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"blind tigers" or ''pig's ears," galore. Gambling dens 

 and disorderly houses also flournished, and any one 

 who really wanted to be wicked had every opportunity 

 to be so. 



Lest this should give an unfair impression of the 

 town, it should be added that there were also four 

 churches, and the efforts of these were supplemented 

 by occasional visits from traveling evangelists. The 

 W. C. T. U. was active. So also was the Y. M. C. A., 

 which had a fine building, with gymnasium and baths. 



For those with fraternal leanings there were 

 lodges of Masons, Maccabees, and Odd-Fellows. Oth- 

 ers socially inclined derived their amusement from the 

 local hterary society, card-clubs and dances. Ten 

 young ladies, apparently of classical tastes, formed 

 themselves into a club called the Bellae Decem — the 

 Beautiful Ten. ^ ^' * .k 



Back of all this activity in the town was the woods 

 work of getting out the logs and sending them to the 

 mills. Logging railroads ran every creek bottom, and 

 lumber-camps abounded. In addition to the timber 

 cut for the Cross Fork mills, some twenty milhon board 

 feet, or more, were driven every year down Kettle 

 Creek and the Susquehanna to Williamsport. 



About five thousand lumberjacks — or "hicks," inj 

 local parlace — were engaged in the work. Thev were 

 of the rough, roving type characteristic of their calling. 

 For the most part unmarried and homeless, thev lived 



