The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 9, 1928, Page 7

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Unigue Art Gallery . On City’s Roof Aids SPARK PLUG \ gRGHER B\LL’(GQ‘STS" JTHERE ST BE T© MAKE TS oudkt © A e seonce B mranmic APPEALS FROM wi Throw eM orF Te B THE MAIN LODEE OF THE RRETMERH OF BUIN GOATS, THE ENTRE Msmsgokgmv WE ARE NOT RUNTING WM WiTH ¢ Americdii Painters s T, ® v ve New York’s tumalt, atop Wm Central station, is an w art gallery, founded by L. Clark (right). Its pur- pose is to aid American artists, and only their work is displayed. It its own _expenses, and lflk’l"l:) profit. * Above is a scene in one of its rooms, NEW YORK, Jan. 9—In the heart of New York, over the greatest network of railroad tracks in the world, there are 15 Aquiet room where the noise does not penetrate, and where the city’s rare gleams of sun man- age to sneak down between the buildfngs and through the sky- lights The vast rooms are the Grand Central Art Gallerles, perched atop the block-wide Grand Cen- tral: station—in. the very middle of the city, yet strangely aloof from ‘the noises of. the city. The galleries grew from the dream of a- business man, to fill a long-felt want among artists. They are non-profit making, but self-supporting. Walter L. Clark, was the busi- ness man, a prominent New York enginer, whose theories of busi- ess applied to American art founded ‘and developed the gal- Jerfes. He obtained the financial support of other wealthy men and women, discoveréd the rat- nfested attic of the Grand Cen- tral, and won the help of the New York Central railroad in renovating the space. + “The galleries,”” explained Mr. Clark, “are financed by approxi- mately . 150 influential American eltizens and are under the direc- tion of seven nationally known business executives. The idea is to operate this organization atno i profit to any one except the artist o R e e ] and yet to manage it on a busi- ness basis.” /Only living American artists may take membership in the galleries, and a selecting board tists nominates and votes n' the works to be exhibited. A sales -organization takes' care of the selling with a margin of profit to provide for the cost of upkeep. jThe 150 lay members contri- bute 3600 a year for three years, the 150 artist members con- te a work of art a year for three years. At the annual draw- 10g egch lay member s entitled 0. melect ome of the artists's con- gibutiens, and in many instances donors secure masterpieces hich would sell for well over 4000, Jn {ts promotion of American the organization sends ex- hibits to all parts of the country, anied by a salesman wéll wfid with a knowledge of art and medern artists. part of the effort to stimu- ‘ate popular jnterest in the work of, American artlsts of standing, _gallery instituted a pol- of" suggesting small artistic ges as trophies to be used ¢ad of the'silver loving cup 8. 50 long and so use- Been the symbol of victor (ETCHIKAN MARSHALS “{ WERE BUSY LAST WEEK KETCHIKAN MEN, * HERE FOR MEET First City Pinmen Arrive on Alameda with Wives and Caretakers The third team taking part in the Elks’ Bowling tournamen'’, which opened here this afternoon, arrived on the Alameda from Ketehikan last night. A schedule of fifteen games are to he played during this week. Seven mep, plus two wives, are in the party from the First City. Whiter J. Hitchcock, the live wirn of the bunch, who came north not only to bowl but to put the boys to bed early, is a married man (his wife is home) and is wiih the New England Fish Company. He was a member of thé Ketch'- kan team which bowled here twno years ago. James Burgan, team captain, is an old time Alaskan, and lived at Cordova for some time but isn't pulling for that part of the ter: ritory anymore. He is in the gro- cery business now, and incidental- ly has a wife in the First City. Feeling the need of keeping the bunch straight, Charles . Miller, members of the Ketchikan police force, was brought along as a member of the team. He