Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-06-06

Throughout lnt Wn'hc ldHt. ~ IL on
this point that they will yet be called
to answer for their responsible stew.
ardship, and il will not Lc well for
them if ii shall be believed that they
hindered the triumph OF national paci.
fication.
THE WICKEDEST TOWN IN
AMERICA.
have seen wicked cities in my time.
| have seen spreeing at the Esler in
st, Petersburg, seen fellows mako II
night of it" in the Orpheum in Berlin,
seen the wiekedness at Mini Novgorod
during the September fair seen the
Mabille packed with depravity when
the empire was at its meridian, but |
never expected to sec hell ITSELF !
sanntered out on the streets of Chcy.
enne at midnight. Fifty saloons and
a dozen licensed gambling houses line
the principal street, all thronged and
gaily illuminated till the morning sun
puts out the lights.
What makes Cheyenne the wicked
est city in the world?
|. Cheyenne is the metropolis where
the rich owners and buckskin-clad
drivers OF five million dollars worth
of cattle rendezvous for weekly
spree,
ii. 1t is the nearest point where the
Black Killers can sell their gold dust
and nuggets and then gamble and
spree away the proceeds so as to 90
back TO the mines.
III. 1t is the point to which all the
Indian-fghting army officers come as
a place where they can spree away n
hundred dollars in a night aud make
up for lost time on the Big Horn.
". 1t is the stopping point for all
the swell demimond from San Fran
cisco, 81. Louis and Chicago. In a
word, it is the American paradise for
licensed drinking, fighting, gambling,
&c.
Walk with me into one licensed
house on the principal street Of Chey-
enne at o'clock in the morning. The
house is medley. It is the Partisan
Varieties on Sixteenth street, John
Morrlssey's Saratoga gambling house,
Argyle rooms on Sixth avenue, and
the Alhambra, with its fifty waiter
girls, in London, all crowded into one
The building is perhaps fifty by one
hundred and thirty feet, and two stor.
les high. On the ground floor is a
theatre stage, room for three hundred
COW boys, soldiers, lanchmen and
waiter girls, and just out of il are
the gambling tables and bars. At the
tables every known game is played.
Among the dealers are several French
women dressed in silks and diamonds.
Utterly devoid of delcacy they shuttle
and deal the cards and handle the
chips for the swearing, drinking crowd
that throng around the tables.
On the stage there isa constant va
riety show going on. Skillful variety
actors are employed, and there the
tight-rope walkers, the song and the
dance women in tights, the low necked
ballad singer, the clog-dancer, the ne.
gro minstrel, the model artists, and
the female bathers come out in a con.
tinuous stream from ten at night till
morning.
On the first floor every drink is
twenty-five cents, and about thirty
English, French and American waiter
girls keep the crowd constantly drink.
ing. Above this motley crowd OF
cowboys ranch.men, Black Hills
frcighters, miners, and soldiers, is a
row OF private boxes filled with rich
ranch-men, officers, tourists, and iel.
lows who have come down with gold
dust from the Black Hills. These
boxes all communicate with the stage.
Twenty or thirty waiter girls supply
the boxes with champagne, the price
of which is s5 for pint bottles. An
drinks in the boxes are fifty cents. 1t
is a common thing for rich ranch
man, after selling thousand cattle, to
come here and spend $1,000 on a
spree. A Colonel in the army, who
had been fighting up in the Big Horn
country, came in the other evening
and spent $1,000, and finally left his
watch on the red, and lost that, too
The proprietor of this gambling and
variety saloon is very generous man.
Everybody likes him, and he is con.
sidered good citizen in Cheyenne.
Clergymen shake him by the hand,
and bankers chum with him like nn
old schoolmate. The profits in the
one building are $1,000 per day. |
suppose there are dozen houses on
one block where gambling goes on day
and night with open doors. Sometimes
the marshal and policeman take a
hand. The Judge goes out and bucks
the tiger" while the jury are agreeing
on verdict. You will see Colonels in
the army standing by private soldiers,
and see cowboys in buckskin dividing
the chips with Cheyenne Indan--all
in the most enterprising border town
in America and the wickedest city in |
the World.
Tomorrow AIN of for the Black |
Hills.-ELI PERKINS, in ~. Y. SIN.
An exchange says "vcry few Rus.
slams can read or write" ANY man