The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-05-10
FEATTTRns OF JUNEAU.

II TEA I U RHTo Nf J U IN fA U.
 Juneau is not a pious town, notwith- standing it has a Methodist, a Presby- terian an Episcopal, a Greek, a Catho- lie, and an Indian church, all of them thrifty. The fact is, Juneau is good deal Parisian in it's style, and is decided ly wide open. Gambling places, saloons, dance halls, and dives abound, and they appear to be a necessity of existing con ditione.
 The streets of Juneau, beyond the one at the water front, are mostly uphill, and they are all paved with plank. Wa
 gons are few, ten in all, but there are
 platform sleds on low runners that can
 slide down street like a toboggan.
 There are twenty-five horses in town and one buggy. There are twenty bicy- cles, but just where they can run is not apparent There is an opera house, and a unique method of having shows in it.
 Every Friday night it is open to the
 best people, at $1 a seat, with selected
 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 after noons while assemblies, balls, and other | functions take up the night time. On | special occasions flowers are ordered | from Seattle There are twenty-five or thirty ladies, who are prominent in so- ciety, and entertain. Men are plenty, I hut rrip1 women and there is an ungent demand for | them.
 1 There are two banks, and the stores are very large with fine window dis plays One firm pays it's window-trim-
 mer $105 a month. What 3,500-size town | in the United States does as well as l that? Extensive stocks are carried, | running from $10,O0O to $150,000, with an-
 nual sales running as high as $550,O00 at retail There is big business done in | Indian curios the Indians selling as | high as $20,000 worth a year from their l houses and on the street. One excur- sion steamer last season carried out | $3, 900 worth of Indian baskets. The press is represented by the Dis patch (daily) and it's weekly, the Morn | ing Record, by F. c. Russell, jr., a hust- | Ter; the Alaska Miner and the Truth are weeklies.
 | There are two or three libraries and ] free reading-rooms maintained by the | citizens, and they are well patronized. Dealers sell large quantities of paper back novels as well, and all the periodi-
 calls of the East are in eager demand There is no police force in Juneau, the | i, ho Hc of deputy United States marshals and
 there is little disorder. The fact that
 man can find trouble very easily if he Is looking for it acts as a deterrent to dis order, and scraps are few and far be- tween. Nobody has been shot within year. About year ago deputy mar shal was killed and three wounded.
 This seems to have cleared the atmos- phere morally Nothing on earth could do it meteoroligically. for Juneau has climate that Is all cloud and fog and
 mist and rain for about 365 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 $5 to $6 week, and rooms at from $10 to $20 a month. Drinks are 25 cents each, eX- cept beer which is 15 cents, and cigars are usually two for a quarter, but good five-cent cigars are to be had, and the time-tried fre-tested Pttsburg and Wheeling stogie can be had at two fer" or $2 a hundred. A shave costs a
 quarter and haircut 50 cents Best hotels, which have water electric light and all the modern improvements,
 charge $2 and $3 day, and some very
 fair as low as $1 a day. Juneau, a thou
 sand miles from everywhere, is cheap
 CT place to live in, comfort for comfort,
 than New York city Is, which is in the
 midst of everything.
 The town is lighted by electricity from
 fine plant, and it has water-works
 supplied by mountain streams, so high
 up that there is force enough to throw water all over town It is cold water too, and beautifully clear
 Forty-five merchants and other per-
 sons have telephones. A brass-band of
 twelve pieces wakes the echoes now and
 then, and as long as the echoes do not
 complain nobody else ought to or does.- Correspondence of the Washington Star. -------------------------