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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-30

frame house. which is 90 feet wide and perhaps 50 feet high. The second floor is reached by a stairway outside. It would be dear at that price. Nearby is the log messhouse at which the rail- way hands eat. Many of the govern ment clerks have their meals there. T know Captain Edes does, and that 1t costs him the same as the track men, which is 8 cents a meal The govern ment stables are not far from the mess house. They are great tents hundreds of feet long in which rude stalls of poles have been made for the horses. Adjoining them are stacks of hay and other horse feed under cover. The gov ernment has commissary in connec- ton with this part of the town. It sells all sorts of provisions end other merchandise on much the same terms as at Panama. One of the best looking buildings is the hospital. It is of two stories and is made of logs. It stands near the harbor facing Knik arm.
 And now let us visit the town on the bluffs. People began to settle here before the government came, and they built hum dreds of tents and shacks where the
 
 the site of the town to the highlands. They set aside 8 tract of 340 acres for the town site and plotted out streets and lots. leaving certain squares for schools and municipal buildings. They cut the trees from 100 acres and cleared the streets and roads so they were fit for use. They then sold the lots at auc- tion subject to the cost of the clearing, each lot being assessed from BIO to s20 for the work upon it. and the street in front This was done about the middle of last July. At that time the site of the whole town was on fire, stumps and logs were everywhere burning. The Arc tic moss was ablaze and it was impossible to go over the country without burning your boots.
 d. A little later the first auction was held and the first lots were sold. Six hundred and fifty-five were disposed of the first week and they brought in s150,0O0. About a month later another auction sale netted s2o,00O. and since then there have been others which have resulted in the sale of a large part of the town site. The total number of lots is 1407, and the num- Der set aside for the city and government reservations is 93.
 The streets are 60 feet wide and the a- leys 20 feet. About one-third of the town
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always told at school that l rote good hand. Pleese anser me in the paper.
 Sinseerly yours,
 LUSY PEEN NUCIkEI.. My Deer Lusy: have your resent letter encIos- ing fotograft and asking my advise how spend the fortune which kind provvidense has so suddenly dumped into your lap I return the fotograft, deer Lusy, tho you sed could keep it-I return it be- oawse it does not match my complexion, Lusy, and becawse married with large fammily who do not approve of accepting fotografs of feemales evven tho they mite be above suspission, like yours undoubtedly is. 1 have looked the fotograft however, Lusy, and I unhesitatingly say that you travvel in perfect security without shapparone. if you don't want to be burdened with Newer in all the travels have taken and you have red about have had shapparone, Iusy--all carry is extry pair of socks and spare union suit. You do the same too. JIusy, if you want to- and you mite eeve off the socks they air not solutely necessery
 don't know that you can becum much of tower ists thirteen hundred bones, tho, Lusy-towering high at times I wouldn't tower too far away frum home if I you unless had return ticket. have travveled sum, tho not as much you have
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roting bizness you ought post yourself on all the ethicks You'd hate to pose as real honnest good ness globe trotter and fall short menny of the quiremints You should Tern how to retire Pullman sleeper without creeatng scandal and you should acquire the habit of eating soup in low, modulated tone of voise which denotes re- finement. You neery always tell whethur persun has had college educason not by the way they eat tneere soup.
 The first thing you ought to do too, Lusy before becumming confirmed forrain travveer and that is to country first. You ought to start out by cumming to Washington and looking ovver the capitol I'm you'll like it verry much, Lusy, and you'll see lot of things you herd of. Then you can go to the White House and the Pressident-neery evvery body does that who cums heer and besides President Wilsun mite feel soar if you should cum thro' heer and not call-states- men air queer that way Lusy, and you don't want to overlook enny bets.
 am just telling you what you ought to do Lusy, in case you air set on towering. What you reeally ought to do is to soak that thirteen hundred down in your stocking for future refferense That thirteen hundred, Lusy, beleeve me, won't buy you enuff
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the name is Charlie Chapin methinks a modern actor of some note who plays upon the screen preneting but a celluloid reproduction of himself which speaks no word, yet draws for him a salary of most enormous magnitude. The picture where in he doth here appear is called A Burlesque upon Carmen.
 And who, forsooth. may Carmen be?"
 'Methinks her real name is Farar- Tellegen-'tis passing strange"
 Good Bake, there's something rotten in the state-of New York.
 Oi, yoi quite decomposed, or else the times are sadly out of joint. This is my own tercentenary, say you. vet my name appears nowhere save in the Sun day supplements Forsooth. it seems the occasion is more honored in the breach than in the observance. Oh wad some power the giftie gie us-''
 "Oh, say. Old Top" interrupted Ba- cons eternal self. "a thousand pardons. but art thou not stealing Bobby Burns stuff?''
 Iris true, 'tis pity, and pity 'tis, 'tis true. but 1t oft becomes difficult to re- member to play one's role correctly. spe- cially after one thinks he has made his final exit from lifes stage, and Is then called upon to play a brief return en- gagement, such as this. And, verify, these strange sights have perturbed me much. and in me soul feel that there is much injustice done. They call this my ter centenary, yet is my name not shining in these lights-yea, marry, if this be meth cd, then there's madness in it. Wherein do they remember. me here? Can'st lead me to one theatre. or hall wherein my plays are being shown, and my own name remembered?"
