The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-27
Money Makers are Ingenious in ALASKA,
Junea- Alaska. Sept. y. 1903.

Junea- Alaska Sept p 1903
THESE AlasSans are cheerful souls. Biz Renhart,
the Juneau gardener and florist SHED a rock at
stray COW that was trying to poke her head
through tho fence after his flowers. then back
in his chair. and said Now last year was what you
might call off year-onIy had hirty-six clear days
IN the whole twelve months-raned forty days and
nights straght-but say. man. when the did come
out maybe you think didn't look pretty" If there
- anything m looking bright size of Lire, Bill
has II down fine, as mis- conversation shows There
more than it does IN Juneau. on an average it will
lain OF snow 800 days Of 365 Gum shoes, umbrel
robe of every inhabtaut The streets planked
over to keep the traffic out OF the mud, and good
This queer little has its front end tilted UP
on stills keep its feet of the water, while the
population while small, is cosmopolitan any
world capital 1t makes UP in variety what it lacks
in his pink tie and checkered shirt. Whenever you
See indian togged up in this way you won't have
ever there is strike in Alaska there is always
close race TO get there between five contestants
tender. the gambler and the dance hall girl The
shark and the dancer have to make hay while the
tender has gradually reduce his prices the
sionary and the Jew always hold out-one teaching
how 10 look like one.
There isn't anything slow about Juneau even if
It's feet are muddy during the greater portion of the
year The grocery boy can whistle "Hiawatha" just
as artsucaly as any messenger boy in Philadelphia,
In Ptttsburg a music box i'm a saloon was grinding
out Under the Bamboo Tree" TO the delight of a
large crowd of hangers-on. miner just in from the
hills wanted to know what ali the excitement was
about He was told that it a song ABOUT a fellow
VINO invited q girl to come and live with him under
a bamboo tree. The miner grunted with contempt
Must a. been cheap skate-he couldn't have offered
her much less, t pears to me-"
juneau mas its polite set. I attended of its
dances When I arrived the han there were pres
en- Ve men, three girls and two dogs. The dogs
put out and after the appearance those who would
not depart from the fashionable custom of arriving
4le' the crowd mustered seven couples including the
Iiaho player One of the ladies in speaking at
tendance said it rather light We've had as
lrany as sixteen couples some of our big parties
she continued ITS dun because the school
teachers are away their vacation. They'll be
nack on the next boat however. and then things will
hVen up Seeing that the teachers were such an i'm
lorht part OF the social life of the place
10 inquire their number. There's five of them and
they so jolly. It's too bad YOU couou-r meet them"
WISH could nave m not joking about it, either.
TO whom do we owe more? Amt they soldiers aIir
NO matter how far out you go. whether toward the
equator or the Arctic Circle. YOU will find them an
young They force whose power for good il II
quite impossible TO OvereStim1te. The service ~-v
perform IS trying and aborCus vet they find time 10
'oLie d part or the community and do than
their share toward building it up 7 think thev should
ne treated like the soldiers They be supplied
WIN UNIFORMS ana given pensions after their
vice is completed for they are followers of the Gag
anu hshters every inch. The best might do for
them is no more than they deserve.
The only thing lacking the dance was the crowd
The tone was genteeI enough for ANYBODY The We
man VINO presided at the piano a good musician
ana she played up-to-date music The majority of The
EIlS were good dancers and Wore gowns that would
be stylish anywhere. Some the men were in even
ing dress The affair was scant-dreadruv so-but II
'N menu 1T d'Cofdhce with the pTOprieties I'M the
same building there was bar-rooin and the ro,lgb
characters of the border could look throur tbe -
dow from the street But the party was seIacf 7.
was IKE blt OF color iu waste. These peopo are
holding out for their standard and fine I'M -
' ItiitoiteHehts- Their little camp is i'm the heart