The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-12-13

Out at Mile 52, on the governm mt railroad is one Christopher Geo'ge Jones, now superintendent of con struction with local jurisdiction over maintenance and construction from Seward to Anchorage. Perhaps there is nothing much in such common names as Jones, but C. c. Jones has been decorated with the distinguishes service medal by the British, Russian and American government and has other citations for conspicuous work under fire.
 c. c. Jones has earned the cogpo- men of "Hurry-Up" Jones, or as he IS more familiarity known now along the railroad between Seward and Anchor age as Speed" Jones. And speed and "hurry-up" was not attributed to this man Jones without cause for before, during the war, and now he is making his personal history, as the get-thrre man.
 Speed" Jones IS the man vho is going to keep the railroad open he tween Seward and Anchorage t'iS winter; the man who is going to have the roadway in such shape by spring that l5O ton locomotives can haul heavy trains over the system between Seward and Anchorage.
 But all this latter is not the idea of this article, which is to give the re- cord, in brief, oC Speed" Jones dur ing the war.
 Mr. Jones went out from Anchor age. where he was in the employ O. the Alaskan Engineering Commission, on January 29, 1917. He went to Seat tie, then 10 Portland ana was ,onc or the first 1880 men in the Mear's re- giment
 On June 7th, 1917. Jones left for overseas and arrived in France Col. Mears took the Slst Engineers to rest camp No, 1, but shortly afterwards the engineers were removed to Sam- aur, France where Col. Mears took over the work from the IT tn Engin- eers of constructing large machine shops, yards and camp for the regi- ment also the general prison camp Col. MearS, after three weeks time, was assigned to Tours as General Manager of all the American Railways in France which position through hIm in with every railroad man in France. Col. Mears formed the Russian con tigent, 720 men, which consisted of one company of mechanics, one com pany of engineers and conductors and oe company of construction men, and Speed" Jones had command of the latter company.
 Captain "Speed" Jones arrived at MurmanSk with this contingent when there were four feet of snow on the ground and the construction force was immediately instructed to build A'x miles of railroad around and into Mur- mansk. This was to supply the camps with water and fuel and also the con struction party was told to make tN" town sanitary, which was done and all within three weeks. Capt. Jones was then ordered to the front to take over the building and construction of. bridges and railways blown up by the Bolsheviki. His force took charge Of 75 miles of railroad, in that they re- placed 64 bridges and 15 miles of rail- road.
 During this time, one very heavy set general was making an inspection of the work. He soon found out what was being done and then asked one of the construction men as to thewhere' abouts of the captain in charge.
 "Oh, that fellow over there, work ing like h- with the rest of us feI- lows"
 The heavy set general went over to where Capt. Jones was using a crowbar with others of his men and said:
 "What is your name and where arc you from"
 'T am Capt. C. c. Jones and have recently been employed by the govern ment in France and previous to that with the Alaskan Engineering Clm- mission in Alaska"
 q knew that you were from Alas ka, for only an Alaskan could do such