Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-22
Robb's Ralnbles.


are driving the diaphonous drapery of
summer from the show-windows of
the dry goods stores, picnicking is 2
art, summer resorters are
hurrying home, the impecunious dude
is linking two eras by wearing last
winters cvercoat, with a this sum-
mer's straw hat, the sky has sus-
picious greyness about it, an OCCASION
al leaf falls fluttering to the ground,
and the wind sounds like the moan Of
giant in pain. THE melancholy
DAYS have come" To the average
New Yorker there is little that is
melancholy in this season. 1t begins
round of social and intellectual
pleasures such as find no counterpart
in the life of Saratoga, Newport or
a q beg pardon of the other places
Island. Theaters, churches, lecture
rooms, art galleries, museums, bric-a,
brac shops, reading rooms, clubs, and
the home.circle are all presenting their
claims to the notice of the returned
and returning voyagers. In the has
tily enumerated places Of pleasure
mentioned what scope there is!
You can go, (f you're not particularly
to the shows ON the Bowery where a
theatrical representation follows a
meseum exhibition, and where ten
cents buys reserved seat, or to the
"Star," on Broadway, or the "Union
Square" where the actors are artsts,
and the reserved seats cost two dol
lars and half a piece. You can go
to church whore orthodoxy sits like
an old man of the sea ON the shoulders
of preacher and preached too, or you
can 60 where even the skepticism Of
the average Arizonan seems to have
comparatively little heterodoxy in it.
You can 60 to lectures where every
ism and ology finds earnest expound-
crs. You can so to the art galleries
where goody-goody pictures alternate
on the walls with transfixed hearts,
consumptive looking madonnas, por.
traits of negro dudes, Jew old clio
dealers, Goldsmith Maid and Sullivan
the slugger; or you can go to where
beautiful faces, by the old Masters,
look down at you from cracked can
vases, and scenes of sea and shore, oi
summer sky and white-robed winter
by the later artists, lift you out of the
ruts of this world of carking care into
the ideal land in which the painter:
lives and labor. You can go to mu'
seums like those on the Bowery where
an armless man sews with his toes, a
dwarf sings in squeaky voice, and 9
five hundred pound woman makes the
atmosphere mal-oderous; or you car
ligo the Central Park where article.
J ef ,.irta.-.sd curios from every lane
under the sun, and every epoch since
history commenced to be written at
I tract your attention and invite intelli
gent study. You can go to the club
(if you have the 'open sesame where
wealth sits down to six courses ant
champagne, or you can 60 to an cas-
side saloon and pick your teeth with ;
sharpened match after drinking YOU
five cent glass of beer. Every tast
finds the pleasure it Graves in thi
huge aggregation called "New York.
The streets are crowded with people
downtown the profit seekers, up. tow,
the pleasure seekers. | dc6pi
many of the old-time Arizonani
among them. Yesterday i met tn
BELr's old friend and subscriber
Judge Riley of the Tonto Basin. DC
casionally l meet Stebbins, who wa
at one time candidate for Governo
of our Territory-a genial whole
souled gentleman. l see Major Nor
gan, Hon. John Roman, bright as
dollar and full of business; Sturgis o
the Carrie Copper Co., and Gen. Fisk
Of course the General is a New Yor
ker; but he has put money enougl
into Globe District to entitle him to
position in the the Territorial family
Joe Lennon, Capt. Burbridge an,
others whose methods did so much t,
injure Arizona, are on the other sid
of the continent. There is no marke
her for mines. Last year I thought
discovered signs of Improvement; bu
| cannot see that investors in the Eas
are cultivating and appetite for spec
ulating in mines, or that they sool
will, There are plenty of good mines
but so many poor ones which lie nea
them have been foisted upon the pub
lie that like mildewed ears they hav
blasted their wholesome brothers
ID. r.
New York, Sept. IS, 1888.
The Las Cruces, N. NJ, Republican
of the 18th inst. makes mention n