The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1915-05-31

demands that a change of sentiment
should be made However Friday
night IA aboard met and formally
elected Miss Gardner ;hus ending
their worries.
1t is understood that Miss Gardner
will come to Fairbanks in the fan,
Just in time 70 start her work here,
She viii meet Judge Buunells wife
and little daughter in Seattle it is
stated. and will come with them to
. Fairbanks
Bundle Doc Layman, of Cinema.
Causes is the victim of very
Trouble. cruel practical joke that
was perpefratcd on him
few days ago when he made a
trip to Fairbanks. And it all came
about as result OF his efforts to
/ do a favor for a neighbor
/ When Mr. Layman told his friends
at Cinema that ne was going to
! Fairbanks on q business trip. Ger
/ tain lady there asked him to make
small purchase tor her in this
city. She wanted some steel Stats
/ that are used in corests, for She
could not get them at Cinema.
ne steer STATS were pun CHASED
Is promised. and Mr. Layman had
/ them with him when he called at
| the Loop Cigar store to talk with
his old friend Henry Baatz. the
proprietor of that place. When he
| left the Loop store Mr. Laymau
/ left the bundle. containing the cor
set steels or the counter, and when
Nj. Baatz saw the bundle an idea
occurred to him He first determin-
ed what the bundle contained. and
then he made up d new bundle TO
LOOK just like the one left by Mr.
L.ayman.
This new bundle contained some
scraps of iron, OF light weight, and
when the new bundle was handed to
Mr.. Layman upon his return. he
could see nothing wrong with it.
Arriving at Cinema, MI Layman
delivered the package to the lady
saying in d joking way:
Here are your harness steels-"
The lady opened the bundle. and
seeing what it contained lost her
temper She threw the bundle at
Nh Layman and proceeded to tell
MIN what she thought of a man that
would play such a trick on a lady.
He was mystified, and was unable
% make satisfactory explanation.
In the meantime. however. Mr..
Baatz took the original package and
sent il 10 Maurice Newman. at
1hena, with the request that he find
he lady for whom it was intended.
The lady was located and the pack
age delivered to her with the eX
9lanation that it had been left by
Nh Layman at a store in Fairbanks.
Many That there is a large
|orkmen number OF idle men
Here. here was demonstrated
last week, when the Al
askan Engineering commission and
The engineers who will survey the
,oal fields We're employing men for
he summer.
The Engineering commission want
ed about so men. but there We're
many more than that who applied
for jobs. The coal-land surveyors
want bat a few at present, but will
want, a little later, a total of about
9 men. To say that the land of
ice was almost swamped with APP
Dlicants for jobs would hardly be
)yer-st&ting the condition at one
ime after the word had gone out
hat the coal-land engineers want
ID men,
It is the policy of the government
o hire as many Alaskans as possible
or the work that is to be done here.
Therefore, Commissioner Riggs
brought with him only such men
IS had to have technical training.
LAST year, before it was realized
hat good men could be hired in
Alaska, the commission brought with
il q large number of working men
rom the Outside, and these had to
be transported back to the States
Il the end of the season.
The policy of giving the men of
Alaska the first chance to get work
IN the government road has also
been adopted this year by the Alas
kan Engineering commission in its
construction work between tidewa-
ter and the Matanuska coal fields.
Children Last week was children's
Are week in Fairbanks for
Happy. it was the opening of
the public playground
hat has been established at EXPOSE
ion park by the Woman's Civic club.
Those who had charge of the chill
dren are enthused with the enjoy
ment the little folks are getting from
the playground, and declare that it
is the most successful public enter
prise ever taken hold of in Fair
banks.
But there We're some interesting
features involved in the opening of
he grounds, that are being told by
the members of the committee hav-
ing charge of it. For instance, it
was noticeable that on the opening
days. the little folks We're inclined
10 be formal in the extreme. Many
Of them refused to enter into a game
until they became acquainted with
the other children. but as soon as
they We're made to feel at home,
they took up the sport with delight.
1t has been pointed out that the
children, and especially the small
est of them, demand variation in
the matter of games. To get the
best results the grown people in
charge of the grounds find that one
game should not be played for too
long a period, and that to keep up
the childish interest, one kind of
game must follow another in rapid
succession.
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