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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-19
Helping the Small Merchant

w. Il. Slauson, in Leslie's
 To the merchant operating but three of four horse-drawn vehicles. which can be easily replaced by one properly selected truck. the added Investment represented by the purchase of such a vehicle is real and vital problem lie may see his comeptitors turning to the truck for the solution of thefr hauling difficulties. and this fact aione Will all the more convince him of the impossibility of liquidating the large investment in his former delivery svs tenn.
 But the change in the attitude of prominent bankers toward the truck as security Tor loan, and the organi- Eation or one or more large companies formed solely for the purpose of fi nancing the sale of motor business ve- hicies on the instalment plan. comes as a reiief to situation which, to some manufacturers, dealers and prospectfve users was becoming a serious problem under such system, by the payment of certain percentage of the original cost of the truck (seldom exceeding one-third of it's value) and sirninr notes which bear only legal rate Of interest on the balance and which arc que in eight 10 or 12 equal monthly ihstaiments. the purchaser may secure immediate possession of his truck This VIII make 1t unnecessary for him to take the value of his new means of delivery out of his business and will giVe him opportunity to find a satis- factory market for his horse ana wagon equipment. Tn fact the time ai- lowed for payment Is so generous that 1t Is quite probable that the complete amount involved may be saved from the actual difference in maintenance cost between the horse and truck sys- tenn Of delivery. This being the case, the sale of the horse and wagon equip- ment after ample time has been al- lowed in a search for good market will represent so much increase In capital. and what might originally have seemed to represent serious problem in the form of an actual lia- bility will become a most productive asset.
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with dust from the feet of dancing cou- ples. There is unquestionably a field here for the cabaret hotels-I go to them myself occasionally when I want to dance and be entertained-not when I want food, or a place to stay in
 "The function of my hotels" he con- tinued, lis different; it is to offer my guests a home; to see that all their wants are provided for; to care for them prop erly even in sickness and to meet their demands and longings for a homelike hostelry. The fact that all the hotels in which I am interested are now filled, proves, does it not, that the home hotel is duly appreciated in New York city?
 little more digging in'' proved to me that the home hotel has many fea- lures which should appeal strongly even to the visitor who likes a cabaret oc- casionally. MT. Tolson showed me that he had not raised his food prices since 1910, and if there is cabaret hotel in Manhattan which can truthfully claim that, I have yet to learn it's location.
 The cabaret and dance features nat AA eeAAS AiiSi CthoO IAiC AOlCl llldl1 tApcHSSS. While it is true that the cabaret is off, fered free" yet one pays for it indirect ly-by the advanced price of food, by the cost of drinks-which is often double what it is elsewhere-and in other ways. One rather settled man, recent visitor to this city, put it this way: 'T can't make out whether they have the dinners in these hotels to detract your attention from the music, or whether they have the music in order to detract your at tention from the food you are eating ''
 MT. Tolson is just now engaged in build- ing virtually Q new hotel in West Forty eighth street, though it will be but a big addition to the present Hotel Bristol, which fronts on Forty ninth street and will bear that name
 The addition will be F stories in height and will have 200 rooms. The location is considered ideal and the erection of the annex is the culminatior of long, hard effort to get a hotel right on that de- sirable spot.
 unique feature of the addition, or the new Bristol-for it amounts to that will be a floor for bachelors only. This will be the twelfth story, and here un- protected young men will be safe from
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"did9 and did plenty-tho take it frum me- nun too much
 Erny how theere air menny happy and unhappy offise holders in Washington Theere air varius and sundry abull gentulmen in the Guvvermen serise in this town who realise that the sed Guvverment serv- ise has just had narrer escapethey air fully aware that weer the Guvverment servise deprived of them that the news would fall like a dull thud upon the plain peepul and theere relasions and that 1t would be sad day for effisensy. So they air happy that the country has escaped that callammity They don't give whoop about themselves-hat is not as whoops go. Theere air also varius and sundry abu gentul- men in this city who feer that the Guvverment sery- ise has suffured irreparabul loss by the results last fewsday week-for they stood willing and reddy to sacrfise theere persunne inturres and devote them selves to the Guyvermen servise at so much per de- vote.
