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automobiles in making the trip out Of
the country.
Fairbanks has several good hotels. I
am stopping with Tony Nordale, on
Front street. where I have a sitting
room and bedroom at about So per day.
l get my meals at a restaurant kept by
young lady, whose rosy cheeks and
tow hair have caused her to be nick
named by the miners THE Little Pink
Swede.' Her charge is from so cents
to rs cents a meal and the food is de-
licious. Like many of the restaurants,
hers has pet brown bear accompani-
ment 1t is cub fastened to a chain
outside the front door. 1t will do tricks
for you if you give it sugar Jumps or
sweet cakes.
1 had my hair cut today. 1t cost me
Is cents and the shave which followed
ran the billlto 81. AS l left the barber
shop l stepped into the chair of boot
black outside, and the shine cost me
quarter. Tie day was hot and when. in
the parance of the camp. a miner asked
me il / would wash my neck I knew
what he meant and said yes. He treated
me to glass of lemonade at cost Of
Is cents. A little farther on newsboy
offere me the Alas ska Citizen, for which
l handed a quarter. the regular price
for the paper. The money here is the
same as in the Klondike. There is no
coin of less than % cents in circulation.
and a quarter here means about the
same as a nickel at home.
Fairbanks is governed by a mayor and
a town council. 1t has much civic spirit
There are mems clubs and women $
clubs and fraternal orders, such as the
Odd Fellows and Masons, the Arctic
Brotherhood the Pioneers and others
The town has three or four newspapers
including two dailies and the Alaska
Citizen, which is published on Mondays.
1t has good public schools, and Catholic.
Presbyterian. Episcopal, Methodist and
Christian Science churches 1t has a
public library. a picturesque structure
built of logs, which is fairly well equipped
with books and periodicals. and two mod
ern hospitals. 1t has a good fire depart
ment telephone system and an electric
light plant. large part of it has water
works throughout the summer, and in
some cases throughout the winter as
we'll. The pipes are kept from freezing
in winter by running steam pipes along
side.
A curious feature is main heating
plant that supplies steam heat for the
business center and some of the houses
Eight or nine blocks are kept warm by
this plant, and there are many homes
that get their heat by turning a screw,
just as in the flats of an apartment
building. The fuel that runs the central
plant is wood, which is cut from the
neighb orhood and sells at from s12 to SIS
cord. The plant is a success and it
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-01
UP AND DOWN BROADWAY--By Allen Griffin johnson

INV EW YORK, September 30-(Spe-
NWI cial)--Just before the cold hand
of October grips the throat of au-
tumn; before the rich-hued foliage
pales and dies. and the inevitable snow
fall wells the vistas round about, 1 want
you with me for another little Journey.
Broadway Is unsafe at best these days,
and only a few million moths still flut-
ter round it's fascinating flames IT'S
better where the strikers stones fly not,
and elevate trains and prices are but
memories. Ns M
No. let the little flivver rest a bit AL
ready is its summer duty we'll performed
rms time we gossby water through a
country of enchantment whose superior
In beauty or in grandeur is not known
Once in every little while a well paid
writer for some eastern publication jour
neys down into sunland and discovers
IT. He finds new people and new places
new prosperity and always new prov
mcialisms. 1t is by no means SO aften
that the south sends representative
into the more thickly settled east to give
to Dixie readers glimpses of its beauties
which the new-filled press ignores in or
der that the daily blood stain may APP
pear, fresh from the battlefields of Eu-
rope, and the veins of dead MANNED
young manhood.
Our boat is the magnificent Washington
Irving of the Hudson River Day Line,
our destination is Poughkeepsie, IS miles
away, and our route follows the blue
waters Of the Hudson past green fields.
through fair cities and between giant
mountains. whose height compels pity
for sucli puny man-made structures as
h the Woolworth building.
Having seen Manhattan island from al
most every angle, we board our vessel
IT the foot of One Hundred and Twenty
Ninth street instead of going down TO
Me Desbrosses street pier from where
he started. We discover her to be a
Irritable floating steel palace; two
acker. four-decker, screw-driven and
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of the times-and the point is-and point that con-
surns-wthur do theese things Iced us?
