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“Yep,” sald the old boat builder,
“brother John an’ me is out of the
tourist business. We figgered, there
bein’ not much doin’ in our own life
that we might put up log cabins on
the old place for folks to stay In
overnight, or mebbe a week at a time.
Most everybody that's got a piece of
ground between here an Machias
does it, an’ makes money, so they tell
me, but I guess the women folks does
the most of the tendin’ to it. I
thought once that puttin’ a boat to-
gether so she would ride the water
like a duck was quite a leetle trick,
hut It ain't nawthin’ to fixin' up a
camp so it will please a woman.
“Bein' mechanics from boys up,
buildin’ the cabins wasn't no trouble.
We just drew along the rud a plece
an’ see what the shacks that the
farmers had bullt was like: then we
come home, got the lumber from town,
an’ built us five of ‘em. There they be
now. Take a look at em’ and tell me
if you ever seen anything that could
beat 'em for the right draft an’ beam.
They's everything into ‘em. Hot air |
stoves for chilly weather, pictures of |
the world's biggest battles that we |
got out of a history book our grand
dad left us when he died an' an’ all |
the tin ware an’ chiny anybody needs
to get a meal together with,
JJust to give the place a home like
touch, we took a trip around some of
the farms an’ got some things to
pretty ‘em up, like tidies for the
chairs an’ artificial flowers an’ wall
mottoes. When we had everything
ready an’ invitin® we put up a sign:
‘Camps, night, day an’ weeks If yon
want 'em’ out by the big rud and
sure enough right away folks begun
to come in.
“But they was a kind of folks that
was different from any me an’ John
had ever see. The first was a woman
about sixty with a husband a little
older, lefore she would even look
at one of the camps she began to ask
questions of me. |
“ ‘Are these places clean? says she. |
They don’t look it."
* ‘They're bran new, ma'am,’ I says.
‘Never been lived in.’ ”
“‘Are the furnishings adequate? |
“*They're the adequatest furnish- |
Ings money can buy,’ I says wonderin’
what she was talkin’ about.”
“Very well, I'll look at them.'"
“1 was goin’ along, but she waved |
me away. ‘I'll let you know our de
cision,’ she says, an’ takin’ the bunch
of keys I give her off she went, her
husband trallin’ along behind her.”
“l was just thinkin’ how pleased
an’ surprised she'd be, when back she
come, hot foot.”
““There’s no bawth In that first
cabin,’ she says. "Have any of them
bawths? *
“ ‘Well, no, not exactly.’”
* ‘Just what do you mean, by not
exactly?”
“1 mean they ain't no reg'lar bath
tubs, but me an’ John every Sunday
strips off, ship-board fashion an’ pours
buckets of water over each other.
They ain't nothin’ like it for givin’
you a appetite for breakfast.”
“lI don’t know yet what made the
old dame so mad, but she just red-
dened up like she'd been insulted,
says, ‘Come on Henry’ to the man,
an’ off they go to their car.
“1 felt pretty low about the busi:
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buckets of water over each other.
ness for a while, an’ then pretty soon
another couple shows up
“We want a cottage by the shore,’
says the woman, who was young an’ |
kind of movin’ pictur’ lookin’.
"Not
the man.
“As as It can be. What's
the use of coming to a place like this
if we can't see the river?
“You won't be able to see the
river for the fog In the morning, If
you don't take that shack up on the
hill.’
“ ‘Very well. You can go there and |
I will take the cunning little one by
the beach.’
"Just as you say. But don't ex. |
pect me to rescue you if a bear comes |
snooping around.’ |
“Then what does the girl do but |
bust out cryin’ an’ fel
Is a wuss brute than any bear, an’ as |
too near the shore, says
close
says the ler |
soon as she can get to a railroad sta- |
tion she Is goin’ home to her mot
So the
climbs an’
that.
her. |
he |
she hops in
after
0 car, n'
:
her that's all of |
look
“It was beginnin' to
business wasn't goin’ to well |
two old ladies
down the road an' lis
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along comes
fou?
chuggin one yel
npty.
“When she finds we has five of ‘em
she an’ her friend starts to look
over, an’ an’ by we
words about the furnishin's.
“It seems one of 'em was sore be. |
cause they wasn't no hooked rugs on
the floor, an’ the other wanted a fire |
place, ‘hey thrashed that out, by |
an’ by decidin® to go back to the first |
cabin they'd looked at, an’ there they |
got into a dispute about whether the |
cook stove would draw or not. After |
ten minutes they decided to find out |
by lightin® a fire into It. It drawed |
all right, but the on: claimed |
it only drawed because the wind was |
blowin' down river, an’ would smoke |
‘em
by
old
“Then pretty soon, when they had |
to another cabin we could!
that was recommended to em by her |
Cousin Alec was only about three-
shipboard an’ pours
quarter witted, an’ that his trouble
seemed to run In the family.
of the house single file an’ stalkin’
ight it
squabbles a while who
goin’ to drive, and then up ti
they go.
