, 1898-12-24
THE GEN CITY" OF WYOMING

III GEM CITY OF WYOMING.
Laramie, the Gem City" lies like
Jerusalem in the lap of the mountains.
The streets r laid out at right angles
and correspond with the points OF the
compass. Walking along the streets
they all seem to terminate at the foot
hills. Looking westward is the Snowy
its beautiful battlements of snow
sparkling in the sunlight Through the
entire year and making a glorious view
on a hot July day, with the blue sky as
a background. The city is abundantly
,watered by large springs flowing from
the mountains east of IT, and the pres
sure is great enough to raise the water
ito the upper story of the highest build
ings. The supply is so abundant that
a rivulet Is allowed to run down each
side of the streets all summer, thus
Watering the trees and making the city
a bower of green during the season.
There is no water tax, the water being
absolutely free to any citizen for lawns,
gardens, baths, etc, and | have never
known a city of it's size so well supplied
with bath rooms; in fact nearly every
house, however small, appears to have
it's well appointed bathroom.
As a place OF residence Laramie is
very delightful. Being the seat of the
state university it is an intellectual
center. The professors give freely of
their time and talents in the way of lee
cures and otherwise to benefit the COM
mrnity. We have the Woman's club
in all its departments, and many earn
est, intellectual, cordial and Christian
men and women.
The polling places on election day
would be a surprise to many in the east
who judge the west by the cowboy
stories. l have attended many church
meetings where there was more noise
than at our election, and l am fully con-
WINGED that the woman's vote is bene-
fetal to the state in more ways than
one. There are no jostling crowds at the
polls; each goes in and out again with
out noise or rudeness and "a lady may
go alone with perfect propriety. In our
city government no friend of the liquor
traffic need apply" the women will de-
feat him. In the state, the east must
remember that we are but as one in ten
in number, butt time will remedy all
that. When the territory was organized
there We're twenty-one men to one wo-
man.
Wyoming is proud, and justly so, of
her university, where higher education
is free to all her children. The build
ing is a fine one and we'll equipped, talk
ing into consideration the fact that the
state has less than 10000 inhabitants.
We sadly need a building where our
large and very valuable collection OF
fossils may be properly set up for in
spection. OF these we have a very fine
collection, some individual specimens
requiring a building 100 feet in length.
Every college and university in the
east is indebted to Wyoming in this re-
spect; to our state they all come or
send.
| have nothing ito say against the
ranch; nothing that I dislike but the
isolation, and l cam return without a
murmur If it is best, but I am glad to be
in Laramie, and feel like saying with
Ruth: Thy people shall be my people
and thy God my God; where thou diest
will | die and there will mo, l will
cit be buried, as I have not yet seen a
cemetery in this arid land where n
loves to linger. Much has been done ito
beautify the cemetery here, but the
fact remains that it is not like the love
ly cities of the dead in the east. Pass
ing through the cemetery l noticed the
names of Edwin Crout, Company H,
Fourth Michigan cavalry, and ]. E.
Baker. Seventh Michigan cavalry, boys
far from home. No doubt after life's
fever they sleep well under the old
flag and the people of Laramie do not
them on Decoration Day.
In writing of our university | did not
intend to forget u public schools;
they are not excelled amy wFhere either
to buildings, teachers o equipment.
The first teacher who taught in what is
now the City OF Laramie still lives, and
is almost in the prime of her life of use
fuiness, and able to point to many of
our best citizens as her early pupils
Mrs. w. J. Garlock in Detroit Free
Press.
Late to bed and early to rise, pre-