The Nome daily nugget., 1914-05-23

from Frank Cassidy. n former Nome
 ite who is now located near Juneau:
 JUNEAU. March 22.--l tume here from Tacoma about three weeks ago
 l went to work here one week ago
 This is an English company and con- mon laborers are paid $2.6O per day clear. The accommodations cannot be beat. every two men have room with steam heat and electric light: there are two iron bedsteads with springs ard mattress; you are furnished with . tub and shower bath with running hot and cold water supplied with laundry and tar soap free and we get a short day Saturday with full time
 Times were awful outside this winter. never saw so many idei men. they
 had free lodging houses and soup kit cbens in Seattle and Frisco and con- ditions along the Pacific Coast was the same.
 l saw Billy Hyland two days ago on his way into the Iditarod going to construct a dredge. Billy Schnelly was hr the same steamer going in. met Gus Borgen and wife here they only stayed about one week snd went to Seward. You know many think that will be the terminus for. the new rail
 road. There are quite a number of Homeites here. Mcveitty and Mont
 gomery started blacksmith and cart wright shop but l do not think they will make out very good as all of the mining companies have their own shops. was asking Mrs. McVeitty the other day how she liked Juneau end she said T have got tu like N.'
 You know one cannot get house her. st they are putting up shacks all ove- town and want 15 to 20 dollars pc.
 month for one room but they are cumptously furnished. consisting of n tatle, chair and bed minus the he'd ding.
 l saw Junty. the barber the other cay but he and his wife beat 1t th= next boat for Seward.
 It l. damp, dirty and sloppy here Ill during the winter. I stayed one week here when I came out over the trail in November but did not land job then nN from Nome she had three fremen three coal passers and one oiler. the iremen and one coal passer quit as soon as she tied her shoestrings to the dock and got a job. Quite number of the passengers got off here.
 Raymond came down as fireman and quit here. he immediately began issue ing checks with nothing in the bank to back them up; he is now at MeNeils island for couple of years. I think | I hadn't my trunk on board the Cor l win ono hour, Qt is not necessary fO'l me to describe the dimentions of 1t as packed 1t on my back for 362 milce to valdez) when heard of q friend Of mine being boss there md knew If tkere was a chance to work l would get 1t, but the chief of the Corwin told me they were going to put oil in here and he would keep me all winter. This place certainly Is paradise for ducks and umbrellas so thought I would stay with the Corwin. We were ID more than half way when we ran short of fuel, a lonely looking house loomed up just in the nick of time. A big pile of cordwood was stacked close by. The yacht dropped anchor gave a few blasts of her mclodious flute. but no signs of life appeared. A boat was immediately sent ashore and the piratical crew of the Corwin proceeded to help themselves |" the wood pile. They may have paid for the wood but the lord forgive them, think they stole 1t. We put into Union Bay. B. C.. about one days run from the wood pile and coaled up. By the time VIC arrived there with young trees. roots and stolen cord wood almost continuously rattlins down the ventilators. I was nearly a nervous wreck. We eventually reach Id Seattle. I worked on her for q week and got laid off. they hadn't then iscidsd what alterations they would make times being so bad in Seattle nen were jumping sideways looking or work thnt I thought my uncies youl6 Io0L nrettv good to gtav for