The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-06-13
MRS. INQUIRIES HELP.
Her Part in the Love Affairs of
Chihuahua Brown.

Her Part in the Love Affairs Of
"Chihuahua" Brown.
chihuahua Brown came to Pyrites
when the camp was first started. That
was six months before the time OF
which l write.
Pyrites was typical mining town OF
camp" far up in the Rocky NOM
tains.
1t had grown in six months from one
log cabin to town of Thousand in.
habitants. 1t was rough, unpreten-
tious town, both as regards its build
ings and large number of its citizens;
but under the duck suit of the miner
there are more honest hearts, more
noble and generous natures than will
be found in almost any other calling in
life.
With the rush Of miners came rush
of gamblers. Four saloons sprang into
existence in a night. Then began the
erection of the most commodious and
pretentious building in the camp-the
Palace dance ball-which was hurried
to completion. 1t looked more like a
barn than palace, but it proved as
great an attraction for the feverish
wealth and pleasure-seeking popula-
ton of Pyrites as though its walls
were of lincrusta and its floors of va
riegated marble.
1t is noticeable fact about new
mining camp that the most high-sound-
ing titles are applied to the most COM
mon looking structures; the cheapest
place always has the grandest name.
For instance, the Delmonico restaurant
was the worst of all the eating estab-
lishments in Pyrites, and the Windsor
hotel offered the poorest accommoda-
tions of any hostelry in the place. The
st. James livery stable had nothing
better in the shape of equines than
some broken-down stage horses, and
the Crystal Grotto saloon was only a
board shanty, where fve-cent whisky
was sold for two bits drink.
The cleanest, most home-like eating
house in the place was Mrs. McGuire's
restaurant Bridget Mcclure was a
lively, bustling Irish woman, with a
red face and hair shade lighter. She
was popular with the boys" as she
called the miners who patronized her
place. 1--WE can always get plenty on
our forks at Mrs McGuire's," was the
usual sentence of praise bestowed upon
her establishment
"Chihuahua'' Brown boarded with
Mrs. Mcclure He was quiet, re-
firing sort of a man. No one knew
much about him, except that he once
had some mining property near Chi
huahua, Mexico. There was another
Brown in Pyrites, so he was given the
sobriquet of chihuahua, to distin-
guish him from the other Brown. He
paid his board promptly, and was high
ly esteemed by Mrs. Mcclure, who
sonnet times spoke of HIM as "the widow
woman's friend" on account of his
once having loaned Mrs. Mcclure two
hundred dollars without security, when
the good-natured Irish woman first
started in business. Now she was be-
yond the need of financial assistance.
and was doing fiourishing business
such large business, in fact, that sha
had been obliged to send to Denver for
additional help to wait upon the table.
The help" duly arrived upon the
stage and created sensation in Pyr-
ties. The first general description was
given out by the stage-driver, Fair
play Bill" to a. deeply interested
throng of listeners at the Silver Bear
saloon.
'sShe cum up on the stage alongside
of me-" said BILL" ''There was three
girls for the dance hall besides. When
we got to the first station, at Turkey
Creek canyon, she asked if she could
ride on the seat with me; she did SO adj
mire the scenery. took her up beside
me on the box, and you never heard a
girl go on so about the color of the sky,
and the trees and rocks, and the wild
flowers bloomin' on the mountain side.
She pointed out things to me about the
scenery l never see before. l never see
a girl SO gone on scenery. She really
did enjoy it. / got so burned interested
hearin' her talk, ! cum purity near slid
in the whole outfit down the mountain,
as Icum round Dead Mans curve. She's
different from any biscuit-shooter ever
see.
''Purty? She's purifier than that nigh
lie adler O. mine, but she don't put on as
much style as Kitty does, specially
when she's just been hitched up an
to go. Purity? Ever see 'em
pictures bout woman risin' up out
the sea2 Ever see that picture of Rum
70 and Julia?' She's a burned sight pur-
tier than either one of 'em. I've carried
many hash-slinger in my time. but
never see one like her. Most of ems
got their hair cut short and curly, an
act fresh. She's different; long hair,
blaclSer'n dark night in the canyon;
big eyes; roses in her cheeks; she's a
lady, that's what she is. / could tell
that first time l see her. Guess she was
glad to get up on the box with me, way
from them dance-hall girls They tried
TO get fresh with her while she was on
the inside asked her If she thought she
could do better in Pyrites than she
could in Denver She said she thought
She could, cause the wages was bet
ter
'Wagesr says one girl, with little
cackley laugh, like graveyard.
That's good; you don't mean to tell
me you're goin' to work for wagesT
says she. What are you going to do?'
'''I'm goin' to work in Mrs. McGuire's
restaurong just like that; restaurong
-waitin' on the table
"'You'll soon git over that says the
dance-house girl, laughin'
~ hope so, says the little lady, but
! amt ashamed of any work that's
honest says she. No true woman is
above earnin' her own livin' by manu-
we'll labor, If necessary, says the little
lady. And then them three dance-house
girls had chill, and the little lady
got up on the box with me at the next
station, and durin' the drive up the
canyon she wanted to know II them
three ladies' were goin' to work at Mrs.
McGuile's restaurong. too, an l durn
near fell off the box. / had to throw
the silk into the leaders an kind o git
my attention 'tracted to the bosses be-
fore could git my face straight enuff
to tell her guess not Pm burned
II she ever got ON to the fact that them
girls inside was dance-hall girls; she's
lady, she is"
This was how Doris Ware came to
Pyrites to be the "help" at Mrs. Nc
CURES restaurant. II was not strange
that the business Of the restaurant In
creased, Mrs. McGuire's new waiter-