is an- other of the married men who came here single. Bring Wives as Rooters Arthur Thompson and Peter Zurich decided they needed somg rooters to help them out so they brought their wives with thein. Thompson, according to Mr. Hitch- cock, is the trainer because, ing a barber, he is able to keep them in trim. Zurich was for- merly a Juneau man, and was R restaurant proprietor here for sev- eral years. He is now a capital. ist, having won a fortune on the Dempsey-Tunney fight and the ob- ject of his appearance here is to prohibit gambling among the players. Alfred Thibodeau, banker, ‘is the only single man in the party: (“poor unfortunate,” sighed Mr. Hitchcock, when asked if Mr. Thi- bodeau was mafried). g { Fred Chapman completes tie lineup of /the howlers from Ketcir ~|ikan, and he surc treats ‘em white meets in session before ‘of Ketchikan, Marshal White Collier plead guilty to ot the Alaska Bome Dry 'and was given a sentence of in the Ketchikan federal ' Jensen and B. Burton gullty to a charge of " at, Ketchikan lagt week. !ufldemmflte iven 60 days sentence mflhn Jail TNDIAN LAD ILL —_— his <. teammates declare—washes everything but the baby—he's in the laundry .busing NEW COMPANY - OR%JO i Naming a capital stock of $1- 000,000, articles of incorpofation of the Willlams Mining Company have heen filed in the office of the Secretary of Alaska.. The or- genization of the company is.for the development of ' the ' Charles Williams lode properties in Hawk Inlet, near Juneau. The mineral holding consists of 94 surveyel claims in one contiguous groap. and directors are: general manager; Joseph Currach, F. J. Wettrick, ‘Tegort * em oF ToE ST PETERSRURG AAR TAKEN P THE SEARCH .::'::-:EK BARNEN GOOGLE . EXALTED ANGORA, SHO HAS BEEM REPORTED SEEN 0 ¥ TEAT T\ P NEW s MEMBERS o=Te STATE OF KANSAS CHAPTER OF BiLLY Wit Gee ' s\enz TEN SR \ COME = ¢ I DoNT., NEN GOOGLE UNDERSTAND AT GET OUT OF HERE . MALICIOUS INTENT =WE MuST LET M, KNOW WE HAVE AN APOLOGY TO OFFER FOR T TREATMENT HE HAS RECE(VEOD = EACH AND EVERY ONB OF US MUST TAKE UP THE HonNT WITH REAEWED VIGOR = WE KNOW HE 1S HIDING HERE N THE JUNGLE WATCH CLOSELY FOR GOATS BAAAH -UERe NELSON MoODY aw CAE MILER RSN e \_20.000 000 STRONG, == CARY e, [ Charles Lindorff of Tacoma, com- pose the board of directors. Charles Williams is a pipneor mining man of the Territory, hav- ing first come to Alaska in 1891. He was in the Klondike for some | a fortune from 3 > has beea | the Hawk Inlet property several years and has already developed it on a small operating 3 Joseph McCurrach is a banker and at one time served as vice- president and treasurer of the Trust Company of North Ameri- ca, in New York City. F. J. Wettrick is a prominant Seattle attorney and is wsll known in Juneau, having lived here a number of years. John Lindorff was at one tim2 interested in mining in the Fair- banks country and is well known | in the interior. He is now inter-| ested in realty holMingy in T coma where he makes his home. Frank B. Wiestling, who makes his home in New York City most! of the time at present, is a plo-| neer attorney of Seattle. He was| one of the organizers of the New York-Alaska Gold Dredging Com-| pany, operating a dredger in Tnl- aksik district, Lower Kuskokwim country in Alaska. ) —,—— PORCUPINE DISTRICT MINING MEN HERE Carl Kuhl and John Stenbraten, who spent several weeks in the| south, returned yesterday on the| Alameda. Mr. Stenbraten ‘wi'l leava shortly for the Porcupine; district where he, Mr. Kuhl anlj gther associates are developing a quartz property. FaoT PRINTS (N ThE SAND — Weather Conditions As Recorded by the u. S Weather Bureau Forecast for Juncau and vicinity, beganing 4 v. m. today: Rain and colder tonight and winds decreasing. Tuesday; fresh southeasterly’ LOCAI DATA Time— 4 p. m, yest'y .29.20 42 4 a. m. today..29.54 42 Nocn today 29.51 41 Burom. Teme, Bumidity Wind Velocity Weathes Rain Rain Cldy 84 SE 12 89 S 6 B SR LAV P CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS Y Highest 3 p.m. Stations— temn. _temn. Nome ... -10 -10 Bethel WA & ) ~18 Fort Yukon . -2 Tanana s Eagle AAFEAR 14 St. Paul Dutch Harbor.. 