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TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1916-01-21

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den Dersletd er5ieit batten. Die 9rs
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fannt qeqeben.
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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 Knik arm to Ship creek.
and had to wait several hours be-
This was so, notwithstanding our boat
have taken a dory and tramped to the
here is of a blue glacial clay and as
% walk through il. The steamers usu-
and all freight is landed in lighters taken
in by tugboats. The government wharf
is high up on piles ana there are plat
forms a little below the floors of the
warehouses upon which the lighters are
anchored. They come in when the tide
is high. and as 1t falls are upheld by the
platforms so they can be unloaded at
leisure. The warehouses 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 Sans rail-
road. Ship Creek has built up here a
low valley perhaps two or three thou
sand feet wide and bordered on each
side by steep bluffs. The tops of the
bluffs 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
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ductions of the present year, and the
government has issued an order for
bidding the expectation of foodstuffs
until further notice.
The wheat reserves are said to be eX-
hausted, and the policy is to increase
the purchases of cereals both in the
United States and in South America.
The old arrangement was for sixty
thousand tons of wheat and -four and
seventy-five thousand tons of corn
monthly. The reserve was not kept up
because the steamship companies used
part of their space for other cargoes
The government has now requisitioned
Dutch ships in order to bring these
supplies from the United States and
South America.
The annual production of the Neither
lands, chiefly agricultural products. Is
valued at s250.0O0,000 year. The
products of the East India colonies are
a separate source of wealth. They are.
of course. of enormous value to Hol-
land in her world commerce. Dutch
Guiana and the Dutch possessions in
the West Indies are a trifle in COM
parison with the East Indies.
The area of Holland is about 1850
square miles The population is $780,
900. The national wealth of the Meth
erlands at the beginning of the war
was estimated at $4,000. 100000.
The Dutch are heavy investors in for
eign securities, and particularly In
railway and industrial stocks of the
United States. These sources of income
have been increased since the out
break of the war. The profits from the
Dutch marine and from general trade
are so large as to insure an addition to
the national wealth by the time the
war ends. provided Holland is not
drawn into the maelstrom. The coun-
try today is therefore properly de-
scribed as fortunate neutral.
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fered through the British blockade of the
North sea against Germany.
Holland has enjoyed these Dement'S and
maintained her international status largely
by means Of what is known as the Meth
erlands Overseas Trust. 1t has been said
that this organization has cornered neu-
trality. The cornering. however. has not
been in the nature Of monopoly at the
expense of private parties. The Overseas
Trust. to all intents and purposes. is a
government monopoly. since its functions
are exercised under the direction of the
ministry and by officials of whom the
government approves.
The Overseas Trust has been recog-
nized both by the British and by the
German government. The claim has been
made that it is in effect under British
dictation, but this Is perhaps due to the
natural advantage which England enjoys
through her control of the sea and her
consequent control of seaborne commerce.
The principal function of the trust, it
has been explained. is to act as con-
signee for all so-called contraband i'm
ports intended for home consumption,
or for export to Dutch colonies or neu-
trail countries. Where goods are want
ed from belligerent nations. whence
these exports are not permitted unless
for neutral destination. the trust also
provides for the importation of nom
contra band goods.
England's policy has been to prevent
Germany getting food supplies or ma
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when the town was first started and
opened an eating place on the fats.
When the town was moved to the hills
they put their house on wagon and
dropped it down here. At this writing
ii consists of one room not over seven
by ten feet in size with a 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 waffles hot from the griddle. with
good butter and sirup and cup of
coffee on the side, for % cents. or il
you will you may have ham and eggs
and coffee for a 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 4th street and
one of the best dry goods and notion
establishments is kept by girl under
Evening star., 1916-04-30
CHURCH OF ST. NICOLA At AMSTERDAM

