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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-09
UP AND DOWN BROADWAY-By Allen Griffin Johnson

said that women do not pay their bills In many cases, however, when the bills were mailed out at the end of the month every member but one paid in less than two weeks. The one name was posted, when several women ran at once to the president and ordered the name taken down. When asked for good reason, they announced that a baby had just arrived at the home of the delinquent member. The name came down.
 | Three German vessels are now lying peacefully at the foot of 1SSth street. Seeing an officer alking along the shore near them, I accosted him in the hope of learning something interest,"
 "Wie gehts mein herr??" I said ho him.
 'nd he ans- ~od o., r,,is ,-',ade. tres mallade. Mescuser-au plaisir."
 There is no explanation to offer there were the German vessels right in front of him.
 New Workers seem to applaud nov ing pictures just as they would if the actors were appearing before them in person. I could not understand it at first but now believe that they do so in order to let others present know that they approve.
 And the New York audience is tho most apnreciatitve in the world, I be- lieve. The press may roast and crit icize adversely, but I have yet to see a theatrical entertainment which was not we'll applauded by the audience.
 In regard to the subway trouble with the city-there seems to be a asSeah deal of 1t below the surface.
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ond installment of molars. Some of the store fronts are of galvanized iron. Mid way in one block is a frame shed con- sisting only of an iron roof upheld by poles It has chairs under it, and it is labeled the Royal Boot Black Par lor."
 The city has several banks. It has drug stores, hardware stores, provision stores and stores selling clothing and dry goods. It has it's saloons and billiard halls. All of the stores have plate glass windows, and the goods within are. large and va ried. Seward has several churches in- cluding the Catholic, Methodist, Presby- terian and others. It has a commercial club and a Y. M c. A.
 The town has a number of restau- rants and several hotels. I am living in a hotel which faces the harbor. with a half dozen small glaciers in sight over the way. I have two connecting rooms, and the charge ist$2.50 per day. On the same floor is a porcelain bath tub. which I can use for 50 cents a bath, and have hot water herewith if the order is given beforehand. My rooms are lighted by electricity and heated by stoves
 The hotel has no eating accommoda- tions, but I get excellent meals at the restaurants on the main street two blocks away. The prices for meat there are about the same as those of the states, but soup, vegetables and dessert are served with each meat or der without extra charge. In fact, one can dine fairly well for 75 cents
 The chief public buildings of Seward are those of the United States railway commission, the jail, the postOffice and Uncle Sam's cable and telegraph sta- ton. The railway commission building Is devoted to the engineers and clerks, who are managing the construction of the railway that is to go from here to Fairbanks. It is the old headquarters of the Alaska Northern railway, which the government bought when it de- cided upon the present route through the territory. It is a frame structure of two stories with a central building one story higher. It is fairly commo- dious and serves we'll for the purpose.
 The jail, which is also the office Of the United States marshal, is the most artistic building of the whole town. It is a two-story log cabin with porches at the side and dormer windows look ing out of the roof. There are no locks nor bars visible from the street, and it has none of the airs of a prison The postoffice is d frame building on the main street. and the cable station is one-story cottage surrounded by stumps and not far from the water.
 I have referred to the climate of Seward. The port is open all the year round. Vessels of any draft can come in on any day of the year, and the harbor is free of ice for every hour
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published here. and many talks with other successful men of New York city, have convinced me that this is their attitude, at least. And it has also brought out the fact that, in the majority of cases, such men have, at sometime in their lives, been at or very near the bottom of the ladder, to use worn figure, and have found in themselves only the strength to climb to the top from there. Some of them have even said that actual monetary assistance had proved hin- drance to them
 Here as nowhere else are we able to see success and failure.
 Here there are successes of such magni- tude that the average mind can hardly grasp their full significance. and here also are failures so absolute, so conn plete, that a greater failure would not be among the possibilities And thus we get the very broadest angle of life, and we find our own level, as rule, according to our ability-fghting ability if you will and not according to the amount of out side help of monetary nature that comes in to us
 It is against the law to beg on the streets of New York city Begging has been proved to be a profitable business here, and there are those who have lived in handsome homes bought with the money given to them by strangers of whom they begged it. But these homcB and that money did not mean real suc- cess. Even after having acquired some thing like wealth, some of those beg gars have been arrested. while those who have not been, it is safe to say. are not getting much pleasure out of the money they have earned" after such fashion. However. the world has not yet come to a full realization that the acquisition of money does not necessarily mean hapis- ness. Most of us will say that this is true. but we do not live up to the state-
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lies, and have taken photographs of the Bay of Rio de Janeiro from the Sugar. loaf and the Corcovado The harbor of Seward is as beautiful as any of these others, and it's surroundings of green, mixed with glaciers and snow, are like those of no other harbor on the face of the earth. The whole is mighty amphi- theatre of green lowland and blue waters and of glacier-clad hills, roofed by the clear sky and the white and black of the clouds.
