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Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

The New York Central Railway
company has system of toilet rooms
at its Forty-second street station in
New York City for the accommoda-
tiol OF its commuters" People in
the country north OF New York who
wish to attend the opera or ball or
a dinner party. are not compelled to
go to hotel and hire a room to dress
nor is it necessary for them to wear
their full dress toilets on the trains
either going or coming. Dressing
rooms have been provided at the For
ty-second street station where ladies'
and gentlemen may change their dress
and find hot and cold water, soap and
towels. and mirrors, and in the ladies'
rooms there are patent electric curl
ing irons. People from Connecticut
or counties up the Hudson can thus
bring their party dresses and gentle
men their evening suits, pay five cents
for the use of a dressing room make
the change. leave their dress suit cas-
es at the parcel room. for which they
have to pay 10 cents, and find car
riage at the door which for 45 cents
mile will take them to the theater
or the opera, or dinner or ball.
At the close of the function a cab
from the railway stand will call for
them if ordered, return them to the
station for a similar charge. and there
upon the payment of cents more
they may have the use of the toilet
room to change back into suitable
garments for travelling. The dressing
rooms are about five feet square, and
are neatly fitted up and kept in per-
feet order.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29
FROM GLAD
STONE kIBOSH
(Silverton Standard.

NSllNertOn SJdHudTu)
New Year the editor of this paper
is going TO turn over new leaf. Sub
scriptions must be paid in advance.
Our account books will be destroyed
and the boolkeeper discharged. We
are going to wear our own clothes and
will neither borrow or lend, thereby
working a hardship on Deacon Devine
who has used our dress suit on all
society events. From lending, ddr-
ing last year, we lost three razors,
six tooth brushes, and five pair of
socks We may have to go sockless
and let our beard grow but will cease
to swap courtesies.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29
MESA CHRISTMAS TREE
FLORIDA MESA. Dec. 25. 1902

FLORIDA MESA. Dec. %. 1902.
The Florida Mesa Presbyterian
Sunday school gave a Christmas en-
tertainment last night at their attrac-
tive new church. A varied program
of music, recitations. dialogues. etc.
was given. A pretty picture was
Christmas bell drill The church was
beautifully decorated for the occa-
sion. a Christmas tree provided and
Santa Claus himself was there and
distributed bounteous supplies of can
dies. nuts and fruits. Christmas
brownies were on hand to help make
things lively. The Reservation Sun
day school Joined in the exercises and
everybody was invited and had good
time q w g
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

There are more ways than one of
redeeming land for agricultural pur-
poses. A few days ago a mass meet
ing was held in Salisbury, Mo. to dis
cuss a proposition to straighten, the
Charlton river which wriggles its way
in wonderful fashion from the Iowa
line until it reaches the Missouri river
in the central part of the state. In
the one county of Charlton the river is
wrintled and looped in a channel 300
miles long, though it could be straigh-
tened to 80 miles The plan proposed
is to restrict the channel in Charlton
county to 81 miles. at an expense of
from So to S. an acre. A great deal
of land now subject to overflow can
be drained and increased in value ten.
fold. The movement is in the hands
of a committee which will report to
another mass meeting next month.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

new street mail box on trial in
Washington is connected with other
mail boxes and the main office by
wires, and is so arranged that 1t rings
a bell at the central station when
opened by the carrier. The punctual-
ity OF the carrier is thus tested. and If
he misses box the next cannot be
unlocked. though it sends in a signal
showing the error. Each box is pro
vi ded with telephone by which the
carrier can communicate with the of
flee or be called by 1t.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

starting us net OF much use against
a big bl A-
The nolo3 would be only tenn
porary IL n tiom the state. for with
in very short time the state would
get 1t back lif,y fold. The irrigation
of land nov unwatsred would Increase
the taxable value of property; much
of the land - he watered is state
property. m iie land board could
add to its revenues by leases so that
a steady inco would be secured for
Colorado 1t IS merely business
proposition"
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

The superintendent of the rural
mail delivery service reports that in
Dubuque county, Iowa, Is, 900 farmers
families have their mail brought to
their doors daily by carriers whose
laily routes of travel is 73S miles.
The number of daily newspapers sub,
scribed for by those $4,000 farmers
has increased more than 10000 since
the service began. There are now
70 600 rural delivery routes in the
United States. The carriers travel
nearly 100000 miles daily. and serve
over 1000 600 members of the farming
population with letters, newspapers.
and packages every day. The extern
sion of the service has been more rap
i'd than any other public utility ever
known. In 1897 there were only "A
routes in operation, in 1900, l,276;
in 1897 the entire appropriation was
only 100000; in 1902 it had grown to
s3993 ,740. while sl2,655 500 is asked
for next year.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

II our senior senator Henry M.
Teller. has sense of shame, he must
feel humiliated. He returned from
Washington at the instance of friends
and with Tom Patterson "treed" At
torney General Post for three hours
trying to convince him that he should
20 back on his oath of office wherein
he swore to do his duty honestly and
fearlessly, and then got turned down
The idea of United States senator
F>.he supposed honorable standing
of SeS~>or Teller thus getting on his
knees to rave the state canvassing
board unseat Republican honestly
elected in order that he might be re-
turned to the senate. 1t vas the first
appearance of the senator in the po-
litical arena since the 4th of Novem-
Der when the voters of Colorado re-
pudiated him and the Democratic par
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29