VIII modern ways and habits result disas
terusly TO the hope of the nason?" viii modderu
inversion and modern sivyilizason and modern ad
vantages prove mennasc to sed hope and result
in brunette fizzle Menny pessimsts believe So
and veew the rising gennerason moor or less OF
a forlorn hope"
However. why not be booster? Sumhow | can
not help believing that all is we'll l am by dispos-
sion opomist and believe that if a boy has the
goods he will make good a membur of the leggis-
iature or as the county corrnor. With modern ed
ucason and luther advantages just we'll IL not moor
so as he would have dun if he had gone school in
log hui and hickory shurt and stone bruise
the first half Of his life
Let us hope, ennvway that the hope OF the nasion
will recover frum wise" age of yuth Just as the
past gennerasols have recovered frum it, and they
weer afflicted with the disease, tho probability
1t was not so much an eppdemmick it appeers to-
day. Yours trooly
BILL VINES
Washington, D. C.
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Dunderburg mountain on the west bank.
At its foot is Kids Point so named be-
cause legend has it that Captain Kidd
concealed some of his trea sure there, and
that this treasure is yet to be discovered.
Entering the Highlands, we can only
gasp. The beauty of the scene is beyond
our powers of expression. 1t is the land
of enchantment-too grand for a fairy
land-more like some wonderful country
of the gods. Between iona Island, which
is on the left above Dunderbel g, and the
eastern shore the river is so narrow that
it is here called The Race" Iona
Island is now occupied by the United
States government as an Arsenal and
supply station for the navy. Bear Noun
tain park, on the west bank, has been
set aside for the pleasure and resusci-
tation of the people of New York oity's
lower east side. 1t covers many hills
and valleys and is ideal for. the city
poor. The plan originated by Gift from
Mrs. L. II. Hartman
The promontory jutting from the east
ern bank is called An.nuny osc, 4Au-
thor.tles seem to lack authority as to tn.
reason fof so naming this promohtCfy.
Here one of the ship Officers, spielers.
OF what-not. walks upon deck and in
forms us, Look. Catskill one sid;
and Peeksllill on the other-really this
most dangerous part of the river"
Then, too. he announces that the pilot
seems to be steering US straight into d
mountain. Indeed, We see no waterway
ahead. and 1t is only as we arrive at
the turn that we see the beautiful stream
turning into wider river toward the
east and north. The country opens out
wonderfully, but this is not until we
have passed between the great Storm
King mountain, on the left and Break
neck mountain on the right, two of the
most Impressive nature giants along the
whole route. Comparison has often been
made between the Hudson and the Rhine,
and along here the Hudson is said TO
have distinct advantage in natural
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that the Palisades terminate Past IT.
vington we go-named for Washington
Irving, even as is the boat we are riding
upon-and We see. close to the railroa d
track, little north of the station, the
many-gabled home of Irving, screened by
the trees about it.
Tarrytown, a picturesque village lying
upon the green hills of the eastern bank,
is soon reached. 1t was here that Mai.
John Andre was captured by three
townsmen. Later he was executed at
Tappan, village across she river. but
not visible from the boat. Above Tar
rytown is the valley of Pocantico creek.
glimpse up this valley reminds one
that it has long been known as Sleepy
Hollow, and that it is identified with the
famous legend of Washington Irving. A
tall shaft Of granite, plainly visible from
the river. marks Irving's resting place.
North of here Just bit we see the splen-
did home of William Rockefeller, and
hidden away inland, about three miles.
lies the estate of his brother, John D..
Rockefellers Ifs
On t,.~ west bank. opposite, is Nyack,
connected with Tarrytown by ferry. Ris-
ing abruptly from the waters edge IS
Hook mountain. or Point-no- Point, and
thes horizon to westward Is led with
thef beautiful outlines of the Ramapo
hills. Mss III
Presently, after we have gided smooth
ly up the river a little farther, the grim
Walls CT Sing Sing prison remind us
that ali people do not enjoy the liberty
and the beauties we are beholding. Sing
Sing prison is located in the town of Os-
shining. This town used to be called
Sing Sing. but changed its name for OBJ
yiors ~eason. AS no LANDING is made at
ossning we have no opportunity to call
upon our friends.
