The Alaska citizen., 1916-06-12

The truth of the matter is that all of the employees of the Alaskan Engineering commission are tagged That IS. each employee is furnished
 with a round brass tag about ar
 inch and a quarter in diameter. or
 which is inscribed number and
 the lettering A E. Com" And therefore, opposite the name of eacf employee on the books of the com
 mission, is his number. and iron
 that time on, as far as the field work of the commission is con ceIned. he becomes nameless. beina
 merely a number.
 The tags were brought north this spring Commissioner Riggs re
 served the tags numbered from on
 to five in Washington. The loca
 office employees of the commission have made watch fobs out of theil tags The numbers of c. Fentor | Cramer and J. Casson Williams art
 eleven" and "eight" respectively. As was explained by MT. Cramer the tags are used chiefly where large gangs oe men are working The labor to a great extent is for eign, and it Is therefore impossible to get the names of the laborers in good many instances. Fol | that reason the tag system is used
 Over on the coast end of the rail road the tags are square.
 It is understood that two well known Fairbanks young ladies are to go to work in the offices of the commission shortly Whats yo1r number, little one9
 Con Beegs Con Beggs came tc
 Comes town a few days age For Visit. from the Tenderfool country, where he has been hibernating for the past II ol
 Is months. And I hope he has gone back before this time, for, on the last occasion I put his name in a paper, he threatened me with decapitatlon or some other sure mode of death if 1 ever did the like again. But if he is gone long enough this time he may forget it.
 Con came down Cushman street leading a limpy grey horse. He hadn't been to town for so long that he did not recognize just where he was, but it was the opinion ol one or two people who happened to be watching him that he was looking for Front street And ir his search ne managed to get over on Turner street. There he met an old friend and conversed for a while, remarking in parting: .. ought to have some mail I guess | I'll go to the postoffice"
 And to the postoffice he started but he went past it. And when he got over to where the postottice used to be he tied his horse to a 1 telephone pole, then stoood anC stared For just where the doors O the old postoffice were, he saw a glass front and behind that 8 desk and men working
 Of course, Con looked both ul
 and down the street He recognized
 the store as that of the N. c. com pany, but he missed the alleywaI which used to be between the post office and the store, and other 1 familiar landmarks. Finally he haC to ask somebody to direct him tC 1 the postoffice, then had to move
 his horse to another telegraph pole
 Of course, it didn't take Cor | long to get acquainted again but
 to the effect that many changes can take place in Fairbanks in (
 short period of time
 6aScOdil large uulllDeT Ol llit
 Boys the ball players of Fair
 Are Sore. banks are quite peeveC over the ball game yes terday, if reports are true. The
 reason is that the park commission
 saw fit to turn the park over tc the travelling men and business meI
 who participated in the game yes terday. For. as was explained, il
 was felt that those who played yes
 terday could easily have had theil
 game some week night and have
 given the boys their regular Sun
 day outing at baseball.
 And, because they were deprived
 of their day. some of the boy
 have quit baseball in Fairbanks fol
 good and all And others have de
 clared their intention to quit Il
 Is not as though they made a mil lion dollars or so out of every game
 for 1t is a well known fact that what the players get out O the game hardly compensates them fol
 their baths. But the boys feel that
 they were not given a square dea
 when they were deprived of theil
 regular Sunday recreation.
 Fairbanks Charles Warren Fair Godfather banks, of Indiana, is