26 Kodiak Cordova - 10 Junean . .. 42 Ketchikan ... 47 Prince Rupert. 50 BEdmonton 44 Seattle 58 Portland 50 San Francisco.. 56 Note.—Observations at Duich ODAY Low 8a.m. $am. Precly. 8am. temp. temp. Velocity 24 hra. Weather s 1 0 Pt. Clay -22 0 Clear ~18 0 Clear -8 0 Clear -8 Cldy 14 . Clear 22 —_ Snow BE o S Cldy 34 .28 Cldy 42 . Rain -— 2 42 Rain Rain Cldy Cldy Clear 10 Clear. *—Less than 10 mites. Harbor, Kodlak, Juneau, Princ Rupert, Edmonton, Seattle, Portland and San Francisco are made at 4 a. m. and 4 p. m,, Juneau time. The pressure remains low throughout Alaska with its lowest tates. The pressure is rising Alaska. Precipitation has been southward to Puget Sound. ern Alaska except the panhandle ing Sea coast. int south of Kodiak' and is high, but falling, in the Pacific plowly in Northern and Eastern general in Southern Alaska and| The temperature has fallen in East- and is again rising on the Ber- EXPERTS SEEK TO HALT RETREAT oo NEW YORK, Jan, 9—The might- iest mills of nature are grinding away Niagara’s Horseshoe Fall at the rate of about five, feet a year: /~ Man, troubled by ; the thought that some .day the.cata- ract ‘will lose its majesty through the relentless process, Is studying the problem of, controlling ero- slon, but so far he has not been able to solve it. The Horseshoe or Canadian Fall, which carries more than 95 per cent of the water, suffers far more from the wear than does its lesser neighbor on the American side. - Erosion of the latter has been estimated at only six inches annually, or the equivalent of or- dinary weathering. The Niag: Control Board, composed of Americans and Can- adians, ‘met tecently at Washing- ton to discuss plans for providing a more even distribution of the erosion on the Horseshoe Fall. A D ying ‘the experts’ conclusions and recommendations will be draftad (eventually, it 13 understood, although there is said to Be moiimmédiate prospect of its presentation. £ b . Nature/ oreated Niagara W a dashing stroke of genius back In the. ice. age, but.did not_give her handiwork ~ ample protection against its own power. Topped with_an 80-toot shelf of hard lime- stone over which the Niagara Riv- er easily glides, the fall suffe hecause .its umderlying :::u n? largely ‘soft shate sand- stones. vgeh are continually wear- ing away. 4 ‘The water, crashing over the eliff; is_comstantly. softening the shales. As great holes are eaten into these strata, the hard top layer is undermined, with the re- sult that huge fragments of this rock break from the brink of the OF NIAGARA’S HORSESHOE FALLS e T . The Horseshoe Falls at lu‘ln (above) are wearing away:at the rate of about five feet a year.. While the river bed is ml limestone, softer materials supporting it ,as shown in- sketch .at{of the Little River as a canal. to right, wear away. Geologists estimate’ that the falls have worn back geven miles since they were cated in_map (center). formed 25,000 years ago, as indi- Experts are seeking to halt the erosion.| a mortar, aiding in the disinte gration of the lower shales. Long, long ago—geologists ' s it may have been 25,000 years-- the. melting ice sheets of thz glacler retreated below the crest of the Nlagara escarpment, which marks the edge of the Lake On: tario basin. Several glacial lakes began._to discharge through a stream across the Hurem Plain into Lake Iroquoils, prehistoric au- cestor of Ontario, This river, now known Niagara, plunged over the escarpment and the cataract was born. Its Dirthplace, however, was seven miles from ifs present lo- cation. ‘While the ages trooped by, Niagara slowly retreated to- ward Lake: Erie, carving as it went the mighty gorge that at- tracts_ tourists. In 1842 New York State became interested fn the retreat and made a survey. At that time the lino of Horseshoe Fall was only slight- ly curved, but it has since worn away until a deep gorge has