Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-07
DUBUQUE.
Something About Hts Hills and Ar
enftectural Constructft n--.Not a
strictly Prohibition Town.

Something About Hts Hills and Ar
cnfteetural Constructft n--.Not a
strictly Prohibition Town.
An emissary of the Freeport Bulletin
took run up to Dubuque the other day,
and then wrote the following to his pa,
per:
Dubuque is great town. Even Rome
with all the glories of her seven hills
cannot touch her. for Dubuaue has seven
hundred of them. The am isements of
the community are two. viz: walking up
hill; walking down hill On these TWO
propositions hang all the loss and the
profit. The gardens are in stories. Some
OF the wealthiest have gardens five and
six stories high. and man can sit on his
back porch and see everything in his
yard at glance. The only objection IS
that pumpkin is apt to fall off the vines
in the third or fourth layer OF his lot and
| come crashing through the Kitchen win
dow. One man will build a house at the
base of the HILL the next rests his cellar
on the roof of the house below, and thus
on until the summit of the bluff is
reached. In this way the circumnsm-
bent air is kept full of cellars all the
time. and it is no uncommon thing for
householder TO find that the basement of
some mansion thirty degrees nearer the
golden gate has been blown down his chin
ney during the witching hours of night
1t is a great country for tobogganing,
cossting and grape raising, but for GRO
Duet corn and cauliflOwer il is no good
A person does not dare To throw stones
at a COW or anything else. as no one can
tell exactly where the missile will bring
up. A stone started in the third ward is
apt 10 bring up in the fifth and knock
down a whole row of fiaxen haired chil>
dren, IN the production of wi ON the citv
takes an honest pride.
Your correspondent enjoyed the pleas
ure of ride in one of the elevators
which infest the place. These elevators
are cable roads running up the sides of
the bluffs, and the cars are pulled up by
stationary engines. The Dubuqueite pays
five cents for trip in one Of these mas
chimes. but the urbane ard gracious
young gentleman who pulls the string
and acts as captain, crew and pusher
allowed me to pay HIM twenty cents for a
few glad seconds of his society. His
eagle eye permits him to tell the unso>
phisticated at n glance and although
did not tell him l was a jay he must easily
have discovered the awful truth. The
elevator goes up as if fired out of gun
You get check for your breath when
you 60 into the station and On your re-
turn the genial official refunds it. i
think lie made mistake though in nv
case and gave me back the breath belong
ing to another man, as il didn't seem To
hit well in the neck and was keyed as low
as If it belonged TO some human fiend
from the levee. As the STIR niger glides
up the side of the bluff the sad thought
comes to him of what would be the re-
suit If the cable should part. and the con
ductor and brakeman reassure him with
the promise that the Car and its contents
would be driven into the ground so far
that two men with cork screw couldn't
pull them out in nine years.
1t grieves me to he compel ed To cons
fess that although Dubuque is in stout
prohibition state the drink evil Is not en-
tirely extermiuated, although the native
lowan is exterminating it glass by glass
as fast as his circumstances will permit
There are $50 saloons and folr breweries
in the town and a man who wanders
hither and thither with DIES oerate pur,
pose in mind may hope al the last TO take
in the geological gardens wherein dwell
many strange and curious creatures not
down in the register. There are two ss-
looms In the city that have MOI been closed
since the state went for prohibition.
nnht Aar- Il 4 ~.
they keep the latch string ont for the
high and humble. They do not alone
take in the pampered aristocrat, but the
meekest son of toll may put his nickel in
the slot and draw his simple glass of beer
with crest on it as high as his elbow.
Thus may we see the beneficent effects of
prohibition as she am If the state should
90 for license some of the poor saloon men
would have to go out Of business and
their prospects would be ruined. Thus
does mighty commonwealth put her
strong arm around her citizens and aid
them in maintaining trade
1t was my fate to be invited down to
the club house of the Dubuque Floating
association in the warm afternoon and it
was found TO be the coolest place on
earth. Out on the elevated balcony over
the soft waves of the Mississippi the wind
blew through my whiskers like an eolian
harp. The boys have their quarters very
handsomely fitted up, and their
membership includes the best people of
the town. They have a number of shells
and sometimes they find pearls ipfnem
for some of the boys have been known to
take their girls out in them In one cor
ner OF the PpaTior, off the ball room, is the
match safe or pop boudoir. This is
nothing but a cushioned nicf q, curtained
of from the parlor, with the emblem of
the crossed spoons guardant in gules and
azure hanging above. Some of the incest
girls in Dubuque cherish the liveliest re-
gard for this snnt and coll n tho phr;pa