. A woman who went to Alaska . e none. Crowded, dirty, disorderly,full of saloons and gambling houses,with a few fourth-class restaurants andone or two mediocre hotels, we foundthe new mining camp a typical one inevery respect. Prices were sky even paid for a drink of our newly found Alaska appetites with us,we at once, upon landing, made our way to an eat-ing house, the best to be found. Here a cup of poor tea, a plate of thin soup andquestionable meat stew with bread were served usupon nicked china, soiled table linen and with black-ened steel knives and forks, for the
. A woman who went to Alaska . e none. Crowded, dirty, disorderly,full of saloons and gambling houses,with a few fourth-class restaurants andone or two mediocre hotels, we foundthe new mining camp a typical one inevery respect. Prices were sky even paid for a drink of our newly found Alaska appetites with us,we at once, upon landing, made our way to an eat-ing house, the best to be found. Here a cup of poor tea, a plate of thin soup andquestionable meat stew with bread were served usupon nicked china, soiled table linen and with black-ened steel knives and forks, for the enormous sumof one dollar a head; which so dumbfounded usthat we paid it without a murmur, backed out thedoor and blankly gazed into each others prices will ruin us! gasped the table linen! Ugh! shuddered the youngman. Fifteen cents in California for such a mealgrowled the English girl in her matter-of-fact way,and with wide distended eyes; while I found suchamusement in watching the three faces before me. A Woman Who Went—To Alaska 95 that I barely found breath to remind them of thetwo tons of nice things in their own packing casesat the landing. If only they are soon landed, groaned madam,and we set off at our best gait to find the cases. But we did not succeed. The freight was beingunloaded from the ship, we were told, as rapidly asit was possible to handle it, but one Ughter anda small tugboat in a very rough sea, unloading aship two miles ofif the beach, must have time; andwe waited. Only two or three lighters were to behad at Nome. Other large steamers were being un-loaded, and hundreds of people were hourly beinglanded upon the beach. There was no shelter forthem anywhere, every building was full, and con-fusion was badly confounded. To make mattersworse it began to rain. If we could only find ourfreight and get our tents, bed, supplies, etc., wewould be all right, but it would be impossible that•day we found, after making repeated excursionsthr
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