About mile ahead we reach Haver-
straw bay, another widening of the Hud-
son, Just where it is Joined by Croten
river At this point, on the east, are the
yards where the New York Central trains
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than 600 miles long. 1t is on a branch
of the Tanana that Fairbanks is To-
Gated, and that within ESQ miles OF
where it flows into the Yukon. 1t took
me two days to come up the Tanana
river from Fort Gibbon to Fairbanks.
The stream is wide all the way and
it's current is such that it tears the
trees from the banks and makes long
win6rows of timber on the edge of the
water. The Tanana is navigable for
some distance above Fairbanks, and
its valley has millions of acres OF
agricultural land 1t is in this valley
that Fairbanks lies
The place is also in the heart of large
areas of gold bearing gravel The
country about is gulleyed by creeks,
from which more than 100000 worth
of gold has been taken and where they
are now washing out 100000 or
$4,000 600 a year. The gold all comes
from gravel anda earth that has
been frozen for thousands of years,
.sndsit- has to be thawed and dug up
to get out the metal. This requires
fuel, which will be brought in by the
railroad at such a cost that the out
put of the mines can be greatly in
creased. The railroad, now building,
will tap coal fields near Fairbanks,
and the cheap fuel will make a revo-
luton in mining, both placer and
quarts. Of these 1 shall write in de-
tail in the future
Let me give you some pictures or
the Fairbanks of today You know that
it is to be the terminus of the new
railroad, and you may have had dreams
as to what it looks like. Whatever they
are they cannot represent the reality.
Fairbanks is like nothing in the
heavens above, in the earth beneath
or in the waters under the earth. It
might be worshiped without breaking
the first commandment. 1t has Il
municipal entity of it's own and de-
liGhtful individuality. 1t is a COM
bination of the picturesque and the
plain, of the shabby and the sump-
iuous, of the old and the new, and
in all it is, different
Take look at the main business
street. 1t is wide dirt road with plank
sidewalks, from which rise frame
buildings of one and two stories. The
front walls of the stores extend high
above the roofs and are cut off hori-
zontally to make them look taller The
Sky line is jagged saw. The stores
are wholesale and retail. They have
plate glass windows and the assert
ment within them is of every descrip-
ton. They carry stocks as large as
similar establishments of several times
the size in the states. Fairbanks is
the trading center of interior Alaska.
and goods from here go to the mining
camps of the Tanana, the Yukon, the
Noyukuk and the Innoka rivers, on the
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keeps the houses perfectly comfortable,
although the temperature drops at times
40 to so degrees below zero. The houses
outside this heating arrangement are
warmed by large stoves and their fuel is
wood. When the railroad is completed
the people expect to have coal at cost
of about S. a ton.
The most picturesque feature OF
Fairbanks is the homes of the peo-
pie. The residences are chiefly log
cabins, ranging in sic from those OF
two rooms to some of a dozen or more
The ca bins are built of cyprus and
birch logs, with the bark on or off,
at the taste of the builder. The logs
are chinked with arctic moss and their
corners are Joined, now in notched
shape, now dovetailed and now with
house built of corn cobs. Nearly ev-
cry home has it's porch; and on the
smaller ones the low ridge roofs ex
tend far out at the front, covering the
lounging place of the family, during
the hot summer days. Some of the
houses are half log and half frame
Some are rooted with boards, some with
galvanized iron painted green and
others with poles covered with earth
The latter have grass and flowers
growing upon them. Most of the houses
have cellars, and all have their walls
set deep in the ground and banked up
for warmth. Some are of bungalow
shape, and in the larger houses there
are living rooms with wide windows
artstically set They are quite as spa
cious as our rooms at home.
Many of the log cabins have con-
servatories or hothouses and some have
pretty lawns of green grass with beds
of beautiful flowers All have gardens
and nearly every one has its patch or
potatoes and turnips Hedges of sweet
peas. the vines of which grow to the
height of man, may wall one side or
q garden, and great beds of peoples
line the walks through the center.
Nearly every home has it's pansy bed.
and many have geraniums. nasturtiums
and other brilliant hued flowers. |
have never seen anywhere flowers so
large. SO fresh and of such velvety
texture; and ] may add that 7 have
never visited any town where the peo-
pie seemed to love flowers so much AMI
where they have so many for them
selves and their friends.
