Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-12-10

cars. II did not pay. SO the travel
over II is now OH handcars. each drawn
by from seven to fourteen dogs. Nome
has also its carriages and Duck boards.
and YOU may often see II woman on
horseback.
The residences Of the city are as odd
as TIA" business establishments. No
one has built his home as u pcrma.
ncncy. When Nome was first started
Their" was no lumber tn be- had. and the
first homes were tents. Later. frame
houses We're built over the tents. or as
an annex To them. Many small shacks
went up. and then came ramblin.
buildings" Of two or three stories. Even
to-day there are but few large houses.
and many n home has only three or
four rooms. One reason for this is the
cost Of fuel and the difficulty of keep
ing the houses warm during the cold
winter months.
The sky line of the Nome streets is
as aHged as the Jaws Of Il boy whose
second teeth are just coming. The
buildings ar" of AN uneven height. the
roofs Of some rising high above those
IF the others. This makes Il necessary
for the it'll" buildings Ia have hig
s,ovcpipcs. i'll order that their draurht
may not be cut on by the taller struc-
lures about thcIh. The result is. a
little cottage will often have Il galva-
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ing above ii. Looking down ON the
town. one sees Il thicket of these
sinokeStackS SprineinE out Of the roofs.
They look like handles To the houses
below. and make one think OF SO many
Irish shillalahs. the pipes being the
handles and the houses the knobs on
the ends of the clubs.
Many of these houses have gardens.
Nome has IL short summer, but ii Is SO
far north that the sun works from
eighteen to twenty-fuur hours during
he summcr and hence they az" able
t" grow lettuce. turnips and other
green stuff. Nearly every woman has
some flowers in her font windows. and
some have flowers growing outside.
Entering. YOU tind these homes very
we'll furnished. They have their pianos
and other musical instruments. They
are we'll equipped with books and
magazines. aud. III fact. with all the
furnishings of the cultured homes Of
the United States proper.
GOLDEN GATE nOTr:I.
IS LARGEST 1T ii.DING
There arc hut few big buildings in
Nome. The largest Is the Golden Gate
Hotel. u four-story shack with nu-
merouS bay windows running across its
front. The building is OF light wood,
which carries sound like a fiddle box.
The moving of a bed on the ground
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attic. The place ia as drcary as can
he imagined. but it is the only large
hotel in the town.
Among the other buildings Of note
are tho courthouse. the post-ofice and
Eagle Hall. There is also a large pub
lic-school building and a commodious
hospital. The United states CUSTOM
house and the United states Road Com
mission have quarters OF galvanized
iron. or. rather. tin. shacks. The town
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mcnt and l~fe-savinG station. These
are in a little frame building on Front
street. one side OF which faces the
street. the other the ocean.
! like Nome. Its people are up and
doing. There arc but few drones
among them, II the most of them. to
use a Western Expression. are good
boosters. They have a hope for the
future of their city. They do not en-
pect IL to hold the population that il
once had. but they say that owing to
the large area of low-Grade gold earth
about IL Nome is bound to be an in
dustrial mining center for generations
10 come, They say also that its posi-
ton is such that II Will always be tho
chief port of the Seward Peninsula. 4
territory which has vast mineral re-
sources yet to he developed. This may
be so. but the harbor leaves much to
he desired. The port is almost an open
roadstead. and goods have to be landed
IN lighters. while passengers are SlunE
high into tho air on an aerial cable
car. and thus brought to the shore.
TAKEN TO LAND
~ PLATFORM CAGE
| shall no, forget my landing at
Nome. II was early in the morning
when our steamer cast anchor. far out
from the shore. We were taken from
the ship by a steam launch To a land.
ing. above which rose Il great tower in
the ocean far out from the shore. This
tower is connected by a cable with
another tower Of an equal height on
the mainland, and passengers are taken
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