 That can I, Shake-we will at once unto the LaF'ayette, at Seventh avenue and One Hundred and Thirty-first street, where goodly company. all naturally ebon-hued. essayeth 'Othello with such scenery as will make you marvel greatly. and such costumes as you'd make a bull to charge toreador."
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likes me better far. Aye-I mean oi yoi-- this is the life. Look you-the lights do overland anon spell names. An, here am T being honored well. Now will I wager you that when we find, the largest of these glowing signs, thereon shall we behold my name, What say you, old ghost?' ~
 Iris done, let us the once-over give them now"
 conception of a battle scene? Now. when did I write that which might thus be construed?
 'Go to-" replied the other spirit then. that honors thee not at all. 'Tis but an advertisement for moving picture show--a modern form of entertainment vastly popular"
 'Forsooth, though, there are many more. Among them I shall surely find remember Bake, is my own little tercen- tenary. Let us see more.'
 Reads signs: The Dangers of Daisy nay, I know them not; The Clutching Claw'--an I wrote that, the wine had much the better of me at the time; Mid night Follies-now could it be that thus these moderns have referred to Hamlet s ghost scene. An, well, methought when I penned that scene that credulity would be much o'er taxed, but it seems to have got by, as you would say, Bake.
 And what is this, forsooth: One Day'--nay, Twelfth Night wrote but never this One Day Francis the Tenth Bushman'-of Richard third. of Henry eight, of Lear and other kings I wrote, but never of King Francis. nor, marry, have ever heard of him before. And there, The Curious Case of Carrie Cur lingtons'I sniell a rat Keystone Com edy'-nay, Touchstone. was il. not friend Bake-I see him floating in the air. But here shines forth the greatest sign of all; the letters blind me with their bril- liancy-prythee read 1t to me Bake: what says it of me or my genius?'
 This not of thee ct all. good sooths
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red in the papers, Lusy; you can't beleeve evvery thing you reed in the paper by dam site-f you'll excuse my French and promise it won't go enny further-and happen to know, Lusy, just between that you won't tower verry far before your thir teen hundred will shrink up like new undershirt in the hands of relentless wash lady.
 Theere air hole lot of things one can do with thirteen hundred irun men, Lusy, but when 1t to towering, beeeve me; you can't hope to be globe trotter unless you can boost the anty.
 don't like to throw enny cold water on your burn ing ambison to be towerists, Lusy--but I would advise you to pawse and reflect You mite get pretty fair husband and hoss and buggy Lusy, and be far moor happy and continted. know lots of men that will do most enny thing for thirteen hun dred, and I meerly throw out this suggestion for what it is worth. If you air determined however throw away all your vssbull assets towering, Lusy theere air few things you ought to know, and persunnely feel totally incompitint to advise you fully. You mite tower up to New York Lusy, and stay few minnits your thirteen, if you will bring your supplies and sleep in the park
 Theere is sertain etiquette in travveling, Lusy, that all globe trotters ought cultivate-and if you have fully maid your mind to start into the globe
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and at Glacier and other we'll known mining camps It was Mrs. Whites daughter, popu1arly known as Babe" White. who drove the first spike for the railroad, and Babe was, l think, the first white child born in this re- zion.
 Mrs. White was the first white wom- an to settle on the northern shores of Cook inlet. She came to Alaska 20 years ago as the wife of a sea cap- tain who was then sailing as far north as Bering sea. She and her husband settled on the shores of Cook inlet and Mrs White had the first store and road house in that region. She made the first American flag that was ever floated Dorth of that inlet. It was shortly aft CT she had established her trading sta tfon. She wanted flag to show her patriotism and also to signal the ships In her stock of goods she had plenty of white and blue cloth, but looked in vain for red for the stripes. At last one day she saw an Indian woman pass ing who had on red petticoat. She called to her and bought the petticoat and that made the stripes.
 Mrs. White did well on Cook inlet Her store paid She started a fish cannery and saltery and she tells me that she put up eooO barrels of salt fish in one year. She says she also made money. in mining and at one time could have retired and lived on her principal Later she lost in her mining operations and she then went outside and opened little store in Chicago, in which city her daughter was educated. She has now come back to Alaska and is doing well.
 Anchorage is less than year old. but it already has it's social life and alnusep1ents. On the hill to the north is tennis court and down in the government reservation is a baseball ground, SC made that it can be flood ed and turned into skating rink during the winter. The town has it's parties and dances and on the last Fourth of July it held a baseball match in which a team made up of the girls competed with one formed of the eoys. The town has its commercial club, with something like 200 mem- bers, and this consists of women as well as of men. I attended one of tho meetings. The people were enthusi- astic and they seemed unanimous in their votes for municipal improve inents, such as telephones, electric lights and better means of protection from fires. They are all democratic. and so far the best of civic spirit seems to prevail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-30

