Koochiching Museums

Mr. J. A. Matthew’s houseboat had eight rooms, a combination dining and living room, a small galley, a pump-room and bathroom downstairs and three bedrooms. The living room, bathroom and bedrooms were all finished in natural knotty pine paneling. Upstairs there was a front and back porch with a veranda covering them, and it had three foot walkways along both sides of a large room. It had cost Mr. Matthew $10,000 to build it during the heart of the Great Depression; Violet

The two young hired men not only jumped ship taking a good portion of what was left of their summers grubstake. The desertion was the cause of Violet having to go down into the boiler room and fire it with wet pulp, she was proud that she managed to keep the steam up. All they had to eat were beans and not much of them though she did bake bread to go with them. Because of the poor diet, Orrah had yellow jaundice and was very sick, though he manned the steam tugs wheelhouse