The only places that compare with
Fairbanks as to it's luxuriant vegeta-
tion in summer are the towns of south
eastern Alaska and the Pugent sound
region. The short, hot summers give
Dame Nature seven-league boots. and
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speed wonder. Perhaps my nautica
terms are listing to starboard a bit
but you get the idea. She is one of the
fastest river steamers afloat.
The whistle sounds, and after We re-
cover from the shock, we find that We
are leaving Grant tomb behind us, and
are steaming out into the channel. Soon
upon either side of us we behold mag
nificent estates, with modern million
aires palaces overlooking the sweep OF
the river, and with an inaudible, How
do they do it?'' we let our gaze sw.>r
the river ahead of us once again
Upon a bold promontory just north OF
Spuyten Duyvil, which marks the north
end of Manhattan Island, we behold the
tall shaft or a monument to Henry Hud-
son. 1t was here that Hudson had his
first fight with the Indians of this Nand,
who tried to board his vessel. Soon we
reach Yonkers, where | have taken you
before-in the flivver-and above that
city are more beautiful homes upon the
high banks of the Hudson. Conspicuous
among them is .'Greystone," formerly the
residence of Samuel j. Tilden, once gov
erior of New York, also at one time
a candidate for the presidency, and
known as The Sage of Greystone."
A little further along lies Hastings, and
opposite that town we behold the highest
point of the Palisades. And then Dobbs'
Ferry, full of "reminiscences of the strus-
gle for independence. 1t was the east
landing of the first ferry north of the is
land and was debatable ground during
the revolution. Here stands the Wash
dRgton- Rochambeau monument, before
the Livingston Manor house, one of the
somewhat numerous headquarters OF
General Washington
But short distance above Dobbs'
Ferry the Hudson broadens out into what
is known as the Tappan Zee. and on
either side the scenery is indeed beaut:-
full. The river reaches a width of four
or five miles at this point, aIsl it is here
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ated with Matteawan The hospitsi 70,
the insane made famous by Harry rhaw.
stands about a mile inland. J. FenIraore
cooper used this vilIaSe as a setting for
his novel, 1.-The Spy" Back Of Beacon
rise the Beacon mountains. AS we gaze
at the highest of these. we see a white
speck creeping up its side, slowly but
surely and at an angle that is thrilling
even to us who merely gaze at it. It
is cable car going up the incline rail-
way to the mountains summit This Il
said to he the steepest railway of tha
kind in the world. and yet / have trav-
eled up Lookouts side, at Chattano
and II the Beacon Mountain railway goes
up more perpendicular route, it would
have to lean backwards But it Is a
very steep grade, and a very long as
cent
The next turn of the river shows US
the Devils Danskammer, whereon is a
light house. 1t is so called because here
Henfy Hudson Witnessed an Indian
dance, or pow WOW. Marlborough is
next, then Milton, then Poughkeepsie
All are historic, and one must not for
get that the scenery at all times is
beautiful almost Beyond expression. A
ride up the Hudson will leave its impress
upon anyone who takes tilt cannot be
forgotten Poughkeepsie is the home OF
Nassar college and some 5000 people
Here we spend an hour and a half be-
fore taking the boat back to Manhattan.
The trip back is made partly in dark
ness, and the orchestra and dancing
keeps us inside after daylight departs,
our next thrill coming when we behold
the multitudinous lights of Manhattan.
But even they fail to impress us as did
the marvellous beauties along the path
OF the beautiful Hudson river
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An Age of Luxury

An Age OF Luxury
John A. Sleicher in Lesles.
An age of luxury is always an age of
decadence. When the simple life is
given up, temptation begins.
When man or a woman sacrifices
thrift for the love of luxury. it is a day
of evil foreboding for the love of luxury
puts premium on discomfort.
y taste for luxurious food and drink
S is followed by a desire for expensive
garments. silks, satins, laces and jewels
things that add nothing essentially to
comfort or the joy of living.
The story of the dscadent nations is
always the same. When the simple life
was abandoned. an era of luxury set in
and extravaganza drained the nations
resources.
Right living went the way OF plain
living. Luxury, extravaganza and vice
follow. each other in natural sequence
luxurious nation finds it's resources
swept away, it's patriotism sacrificed TO
effeminacy and its physical wellbeing
to the common vices of mankind.
