The Alaska citizen., 1916-06-19

>-~~-~>~~~>~~~~~~-~--~~>@-~-~--~~ of With The day of the wood Old; On chopper in interior AL With New aska Is over, and not
 from the point of the accessibility of coal either, For Charles Fisher. the carpenter, is putting up contrivance out at the Independent Lumber mill which means the doing away of a great deal of hard labor in saving and splitting wood It will still be nee essary to cut the trees by hand, of course and the wood has to be man handled at the machine but otherwise the machine does the work
 The contrivance is arranged to handle 16-foot wood cut it into eordwood lengths for transportation to the consumer Logs four feet in diameter can be cut. three saws being arranged with that object in view.
 The splitting contrivance Is the most interesting After the logs are sawed the men attending the machine take one of the four-foot lengths and place 1t on an anvil. 1t will stand up perfectly straight If handled right. Then a big wedge, operating on wheel, comes down and splits the log of wood wide open.
 This wedge operates on the prin- ciple of the hammer of a pile driver, except that 1t is not operated with a rope Instead the mechanism Is so arranged that the wheel has the effect of forcing the wedge into and through the end Of the log. The weight of the wedge has very little to do with Its manipulation.
 It is understood that the 1nde- pendent Lumber company manage ment is planning to go into the wood business The logs for wood the same manner as are sawlogs and placed in the boom, and will then be mechanically taken to the saving and splitting machine.
 After The Tennis Tea was The one of the big success Money. es of the season, a mum
 Der of entirely disin foI their mite toward keeping up one of the pleasures of the town by going down and taking tea at the tennis court, even though it did rain all Saturday afternoon. Two automobiles with lady drivers were on hand to see that the people did not make the rain an excuse for not being in attendance at the tea. However if you did not care to go. or if you were too busy to attend, little bribe of four bits fixed things up with the auto drivers. A neat sum for the new tennis court was realized.
 Baseball If good equipment, a On A bunch of players to Sandbar. pick from, plenty of
 time for practice and good grounds to play on count for anything, it is probable that the Ne mana baseball team, which is to be selected from the ranks of the Alas kan Engineering commission em ployees, will clean up everything in the baseball way here during the week of the Fourth of July. At least it Is predicted that they will make a good showing. For the boys have already formed what is termed the Nenana Athletic association, and have sent to Fairbanks for a large amount of equipment. It was pur- chased here by G. Fenton Cramer and sent down to them.
 The Nenana players will have the advantage of one of the best dia- monds which could possibly be select ed. It Is on a sandbar and the hardened sand makes it natural place for ball field.
 Vassar The Vassar girls are Gtls Due coming-40 of them, ac- Hero Soon. cording to Captain Bert
 Newcomb, pilot of the steamer Yukon. They are expected here on the next trip of the boat. and should easily reach Fairbanks in time for the Fourth of July cele- bration.
 "Go AS This potlatch business Far As Is all right and the You Like" potlatch badges are a
 work of art such as Is seldom seen in Alaska with their gold pins and round metallic discs marked Fairbanks, 1916" but there are a number of people who ob- ject to the motto printed on the