ter, to the shipping lines of all the
countries which have been able to
keep their merchant marines afloat.
Approximately $4,000 sea vessels en-
this gives an idea of the extent of the
overseas trade of the Netherlands.
Holland Is world port for tobacco
and coffee and tea and various other
products. Its activity as a distributing
center has not been lessened by the
war The diamond trade of Amster-
dam, after period of temporary mac
tivity, has also come into its own
again, and even has profited by the
misfortunes of Antwerp, its Belgian
rival. Americans who are spending
some of the money they have made out
of war contracts are contributing to
the prosperity of Amsterdam by their
purchases of diamonds.
Rotterdam also has profited in spite
of the loss of it's Rhine commerce with
Germany. 1t has shown a tendency to
look to the future in various lines of
international trade, and to make per-
manent some of its temporary advan-
tages. The latest development of this
ambition has been the establishment
of a cotton exchange. In the past, cot
ton was imported from the United
States by way of Bremen, and from In
dia and Egypt by way of Hamburg.
Some also was received through Liver
pool. The overseas trust has been inn
porting all this cotton directly into
Rotterdam.
Trade between the United States and
Holland has not suffered severely on
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another Belgium of Holland with spe-
cial view to seizing the ports of Amster-
dam and Rotterdam.
When these rumors are thickest au-
thentic reports come from The Hague
about the activity of the government in
mobilizing it's forces. Then the report
is that the situation is less tense. that
the Netherlands government is satisfied
with England's sincerity in insisting on
the preservation of Dutch independence.
while equally convinced that Germany
will respect Hollands neutrality.
The certain thing is that all the bel
ligerents, so far. have respected Holland s
neutrality. although there have been in
timations from each set that the other
set were unfairly benefited by it, Also
there have been sharp complaints from
the Dutch newspapers and people of the
disposition of both the allies and of Ger
many to coerce Holland-and of viola
tions of international law by them.
Holland. 1t was said at the outset of
hostilities lay in the path of empire and
was in a precarious position. The Dutch
army on a war footing numbers $50. 900
men, and could oppose an active resist
ance TO an invading force from Germany.
but in the end the resistance would not
likely be more effective than was that
of Belgium.
There is also compact Dutch navy.
with gunboats. monitors, destroyers, tor
pedoes and submarines. but this navy
even supplemented by the army, would
be ineffective against the fleet of the al
lies should they decide TO land force to
march overland against Germany and
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MOVING DAY AT ANCHORAGE.

mayor is Mr.. A. J. Moore. who Is con-
nected with the United States land Of
flee, and who has had to do with plot
ting 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
started. Right near us is a new cloth
ing store. 1t is a 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, hid
ing the roof. little farther on is a
mattress factory. consisting of a tent.
with "a stovepipe 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 a jewelry estab-
lishment, half tent and half house, and
down that street at the side is a big
queen's-ware store. with crockery and
all sorts of porcelain piled up outside.
There are dry goods stores and drug
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ty of Alaska Where Uncle Sans Railroad Begins

stores and stores selling notions. There
are many provision stores and hard
ware stores and stores that sell books
and newspapers. The town has a print
ing Office. and it will soon have a news
paper.
Among the most interesting of the
signs are those over the lodging houses
and restaurants. The hotel where I
stop is the White HOUSE. 1t is two
story frame building covered with one
coat of white paint. 1t belongs to
Mother White and its twenty rooms are
all filled, and there are cots in the
halls. A little farther on is Christ s
Hotel and down the street is Muir
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 a 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
Evening star., 1916-04-30
DUTCH DAIRY FARM WITH WINDMILL.

terial responsibility was almost as clear
and definite as in England. The throne
supposed to be above all parties
and the ministry was the actual gov
ernment. When public sentiment went
against it. usually a new ministry was
formed, but the attitude of the min
listers since the opening of the war has
been that ii was not of very great con-
sequence whether they were in COM
plete harmony with the parliament or
with the electors on all questions of
domestic policy. These matters could
wait, but the ministry itself must not
be hampered in its handling of foreign
relations. The Dutch people seem to
have acquiesced in this assumption
without any misgivings that their free
institutions will be impaired by this
course.
=
The Dutch government has had a del
icate task in guiding the sentiment of
the people so that too great irritation
should not be given to either of the
leading belligerents. 1t was assumed
that because of geographical and racial
reasons there was a pronounced pro-
German sentiment. But there were
also many strong ties between the
Dutch people and England.
The sympathizers with either the
English or the Germans did not hesi-
tate to give utterance to their opinions.
The newspapers were the natural medi-
ums of these expressions, but there were
other means also. The newspapers,
however. made distinction. They
sought to be impartial. and by this i'm
partiality to keep their government
neutral. but they did not construe neu-
trality as being afraid to have views
and to express them.
The cartoons in one of the Dutch
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pect a big city at Anchorage. They
look forward to it as a smelling and
manufacturing center as well as a
great commercial port, and are already
talking 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 theh railroad, for the
reason 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 nave
10 go several hundred miles farther
They must come up Cook inlet, which
is great bay on the west of the
peninsula extending about 200 miles
into the land. The inlet in places Is
upward of fifty 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 Japa-
nese current. is open throughout the
year. The upper part freezes along IN
part of the winter ships cannot come
in. The place is one of high tides. the
sea rises from forty-five to sixty-hve
feet in the arms OF the inlet, and II
rushes in twice a day in wall forming
bore of somewhat the same nature as
those In the Bay of Fundy or in the
Hoogly river. up which one goes to Cal
cutta.
/ 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 eighteen
feet in length. with twelve
horsepower gasoline engine 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 German storekeeper of
Sunrise. and the engineer was his son.
boy of eighteen. The man refused to
go unless he got at least $50. but we
managed to drum up seven passengers,
consisting of myself. Mr.. George Parks
of the government land Office and five
prospectors.
The distance we made was something
like 100 miles. II took us about eight
Evening star., 1916-04-30

