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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-21

Phillip B~urgermeister. II years old.
a retired stone mason OF 25l Jefferson
street. Brooklyn, committed suicide yes
terday by inhaling Illuminating gas He
WAS In good circumstances but had been
d~sspondent since his wife died two
months ago. 1t "a his daily custom to
visit her grave and he usually went
early on Saturday. When neighbors
failed 70 See him about yesterday morn
ing thsy called . policeman. who broke
into his rooms and found him lifeless
- Q couch IN the hltchen.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1916-02-19
EXPOSE OF SAN DIEGO
AIR MEN is MADE

Washington, Feb. 19.-Charges of a
scandal in the army aviation service
involving defective equipment, favor
itism to certain officers and general
inefficienscy OF the aero corps were
laid before the Senate military COM
mittee by Senator Robinson of Arkan-
sas in support of his resolution for a
congressional investigation.
With Photographic copies of letters
which he said had passed between Col
onel Reber. head Of the corps of Cap
tain Cowan, in charge of the San Die
go aviation station, Senator Robinson
told the committee in executive session
that the documentary evidence proved
that the officers recognized the lnef-
ficient condition of the aerial service
that Colonel Reber had instructed Cow
an to keep secret.
Lieutenant Colonel Goodier, judge
advocate general OF the western divis-
ion of the army, was recently tried
by court martial charged with having
altered or added to charges preferred
by other officers against Captain Cow
an.
The charges agains Cowan were that
for years he drew the 35 per cent
extra pay Of an aviation officer when
he was not an aviator. The case now
is waiting President Wilson's action.
The court martial at San Francisco
attracted wide attention and threat
ened an investigation Of the aviation
service.
Captain Cowan, in a letter to Colo
mel Reber, declared if the service ever
came under investigation by anyone
outside our own corps, it would be I'M
possible to explain the rotten way
in which the work has been handled. "
Senator Robinson declared that the
defective condition of equipment of the
aviation service at San Diego could be
established beyond doubt and that Col
onel Reber had instructed Captain
Cowan to keep it secret.
A letter presented to the committee
purported to be from Colonel Reber.
head of the service, to Captain Cowan,
in charge at San Diego, under date Of
June 2, 1915, and read:
Il wish you would have your engi-
neering department get me out some
drawings for the size of sheets to be
placed under the seats of aviators
for alleged srmor protection.
Il will have several Of these plates
made so we can say we have armored
aeroplanes, not that | think it vitality
essential, but in order that we can meet
any charge that our machines are not
armored."
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1916-02-19
Mr.. Went.and.Cut-It
.--Here'S MIR. "GetS.It''
The New Plan Corn Cure That's a.
Sure at the Rising Sun.

Glad to meat you" says the razor
TO the corn. "I'll bleed for you" says
the corn to the razor. Razors and
corns love each other. Corns love to
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1916-02-19
~OUNTIES WE HAVE PASSED.

" The apportionment of state
school money just made, based on
average daily attendance, shows I'M
perial county to be the 23rd in the
list Of SO counties, having in its brief
history passed So counties in school
attendance, and consequently in popu-
lation. But, what is more, at the
rate Of growth recently maintained
of IS per cent a year, in 5 more
years this county will have passed
Butte, Contra Costa, Humboldt, Kern,
Mendocine, Riverside, San Mateo,
Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Solano
and Stalislaus counties, taking 18th
place in the state. Within 10 years,
as the order of development now runs,
the only counties III California having
greater population than Imperial will
be Los Angeles, with its present u.s.
903 school attendance; San Francisco,
with its 41,117; Alameda, with 32,215,
and Fresno with its 1878, Imperial
taking fifth place with about 10000.
Other counties are making some gains,
but the percentage of gain in lmper-
ial county is so far ahead of the
others that the growth elsewhere will
make little difference in the result.
The Press, in fact, loo.:s for an
even heavier gain in population here
in the next few years, and expects to
see this county within 6 or years
take fifth place in the state in popu-
lation, following after Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Alameda and Fresno
counties.
The figures on school attendance
and apportionment Of the several ccun-
ties, which follow, are well worth care
full scrutiny:
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1916-02-19

Pianos moved with pest OF care any
where in valley. Ed Royce.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1916-02-19
Notice.
$4,000 reward is offered for info

$4,000 reward is offered for infor-
nation leading to the arrest and con-
viction of any person or persons gull
ty of stealing copper or aluminium
wire from the undersigned companies
Anyone who knows of such wire be-
ing in the possession of an unauthor-
lied person, or to whom such wire
is offered for sale as junk or other
wise, or who knows of such wire being
offered for sale, should communicate
promptly with our FL Centre office by
phone at our expense. Phone A FL
Centre.
HOLTON POWER COMPANY,
COACHELLA VALLEY ICE 4
ELECTRIC COMPANY. Adv.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1916-02-19

