Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-05-11
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

Building and Loan association meets
tomorrow night.
The council committee on streets and
bridges should look after the streets and
have them cleaned.
The streets should be sprinkled and that
without delay. Get move on yourselves
and do something for the benefit of the
public.
Upper Palace avenue should be filled in
and graded. THIS street could be made
very popular and pretty driveway were
this done.
The old, miserable benches now in the
plaza should be removed and replaced
with settees of the pattern donated by the
ladies year ago.
The reservoir of the Santa Fe Water
company, owing to blunder of one of
the employees, lost good deal of water
to-day, and the supply in the mains for
city purposes was cut off nearly the whole
day.
The pavement on the south side of the
plaza should be uniform; the stairway
that obstructs that side and gives it very
ugly appearance should be removed, II
not other way, then by order of the city
council.
Universal complaint is heard concern.
ing the unceremonious manner in which
the city water company shuts off the
water supply without notice or warning.
Many of the company's patrons are in
convenienced by this action.
By order of Col. Pierson dress parade
will take place at Fort Marcy hence forth
at O'Clock on each Tuesday and Thursday
evening, and beginning next week full
dress battalion drill will occur on each
Monday and Wednesday evening.
The coal ard mineral interests of south
Santa Fe county and the several business
firms at Cerrillos and San Pedro have
been given an extensive write-up by the
Cerrillos Beacon. The paper issued a
double number and its contents are both
well written and attractively arranged.
The city police have finally caught the
vandals who made practice of demolish-
ing paling fences along Palace avenue.
Their names are Marcelno Burk, Cutter
rez Romero and Silva Lopez, and in the
police court to-day they were fined 81 each
and costs for their sport.
Visitors at Colds free museum to-day !:
VIM. Rees, Chicago; Donald Downie,
New York; E. j. Mclean, Albuquerque !;
Sam Reiner, Cincinnati; R. D. Lanson,
Memphis, Tenn, Daniel Arch, Ama.go,
N. M; Mrs. Tyler, Philadelphia; Mrs.
Jane Debol, New York H. A. Gowdy,
Kansas City.
John Morton, the enterprising fruit
dealer, left this morning for Colorado.
He will be absent for month, travelling
in the interest of extending the fruit and
vegetable trade of this city, and supplying
southern Colorado points and mining
camps with Santa Fe valley fruit, vege-
tables and dressed lambs. If anyone can
make a success of this business, John
Morton can, and, the New MEXICAN
thinks, will. May success attend him.
Gen. McCook telegraphs to-day that he
has received Col. Persons dispatch an
nouncing the tender of lands by the
Santa Fe Board of Trade for enlargement
OF the military cemetery, and has for
warded the information to Washington
for action by the war department. This
having been accomplished, the Board Of
Trade to-day began work on the rifle
range matter and hopes to secure the
necessary land at an early date.
Writes H. B. Hersey, director New
Mexico weather service: "More crop
correspondents are desired in all parts Of
the territory. Any person willing to act
as such will please apply to this Office for
supply of blanks and free envelopes,
which will be gladly furnished. A copy
Of bulletins will he mailed each CORE
spondent".
Elaborate preparations are making for
the library table entertainment which
takes place at the capitol on Friday night
Thus far everybody has responded most
generously to all the demands OF the
ladies and they are encouraged to prepare
for entertaining the largest number OF
people ever brought together in Santa Fe
on a similar occasion. Strangers and
residents of Cerrillos, San Pedro, Espa-
nols and other sections of the county
will be made specially welcome. The
city hackmen have agreed to serve those
going to the capitol on this occasion at
half the usual price.