Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-10-22
Notes Oh Evanston.

The history of Evanston remains to be
written 1t remains to be written be-
cause its history remains to be made.
On the twentieth day of October, in the
year of grace one thousand eight hum
dred and eighty-fve, Evanston was dull,
dreary, dirty, and sinking. Its streets
are strewn with old shoes, old rags, ash
heaps, rubbish; in fact the streets Of
Evanston are filled with everything but
flowers. A day in Evanston is as a thou
sand years; and no dweller there can cry
with Job-"My days are swifter than
post" "Better a day in Paris than
cycle of Cathay." Better a cycle of
Cathay than day of Evanston. There
are those in Evanston who have no de-
the winds of heaven blow chill and
biting or whether the winds of heaven
blow warm and pleasant; to them the
ups and downs of life have no interest,
and men may come and men may go but
they never ask whence or whittier. Who
are they for whom life has no joy, no sor-
row; to whom pain and pleasure are
alike Indifferent? They are the dead.
BLESSED are the dead who die in the
Lord" Thrice blessed are the dead who
died in Evanston.
The streets of Evanston run at right
angles to each other if they run at ALL
1t has all the appearance of a railroad
town, and such it is, and were it not for
the railroad, would not be. There are
number of buildings going up, and some
of them are of size and style to be pre-
tentious, and are being built of brick. A
new hotel is being built at the depot, and
when finished will be quite pleasant
place. Around and about Evanston are
a good many Cinnamon, and they all ap-
peared to be sober and industrious, and
seemed to be minding their business.
Only one company of infantry is there at
present, and this company belongs to the
Ninth Infantry. The soldiers are camped
about quarter of mile out of the town,
on Bear river on the wagon road which
leads to Amy. Their presence may be
needed in Evanston yet, as it was COM
mon talk there Tuesday that there was to
be strike along the entire line of the
Union Pacific on Friday tomorrow, the
Knights of Labor having given the rail-
road an indulgence until then. The strike |
is to be ordered because the Union Pacific
refused to discharge all Cinnamon upon |!
a demand by the Knights that they be
There are few things to interest one in |
Evanston. Some distance south of the
depot hotel is an open square every
thing is square in Evanston exec the |
meals), in which is an old dismounted |
field piece. The timber and carriage are
last going to decay, while the field piece
itself lies upon the ground. In some hard
fought battle, in which John Sherman
led the nations armed hosts to
victory, this gun burst at the first re-
nforce. John Sherman burst at Mt.
Gilead.
In Evanston are some very fine trotting
horses, all standard bred. The horses
ire chiefly the property of Mr.. Beck
with, while MIR. Jesse Knights has a
couple of standard bred animals. In his
stables he hassome six colts and fillies
by Strathmore, 408, out of mares by Mann
orina Patchen, So. There was one year
ing by Dictator, 113, out of a mare by
George Wilkes, $40. Mr.. Beckwith has a
humber of standard mares in Kentucky.
where they are bred tie the best trotting
stations. He has foals by Harold, 413,
he sire of Maud S., and other celebrated
lorses. Next year he will bring all his
lorses from Kentucky, when he will
lave forty-one head OF trotting animals.
The coming spring he will move num-
yer OF his favorites to Salt Lake, where
re Will train them on the track
Il the Utah Driving Association,
llready he is in correspondence with Mr..
lulloy, the Secretary of the Association
ndeavoring to arrange for the use of ten
r twelve stalls. Mr. Beckwith is erect
ng new stable which will contain thirty
ox stalls, ten will be fourteen by sixteen
Get; ten twelve by fourteen feet, and
en- will be ten by twelve feet. This
table IS In mountain pasture of some
TX hundred acres, and the pasture ad-
olns the town. on the southwest. Mr.
horses are the most interest
" thing in Evanston.
OK Snppt for racar1,oJ Good. |