p- peared in the brink where the 1otk oo ke ponios I | 1to he Daala 168 that below. A iy o q‘ /v ¢ b, Sfiuluu Mosquito Discovered in France PARIS, Jan. 9. — Mosquitoes that don't sting are running out those that do, in the south of France. . A mnew race of the stingless varfety is being propagated, the Academy of Sciences was assur- ed roceflly by Professor Louis Eugene Bouvier who presentel the work of Dr. Legendre. This modern mosquito, kno; to his Latin-speaking scientifie friends as ‘“‘culex pupiens,” was found by Dr. Legendre in the northern part of France. For.two years he has cultivated them fin the Pons region, west of Mar- seilles, and they are replacing théir stinging brethren so ef- fectively that their is hope of an ‘l‘:avhun mosquitoes will be in good repute. —e——— MRS. LAFON ILL Mrs. W. Laton, nurse, is under- ‘medical treatment at the OH MY FOOT PRINTS JIM MITCHELL DEAD, DOUGLAS resident of Douglas, died here Sat- urday evening in his cabin from |a combination of heart and lung disease with which he had been afflicted during recent years. On Friday, Mitchell was feeling about as usual and made a trip around town: But during that evening he became quite ill again and suc. cumbed during a deep sleep into which he. had fallen. The deceased, who was among | the real old-timers of this vicini- ty, came to the Island in 1802. He | followed mining principally and did considerable prospecting. He located his first claims on thg, Island in 1896 and in 1906 he 1o | cated claims reported to be rich. in Eagle River. He was still! hopeful, up to the time of his | death, of making a sale of the la‘- ter claims.. During more recent years, he had spent the summers trolling. 3 He is survived by a sister, May- | garet Mitchell of Ayr, Ontarlo, and a niece, Mrs. Martin Coch- rane of Bright, Ontario, Canada. Funeral arrangements are being delayed until his relatives can b. heard from. LEAP YEAR ARTV’ Eight young people were ente.- tained at a leap year party last Saturday evening at the Hewitt home. During the earlier part o? the evening games were played. prizes going to Miss Mamie Feusl and Herbert McManus, and con- solations went to Miss Elizabeth Feusi and Clifford Anderson. Dain- ty refreshments were served fol- lowing the games and the remaln- der of the evening spent In sinz- ing and dancing. — e ,——— TEACHERS MOVE Supt. 0. E. Olson has taken an apartment in the Michelson home 1and Misses Helen Daily and Eva- lyn Manke have taken the Dav:s cottage which Mr. Olson vacated. —_—————— LAKES-GULFWATERWAY PRCPOSED IN INDIANA VINCENNES, Ind., Jan. 9.—To make the Wabash River famous for something more than a song, {Thomas H. Adams, wveteran In- diana editor, and a group of Vin- cennes men propose a new lakes- to-the-gulf waterway project. “The Indiana Plan of Rivel contemplates the dredging of a thannel in the Wabash River from the ‘point where it empties into the Ohio River to a site near lflunungton, Ind., then the use connect at Ft. Wayne with the Maumee River, which extends to Lake Erie at Toledo, Ohio. It alse, is suggested that the Wabash: be connected with Lake Michigan by a canal dug from Lake County (Gary) to a point near Delphi, Ind. .- /1, ; Adams says the engineers who consider the plan feasible esti- mate the prajéct would cpst $30,- 000,000. ' The editor and his as: soclates - presented their plan to the rivers and harbors congress and also conferred with the In- dians ation in Congress on jthe subfeet, . . . = BRANSCOMBE CONFINED C. ‘A. Branscombe, Federal em- ployee, is in the St. Ana’s hos ‘pital this week, having entere Nay for treatment, /- . TRaCK - - with each Electric Washing Mach ing the next TEN days a $15 Floor or Table Lamp This offer good for. Ten Washing Machine ; Sales for Ten Days Only 1 Beginning January 7 and ending Jan. 17, 1928 First Come—First Serbeci_ SuiinySuds; Easy and Whirl Dry Electric Washers Alaska Electric Ligfii & Power Co: Phone No. 6 8 FRESH SHIPMENT OF . 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