The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-06-28
4 WONDERFUL TOWN.
Its Name is Wayne, and It is Near
the City Of BTOtheT|y Love,
Founded BY George W. ChIds and Anthony ], DrSeI-l
Beautiful Place Of Quiet Residence

MIA railroad, is the wonderful town of
Wayne. The wonderful town of Wayne
Is a product of the philanthropy of
George W. Childs, who, together with
Anthony j. Drexel, planned to bring it
into existence for the benefit of such Phil
adelphians as yearned for more suburban
life than was afforded by the shady thor
oughfares and placid highways of their
native city, and as Mr.. Childs and Mr..
Drexel had unlimited capital with which
to carry out the plan for an ideal sub
urban settlement Wayne was founded
on the frmest of foundations and has
fourished in manner calculated to
cause the proverbial bay tree to wither
with envy.
The inhabitants of Wayne number
several thousand and are all inordinate-
ly proud of being Wayneites. They are
proud with the pride which fushes the
obsequious head salesman of the suspen-
der department when the firm recognizes
his worth and promotes him to the dizzy
altitude of second foorwalker in chief,
and their pride is thorn in the sides of
all the surrounding settlements and less
ostentatious suburban stations. Most of
them-that is, most of the males-are wor-
thy clerks under middle age and blessed
with wives and rapidly accommodating
olive branches, and if they are not wor-
thy clerks they are worthy in some other
line, for none but worthy persons have
ever found foothold in Wayne, and the
breath of scandal has never smirched the
polish Of its purity. Their wives are as
typical of the quiet middle class Phila-
delphia women and girls as they them
selves are representative of the average
spotlessly conventional Philadelphia
masculine being.
Physically regarded, Wayne is as fair
to look upon as it is from moral stand
point. 1t is an exposition of the essence of
Queen Anne in architecture, tempered
with the colonial and the other popular
forms of rural residence design which
have in the last decade run riot through
out the length and breadth of the land.
There are dark red houses and bright
red ones, there are those which are red
and green, and pink and green, and Ca
nary and green, and there are orange and
white ones, and there are pearl colored
| types with dove tinted trimmings. And
there are just as many unconventional
designs in shape as there are in color,
and altogether the wonderful town of
Wayne is most satisfying spectacle to
any one who seeketh the beautiful, the
odd or the abnormally hideous in mex
pensive but conspicuous dwellings.
Naturally such settlement is above
reproach i'll its government. 1t has
broad roads, perfectly laid, fine, broad
sidewalks, waterworks and splendid
drainage, all of which were provided by
Messrs. Childs and Drexel, and it has a
president and council, fire engine
equipment, an athletic club and ground
for both sexes, a debating society, q
series of winter dances, sewing circle,
whist club and lot of other such at.
fractions provided by the residents them.
selves, and all these things are managed
without a hitch or jar, and peace
reigns supreme from Jan. in any given
year until the hour of midnight on the
following 3lst of December.
Wayne has no stores of any kind, and
of course a saloon is as foreign to its
confines as snowstorm would be in al
equatorial jungle. On the other side OF
the railroad there is also a Wayne
an old fashioned Revolutionary times
Wayne-named after the American gen
eral who was known as Mad Anthony
Wayne, and there may be found shops
and stores and saloons and bushes.
offices, but in the new and beautiful
Wayne such things are unknown ant
must ever be unknown unless the law
of its organization be ruthlessly shatter
ed and the dictates of its title deeds ig
nored.
Nor has it any police, but then why
J., should it have? No one is bad, no one il
other than faultless, the very dogs don
bark at night, the cats remain indoor
after sunset, and policeman would b,
as much out of place in Wayne as
i, prizefghter at little girls paper dol
party. But the sweet sense of securit,
which pervades the place is not withou
its insurance clause, so to speak. Ever
Wayne might be invaded by rockies
tramp bent on securing square meal O
horrible as the thought is to the Wayne
ites) by nocturnal prowler seeking t,
enter and rob happy home. And then
too, the business hours of the day fin,
, its adult male population away in tn
city, and the women have not their nat
ural rrOtartprS at hand
Therefore each family has huge til
horn on which mighty blast can b
sounded as an alarm when aid is needle,
!, to repulse tramp or to fight the fir
fiend. At first the alarms We're frequent
because the children could not resis
, testing the tin horns at unseemly hours
but meeting of the council fixed fin
of IS on false alarms, and now, throug
, the agencies of repeated spankings an
also of hanging the horns too high TO
the children to reach, no more falls
alarms come to startle the community.
Q Wayne came very near being calle
5 Mentone, which was to have been pre-
nounced Me-'n-tony as pleasant recoe
milton of the intimate friendship betwee
Mr.. Childs and Mr.. Drexel, but the ide
was abandoned. AS it stands now it i
an enduring monument to both thes
> men, and it has not only fostered thei
fame, but increased their fortunes q
q well.-New York Mail and Express.
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