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New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

traffic must be found in the water
routes between the two coasts.
There are immense possibilities for
the development of this kind of traffic
between the Atlantic and the Pacific
coasts" he continues, "and no other
craft is so we'll adapted for this trade
as the economically built and economi
cally operated wooden steamer of from
5000 to 5000 tons.
I'VE want to use these vessels in
getting into the rich trade fields from
which the Huns have ousted them
selves by their own folly and wicked
ness"
The wood ships built for government
account under war orders were prac-
tically all steamers of from $500 to
5000 tons, and those that can be re-
leased from government service are
now being offered for sale in market
where ship tonnage was never so scarce
or freight rates so high.
A complete record of the perform
ance of the wood ships kept by the
Shipping Board gives in definite form
the service rendered to the govern
ment by this class of vessels and the
promise of future usefulness. Out of
the entire feet operated under control
Of the Shipping Board, Chairman Ed
ward N. Hurley recently announced,
but three wood ships have been lost.
The life of wood ship, therefore,
while risk, would not appear to be so
great risk as is commonly believed.
The actuary, as with lives of men, may
be able to take q thousand wood ships
end figure the approximate mortality
each year among a thousand new and
sound ships, and figure the risk, but no
man or group Of men can point to
wood ship on the ways or newly
launched and say what her years of
active service will be- The youngest
cabin boy may wither into old age and
pass to his fathers while the wood ship
upon which he spent his prentice years
continues stoutly on her way, a useful
and profitable trader at home or over
seas.
In other days when the builders of
houses built for centuries and not for
the present, as later became the fash
ION, timbers from wood ships that had
been condemned were eagerly sought
as the bulwarks of construction, and
in the stanchest old houses of Eng
land to-day can be found timbers-in
such excellent state of preservation
that they appear to have been petrified
which were obtained from the hulls
of wooden ships which had come to the
end of useful careers after many years
at sea.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

might centralizes the development of
dirigiblcs in one arm or the other and
thus prevent, it is argued, wasteful rep
ettion of efforts.
Details of Programme
The details of the navy aviation pro-
gramme, as submitted to Congress, are
as follows
Aircraft for fleet use, s45o4,o25.
Purchase abroad of ten special fight
ing and spotting planes, S2OO,000.
To erect one large hangar for diri-
gibes. 81 1,S5O,O00
To establish a rigid dirigible con-
struction and operation station, &c.
264,O0O.
To construct two rigid dirigibles,
100000.
To purchase British rigid diri-
gible, $2,5O0,000
Conversion of collier Jupiter as air
plane carrier, $500,000.
To purchase and convert two ner-
chant vessels into aircraft tenders, one
for planes and one for lighter than
air craft, $5,261,250.
To continue operations of all estab-
lished air stations, $7,813,107.
To continue experiments and devel-
opments of all types, $9,405,000.
To equip marine corps advanced base
units with aircraft. $3,933,100.
Miscell llancous, 100000.
Total, S46,531 ,482
1t is considered significant of what
the future trend Of aircraft develop
ment is to be that the navy is already
asking that almost half of its appro-
priation shall be for dirigibles.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Diamond Sandwich for Hero
Canteen Worker Lost Gem
While Fixing Lunch

Which member of the 1O8th Engi-
neers swallowed diamond which She
believes dropped out of her ring while
she was making sandwiches at a can
teen is the question worrying Mrs. S.
+: Gates, of Willard Avenue, Queens.
The 10Sth has left Camp Mills and has
gone to Chicago. With one of them.
II MIS-. Gates guesses correctly, went
her gem.
The stone dropped out of the ring
while its owner was preparing to feed
the engineers after their parade in
Jamaica on Memorial Day. Since it
hasn't been returned she supposes it
went the way of the sandwiches.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Quits Canadian Cabinet
As Protest at Tax Budget


