Arizona republican., 1895-06-16

magnificent calla lille with hardy green stalk and leaves, out of it's heart shoots forth crystal sprays of water three feet above coming down in miniature rain onto the grasses below. This is by far the prettiest fountain in the territory, and something rarely seen in even club. The grotto is a little niche under the earth, the Rose of sharon, when 1t comes to beauty, neatness and elegance. It is finished in white pine, plate glass, and has marble floor with handsome furnishings. Into, and bey ond, mas sive doors that swing heavily as if 10th to give one admittance, we were shown into the billiard parior-a hall 70x75 feet long, with rostrumes on each side on which are placed thirty six easy chairs. The floor is polished hard oak shipped from Council Bluffs, Iowa, and is waxed to as great polish as the Partisan ball rooms. Down the center of the room stand six massive silver pillars alternating with cue racks that are made of stained oak and bronze facing. The column across the building supported by the pillars is stone and sk1llfuliy painted in sprays of flowers.
 On the one side are pool tables on the other billiard-ten in all-the finest by far ever sent to Arizona. They are hand grained oak, upholstered in green felt. The balls are beauties-dozens of them ready for the true CD aim of some gamester, while the cues stacked with military precission reminds one of the stacked arms of a ''Fquad." Above each table and across the entire room, were strung buttons or counters q am telling the ladies) on which the luck of the players are counted, while the massive oak clock behind the mana gers desk ticks away the hours (that John stays in lodge} that tell the game ster's fate.
 The managers desk, who, by the ! way, is Mir. Lou B. Hayes, the popular clerk of the last legislature, is beauty. A stained hard oak counter or desk, with every conceivable convenience, in- cluding an easy chair, was there. The wood work was done by John Rossan, an able mechanic, and the painting by Smith & Go.
 i The cigar case, 4z6, made also of na- tive oak and plate glass, has taken the first prize for beauty. The work is mas- terful, the design superior to any ever made here, and the whole a success in execution. Thousands of excellent cigars lie encased therein, where they are kept moist, ready to scent these rooms with aroma, so dear to the heart of men. On the left is a handsome desk, seating six at time, supplied with the choicest writing material, easy chairs, etc.
 Electric lights on down the building : in abundance, two rows shaded with handsome globes, encassd in fretwork of black, casting soft shadows upon the whole. Electric buttons are ready to be touched for servants, while the best in the land stand ready to do your bid ding. MT. Strong, the electrician, has perfected this system.
 The game. billiards, was brought here by the Spaniards in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1865. Women have been steadfest patrons for many years of the fascinating pastime. Our presidents from George Washington to the present time have practiced the game in the billiard parlors of the executive man. sion. It has always been considered an activity of body and mind, the motions gone through with in the pastime reach to every part of the body and operate upon every portion of the sys- tenn. They completely dispel languor and inactivity from the frame. Many of our great statesmen and refined women have ever been steadfast SUD- porters of the gentle amusement. Mary Queen Of Scots was passionate patron ess of the game, and on the evening preceding her execution wrote to the Arch bishop of Glasgow that her "bil- Hard able had just been taken away from her as preliminary step to her punishment" With such authority as this in favor of this harmless game, why should one think it so harmful? The proprietor. MT. J. B. Kraber has made every effort to perfect this hall, and placing it in the charge of MT. Hayes, his instructions were: "Strictly enforce my rules, and they are prohib ibition of in. toxicated, disreputabl and obscene pa trons." No one allowed to enter who
 be not perfectly respectable and worthy the respect of the most refined. The parlors are gotten up for the pleasure of frst-class men, and it will not be overlooked that the greatest care shall
 be taken to exclude unsavorv charac
 ters. A close inspection of this new en terprise failed to disclose one unpleas ant feature, a coarse suggestion or i'm moral possibility.