The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 7, 1930, Page 4

matter Delivered by carrier in Juneau, T ALASKA CIRC to develop one or District it meant a great deal. Mr. with the conservatism and restraint that is char- | acteristic of mose great mining men. a pronounced hope Chamber of Commerce it is based upon a lot more the old | father of the thought. | Mr. Bradley bases His hopes upon ascertained facts | and the reasonable deductions of a trained mind than rule about of the world. due to the Alaska Juneau. ground for basing large hopes on Chichagof Island | and other developments under way and proposed latest book, is one of the best she has done. not at sll surprising that it is winning favor among It preserves the romance that its name | implies, and the narrative and descriptive features are authentic and do little or no violence to history. One of the best reviews of the book appears in the current New York Times, which gives it a half page with Book Review. the critics. Daily A l(_tska E m})iré d_every eve except Sunday by PRINTING COMPANY at neau, Alaska n the Post Office in J Second and Ma JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANAGER SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Douglas, hane for $1.25 per month. ASSOCIATED PRESS. s exclusivel news dispat in this paper and also JARANTEED TO BE LARG UBLICATION. THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PL entitled to t ches credited t the | ER | HOPE BASED UPON ASCERTAINED FACTS. ‘When Mr. more real mines in the such as he expressed to t guess work and it is not due to the wish being the If Mr. Bradley’s company can develop one And there is a lot The outlook for Juneau is very promising several fields. BARRETT WILLOUGHBY'S LATEST BOOK. “gitka: Portal to Romance,” two large illustrations in the The article says: As one glances at the title of the book under review—“Sitka: Portal to Romance” —one cannot help feeling a bit mistrust- ful and skeptical. Indeed, Sitka’s name hardly ever appears in the newspapers. It is conspicuous neither for international conferences nor for sensational divorce cases. Hidden, with the gloomy picturesqueness of jts bay fringed by mountains and with its one thousand-odd inhabitants, in the South- eastern corner of Alaska, it lives, between long Arctic Winters and short Summers, the monotonous and uneventful life of all such hopelessly Northern fishermen’s and timber merchants' settlements. Where, then, does the “portal to romance” come in? Yet Miss Barrett Willoughby, the author of the book, fully succeeds in vindicating this title. Monotonous as Sitka's present may be, its past was interesting. Founded in 1709, it was Russia’s first stronghold in Alaska, from which the conquest of the whole country, then known as Russian America, proceeded. + Miss Willoughby's book is not only a book of travel. She does describe her trip to Sitka and her impressions of it, but her chief purpose is to resuscitate Sitka’s Rus- slan past. The tenacity and heroism with which a handful of Russian colonizers, gath- ered in Sitka, withstood the pressure of the then bellicose Thlinget Indians (once the little city was taken and burned by them); the heterogeneous and colorful crowd of imperial Russian officers, sturdy colonizers and international adventurers and scoundrels who passed through it; finally, the golden age of Sitk's brilliant economic development —such are the things which interest Miss Willoughby most. In her simple, unstrained, lively narrative visual impressions blend and contrast with these shadows of the past in a colorful picture. Moreover, she has a real gift for calling back to life the romance of the bygone days without sinning against history, without losing that peculiar Russian flavor which characterized Alaska of the early nineteenth century. Miss Willoughby devotes much space to Alexander Andreyevich Baranov,.orfe of Al- aska's earliest Governors (or, rather, Presi- dents of the Russian-American Fur Com- pany, for it is to this company that the Imperial Government leased out the exploi- tation and administration of the country). Indeed, in the course of twenty-seven years (1790-1817) during which he held this post, this modest merchant, subsequently en- nobled, proved to be a genuine statesmen. The diffjculties under which he labored in the new setlement are almost indescribable. Not only that he was constantly threatened by the Thlingets; not ouly that he was threatened, too, by the mutiny of his rough- neck soldiers, recruited chiefly among the criminals exported from Siberia, the Aleuts, &ec.; what was still worse, perhaps, the non- arrival of a ship from Russia often would doom him and his companions to hunger, cold and dire misery for the span of seven or eight long Winter months. But this