, 1900-07-19
THURSDAY. JULY 10. 1900.
BRYAN is trying to ride two horses-im-
perialism and l6 to 1. Can he do it?


journey bearable.
We found the half way house now be
ing erected at the well on the Old Emf
grant road. under way. 1t will form a
great convenience when completed.
The road was lined with freight ard
ore teams and every few miles we would
either meet or overtake a group of three
OF four teams. We found Fort Steele
the usual lively, hustling berg for which
II has become noted.
Rawlins is a good town, clean and
tidy-the result of a city government
which looks after those matters. 1t has
fully as many saloons as Saratoga com
pared with the number of inhabitants,
and they all seem to be 1ourishing-just
as ours are.
We had Il very interesting meeting of
the Masonic Lodge at nine o'clock, the
delay being occasioned by the Eastern
Star lodge occupying the hall-a very
t%lourishing institution numbering some
40 or 80 members After the lodge
meeting the members sat down to re-
freshments kindly provided by the la
NIUE VI ~ IluSttth LobSt. "
which thoughtfulness the lodge tender
ed them a vote of thanks.
The almost continuous clang of loco
motive bells and their sharp, earsplittlng
shrieks are not conducers of sleep. any
more than the uncomfortable anticipa
ton of the night porters knock on your
door at 3:20a. m. 1t requires courage Of a
a high degree to leave a good bed, dress
and crawl onto a dusty train, but we ac-
complished the feat without accident.
AT 1880 a. m. we stopped at Green River
and had ten minutes in which to pay for
and hastily glance at "a cup of coffee and
a sandwich. The conductor had his eye
on us and then when we we're half
through. he yelled BOARD and we
had to drop everything and scuttle for
the train. only to find it would not leave
for 5 minutes yet. / was for going back
and finishing up but the breakman
wouldn't let me off-he said meaningly
that we had not yet reached Evanston.
Mr.. Pexton. who runs the railroad
house here, is an ideal hotel man. His
house is cool and inviting and a shady
porch with big arm chairs restored
peace and comfort to our hearts and his
excellent table made US feel like new
men. Evanston is q nice little city Of
$500 people, situated on Bear river. 1t
is celebrated as being the home of Sher-
if Ward and the location OF the Insane
Asylum which latter we visited, and
through the courtesy Of Stewad Wan
less were shown through the institution.
The walk through the different wards
of the Asylum was a most painful one.
Everywhere order, ~neatness and %cleanli-
ness reigned supreme. But such de-
lection, snch despair, such utter hope
l~essness as some OF the patients mani
tested was heart-breaking. Others
again seemed cheerful and happy, yet it
needed but a glance to see that they
were mentally unbalanced. A few OF
the unmanagable were confined in cells
but seemed reasonably quiet. Now and
then as we sat in the office we heard
shouts and singing from different parts
OF the building but we saw no violence
or any indication OF harsh or rough
treatment in any form.
But, oh, the hopelessness and despair
hat prevailed the institution from top
to bottom! One poor woman whose
head WAS bowed as in the bitterness, OF
despair. sat playing on the piano as we
entered the woman's ward, but ceased as
soon as we appeared. She did not look
up but with head bowed fingered the
keys and waited patiently until we
should depart. From her face had de-
parted the last glimmer of hope and des-
pair covered her as a mantle, The rest
of the women sat around, u gloomy and
hopeless group, each doing something in
an insane way. or doing nothing with
hat understandable air of detection which
marks the hoplessly insane.
The building sits in the midst OF well
kept grounds, on a hill commanding n
fine view Of the town and yalley-a de-
lightfnl spot devoted to misery and des-
pair
Everywhere along the line Of road
from Rawlins to Evanston we found
them at work grading new track and
changing the line OF road. AT Green
RIVER very important work is going on
and at Piedmont they are driving a tun-
uell over COCO feet in length which
will cut of Ii miles N road and avoid
n steep and ugly hill which has long
leep une Of the company'a most serious
obstacles. When these works hero and
the Sherman hill improvement lie done
the road will be practically re built
between Cheyenne and Ogden. Not
understanding these improvements, which
will cost four or five millions, there will
be sS.o00,0O0 distributed as dividends to
kniaa-s n the common sotck of the