Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-03-12

from the courthouse and the governors res
idence. It has some rooms with baths and
an elevator that runs now and then-usually
then. Like most of the Alaska hotels it has
no dining room, and one must go out for his
meals. | have to walk two or three blocks
TO the restaurants but all strangers do like
wise. The food is excellent and compare
lively cheap. These Alaskans have big APP
petites and the caterers make their portions
large enough to satisfy them One order Of
chops or steak is sufficient for two and
single order of cracked crab is more than
one man can eat The crabs here are as big
around as dinner plate, and as delicious as
any sold in Washington city. AT some Of
the restaurants soup, potatoes and one kind
of dessert is served with each meat order
SO that meal really costs less than similar
one in the states. The menu is a la carte,
and as many of the dishes are given French
names as the vocabulary of the restaurant
keeper will permit. Among those on the
bill Of today for instance, were "consomme
en- cup" and "beefsteak en- platter" The
walters were good-natured girls imported
from Sweden.
Before / started to Alaska I was warned
that the only fruit and vegetables would
be able to get were those that grow out
west in cans As result | have brought
with me lot Of digestants OF various kinds,
including remedies for ptomaine poisoning
do not need them. The provision stores of
southeastern Alaska are as good as those of
the states. This afternoon, for instance,
stopped in front Of a grocery and made list
Of the vegetables on sale. There were fresh
turnips, lettuce, onions celery and new pc.
tatoes from the gardens adjoining the town,
and fresh cauliflower green beans and
green peas that had come in BY boat from
Seattle. | saw ripe red tomatoes, bleaehed
asparagus, pale green cabbages. red beets,
yellow carrots and green corn on the cob.
The store had all sorts of fruit. There
were raspberries, salmon berries and buckle
berries, fresh picked from the Alaska bushes,
and Alaska strawberries ranging in size from
an English walnut 10 the average hens egg.
There were ripe peaches and apricots, cher
ries, red, black and white, and plums and
loganberries. There were cantaloupes and
watermelons from California, and also the
fruits of the tropics. Oranges were selling
at about the same price that we pay in Bos-
ton, and there were also fresh ripe figs and
even pineapples. The vegetables were
sprayed by fountain which rose in their
midst, and they looked as though they had
just come from the garden
Next door to the grocery was butcher
shop where quarter of red beef lay on the
block, and white-aproned, rosy-cheeked
butcher was cutting off steak two inches
thick In the window nearby was a great
white halbut from which slices had been
cut. and half dozen fresh salmon with flesh
as red as brick dust There were gigantic
crabs oysters, large and small, and other
shell6sh as we'll
The citizens here arc enthusiastic about
the food possibilities OF the country. Said
Grover G. Vim, one Of the lawyers Of
Juneau:
alaska is the hardest OF countries to
make fortune in and the easiest Of coun-
tries to make living in. AS to the matter
Of good living. you can so 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 and game you can catch,
you can come out in the spring as fat as
partridge. You can get fish anywhere by
dropping hook into the ocean or streams,
and the shores will give YOU clans and crabs