OTTAWA, Ont, June TT. A. Gre
rar, Minister of Agriculture in the
Union government, has resigned from
the Cabinet and his resignation has
been accepted. In correspondence read
by Premier Borden to the House of
Commons it was shown that Mr.. Crerar
disagreed with the budget proposals as
contained in the speech of Sir Thomas
White, Minister of Finance. Mr.. Crerar
holds that the tariff reductions did not
90 far enough.
He is president of the Grain Growers
Association of Western Canada and
an earnest believer in reduced tariff.
He will retain his seat in the House.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Representative Kelley Wants
Body Authorized to Run
All Aeronautical Affairs
for the Government
Navy Has Big Programme
$46,OOO,OOO Asked; Army
Also Expects To Be to Fore
in Plane Development

WASHINGTON, June with the
navy asking for $46,o0O,ooO for air
craft constructions and maintenance,
the army calling for $50, 100000, with
the utilization of aerial transport of
the Postofiice and other departments
likely to run into large figures in the
future, the consideration of the de-
STABILITY of some form of centralized
control of government aeronautics has
come to the front again
The suggestion has been advanced
in the House Naval Affairs Commit
tee that the general control of de-
velopment, research and construction
be placed in the hands of bureau in
which the various government agen-
cies interested in aeronautics would
be represented. The proposed bureau
would be considerably less than an in
dependent department of the air and
considerably more than the defunct
aircraft board. The idea has not
tsken very definite form yet but as
outlined by Representative Kelley, of
the naval committee, the proposed
bureau would be supreme in matters
of general aircraft policy. and would
SO distribute aeronautcal functions
and duties that the overlapping and
duplication of effort that exist un-
der the present complete separation OF
departmental aeronautical activities
would be avoided. The operation of
the respective air services, as we'll as
their organization, would be left en-
tirely to the different departments,
but the national plans and appropria-
tons for the development of aircraft
would be directed by the proposed
central bureau
Time for Study Needed
Chairman Julius Kahn, of the
House Military Affairs Committee,
said tonight that one of the reasons
that contributed to the determination
of the committee to give the army
priation Of s15,0O0OOO in the bill
that will be introduced was the
need of time to study and deliberate
on the subject of consolidation or
Capitalization of control of all gov
ernment aerial activities. There seem
to be a general consensus Of opinion
in Congress that the American air
service shall be about first in the
world, and it is desired to take ample
time to lay Alright the foundations Of
its future organization.
By way of illustration of the oppor
tunity for diffusion Of effect at pres
ent, it is pointed out that both the
army and navy are taking up rigid diri-
gibles. A central controlling bureau
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Fighters Are Given
Warm Welcome Home
Riverdale, Kingsbridge and
Other Towns Turn Out
to Greet Heroes

Residents of Riverdale, Fieldston,
Spuyten Duyvil, Kingsbridge, and
Marble Hill turned out en- masse YES
terday afternoon to give a rousing
welcome to the doughboys and gobs
Of these various communities recent
ly returned from overseas. The
festivities included a parade, athletic
games, a dinner served by the local
chapter of the Red Cross, and dance.
Lieutenant Colonel Edward C. Della
field Of the 9th Coast Artillery, acted
as grand marshal Of the parade, which
included men from thirty-seven diff
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
slaher Freed of Charge He
Took Bets ON Horse Races

Thomas Maher, chief clerk of the
Brooklyn Marriage License Bureau,
who was arrested last month on a
charge Of having accepted bets on horse
races in saloon at 465 Fulton Street,
was discharged yesterday by Magis-
trate Walsh in the Adams Street DO
lice court.
The Court ruled that since Maher.
who gave the name of Thomas Moore
when arrested, was not the owner, les
see or occupant Of the premises in
which tho bets were taken, and gave
no bookmaker's slips to wagerers, he
was not guilty of violating the law.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Vessels Built by u. S. for
War Emergency Will
Remain in Service of
Private Owners for Years
Stanchness Is este d
Federal Board Is Selling
Boats Rapidly; Tonnage
Is Still Call of Shippers

WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE life Of
wood ship, like that Of man, is a.
risk. Some ships are born to life upon
the seas weak and m:sshapen. Others,
through the proved eugenics of the
shipyard-the mating of sound timber,
the joining of stout beam and f1awless
plank-fare forth in vigor of strength
and strength of line, fitted for long
careers in the adventurous field of
their predestincd activities.
Man is taught that if he will keep
himself in good condition he will pro-
long his years. The skill of the
surgeon is at his command in the event
of accident or a diseased part that
can be cut away. The condition of a
wood ship is in the keeping of the
master of the ship, and as ship surgery
is an exact science, its life may be
prolonged indefinitely.
Some wood ships grow old after the
manner of some men, shifting their oc-
cupations to match their failing
strength, until, decrepit and hopeless,
they rot their lives away in utter
uselessness Others retain the vgor
of youth and not only earn their own
N"y DuO eHIiCIl OINcTS 10 Cnc last OF
their days
The Dancing Wave, built on the
Pacific Coast in 1854, and therefore
sixty-four years old, is still in active
operation on the Coast, and, it is re-
ported, is carrying perishable cargo
and carrying it dry. Recently she put
to her credit II round voyages be-
tween Tacoma, Washington, and San
Francisco, within a period of 12 cal
endar months.
Wood ships of day can be and
are as stoutly built as those Of other
days, and those built in answer to the
demand of the hour served a useful
purpose in the war and will now pass
on to the pursuits of peace. There
is record Of performance behind them
and they are in active service to-day.
Those being sold by the United States
Shipping Board are being sold from
active service with the exception of
wooden huls in which no machinery
has been installed. The feet of
wood ships aid in giving the proper
balance to the new American merchant
marine which is expected to travel all
sea lanes in the development of the
foreign commerce Of the nation.
Yards that have been released from
government service. pecially those on
the Pacific Coast have announced
that they will continue the construc-
ton Of wood ships for private and for
olgn account, and the declaration that
wood ships are permanent necessi-
ties" has the support of veteran mas
ters, ship operators and shipbuilders.
f: W. Wright, manager of the
McEachern Ship Company, of Oregon,
and identified for the greater part Of
his life with shipping affairs on the
Willamette and Columbia rivers, gives
some interesting facts about wood
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Albert Invites Poincare to
Belgium for National Fete

PARIS, June 7.-King Albert of Bel
GUM has invited President Poincare
TO visit Brussels July %, the Belgian
national holiday. The holiday will
De celebrated this year on a scale of
unusual magnitude.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Buried Indian Village
Is Found Near Auh,,rn

AUBURN, N. Y, June IA buried
Indian village site, believed to have
been occupied 500 years ago, was dis
covered by NJ. A. Cramer, Auburn city
forester, in digging after woodchuck
in the town of Cato, Cayuga County.
The site contained skeletons and MANY
bone implements believed of Iroquois
origin.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

bill to provide for a Congressio
audit.
Great economy, it is believed, can be
effected by requiring all estimates to
come from one source. At present each
department submits its own estimates.
There is much overlapping of work in
the various departments. Right now
five different bureaus and departments
are claiming jurisdiction over soldiers
entitled to vocational training.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Bulgarians DENY Mobi];za,;on

WASHINGTON, June 1.-The Bulea-
rian Legation to-day issued formal
denial of the Balkan News Agency ra-
port, transmitted from Copenhagen yes
terday, saying the Bulgarian army had
been modified and was marching tow
ard the Serbian frontier.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Faith In Wooden Ships