Thoughtful men in this day OF alb
normal prosperity are endeavoring to i'm
press the lesson of thrift on the Ameri-
can people, but the drift is all the other
way, here and everywhere 1t has al
ways been so.
1t is situation full of danger and the
~oft-repeated warning is given again in
the nope that some may listen and profit
though many may scott and suffer.
Don't blame the prosperous worker il
he apes the opulent drone. When the
latter spends 800 a plate for a dinner
bedecks himself with gaudy Jewels be-
slows 100000 necklaces ri wife, daugh-
ter or favorite, let no one wonder that
these fragrant examples of extravagance
exert an evil influence on those who toll
for their daily bread.
TIna inf &c
verbal. Rich as well as poor need to
be taught the lessons of right living
and right doing.
And in this age of luxury. the Thoughts
full rich whose benefactions endow uni.
versities. hospitals and foundation such
as the Rockefeller institute, to search
out the causes of infantile paralysis, and
other diseases that plague rich and poor
alike, deserve the highest commenda.
ton.
1t would be we'll If the good examples
they set were more generally followed
-.
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and within a night they will freeze as
hard as stone and keep until April.
AS result, l shall have fresh chick
en- on tap at any time in the winter.
They are not bad, l assure you"
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There is a child born every four MIN.
utes in Texas. seven homes ara built
every working hour. IL per cert OF the
younk women between the ages Of - and
"a are unmarried, 1852 men have never
braved the matrimonial seas and there
are 10000 spinters. The average size Of
Texas family is four and nine-tenths.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-01

Concrete as a material for gate struc-
lures in American irrigation canals is be-
ginning TO displace wood, its durability
overcoming the disadvantage of higher
cost.
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Fairbanks is at the junction of the
railway and river navigation of the
territory. This does not mean that the
town lies on the Yukon. Alaska is a
land of great rivers and the Yukon has
many large navigable tributaries. One
of these is the Tanana, a stream more
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The only places that compare with
Fairbanks as to it's luxuriant vegeta-
tion in summer are the towns of south
eastern Alaska and the Pugent sound
region. The, short, hot summers give
Dame Nature seven-league boots, and
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-02-05
STARTLING THE EASTERNERS.

man earning his daiy bread created quite 8 stir among former townfolks back east by writing them he was employed by a man who had : 300 acres cultivated to wheat, which a. that time was being harvested He wrote that he was working in field containing GAO acres and that the yield run from 30 to 40 bushels 10 the acre. The men were taken to and from their work in touring cars and meals were served in the field in a dining car.'
 No wonder the ordinary eastern person will raise his hands in aston ishment. To them 1,500 acres of wheat, cultivated by an army of men with traction engines and all the E<thsr appliances of ultra-modern farming partakes nearly of a tale from Arabian Nights Up in Montana. it's all in the days work, and there
 are 'many such farms, as there are in other northwestern and western states.
 Of course, the owner of such vast fErm, with wheat bringing tcp notch prices, can well afford to spend a few months at high-toned hotel in the winter and isnjoy the sights. Or he can sprint around in Florida in an lautomobile.
 Multiply the numbef of acres by
 the number of bushels of the acre, and then by the price wheat is bring ing this year, and then imagina what you'd do with the profits. Isn't it
 enough to stir your blood?
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-02-05
MISSOURI pOLlCEWOMEN.

aS4. Louis has full-fledg2d waman poKce as one of its guardians cf peace, morality and welfare. Her salary begins at $65 per month for the first year. Later she will be ad- vanced to the grade and remunera- ton of patrolmen. The mayor contem- plates the appointment of three ad- d4tional women to the police force. This is lcng step forward in city policies-but what peculiar form of municipal government which, for its own welfare, invests women with police authority and denies them the .pGwer of the ballot.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-02-05
HelpfulneSs,

'We should always try to be help- full and sympathetic" said Professor Pate. "As ships meet at sea mo- ment, when greetings are exchanged. and then go away on the deep. so men meet in this world.'' Then pause in your passing long enough to tell the other fellow about your rheumatism or show him how idiotic his pet theory it, and then go on your way before he can give you the details of his dyspepsia or refute your imbecile arguments.-Kansas City Star.