Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1948 — Page 8

Recalls Its Sinful Heyday Former Aloskan Metropolis Only a Shell, Barely Supports Its 500 Inhabitants

- By STEPHEN TRUMBULL, Times Foreign Correspondent SKAGWAY, Alaska, July 21—Like an old gadabout past his prime, this mountain-flanked little seaport lives today on the memories of its sinful youth. Half a century ago— when the gold rush was on — Skagway was a roaring, lawless, hell-raising town of 15,000. Today three cruise ships weekly stop here as a result. And because they do, ERaguiy il hap 3 population. of Reeded pipe are being shipped : ck out. !

kagway folk are friendly. is put y a good show for rf When the tourist ships come in, tourist meal ticket. But subtract the residents of this town throw the tourist and close up shops ca- a whale of a dance for the tourists at the Eagles Hall

tering to him — every other one Shooting of Dan McGrew” is realong the wooden sidewalks — | ~_...;".¢ the highlight of these

and the town would be in a sorry shape indeed. {high jinks. The din is terrific.

Also Soapy Smith, the town’s te ulus Ray nll roy f8VOrite’ Dadman of the past, is here, that of the White oy &| brought back from the grave and Yukon Railroad, There's some(shot all over again. In death, outgoing cargo business, mostly Soapy brings the town quite a

high-grade silver ore, mined away jiit1e of the revenue he took away over in the Mayo area and taken som it in life, It costs 25 cents

to a smelter in Kellogg, Idaho. to go into the saldon he operated. There's also one other non-ithe museum containing his origi-

ay, Gold Rush Town,

ard Oil tank farm, which pumps|sther two-bits. fuel oil to White Horse .for the copyright. 1948. by The Indianapolis Times railroad. and The Chicago Daily News, Ine,

From White Horse, the Army po pumps some of the oil on another $55,000 Gems Stolen COVE NECK, N. YY, July 21

spur of the line leading along the Alaska Highway to Fairbanks. py _ Mrs, Muriel Lawrence The White She chigery time | GTenoUZh reported today the Por Da on wartime sp. of jewels valued at $55,000 pro‘e from her Cove Neck mansion.

Bkagway enjoyed a boom that disappeared from her jewel cage almost equaled the gold rush days. last night while she was dining There were about 11,000 military out. She said the theft included and civilian construction workers|diamond rings, earrings, and here then, Now, trainloads of un- necklaces.

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under a hot shower that wasn’t warm water. Now hot wrsater is

hot or tried to shave with lukea fine and wonderful thing but in

many homes there never seems to be quite enough of it on hand, and if there were it wrwld cost téo much. Now, one way to solve

both these problems is to install a tempering tank to pre-heat the cold water.

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articles can be prevented from tarnishing. One method is to give the article a coat of wax after it has been brought to a high polish.

because the warmer you get the |water in this tank the less gas or electricity will be required to bring it up to 140 degrees F. One thing you won’t want to do is two insulate this tempering tank because this would spoil everything {and the water inside would refmain at about the same tempera{ture it was when it came in.

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water sipply and tht hot wateriof a major appliance—say a new

heating’ tank, Icy cold water from t'he city main or the well flows into this tempe tank

and t/aen it just sits. As it sits it gets ‘warm because the basement

is, ov should be, warmer than the botf;om of a reservoir or a well. When any hot water is drawn out of the hot water tank, the yvarm water at the top of the

When this pipe first came in,|Mrs. Grenough said the jewelpd

‘tempering tank goes in to take its place. Actually it's a very simple system and can be installed at small cost, A There is a decided advantage in placing the tempering tank in

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Nothing will put an electrical appliance out of whack quicker than to be tossed on the floor, sink, or someone’s head. This will break the delicate heating element and there won’t be any heat. Another good way to ruin an appli-| ance is to dump it in a sink of water so that the electrical ele-| ment gets wet. Water down in here will soak into the insulation and maybe cause a short circuit and things like that. There are still a lot of people who like to disconnect an appliance by giving the appliance plug a hard yank. This trick causes pretty sparks to fly around the contact prongs of the appliance and these little sparks can, in time, pit the metal prongs so that you can't get a good electrical contact. The-way to get around this is to pull out the wall plug first and then remove the appliance plug. An even better trick is to have a switch installed on the cord so that current to the appliance can be turned off before the plug is removed.

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