The Alaska citizen., 1917-09-03
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. Well N h. didn't you go through a.-n l,r lAfter objection and ar-u- m,nD You understand The question
 X Y,s. think do l, wasn't 4eat .A.nk ahs, ,h.~ dance propo- .oa sou speak of Was my idea be ,ausc-uow you refer 10 ,ha, gam bHas proposition
 c Q. 1 sa~. referred so that ,a Identify ;.
 Al sl.nk t WAS Nr CIrSs.s plan md .h.ah Av proposed that N" give chances with y,er tickp; ,n 'ot .rrs for a ,ourhundsyd-do.lar watch. so that .o. the five dollar, some body would s~, d chance 10 win a watch. SD ! told them would print ,ar tickets free. printed the tick rts and look them Co Frank Clark. ,he secretary: he wrote 10 the Alas aa Woman.- Loyal League and asked .aam 10 sell tickets, and they wrote back and told them they would do anything they could 10 help out What you refer to, wasn't a, the meeting
 C. Well. il was reported to youe , A Well people told me, didnf know
 Q Didn't you hear at the time Ina, some ot he women of the Al a-ga Loyal League fought the thing os opposed il. and whether il was talked of as an official act or not. didn't they allude in their declara- ton 10 the effect that they would have nothing to do with 1t because there Wa, graft in it?
 < l don't know as any graft was reported
 Q don't mean that particular word was used
 \. know there was opposition ol individuals in the meeting: that's all know. know the response of the meeting was officially from the president to the secretary that they would do everything they could
 c. But nothing was done
 X Nothing was done.
 c Now getting back to the Ques- ton asked: Why didn't you go through with that and raise the money that way
 \. Bccaus, in the meantime this telegram from Governor Strong stat ina they could pay rent for the build lng-then it wasn't necessary to pm- sue that We intended 10 give dane os. We didn't expect to raise enough money to pay for the building en- nrely. We intended to give mort gage for the balance and w thought by giving two dances, one on the 18th afterwards changed 10 the twen- ,ysixth and the opening ball in July, we could clear the money on those TWO dances.
 c. Now I'll ask you this further question, Mr Thompson. If you had au idea you could raise the money not you individually except so far as you had authority and power--it you thought you could raise the money by the sale of tickets and popular subscriptions whereby the Loyal League or the subscribers would own the building, why, then, did you not go through with that and give the people subscribing the amount the benefit Ot their invest meut, instead of the men you found you could get interested through the rent of the building why did you abandon that and give il up?
 A. The only reason there could be for that, if there was any thought of 1t one way or the other, was that we couldn't raise it by the sale ot tickets because there was so much opposition to this and everything else nothing was considered on that question at all.
 O. So 1t wasn't question Of the fact that you could get interest or rent I asked you for an eXplana, ton as to why the ticket scheme fell down or was abandoned?
 A. There was no connection be- tween the two. We gave the dance, but cut out the watch.
 Q. You didn't give the dance until long afterwards-yo gave it just like any other dance. This dance I'm talking about is the dance for raising the money?
 A. It was the same dance attempt ed, but held later The same tickets printed that time were used for this one.
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