The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-09-28
COUNT LUXBURG DEPARTS
IRVING GOTTHEIM WRITES
 INTERESTING LETTER FROM GUAM

The following interesting letter from Irving Gottheim, at Guam, NJ l.. to lIr. W. B. Kyle, manager of the 1 San Francisco office of Gutleben Bros. gives a very accurate account of how the Governors proclamation was re- ceived by the people, as we'll as many other incidents of note. The letter is published through the courtesy of 1r. Daniel Cutleben, who is in Seward in- staIling the towers for the Govern ments new radio station at the head of the bay
 The letter follows:
 Guam, M. l., April 2, 1917. My dear Mir. Kyle:
 Today has been the most exciting day in the twenty-sevcn years of my life, excepting, possibly, the memor- able day of the San Francisco earth quake and fire. AS was the case at the time of the fire, action started early in the morning. On that day it was the earthquake shaking which awakened me from my slumber. To- day, instead of the earthquake, it was twenty-five blasts of the iceplants whistle. This was the signal for all to report to general headquarters.
 You know that the Governor of this Island is the Czar as far as this IsIa7d is concerned. He is appointed by the President, and his word is final as far as we can observe. When the twenty five blasts were sounded, every man, woman and child in this town of Aga na showed up. We were all expecting some news of great impor .ncc and were not disappointed.
 You should have seen this crowd. There were many hundreds of half dressed Chamorros; most of them had iIsf hepp rOuspd from thei~ slpeping places-you could not call them beds. Many of the women had children in their arms, and all had a startled look in their faces. There were some neat . ly dressed natives, known here as yhe "Shoe Gang" These latter are a dis tinct class from the Hoyploy, and arc being educated by Uncle Sam. Many of them held clerical positions for the l Government. There were also thema- rines, all of whom, as you know, are a l fine set of men. These latter stood | at attention while the Governor read his proclamation.
 For the last few days there have been no cable reports. The only way we have to get news on this Island is by the cable and transport which comes once a month. All cable mes. ! sages suddenly stopped two days ago and since that time, in the absence oi news, we naturally thought that some. thing terrible was happening, anc when the Governor read his proclama. tion, declaring war on Germany, the news was quite a relief. We all fell . like getting in and doing up the Ger. mans.
 After reading the declaration, the ! Governor ordered that all aliens report to the detention camp. He had my self and my bunch of ironworkers re port to his office. It happened that most of us were native-bon Amer jeans, but we had six Europeans along, who had taken out their frs papers. Three of them were Holland CTS, two Danes, and one Norwegian All of these were ordered to the de tentiOn camp until the work was ready to start, after which they woulc be allowed to work, but would not b, allowed to leave the site.
 Then the Governor. commandeerec Stoves and his motor truck, and m, and my Ford q felt all puffed up il importance in having our humble Fore