Nearly forty years ago." he writes,
the wooden steamship Great Republic,
378 feet long, IA feet beam and with
carrying capacity of more than 5000
tons, was in operation between the
Orient and San Francisco. Not only
was She big carrier, but her wooden
hull had strength sufficient to support
machinery that gave her a speed of
nearly twenty miles an hour in the
river.
"Before and after the appearance of
the Republic and for years after the
metal ships became numerous the
wooden steamer continued to play
prominent part on most of the ocean
highways, and is still doing so.
THE durability Of the wooden ship
IS another feature that has been time
tested. Owned on the Pacific Coast
and engaged in the coastwise and off
shore trade out of Pacific ports are $50
steam and sail wooden vessels that
have seen from twenty to sixty-eight
years. service. or this list sixty-eight
have passed their twentieth birthday,
hfty-three are from twenty to twenty
five years old, seventy-eight are from
twenty-five to thirty years old, forty
six from thirty to thirty y-five years old,
forty-two from thirty-fvc to forty
years old, forty-four from forty to
forty-tive years old, ten from forty-five
to fifty years old, five from fifty to fifty
five years old, and still in service are
three wooden sailcrs which were built
siXty-one, sixty-tve and sixtv-eicht
years ago. In this list is the steam
ship Arcata, built in San Francisco
forty-two years ago, and in her long
career having tested her strength on
every bar between Panama and Alaska.
"With anything like proper care and
upkeep most of these vessels are good
for many years.
"lt is a noteworthy fact that salt
water the very element that rusts and
ruins the metal ship, is the best known
preservative for a wooden ship.
History Repeats Self
"The truth of that old adage that
history repeats itself never had a bet
ter prospect for veriication than in
the shipping outlook that now con-
fronts us.
when the Civil War ended big
fleet of government transports was
turned loose and many of them came
around the Horn to the Pacific North
west. These old wooden steamers
opened up new trade fields and aided
enormously in developing those al
ready open. They ran TO Alaska, to
Central America, to Mexico, Hawaii
and the Orient, and had the govern
.nent at that time encouraged and pro-
tected shipping as it is now dong our
ocean prestige would never nave been
lest.
Give years before the war began the
late James j. Hill, master of transpor-
tatlon, made the remarkable statement
that the business of the country was
increasing so rapidly that it was i'm
perativc that the railroads immediately
expend $4,000, 100000 in betterments
nnds equipment, this in the faca Of an
increasing traffic at Panama and Te-
huantepec. The extraordinary business
due to the war was not needed to de-
monstrate that Mr.. Hill was accurate
in his predictions"
Mr.. Wright believes that some relief
from the inevitable congestion Of rail
The Nenana daily news., 1919-07-25

Music committee to appoint as pro-
 lessor of traditional Irish music a
 German musician. There was no personal objection to the professor except that he was a German, but the soldirs would not have it. Four hundred of them turned out in a
 body and prevented the appoint ment. The secretary defending their conduct in the press writes:
 We are faced with a grave trou- ble in the people who yesterday were badly misled by hopes of Ger man victories and who have now taken a definite stand against us Without friends on any side and left to our own resources we find that in our own country we are un- wanted and insulted Only recently Ia member of the Cork Board of Guardians proposed that no demob- ilized soldier or sailor get employ Iment from that board. The Gaelic players have seen fit to ban us from their games. These and many sim liar incidents are not likely to i'm prove our temper.
 ''To understand the feelings of our men these people should have a talk with some of their countrymen who spent three or four years in German prison camps. This is not a time to set Irishmen flying at each others throats over a job for a German professor"
 The attitude assumed by Ramon DeValera, president of the Irish re- public, towards the returned Irish soldier, has not been one of hos tility. He gave them credit for fighting for what they believed to be the right cause and the one they thought most likely to serve Irish freedom.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-07-25
WHAT DEPEW SEES.
Prospect,

''The next ten years in America, after the Republican party returns to power, will bring a condition which will cause Bolsheviki and trou- makers to commit suicide" said former Senator Chauncey M. Depew, of New York, acquaintance of Lin 'coln and candidate for the nomina- tion for the presidency thirty years ago, on his eighty-ffth birthday an niversary. He still goes to business with great regularity every day.
 "One of the advantages of being my age," he went on, '.is that you need have no fear that any of your indiscretions of speech will ruin your political prospects. However, while on the subject of politics, might mention that the Republicans are going to win the next chance they get. And then we shall see the greatest growth in America, not only material growth, but in the humani- ties. We shall see a return to that condition which made the United States better place to live in than any other country in the world Eighty-fve is a jolly time. As long as you can laugh, laugh with others and not at them, you can be happy. l was never in better shape, mental ly, physically, morally"
The Nenana daily news., 1919-07-25
DRY JAPAN.

