Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-09-22
OId.Time Dance Hall.

Many of the old time stage-drivers
 and government teamsters remember
 the old time dance halls at the different
 stations on the Kansas Pacific rail road
 from Ft H .skell to Kit Carson. The
 frontier dance hail was very quiet
 place in 'h day time, but after sun-
 do < n, tbo .1a would begin.
 l Tho monte tables and chuck s-luck
 opened upIo their r uo all kinds of gambiiag games Were at full blast, 10 o'clock at night; patruis from the bull trains, buffalo hunters fro n camp, government teamsters from the corral,
 Mexican buil-whacker-, overland stage drivers and other frontier make-ups, in Icluding the female hard characters that followed the construction of the rail road, helped to fill the great broad dance hall. Dancing, drluk ug and gam bling were carried on in thjs one great room. 1 @ bar and gambling tables took up tne front end of the hall; the dancing set occupied tbe largest part z the rear end; a string band perched up . high platform furnished the music l. dance by.
 Me1icans, COW boye, teamsteTe, stage i drivers and all could be seeu on the 1 flor engaged in quadrille, with pain | ted-faced harlots for companions in the dance.
 The floor monager would call cut Get your paId for the ext quadriile | Another couple to fIil up thls sett! She's all full, let her go. Honor your pard! Balancs all! First four right aBd left, all dance! Grand right and left, all hands roundl Promenade all; every body dance: now waltz up to the bar and name your pizen p'"Trantuls juice;" "blue ruin," and 'herdeIs delight" with "horned toad" and "vitroll dart" in 1t were the frequent mixtures called for. Cigars We're called 'teamster's regalias" or bull whacker's pastime." These two brands were very salable at the bar, xenty- five centJ for the drinks ane. twenty-five cents for the smokers. The women took the same. When they got too much booze they would generally taper by taking "regalia." These they sold back at half price, when the dance finished in the morning.
 Things would move along quite smoothly for the first two hours; after that the "tarantula juice" would begin to work, and all the deviltry on the face of the earth would begin to brew m the general herd. Fighting. dancing, gam bling; drinking and all things else were going on at once, under the same roof. All at once some fellow, full of bug juice would houl at the highest pitch of his voice, declaring himself ''wild hoss," and hard to curry, and could "whOop hls weight in wild c8ts. He would not bs long in finding some other "hoss" that was willing to tackle him. A few rounds soon settled one CT the other, and the defeated fellow called the mat ter square, by setting up the drinks to the crowd, who stood ready to accept invitation.
 Presently another bad man felt the bug juice working. He would yell out "I an a tou h,cuss, from the HIerfano. 1 am one of D ok Wooten's night her. ders from the top of the RatCn noun taips; am a yhller tail wolf, and 1t IS my night to howl. Yipl Tip! Every body howl with mel" The response generally came, all joining in the howl. Set 'em up, bar keeper I've got the stuff to pay for ii; fur I've tapped the monte bank fur n even Sl00 on the dor card; cebella wiD! Oh, am from OId Mez1o, and peace distUrbs my mind! can hug a buffalo ws Her, aud stand off a whole tribe of Caeyeunes. Oh! l scalp I do; that's he kini of coyote l am. Here, bar keep, is a twenty. keep it al; I will dancs out the change if there is any comin'! Fiddler, play Old Johnney Cox from Albuquerk.' 1 am chuck fall of chili Colorado, and l like a Mexican baile; till up the set and start her If, I will settle the bill when the baile is ever.
 Bang! bang! and the lights go out. Old 84ldy Bill' has plugged Mexican f rst 'alirg sleerer iii the monte game. No IT. re dance until tomorrow evening and tlsr the game will be running as usUni There will be "bhile manana, e T. oche. todss mui 4:es alls." Senor- it c rn4lita, Senorita Black Mule, Senor:;a St. amboat, Senorito Nellie Tibhet!s, "Bnffalo Kate" and the Sage Hen" wi!l all be on band to dance the GU Ia. Old Johnney Cox, es muchC com ander+n, lives in Albuquerque, In an old adobe shsnty. This is the program fer to morr,v night, after the Mexican is plantei. Adios, hasta Ia manana en la noche. A. l.. CARPENTER,
 Santa Fe Trailer.