.
ceived payment in full"
which explains the Masters state
ment." says the srchRologst. THE
Pharisees prayed where men coulc
hear them pray. They got what they
prayed for. and nothing more. The,
received in full according to tn,
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z dealt and bid club. 40 as TO avoid
an original heart declaration without
the tops. A and Y both passed. but Il
went no trumps. whereupon z trotted
out his heart suit. bidding two. With
his two suffer he thinks there Ia fair
chance for game. even against no
trumper. r thought Il better to let the
no trumper drop. apparently. and II was
As lead
Starting With tho conventional OPEN
ing Of ace and queen, A let win the
second round oe spades with the king
and Il Immediately led three rounds of
clubs, giving dummy a ruff. but failing
TO clear the suit
Diamond Jack from dummy. queen
second hand. was trumped. and another
club took dummy's last trump. but
cleared up tho club suit. Another high
diamond from dummy, covered with the
king and another trump put In TO
lead trumps, no as to defend the eight
OF clubs
u won tho trump and led the ace OF
diamonds, for fear OF giving dis
! card II he led tho seven. u ruffed this
trick and forced out tho ace OF trumps.
! Now Il does not matter what Il leads, -
Y must make the high trump and the
club n h leads the trump or he will
| discard the club II Il leads the diamond,
80 as to catch BIS four OF trumps with
| and the game for and 2,
| In the actual play It appears that Il
led the trump on the chance that y
| had losing spade, he having appar-
! entity forgotten to count the clubs, in
which his partner has renounced twice,
| but rs lead does not matter II Y passes
up the diamond.
III | have been strong enough to bid
no trumps fourth hand after the club
suit has been shown" says the PLAYER
who held BIS cards. why Is not the
best opening from my partners hand a
| trump"
This 10 precisely the point made by
THE SUN In the article on defensive
trump leads. II the partner has "A no
trumper he should have general strength
scattered through various suits and the
best thing for his hand should be 10
make the play of the cards such as
would take place In a no trumper that
Is. to get the trumps out Of its way as
quickly as possible
II A starts this hand with trump, r
pulls both dummy's trumps and leads
tho diamonds. Now n can hammer
away at the clubs after pulling Bs little
trunV, but he will have to use his last
trump to make the firth club and thcr
lose two spade tricks. The odd trick
Is all he can make IL A starts the play
with a trump. This sets the contract
instead Of giving z the game
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deaN ana plu no trump ~ntoh e.ss!
one passed ai.housh II oo'Ious 'ha.
shouid nave taken NE partner out
with two hearts Unless hears are
trumps the nand 70 nor sooo TOT = s'n-
gle TREK Inc only reason .ne spaoe
queen MAKES Is because rue ,ne nIsner
cards four hearts arc 5000 TOT ths
same reason ou' mover THAMES o"o o'
them'
Nhen 'eo me klnk OF eiups, no'olns
three hohors' Is p'ayeo mo p'sl" sui.
echo WIN pne h'he' hlaIk'hs MN WIN
ace or JACK nut hot po'n. wen, On
WIN t,e SeNtu anu vas W
'eaNe WIN tne ieau Iur 'ear Oh o'a
noho'S coh'nS Ihroush MS h'hs "
dummy "eaknrss, , -.
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II appears that Smith strolled into
10 club one afternoon and found this
position laid out on the card table
While looking IL over and wondering
what the point was, Jones dropped In
and asked the declaration.
"J6oks like a no trumper for the fel-
lows with the long diamond suit" re-
marked Smith. cali them and r."
'He It gas a pullo." rema rked Jones.
who was known as crank on that sub
ject, II think could take the W hands
and force A and r to win Just as many
tricks at nullos as you can force them
10 lose at no trumps
A bet was made on this proposition
but It has not been satisfactorily
settled yet and readers OF THE SUN are
asked to decide the matter. This 10 the
question:
What il the best that Y and Y can
do against any defence, playing the
hand as no trumper. with to lead
What is the best A and can dc
against any attack, playing the hand as
Q nullo with u to lead?
This will be found an extremely in
teresting problem, with abundance OF
room for disagreement.
The distribution OF tho cards 10 a
esllows:
has the queen OF hearts; ace 1aci
ten nine OF diamonds Jack MAE three Of
spades no clubs,
4 has the nine six five Of hearts; MINI
Of clubs; Ave OF diamonds. queen ter
eight Of spades.
Is has the ten Of hearts Jack tel
seven OF clubs king four of diamonds
Ave four of spades.
u has the Jack seven three Of hearts
queen eight Of clubs seven siH of diR
uonds, and the six of spades.
The th!rteen-carder sent to THE SUI
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AS one solver remarks. This IL a
mighty pretty ending" tho manner IN
which white gathers his forces for the
attack being very instructive.
Correct solutions from:
T. Moody. Robert II. Hxon. j r. De
Gron. f. T. Peterson, James Hyland.
c. II. OConnor. +. J. Graf. Benjamin
Simon. James G. Plnkerton. Al Frank
i. j. McGarry. John DAILY, f.. l.. Bran
dow. Edward Mulrooney. q. u. H.. Con-
rad Alheidt. II. a. W, A. d. Davis. j. ].
