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blocks. The plant furnishes heat to its
customers at so much per month
throughout the year. 1t keeps the
stores and houses warm when the
thermometer goes down to GO or 70
degrees below zero. The pipes run
side by side with the water pipes, so
that the latter are kept from freezing
in the heart of the winter.
An interesting thing in connection
with the steam-heating plant is that
IT burns wood only. 1t takes 10000
the season, and today there is wood
pile on the edge of the town large
enough for next winters demand 1
went out to see it. The wood is cut
in cord wood lengths and piled up to
a height of eight feet. The pile covers
twelve acres. l walked around it and
1t was almost a Sabbath days journey
| climbed up on top and had a photo
graph made to show the length of the
wood and its character. That wood all
cost over IS a cord. and the pile is
worth more than $4,000.
This wood is spruce, and it is cut
of Fairbanks. The government charges
the wood cutters a stumpage of 25
cents a cord. The men who fell the
trees and cut them into sticks charge
So per cord, and those who haul them
into the city get about 81 or more 1
know one man who can haul as much
as seven cords at load. He gets $2S
for dragging one two-horse load five
miles over the snow. 1t seems rather
high.
it is little. however. compared with
the cost of the same wood at the mines.
In such cases it has to be hauled tnuch
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Copyright, 1915. by Frank G. Carp.nter)
FAIRBANKS. Alaska.

Copyright. 1915. by Frank G. Carpenter.)
FAIRBANKS, Alaska.
srssy ssas Of snssss s1 A@sss sas n.w s
railroad. That road will have
its terminus at Fairbanks. and
from here goods will be sent out on
the navigable rivers over routes cover
ing thousands of miles. They will go
on the Tanana river to the Yukon, and
by that stream all the way to the Ca
madam boundary and the ocean. They
VIII 20 up the tributaries of the Yukon.
including the Porcupine, which can be
travelled for 500 miles; the Koyukuk
which has rich deposits of low-grade
gold, and the 1nnoko. where are tho
ldftarod and other gold camps For q
time some of the exports will be via
the Innoko to the upper Kuskokwim
region, although this Will involve over
land transportation.
Fairbanks itself Is the chief gold
mining center of the interior of the
territory. From it's creeks have been
taken already more than SsO0OO,oO0 in
gold dust and nuggets and stampedes
10 new camps occur every few weeks
One Of last year was TO the Tolovana
river. and today there is Il great deal
of activity along the kantishna river
and the creeks leading into 1T. That
river has its source in Mount McKin-
mineralized. containing antimony and
other metals In addition to gold.
Few people realize the great extent
and possibility OF our Alaskan trade.
year was more than s7O.0 900 900 II ex-
ceeded our total commerce with China
by more than s5.000,G00 and was one
NTH as large Is our total trade with
all South America. The great part Of
.his was exports: but the imports
amounted to over twenty-five millions
and in proportion TO the white popula-
tion II was greater than that of any
ether country OF the world. The per
capita commerce was about 81 500, with
\ balance OF trade In favor OF each
white man of over $500. Including the
Indians and Eskimos, the per capita
commerce was 1910. while that of Great
Britain was only sI33 This means
hat the trade of Alaska wr-. on the
average. .or every man, conan and
child, more than six times az great as
that for every man. woman ard child In
Great Britain.
wnste so covered with moss and other
vegetation that not one acre in 4 hun
dred OF IL has yet been 2rospected and
when not one acre IN a thousand has
Jet beer brought into cultivation. what
may we not expect Of the country with
The railroad and other Developments Of
the future.
Indeed. Alaska is one OF the hest busi-
Less propositions under Uncle Sans
rag Considering the amount Of
money invested and the hands en-
ployed. We haze nothing that pro-
ducea such vast returns. The coun-
try has now less than seventy Thousand
people, and Of these perhaps forty thou
sand are whites. This iuciuGes men,
women and children. so that the working
force is comparatively small. Neverrhs-
less. tho product in 1914 sold FOR Sal, 900, >
100, Of which more thar eighteen millions
cane out the mines and more than
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outside the Northern Commercial Com
pany that do large business, but none
that covers such great area and han
dieS everything needed by the people.
me establishment heDe at Fairbanks.