 So far as am consumed am sure the plain peepul of Alabama will breeth sigh of releef They know now that the country is safe becawse will still be on the job-they also feel sure that as long as hold sed job theere is dangur of me returning to Ala. ban1a and running for offise and fully agree with them.
 It was Sum Electsion-yea Boo,
 Yours trooly
 BILL VINES. Washington D. C.
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goes through the country must wear a head-net, and have his hands protected with gloves. Not bit of skin is allowed to show It is best to wear boots, for the mosquitoes bore their way through the eyelet holes In ones shoes and their bites raise great buttons of flesh on each side of the tongue. I have heard of men being killed by the mosquitoes, and they say the horses and other animals almost go crazy if they are left out in the woods.
 Leaving Kaltag, the Yukon flows all most straight south for distance of . l5e miles or more 10 the Holy Cross Mission, near which the Innoko rivey flows in. The Innoko gives access to the rich gold mining region known as the 1ditarold. The camp is reached by sailing up the Innoko to Dykeman, which is the head of navigation of the Iditarod river, branch of the Innoko The distance is about $50 miles, and from there to the camp is 75 miles farther. The Iditarod gold region was discovered in 1909 and it had yielded S6,o00,000 worth of gold within the next two years. A single claim pro- duced $4O,600 worth of gold a week. during the last open season. great ceal of gold has been taken out of the Iditarod. Many of the claims have been bounded or bought by the Gug- senheims, and that company is now working large dredges there
 Between Kaltag and the Holy Cross Mission is Anvik, an Indian settlement with Russian church, and still far ther down the river is Andreafslsi, which was established by the Russians in 1853. Andreafski is now a little trading station on the banks of the Yukon. It has a great oil tank and the steamers stop there to take fueL The town is populated almost altogether by Eskimos. about the only whites be- Ing the storekeepers, who have charge of some galvanized warehouses and supply of country goods. The Eskimos live in log cabins, and there Is large village of them about 30 or 40 miles away. Those we saw were dressed in skins with boots of sealskin and caps of skiE with fur coming out around their faces They had skin boots and fur coats and trousers. They were not afraid of the camera and they allowed themselves to be posed as the passen- gers pleased From now on we shall be in the lands of the Eskimos
 It is at Andreafski that the delta of the Yukon is said to begin. The coun- try is flat and you can see for miles over the low grass on both sides of tho river. Far off to the south the kuselvak mountains are visible. They lie between the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers. They are green. with glaciers making streaks of white on their slopes. Away off to the north are other green mountains and between is the plain.
 As you go on from Andreafski the Yukon widens. It is soon three miles from one bank to the other. Then 1t branches out into wide channels. each of which is a mouth. and. where it flows into the sea. these mouths have
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poppies and lupins. You can see them on the sides of the hills, within a stones throw of the deck of the steamer.
 The Ramparts end at Fort Gibbon. into a great low plain. Here the Ta- mana river flows into the Yukon and you have another inland sea with great islands. Turning to the south, through the islands the steamers from Dawson go up the winding Panama to Fair banks, a distance of 275 miles, and steaming southward, other ships make their way down the broad lower Yu- kon to Boring sea.
 The Lower Yukon is about 800 miles long. It comprises one-thrd of the main stream and one-sixth or one-seventh of it's navigable waters. The Yukon is 23Oo miles long and it's basin is 10 times as large as the state of Indiana Next to the Mississippi Missouri and the St. Lawrence, it Is the greatest river under Uncle Sam's flag. It has many naviga- ble tributaries and its scenic beauties are among the wonders of the world. The day will come when it will be great tourist route, and when the Porcupine, the Pelly, the Koyukuk, the 1nnoko and the Iditarod will be almost as well known as the Columbia and the Hudson are now. Today most of these rivers are un- known to the average man. In the fu- ture they will be as much a part of our geography as are the Delaware, the Sus- quenanna of the Potomac.