little man with the character of a benevolent autocrat and with the iron hand of a real ruler overcame all difficulties. With a hand- ful of men, he could cross the rough sea in skin canoes and attack hundreds of In- dians; he “could drink under the table any captain of the Seven Seas who visited him,” and he could show wonders of diplomacy, Bradley said that his company hopes | Taku Bradley speaks | When he has | he or of | in Times two mines in the Taku and the United Eustern\ and other companies do as well or nearly so. Juneauis certain to become one of the greatest mining cenlers It already is a great mining center Barrett Willoughby's | Wa 1t 15! tio fishing camp. in syl gu Wi at be gas keeps going up they'll have to be, or walk— |Chinese tongs with guns and the relief of front pages what Congress may do. course press his bill—which he has held up await- ing the ocurt’s ruling—to make the buyer “manu- That would no doubt close the loophole in this vulnerable statute. But will there be unanimity in the “dry” ranks —which hitherto there has not been—as to this amendment of the once supposedly perfect statute? such as facture” there as been about make the law any more popular in the country expense bill. in handling na- end, won for tfulness and Kkindlines: es—a thing which, in the himp their deep respect. When the most difficult years passed, he surrounded himself “with all the pomp and luxury befitting a Governor.” An eyewit- ness, Miss Willoughby, tells us, describes as follows' the “palace” (a large two-story wooden building) in which he lived: The furniture and finishing were of the finest workmanship and very costly having been brought from St. Peters- burg and England. But what astonished me most was the large library (2,600 volumes) in nearly all the European lan- guages, and the collection of fine paint- ings—this in a country where probably only Baranov can appreciate a picture, and no travelers are apt to call except skippers of American trading vessels And thus, in the midst of northern wilderness and snows, there apeared a min- iature copy of St. Petersburg, of a court with pompous, dignified b: music, ban- quets, light of hundreds of candles. * * * It is, Miss Willoughby tells us, thanks to Baranov's business genius, that Sitka lived through its golden age. For, indeed, there was a period when it was by far the most important city on North Amer- ica's western shore. When San Francisco Miss Wil- loughby writes] was little more than an adobe mission, the foundries of Sitka were casting bells with which Spanish padres later woke the echoes in * s California * * When Chicago was but an Indian camp, the Russian colonizers at Sitka were building ships for com- merce, casting cannon, making nautical instruments and weaving clothes. In those days, this northern town was the port of call for vessels from all parts of the world, and famous among traders and adventurers for its generous hos- pitality. Equally interesting are the passages of the book devoted to the description of the traces of Russian influence surviving in the Sitka of our days. For these traces are numerous—there stil is a Russian cathedral and a few other Russian buildings there; there are Russian families partly inter- married with Indians and Americans. In- teresting, too, are Miss Willoughby's descrip- tions of the Thlingets of today. They are Christians, but at moments they still wor- ship their old wooden gods: they speak English, but what English! And here is an interesting detail about the Eskimo: In some of their remote communities there still lives an unwritlen law permitting a wife suspecting her husband of infidelity to come up to him and promptly to bite off his nose! The operation is highly prac- tical—it both announces to the world his unfaithfulness and disfigures him so that no other woman will want him. What charm- ing patriarchal wisdom! One can imagine that Mrs. Foover yould ecnjoy {herself more and speed up her recovery by leaving its quarrelling Congressional fac- ashington with ns and spending her time at the Shenand ‘The Chicago gangsters took a day off and hatchets rushed The Innocent Purchaser. (Boston News Bureau.) | For something that was supposedly settled def- initely and permanently more than a decade ago,— legal form so perfect that it must never ‘quesnoned as to the letter, and in substance so sacrosanct that it must never be disputed as to spirit, else one incurred the suspicion of bad citi- zenship—Prohibition appears more unanswered riddle. Its vehement defenders,—who relish debate much more than they do referenda—invariably seek {to scorn down virtuously or to ignore naively any disquieting evidences of growing popular disaffec-, tion with the “dry” law. For example, their inter- IN AUTOS pretations of the Literary Digest