The prohibition movement in the United States has been followed in Japan by the launching of a project to stop the manufacture of sake, Japan's national alcoholic drink, which is distilled from rice.
 The end of the war has brought no check to the steady increase in the price of the necessities of life, and the soaring cost of rice, which is the staple food of the Japanese people, is becoming grave problem for the government. Last year the high price of rice led to serious riots throughout the empire.
 The Japan Temperance society has presented memorial to the govern ment urging the prohibition of the making of sake. The organization points out that about 15,000,O0o bushels of rice are consumed yearly in its manufacture With the popu- lation of Japan increasing at the rate of 6OO,000 yearly and the na- tional rice crop falling on account of the decrease of rice lands through civic and industrial expansion, the organization asserts that the enor- nous quantity of rice used in dis tilling sake might be turned to a
The Nenana daily news., 1919-07-25
Department of the Interior Alaskan Engineering Cemmissioa
 NOTICE
NOTICE

Passengers leaving on the train for any point on the line south of town are required to purchase tickets before entering the train.
 Tickets can be purchased from the station agent, whose office is in the employment office, on the ground floor of the general office building, Alaskan Engineering com mission.
 Tickets will be on sale at any time during office hours, and can be purchased in sufficient time be- fore the departure of the trains. ] Regular trains leave the foot Of A street on Wednesdays and Satur- days at p. m.
 ! On and after july 18th the freigh. On the North side of the river at Camp 4l5 dock will be shipped out Tuesday and Friday of each week, leaving at a. m, until further notice.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-07-25
THE CHURCH AND LABOR.

The Protestant churches of Amer lea should be brought into closer relations with the wage-earners of the nation, says statement issued at New York recently by the Com mission on Church and Social Serv- ice of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America.
 To accomplish this purpose, the commission proposes that hundreds of powerful, highly socialized and democratically organized churches should be established in industrial centers.
 It suggests that seminaries should train ministers to know how to ad- minister such churches, men who will know economics and social prob lens, as well as theology.
 It proposes an alliance of the church with the workers themselves, ito achieve the great objects for which the workers are struggling, such as living wages, reasonable hours and conditions for labor. equal opportunities and pay for women, participation in management and ownership, and abolition of child labor"
 It is proposed also by the com mission that the church denomina- tions should agree among themselves to establish non-competing parishes for these churches in industrial cen- ters, and that the denominations should close churches which com pete.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-07-25

A good lead of ore has been struck at the Saltchuck mine, near Ketchi- kan, at the end of a tunnel which taps the vein at a depth of 300 feet. The vein is said to be rich in cop per, palladium, platinum, gold, and silver. and is 15 feet in thickness In addition, 35 feet of ore of lower grade has been encountered, accord ing to the Ketchikan Times.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-07-25

better use in distributing it as food for the people.
 Emperor Yoshihito is said to be deeply concerned over the living conditions among his people. Through his lord chamberlain he recently or dered the governors of the different provinces to investigate the changes in the thought of the masses. the cost of food for the middle and labor classes, and the general in- dustrial situation throughout the en- pire. The discontent of the masses of the people is seriously occupying the government, which is trying to devise means of relieving the situ- ation.
The Nenana daily news., 1919-07-25

vast resources of Yukon be probed to the core and opened to the maxi mum.
 Now is the time. Deal the cards. Let every man take a hand. Play the game.
 Prospect
The Nenana daily news., 1919-07-25
IRISH SOLDIERS.

The returned Irish soldiers are themselves and asserting their right to be heard. In Cork it was proposed by the local Municipal
The Nenana daily news., 1919-07-25

A marathon was a feature of the Seward Fourth of July celebration Three prizes were given for the men making the best time to the noun tain-top and back.