Iris better so,'' replied old William then, flor were they homes. and Juliet, then. imprisoned in an upper room, I could not find a Romeo to climb to her.
 Then asked the Bard if all the lights were glowing in his honor, and OCT his spirit-face spread but half concealed chagrins when Bacon told him that this downtown section of Manhattan knew him not, then added:
 Tt paineth me, old top, to thus ac- quaint you with these modern facts, but those lights glow for far another pur- pose. In fact. with i'll becoming mod esty, perhaps. I may advise you that they are glowing, one and all. for those engaged in the tireless, endless effort to bring home the bacon. But. stay, beneath us runs sub-terranean train, the which will take us in jiffy. more or less. unto that section of the city where thy name is known, where the lights glow even brighter-w the theatres nightly en- certain their thousands"
 ''Ah, lead me to it then.' said Shake speare's ghost for, after all. the play s the thing, although this sepulchred rail- way likes me not. Howe'er I did not set, me life at pins fee. and as for me soul, what can it do to that-being a thing as subterranean as itself. Lead on -Ill follow thee''
 What jargon speak these uniformed attendants, Baker
 They are the guards who every train infest. Their language subway English here is called, and hath its chiefest merit in complete concealment of it's words and meaning. But see how rapidly we glide-come quickly. Shake. This is the Times Square station; we must beat it out else be transported instantly into that bourgeoise borough called the Bronx"
 .'Ah. Baky, boy" said Shakespeares dc- lighted spirit, as they emerged into the almost blinding glare of electricity that nightly nlumines Times square "this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-30

