Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-04-25
All About Progress and Prosperity at
the Carbon City-Spicy Notes
and Comments.

the grist has been sent home Gallup will
be in possession of the Johnny cake!
Where in any town, east or west, can
there be found more enterprising up
to-date class of citizens than ours? The
rush and "go' of business in the wide
awake Carbon city would bewilder and
daze the slow-going denizen of any east
ern burg of this size. The few old moss
backs that have drifted in here
HAVE TO STAY IN THEIR SHELLS
for fear of being run over. If they VEN
ture out they get hustled and tumbled
and knocked out of the ruts, and no one
seems to have time to notice their kick
ing or listen to their growing.
We are the fin de steele generation, and
keep in touch with all the leading issues
of the day. Higher educaton? We are
building big school house on a site that
boasts the greatest altitude in town.
Purifying politics? You ought to have
seen the way the voters of Gallup sat
down upon some "sly trickster" sort of
work at late election. Elevating the
stage? We are doing our best at that, as
we have changed the opera house from
the first floor on Coal avenue to the Sec
ond floor on Railroad avenue and the
stage proper will be eighteen inches
above the floor level of the former one.
All the other vital questions of the day are
cussed and discussed with energy and en-
thusiasm.
We are also a religious people, having
two churches now on hand, one in pro-
cess of erection and nearly funds enough
for another, with the Mormons worship
ing in any available place, beside num-
Der of original individual creeds; and, if
that isn't enough to keep any town lively,
we will try for another. Then as to
society; we are nowhere, if not in the
front ranks. New York isn't in it with
US. Instead of one social leader with his
followers, we have our 900" and every
one Ward McAllister.
We were in the chrysanthemum craze
and wore them till we appeared as much
given to the "ragged edge" of mentality
as our Silurian critics. When the Ma
poIeonic notion seized the nation
WE WORE vIoLETs
till the town looked blue, especially the
part that paid for the violets. Our ladies
have gotten over tho grief at parting
their hair though they haven't adopted
the window curtain style, having pretty
ears and an anxiety to hear the latest
We have aid societies, guilds, and ladies
clubs aud bid fair to rival the famous
Sorosis, in advanced ideas on many sub
~, eIr. ~ Aor oa n fhe
crinolire era, and our sleeves are as in
hated as the ideal currency of the Kansas
Populists; indeed it is reported that one
of the Leaders of fashion wore silk
waist, of the new blvatse hue, to recep'
tion with sofa pillow in the upper puff
of each sleeve, but that was a libel; she
haze no sofa pillows about her, they wee
chair cushions. We have some few
saloons it is true, but it would be so un-
handy to order individually, and it seems
more manly (if we must be that way at
all) to walk in the frort door of the La
clede or the Arcade than to sneak around
the back door of the drug store. We
have western Corbett in training, but
perhaps he got ground up in the mill at
Albuq querque on the goth.
We have foot ball clubs, base ball
clubs, gun clubs, athletic clubs and last
but by no means least bicycle club with
several lady members; and one would go
far to find anything more "chic" and
charming than one of our lady cyclists
IN her natty "knicks" speeding along,
with her chosen colors flying from the
handle bars of her escorts bike.
We are at home in literature as we'll,
and can discuss the theme and motive OF
the latest novel with the ease of nativ
Bostonian, and could give DuMaurier
POINTS IN TR1LBY1sM.
We have Trilby shoes and hats, and at
the Laclede you can order "Trilby
lun Oh" as served to the Three Friends in
the Latin Quarter of Paris. At the Ar.
cade, you call for a "Trilby julep" and
are served by a veritable Little Billee IN
appearance. If bicycle belle gets sun.
Drowned while out for spin bottle oi
that "Trilby lotion" at Waring & Hlnch't
quickly removes the blemish.
The library concert committee sent
to Philadelphia and got the original Ber
Bolt song and expected to present it te
their audience, but our sonRstress, though
not dependent upon Svengali for in
spiration, is a trihe cranky at times (lik'
all geniuses) and only sings when thu
spirit moves. 1t didn't move her hom'
from Williams; so the classic robe rest
in a packing box, Trilby's starry crown
hangs upon the chandelier and "Swee
Alice sleeps under the stone" safe fron
those resurrectionists, for time a
least. a'"r
As for the latest journalistic fad, th'
woman's edition, every issue of th'
Cleaner is more or less of woman's edi
tion, as one of it's editors is woman, an(
a poetess as WE'LL Eve have others poetic
ally inclined and the Poet Laureate o
New Mexico oficiates as cashier at tn,
Crescent store. We have an author who
is we'll known by eastern journals as al
original writer of stories and sketches
we have drama in process of publica
tion full of local color, written for Gal
lup's histrionic talent and by residen
of the city, that will be produced wher
the new hall is finished. Our musician
are first grade, both vocal and instru
mental, and the Chapman waltz, composed
by Gallup talent, is close second to th'
old Blue Danube. Then the famous jour
nalistic mixologist, travelling for the Citi
zen, visits rs sometimes asd sends in ar
ola podrida from our city ss -toniah th'
natives when it returns. W
The Carbon City in the near fh~ % viii
revel in the brightness Of electricity, wit!
artesian wells pouring out the "nectar o.
~ III Ill .-sl .xsl 11e
belching liquid money, with the plain'
and valleys adjacent turned to greer
fields and fruitful orchards under tht
magic of irrigation. with its numerous
mines still yielding the best coal in thu
country. With so many natural advant
ages, so many resources demanding at