 It is in the arena of this amphitheatre that Seward is just now beginning to be. On the north side of the bay and run ming back to the mouth of Resurrection river is plain covering many acres. It has enough space for a large city, but as yet the only part that is covered with houses is a spit of land that juts out into the bay. It is here that ships lie at the wharves. The wharves are built upon piles, and just back of them the business section of the city is located. For a dis tance of perhaps one-third of a mile the ground rises, giving excellent drainage. The streets climb the hills to that point, and then go over a slope which rolls gently on until it reaches the mountain wall in the rear.
 The residence section of Seward is over the hill. Beyond that are the suburbs, which now consist of many tents and shacks growing out of the stumps of the newly cleared land. The better class res idences are pretty bungalows and artistic cottages. Nearly all have smooth green lawns, with flowers and grass and plants of one kind or another. Board sidewalks have been built along the sides of the streets, and there is bridge made of blanks that crosses the valley or depres- sion through which Lowell creek flows.
 Beyond the bungalows the new homes of Seward are gradually rising. The west bank of Resurrection river has been laid out in town lots, and real estate signs are scattered among the tents and shacks. Many of the tents have walls and floors of boards, the canvas forming the roofs extending half way down to the ground. The average board shack, which may form the home of family of from two to dozen, is not more than 10 by F feet in area.
 Everywhere about they are now blast ing out the stumps to put in the founda- tions for houses. As I walked through the valley I heard 10 blasts of dyna- mite. The explosions followed one an other like the fire of artillery, and roots rocks and dirt filled the air.
 The business section of Seward is rap- idly growing. At present 1t consists of two or three streets close to the wharves. The main street has been macadamized and concrete pavements have been laid on each side of it. The business build- ings are of one and two stories. They are of boards; they stand close to the street, with a sky line as ragged as the mouth of a child who is getting it's sec
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rival of the cavalry giving inventory of the masheen guns and uther accessories, but in unaccountabull manner did not print word about my presents with the troops.
 called upon the edditur for the purpose of giv- wing him opportunity set himself and his paper rite with the publck in the form of grovveing ap pollogy for the ovversite but he didn't anxious to take advantage of it. so, as I am an extreemy modest man, and as the edditur appeered to be peevish persun who has his private offise in an arsenal, did not press it.
 The scenery along the route frum Fl Passo and Nogalus is impressive. One travels thro the states of New Mexico and Arizony-wheere the song of the kyote, the sevven-legged terrantuler and the six shootur air herd abroad in the land. It for mer nome of the gay and restless buffalo, who when slitely aggitaed exsited would aloft his cute
 little tail and meeander sevvere townships and counties in grate haste. Sumwheere along the route we passed thro' the akili plains-wheere one sees what is called the mrrarge. The mirrarge like stat utory prohibision is sumthing of delusion Out on the plains one will see what looks like large lake of perfectly damp watr In all this expanse of dust sand and hot sunshine it looks good to him. and he endevvors to reach it. That's wheere he gets stung
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How 1t Feels to be
 on Mexican Border

mint and bonded debt, but aside rum those feet it does not in enny striking manner resembull enny of eastern cities. The wide brimmed son. brero and the frank and open fased revolver air upon evvery hand. Cow gentlemen in .frum the rurel districts and when in large numbers they don't have to the electric lite plant-the COW gentle men furnish the illumination free of charge Sum of them air quite picturesque-with theere leethers brooches and grate coils of rope, which they ware on theere saddles around theere persuns-this rope is used to lasso COW, persunnel frend in of emergency, and theere is not enuff time to take him to town for trial The corts air sumtmes crowded in this visnnity with work and the natives have the utmost respect for the corts and don't be- leeve in ovverworking them, and if they them trubble at enny tme they stand reddy to do it.
 They figger that the corts have too much to do to waste enny time hoss theef a renegade sheep rogue they attend to such triffing matters themselves. They usuely do good job, too.
 Arizony is grate phase for mining prospects; theere air quite good menny mining prospects close around heer if one only had the time to investigate them. One enthewsiastick gentleman, who hadn't herd that l was newspaper man, but mistook ma
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men have taken out homsteads, and farms the size of garden patches are being cultivated here and there Some of the homesteads were applied for 10 years ago, but, owing to the poor ar engagement of the government as to titles, the applicants have not been able to complete their ownership. They have been prevented from using the timber nearby on account of the com plications as to the government reser- vationS, and as a result the greater part of the lumber of Seward has to be brought in from Seattle, nothwith- standing there are forests right at it's doors l understand that ordinary lum- Der no wcosts $25 per thousand and that cordwood is high. It is the same with coal. The people here have been paying $19 per ton for that fuel, and that notwithstanding they are within a short railroad haul of some of the best coal fields in the world. This has been largely due to misplaced conservation. It will be changed now that the rail- road has come.