TOR instance, consists of stores, ware
houses and cellars with floor space OF
SIX or eight acres. 1t includes machine
shops and foundries, cold storage and
warm storage quarters. branches de-
voted TO wholesale and retail. as well
as water works, steam heat and cleo
trlc light plants.
The mercantile establishment has
now on hand more than million dol
lars worth of groceries. provisions and
other supplies; and its retail branch is
hke small department store In the
states Goods have to be bought in
large quantities, for the country Is
locked in ice for. seven months of the
year. during which time everything
goes In and out on dog sleds.
In one of the cellars. for instance, /
saw 10000 cans of condensed milk. con-
densed cream and other canned goods.
including egg powder. from which you
could make up an omelette quite an
Bood as from ranch eggs saw thou-
sands of real eggs in the shell which
had been packed in the states. gone
1000 miles over the ocean to Skagway.
and there, crossing the mountains, had
come down the Yukon. 1 saw canned
potatoes and canned corn. The potatoes
are cooked whole and put up in cans,
in which shape they sell for as much
as forty or fifty dollars a bushel. Some
OF the corn Is canned in the ear, and has
only to be warmed. when you can chew
1t from the cob in the heart Of the win
ter.
Another part of the warehouses Is de-
voted to fresh fruits. This contains ap-
pies and oranges ar grapefruit, the
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his line. and, although proof was lack
ing, it was believed that he was de-
livering the illicit product to q mar
ketman already under suspicion. Next
morning the revenue men tried a little
experiment. They harnessed the old
white horse in the stable to the de-
livery wagon. put several boxes Of
butter" into it and a couple of them
jumped in. They gave the reins a lit
tie shake, starting the horse and letting
him go where he would, which turned
out to be saloon. They did not touch
the reins, but in few minutes, about
long enough for one to telephone, old
Whitley" started again, and this time
did not stop until he reached the mar
ket, where, after going down an alley,
he turned the forewheels and backed
the delivery wagon to the storage room
of the suspected butter dealer. Un-
fortunately, the horse could not testify
at the trial which followed. but all the
accused were convicted.
The most common and least harmful
manner of adulterating butter is to
add water to the butter made of cream
and salt. This the statute allows up
to 16 per cent of moisture, but If a
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they were ready to hold or evacuate
the trenches. as the case might require.
Their lookout informed them one
night that the revenue officers were in
the house. Lights went out, coloring
matter was concealed, and they kept
very still. trusting that they would re-
main undiscovered. But smashing blows
upon the door warned them to vacate
and they started. But while one was
xlim. the other resembled Jack Fall
staff in contour. AS the door fell in the
normal man climbed out. but Jack with
all goodness of intention could only
squeeze his way more and more tightly
into the aperture to safety. His
frantic struggles and wild vocifera-
tions did not deter the service men aft
er they had controlled their laughter
from pulling the kicking fat man back
to the cellar. where he was duly placed
under arrest.
He was recognized as an expert in
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tom of the shattered holder. still con-
tanning a little liquid. Whereupon the
proprietor philosophically said to his
pal: 1T is no use; they have the dope"
The plant was forfeited, and the pro-
prietor, when brought to trial, saved
the state some trouble by pleading
guilty.
The moonshiners. although sometimes
doing things on small scale, are not
always small operators. A few years
ago some of these manufacturers were
putting out an article which closely ap-
preached the shade of butter, and the
Treasury's chemists. although many
samples were taken in the various
stages of the process and subjected to
analysis, were unable to detect an ele-
ment of artificial coloring matter. The
result in every instance was negative.
and the tin receptacles for the sam
pies were resealed and put away for
reference. One day on opening these
boxes for some purpose the chemist
found on the bright metal a dark gray
tinge, which he recognized as sulphur
stain. With this as working hypothe-
sis he soon found that the samples car
ried more than the normal trace of sui
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00 0ITH the threatened advance
NAU in the price of bread and
W\Y milk, comes another threat,
even more difficult to cope
with-increased adulteration of flour
and. of dairy products. such as butter
and cheese, by unscrupulous dealers
and manufacturers.
