The "Golden Gate Hotel" may fairly be called a
telephone building - you can hear a man kiss
his wife in the fourth room down the hall from yours
A young - newly married couple occupy the room
next to me, -they occupy a rappy {squeaky} spring bed
just through a thin partition - and they make
me nervous! Stormy for last two days &
all vessels had to leave the front of Nome,- they
cut & run behind Sledge Island - they came
back today & are trying to get their passengers
aboard tonight. No wharf, and they have to go
out half a mile to the steamer on a scow or
in small boats - its pretty dangerous.
-25th-
Took dinner with Dr. Call tonight - Capt. Jarvis
& US. Marshal Frank Richards also present.
I am very fond of Capt. Jarvis; he is a loveable,
honest and competent man - I think those three
words cover about all that is necessary in a
man, - and he is the typical citizen - that he is
modest goes without saying - having the other virtu[es]
