The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-30

| read Wholesale and Retail' but you ! Know that 1t is only a harmless brag; ] there Is no chance for the former. l With this condition the business men l were content; they had never known
 any different. The dry goods houses
 catered right prettily to the custom | which they sought; they advertised | 'heberdashery' only one week later 1 than that word was first employed in | Boston; they always claimed that a | Galindo shop bore the announcement
 mercer before it was used anywhere else In America. In such sweet and
 genteel fashions business competed, the
 community was content, commerce 1 hourished without strife.
 T. Montgomery Price.
 You cant put him in the same line
 With anything. He was too big, mas
 sive, colossal. His very presence would
 crowd a shivering orphan in a ten 1 acre pasture, or rather in Prices sub
 divis on of Harmon's addition to Galin- | do, terms which he introduced to the l peaceful town and which quite sup 1 planted acres and roods and the honest rod, pole or perch"
 | T. Montgomery Price came to Galin- | do, He was a man of the great idea. l Like every man of the great idea, he 1 paid attention to the little detail. Dis
 sect any success and it will be found
 that the great idea is only the little de- l tail worked up-any egg may be an
 omelet with French name and blaz- | ing spirit. The little detail was that he l had found community where 1t was l possible to ride long in elegant steam | cars from one end of the town to the other without being called on for
 fare, and, more, the moment the rail- way should attempt to charge a fare some convu' sion of the law and the con- stitution would smash that railway to l flinders, small ones. There was ncth- | ing like it in the land, it sounded like somebody's socialism in a book. In l doubt he rode free on the trains several times, and even then he did not get
 used to it. But it gave him the great 1 idea.
 Just at that particular time the whole state of California was not doing jus
 tice to itself.It had Argonauted in '49, and as long afterward as the placers held out it had been the Golden West and even Fl Dorado with the most in-
 
 in fact, not knowing that it was per son and not place. Then it had blazed in sunny wheat fields that beat 1 the world for size and yield and the mammoth proportions of the ploughs
 and other machinery of such farming. | But at this particular time it lad gone to sleep from north to south, better, as was sung by some unidentified minstrel l (possibly Black Bart Po-S," as he used | to sign his stage robberies):
 From Ssyiyou to San Diego, From Sierra to the sea.
 | Far down in the extreme south new
 era was coming along for the glory of,
 California, the era of the consumptive | from the raw east Privately, big, ] healthy California called the newcomer
 a 'one-lungster" and was partly sym
 pathetic and partly tolerant of him. 1 But that epithet passed as soon as it was seen what commercial possibilities | lay in the combination of the invalid
 and waste acres of land that would not l pasture a jackrabbit to the square league but which could be sold for bet 1 ter prices than many mines would
 bring. Then tuberculosis began to be
 recognized as financial investment,
 phthisis as it's magnificent dividends | T. Montgomery Price came to the | southern part of California just too late 1 to catch the new movement with the
 bloom on it. It was new thing to
 him; he felt that he was pardonable for
 not recognizing it when he first heard
 of it. He knew all the arts as they are | understood in Chicago; he had been in l the thick of the operations in the north
 vest he knew how most booms were
 made to go. He had even dealt a little | in climate but it had been only as a
 side line, little thing thrown in just to
 make the purchaser feel all the more | content with his bargain. He took no
 shame to his acumen that he at first re- l fused to believe that there were really
 people to whom you could sell just plain climate and nothing else and then
 put any price you pleased on 25X100
 lot of bare desert so that they could sit down and enjoy their other purchase.
 But as soon as he recognized the possi- | bilities of the new boom he made up
 his mind to start the same idea in some
 other place, where, in fact and in his
 own picturesque dialect, he could get in on the ground floor with a nice bin of
 his own in the cellar and where he'd he found sitting comfortably on the fence
 when the band wagon came along. Ir l there is any force at all in words to convey ideas, you know from that just l what this promoter sought to accom-
 plish.
 l Pass briefly over the initial steps. He
 studied Galindo in every aspect. At
 that time it was popular superstition 1 in California that all consumptives hailed from Boston. Having this in
 mind he knew that he could attract
 every New Englander who had any | thing the matter with his lungs if he
 presented fitly the fact of those free
 railroad rides all day long and as late
 as midnight. He would not change a
 single particle of the existing features | of the town. It fancied itself a germi-
 mating Boston; well, he'd put on a New 1 ton Center and a Jamaica Plain like the 1 original Boston. As he said, the foun- dation was plenty good enough. All it needed was to be built on, and that he
 was going to do. He created a bard of | trade and had himself made executive | secretary. He showed where manufac- tories could be built, he proved to a fine 1 demonstration that the town should be- come the home of commerce because it