Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-05-02


itablY spen. ID the development of their
great state, abouDdipg as it is, with Inn
itless resources, an undeveloped empire,
possessing the germs-tbe fundamentals
Of true greatness.
Twenty years works wonderful chang
es. The gentle inhuences of a broGde
civilization. has softened the aeperitie-
engendered by the memories of strugr
gle that marked eliminating epoch in
the history of the world, and that pro-
duced such genius, heroism and matchs
less courage in American manho ood, that
the world, and will leave for sll time,
al indellible impression in the mind and
memories Of tee human race. 1t is
pleasure to notice the beautiful change
here since twenty yeers ago.
From the fine rotunda OF the Hotel
Main, have seen more lovely women
pass in review along the parade, one
Sunday afternoon, than could be found
10 any city six times its size in Amerl-
can. l must say this, in simple justice
to the metchless beauty CT the southern
ladies Of this city.
There are four daily papers, and one
tiuc We sky paper-,he Elevator. The
News-Reeord, the Democrat and the
Times. are handsome specimens, and ell
are prosperous and are very ably edited.
The News-Record is about the finest
equipped printing Office from st. Louis
TO the gulf. 1t is pleasure TO watch
the two tiDe Lioeotype m0chines-c
ing $1,000, doing the work OF II or IA
printers. mskiug its own type at every
touch of the outton, and having q new
font of type for every issue OF the paper;
with one fine cylinder press, and other
small presses, folding and cutting ms
chimes, etc; all being driven by a three
horse power electric motor, without noise
or vibration. 1 am indebted to its very
able editor, Mr.. j. E. Dunn, a gentle
man of culture and fne scholastic at
tainments, and brother-in-lsw OF the
irrepressible r @. Kerens of st. Louis,
for courtesies extended to me in bi
splendid Office, is the explanation OF the
workings of bis beautiful machines.
The bar of the Hotel Main is verita
BILE, costly drawing rooa mirrored all
around with fine plate glass, ia, in fact,
a miniature palace in itself, and is both
cool and quiet, as none but gentlemen
20 there, and they do a fine business.
Everything here assume metropoiit8i
proportlone in gorgeous style. The bar
Der sbops next TO the entrance OF the
Hotel Main has mirrors sloDe that cosI
between four and five hundred dollar
manufactured in ST. Louis; with eAqul-
site tinted marble columns supporting a
very ornate tntsblature and cOrnice.
Two lines OF railway center here, and
there are more under way, with branch
es to the coal mInee in the different To-
csIit;es, and fine iror railway bridge
with criveway-spens the Arkansas
river, which is about q or cne mile
wide. A fine national cemetery is here,
and it is kept 10 beautiful order, and the
interior department keeps paid wealth
er sharp in the tower of the Hotel Main.
They have the second largest cotton
compress in the United States here, anG
this Is one Of the greatest cotton mark
cts in the southern states. The river is
always nsvagable to the Mississippi,
and during the greater Fart OF the year
100 miles above, and sometimes to
Wichitsw, Kansas.
This is the paradise ultima thule
of the gay and festive drummer; he Is
here in ell his glory, from all parts OF
the country, and even from far away
London, as 1t is a distributing point for
vast section OF country, tributary TO
this place. Tamerssne, on bis peacock
throne at Ssmmsrcand. was not more
gorgeous than these peripatetic knights
of the grip sack; they arrive IN brigedes
in shoals-by every train; and with
double breasted chains, like the anchor
cables of a man of war, glazed collars
and cuffs, and the latest fad in neckties;
with tooth pick shoes and strutting
meiu. they literally psralizs the jays and
yeaps from across the river in the To-
dian country, and are source Of deep
and profound contemplation to them.
/ regret that the powers that be, at
Washington, thought it undispep sable
to the prosperity and happiness OF the
United States, to remove one OF the best
Governor arizona had in many years, but