What say you? A company all black? A black Desdemona. teaching the sheets a winter hue than white? Oh, good Ba- conio, pray you, mock me not At least, let mercy temper justice, and if we must to see this travesty. then give me vine spirits to the spirit-that my, spirit may not be quite o'ercrown thereby. Lead on unto the nearest ginmill.''
 Within the s. m: 'Thy glass; friend Shake, methinks hath too much shallow ness, or else-'
 '' 'Tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as church door, but 'tis enough twill serve"
 AFTER THE PERFORMANCES. And now. in honesty. what think you not Wiiliam." inquired the ghostly Ba- avenue once more
 "Methinks it slnelt most canniIy of cam membert. I pray you, upon our return. speak no word of it an, you love me- 'Tis in my memory locked, and you yourself shall keep the key of it."
 T thank you. Bake. and yet, in turn, would ask-art thou not making bit free with mine own 'copy?'
  query something seemed to finger and to laugh
 "Ah. well,' concluded Shakespeare's spook. " ,ris matter of no great pith or moment-we'll speak of weightier things. Tell me, for instance, an you can, what draw these folk who write the picture plays which seem quite to out shine my own great tragedies and come dies?"
 Why, I have heard that some of them and for one picture-play alone-get many thousand pounds" Peace. peace. prythee. lest desire ex- plode. Henceforth I'll waste no time in writing plays wherein the spoken word hath prominence. I'll set me to the moving picture task, and when. at last. communication shall have been estab- lished between this world and--where we now abide. I'll have in readiness some of the red-hottest movie material ever salmed-''
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By FRANK G. CARPENTER Copyright, 1916, by Frank G. Car nenter.l
Anchorage. Alaska

Anchorage, Alaska "-VHAvE come from Sunrise to IWI Anchorage. Sunrise is the lit
 tie log cabin mining settle NSVSkl ment on the northern end Of
 the Kenai peninsula. Anchor age is the frontier town of cabins and tents that has grown up at the mouth of Ship creek, on the mainland at the beginning of the new construction of Uncle Sam's railroad. The railway really begins at Seward at the south ern coast of the Kenai peninsula, but it's tracks for 72 miles will be those or the Alaska Northern, which Uncle Sam has bought ready built. This runs across the peninsula to the head of Turnagain Arm not far from Sunrise and there will be 15 or 20 miles to construct from there on to Ancnorage. The work now under way Is rem An chorage northward. The road IS to go I'D Matanuska valley to the coal flelds and northward through the Sus1tna valley to Fairbanks, which, as the crow flies. is almost 400 miles from where I am writing.
 The reason for Anchorage is the rail road construction and 1t Sprang lnto being when the President. as Aladdin rubbed the rusty old lamp Of Congress and wished for that appropriation of s35, ,0O0, ,O00 for railroads in Alaska The town will be the nearest port to the Matanuska coal fields. and when navi- gation in Cook inlet is open which is from five to seven months of the year. it will have, perhaps, the bulk of the coal trade. For the rest of the time it will go on to Seward. It is for this reason that the people here expect a big city at Anchorage. They look for ward to it as smelting and manu- featuring center as well as a great commercial port, and are already talk ing of it as the financial heart Of Alaska.
 The people of Seward are jealous of Anchorage They claim that their port will be the only real city at the south ern end of the railroad, for the req son that Resurrection bay is free of ice all the year round, and that ships can land there at any hour of the year. All steamers coming to Anchorage have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-30

HV FEW YORK. April 2S.-(Special.) LIN Far down in lower Broadway, - below Mount Woolworth. below
 the great Equitable prescipice,
 in fact, at the very mouth of the great municipal canyon. there strolled upon recent April night two forms, to mortal eyes invisible. One seemed to act as guide, being possessed, withal, of some. crude knowledge of the place, while the other gazed about him all in won derment They were the ghosts of Shakespeare and of Bacon, returned to earth to witness the tercentenary cele- bration. honoring the Avon Bard.
 The day was but little past the dusk; each of all it's many thousand windows is unit of bright light, and clouded skies above reflect the glow. as though the countenanee of heaven famed with anger 1t this most material world.
 sAh. Bake, old top,'' quoth that which once spake through the lips of Bills material self, T thank thee for this blessed privilege. for thou alone could have procured us furlough for this trip. And thou, who last returned to earth be- fore, shouldn't make a guide exceptional
 May, thank me not, good Shake" said Bacon's wreath. flor 'tis a long estab- lished rule that all may thus return, when earth does honor to their memory, as now 1t doth to yours, albeit my name be mentioned in your stead by some whose knowledge of the facts is quite as small as that of those who honor you. But all such Hundane1 madness is but petty piffle at the best-weh share the sport together"
 s..s 'Say'st thou, asked Shakespeare :, ,s.nen, ''that all whose memories are hon. 1<sd may return? Prythee, then. tell me &hen you first came back upon this little s41& Suse of it had b)f{h in fair Amer
 Nas whom fhe cuaton started to
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"Dost ask collaboration. shake"' Aye. marry do L.
 How strange the world hath not yet drous plays of old, when either of ua would be glad to tell that
 "Hark, the cock crowsl''
 Exeunt laughing
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All Arranged