 There has been a toyn at Seward since 1903. and there was a white set clement on Resurrection bay when the first public buildings of the now city of Washington began to go up on the banks of the Potomac. The first resi- dents were Russians, who had a col ony on Kodiak Island, about 200 miles distant. They came here to build ships, choosing the place on account of the harbor and the timber nearby The first ships built on the western shores of North America were constructed here, and one of them was launched while George Washington was still serving his first term as President.
 The Russians discovered the harbor one Easter Sunday, and called it Res urrection bay, in honor of the Ascen- sion Later the seat of the Russian administration was transferred from Kodiak to Sitka and the shipyards were given up.
 After the Russians left Resurrection bay was frequented by the Indians, who came here for the hunting and fishing, and then, perhaps a hundred years later white man, Frank Lowell, a sailor from Maine. settled where Sew ard now stands. He had wife. who had more or less Indian and Russian blood in her veins, and he was one of the class popularly known as "squaw men," Lowell lived here for 10 or r years, and i'll that time had five chill dren. Along about 1890 he deserted his family and emigrated to Kodiak. Mrs. Lowell remained, and she was on the ground and claimed ownership at the time that the Alaska Northern rail- way company. selected Resurrection bay as the southern terminus of its route.
 The Alaska Northern railway was originated and promoted by John E. Ballaine, from whom l have the fore
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for a limb of the dul rich, talked to me at grabs length about copper mine he had down in Mexico that had the Cannoneer property lashed to the mast This property, he sed, would have been developed but for the fact that most evyery who had tried it had been scalped by the Yackees. gathered frum what he sed that about all that needed to make 8 go of it few milyun dollars and three four army corps He lost all interest in me, however, when gently broke the news to him that was 8 newspaper reporter and could not invest moor than fifty sents week in the propersision.
 The newspaper men heer air compelled to submit evvery thing they rite about expedison into Mex ico to the sensors, and menny of them have lot of trubbe getting theere stuff off. I have pull how. evver, and don't get enny of my stuff cut out This story submitted to the sensor and he sed: Let Ter go If theere is enny thing in it about Mex ico he sed, ''it be in code" Let the publiclv rest easy, however, will keep them posted Theere won't be enny invasion of the U S. by the VilIistas while I'm heere-if heer of it in time wont bo heer Yours trooly
 BILL VINES
 Passed by the Nasonel Biskit Company.
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during the winter. Indeed the winter climate is not much colder than that of Seattle or Portland. and it is warmer than either Norfolk or Baltimore The temperature ranges from 50 to S5 de- grees above zero in the summer and from 30 to 50 above zero in the winter. Now and then the thermometer falls down to zero, and it once dropped to seven below. but that was the coldest on record. The rainfall is about the same as that of Ohio and Virginia, the total precipitation being 42 inches per year.
 It seems strange to think of going barefoote0 in Alaska. But the chill dren here do that all summer long. They also go in bathing in the waters of Resurrection bay, and swimming parties to Lake Kenai, some distance back in the country, are features of their picnic excursions.
 The people of Seward are fond Of sports. The country about is one of the best in the territory for it's hunt ing and fishing, and back in the in terior there is dog racing and dog sledding in the heart of the winter The town has it's tennis courts and it's baseball diamond. The latter is laid out on the beach, and during the sum mer the teams of Seward and Anchor age contest there for the honors Of south and central Alaska
 Seward has it's social circles and it's society events. The school children give celebrations and, indeed, the life is not different from that of similar towns in the states. The most of the houses are small but they are com fortable and well furnished. They have electric lights and all the modern conveniences
 Since the government has taken over the railroad there has been a big jump in land values. Business property has trebled and quadrupled in price, and the same is true of the suburbs. l know of one man who sold for $S00O lots which cost him s750. sThere were 50 lots in the tract. He thought he made good bargain. but the purchaser resold the lots at $500 lot, or about $3O,0O0 in all. The prices of land are now high. and it will be long before the city will come. up to the expecta- tions of its owners. As it is now, the town has not over 1500 inhabitants, and it's real boom will not come until the activity building of the railway across thes Kenai peninsula begins, Just now all the construction is from Anchorage northward, and this is a distance of more than 100 miles from Seward
 The present additions to the town site are at the head of Resurrection bay, where tents have been erected, frame buildings are going up and fam lilies are locating. For 10 miles up the valley of the Resurrection river
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THE NEW YORK OF ALASKA

several thousand feet, losing itself in bounds this side of the harbor and runs back into the interior, fading away into the snow-capped regions behind. The first hundred feet is covered with green trees, some of which are twice the girth of my waist. They cling to the rocks and grow straight up, forming palisades. as it were. Among them are bushes, making jungle that reminds one of the lower slopes of the Him alayas. From where I hang I can see giant ferns, young alder trees and sal monberry bushes, the whole growing out of a deep bed of moss into which my feet sink as though into feathers. There seems to be no earth between me and the rocks. The moss covers the rocks, and the trees and bushes are imbedded in it.