 The Tanana will first become known. The railroad is fast building toward it, and homesteads are already being cut out here and there on the banks. All ready there are small towns between the Yukon and the terminus of the rail- road. and in the near future the Panama valley will have considerable popula- ton of farmers.
 The country on both sides of the Lower Yukon is a wilderness. That part Of the stream is about as long as from New York to Chicago. It drains thou sands of square miles, and it's popula- ton, 1 venture. is numbered by hun dreds Going down the river you now and then pass an Indian village and stop at several towns which form the ports for gold mines One of the chief towns is Ruby, 175 miles below Fort Gippon. It is a placer mining cen- Ter, which had stampede in 1911. There are. perhaps. 1000 people there now. They live in a tumble of buildings made or logs, galvanized iron and unpainted boards. all thrown together, without re- gard to order or beauty. Most of the houses are of one story, and they look as though they had been pitched out of the sky and let fall where they would. The town lies in little cove on the south bank of the river rock 90 feet high marks one end of the cove and the space beyond 1t, running to the edge of the Yukon, is just large enough for the
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by phone and told that Mr. Goddard wanted to see her as soon as possible. However, she had gone straight to the World office and had sold her story with out the least trouble in the meantime.
 When she appeared at the American office again, in response to the Goddard summons, she was shown into his office It is large, dingy place, with desk away over in one corner, and at this desk sat MT. Goddard, pipe in his mouth hat on his head and feet on his desk He did not look up as she entered, but went on reading something spread out in his lap.
 Finally he glanced at her coldly, said
 "Well?" and paused in his reading.
 'Wel?' replied Mrs. Clarke, standing and looking him straight in the eye.
 You wanted to see me?" was his next question.
 No" she answered, you wanted to see me. I am Mrs. Clarke"
 "Um," said the great man, "Yes" He was about to say something further when she interrupted him with:
 Pardon me, MT. Goddard, but I am AApiii IhC SOutiiy dilQ pciildpS d. Ut SpOllcQ by southern courtesy. If you will take your hat off your head, your pipe out of your mouth. and your feet off the desk I shall be glad to hear what you have to say to me-
 It was like lightning out of a clear sky, and the worst of it was-for MT Goddard-several men on the paper were listening through the open door and heard and saw it all. Startled out of his customary coldness of manner, he sat bolt upright and asked:
 We'll, madam, do you want to run this office?''
 ''No." she replied, "but I want you to run it more courteously while I am in here.''
 He stared hard at her for a minute, then, with a laugh took his hat off and his pipe out of his mouth-his feet had already been brought down to the floor level. Mrs. Clarke thanked him, and asked him what it was he wanted with her.
 He wanted the story; he couldn't get it. he was told.
 But. my dear madam" he said i've want it, I tell you; we want all we can get on that subject
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N 0EW YORK, November 18.-(Spe- lMl cial5-1f Mrs. Clarke knew am U NJ going to tell you this story, it
 wouldn't be told, that's all. But she doesn't. She's the Nashville woman referred to recently as accomplishing big things up here in Manhattan these days, and this little incident in her early New York career will serve to show you now she goes about it-sometimes.
 Ever hear of Goddard? That's enough, just Goddard Well, he is virtually the father of Hearst journalism. It was he who put the red type on the first page; 1t was he who found out that elongated type is more attractive than short, fat type; it was he who made the Hearst pa pers what they are today
 MT. Goddard was working for the New York World when Mir. Hearst decided to start the Hearst papers here, and one night when the publishers of the World went to their offices, they discovered that Mr Hearst had taken the whols staff, headed by Mir. Goddard. Later the World bought MT. Goddard back, and still later MT. Hearst bought him once more, and every time he was bought it was at an advanced figure.