poll, of the Penn- But a flat-footed and unani- mous decision by the Supreme Court, whose rulings hitherto have so well satisfied their desires, cannot be either scorned or ignored when it points out vania primary, ete. fendant wasn't in that -category. He frankly pur- chased to procure a beverage. are simply unconidtionally” forbidding phrases of Article 3. And he and his not covered in the “absolutely Senator Sheppard, amendment co-author, maintained that Section 6 did hit such beverage-! buyers. rather hesitatingly, in its prosecution. Now the court completely demolishes that thesis. cutions are sought, there is a hopelessly wide loop- hole in the law as it stands. The court, after pointing out that long berorc the amendment it whs the practice in absence of | a statutory ban to hold the liquor-buyer innocent | (perhaps so as to leave him free to testify against | the seller), the Executive Department has so law, goes on to this significanct assumption: Tha'. Congress “designedly omitted to impose upon The Government advanced that and prior to saying that for 10 yi construed purchaser . . . . any criminal lability.” That is a characterization of what Congress has done. Doubtless also it is a challenge as to Senator Sheppard wil ilty by inserting between and “sell.” “purchase” ill there be more diversity of opinion, “home brew?” Will it large? They are trying to throw Wisconsin's plumber Governor out for running up too big a primary May be he charged for going back after his tools.—(Dallas News.) It is probably just as pleasing to Republican leaders that there is no national fall.—(Cincinnati Enquirer.) Ohio safety body wants every motor driver to “financially responsible,” and if the price (Cincinnati Engquirer.) to become an ever claim. | If such prose- | election next S ATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1930. NOTICE OF REPORT IN TONY GA port !4th, 1930, at lall pe {appear and show cause, if any they have, why sal not str 'First publicat jLa Wednesd Wednesd the Matter of | ce is hereby given that thel | undersigned has filed his final re-| | and acc tration of the above entitled estate, ¥® being be approved, me and place the court will who the heirs of said estate they are entitled publication, ROLLER |+ RINK Sunday Evenings Roller Skating at A. Sunday Evenings HEARING FINAL! NN S~ AND 7N i > 3 ’ axp account [ PROFESSIONAL | Court for' g> Commissioner’s Precinct, Territory of T aska. Division Number One, || | Helene W.L. Albrecht the Estate of| | RDO, Deceased. ount in the adminis-| PHYSIOTHERAPY Massage, Electricity, Infra Red Rev, Medical Gymnastics, 410 Goldstein Bullding Phone Office, 216 AUTOS FOR HIRE oF ~ Gastincau Channel { Sy— g ]” Fraternal Societies | Ia a hearing will be had ., ERETAS |tnereon in the office of the Pro- || DRS. 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Evenings by :00,to 8:30 Current Magazines, Newspapers, Reference, FREE TO ALL [ one kind of Volstead Act prosecution that won't HARRIS H stand the test. G ARB AGE ardware The high court frees a Bostonian who'd bought - Company from a bootlegger. It does so because the “dry” HA ULED law, as is, does not hit the purchaser. That law .Now located next does mention the buyer in a restricted sense in its AND LOT CLEANING article 6; that, however, applies only to cases of E. O. DAVIS CONNORS authorized use, as to which “no one shall pur- Phone 584 GARAGE chase” without first getting a permit, But this de- —= | Northern Lite TAX] 50c¢ TO ANY PART OF CITY Two Buick Sedans at Your , Service. Careful and Efficient Drivers. Phone ( | Prrrrrrr e 1199Taxa t S0c TO ANY PART OF CITY Phone | 199 Gastinean Hote) %’ EVANS L." GRUBER, Master; CHARLES E. NAGHEL, Secretary. R T ORDER OF EASTERN STAR Second and Fourth 4 Tuesdays of each month, at 8 o'clock, Beottish Rite Temple. LILY |BURFORD, Worthy Matron; FANNY L. ROBINSON, Secretary. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Seghers Counc.. No. 1760 Meetings second and last Monday at 7:30 p. m. | Transient brothers urg- ed to attend. Council { Chambers, Fifth Strees. JOHN F. MULLEN, G, K. H. J. TURNER, Secretary. DOUCLAS AfRIE 117 F. O. E. Meets first and third &Monday& & o'clock at Eagles Hall FIRE ALARM CALLS Thzd and Franklin. Front and Franklin. Front, near Ferry Way. Front, opp. Gross Apts Front, opp. City Whart. Front, near Saw Mill. Front at A. J. Office. Willoughby at Totem Gro. 1-3 1-4 1-5 1-6 1-7 1-8 1-9 2-1 2-3 Barn. 4 Front and Seward. POSUUTUUS S Prompt Service, Day and Night CovicH AuTO SERVICE STAND AT THE OLYMPIC Phone 342 Day or Night 50c AnyWhere in City 5 Front and Main, 6 Second and Main. Fifth and Seward. 9 Fire Hall. 2 Gastineau and Rawn Way. 4 Second and Gold. Fourth and Harms. Fifth and Gold. Fifth and East. 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