All price restrictions attempted by
some high grade manufacturers of
Pianos now off. Every piano in the
store cut in price, no matter what its
value may be. Marvin Moore Music
Co. will conduct the greatest sale Of
Pianos and Player Pianos at their
store, 553 Main street, Ell Centre has
ever heard of.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1916-02-19

High grade Pianos actually going
to be sacrificed at unheard-of prices
presents an opportunity that viii
never come again. Sale Of the residue
stock of the King Music Company's
valuable pianos, combined with the
Manufacturers and Surplus Sale of
the Marvin Moore Music Company,
makes this the opportune time to pur-
chase piano. Remember the sale
date-February % to March ADV.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1916-02-19

If you want to enter the auto Con-
test you must DO so within the next
few days, as the entries close Feb. Is.
Enter now and if you decide later
you do not want to stay in you can
drop out, but if you do not enter
your name before the 18th of this
month you will be too late. Get in
the game. Your friends will save
their votes for you.-Adv.
BALRIDGE DRUG CO.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1916-02-19

If you ever expect to own Piano
or Player Piano you owe it to your
self to investigate the unheard-of
prices on the high grade pianos and
player pianos that are going to be Of
fered at the big sale to be held by
Marvin Moore Music Company, $50
Main St. FL Centro.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1916-02-19
Automobile Trading Contest.

Are you a Candidate? II not, why
not? Everyone has an equal chance
Just a little hard work will sure put
you in among the leaders. Let US
help you to get started. Come in and
talk it over.
BALDRIDGE DRUG CO.,
Next to Postoffice.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1916-02-19

Remember the date CT the big sale
of Pianos and Player Pianos February
% to March 4 at the Marvin Moore
Music Company, 553 Main street, Ell
Centro.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1916-02-19
Candidates, Notice.

Bring us your kodak developing.
We give double votes on all kodak
work. BALDRIDGE DRUG CO.,
Adv. Next to Postoffice.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1916-02-19

/ Eucalyptus fence posts reduced to
12c each. A. H. Rehkopf, 204 South
Eighth St.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1916-02-19
Candidates. Attention.

1000 Votes Free. He have puzzle
for you. We are going to incorporate
this misunderstanding Drug CO.
in several issues of the Imperial Val
ley Press next week. 1t will not be
in any of our advertisements, but will
be incorporated elsewhere in the pa
per. To the candidates finding this
sentence we will give 1000 votes free
in our Trade Extension Campaign.
Hunt for it. We are also giving 250
votes free with each 25c purcha Sc
of any articles in our show window
of shaving accessories. Look them
over. You may see something there
some member of the family can use.
BALDRIDGE DRUG Co,
248 Next to Postoffice.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1916-02-19

DR.. Edward Metzger, Dentist
Rooms and 4, Ell Centre Nationa
Bank building.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-30

site has been cleared, and this includes something like seven miles of streets and rcadways.
 Come with me to the third floor of the hotel, near the bluff, at the western end of Anchorage, and look at the city as it lies here today. The town is only a few months old and it is still in the tent and shack stage. There are stumps every where black with the smoke and the burn ing. Here and there men are splitting the stumps and digging them out by the roots. Building is going on everywhere. At our left are a dozen tents, and as many log cabins, some roofed with boards and others with canvas. Many of the white tents have board walls.
 Now turn your head and face the main street. It is 80 feet wide and frame build- ings and tents now line it on both sides for more than a mile. That little cottage hathaway down the north side is the city postoffice and the tent across the way with the auctioneer's stand outside 1t. is the city hall where the mayor holds forth. The mayor is MT. A. J. Moore, who is connected with the United States land office, and who has had to do with plotting the city and selling the lots. On both sides of the main street hundreds of houses and tents are scattered here and there through the stumps. There are side streets with stores upon them, and carpenters and cabinet makers have their shops with pretentious signs over them.
 All kinds of business have already start ed Right near us is a new clothing store. It is one-story shed with trousers, coats and long rubber boots hanging by nails to the wall The white canvas sign in front is so big that it covers half of the building, hiding the roof. A little farther on is a mattress factory, consisting of tent, with stopepipe running high above the canvas. The tent has a board floor, and the mattresses are piled high upon it. There is no front to the tent, and the dust blows in on the goods.
 A little farther on is jewelry estab- lishment, half tent and half house, and down that street at the side is a big queensware store, with crockery and all sorts of porcelain piled up outside. There are dry goods stores and drug stores and stores selling notions. There are many provision stores and hardware stores and stores that sell books and newspapers. The town has a printing office, and it will soon have a newspaper.
 Among the most interesting of the signs are those over the lodging houses and restaurants. The hotel where I stop is the White House. It is a two story frame building covered with one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-30