 Well. anyhow, our story deals with him after he was all settled, established and everything cn the American, the Hearst morning 6aiiy here. He was the biggest man on 1t, and a big man in New York is always hard to get to. Meanwhile, Mrs Ida c. Clarke, newspaper woman from Tennessee, was here doing free lance work for the big dailies, and had met with some success in planting" her stories She had been selling them to the World right along, but got hold of a story which she wanted to see in the American, and decided she would get in touch with Mir. Goddard.
 Armed with her story she entered the American office and asked for the great Goddard. Of course, she didn't get to see him. She hardly expected to. But she let the representative of the great man know that she had a story which she believed MT. Goddard would like mighty well to see, and tipped him off to the subject matter, which concerned a mat ter of news then very much in demand by all the local papers.
 She left the office and was later called
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-19
The Living Room"

AHc LlNinR hOOm
 From Speaking of Home" by Mrs Lil-
 lian II. Tryon
 We could not get our parlors back into their old state if we tried, because we ourselves have changed. The living room answers to new social feeline. Life is too full to have patience win tormalities. The cry of the times seems to for few friends and good ones. lhe living room is an intimate apart- ment where people are at casa v,fth one another Perhaps the finest thing about it is that it is the mans room quite as much as the woman's. In this age of the feminist. man has come into his own at home Thanks partly to the decorator, he no longer considers the arrangement of A room womans job. The parlor belonged to the woman of the household The men entered it under pressure, assun- ing TOT the occasion festive air. and more often than not seeking an carly preteXt Tor escape. But in the living room the colors are soft the lights are good. the chairs are easy, and there is nothing to pull or knock off on the floor. It is background that permits man in his everyday moods to retain his self-respect
 Nevertheless, there is a good deal of the parlor left in our natures. The business of family life. which used to go on in the shabby sitting room. is managed from some nook far away from the living room. That is a place for leisufe- We take kindly to tbe customs of the living room. because they follow the line of least resistance: put we welcome opportunities to prac- nee there the graces of the mora aus tere parior The parlor was school of poiteness and conversation; in the liy ing room we have manners. and talk. instead. When the living room, aaa, the best service to this generation i, is not only the center of the familv,s social life, but it is, even as tf narl,,, once was, barrier of delicate reti- cence, hospitable and impalpab1e b,fr none the less real, shielding the sane tty or family intimacy from the rest of the world.
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the sarah and the Louise. Each is sternwheeler of the Mississippi type. or about 1900 tons. She is 225 feer long. 40 feet wide with a six-foot oraft' when loaded. Her fuel is Cali 1ornia oil and she runs 12 miles an hour. The boats are electrically light ed and they are up-to-date river boats of their kind. They carry passengers and freight.
 The smaller boats ply upon the trib- utaries of the Yukon, and connected Wlth them are other boats still small- larger boats
 from Fairbanks to Dawson the chief steamers are the Alaska and the okon, or 500 tons each. Both have excellent passenger accomn1oda tions. including electric reading lights in the oerths. The food is good. and the rooms which open out upon deck, arc equal to those of the average river boat Of the United States proper.
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those of the Indians of the Upper Yu- kon. The squaws object to having their photographs taken. I pointed my camera at some of them, but they wrapped their shawls around their heads and threw themselves on the ground
 The next town below Nulato is Kaltag. Here the Yukon makes a big bend to the southward, taking more than 800 miles in it's course to the ocean, whereas one could go across the country and reach it within one-seventh of that distance. Kaltag is a trading post and a govern ment telegraph station. It also has a wireless tower which was erected by pri- vate parties to maintain communication with the Idtarod gold fields.