Barnett c. Keith. head of the internal
revenue division which has supervision
of these matters, recognizes the fact
that with an advance in the price of
any of these commodities a correspond
ing activity win arise in the production
of the spurious oods, and the greatest
watchfulness is required from his
three score or so specialists in the
field to run down butter moonshiners
and other offenders
BESIDES the Illicit sale of narcotics.
this division must supervise the manu-
facture and sale of oleomargarine, of
renovated butter. of filled cheese and
prevent the sale Of aduiterated butter.
When Mrs. Housekceper calls upon
her dealer for a pound of butter. she
has nothing but his relia bilty and the
watchfulness of this small field force
to assure her of what she is receiving,
for she may get pure butter-that is.
ealted butter made of cream contain
ing no foreign substances and less than
10 per cent of moisture. or adulterated
butter. which does contain foreign sub
stances, milk, cream more water
than the lawful percentage. or reno
waited butter. which. having become un-
fit for use. is melted and then clarified
and refined. or colored oleomargarine
which is made from animal fats. some
butter. milk, cottonseed oil and other
substances. Only the most expert can
distinguish the good from the bad by
inspection. and few can tell oleomar-
garine from butter by the taste alone
There is varying license tax of
few hundred dollars year placed
upon the manufactures and dealers in
any but pure butter, and the law re-
quires that oleomargarine and adul-
terated butter shall be sold only in
and from the stamped branded pack
ages. with the name marked in plain
letters upon it. A tax of one-quarter
of a cent pound is placed upon un-
colored oleomargarine, and 10 cents Il
pound upon it if colored to initiate
butter. Adulterated butter carries the
same tax.
The oleomargarine factories are un-
der government inspection, and now
very little, if any, of their product
is colored and sent out unless all the
requirements. including payment of
the tax, have been fully met Much
of their uncolored product is sold and
used legitimatety. but it is SO easily
purchased at about is cents "A pound
by the moonshiners and, when colored
in their secret factories. so easily sold
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fraction beyond that is injected the
result is adulterated butter. All repu-
table creameries live up to this rule,
and their foremen become SO skillful
that they can skate along the edge
of the danger line without going over.
If they do strike the wrong side it is
an accident, and the penalty is usually
no more severe than the eXaction of
the full tax. 10 cents a pound, on all
carrying the excess moisture.
But sometimes moonshiners who are
candidates for the criminal class go
the limit and add moisture until the
butter becomes a mere water pail. Some
experts. by softening and reworking
the butter, have succeeded in injecting
water until it carried 63 per cent of
moisture. 1t will not then stand up,
so the moonshiner packs it and freezes
it until it is solid enough to cut The
dealer keeps that kind in his icebox
and either makes it into print butter
or digs out a piece without bringing
the tub into the air when Mrs. House
wife makes her purchase.
In one case, which occurred in large
city. a small dealer supplying route
with butter and water. fifty-fifty, found
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latter now selling at As cents apiece.
In the same place are potatoes in bulk,
which are bringing ST bushel. They
are shipped here in crates and will keep
all winter. At retail they sell by the
pound. In olden days 1 am told that
the company brought in as much as
The imports are less now on account Of
the supply that is raised by the farmers
of Alaska.
Goods have to be carefully packed
and put up in special ways for the
Alaskan trade. They must be so treated
that they will stand the changes of eli
mate. the heat of the summer and the
cold of the winter. Perishable provi-
sions are coated with gelatin. Take
hams. for instance They must be so
protected that they will not be ruined
If lost in the snow or dropped into a
river. Each ham is carefully cured, and
then sewed UP in canvas. which is dip
ped in gelatin that gives it a gluelike
coating and makes it alright Cheese
is packed the same way. The cheeses
are OF every variety, including cart
wheels from Switzerland. put up in
boxes; Camembert, In tin foil, and
cream cheese from Oregon, covered
with gelatin. The stores carry Roaue-
fort. Gorgonzola and Limburger and
other varieties of ill-smelling delica-
cies.
l was interested in the furniture and
woodward. The company keeps billiard
tables and pool tables ready for ship
ment. 1t has wagons and sleds and
some of the latter will carry ten tons
at load. 1t has also dog sleds to be
used for the traffic in winter, and with
them dog harness with tugs, collars
and back straps. The ordinary dog
sled costs $40. Another article of mer-
chandise is dog feed. Il great deal of
which is ordinary tallow. The dogs on
the trail are fed once a day and that
at nghtfall. Their usual meal is
fish and rice cooked together with
tallow. This firm will sell about a
hundred thousand pounds of tallow next
winter.
