The Seward gateway., October 07, 1915, Image 2

About The Seward gateway. (Seward, Alaska) 1914-1917

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SEWARD, ALASKA, THl'KSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1915.
Next year when Seward is booming and when other towns along the
right of way of the government railroad all the way to the Matanuska coal
fields are also booming, and when trains are running through them what a
change will be observable in the life of Alaska. It will be possible then to
leave one tow n and a few hours later to land at another town and take a bus
to a hotel, all same God’s country. And we’ll bo down at the depot to see old
friends coming in from other parts of Alaska, and we’ll be one day at the
depot and hear the conductor shout “All aboard for Fairbanks, Matanuska,
Anchorage Broad Pass City, Mount McKinley,” and we'll hear the whistle
of the locomotive as she heads in at full speed around Porcupine City, and
automobiles will stand around and their drivers will holler “Hotel, sir. Over
land. The Seward. First class hotel, sir” and a little to the rear someone
will make the welkin ring with his “two bits, six bits and a dollar,” and
through the streets the jitneys will race, and down near the water’s edge big
gangs will be loading freight ears from great warehouses, and along the bluff
west of town coal trains will rattle and rumble out to the coaling station
bunkers at Naval Point, and on Sundays excursion trains will run out and run
in, and—wake up!
But all joking aside, such a day will come. It will come not in a year,
and maybe not in two years, but it will come just as sure as tomorrow’s sun.
Even with the joining up of Anchorage and Seward the whole aspect of life
in this district will undergo alteration and it will be a different Seward alto
gether. If we could only look into the future three short years we could see,
perhaps, that the above is not such u dream after all.
SOMETHING NEW!! La France
laundry tablets. Saves the garments,
half the work and all the worry.
Five cents per package.
Brown & Hawkins. “Quality First.”
The Home Bakery. Everything in
the bakery line. Also cream-puffs
with genuine whipped cream. 10-2-1
Come in and look over our new and
complete stock of men's winter wear
ing apparel.
Brown & Hawkins. “Quality First."
The Seward Gateway, published
daily and weekly, is the only estab
lished publication of this kind in the
district included in government plans.
Good Old Time Eating
PATTEN S BOARDING HOUSE, FIFTH ST.
Good Old Time Boarding, per day.... $1.00
Separate Meals .35 to .75
Special Sunday Dinner.75
MRS. THODAV The Old Time favorite CATERER
Legal Blanks and Location Notices at Gateway
Wanted!!
Men to inspect our line of furnishings. Everything
for the man in or out of doors.
A suit? Come in and have a look at the finest line
of Fall samples exhibited in Seward. Let us take
your measure for that suit NOW.
"Schoenbrun and Company stands for satisfaction.
Dress and work shoes.
Shoe packs and rubber boots.
Kenyon rain coats and mackinaws.
Famous Filson Stag Shirts.
Dress shirts and popular neckwear.
Wool shirts and sox.
Suit cases, grips and travelling bags.
Wool blankets and quilts.
Everything for men.
Whether you stay in town or go to the hills, you
need clothes, and of course you.want good clothes.
We’ve got 'em. That’s why we want you to inspect
our line.
THE MINER’S STORE
FRANK J. COTTER, Manager
Phone Adams 131 “Don’t Forget the Parcel Post" Seward, Alaska
CHAMP CLARK
SAVES NEGRO;
WITH WIFE OF SHERIFF HE
PREVENTS LYNCHING
BY A MOB.
BOWLING GREEN, Mo., Oct. 6.— |
For the second time in a month the
wife of Sheriff Hawkins of this place
has prevented a lynching and saved a
negro’s life. The prisoner was held
for murder and the crowd came to the
jail ready for business. Mrs. Hawk*
ins, as in the former case, went in |
front of the mob and partly with I
threats and partly by persuasion she j
tried to stop them. Then occurred an
incident that will make the attempted
lynching historic. Champ Clark,
I speaker of the house of representa- j
I tives and at one time a likely candi
date for the presidency, came up with j
Senator Bennett and took a hand to
save the negro’s life. The help of Mr. j
C'ark brought victory to Mrs. j
Hawkins.
SPALDING SUES MOTHER.
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 6.—Keith Spald
ing has brought suit against his step
mother for the recovery of the estate
1 worth two millions. He alleges that j
his father was insane and was under*
the influence of the second wife.
WILLARD IS READY
TO FIGHT IN MARCH
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 6.—Jess
Willard has announced that he is
ready to tight twenty rounds with any j
: man next March. Arrangements are j
! being made to bring off a bout at New
Orleans in March and the opponent or
opponents of Williard will be selected
by the sporting writers.