! 'TT Ssay,7 pa, I bet Bobby Smith 10 cef7E today that you could lick his dad ~
 15 minutes--so be sure and keen Sd - ugday afternoon open" fH-
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fZ E1ISTUR EDDITUR. On my return to this IM citty had quite a lot of male awaiting hsl2fJSd have one letter frum laddy in Alabama Se9O who tho quite total strangur to me, seeks
 my advise on purely persunnel mat turs and has requested to reply thro the medium of the In ordur that everything may board and cleer to my reeders, as well as my wife, quote her letter. The letter follows:
 Deer Mistur Vines: have resently fallen air to quite a fortune My muther demsed a few months ago and left estate which has been wound up leeving quite of reel mummy, as I the sole air. Menny peepul have been friendly enuff to voluntarily advise me how to spend my mummy, but I have few nosions of my own Sum have told me to buy farm and uthers have suggested that get Ford, while uthers thought mite get married. But long to travel have always wanted, oh, so much, to be towerist and tower all the wide, wide world. see frum the papers that you have travveled extinsvely and thought you could tell me sum- thing about it. have $500 which I could use this way. Would it be safe for yung, unmarried fee male to travvel alone and unprotected without s1iapparoneo I enclose my fotograft which you may keep What do you think of my hand riting? They
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AlICHUTdSVI PIdSNet.
 LAVE come from Sunrise to Anchorage. Sunrise is the lit- tie log cabin mining settle ment on the northern end or the Kenai peninsula. Anchor
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-07-10

Just came natural My daddy TOOK
me to the baths and I began to swim.
All the little babies cried, but I didn't
cry, because when I was little baby
my mother used to put me in the
water to make me stop crying and I
always stopped"
wait a minute, Cameron. Didn't
your father teach you the breast
stroke?" broke in the interviewer.
mo, the breast stroke just came
natural"
'Well, didn't Mr.. Veith, your coach,
teach you the American crawl and
the other fancy swimming strOkes?"
mo, they just came natural At
first I used to swim dog-fashion. My
daddy called it padding, but don't
swim that way any more. Everybody
calls me the Human Submarine be-
cause I swim under water so much.
I dove 30 feet high at the worlds fair
in San Francisco and it stung when
1 hit the water"
How does it feel when you are in
the air, diving, Cameron"
ooh, it just feels cold. And when
you go into the water you blow your
breath out and it makes bubbles" -
Does it hurt your eyes to open
them under water?"
mo, but it makes them red.
What do you see when you open
your eyes under the water?"
"The bottom of the tank-Gee,
aren't you pretty near through"
Cameron COffey is not only a mar
vel in the water; he is equally preco-
cious in other ways. He operates the
switchboard in the apartment where
he lives and converses over the teIe-
phone with the ease of a grown-up.
He is tremendously interested in ply
siOlOgy.
physiology tells you about eating
too much and drinking too much cof-
fee," says Cameron. ct makes the
cells work too hard.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-07-10

Los Angeles, June 10.-"Every
little boy should know how to swim, !"
says Cameron c. COffey, fOUr-year-
old champion child swimmer of the
world And the little girls should
know how, too.