Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1899-05-22
Comic OpC|0
without Music
THE OLD THING MOVED.
| Boulder People Enjoy Laugh Over n
Modern Com edy of Errors.

They did movc the building. This Is
| the subject that has agitated Bouldrr
people for the las; couple of DAYS ano
has kept officials of the National State
bank and their laboring Contractors
awake night and day. The building was
the antiquated shack that has occupied
| the lot corner 18th and Pearl ioT several
decades. and its proposed destination
the vacant lot next to Trezlse's barn or
| 18th and Walnut. Its removal vas
necessita,ed by the decision OF its own
ers to build upon the site hre NV
building for bank purposes.
SSince the bank officials announo I'd
| their intention of removing the ole
shack. property owners in the viciuit, =,
| together with the city dads, have been
| devising schemes to thwan the purpose.
The opposition finally eliminated in an
ordinance extending the fire limits so as
ing was to be placed. This action as
| met by the bank by a determination &c
get the building removed before the or.
| dinance went into effect. The ordinance
vas published Thursday nigh, In the
Camera and that gave until Tuesday
| Workmen were engaged Friday and the
| race against time was begun. The
building was in two parts, and the rear
was first dislodged. For two nights and
day the ~orkmen plugged away on the
| creaking structure until Sunday morn
ing, wind-racked and shaken, the rear
(, part had to be torn down and removed.
| Then the front part was started. with the
| result that it occupies its destined site
| today.
] The opposition were not idle and Sat-
| urday wagons loaded with brick. brick
piles and sand appeared on 18th street
in the path of the moving building. This
was the work OF Aldermen Austin and
Wilson who promised to have 5000
brick on the ground by Sunday morning.
! The blockading OF the street was don,
on the authority granted BY an ordi
nance to builders to oc cupy forty feet OF
the stree; with building material. The
material was supposed to be destined for
the proposed Meginnes building.
oPeeu'A.'oh as 10 ~ha' "ou'o DC oone
"nen inc o''ek oos'rue'ons were feacn
co oy the moving ou'io'ne KEPT nooioe'
tongues wagsing all Sunday. Newspa
per reporters kept their pencils and
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But does anyone ask. Where was the
legal tra,ernity'" l, was there. Norton
Montgomery. Esq. tamiliarly known by
the appeltauon OF "Norty. with tat lee
bullying from his left hand trousers
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