The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19

facturer has monopoly in his line.
The stores are large and well stocked.
and there are many of them The legal
profession is represented by men who
would be a credit and an honor to it in
any city OF the world, and there seems
to be no opening in either medical or,
dental professions. for more genial.
kindly and able physicians. surgeons
and dentists it has never been the ex-
perienee of the writer to find any
where. As for the clergy, there are six
men of the cloth who make Skagway
nest and able workers. Six churches
stand as evidence of that glory of the
American people-the love of religion
and regard for the highest influences
on earth, and strange though ii may
seem, these churches are compare
lively free from debt. The writer at
tended the Presbyterian church on the
Skagway. and was surprised at the
size and high character of the congre-
An Energetic Corporation.
cation. The evening before leaving
Skagway the Baptist church was Wis
tied; musical entertainment was the
attraction, and surprise was again ex-
perienced, not only at the large and
brilliant audience, but the beauty of
the building inside and out. Such an
edifice would be credit to a city of
25,oo0 inhabitants. while Skagway has
only 5000, if. indeed, that is not an
over estimate, while ii is even more
surprising that such a building should
be erected. owing to the fact that the
Baptists of Skagway number only
fourteen. exclusive of the pastor and
his family. They deserve much honor
for undertaking to put up such a fine
house OF worship, and carrying out the
project so successfully. The towns
people helped TO erect and pay for it,
as they help to pay for everything, and
they are the kind of people that make
a town grow and worth living in. The !
houses in Skagway are, for the greater
part small, for they were built in a |
hurry and at times when material was |
not only very high and labor higher, |
but almost impossible to obtain at all, 1
but larger and more pretentious resi-
dences are being erected constantly. !
Large or small, they are homes. and /
the people living in them are real
home makers. 1t seems Incredible. but i
very few houses in that far-away town
are without the most refining inffu- j
ences OF home. lifetime furnishings, !
pianos, books, pict uFes+-and this is thef
more to be wondered at when it is con-
sidered that every single article had to i
be taken thousand Males by steamer
by rail before the, waters of the Pacific.
Columbia river or Puget sound We're
reached. A-queer place for men to take
their wives and children one would
think, at first. but it is these women
that have refined and softened Skag-
way, and right nobly have they done it.
II is hard on them, perhaps. to have to
live without many OF the pleasures of
city life. Theatres there are none-fori
them. Theatres there are in Skagway,,
but men only are admitted: for time
there were ladies nights but they
were discontinued some time ago. One
Of the drawbacks to life in Skagway is
the lack of educational facilities. there
being no schools, but this trouble will
past history" for a fine building is
being erected. to be known as Bishop
McCabe college. and we'll known and
educators from different
sections of the United States have been
called and have accepted the
summons There are two hos
pitfalls, ably conducted, with wor-
thy matrons, trained nurses and
sszillful surgeons in each.
Newspapers Thrive. /
Three newspapers are published in
daily, the other weekly.
1t would seem impossible that in a
town without Geographic communica-
ion with the states, and with mail
rom them only every five DAYS, even
me daily paper could live, but morning
and evening carriers are met or seen
going their rounds, and boys heard
.rying, Alaskan" and Budget" The
)apers contain four pages each and,
ike many of the papers in larger cities,
good many advertisements, but very
title news. They cost 10 cents a copy,
md are fairly well edited and bright.
the deartb of material. A
ew examples of news items and adyer-