Another department is devoted to
mining supplies, including every
mining machine and the fittings
therefor. There are great bales of wire
cable for hoisting the earth from the
mines; steam engines, air compressors
and steam points for thawing the
earth. There are bales of wire for
chicken yards and fox farms. The
latter Is made of tough steel and is
strong. There is wire netting for fish
wheels. and some of fine mesh for
the gold reduction plants. There is.
ware. This includes all sorts of farm
ing machinery. plows. reapers and
mowers. and also plumbers supplies.
glass windows and porcelain bathtubs.
There is warehouse devoted to horse
feed alone. This has now on hand
1000 tons of baled hay, oats and bran.
The hay sells for 500 per ton. and
oats bring or 6 cents pound.
This establishment runs ste.u-
heating plant which warns the bust
ness part of Fairbanks. 1t ha. can.
trail station. with the pipes runninp
from IT through the chief buildings nf
the business section. includinr the
most of those within eight or Ten
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In one instance by an adroit move the
service men followed and caught a
man literally red-handed, adding color
to a sixty-pound tub of oleomargarine.
His plant was in a false cellar reached
by a passage way closed by a hidden
four Inch door lined with sheetiron. In
an attempt to destroy the evidence he
threw the dye into the fire, breaking
the bottle. but field man, by a quick
move, grabbed from the flames the bot
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ing places and throw all sorts of dan
gers in the way of the revenue Of
acers. Traps In the way of falling
stairs are set and fierce bulldogs
chained by day and allowed to roam
unmuzzled about the premises at night,
when the blend was making, were in
great favor, until, in addition to their
regulation automatics needed for the
human brutes. the men of the service
armed themselves with ammonia guns,
one shot from which stops the ugliest
dog.
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at the market price for pure butter
that the get-rfch-quick men add the
fraction Of q cents worth of aniline
dye, disregard the marking of the
packages and the payment of the tax
whom they sell their stuff to Mrs.
Housewife.
These men tax the ingenuity Of the
field men to the utmost. The violators,
like the counterfeiters of money, use
ingenious means to conceal their work
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-12

tains has been high enough to stay
their progress; no rivers deep ana
broad enough TO daunt them; no forests
dark and dense enough 20 withstand
their advance. ,
"The preacher. II is true. may feel
himself 20 be. in the beginning, only
voice crying in the wilderness, but ne
also believes that the desert can re
ioicc and blossom as the rose. That Is
10 say. he believes that actual desert -
potential Eden; and all that is needed
TO effect the miracle is the cooperant
forces OF what we describe as the son
Of righteousness and the water OF lie.
Sees Beauty In Deserts.
This inspired visionary. with his
radiant belief in TRANSPORTED deserts
in sandy and barren wastes gay with
lilies and roses is surely the very IN
suppressible hero OF Romance, lie
walks the mean streets and dreary
maths Of modern industrial districts
with the same high confidence that
lighted the face of Isaiah amid the
desert Of commercialized Judaism N
the unspiritual environment OF ahcieht
Rabvlon. lie believes in his people
he is sure Of his audience. II ~ noth-
ing TO him that they do not peiie'e
in themselves. II Is nothing TO MIN
that the soil TO be cultivated IS 20
heavy and obstinate clay or so oar
zen a waste. The more unpromisihg
the material the most smiling IS MS
pervision OF success. This surely Is
The element OF futurity about the
nrophet's message which has often been
hercely debated. He IS more thah
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-12
SUNDAY SCHOOLS
PLAN 3 MEETINGS
Problems To Be Discussed at
Gatherings To Be Held by
Association Friday.

The most important church even. OF
the coming week will be the three meet
inrs held under the auspices Of the
New York City Sunday School Associs
ton on Friday evening at 7:+5 o'clock.
The principal meeting OF this group OF
services will he held in the auditorium
of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church. Miss Margaret Slattery will
speak on "The Rights Of Girl"
The second meeting will be held IN
the chapel Of the same church. and IL
for chaperons and teachers, and will be
addressed BIZ Miss Edith White, who
will speak on The Opportunity OF a
Teacher
Tho third meeting will be held in the
Central PRESBYTERIAN Church. and will
he addressed by Miss Margaret X. Law
son. who will have for her subject Tho
Magic Of Together" This third meet.
ing is planned TO meet the expected
overflow which will be turned away
from the meeting addressed b. Miss
Slattery.