hundred and fifty-five were disposed of
the first week and they brought in
S1jO.0O0. About month later an
other auction sale netted $4,000. and
since then there have been others.
which have resulted in the sale of
large part of the town site. The total
number of lots is 1.407, and the num-
ber set aside for the city and govern
ment reservations is ninety-three.
The streets are sixty feet wide and
the alleys twenty feet. About one
third Of the tc 1n site has been cleared.
and this includes something like seven
miles of streets and roadways
Come with me to the third floor of
the hotel. near the bluff, at the west
ern end of Anchorage, and look al the
city as it lies here today. The town is
only a few months old and 1t Is still
in the tent and shack stage. There are
stumps everywhere black with the
smoke and the burning. Here and there
men are splitting the stumps and dig
ging them out by the roots. Building
is going on everywhere. At our left
are a dozen tents and as many log
Evening star., 1916-04-30
The Conscript.

NOHN MASEFIELD. the English
~ poet, said at dinner in New York:
THE conscripted soldiers, of course.
are not treated with as much honor in
England as the volunteers.
"A young conscript, just called up.
complained the other day about his
tea.
Sergeant he said, this ERE tea o.
mines quite cold
well, o. course it's cold.' snarled
the sergeant Amt 1t been waitin'
eighteen months for your"
Evening star., 1916-04-30

account of the war. since II has been
possible to obtain cargo space. although
at the very high rates prevailing. 1t
used to be said that the trade between
the United States and Holland con-
sisted in exchanging American -four for
Dutch bulbs. but this was only one
form OF the exchange of products.
American -four. however. has been OF
considerable Importance to Holland.
and still is.
The Dutch government. like the bel
ligerent governments. is exercising su-
pervision of the food supplies of the
people. Lately the floods have threat
ened to diminish the agricultural pro-
Evening star., 1916-04-30

thirty, whose hair is as red as the
brightest goods on her shelves. She Is
here from Mendoza. ILL.,. to open milli-
merry establishment. She lives at my
hotel. She tells me she pined for the
life of the north. and that she has up
ward of a thousand dollars worth of
supplies on the way. Another or the
guests is a trained nurse. who came
from a hospital in Philadelphia, and we
have other business women as well.
The owner of the white House" is
business woman. who is known every
where throughout the northwest 1t Is
Mother White, who has had roadhouses
on Cook inlet and at Sunrise, at Hope
and at Glacier and other well known
mining camps. 1t was Mrs. Whites
daughter. popularity known as Babe
White, who drove the first spike for
the railroad. and Babe was. l think,
the first white child born in this 70.
gion.
Mrs White was the first white WON.
an to settle on the northern shores OF
Cook inlet. She came to Alaska twen-
ty years ago as the wife of a sea
captain 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 roadhouse In that region.
She made the first American nag that
was ever foated north of that inlet.
1t was shortly after she had estab-
lished her trading station. She wanted
a 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 passing who
had on a 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 fish
cannery and saltery, and she tells me
that she put up two thousand 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.
nut 1t already has its social life and
amusements. On the hill to the north
is a tennis court and down in the
government reservation is a base ball
grounds, so made that it can be flood
ed and turned into skating rink
parties and dances and on the last
Fourth of July it held base ball
match in which a team made up OF the
girls competed with one formed of the
boys. ne IOWH HAS ils CoHiHcitidi
club, with something like 200 mem
bers, and this consists of women as
well as of men. / attended one of the
meetings. The people were enthusi-
astic and they seemed unanimous in
their votes for municipal improve
ments, such telephones. electric
lights and better means of protection
from fires. They. are all democratic.
and far the best of civic spirit
seems to prevail.
FRANK C. CARPENTER
Evening star., 1916-04-30

terial for munitions through neutral
territory, such as Holland. Germany.
on her part. has been willing to export
certain of her products. provided that
she could be assured they would not go
to the allies.
The overseas trust. with full un-
derstanding of the situation. made ar
rangements with the belligerent pow
ers which were willing to accept its
guarantee. The trust exercises very
complete supervision over the mer-
chants and manufacturers. in order to
discharge it's responsibility to the bel
ligerents. The staff of officials and sub
ordinates numbers several hundred
This is in substance the simple ma
chinery which has enabled Holland to
continue its foreign trade. and to profit
in its legitimate traffic with the bel
ligerents and with neutrals. During the
first eight months of it's existence more
than $100,000.000 of foodstuffs and raw
materials were consigned to the trust
from the United States. This is an ex-
ample Of the immense volume of traf-
fic that has been handled, as well as of
the means by which American shippers
have continued to do business with
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occupy the Dutch ports somewhat as
Saloniki was occupied.
To maintain neutrality in these cir
cumstances. and to avoid giving either
set of belligerentS a preteXt FOR hos
tile action. has been no easy task. The
Dutch government, nevertheless. has
managed to enforce its policy in the
midst of vexatious complications.
The plan of the government has been
to make foreign affairs paramount to
domestic questions. The constitution,
it has been said, in practice has been
set aside so far as ministerial RESPONSE
bility goes.