The Republican journal., 1899-01-19
Good Times on the klondlke.

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Vi the ngures on wages and the cost of
living at Dawson City are presented in
the following
One restaurant kept open almost con
tlnuously during the winter. with the fol-
loving Dill of fare tackled on the wall:
bowl OF soup, 81; mush and milk, 81. Is;
dish OF canned corn, 81. %; dish of canned
tomatoes, -; stewed fruit, ST. %; slice of
pie, 70 cents; doughnuts, pie on sand
wlch, with coffee or tea, 81. rs: beans.
coffee and bread, 81; plain steak. 50 50;
porterhouse steak, So After small
boats began to arrive in May restaurants
were opened on every hand and GU June
2Oth seventeen We're running in Dawson.
the charge OF regular meal being 81. 50.
Meals consisted of bread and butter. cot
Zee, soup, fish, small moose steak or
stew, a potato, eggs on toast, 81; hot
cakes and maple syrup, 81. A leading
restaurant, having seating capacity Of
thirty-two, employed three cooks one Of
whom received 500 per week, and others
Sl per hour. -Four walters 1.-TWO men and
two women) were employed en- the day
shift and two on the night shift-sages
of men, $50 per week, the womer receiv-
ing 500 per month. Dishwashers and
yard men received s. per day. All en-
ployees were boarded by the restaurant
but We're required TO lodge themselves
The rental of the building, which is
canvas structure 20 bv 40 feet in size. was
5000 per month.
The wine card % a leading restaurant
for June goth read as follows: Cham
payne, $50 per pint, $40 per quart; sher-
~, SD per pint, S25 per quart; claret, 81
per pint, S25 per quart; ale, s. per bottle;
half and half, s. per bottle; mineral wa
ter, - per bottle. notwithstanding
the high figures appearing on a Dawson
wine card, it is quite as frequently con
suited as the more elaborate wine card Of
first class restaurant in our large cities.
Lodging in bunk rooms, containing
from Il to "a hunks, costs 81. 30 per night.
4 single room costs from So to 8 per
night. In order to secure night lodg-
ing it is necessary to make application
forty eight hours in advance and the APP
picaton must be accompanied by the
cash.
The leading gambling house and dance
hall employs three bartenders, two weigh
ers, bookkeeper, and a porter. Bar
tenders receive SIS per day; the book
keeper, 917.50; weighers, SO; and the
porter, $40. In the gambling depart
ment, one man at the crap game one man
at the roulette wheel, four faro dealers
one Weighcr, and two stud poker dealers
receive $50 a day each, In the dance hall
twelve women are employed at 50 per
week and p per cent. commission On all
drinks and cigars sold through their blan-
dishmcnts. Three musicians receive ST.
50 per day each TIE establishment pays
$40 barrel for water, using Two barrels Il
day
The proprietor of the leading saloon
states that his receipts for the first three
days after his grand opening in March
amounted to SIS, 900, and the average
daily bar receipts from April | to June IN
We're over -, 900.
The Pavilion "a variety theatre and
dance halD opened about the middle Of
June, and the bar receipts the first night
were S12 200. The theatre had three
actors and six actresses under engage
ment, at $50 each per week. Eight girls
are employed in the dance hall, their com
pensation being % per cent. commission
on drinks and cigars consumed by their
partners. AS champagne sells in this es-
adjustment for $40 pint, and is fire.
quently called for, their earnings are
large, even measured by klondike stand
ards, one girl stating that her commits
sions for the first week amounted to 500.
The one tnsmith in Dawson did large
business during the winter, principally in
the manufacture of stoves, over 600 hav-
ing been made, ranging in price from $40
to SO. Quite a number of ranges were
made; a range constructed of No. IL iron,
5 by feet, costing $500, and a pastry
oven with a capacity of - loaves costing
-l.n I, ,.,ll,
night lock for s. and pair of door butts
for SIG From five to ten workmen were
constantly employed during the winter, at
S1.50 per hour The charge for outside
work has been increased from s. to 50 per
hour.
The principal firm of contractors and
builders on June 20 had twelve men en-
ployed in the shop on various kinds of
woodwork at wages ranging from so to
ST. per pay. Skilled woodworkers re-
ceive SIT, carpenters So, and laborerS
$40 per day, ten hours constituting a
days work. The charge for outside
work is $40 per day. This firm charges
$3.50 for a polling boat "A by feet in size.
Three tailors were running full of or
ders June 20. They charge Sl35 for a
sack suit and $50 for dress suit, and
pay their workmen Sl.50 per hour.
On the same date four barber shops
were in operation, employing from two
to five BARRIERS each. The prices are as
follows: Shaving 81; hair cutting, Sl.50;
shampooing, $50; baths, 81. So A bar
Der receives s. per cent. of the receipts of
his chair, making from S15 to $40 per
day.
The four laundries in operation charge
so cents each for washing understands, -
cents for overshirts, and $50 for white
shirts, and pay their help 81 per hour.
On June II the Yukon Midnight Sun,
the first newspaper printed in Dawson,
made its appearance. 1t is three column
eight page sheet, published weekly at
SIS per year; single copy, so cents. On
the 10th the first number Of the klondike
Nugget was issued. 1t is a four column
folio, issued weekly, the subscription
price being S16 per year; single copy, 80
cents. Each office employs two printers,
their wages being $50 per hour or s. per
thousand ems. Up to the goth of June
between twenty-five and thirty printers
had applied at the two offices for employ
ment. The job-printing department of
each office was full of orders, the charge
for letter heads, billheads, and business
cards being $50 per 1000, and for six
teenth- sheet posters, so per 100. On
June 25 four or five men were on the
ground who announced that they had
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