Others taking part in these services
are Mrs Dorothy Perkins. Natalie Shell
ton. Margaret l.. Baker. Margaret Cree
Presley. Susan +. Colgate. Charlotte
Green. Mrs. John II. Jowett and Mrs
L. II. Van Nordan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-12

ties for the fultlmcnt of a tremendous
j. romantic ministry. He died three
d; Us after finishing this series OF lcct.,,
rlcs on "The Romance Of Preaching.
but left fragrant inspiration for every
clergyman whose ministry has brought
him 20 feel the need Of modern inter
probation Of the prophets life:
cit will belong 20 your ministry ne
said. "to conserve for the men and
women Of to-day the eternal truths III
which our fathers lived. but to presen,
those truths as they have passed
through the living mind and peen
shined upon BY the broadening Hghl
that is the precious gift of God 10 our
generation.
In the outset. this minister from over
the sea sought 10 bring BACK rom
across abysmal wanderings all those
who had lost sight Of whose servant
the minister Is.
"Thcre is no tragedy in all the world
like the disillusioned minister. lie mas
TO keep on preaching. His congregs-
tion is often weary; but no one - SO
heavy Of heart as he.
Preacher Summons All.
Continuing. Mr. Horne says: some
how so many Of us are strangers to the
truth Of Paul's affirmation that expo
rience worketh hope SO many have
gathered doub, and even dependency
as the fruit Of that tree. That, IN
part. is why youth does not rally TO the
call Of the ministry to-day and why
the preachers face is all too often III
The shadow. Think OF the possession
of the preachers. No range of noun
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-12
COLUMBIA GRADS
ON CAMPUS T0.DA,
Merry Time Planned for ANN,
Alumni Day Celebrate,

Several thousand graduate, -.
pected at Columbia today for ..
nual alumni day celebration.
full Of festive events on tie e..
TO end with a dance in the u,i,.."
gymnasium has been planned -
fraternity houses viii give ln,a ~
for the graduates and - -
luncheon for the alumni Vill "a
IN the University Commons Il. ~
nual meeting OF Phi Beta Ram,
be held a. the Faculty Club.
Formal exercises for he slgr.,
be held A. 3 o'clock. with p,,s..
James {. Egbert. ~. presiding. p
dent Nicholas MURRAY Butler vr' =
an address OF welcome. and fou-
ures viii then be given on tor.
present day interest. Professor F,,..
Carter Wood, 90. School o. ~.
director ~ tho $1,000 900 Croc.s, ~. !
Ger Research Laboratory, will sps,, !.
"Phases Of The Cancer Problem - n.
terest 20 the Iayman": Professo- v.
/.rsser. 90. on Experience g.,s :.
Serbian Relief Expedition: Pro.s,,.
Milton q. Whitaker on The Naru,,-
IRE Of Nh Explosives" and Pro'sr.
K.lery {. Stowel on The Roe
Diplomacy'
The annual alumni dinner v.r
held in University Commons. foio,.
By a basketball game between p.
gylyania and Columbia and a daro
the gymnasium.
a committee has been appointed
Dean FREDERICK A. Goethe, Of the Ga.
uate Engineering School Of Co.g~,
University. 20 plan the orgsnlzs,'.-
tho proposed 100000 engineering ,
search laboratory. s research .,
neering foundation with an eniozrs
Of several million dollars also IS =.
posed.
The committee comprises Proi,,
Milton {. Whitaker. head Of the Ga.
uate Chemical Engineering dspsr-r
chairman; Walter T. Slchter. hsr
tho Graduate Electrical Euginsg,
department; Walter Rsutens,a
head OF the Graduate Mechanical =
cheering department. and Ar,iv
Walker. OF the Department Of IA.
lurgy.
Professor Henry 6. Redfot. Va
professor Of law A. Columbia U,hs
sity. is prevented By illness from e.
tinuing his duties A. the Law S:tr
Harold R. Medina will take over p
fessor Redheld's courses.