Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-04-30
Anchorage, the Boom City
sansR Railway Begin.


There are stumps everywhere black with
the smoke and the burning. Here and there
men are splitting the stumps and digging
them out by the roots Building is going on
everywhere. AT. our left are dozen tents
and as many log cabins, some rooted with
boards and others with canvas. Many of
the white tents have board walls
Now turn your head and face the main
street It is 80 feet wide and frame build
ings and tents now line it on both sides for
more than mile. That little cottage half
way down the north side is the city post
office, and the tent across the way with the
auctioneer's stand outside it is the city hall,
where the mayor holds forth, The mayor is
A. J. Moore, who is connected with the
United States land office, and who has had
to do with plotting the city and selling the
lots. On both sides of the main street hun
dreds of houses and tents are scattered here
and there through the stumps. There are
side streets with stores upon them and car
penters and cabinet makers have their shops
with pretentious signs over them.
All kinds of businesses have already start
L
is one-story shed with trousers, coats and
long rubber boots hanging by nails to the
wall. The white canvas sign in front is SO
big that it covers half Of the building, hiding
the roof. A little farther on is a mattress
factory, consisting of a tent with stove
pipe running high above the canvas The
tent has a board floor, and the mattresses
are piled high upon it. There is no front to
the tent, and the dust blows in on the goods
"A little farther on is iewelry establish
nent, half tent and half house, and down
that street at the side is big queen's-ware
store, with crockery and all sorts of porce-
lain piled up outside. There are dry goods
stores and drug stores and stores selling
notions. There are many provision stores
and hardware stores and stores that sell
books and newspapers. The town has a
printing office, and it will soon have news
paper.
Among the most interesting of the signs.
are those over the lodging houses and res
taurants. The hotel where | stop is the
White House. 1t is two-story frame
building covered with one coat Of white
paint. It belongs to Mother White and its
20 rooms are all filed and there are cots in
the halls. A little farther on is "Christ's
Hotel and down the street is "Murray's
Lodging House" The latter is a big tent
filled with hunks, which are built one over
the other like the berths of sleeping car
Next door to that is quick-lunch stand.
while farther on is the 1.-TWO Girls Waffle
House" where often get breakfast
The 1.-TWO Girls" are bright-eyed, rosy
checked, plump, young women from Seattle
who came to Anchorage when the town was
first started and opened an eating place on
the flats. When the town was moved to
the hills they put their house on wagon
and dropped it down here. At this writing
it consists of one room not over seven by
ten feet in size with kitchen and shed at
the back In the front is rude counter,
covered with an oilcloth at which the Gus
toners sit. There is room for just eight,
but the counter is always filled at mealtime,
and there are often men waiting outside
One of the girls cooks the meals while the
other waits on the table and takes in the
cash. They will serve you an order of waf-
files hot from the griddle, with good butter
and strip and cup Of coffee on the side, for
rs cents, or if you will you may have ham
and eggs and coffee for half dollar The
food is SO delicious that the girls have made
good, and they are now building a good
sized eating room on their new lot farther
down street,
There are many other women in business
at Anchorage. Some are typewriters, 9th
ers clerks in the stores and some have stores
of their own. There is a woman barber on
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