Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-19
4 REPORTER ENLTG HTENED.
The Falsehoods of a Stupid bolt Retuted.
MISSION CREEK, Pine Co., Mimi,


MISSION CREEK, Pine Co., Mimi,
Feb. Is, 1888.
To the Editor of the Globe:
You will confer a favor by allowing
space in your valuable daily for the fol-
lowing:
Observing in yesterdays edition of the
Z. +. an article on smallpox, written (if
the writer of it is to be believed p at the
affected district, would ask him where he
got such valuable information. Was it
obtained from outsiders and written up in
a saloon?
Judging from his manner of handling
the subject of lumbermen, etc, opine he
is supe, chartered for the occasion, or a
gross misrepresenter.
In to-day's issue of the P. p, find his
Information wherever obtained) on one
point was false, as the work on
the government dam is not suspended.
My thanks to the gentleman who
made the correction, and I think 1 can
show him (the reporter) the falsity of
most of his statements. AS far as the
'disease" is concerned I know nothing,
not having come in contact with any one
from the districs SO affected so accept his
account as correct, but I cannot pass his
vituperation of camps and lumbermen.
He says sit ia not difficult to assign rea-
sons for the outbreak of the disease and
attributes it to the squalor and filth that
abounds almond lumbermen, etc. He, the
reporter, was never more mistaken in his
life. The writer lives in a camp 30x26 feet,
which is kept thoroughly clean, we'll venti-
lated, and where at meal time he sits do WI
10 hot he 70
beat in good hotel.
AS to the men-they change once week
and have most of their washing done at
Mission Greek. Those who do not, do
their own cleaning on Sundays, for which
every requisite facility is provided, and it
is no exceptional sight to see men shave
and wash themselves thoroughly once or
twice week. I can also assure our mis-
taken friend, 1 never in the course of my
experience lover nine years. in camps
saw clothing put on in the fall and not re-
moved till worn out, and as to his insult of
being ''crumby, etc." let him leave lumber
camps and go to any public work, railroad
camp or even mill boarding house, in his
own city and he will find more ''jiggers
and crumbs" than at present infest the
numbering operations of W. G. Sargent.
He also AYERS that ''the majority of the
lumbermen are the lowest specimens of
humanity" Well might the poet exclaim
mans inhumaity to man, etc. etc. if such
specimens of humanity are allowed to
roam around loose in such an exemplary
city as st. Paul spreading statements of
this kind. There are mon in this camp
who know more in one day than our would
be scribe. does ia one month, and still choose
to work in the pine woods, driver and
rafting instead of occupying situations
like his where the remuneration is not
enough to keep one of those he reviles, in
spending money.
If this passes under the optics of that
exemplary reporter, let him be kind
enough to sign his name as do, own his
mistake and not publish his
ignorance of numbering by talking
of supply wagons" with four feet of snow
under foot He cannot expect
that in the woods we can lumber out of a
hotel, but I can assure our P. P. reporter
that the camp of G. W. Nelson, Esq, of
Saltwater, operated by W. G. Sargent, Esq,
of Duluth, is provided for (both man and
BEAST equal to any first class boarding
house in your city. If our friend, the re-
porter, will accept W. G. Sargent's invita-
ton to pay us visit, will answer for it
that his ideas of camps and numbering will
undergo complete revolution.
JAMES ALEXANDER.