The true northerner., 1900-08-10


Juneau Is not pious town, notwith-
standing IL HIS a Methodist. Presby-
terian, an Episcopal, Gre-k a Cath
Ollie, and az indian church. all of them
thrifty. The fact is, Juneau is good
deal Partisan in IT'S style. and Is decid-
edly wide open. Gambling places, sa-
looms, dance halls and dives abound,
and they appear TO be a necessity of
existing conditions. The streets OF
Juneau, beyond the one at the water
front, are mostly uphill, and they are
all paved with plank. Wagons are few
ten in all, but there are platform sleds
on low runners that can slide down a
street like a toboggan. There are
twenty-five horses in town and one
buggy. There are twenty bicycles, but
just where they can run is not appar-
ent There is an opera house, and a
unique method of having shows in II.
Every Friday night ii is open 10 the
best people, at 81 a seat, with select
ed talent from the variety shows of the
town where the best people cannot go
except the men.
Socially Juneau is quite gay, and
pink and other hued teas prevail in
the afternoons, while assemblies, balls
and other functions take up the night
time. On special occasions flowers are
ordered from Seattle. There are twen-
ty-fve or thirty ladies, who are prom
inent in society, and entertain. Men
are plenty, but there are few unmar-
ried women, and there is an urgent
demand for them.
There are two banks, and the stores
.1r,xfr IL
plays. One firm pays its window TRIM
mer $105 a month. What 3.500-size
town in the States does as we'll as
that? Extensive stocks are carried.
running from $4,000 to $150000, with
annual sales running as high as $780,
600 at retail There is a bigbusiness
done in Indian curios, the Indians
selling as high as $4,000 worth a year
from their houses and on the streets.
One excursion steamer last season
carried out $4,000 worth of Indian bas-
kets.
The press is represented by the Dis
patch (dailyD and its weekly. the
Morning Record, by +. c. Russell, Jr.,
a hustler; the Alaska Miner and the
Truth are weeklies.
IntIe are lWO VI
free reading rooms maintained by the
citizens, and they are all we'll patron
lied. Dealers sell large quantities of
paper-back novels as well, and all the
periodicals of the East are in eager de-
mand.
There is no police in Juneau, the
police function being in the HANDS of
deputy United States marshals, and
there is little disorder. The fact that
a man can find trouble very easily IL
he is looking for it acts as a deterrent
to disorder, and scraps are few and
far between. Nobody has been shot
within a year. About year ago a
deputy marshal was killed and three
wounded. This seems TO have cleared
the atmosphere morally. Nothing on
earth could do IL meteorologically for
Juneau has a climate that is all cloud
and fog and mist and rain for about
367 days in the year.
All kinds Of hardy vegetables are
raised around the town, and one man
has a floral garden where roses and
other flowers flourish as the green
bay tree. Prices are quite reasonable.
good board may be had at from So to
Sc a week, and rooms at from SO to
$50 month. Drinks are % cents each,
except beer, which is Is cents, and
cigars are usually two for a quarter.
but good five-cent cigars are to be
had and the time-tried, fre-tested |
Pittsburg and Wheeling stogie can be |
had at two fer" or 81 hundred. A |
shave costs a quarter, and hair cut |
so cents Best hotels, which have wa |
ter, electric light and all the modern |
Improvements, charge 50 and SO a day, |
and some very fair as low as 81 day. |
Juneau, a thousand miles from every
where, is a cheaper place to live in, |
comfort for comfort, than New York |
city is, which is in the midst of every
thing.
The town is lighted by electricity
from a fine plant, and it has water
works, supplied by mountain streams,
so high up that there is rorce enough
to throw water all over town. 1t is
cold water, too, and beautifully clear.
Forty-fve merchants and other per-
sons have telephones. A brass band
Of twelve pieces wakes the echoes now
md then, and as long as the echoes do
not complain, nobody else ought to
or does.-Washington Evening Star.