The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1890-06-19

and trusted officials. Last week the
subject of Dives, licensed and unli-
censed, came up for investigation.
and | assure you there was a tre,nend.
Gus rattling among the dry bones.
Places of The most scandalous and un.
sasory reputation, resorted to by
thieves and all sorts of vile characters,
have been reported to the Excise Com
mlssioners as moral and high toned,
and license has been issued to them
on the recommendation of the Police
captain Of the precinct against the in.
dlgnant protest of the neighb5rs and
the well-known character OF the place.
Two Of Inspector Burns smart detec-
tives testified that in six years they
had never seen more than. two or three
crooks on the Bowery. CT all parts
OF New York there is no other publ,
thoroughfare where bad characters so
swarm, night and day, as the Bowery
Any hour in the twenty-four you
can meet them by dozens on every
block between Chatham Square aud
the Cooper Institute. At no time is n
countryman's watch or pocketbook
entirely safe. Ths police know them
as well as they know the lampposts,
and the, only reasonable solution of
their immunity from punishment is
that they pay for it. A saloon keeper
ON Sixth Avenue told me that every
month man came to his saloon and
he handed him thirty dollars, and all
the saloons that he knew did the same;
there was no questions asked, no re-
ceip's given. the man took the money
and walked off | now have perfect
peace, he said, and if | am open "A
little after hours that's all righ., or if
let some of my intimate friends have
little nip on Sunday the copper never
knows anything about it. Seel Well,
! thought did see. I tried to kick
once, he said. and refused to pony up.
That night my saloon was pulled: |
got clubbed. / spent all night in the
cells with my broken head, aud in the
morning was fined fifty dollars. aud
the Judge told me that if | ever came
up before him again he'd send me to
the Island. Do you think I'm goin
to fool with the coppers after that2
No, stree, not much. | pay my little
Doodle and take my pea soup like
little man. That's me that's shoutin.
see2 While suppose that there is no
human institution without its draw
backs and shortcomings, aud our
police are not exempt, there i. no de.
nylng that they are our safeguard and
security III trying times Of danger and
deadly peril. Time and again we
have tried them when the evil ele.
ments which swarm in this city were
all afame, but they have never been
found wanting. Two thousand of
them had a grand parade ON Saturday,
and no finer body of men could be
found in the world.
Memorial Day was one of the low,
liest of the Spring and everything ser.
we'd to make it one of the most enjoy
able. Early in the morning our citi.
zen soldiers might be seen hurryine
to the different armories, and the
veterans of the G. A. r. we're 80
numerous, that one might have i'm
agined that the war passed through
without an accident, for after lapse
Of twenty-five years, they still repre-
sent an army of between a hundred
aud fifty and two hundred thousand
strong. The great point of interest
for Grand Army Veterans, next to
Grants tomb at Riverside Park, is
Greenwood Cemetery. Here repose
several thousand of the brave boys,
who went out to battle for the Stars
aud Stripes. Some returned home to
die and the remains of many hundreds
were brought back from the distant
battle fields of the South that loving
hands might deck their graves with
flowers on each Memorial Day. Near
them lie in peaceful sleep hundreds Of
the soldiers who stood before them in
battle, and who died in northern pris.
ons far away from the southland,
where mothers and sisters and sweet
hearts have been watching through all
these years for the sound of the re.
turning footsteps which, alas, shall
greet their ears neyermore. But on
memorial day theit graves are strewn
with flowers by the same loving hands
that decked the last resting place of
the Bows in Blue. Over the sacred