The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-05

Joseph Lippman.
He reached Dutch Harbor May 81 and
the ship spent ten days coaling and
watering there. Three days were spent
bucking ice in the Behring sea and
on June IA Nome was reached.
Guaranteed For Smallpox.
But the passengers were not allowed
to land for smallpox had broken out
on board. There We're two cases. The
patients were put off at Egg island
and the steamer detained in quaran-
tine for ten days. When that time
was up Mr.. Lippman was among the
first TO land. e. G.. Rognon of Salt
Lake came out in a launch and took
him ashore.
For the first few weeks Mr. Lipp-
man stayed at a tent rooming house
with a board floor. The rates for lodg-
ing We're 81 per night if the guest
furnished his own blankets. or 50 if
the house furnished blankets and a
pillow. There was one towel which
everybody used. and those who were
not satisfied with the cOnveniences
were told to get out.
81 first went out and proSpeCted the
beach" said Mr.. Lippman. getting the
experiences of a great many men. From
what ] heard 1 concluded not to move
the machinery James T. Fulton and
! had taken up. l found the beach
wouldn't pay well. The best part was
below the graveyard and that only
little more than paid expenses.
Wilderness of Machinery.
Along the beach for twelve miles
and clear up to the Penny river were
machines for saving gold. Such a col
lection the world never saw before and
the like Will never be seen again. There
was all kinds of power, gasoline en-
gines, coal oil power, hand and foot
power horse power and everything else
under the sun. Hundreds of men lost
any amount Of money in machinery.
They OvereStimated the value Of the
sand.
Some men connected with the Stan
dard Oil company sent up machinery
worth $4,000 that they never unIOaded
at all. They had one machine that
would handle 1000 tons of dirt per day.
The beach is Strewn with the wrecks
of fortunes. The picture Of disaster
is too enormous for the human mind to
picture. No pen can portray it, no
photograph can convey any idea of the
ma gnitude of it.
An immense quantity of merch9n-
disc of all kinds was taken up there
but there was too much of everything.
Before l left they were selling out at
cost and below cost. so anxious were
they to get away from Nome. There
is whisky enough in Nome to float the
town and the same is true of the GUAM
tity of imported beer. A supply large
enough TO keep the town for az least
two years is already on hand.
Ficticious Values on Lots.
Fictitious values were placed on
everything at first. Especially was
this true of real estate During the
first rush lots for building purposes
were selling at from $4,000 TO $35. 0OO
A dealer tried to sell me a small lot
for 1,500. The property was never
worth intrinsically anything like such
amounts of money
Mr.. Lippman said that not long after
he arrived he found Z. NJ. Onion. Ar
thur Smith and w. F. StOddard of
Salt Lake living together in one small
room in frame building for which
they paid $50 per month rent Smith
was quite i'll. There were holes in the
walls through which the wet winds of
the night whistled and tn. young man
was rapidly growing worse.
1t was suggested by Mr.. Lippman
that Smith be taken over 10 his room
al VIC (AAANdSp ASNuSEs do II WOULD De
more comfortable. This was done. One
night Smith grew cOnsidera bly, worse
and the doctor who had been treating
him was called IN. After an examina-
tion he told Mr.. Lippmsn that Smith
had case of malignant smallpox The
alarming news caused considerable I'M
easiness. but later the city physician
said Smith had nothing more than
ChickenpOX.
Smallpox Was Measles.
He was taken TO a tent and a nurse
hired. There II developed that he was
suffering from an attack of measles
It was a long time before Smith re-
covered. He is now in Seattle and
viii be here in few days. Fearing
that ne might become III himself II he
remained IN the Chicago Lodge Mr.
Lippman secured a room in a brick
building with a physician and enjoyed
excellent health.
He told an interesting story Of his
stay with the doctor. The latter would
not allow him 70 come to his room un-
til he had taken a bath and had his
clothes washed He accordingly went
10 a bath house. took a bath and left
such clothes as he was not using TO be
washed. A few days later when he
went TO get his garments the bath house
keeper told him he could not secure
them. The reason was that two men
with smallpox had sent their clothes
to the laundry. and when this was dis
covered everything there had to be
fumigated. Mr.. Lippman sold his
clothes to the laundryman for S..
The Salt Laker says the truth will
never be known about the amount of
sickness in Nome City and vicinity
There is smallpox, typhoid fever and
pneumonia. in any quantity. Pneumo-
MIA is particularly fatal, not case
having recovered, so far as he learned.
The sanitary conditions are fearful. De-
caying matter Of every description is
permitted to lie around the streets and