Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-03-17
THE EYE OF BATTLE
THE TWO MEN RESTING AT
THEIR QUARTERS AND
CONFIDENT.
The City Crowded With Sports
and More Pouring In.
DAN STUART'S EYE CAuClNG THE
VAR ABLE WE T Err

morning he weather was lowering
and the air fretted with occasional
fine flakes Of snow. 1t was not a
pleasant prospect and the man VINO
had staked $4,000 on the issue of a
storm must have felt like bleeding in
wardly when he looked on the western
mountain crest and saw the storm
playing among the peaks and head
ing toward the valley. But if his
mind was disturbed he made no out
ward sligo. His ann was as
aud pleasant. and his face lore
the same jolly smile "a ever. He is a
born gambler and nothing on earth
or heaven, in ground or sky ever dis
turbs his equilibrium.
Stuart reminded one of Napoleon.
who, on the eve Of Waterloo, was in
his happiest mood, joking with his
officers and sky-larking with his
granadiers. They had told him that
if it stormed before noon on Tuesday
it meant a bad Wednesday.
Welt" said Dan, sit has stormed
before noon"
In a little while the blanket OF cloud
n hung over the Sierra range was
rent by something and the patches OF
blue sky came out, then it vas rip
ped again 10 the east by the sun
bursting through, Stuart treated
every oue he met out drank nothing
himself. When the sun went behind
the clouds he sawed wood" and when
it came out he painted the streets red.
Beyond this he gave no sign.
Meanwhile the preparations for this
grand event, this battle Of the cent
ury" as it is justly called vent on.
the town had become fight craZed,
everybody had caught the fever Of
the ring and people who were opposed
to have a fight in Carson were now
anxiously weighing the possibilities
Of the big battle. Nothing else was
discussed, nothing else thought Of
When the big trains came in the
streets were filled with ladies dressed
in their best gowns doing what the re
porters call in the in their, but sug-
gestive p~arlapce the rubber neck
act'
The city had beer transformed
from a slow sleepy town into a bust
ling little burg whose streets were
alive with people. The voice Of the
fakir rose above the din as be sold
his cheap wares, the travelling vender.
the Hamburg sausage man with his
factory on wheels Gust like FRISCO the
low sports, the gambler, gentleman
sport and the flash female and her
gentleman friends were all there and
the people who were aghast at this
must bear in mind that wherever
there is money and population there
are all these things in great abuDd-
ance and those who go to San Fran
cisco occasionally from Carson dc
not avoid the big city because it has
its tenderloin district and the feeder:
therein
The flush and fever and fight ex
element was everywhere, the stale
business man left his counter to saun
ter about and be among the pugs, SCI
Sharkey, wait for Sullivan, be intro
duced to Green and brush up agains
somebody or something connected
with the fight, almost any old thing
would do, if only a trainer or a rubber
down or a man with a broken nose O
rib, who had been "up against" some
body of note in the charmed circle o
Fistianis. The blacksmith left hi
forge when the train whistl1,l anC
dropped his glowing horseshoe 10 coo
where it fell or set fire to the shop 70
all he cared, so long as he didn't mis-
seeing the .the push when it got in
Printers left their cases, amid tn
profanity of the editor who could no
get his copy set up, and the typo VIII,
had been hunting work, a few week
ago, now laughed scornfnlly at a
offer to e to work at double wages
for he liked the hustle and life of tn
pool rooms better, where men in velve
vests and log chains of gold and shin
fronts heavy with gems, were bidding
up on Corbett and FitZsimmons a
the going odds Of 10 1861
10 the afternoon nearly ever
m in town was at the track to &c
a look at the ring where the big COZ
test is to be fought. aud the seats i
the ladies' gallery shows that a goo
many will be there. Once the ice i
broken a big crowd IN the ladies gal
lery will be fashionable.