I (Continued from Pa ire Three)
) not infrequent. Box trade return
ed girls a commission of 25 percent.
Men waiters were employed to i
serve box occupants. Halls behind
the tiers of boxes led to a flight of
stairs down to the end of the bar.
In giving an order the customer
would entrust his poke, or buck- j
skin sack, of gold dust—there was |
no coin or currency in circulation—
to the waiter, and at the bar the j
price of the purchase would be
FRATERNAL ORDERS
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER OF j
EASTERN STAR
Meet* the second and fourth
Monday* of each month In j
Odd Fellows’ Hall at 8 p.m.
Visiting members always wel
come: Miriam Painter, W.
M.; Martine Johansen, act
ing Secretary.
REWARD LODGE NO. 1425. L. O. O. M.
Meets every first and
third Fridays each
month at 8 p.m. at
Otid Fellows’ Hall. (
All welcome. Peter •
N Anderson, Direc
tor. M. A. Horner, i
PIONEERS OF ALASKA—IGLOO NO. 9
c. M. Brosius, Secretary-Treasurer
SEWARD REBEKA11 LODGE NO. 6-A.
I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of each
month in Odd Fellows’
Hall at 8 p.m.. Visiting
members are a lways
welcome. Mrs. Marie
Osbo, N. G., Ludwig
Larsson, Secretary.
RFc«tTTRF( TION LODGE NO. A-7, I.O.O.F. I
Meet* every Thursday at 8:00 !
'■> p.n». in Odd Fellows’ Hall. Vis
iting brothers welcome
Dow T Galloway, N. G., Ludwig Larsson,
secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO. 219. F. * A. M.
Stated communications t and
third Tuesdays each mo. Vis
iting brethem welcome. J. *L
Flickinger, W. M.. Martin Ban
bsry. Secretary. „
weighted out of the poke, the value
)f dust being S16 an ounce. On the
ivay from the box to bar or from
Dar to box, most waiters would open
;he pokes to spoon out' some of the
contents for themselves. That was
robbing the customer—“single out”
was the euphonious designation of
the practice. Also, as the night
wore on and box occupants became
less attentive to service and less
discriminating in taste, most wait
ers would take away the bottles be
fore! they were empty, fill them
with water and hide them in hall
ways or unoccupied boxes. When
:he customer ordered again, a bot
Ae of diluted liquor would be
Drought to him, after the waiter
nad extracted from the poke the
price—generously estimated—of a
new bottle. That was robbing not
Duly the customer but also the
bouse—“double out” was the face
nous characterization of the pro
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cess. Of course, proprietors were
vigilant in guarding against sing- {
ling and doubling out. and even the j
suspicion that a waiter was profit- ,
ing from such activities was suffi- j
cient to cause his discharge. As a
consequence, waiters were fre
quently changing places of employ
ment and were often out of work.
Co-operation between waiters and
girls was essential, and they shared
the loot with one another,
t Pantages was a smart waiter.
Some of his fellow servants squan
dered in drinking and gambling
their money as fast as they got it.
He was temperate. He did not play
games of chance. He was frugal al
most to the point of miserliness.
However, he did not always have a
1 job. On one occasion when he was
out of employment, so Kate Rock
well recited in the complaint she
subsequently filed against him. he
told her he needed funds and she
supplied him .with money, enabling
him to by 75-cent cigars, $15 silk !
I shirts and pay $40 a week for board, !
while she met the rent for the I
irom they jointly occupied
Kate Rockwell, about the age of
Pantages, was pretty and vivacious
At her business, she was a triple j
I treat—a good performed, a grace- i
ful dancer, a clever box rustler, j
Like most sisters of her calling, she
was improviddntly liberal to her
boy friend.
Both Pantages and Kate Rock
well left Dawson in 1901. By way
I of Nome, they came to Seattle and
jthen went to San Francisco, stay
ing at the California hotel, as ad- !
mitted by him in later litigation. j
! After some further traveling they
'returned to Seattle in 1902. She had j
paid all the traveling expenses, she
averred in her lawsuit,. He then es
tablished his first vaudeville thea
tre. He converted a store room in
the business district into a small
playhouse with not to exceed 200
seats. Admission was 10 cents.
Many of his performances were en
tertainers of northern acquain
tances. jhis snows in Seattle, like
; dances in Dawson, were short. He
filled and emptied his theatre often
during a day and evening. He pros
pered. In his association with Kate
Rockwell. He pretended to her he
was in financial distress, she set
forth in their litigation, and in 1903
she went to Victoria, B. C. and after
j wards to Texas to engage in her
calling so she could procure funds
to relieve his monetary embarass
ments. She remained away a con
siderable time, sending him part
of her earnings, she alleged in her
legal proceedings. On her return
to Seattle, she noticed a lack of af
fection on his part. She did not
abandon hope of winning him back
until she learned of his marriage in
Seattle. March 1?. loo'-- to Miss Lois
Mendenhal, his present wife.
Kait Rockwell Lied suit against
Pantages in Seattle in May, 1905.
She asked for $25,000 and of this
sum she sought $1700 as money she
had given him and the balance as
damages for breach of promise.
His confession of illicit relations
with her was made in answer to in- j
terrogatories propounded to him by i
her attorneys. With respect to his
property holdings at the time, he j
stated that his only theatrical in- j
terests were in Seattle, that they
were worth $51,800 and that he had
$4800 in the bank. These resources,
he insisted, had been accumulated
from an original investment of
$5000, which he said was the trea
sure he had brought from the
Klondike four years previously.
In the litigation, Kate Rockwell j
was represented by three attorneys
and the records show that one of
them vigorously opposed a settle
ment out of court. The order dis
missing the suit was formally en
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