The Alaska citizen., 1916-08-14

went QONn to Nt0dud short time ago to take the United States commissionership and incl dentally a position with the Alaskan Engineering commission, is some booster, is evidenced by a self-made circular he is spreading broadcast In fact. it can be stated that Bobby is whole commercial club or cham 1 Der of commerce all by himself And il is safe to say that after his circular is read by Fairbanksans, Bobby had better move what inter l est he has i'll Fairbanks and ] Fairbanksans down to Nenana with him. The circular is as follows:
 "Assaying the possibilities of the new town of Nenana, the following advantages are worthy of considera tion:
 The tOwnsite marks the point where the government railroad first reaches navigable waters in interior | Alaska and by reason of this fact 1t will be the distributing center ! for all towns fed by the river Towns on the railroad beyond Nenana will | benefit by the railroad simply as a carrier of what the town consumes
 "Nenana will never as was the ! case of Fairbanks, be moved to a less logical location by private in l fluence. It is strictly government l townsite and located at it's present position because of it's qualifications as a tOwnsite. The Tanana river marks the north boundaries of Ne mana, and the townsite runs back or south one-half mile and the same l distance east and west. Sufficient l reservation has been made, however. l for town five miles square.
 "Ihe iJpos tion that q stealuto3t | can operate cheaper than rail | road is no doubt true, but the fact | that the all water route from Seattle to Fairbanks is over three times l the distance and the great saving ! in time afforded by rail makes the future of all water transportation uncertain. It is possible that the river steamboat operations of tn" ing of freight from Nenana to points up and down the river, with Nenana as their home port
 A so th" position of tn interior merchant of having to carry a years supply of merchandise on hand and add the interest on the capital tied up in the warehouse to his selling | price will be likely eliminated au the financial affairs of the interior merchant and banker are sure to be i favorably affected and the propo- i sition is GenaLle that in the npaF future obsequies will be held over Fairbanks as two-bit town Great If Rev w. A Major for You Don't twenty-five years pas 1 Weaken. tor of the Bethany
 Presbyterian church, and now superintendent of field work for this district, is much perturb ed. He fears that the race is ad vancing more rapidly than he; that the race is to the swift and that relegation to the preachers scrap pile is approaching. To explain:
 Last night the jovial diyine-in cidentally one of the best of Seattles after dinner speakers-was return ing from a West Seattle revival service While waiting for a Broad way car he encountered some of the young folks of his former flock ! ana OIdleu IluSly to d II ltllu dlltI ward:
 Pm a back number. Either hu- manity is travelling too fast for me or 1 don't understand the English | language any more. l met some young people just now, and in con versation with them 1 used my time-worn phrase: It's a great life isn't it? to which a demure young damsel replied:
 "'You bet it is-if you don't weaken
 Then she introduced me to q friend who was with her, and he thrust forth a well manicured hand with the remark:
 "'Mitt me. Doc. Dads fer yoa strongern hoIseradish and I'm go ing to be-
 "We talked for a few moments and I asked them where they were going, The reply was:
 "'Down the main stem to give the joy palaces the up and down this from a young woman whose mother had mysteries once when her husband said darn in my pres ence.
 Then, when I left, another piped up cheerily:
 'Nighty-night, fair sir. Don't dc anything I wouldn't do. That holds you down pretty tight, but the straig -and-n the only real airline after all
 Il gasped once, said good night and here I am. It's a great life if you don't weaken, ,'-ENchange. VIII Stay Rolf Brandt, the young With The Portland Violinist who Country. came to Fairbanks ear
 ly in the summer, has now definitely decided to stay here and grow up with the country, so to speak He says that he will re- main in and about Fairbanks for the winter, at least, his present in tention being to secure all of the work in musical way that he can get He will teach violin and tune pianos on the side.
 Brandt thought immediately after looking the situation over here that it would be particularly good field for his line of endeaVor. He therefore commenced to make few inquiries, but received but little en- couragement from most of those with whom he talked. But he has. since coming here, kept good watch on how everything is going, and has therefore made up his mind to stay.