The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-25

eity of Chattanooga. which is itself about
fve hours IF fastest railway travel from
shv flanta. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. In
other words. this little station is nine
miles from ! CITY of 80. 900 people that is
&C Far removed from any other city as
Boston ii from New York. That COMPARE
cnn NAV convev some impression Of its
isolation.
4 month ago this little station was but
: sa,at telegraph office. weather beaten
and solitary. by thet track. Within a radius
of a hundred Yards were three other build
inas-fwo dwellings and a roadside
ustare !, A rood bit farther along the
rosd xvas . smithy. That was all there
vas a0.davs apoof architecture or inhabit-
ants nj Iytle,s.
But the frown Of Mars has been to Ly-
files the smile of urosperity and the SYM
hol az multinlication The deserted. dusty
road that curved across the solitary rail-
vvav track. mast the lonely semaphore, to
roach tbef front porches Of the rural post
f,f1;ca and grocery il today like the main
street. Of a boom mining town at edge
If All alriferous reef The gold bearing
stratn nra fha nockots of the SO. 900 yolun-
teers scnuared within riding distance of
this -mssshroanas to,gns4sIt is q deposit that
needs no delying. no washing. no stamp
inc. no refining. It mines itself, trans
norris itself and i~oyously deposits itself in
Tho gaming receiving vaults of Lvtle's.
IN short. Iytle's Is a Klondike. Its
n,acers need not to be hunted. They are
not frozen gravel, dug with much travail
from fire. loesened beds of lev streams.
They need no seeking. They offer ainty
and brittle resistance to ne pickax. They
need neither labor nor coaxing. They are
what il called In American slang "a. good
thing and they inst push themselves
alone, with unrestrained eagerness.
For. DO it understood, the American
vol,,nter. NOT limited. as is the regular SOL
dior IL n salary of s13 a month";. has his
nurse WEIGHTED with the spoils of a de-
voted home. He bears with him the loot
If willing hands about his hearth and he
foreets not the iniunctions that follow him
- bpod his health and coddle his comfort.
Could there be a better. richer, more
snroftable market for Chean ,Johnf Gould
.there he created n more thirsty desert to
h irrirated with apollinaris and pop?
a look down the vista of the main
.strsct nf the new Ivtle,s carries ore to vi
ssidpsnf 4 ronrh heyyn city born in a night.
5rbere Is al; hest but a marrow space be-
tween the railway track and the edge of
the National mark. where the camps are
nifcbed THAT national reservation is
Facred ground q can be invaded by no
mercantile anterprise. So to this strip, as
,naraor- as 4 rulch IN Colorado. the hunt
crs for the soldiers gold are confined.
qbe country road has become a crowded
HIGHWAY. a backed with vehicles as is
lover broadway or the Strand or the
boulevard des italiens. A hundred cries
II ~contendine riders rend the air. Each
aldo of the TANNED way is lined with
Tootbs. hastily tackled together, of un-
tainted sine. raw. glarine. offensive to
the eve. butt harmony with all the dis
nrosacfing shell, where Is displayed ey-
srpfh;nr imaginahle to eat and drink and
every conceivable article OF gear from
sboestrincs to pyiamas.
Near this street az vocal noise and