 At my left, looking out through the green branches of spruce, can see the white glacial waters of Lowell creek, roaring as they rush foaming over the rocks down into Resurrection bay. They cut through the upper part of the town and pass under Uncle Sam's railroad embankment which runs round the harbor.
 Turning my head, can see Resurrec- tion river, which comes in at the end of the bay, and looking over the inlet where the bay ends another mountain wall rises before me- It's peaks are of black volcanic rock and in its hol- lows nestle glaciers of pale green ice that the sun has turned into emeralds. High up on the mountain sides are patches of snow that shine like silver against the black cliffs, and below, ris- ing a thousand and more feet from the water is the great blanket of green trees and bushes that is to be found everywhere throughout southern Alaska.
 end of the harbor. where it drops into the sea. Beyond it are the mountainous islands that guard the bay and make it almost landlocked. At first sight the land seems continuous, but there is a narrow passage between Fox island and the Kenai peninsula so that the ship ping of the world can sail in and out.
 The bay itself is about sixteen miles long, and it is protected on all sides from the gales. Its waters are from six hum dred to twelve hundred feet deep. In- deed, the depth is so great as to be an objection; the only really safe anchor age outside the wharves being at Sunny Cove, on Fox Island, where for the space Of about 320 acres the water is so shal- low that ships can lie there.
 have seen most of the great harbors of the world. I have gone through the Dardanelles to Constantinople, and have explored the beauties of the Golden Horn. I have wound my way in and out through the landlocked channel on which Sydney
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cases are dreams of floral beauty. Easter is the cause of this. and if the florists sell all their flowers, New York streets Garden of the Gods-they will be a real garden of the goddesses."
 And Easter's approach reminds us of the far-famed Easter parade on the avenue. This parade is supposed, in some localities, to represent the wealth and fashion of New York city on dis play, when, in reality, it is nothlns f the sort. The Easter parade may have represented those things in day long gone, but in later years it has come to be but a parade of the shop girls, clerks, etc. in their Easter regalia, and a gathering of the curious who still labor under the impression that they are seeing the real thing
 Of course, there will be splendid gowns, silk hats galore, etc, but they mean little here. The shop girl often knows how to dress well and a silk hat is about the first thing the dry goods clerk or the hotel dish washer purchases when he receives his initial pay check.
 Justice is the title of the latest theatrical or dramatic hit here. It had it's premiere here Monday night and the press was unanimous in declaring it all that it should be. It IS John Galsworthys work, and it is being characterized as one of the most inn portant plays of the last quarter cen- tury.
 Looks as if women pay their bills better than meil do here. The Wom- en's City club of New York caused masculine laughter at first It was
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under the weight Of the bodies of many failures. Some perhaps. have had to struggle against odds greater than their strength could master, but many could justly attribute their failure to themselves alone. And, though they do not realize it, within them still lies sufficient power for reasonable degree of success, but they will never win it so long as they re- main seated upon the park benches.
 New York. then, brings out what is in one. The procession moves forward al ways, and if he falls behind. it does not even delay to offer him pity, though it may cast pitying eye upon him in pass ing. If he would keep up he must not only possess, but use the fighting qualities he has.
 In the last analysis, of course. one ma, say that if a man be weakling it is hardly his own fault but that of nature, fis forbears, etc. While that is true, it is equally, true that such weakling has nc business upon battlefield. In other words. New York city is not the place for him to seek or settle in.
 It is possible that prize fighting may be forbidden here by law, but the other kind of fighting, the life fighting, the real fight to a finish,' will continue for long time to come, and I wholly believe that there will come a day when the ac- tual failure in such contests will be looked upon without sympathy, no mat ter what may have been his handicap that he will be considered as one who has found his level, and who therefore be- longs just where he is.
 Certain parts of Broadway and Fifth avenue, at this time. are veritable flower gardens. The florists shops. ''rosaries," as some of them are called. are vieing with each other in beautifying their fronts and windows. The results in some