| Show CITY BEFORE THE fabe copyright 1900 by cy warman while the world Is filled with sorrow and hearts must break and bleed its day after day in the daytime and there is no night in creede A green garden set high on a hill like a picture on an easel was the strange sight I 1 saw from my state room window as dawson dawned upon my view at of an august morning and of course before the fire that recently devastated the place it had rained in dawson the day before tha little graden facing the east bathed in sunlight smiled down on me like a pretty girl in the gallery klondike city was slipping by us and just below over the wide gravel bar the crystal klondike rushed in making a wider green path far out in the gray waters of the yukon just below the mouth of that far fanned ri city of dawson begins it has all come into view so suddenly and we sweep down the swift stream so rapidly that one finds it bewildering after miles of almost houseless shore this imposing camp with its floating wharves and great iron warehouses was a revelation at the upper end of tho town are the government buildings the prison and the barracks where the mounted police live almost a mile of houses all corti sorti shapes and sizes are ranged along the embankment facing the river thess are the principal business establishments of the town hotels shops of all hinds saloons dance balls banks and barber shops it is a weird picture a wonderful panorama that passes our window as we drop down stream there goes a milk wagon drawn bv seven dogs a perfect little wagon and the dogs have harnesses with collada and hames like the harness of a horse it reminds me of austria and bohemia only there are no women in harness here A tall girl in a red wrapper and a miner in a white hat are waltzing on the sidewalk in front of a dance hall although it is barely 6 all the shops are open the clerks and shopkeepers are out looking at the steamer as she glides down to her dock men are hurrying down to the wharf to meet friends and loved ones they left behind A well dressed woman looks up anxiously at the purser as the boat ties up the purser shakes his head and a shadow settles on the hopeful almost happy face as the woman turns away diversified GREETINGS now the women who have made the long journey of thousands of miles to join their husbands come from their cabins clad in neat traveling gowns that have been worn on the whole trip A new hat a fresh ribbon here ard there a happy smile all kept back for this one joyful moment hub I 1 heard a woman bay how funny ha looks in that horrid hat A man kiss ed his child held it off and gazed at it through tear dimmed eyes and tried hard to realize that this big abdy was baby the boat had scarcely ceased rocking when jim and I 1 walked ashore two handsome clean faced young sol diers ot the mounted police force were rolling along the strand with a drunken man between them these fine young men do the police duty in dawson it Is I 1 not a pleasant duty but since they must it they do it well and win the respect and sympathy of all classes of citizens verily there is no night in dawson ing tables are changing shift but the game goes on they hanged two indians and a white man last week and started a dally paper that was 3 news item tor the captain of our boat by a man who came on board just as we entered clr notel a swede flagged us have yeb seen calr woman wl wan kid oon des boat yes said thompson freckled kid with his nose skinned val has been baby when a see em last but a tank toe would have has nose skin by als time HOTEL LIFE IN DAWSON there is no lock on my door bald I 1 to the young woman who was head clerk and halt owner in the hotel oh well well give you a better room as soon as one is vacant but in the meantime I 1 explained anyone can come up the back stairs and step into my room it wont eve a lalan the clerk smiled well she said as she changed a bill taking out tor the mans breakfast 1 I guess well have to put locks on all our doors people seem to expect tt the fact Is she went on we have been in such a rush that we not thought of it but things are changing people are coming in from the east and now I 1 suppose well have to lock up she did not mean to be discourteous she simply indicated a well knowd condition so long aa a mining camp Is occupied by miners mountaineers pioneers and prospectors no one ever thinks of locks it is the coming of the cultured tenderfoot the ko that makes bolts necessary even the indiana were reasonably honest with each other until we began to civilize them I 1 see nothing here marked less than a quarter that is the price of a four page paper at seattle the penny passes out of use at Skag uway the nickel and at dawson the dime fresh signs in the restaurants read meals only one dollar in some places they are but 75 cents with drinks in one of the best hotels in town I 1 pay 1 a day tor a small room but it is clean meals are table chote but they are excellent it you want spring chicken it will cost you 6 it costs 50 cents to quench at all farst clasa bars here is a copy of a typewritten type written bill of tare lit anheuser busch or beer per quart labatte La batts english ale per pint guinness extra stout per pint GRILL ROOM AND CAFE cox gates dinner 5 to 8 p m SOUP beef broth Angl alse consomme boiled king salmon hollandaise holland alse ENTREES curried lobster with rice breast ot iamb with french peas bell fritters maple sauce ROASTS prime ribs of beet au jus veal with dressing vegetables boiled and mashed potatoes green peas DESSERT assorted pies assorted cakes letacon ice cream EXTRAS cucumbers radishes lettuce delicacies OF THE SEASON A DAWSON GARDEN I 1 spoke to dr B enthusiastically about the little graden on the hill and now we are going up to klondike 10 see the garden it costs a quarter to walk across the suspension bridge that spans the little river the day Is delightful but my mind Is constantly reverting to a powerful beautifully worded description that I 1 have bean reading of the klondike by a gifted author who has never seen the country I 1 shall quote bits of bis description as I 1 go setting them side by side the thing as I 1 see it it is a grim country a country of extremes despite the recent rain the klondike is crystal clear the trail is clean in a picturesque cabin beside the path a woman Is singing her baby to sleep and over the willows Is wafred wafted the sound of tinkling bells in front of the lettla roadside shop a man Is candling a crate of eggs holding them one by one between him and the suu they are worth a dozen there is little vegetable mould and plant life Is sparse here in the klondike vale I 1 find a miniature field of oats the well falle 1 heads coma up to my shoulders tue grain is in the dough it will be ripe in a week since this was written I 1 have seen a new dispatch which reads as follows recent experiments elih grain growing and market gardening in the yukon valley not far from