El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-11

. Chicken ridge. This is the Mob Hill or aris-
| tocratic part of the city 1 understand
that the residents are not in love with the
name. and that they talk OF changing II
, to bellevue or Bon Air. of some other less
plebeian title
CITY. well back from the water The houses
are pretty two story structures built
| matches cut out Of the rocks. The richest
man in the town has a lawn about as big
as three bed quilts, and tourists are taken
/ to see this one Of the sights of the city
other fine homes are still highe-up and
some Of them cling to tho green wall Of the
| mountains. 1 made call last evening upon
J the editor of the Alaska Dispatch. To get
to his home 1 had to climb a pathway sew
eraI times as high as that which leads to
| the Tea House Of one Hundred Steps above
Yokohama Japan
These houses Of Juneau have no double
/ windows other special arrangements for
! ,ginter protection Nevertheless the people
tell me they have no trouble in keeping
warm. The thermometer seldom falls be
| low zero. and the heavier water pipes are
> laid on the top OF the ground The chief
1 complaint is the long nights and short days.
! In midwinter the electric lights have to be
| and it IS not daylight until o'clock in
J the morning. In midsummer there are but
few hours Of real darkness. One can g.
anywhere until 10 p m without lights, and
the dawn comes between and o'clock in
the morning
An Alaskan Hotel.
am living here at the New Cain hotel
! This is a concrete five story building not far
from the court house and the governors
| residence. It has some rooms with baths
and an elevator that now and then
usually then. Like most Of the Alaska
hotels Il has dining ROOM and one must
20 out for his meals. have to walk two
or three blocks to the restaurants but ali
strangers do likewise. The food is excel
lent and comparatively cheap. These Alas
kans have big appetites. and the caterers
make their portions large enough to satisfy
them. one order Of chops steak is suf-
e cIgio do crab is more than one man can eat
The crabs here are big around as a
dinner plate, and as delicious as any sold in
Washington city. At some OF the restau-
rants soup potatoes and kind OF des-
sert is served with each meat order,
that meal really costs less than similar
one in the states. The menu is la carte,
and as many of the dishes are given French
names as the vocabulary of the restaurant
hin OF today for instance. were "consomme
en- cupr and ''beefsteRk en- platter" The
walters were good-natured girls imported
from Sweden
Grocery stores Up to Date.
The provision stores OF southeastern Alas
l0a good as those OF the states This
afternoon. for instance,I stopped in front Of
a grocery and made list Of the vegetables
on sale. There were fresh turnips. lettuce,
onions. celery and new potatoes from the
gardens adjoining the town. and fresh cauli-
flower. green beans and green peas that had
come in by boat from Seattle. 1 saw ripe
red tomatoes. blesched asparagus, pale
green cabbages red beets, yellow carrots
and green corn on the cob.
The store had all sorts OF fruit. There
kleberries fresh picked from the Alaska
bushes and Alaska strawberries ranging in
size from an English walnut TO the aver
age hens egg There were ripe peaches
and apricots. cherries, red, black and
white, and plums and loganberries- There
were cantalOupes and watermelons from
California and also the fruits Of the trop-
les. Oranges were selling at about this
same price that we pay in Boston. and
pineapples. The vegetables were sprayed
by a fountain which rose in their midst. and
they looked as though they had Just come
Next door TO the grocery was a butcher
shop where quarter Of red beef lay on
the block. and a white aproned. rosy
two inches thick. In the window nearby |
was a great white halibut from which |
salmon with flesh as red as brick dust |
There were gigantic crabs. oysters, large
and small. and other shell1ish as well.
Living Is Easy.
The citizens here are enthusiastic about |
the food possibilities Of the country. Said |
Grover c. VIM. one Of the lawyers of
Alaska is the hardest Of countries TO |
make fortune in and the easiest OF coun- |
tries to make living IN As to the mat |
ter OF good living. you can go into any !
grocery store at the beginning Of winter |
and buy $50 worth Of flour. bacon and |
condiments. You can take them into the !
woods and with the addition Of the fish I
and game you can catch, you can come out /
in the spring as fat as a partridge. You /
into the ocean or streams and the shore I
will give you clans and crabs fit for
king. Some OF our clans are as big as |
mans hand, and We have little butter /
clans that will melt in your mouth we
have all kinds OF game, including deer and |
bear and mountain sheep. Our islands have |
grizzlies and the Kadiak bear is the big |
gest that grows"
Some Of the other items OF the cost Of |
living in this part Of Alaska follows: !
House rents range from $40 a month for a |
single unfurnished room TO S25 cabin. or a |
four room fiat. -Four room cottages may be /
had for S35 month, and larger houses 4,
command higher prices. Living expenses \
per day are said to average from 81 to $3.50 !
exclusive Of lodging, which may be obtained |
for about $40 per month. Household neces- |
stiles. including groceries, cost from to !
10 per cent more than In Puget Sound /
cities. The demand for labor about equals /
the supply, and the wages range from 50 /
for common labor 10 S. or IS day for
skilled mechanics.
Most OF People Well Educated.
The people OF southeastern Alaska. are /
well educated and well bred those 7
OF any part Of the States. More than half /
OF the professional men are graduates OF /
colleges, and Juneau has a university club !
OF $50 members. The majority are from !
western institutions but Yale. Harvard. (
Princeton and Cornell all have their repre-
sentatives. The graduates Of the Univer- /
sity of Washington at Seattle came to din |
ner together the other day and IS sat down
The public schools are good, the high
school having its business branches with !
courses IN pubic speaking anu mechanical
drawing and OF sewing and cooking as well.
The high schools OF Juneau give their grad
yates certificates admitting them to the
University Of California and other western
colleges.
I came here expecting to find a popula-
ton Of men only. The sexes are almost !
equally divided. Many OF the women have
come as school teachers. or clerks or
stenographers, and have married. Some Of