coat of white paint It belongs to Mother White and it's 20 rooms are all filled, and there are cots in the halls. A little farther on is "christ's Hotel" and down the street is 'Mur- rays Lodging House" The latter is a big tent filled with hunks, which are built one over the other like the berths of sleeping car. Next door to that Is quick lunch stand while farther on is the Two Girls Waffle House." where often get breakfast
 The Two Girls" are bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked. plump, young women from Seattle who came to Anchorage when the town was first started and opened an eating place on the flats. When the town was moved to the hills they put their house on a wagon and dropped it down here At this writing 1t consists of one room not over seven. by ten feet in size with kitchen and shed at the back In the front is a rude counter, covered with an oilcloth, at which the customers sit. There is room for just eight, but the counter is always filled at mealtime and there are often men waiting outside. One of the girls cooks the meals while the other waits on the table and takes in the cash. They will serve you an order of waff1es hot from the griddle. with good butter and sirup and cup of coffee on the side, for 25 cents, or if you will you may have ham and eggs and coffee for half dollar The food is so delicious that the girls have made good, and they are now building a good-sized eating room on their new lot farther down street.
 There are many other women in busi- ness at Anchorage. Some are type writers, others clerks in the stores and some have stores of their own There is a woman barber on Fourth street and one of the best dry goods and mo- toin establishments is kept by a girl under 30, whose hair is as red as the brightest goods on her shelves. She is pretty. Another young lady has come here from Mendota, H., to open a milli- nery establishment. She lives at my hotel. She tells me she pined for the life of the north and that she has up- ward of 5000 worth of supplies on the way. Another Of the guests is a trained nurse, who came from a hos pital in Philadelphia, and we have other business women as we'll
 The owner of the White House" is a business woman, who is known every where throughout the northwest It is Mother White, who has had roadhouses or Cook inlet and at Sunrise, at Hope
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-30

hotel tags to cuvver postage stamp much less your old fammerly carpet bag and that's on the levyel. think you rite verry good hand, indeed Lusy- much better hand than the poor misguided hired who is fnditing theese few lines to you beknownst to his wife and relatives But you can't travel round the country good hand, Lusy-it takes reel cash.
 Go to town day and look ovver the mooves Lusy, you lot of the different henmasfeers that way and frum five to ten sents throw Maybe aftur looking them on the reels you won't be blamed anxious to see the reel thing, and will save you lot of mental wurry and you'll be $1299S0 to the good besides.
 Now in conclusion, deer Lusy pleese burn this let ter you have red it in the paper, for would hate for it to fall into the hands of the future Mister Lusy-if theere evver is one.
 Yours trooly,
 BILL VINES Washington D. c.
 P. S-If you do to Washngtun Llsy, perhaps you had better not hurry about looking me up. Be- sides would probabuly be out of town-Tm sertain to be if you'll let know just what time you'll rive. hope this will find you and the thirteen still intact B. "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-30
Russia a Market for America

w. E. AuShlnbaugh in IeSlie'S
 The Russian empire possesses the great est area of contiguous territory OF any country in the world, or S,505,957 square miles-the equivalent of one seventh of the land on the globe. It has about l6O.- oO0oO0 inhabitants. Its population ay- erages about 20 to the square mile as against Germanys 311. Russia is grow ing in population; it's inhabitants are raising their standards of living. and the chances are that the present gen eration of American business men will live to see. due to the Inducements of- tion of nearly 0O,o00,0OO people All Of which means that the purchasing power of this great and really wonderful land will at least double.
 The possibilities of trade in this vant territory among these millions of citizenn are little known among the great mana or business men in the United States despite the fact that Russia has alwaya been friendly to us and is today malx- ing. every effort to direct our attention to her willingness to buy from us. m order to give our manufacturers first- hand information as to her wants ana any other specific data that may ba re quired she has established a commercial attache for her embassy in this coun- try.
 The Russian empire is composed of nix great divisions. namely. European Rus- sia Finland, Poland. the Caucasue. Siberia, and Central Asia, each ona F, reality a nation in itself recurring dif- ferent kinds of goods and necessita atin V different methods of approaching it's mar | Nets. z
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-30

