The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-05-03
The Wickedest Town in Amerioa.

nave secu wicked cities IN my Jlne.
havo seen spreeing At EsIer in St
Petersburg, seen fellows make q night
of it in the Oorphem in Berlin, seen
the wickedness at Mini Novgoro3 during
| the September fair, seen the Mabill.
packed with depravfty when ,he empire
was at its meridian, but I never expected
to see hell itself l sauntered out en- the
streets of Cheyenne at midnight, Fifty
saloons and dozen licensed gambling
houses line the principal street, all
ttrouged and gaily Illuminated till the
morning sun put on. the lights.
What makes Cheyenne the Eickedest
city in the world?
l. Cheyenne is the metropolis where
the rich owners and the buckskin~clad
drivers of five million doilaJs' worth Of
cattle rendezvous for weekly spree.
. 1t IS the nearest roiut where the
Black Killers Gan sell their gold dust
and nuggetssand then gamble and spree
away the proceeds so as to 60 back to
the mines.
5 1t is the point to which all the
Iadlau-f. ht;ng army ofRcera come as
place where they can spree away Iun-
dred Dollars IN a night aud make up fer
lJst time on the Biz Horn.
4 1t is the stepping place for all the
swell demi monde from San Francisco,
St. Louis, and Chicago. In a word. it is
the American paradise for licens, i
drinking, fighting, gambling, etc.
Walk with me into one licensed house
en- toe prime pal street in Cheyenne at
@ clock in the morning. The house is
medley. K is the Harisian Varieties On
S5xtss nth street. John Morrisseys Sara;
lcgg gambling house, the Argyle rooms
on SIKH Avenue, and the Alhambra,
wi;h il ff,y waiter girls, il London, a
crowded mo one. The building is perl
hap4 30 by 1870 feet, and two cries
high. On tie ground floor is tie theater
stage, room for three hundred cew boys,
soldiers, rancbInen and waiter girl, and
just out of it arc the gambling tables
and bars. At the table every known
game is played. Among The dea 'crs are
several French women dressed in s; ks !
and diamcnds. Utterly devoid Of de /
cacy they shuttle and deal the cards and
qudIe the chips fGr the swearing, drinI-
ing crowd which throng around II e
tables:
On the stage there is 4 constant va
rieyy show going on SkillfuI variety ac-
tors are employed. and there The tight
T, pc walker, the song and dance WON, n
ia tights, the Iow-necfed ball ID singer,
the clog dancer, the ueg-c minstrel the
model artists, and the female bathers
eome out in 4 CONTINUOUS stream from
ten at night GntiI morning.
On the first floor every drink Is > |
cents, and aLoat thirty English, French |
and American waiter girls keep the |
crowd constantly drinking. Above this
motley crowd of COW Toys, ranchmen,
Black ILLS freighters, miners, and SOL
Tiers, is row Of private boxes filed /
with rich Tauchmeu, Gicers, tourists,
and fellows who have Come down with
gold dust from the Black Hills, Jhgse
b KS all communicate with The stage.
Twenty OF thirty waiter girls supply the
b ,xes with champagne, the price Of
with is 3 fer pint bottles. All the
drinks in the boxes are 80 cents. 1t is a
common thing for a rich ranchman, after
Sc ling a thousand cattle, to come here |
All spend 81 ,OO0 on a spree. A colonel |
in the army, who had been fighting in |
the Big Horn country, came in the other |
evening AMI spent 81 600, and finally |
left his watch on the red, and lost that |!
too. The proprietor OF This gambling /
and variety saloon is 4 very promizcnt !
man. Everybody LIKES him and he is !
c ns:derod a coed citizen in Cheyenne
Clergyman shake Linn by the hand. and
b mixers chum with him Ike III old
cboclnate The Trc cts in thczunc
Lu;Iirg are e eco per day. I suppose
there aie a j, zen Louses en- one block
where Esmb3irg co-s On day and night
W tn open doors. Some times mars hal
and the policeman take hand. Tho
Judge goes ut and bucks the t'g r
while the jury are og~. eng n "a yer lie;
7 u viii see colonels IN the army st md
ne by private solliers, and see COW be. :
in leeksk:n dividing the chips with a
Cayenne iadlan-a!l in the most enter
rrisirg border town in America and the
wick dest city Ia the world.