dawson and the center of the klondike region give promise of fresh vegetables for the miners before long produced in their own neighborhood wheat oats and barley all planted late in may and harvested about the middle of august have reached duluth as a sample ot what has been done in the klondike region all of the grains are fully matured and of good quality of course many vegetables can be grown detill more readily than such cereals gnats and mosquitoes move to and fro in dense clouds during the summer and add to the many discomforts dis comforts aal discouragements discourage ments of the region the burro the husky and are tha only insects I 1 have seen thus tar in or about davson da not a gnat hot as much as one mosquito have I 1 seen here life is a warfare sitting in the en over looking the ica picturesque terry an the arm boats gliding down stream iha song lot ft brook nearby the murmur of the river below the soft winds freighted ati the fragrance of flowers the scent of sweet peas and the perfume of the pine it seems to me that it a man hal money enough to keep him from pining tor the creeks and mosquitoes enough to keep him from brooding life here la summer at least would be ony grand sweet song leaving the gardea we climb up over a shoulder of the big hill that curves round dawson at the summit we find some rustic seats beside the trail we wonder who ever took the time to build them when labor in the mines un recently had been worth 15 a day near by there is a sundial sun dial marks t W M pt and we know the who are always blazing a rall re arii pr marking a mud bole have put these things here OVERLOOKING AWSON our trail lies along an almost leciel stretch of table land there are great many cabins along the trail out very few people same have double walls filled with dirt between over the door of one rustic letters are fixed to spell iowa here under the capen trees or cottonwood and spruce moss is found in thick tufts like bunches of swamp grass near the edge of a swamp it Is thia thick blanket of moss that keeps the sun from the earth and holds the frost in the ground when the moss is removed the earth thaws out in the summer tor the days are long h ere and as warm as they are in colorado now we come out on the brow of the hill overlooking dawson the view 0 o unbroken here to our left rushes the clear klondike and yonder at the further end ot the town the mighty yukon curving with sweep sublime glides away among the hills on the long journey to the ocean nearly 2 miles away between the town and the toot ot the hill there is a wide stretch of level marshy land this was a quagmire a year ago now it has all been drained we can sec the drains and ditch tram the hilltop and you can walk 01 ride all about my friend and companion dr B points out two hospitals that bosl over both empty one Is foi typhoid fever patients only cases there why said the doctor dawson today is the most vulgarly healthy town on the continent CY WARMAN julian C houtz and wife are at the reed nr l ernnt own vp srm binl gram kaiue to liverpool and was at the town li ill a i unknown liverpool man wrote to t w nayor with many apolo eliut if he might take the of for a fow minutes with the preat soldier tr mayor hesitated but found a way of mentioning the matter to the great man who without hesitation s ald certainly let the gentleman come lie came lie said to the general now sir utter amateur as 1 nm I 1 hao followed every step of the war and I 1 1 understand every movement except one on such a day you were t acre and the southerners were there pointing to plans on a map that be had brought now it seems to me that you ought certainly to have gone there whereas you went there pointing again general grant the usually taciturn and when not taciturn laci turn phenomenally terse just took the cigar aiom his mouth and said youre right sir infernal blunder and in a moment the amateur strategist beaming now was courteously dismissed that reminds me by sir edward russell A aila take A few years before his death alien G thurman of ohio was engaged as counsel in a lawsuit which was tried before a country judge in one of the small towns in the central part of the state opposing judge thurman was a young lawyer named cassady who wore his hair pompadour assumed an air of great dignity and was apparently greatly impressed with his own importance upon several occasions during the progress of the trial thurman referred to his legal opponent as sir necessity the young man arose whenever this occurred and with great gravity reminded the court that his name was cassady finally after the ottense had been repeated about a dozen times the pompous attorney exclaimed 1 I must again remind counsel upon the other side that my name Is cas aldy I 1 cant understand why he persists in maintaining that it Is naces elty 1 I beg the gent lemans pardon said thurman the reason I 1 keep getting him confused with necessity Is I 1 presume due to the fact that the latter knows no law chicago almes aid the first comet on the evening of oct 1 1847 the mitchells were entertaining a party of invited guests writes amelia II 11 botsford of the mother of the stars in the ladles home journal but marias matchell Ml aras not to be deterred by company from following tier custom with the tele scope every clear night she slipped away and ran up to the observatory returned and told her father that the thought ghe had been a comet i jie hurried up to the observatory cd that it was indeed a comet this ailes to the gold medal that bad been offered some years before by he king of denmark to the first discoverer of a telescopic comet and it was struck kcf and tor warded to bo y KS n A of sentence for 25 years squire held the office of justice of the deac in donl county and in the eaffy part of bis he held the idea that a justice had aa much jurisdiction ansa district court once a shooting scrape occurred in culprit was brought before the squire for preliminary examination after bo arguments the or adored the prisoner to stand up lie airia prisoner it Is the sentence court that you hiyi abat necla dead dead dead a ur tUng oi then constable sal drako ahls prisoner outside aad hang him to tap tree in the yard Is a rope halter in my buggy 1 i i abo constable made a move for the prisoner and then the squire a second thought said mr constable I 1 guess you had better not hang the prisoner until we see whether his victim dies kansas city Sou rahl i r llcy proper rin ce miss crooke the english actress once gave a couple of scabs scats for the theater to her landlady who had never seen her on the stage on the following day the landlady seemed to be satisfied with the play but she did not give any opinion of paula so miss brooka asked her the straight question what did you think of me then the landlady exclaimed with a bland admiring smile oh miss brooke dear youre far too good for the stage you ought to be in a shop tryan on mantles |
