The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1882-12-07
MORE RAMBLING REMARKS ON TIE LAND
OF THE SETTING SUN.

ly excuse for another like it; the only ex.
cuse for the notes and recollectiops of four
acknowledgement ride, the one
prominent incident of which was the tail OF
the comet and the tail Of big fat English
woman's night-gown as viewed mid the
sands of Yuma desert. The wind was howl
ing and the sand flying in clouds and 1t still
wanted three hours TO daylight. he old
man, her husband, who couldn't rest, told
her that 1.-THE comet-was uncommonly
fine from the rear platform. She, determined
to miss no sight on such trip, skipped out.
The porter was fast asleep, and so was every
body else, and spring-lock on the car door
fastened her out forever. For TWO mortar
hours that three hundred pounds OF feminity,
her slight short white drapery streaming
little high in the wind, stood out there pound
ing, kicking and screaming at forty miles an
hour through bowling desert. Didn't she
bless that Johnny Bull snorer in her berth'
though, when we got up and lether In. But
we draw the curtain.
From the paace-crowned tops OF her bo-
nauza hills. one sweep Of the eye takes In
the terrific earthquake of '6S Frisco owes
her peculiar attractlveness. That shake-up
Frustrated so many stone and brick buildings
that comparatively few have been erected
since. The finest, most lasting ana Sc
curest material for homes was found 10 De
the famous red wood, and of red wood are
the thousands of elegant homes, beautiful
villas and magnificent palaces OF Frisco
built. Not after the fashion OF the frame
weather-boarded house of Kansas, but OF
heavy, thick, carved, fluted and ornamehted
red wood, worked out to represent cut-stone
and painted light grey color. Instead OF
looking down on the ordinary city OF black
walls and shadows Of dark roofs and smoky
chimneys, you behold city, every building
of which stands out in bright relief backed
by the blue waters of the bay upon two sides
and green hills upon the other.
Over the hills, up and down, ten miles an
hour. the entire length of splendid, long av-
enues, you are rolled through frisco on
highly polished, open cable-cars, five miles
| for a nickle. 1.-TWO bits'-all sums under a
dollar are reckoned as so many "bits" in Cal
| ifornia-expended in rides through streets
which are too steep for any vehicle, there
| fore clean and silent, will reveal more beau
| tiful door-yards, delightful lawns, finer palm
trees, and other exotic growths, richer fuchia
| trees covered by flames Of glory, and taliei
rose trees with bigger blooms than can be
seen any other place, at least in America
| The exclusiyeness of many of the Paeihc I
money kings has kind of shrinking influ
ence on one, tendency to engender sand-Io
sentiments, and excuses for Dennis kear
new. Nothing less than whole block o
ground is sufficient for bonanza king,
railroad monopolist, or prince merchant
no matter what it costs; and their yard lamp
l-big as the smokestack of alocomotive-ar
surmounted by bronze eagles, and their gate
ways guarded by bronze lions or other heroi
statuary-regular statutory scenery" a
Noble Prentis has it. One of these nabob
on California Hill secured all but one 2oX5
foot lot which belonged to an Irishman, VIII
would not sell for love nor money. Oh
money bags having offered Paddy fortune
| and being still refused he built a solid, tight
red wood fence forty-two feet high aroun
the freshman and there it stands. The lrisf
man died few weeks ago, and now his vic
, ow can't sell the lot for any price, and oil
money bags is dead also and his widow don
want it. nor will she take down the forty-tw
foot high fence. Another widow woma
living just across the street, in like palace
keeps n magnificent private ear in priva'
, depot. and when she travels she just hiteh'
her car on TO train and draws check IL
, the amount. Speaking of Dennis kearne.
his influence began to wane with the san'
lot tribe when they found that Dennis wi
, went clothed in laces and seal skin dolma
and that Dennis himself held stock in son
Of the biggest corporations on the coas
| The boys thought it little thin for DEM
? to stand around in rags preaching equali
| and his wife on the next corner wrapped
furs and glistening with diamonds of Il
first water.
Down in her business marts. along Il
streets that run to the wharyes, the stree
further back of wholesale, importing al
manufactures, and still further back to q
lstock brokers and bankers places, or Y
still further to the streets of fashionable l
tail shops and stores, such as Montgomer
e Kearney, Suffer and Market, Frisco ST
: differs from the cities OF the Atlantic al
e Mississippi States. The boot-blacks ha
:. carpetted booths on the corners-shine fol
q nickle; the newsboys, dressed like gent
ID men, stand about the corridors Of the b
tells, and in quiet tones offer their papel
The hoodlum don't live in Frisco, unless
Is is out among the sand-lotters. Right hel
e there is a general Misrepresentation as to t
e locality OF the sand-lotters. Their homes =
not along the sandy beach of the bay n
't ocean as we always supposed, but back
n the outskirts of the city among the uni
D. claimed sand-lots of the peninsula up
q which the city is built.
q As to the beauty and extravaganza Of
r retail stores of Kearney, Montgomery a
& Market streets, we never saw them equallt
r To give our Wichita merchants hint as
l. scale OF the display Of stores and shop w
ST dows we will note the jewelry store of
as Andrews, located in the hotel at which
stopped and which he names the ''Diamo
" Palace" The walls Of the salesroom-sic
a and back-are solid French plate miro
N eight feet wide and sixteen feet high, join
te by metallic slips. On stepping in you s
Is yourself. and the bronze columns, and
n revolving cases mounted on pedestals a
lie loaded with jewelry and diamonds, repeat
e in images over and over again thousa
Is times. The roof or ceiling Of this fairy-li
place is concaye or dome-shaped and fill
with paintings OF women OF the Bible, who
robes, necklaces, bracelets, crowns. tar
, and even buttons. are real genuine soilta
a diamonds, set in and made part Of the pai
= ings. The work was done by two Itali
, artists from Rome, and the diamonds alo
T. cost fortune. Queen Esther is among
n number of pictures and her cro'
t. is studded with several thousand d
% lars worth of diamonds. When the gas a
- electric lights are turned on in this place
a glistening Jewels, revolving cases and
fiecting mirrors, realization is superlatiy'
;, beyond power Of pen or brush to describe
:, even the Imagination TO grasp or bold. L
show window of this establishment, viii
lis guarded, is always surrounded by cro'
OF admiring people, and it is truly mar
,r which we shall not attempt to describe. q
= jewel casket in the window, and which n
resents the Pantheon at Paris, is built
n solid gold twenty-three pounds, its base
solid silver seyenty-seyen pounds, and
~ walls and roof OF seven hundred pieces
. fine specimens of California gold-beari
:, quartz. This work took three men TIL
i. wears 10 construct. The base is only
- inches square and the height OF the easl
. only twenty one inches. Gracefully pois
"A on ball of quartz surmounting the dome
70 this casket, is the figure of the Genius
,s Liberty carved from solid gold. The VIII
~ affair is marked at $4,000. Looking at I
- man Andrews. TO whom. by the way, X,