Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-06-15
CARSON'S DEFANIERS.

There is something about the Virginia City
Faotliqht that we can't help liking. 1t is fresh,
w;Ae-awake and saucy These are the savors
wlnrewith.spicines is spiced. And it is be-
c,.,se we like the Footliqht that we regret to
see it speaking our little city in the way it
does. Now for example we quote as follows
from its issue of Thursday:
Tonight the Pioneers will decide upon the
place to hold their annual picnic. We under
stand some of the committee appointed for
that purpose are in favor of Carson, while the
majority of the society prefer Bowers Man
SION OF the two the latter is preferable for
many reasons, among which the following are
pertinent. 1t will cause at least twenty-five
hundred dollars to be expended in Virginia
and Gold Hill for cOnveyances, refreshments,
etc, which otherwise would not be; and
former experience has proven that the largest
amounts have been made when the Mansion
was the objective point. The first picnic re-
turned to the treasury about $500, the next
being held at Carson cleared only about $500,
and the last still less. Again many Virgin
ans will not 60 to Carson, being disguised
with the near-sighted extortion of some of
her business men, and in this connection we
nay add it is a great pity that the honorable,
should suffer from the ow-bred avaricious
ness of few. Another point not to be
ignored, is the undeniable fact that our bust
ness men being literally patronized by excur-
sionists, contribute by their attendance to its
success both financially and socially, in fact,
i a picnic is to be given, we hope the com
nttce will use discretion and select the place
that will be most agreeable to those they ex-
pect to attend, and whose money they desire
to assist them out of pecuniary embarrass-
ments.
BY an item in yesterdays Enterprise We
are informed that the Pioneers have conclu
ded to hold their annual picnic at Bowers
Mansion. We suppose this action is final.
|, is much to be regretted, on all accounts;
anorc especially as making violent and sud
den breach between the two cities of Vir-
glnia and Carson. Now this misunderstood
;as seems to us to have been fonented with
no little deliberation, by somebody. From
m allusou contained in the foregoing we sus-
pect chat the livery stable men in Virginia
have lad decided influence in the choice of
Grounds. These, and not the participants in
The picnic would seem to have been taken into
E'NSltefatlOn by JIle committee. surrey d
plan which compels those who would attend
thus festival to go to the extraordinary ex-
peNsp Of hiring carriages and horses for the
days excursion is not a plan looking to the
greatest accommodation Of the greatest num-
Der. The admission is frankly made that the
trip to the Bowers Mansion is about twice as
expansive as that to Treadway's grounds As
to the complaints against the Warm Springs
charges, they are shown to be quite ground
less Some persons were taken there in other
than the regular conveyance which is run by
the proprietors of the Springs, and were
charged accordingly. That is the whole story.
The inconsistency of such complaints as those
made Ivy the Footlight is apparent in its
advocacy of plan which gives the livery men
of he Comstock an opportunity to gather
handsome day income from the very people
nhom that paper would protect from the
small expense of "bus" ride from Carson
Street to the Springs The conclusion
adopted by the Pioneers committee puts
every cody concerned to an increased ex-
pcnse, Judgments an unneighborlike feeling
between the two places, and deprives peo
pie who cannot wisely be deprived of such
lnxury-~the opportunity of taking an effective
annual bath! A reconsideration of their i'll
considered action would be in order.
STANLEY MATTHEWS.