 Our boat stopped there for an hour or so to take on fuel oil, and while wo waited I took a short tramp into the country. Passing through the village. consisting of a dozen one-story cabins. all fastened with padlocks because the Indian owners had gone off for a fea st to some town in the neighborhood, I en- tered a wilderness as untouched as it was when the Mongols crossed Bering strait to form the first of our Indian population The grass back of the town reached to my waist. It was of different varieties some being red-top, and another not un- like the blue grass of Kentucky. while a third kind had a leaning toward or- chard grass The grass was loaded with seed, and it should form an excellent feed.
 little farther back the surface of the earth was covered with moss and spotted with stunted spruce trees and bushes loaded with blueberries, cranberries and strawberries. Some of the berries are new to my eyes. One had leaf like a raspberry and a fruit shaped much the same It was of pale lemon color tasted it. It was bitter sweet and of an unpleasant flavor. The cranberries were smaller than buckshot. They were red and white and they puckered ones mouth like the taste of our cranberries.
 This walk through the wilds was de- lightful. The moss is of such depth that one seems to be walking on feather beds. Everywhere I went my feet sank in to the ankles. The moss grows layer on layer, and in some places it is many feet deep. It is not wet. but it is as cold as snow; and by pulling it up you can come to the perpetual ice. It is loose and the roots are matted together The roots have no soil on them and they seem to be bedded in moisture
 It was during this walk that had my first experience with the Alaska mos- quitoes. The animals were not fierce, and their bites not as severe as those of the New Jersey species. I had neither gloves nor head-net. and suffered no great dis comfort. This. I am told, is very un- usual. Tn ordinary years the mosquitoes are almost unbearable. They come in May and June, shortly after the breaking of the ice. At that time everyone who
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LOWER YUKON AND BERMNG SEA-=By Frank e. (arpgmsgr

tCopyright, 1916, by Frank c. Car
 penter.)
 S. S. Sarah. Yukon River. | { AM on the lower Yukon, on my wav down to Boring sea. For the past llS two months I have been travel ing upon this mighty stream and its tributaries. I first saw it on the summit of the divide, within IS miles |or the Pacific, on the mountains high Eapoye Skagway. As I stood there I Ecould see the parting of the conti- Rnental rainfall and was able to throw |chips into two streams, one flowing |Gown to the Pacific ocean and the oth- Fer by way of the Yukon to far-off Ber- ling sea.
 The frst chip had to travel only |about $ far as from Washington Ito Mount Vernon on it's way to salt fwater. The other had to go farther Khan the distance between Boston and Ehc Great Salt Lake. The most of my travels since then have been in the Tracks of the second chip.
 l l followed it down the mountains and through Lake Bennett to the town I'i " iilN iAOisC, III SdHdud. AL White Horse l got a steamer that travelled lie path of the chip through the Lew IS l liver into the Yukon and past the mouth of the Klondike to the city of Dawson. From Dawson I steamed to . he international boundary and thence wound my way through some of the host magnificent scenery of Alaska bv
 Eagle City and Circle City, where I en-
 cred the great Yukon flats. These are In inland sea 200 miles long and in .laces 20 miles wide. They flow cross the arctic circle and it was at That point, Fort Yukon, that passed |he mouth of the Porcupine river. which 'ises not far from the Peel, branch sf the Mackenzie which pours Into the
 rctic. From Fort Yukon I steamed on 10 Fort Gibbon. at the mouth of the
 anana. where the lower Yukon be- Hins.
 After leaving the flats the Yukon Twists about like a great liquid cork &crew until 1t comes to Fort Hamlin Here it narrows and enters the Ram Z!arts. valley with fortlike walls 4sing up on both sides. Here the 1purse is reduced from width of sey- ETal miles to one of 500 or 900 feet. Ind the valley in places is only half a Eile wide. High hills, covered with E'ees and moss. rise straight up from Fie river and in some places they are loren than 1000 feet high. The cur tent is swift and In the heart of the Bailey the water flows at the rate of kfven miles an hour. This is rasar the Efland of Rocks, where it@& anned 6p make bridge for the n ilway, \ 1t should ever be e tende to the Etward peninsula and Noh Beyond k,s the hills are still high. but they
 ke all coated with green. Some have
 tees and others are blanketed with
 reweed. pink flowers covering the
 opes to the tops of the hills, where
 lc pink is lost in the blue of the
 ky. There are many wild flowers
 here are bluebells. wild roses. wild