He would say, "They've a street up there in 'Roaring' that would lay over any street in Red Dog.

They've got vines and flowers round their houses, and they wash themselves twice a day.

But they're mighty rough on strangers, and they worship an Ingin baby." With the prosperity of the camp came a desire for further improvement.
It was proposed to build a hotel in the following spring, and to invite one or two decent families to reside there for the sake of The Luck, who might perhaps profit by female companionship.

The sacrifice that this concession to the sex cost these men, who were fiercely skeptical in regard to its general virtue and usefulness, can only be accounted for by their affection for Tommy.

A few still held out.