The Nome daily nugget., 1914-05-23

The Following letter was reCCi' d from Frank Cassidy, former Nome ite who Is now located near Juneau:
 JUNEAU, March 22.-I came here from Tacoma about three weeks ago went to work here one week ago This Is an English company and com mon labOrers are paid $2.5O 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 ldel men, they had free lodging houses and soup kit ditions along the Pacific Coast was the same.
 saw Billy Hyland two days ago on his way into the Iditarod going to construct a dredge. Billy Schnelly was on the same steamer going in. I met Gus Borgen and wife here they only stayed about one week and went to Seward. You know many think that will be the terminus for the new rail- road. There are quite number of NOmeites 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. I was asking Mrs. McVeitty the other day how she liked Juneau end she said 'I have got to like 1t You know one cannot get house here sC they are putting up shacks all ove~ town and want 15 to 20 dollars pc, month for one room hut they are sumptously furnished, consisting of a table, chair and bed minus the bed ding.
 saw Junty, the barber the other day but he and his wife beat it tn ; next boat for Seward.
 It is damp, dirty and sloppy here Ill during the winter. I stayed one week here when came out over the trail in November but did not land a job then The Irish man -of-war Corwin arrived from Nome she had three fremen three coal passers and one oiler, the f1remen and one coal passer quit as soon as she tied her shoestrings to the dock and got job. Quite a number of the passengers got off here.
 Raymond came down as fireman anu quit hete, he immediately began issue ing checks with nothing in the bank to back thena up; he Is now at MeNeils island for couple of years. think hadh't my trunk on board the Cor win She hour, ct is not necessary fo' me to describe the dimentions of 1t as packed it on my back for 362 miles to Valdez) when heard of a friend of mine being boss there and I knew Il there was a chance to work I would get it, but the chief of the Corwin told me they were going to put oil in herr and he would keep me all winter This place certainly is paradise for ducks and umbrellas so I thought I woult stay with the Corwin. We were n; more than half way when we rar short of fuel, lonely looking house loomed up just in the nick of time A big pile of cordwood was stacke; close by. The yacht dropped anchor gave a few blasts of her melodioui flute, but no signs of life appeared A boat was immediately sent ashore and the piratical crew of the Corwir proceeded to help themselves to thu wood pile. They may have paid fo the wood but the lord forgive them, think they stole it. We put int Union Bay, B. C., about one day. run from the wood pile and coaled ur By the time we arrived there. wit young trees, roots and stolen cord wood almost continuously rattlin down the ventilators, I was nearly nervous wreck. We eventually reach cd Seattle. I worked on her for
 week and got laid of. they hadn't the decided what alterations they woul make times being 50 bad in seattl men were jumping sideways loolin for work that thought my uncle would look pretty good to stay fo