The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-13
LIFE IN sKAGUAY.
A Hotel That Has Cleared 100000 I'm
Ten Months.
From the Milwaukee sentinel.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
L. N. Lowell formerly OF Milwaukee,
started for Alaska a year ago this spring,
and reached Skaguay about the beginning
of July last, He had had experience as
a hotel and restaurant man, and conclud-
ed instead Of going 10 Dawson City, as he
had started out to do, to stop at Skaguay
and open a hotel. He struck a bonanza
His wife, who accompanied him, writes to
her sister, Mrs. Frederick Puhler of this
city under date of April g. as follows:
Il never felt so lonesome In my life, and
] never worked so hard in my life, but L
never was so happy In my life. The mon
ey comes in so fast we actually don't know
what TO do with it. 1t is a little better
now since a bank has opened we can trust
to put In our money, but before that / was
In constant terror We had gold money,
paper money, silver money and gold dust
hidden In every nook and corner of the
house. Loren tore up a plank from the
Kitchen floor, and we had over S, 900 in all
kinds of money hidden there. 1t was an
awful anxiety to have the stuff laying
around like that, and 1t worried us more
than the hard work we were doing. The
place was full of people, dead broke and
hungry, and they would cut ones throat
for dollar. We got a chance In Deem
Der TO send over 5000 to Seattle, and we
felt awfully relieved when we got the no.
tice of credit from the bank You don't
know who to trust here. 1 hardly trust
myself and / keep an eve on Loren. / can
tell you. Everybody is on the make, and
you'd get done out Of your eyeteeth IL you
didn't watcn out.
THE transportation companies think
they run things, but they are thieves and
swindlers and liars, every one of them.
They are getting thousands Of people to
come to this awful country who will never
get home. Their charges are awful Lo-
rem bought nifty tons of flooring in Seat
tie. It was over a month getting here,
and some of 1t was damaged getting it
ashore. But we have no kick coming We
paid So a barrel for the flour I'm Seattle; IL
cost Sc barrel 10 ship 1t, and Loren sold
1t for $425 a barrel before ii left the dock.
] managed to get half a barrel that had
been broken open, and / am glad the stuff
IS gone-it wouldn't even make doughnuts
or pancakes.
I'VE are just everlastingtly fixed here to
make money. l have heard of bonanzas.
but / never dreamed we would strike one
We have got the bon ton restaurant and
hotel in the place. II would not be much
for Milwaukee, but it's the thing here.
] send you an outside and inside view by
this mail. We keep things neat and clean.
and my cooking is something like the 0eo-
pie got in Gods country. We have six
tables IN the restaurant that will hold
six people each, and there is not a vacant
seat from s o'clock in the morning until
y o'clock at night. Then we have a
lunch counter in the rear that is kept
running all night. Lunches run from 50
cents up and meals from 81 up. For
good square meal, with two kinds of meat,
potatoes, canned corn or tomatoes, beans
bread pie or pudding and coffee or tea,
we charge 81 now. but two months ago
we got 81. so or 81. There has been money
In il, but there is a good deal of compe-
tition now and prices are coming down.
"You ought to see the people that come
In here 70 eat. Most of them are nice
strong, healthy young fellows, as polite
and nice as IL they were at home. But
there are buns and 'toughs and gam
blers-the looks OF chem make me shiver.
The gamblers thought they could run the
town but they got left They are as meek
as lambs now. But the womenl oh dearl
oh. dear l pity them from the bottom
of my heart. They don't get their break
fast until / or 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
They come in punches OF four or five or
more, and they get the best we have.
wait on them myself lots Of times, and