SEATTLE MAN WINS
WINNIPEG, Oct. 6.—Johnny
O’Leary, the Seattle candidate for the
light weight championship won from
Danny Whelan in a round and a half
here last night. Whelan has been re
garded a strong aspirant for champ
ionship honors so that O’Leary’s
victory places him well up in the list
of probables.
CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Sunday: Masses at 8:30 and 10:30
| a. m. Sunday school after Mass,
j Rosary, Instruction and Benediction,
i 7:30 p. m. Weekdays: Mass at 8
a. m. «
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Coming Features in October Number:
Richard son-Wickersham Controversy
Stories of Discoveries in Alaska
The Discovery of Chisana
The Discovery of Nelehina
The Discovery of Nome
Alaska Gold Mines
By Eminent Engineers
Rise and Fall of Alaska's Home Railroad
Personal News from Every District
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Seward, Alaska
The Seward Light and Power Co.
Dynamo Room Showing 230 K. W. Alternator
Another View of Interior Showing Pelton Water Wheel, Exciter and Auxiliary Generator
STORY OF
FOUNDATION
OF SEWARD
(From The All*Alaska Review.)
(By Frank J. Cotter)
(The following story of the founda
tion of Seward has been written by
Mr. Cotter for the All-Alaska Review,
but as many people in the district are
not subcribers for the Review the
story is published in the Gateway so
that the history of the Terminal City
will be pjaced in the hands of as
many people as possible. It will be
something to have and to hold. As
, the All-Alaska Review is intended
| for the whole territory the publica
i tion of its contents in the Gateway
beforehand, while it may lessen local
interest in the Review', will not have
I the result, it is hoped, of causing the
people of this section to regard the
monthly's contents as stale.)
Seward, the ocean terminal of the
Government built railway in Alaska,
is situated at the head of Resurrec
tion Bay on the south side of the
Kenai Peninsula.
At the present time it is probably
the most talked of town in Alaska on
account of the general activity caus
{ ed by the railroad construction, and
, the fact that after the most careful
investigation on the part of the
United States Government, it has
been chosen ds the salt water termin
al of the first Coast to Yukon rail
road. In selecting Resurrection Bay,
the Government engineers have simp
ly confirmed the reports of govern
ment and private engineers, since the
days when the Czar had officers
' studying the coast of Alaska search
ing for the most favorable location
; for future cities. In the seventeenth
century, Russian officers landed in
! Resurrection Bay, and christened it
Wasscasinski Bay or, as lterally tran
slated, Sunday Bay. These officials
1 wintered just below what is now
i know n as Lowell Point and founded
j a ship yard, where a number of small
ships were built. Later on, on ac
count of the sea otter ami seal fish
ing, they moved to St. Paul or Kodiak,
on Kodiak Island, but Wasscasinski
Bay w*as their headquarters and start
ing point for trips into the Interior.
The first white settler to land amt
start a home on what is now the town
site of Seward was Frank Lowell, a
trader who built a home and moved
his family over from Kodiak in the
spring of 1884. The Low'ells lived at
i the head of Resurrection Bay or Low -
ell Bay as it was commonly called un
til after the founding of the present
; town of Sew'ard, some of the des
i cendants are still residents and prop
erty owners in Seward.
The first steamer to enter Resur
rection Bay was the steamer Dora in
the spring of 1896. At this time the
Dora was on the run from Sitka to
i ,
Dutch Harbor.
In the month of June 1902, the
; first survey party looking for a route
to the Interior landed at the head of
Resurrection Bay and began to map
out a route to the Interior of Alaska
• for the then newly organized Alaska
, Central Railroad Company. The party
1 under the command of Engnieer Jack
Scurry located ami surveyed the line
from Resurrection Bay to the head of
Turnagain Arm, and in the fall of
' 1902, after a consultation of the heads
of the various locating parties in the
field, Resurrection Bay was chosen as
the Ocean Terminal of the Alaska
Central.
In July of the following year, 1903,
the present townsite was surveyed by
Frank L. Ballaine and as soon as the
plat of the tow'nsite was completed,
the tow'n was chritened Seward in
, honor of William H. Sew'ard, the man
i w’ho was chiefly responsible for the
purchase of Alaska from the Rus
sians. *r
On August 28th, 1903, the first con
struction crew' was landed from the
steamer Santa Ana, and immediately
began the construction of a wharf, at
the foot of Fourth Ave., and in April
1904 the first actual railway con
struction was started under the super
vision of Chief Engineer A. W.
Swanitz. Work was rushed and by
Fall the railroad had been completed
as far as Mile 20, and as fast as pos
sible the line was finished as far as
Mile 71, when owing to the withdraw
ing of the Matanuska Coal lands by
the government, the construction
work was stopped at that point and
has never been resumed until the rail
road was taken over by the govern
ment this past summer.
During railroad construction days
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