New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-15

r. II A Brown. the nghting chaplain Of tho
Rough Riders. can arrange TO take the stump for
hi. colonel Ncw-Y Workers will SEQ man Of unique
character. In person manner and speech he sirik-
ingly resembles Colonel Alexander :. Bacon. OF
Brooklyn Who Is well-kno~n hgur" Of Ne"- York
State political campaigns. and who led the charge
against John Y. McKane's rough riders IN the fall
OF lse3 Chaplain Brown Is not so tail ana not 40
slender and not quite 50 old as Colonel Bacon as
he is only abou, thirty years OF age. He Is rec
tor Of the Episcopal Church Of the Advent. In
Prescott Arz and loves the rough-and- tumble
West In which ne has always lived lie exercises
the utmost tact IN dealing with his Western com
nnnncess s lie walked No 10 one OF the crap
boards the other dag; ard the gambling troopers
smiled while the banker snd
he declined Win hank ard hey tSyrlainsd The
their play as the best manner Of giving him
practical Illustration of II.
III there must be gambling. I'd rather II n
the open, he said. ~ he moved away. y don't
sTs ss"Tsl 6aqpnE v ana h % an
IONA and there is lIttle drunkenness there"
Chaplain Brown has been suffering from chills
ana fever Tor several days. he had no oiImcnt in
nYer the ha dug RoagS
while the nylns shells and dropping bullets bea,
reeded 90 much by others. H. has partly given out.
When the members Of Troop A the Arizona
troop OF the Rough Riders. read Yesterday the
rouncement thai Jerome Ariz.. had been nearly
swept away by fire and three livcs lost they
greatly interested Troopers Rurt Wager. Thomas
Hamilton. Wallace b. Willard. Carl Holtzschue.
Henry y Fox and j. l.. Howard are all from
Jerome SO also were George Dougherty and Ed
ward Leggett. who were killed.
Jerome has been nearly wiped out ~ 6rc seven
or eight times. Il is The popular belief In the
West that these attacks by fire are a scourgc to
Jerome for being the wckedcst town IN the South
west The town Is built on tho sidc OF Mount
Verde which Is composed OF almost solid copper.
w A. Clark refused ssj. 10000 for the United Verde
Copper Mine which &c said to be The richest mine
in the world There T. enough copper In sight 10
keep ono thousand men employed for one hundred
years and the gold taken from the copper pays all
the expenses Of mining the copper The one thou
sand miners and their families constitute the popu-
lation OF the own. which Is built Of wood. Az 1t
has no fire protection II all goes every time IRE
starts a. the do1n-hill side OF the town.
Jerome is the toughest town In the United States
without exception" said Chaplain Brown. There
Is a church building there, and have been able 70
Al II to Overlooking every time I've visited the
place. but II takes tact 10 get along with those
people III never forget the plight OF a Methodist
missionary by the name Of Bovard, who went up
there TO hold services. He got In toward evening,
and AS there no hotel there he had difficult
time finding place to sleep Finally "Japan ns.
Unfortunately for Mr. Bovard, Of the boys
learned he was there. The sleeping rooms Of the
iitons that did not run up 10 the ceiling. The
men and women who frequented the place outdid
missionary. They kept up unbroken succession
OF oaths and obseenty They looked over III, The
and occasionally they discharged a revolver
through the ceiling NJ; Bovard left town early
town that was less hopeless
There Is more gambling in Jerome than in any
parade the streets in Mother Hubbards / remem.
ber. hoy one OF these women startled drummer