when the tide is high, and as it falls are upheld by the platforms so they can be unloaded at leisure. The ware houses are of boards. They are large, and are packed full of supplies
 But let me give you some pictures of this new city which has sprung up in night at the end of Uncle Sam's rail- road. Ship Creek has built up here low valley perhaps two or three thou sand feet wide and bordered on each side by steep bluffs. The tops of the tluffs are comparatively level, and they run far back into the country. The land was originally covered with woods and the new settlements have been cut out of the trees. The lowlands near the creek have been reserved by the gov ernment for the use of the railroad, and they will be the site of the freight yards and terminals. The bluff to the right as you face the town from the sea, is where the new city Is now going up. It contains the homes and business establishments of the settlement The bluff on the left is the official residence section. It has many pretty cottages built in the groves and reminds one a little of summer resort. It will prob ably look different as winter comes on.
 It is easy to see the enormous work that has already been done in starting the railroad. The lowlands, which are to be used for government terminals, were dense. forest carpeted with arc- tic moss which in places was several feet deep. The trees had to be cut and the stumps taken out. The moss was burned away and the ground smoothed up for the tracks and the buildings. The whole of this section is now cov- cred with tracks. There are great piles Of lumber standing about here and there. Ties are laid up like cord wood and there are steel beams and rafters and all sorts of structural material. There are piles of steel rails. The ma chinery from Panama has begun to ar rive and locomotives and steam shovels are standing about. A great deal of dredging will have to be done to make the harbor fit for the railroad and some of the Panama dredges will probably be brought to Ship Creek.
 There are a number of government buildings on this lowland. All are of temporary nature the big machine shops and other structures being left for the future. The offices of the com mission are in mean little two-story
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-30

to go several hundred miles further. They must come up Cook inlet, which is a great bay on the west of the peninsula extending about 200 miles into the land. The inlet in places is upward of 50 miles wide, but it mar rows at the northern end, and is only a few miles across in Knik arm, where Anchorage is situated. The lower part of the inlet, owing to the warm Japan csc current, is open throughout the year. The upper part freezes along in October or November, and for a great part of the winter ships cannot come in. The place is one of high tides. The sea rises from 45 to 65 feet in the arms of the inlet, and it rushes in twice a day in a wall forming a bore of some what the same nature as those in the Bay of Fundy or in the Hoogly river, up which one goes to Calcutta.
 l had some experience with the tide in coming from Sunrise to Anchorage. We had to leave when the waters were high. and this was not until midnight. Our boat was a launch about IS feet in length, with a 12-horsepower gasoline en- zine taking up the whole of the center There were bench seats around the side and only a canvas for cover, The owner of the boat was German storekeeper of Sunrise, and the engineer was his son. a boy of 1S The man refused to go unless he got at least $30, but we man. aged to drum up seven passengers, con- sisting of myself, MT. George Parks of the government land office and five prospectors.
 The distance we made was something like 100 miles It took us about eight hours to go. and the German was over six days coming back We rode out of Turnagain arm to Fire Island, and lay there for an hour to avoid the rough water We then came on through Knilz arm to Ship creek, and had to wait sew eral hours before the tide rose so that we could land. This was so, notwith- standing our boat drew but three feet of water. We might have taken a dory and tramped to the shore through the mud, but the mud here is of blue glacial clay and as sticky as glue. It is almost impossible to walk through it.. The steamers usually anchor some dis tance from shore, and all freight is landed in lighters taken in by tugboats The government wharf is high up on piles and there are platforms a little below the floors of the warehouses upon which the lighters are anchored. They come in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-30
UP AND DOWN BROADWAY---By Allen Griffin Johnson

the Bacon. This, of a verity, did signify a victory in each such undertaking. Vast not an honor worthy of the name?
 Aye, verily,' good Shakespeares spook replied. accept my 'gratulations ont, good Bake. But, prythee, tell me more. and pardon me, I pray my ignorance hast thou not said that we would once again revisit thus the glimpses of the moon?' Now, by my hellidom see no moon at all, yet miss it not, since glow so brilliantly these multimillion candelabra here"
 Aye marry thou alright. Nor more is Luna missed by these inhabitants. This, William. is New York. city strange and wonderful. upon whose thor oughfares all Stratford might be poured, yet cause not cen so much as inconven- fence to traffic cop Nor are those sandles glowing there. They are units of electricity. thing suspected once by old Ben Franklin-thou knows't his spirit well-'tis he whom thou hast thought night watchman, for that he carries ever more a key upon a string about his neck"
 Aye. aye" the ghost of Shakespeare murmured meditatively.
 Y knew thou would'st remember him.. But, Shake, permit me to correct you there-'aye, aye hath long been obsOletes Today the substitute therefore hath sound much like unto 'Oi, vol '',
 Meanwhile, about him gazes the bard in wonderment. His spirit eyes alight. his soul conceiving plots for plays. and shedding them as fast as the Arabian trees their medicinal gum. Set you down this, he'd say, and then a strange, sweet sadness creeping over him, would hum all most inaudibly, Sing willow, tit willow tit wiliow.'
 And then, These mountain buildings, Bake-how strange they seem, of what avail these many -storied mansions?'
 Nay, call them not mansions. nly good friend. They are but sordid money n,arts; huge temples to the modern god Qf gold. wherein few have their residence o1yo 3aui<qz1 x Y S