Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-09-16
NOTES AND QUERIES.


ings and grounds of the Nevada State Agri
cultural Society during their Fair, at Reno
this Inquisitor would beg to be heard in com
mendation of the well-directed spirit of enter
prise which has made the Reno Fair so vel
established and acceptable an annual recur
renee. What can be done by courageous
effort, zeal, self-assertion and industry is
hereby illustrated. What can be let slip and
90 to dust and ashes and mere nothingness is
shown by the absence of all such results here
in Carson. Ten years ago the race course at
this point was the most popular, (as it GER
tainly was the best in natural advantages for
speed, accommodation and other desirable
things), in the State 1t fell into bad uses,
to be sure, but there were ample inducements
and opportunities to atone for all mistak es
and correct all abuses and continue it as the
nucleus for just such an institution as they
are rejoicing over at Reno. But there seem
to have been two influences at work against
Carson. One of these was the all-destructive,
narrow, dog -the-manger aboninatlon Of
conflicting interests. One end of the town
would'n assist anything that was going to
help the other end; this man must have his
finger in the pie and pull out all the larger
plums, anyhow, while that one set his inge
nuity at work to make the institution bring
grist to his small mill Ct will be seen that
we are intimating some facts relative to the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of our cattle show and
race-course projects.) Finally, after the old
land unequalled) race-track went begging
to the Fair (and unfair) folk, the present
lands were purchased and turned over to the
to the-well, to the Fiend of Folly, with
two tremendous, double jointed, blood red,
staring Fs! Under Tor over) all this misman-
agement and squabbling has been the chill
ing atmosphere of high toned, conservative
people whose aspirations and tastes and reach
ings towards the infinite have been too as-
thetical (what good Boston word that ISL
for the baser uses of the world-the baser
uses being the devising of things that attract
people to towns, invite them to bring in their
sheep and pigs and cows and prize bulls and
colts and fowls and products for show and
comparison and the immemorial fun of Fair
Week. This chilling moral atmosphere, red
olent of the dry-rot, promotive of worldliness
and decay, ifeless, sitting and Astounding in
the atomic particles of deadly stupefaction,
this has done more to leave Carson in the
background and condemn it to the uses of
somnolency and shabby gentility than all
other unfavoring causes combined 1t is a
dreadful thing when small interior commu
nifty prematurely gives itself up to the esthet-
icals. As well invite moral and mental
hypochondria, at once. Who shall suggest a
remedy for these evils and then have the |
of the ruts and stumbling places of our self
inflicted, self-cherished follies9 God helps |
those who help themselves. Shall we ever
make a movement to make this natural CEN
ter of western Nevada the attraction it has
every facility for becomingl We family hope
SO. ... This Notist has in his memory's eye
some dim outlines (Which are mere uncer-
tain glimmer and not at all defned), of ga
Musical Dnel, Grammatical piece, composed
by Hunt or Hazlett or Lamb or some one of
their associates. There is dim fancy that
there was funny controversy between the
several parts of the gamut or scale, which in
volved, at length, war between the various
tubes of wind and string instruments, the
whole resulting in much battered brass and
swapping and restraining of catgut and mash
ing of drum heads. Were the industrious,
accomplished and praiseworthily persistent
young gentlemen who nightly fill the Sierra
Seminary with their banded melodies and
practicings upon the cornet and
the trombone, were they engaged in a must
cal duel, or discordant murder, about ad-
lourning time of Friday night This Querist
knows something of Calathumpia and its pos g
sibilities and performings; he has had expe-
rience, in less orderly days and nights of the ,
fierce disturbing notes of the Charivari; but
the wild outpouring of those frolicsome anna 6
teurs, their mixture of medley of conflict |
ing solos, all done, each for itself, by and f
through its own sonorous brass, was some
hing sublime, sleep dispelling, awful One l.
wonders if those discords, like musk, ever I
ling to the walls whereupon they are ex =
laled, or if they go rioting and crashing out o
pon the exhaustiless waves of sound, for
yer and forever Certainly they will over
ONE and vanquish and obliterate everything d,