F. Bronx, William II. Clarke, c. l.. Cor
liss. l.. $. Hart, Jr.. J. n. Noremac.
A. l.. Meyer. Jr,. John Ryan. George W.
Elder. Jr.. Nicholas Zunnino. r. W. Nc
Mahon. r, A. Magennis. Louis r. Maid
hor. J. =. Goss. =. r. Monzert. Nareik
Thomas Foy. Henry Lowe. +. NJ. Capach.
Edward kaveny and e. l.. Berge.
Solyers are reminded that in order TO
get membership cards in THE SUN
Checker Club they must solve at least
seven of the next ten problems, begin
ming with No. 321.
Here is neat little end game tina,
| illustrates one of the many variation,
of the old problem OF how three mer
can win against two.
PROBLEM No. 1922. cHEcKERs
BY II. u. Lyman.
!
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Clubs are trumps and A starts with
the deuce. z says he can make a little
siam. but A insists that he will make
his hfth trump. as there are but four
in each hand against him. Here Ia the
play that prevents him from doing so.
No matter what Il leads for the Sec
ond trick Y illnesses both red suits Sup
pose u leads the spade. wins and
comes through with a diamond. return
ing a heart. and Y leads another dia-
mond. At this point z must be careful
TO make the third diamond while he Ia
In the lead, because Y must be in the
lead after seven tricks have been played.
II n Is In the lead the problem cannot
be solved.
After making the last diamond Y
makes two hearts and leads the fourth
diamond. which u runs with the small
trump. Now A has TO trump a spade.
and overtrumps. When u trumps the
fourth round Of hearts with the king,
has to give UP his extra trump and
makes the last two tricks
Correct solutions from:
c. II. O'Connor. Charles NJ Root, o.
II. Boston. II. X. Thaw. George Il.
Hempe. Henry Andersen. w. =. w.
E. NJ. Frost. Lawrence Daw and r. 1
| Strssbureer.
CHECKER BINDINGS.
The position shown In No. $40 is
said to have arisen in championship
match and was abandoned as drawn
Some time afterward r. McLarer
thought he could demonstrate a wir
for white and claimed II a. his prob
lem.
The distribution OF the pieces In a,
follows. Black men on 8. l2 and II
king on 81. White men on ~ 81 arr
%. king on 10. White to play ant
| win. Hero are the moves that solve
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Me4v Finds 7hro1v Ltqkt
on Many Bible Stories

measure Of their piety. Isn't that de-
licdousr'
A hyeanal usea by the g~rer1co~ q
ChrissMns coming Immediately af.ep
st. yoAm was resurrected from IA
scrap heap of antiquity by Prot. ~.
bern. There were forty-two hymns IN
this "most ancient hymn book in the
world" which was dug up six years
ago, but interpreted only last year
| These hymns were sung by people
who "lived as near TO the times Of 81,
John a. We live to Gen. Grant"
Prof. Cobern also read a rema rkable
prayer from the earliest ritualist.c
| constitution Of the Christian Church
The astonishing feature of this pet.
ton lies in the fact that 1t was a
prayer for church unity.
The archeologist repeated trans.
| lation Of parts of a sermon preached
| by a Bishop in the year 500 A. y. II
did not concern itself with theology
but was a sort OF social service scr.
mon.
HE that oppresseth his neighbor,"
! declared the Bishop of the carly Christ.
tan Church, lis altogether repro.
bate, and like unto Judas. who rose
from the supper table and betrayed
his Master
| Many interesting facts concerning
| the high stage of civilization In the
| first century were mentioned nv Prof
Cobern. For instance. letter on
papyri speaks Of public spirited
| citizen who leaves a largo bepuos,
to establish a public bath and pub.
lie school. Another letter tells Of A
| city physician who received t25 oOo
a year for his services. Still another
epistle mentions that the chef at the
Temple of Diana was better paid
that the temple physician. Evidently
the priests paid particular attention
TO the wants of the inner man.
In contrast with this luxury Pro,
Cobern spoke of the barbartty OF the
aga, particularly in dealing with
slaves. More than 10000 slaves wers
crucified in the reign OF Augustus
In one case, where a patrician Roman
was found murdered in his house
and the slaves refused To nams tho
murderer. the entire household Of
400 slaves were crucified.
One papyrus describes a slave s,rl
who has emancipated two-thirds Of
herself, but who appeals for financial
aid to liberate the remaining one
third from two men who partly own
) her.
"Seven Of the twelve Casars mat
violent deaths said Prof. Cobern
Suicide was so common that when
a man became seriously ~ he invsri.
ably killed himself. Into this decador,
civilization the Christians came Ike
new race of men. The graves ..
the heather Romans contained such
Inscriptions as I was: ] am Not.
Lost Forever I Am Mo- I care
Not on the gravestones NJ ~
Christians Of the first century We fnC
the Christian note of optimism Il
striking contrast with the materials
around them. These stones r'a'
Resting in Peace Sleeping in Jesus
and Life Eternal"