“It was two days later be
about was
ie rud
fore any
a woman with three daughters, who
was pleased with the first cabin we
showed ‘em an' real They
was all over the place, makin' friends
sociable,
sorts of ns,
fust n
second
questio They
of
stayed
stayed
the all
turned foggy.
right
It was at nidnight
th
ii
there
ere was two of
ghiverin' but
“Before 1 had a chance t
thin’
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the
ferr
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& BAY
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or ask ‘em a t
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do something about that cow.
to the poor thing’
“1 don’t hear po cow.’ | sald.
only cow we got is » barn.’
in
t
al guests must be
t with
rod
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Hen we come up
:
We started the
hearin’
down without
nothing, an’
ttle hill an’ one of the gals
says,
“Where?
“
wht e
iy
‘Right there. Do
to say you don’t hear itv
says I, pre puzzled.
ont You
“Then of a sudden 1 knew what it
was all about. Three miles the
river the fog horn was g
gals was out on a errand mercy
to get me to put it out of its misery.
“The next day 1 says to Henry :
‘Henry! Tomorrow you an’ me is
goin’ to take down that sign on the
rad an’ retire from the outdoor hotel
business, hat feller that sald thar
women is uncertain coy an’ hard to
ap
goin’,
of
ways been predominantly of wood, |
and even the streets were pauvyd with
boards to combat the almost bottom:
less mud of the tundra on which the
town sprang up. There has always
been an autumn exodus from Nome
to ‘the States’ Thig was particu-
larly marked in the early days of
the town's life when the proportion
of fair-weather citizens was large.
“The town lies wholly unprotected
on the north coast of the ley, storm-
swept Bering sea close to the Arctie
circle, and is frozen in and snowed
in for about seven months of the
year. At times the snow drifts up
to the eaves of the houses, Since
placer mining, the community's chief
industry, depends on the use of wa-
ter, all activities must close when the
water congeals. Nome's last boar
usually leaves for Seattle about Oe
tober 10, and none arrives until the |
middle of the following June,
“Gold was discovered in one of the
creeks Inland from the site of Nome, |
in the autumn of 1808, When the
ice released its grip on the Bering |
coast the following spring. thousands |
of gold-seekers rushed in. Then came
the astounding discovery by a United |
States soldier that he could pan gold |
from the sands of the beach,
Glamor and Tragedy Marked Nome's
Life.
“News of this paradise for
poor miner, where it was not
necessary to file claims, spread rap
idly over the world those
radioless days, Miners
Alaska settlements and
United States, thelr
store clerks quit thelr Jobs, seamen de
the
even
even In
in other |
western |
dropped
serted their ships, gar re left their
the
comfa
gown
eft
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old haunts, laborers
tools, and even
oy
ri
Dan’l put together.”
Copyright «WNU Service.
Washington.—Nome, Alaska, re
cently almost entirely destroyed by
fire, Is an outstanding example of a
town named by mistake. In early
maps of Alaska one cape was left
nameless and an official to whom the
draft was submitted penciled beside
it the query “name? A copylst
transcribed the scrawled question as |
“Nowe,” and the name stuck. When
settlement which had previously been |
called Anvil City, adopted the name
of the cape, 11 miles to the east.
“Nome is only about 120 miles |
southeast of Cape Prince of Wales |
which marks the American side of |
Bering strait, and less than 150 miles |
from the mainland of Asia,” says a |
bulletin from the National Geographic
society headquarters in Washington
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“For years it has been the nearest
town of any Importance to the Old
World. The town sprawls along the
that stream flows into Bering sea,
about midway of the Alaskan west
coast,
A Town Built of Wood.
“The bulldings of Nome have al
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able homes to seek the
| the Nome sands,
“In became the
erritory In
SINKS In
all parts
of
emblazoned
on the pages of
“Life in Nome
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shady tricks on Innocent |
TOR LOTS,
wtimes with
Nicials, was common
grew rich from
1 bags and pockethoo
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had
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why not?
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with the
American
most rer
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city grew like a
med
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rose al
sands sires
and afoot
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wood
Increased traffic or
them knee-deep m
covered them with sturds
a fore
galely
of pedestrians
One of the Greatest Gold Stampedes.
“After the golden = the
en were
{| brought in and the mining took on an
| industrial aspect {n the creeks some
| miles inland. Nome's population be
| gan to dwimile. iy 183 thousands
ide of
at
i beach were exhausted, dredees
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i of gold seekers had died or vanished
| ~some with purses bulging: others!
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