He viii fiji his apple barrels
centre with second grade frue
is impossible to lay too much eM
on this principle Of absolute
II agriculture Is ever to come
front. to faAly compete with the
camille trade. it must be with th'
tainty that everything which
from the farm is precisely what
represented to be. The manuf.
er does not dare to place on the
ket an inferior article. The Il
must establish his reputation,
wherever else he makes a failul
must not make a failure Of his PR
Farmer.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

Mrs w. d. Watson has received the
appointment as chairman for Colora-
do OF the Women's Fraternal Worlds
fair board. The women of the several
fraternal organizations of the United
States are going to have building at
st. Louis in 1904 to cost 100000. and
the receipt of the splendid commits
sion by Mrs Watson is certainly a
high honor.-Silverton Standard.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

dem t'ings?"
Not unless yoah In meetin' Brer
Saul"
'Umphl | ain drive no mules in
meetin' en- kahn take de meetin ter
de mules. Dat Baptis' 1igion ain no
ligion fu' mule driver. De baptism
li'ble ter swink his locabulary'-
Washington Times.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

Who does not welcome the man OF
cheerful and hopeful spirit? The
happy countenance, the genial smile,
the winning way and the timely word
have an inspiring and uplifting in
lluence. Men are attracted and won
by a kindly manner and generous ac-
ton He is a benefactor who car
sies sunshine into the home. church
and cummunity. A bright optimism
is always preferable TO gloomy pes
simism-Ex.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29
This life is only a probationary ex-

This life is only a probationary ex-
istence, a period not measurable with
the eternity for which it is prepara-
tory. and whose happiness or misery
is determined here. For our light
aiiliction. which is but for moment,
worketh for us far more exceeding
and eternal weight of glory; while we
look not at the things which are seen
but at the things which are not tenn
poral. hut the things which are not
seen are eternal. That is the basis
of the Christian faith; without 1t
there is no Christianity: Nor does
it require religious faith to recognize
the profound philosophic truth in this
view of life This life exists. and
forever has existed, with reference to
the life succeeding, it. One man
sows, another man reaps. One gen
Grafton makes way for another. strug-
Cling to prepare for its coming; and
thus the ages roll on and the world
goes on; selfsacrifce, self-effacement
always-Ex.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

Venezuela has had 1O4 wars in sew
enty years. The number would un-
doubtely have been larger had it not
been for rain and darkness and other
that were beyond hui
man control.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

~. and we are surprised that he
, --c-l1 permit anyone to draw him
iuto such a deal. However. it is only
in line with lightning changes made
by the senator in public policy the
past few years.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

The Herald advertising columns is
proof that the merchants regard this
paper as the great circulating medium
of the southwest. Many improve
ments are contemplated the coming
year.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

In the voting machines tested at
Meriden, Conn, a speed Of four votes
in three minutes was reached, and
no error or delay occurred. Two min
utes after the polls closed the result
was bulletined.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29
A LINGUAL PHENOMENON.

AN you says, Brer Eph'm." said
the convert, thoughtfully. dat an
KANT cuss nor sw'ar none after Use
been baptize'?"
DE Bible say no, Brer Saul
Nor say Good Lor', nor none o
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

1t never occurred to U. S. Grant
and wife when they lived together in
he log cabin at Hardscrabble that
they would eventually rest together in
the grandest mausoleum in America.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

Time generally rights all things.
The resignation of General Mana
ger Herbert of the Rio Grande sys-
tenn means moving spirit for the
Colorado Southern.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

Preparations have commenced for
the Inauguration of Peabody and his
fellow officers who will see that Col
orado enjoys business administra-
tion the next two years. No more
thrifty Jim business goes,
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

Just as the Pacific cable is being
laid Marconi has fixed things so that
cables are not needed. Why could
he not have made his plans public a
LiLtle earlier?
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

Who was it dropped that 81 900 900
into the lap of the Chicago university,
Mr.. Rockefeller, or the people who
burn oil? He raised the price cents
and raked in $4,000, 900
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

seat all the Republican senators is
only in keeping with the action of Gov
ernor Orman to unseat Cooper of
San Juan county.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

birthday centennials. Lincoln and
Darwin were born on the same day in
1903. Tenny son. Poe and several
other famous men were born that
year.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

The Herald may favor this man for
senator and our next door door neigh
boz someone else. but we can all
unite in saying the next senator
should he Republican. Colorado
must place herself in the ranks OF
progressive states and do something
20 Offset "Old Perpley'tr.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

The senatorial fight is on in all its
glory. Frank Goudy enters the race
with double the number of members
pledged of any other candidate and
seems as though he should he elect
ed The people of this southwest
section will be greatly pleased over
such result
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

Venezuela is in the condition of
Dick Swiveller, who was unable to
leave his apartments on account of
numerous creditors. Under the cir
cunstnnces Venezuela can do no bet
ter than cultivate Mr. Swiveller's
cheerfulness.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

The four leading aspirants for SEN
ator are Goudy, Wolcott, Howbert and
Dixon, with strength in the order
named. 1t may be a case of a dark
5orse sliding in.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

Santa Claus was very kind to most
Coloradoans this year 1t is a pleas
ure to reside in a state where the
poor are few in number and those
who are unfortunate are looked after.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

The increase in wages continues
with great zeal throughout the east.
3ryan prophecies are bad things to
tie to.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

England and Germany have Africa
on ,L~n' hands and will find that one
continent is enough for colonization
purposes.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

This Countess Castellane has arriv-
ed in New York. BY this time she
probably speaks English with much
difficulty.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

The hundredth anniversary of the
birth of Emerson and Buiwer will oc-
cur next year. Those of Dlsraeli and
Hawthorne come in 1904. Whittier's
ard Longfellows in 1907. The year
1903 will be remarkable one for
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

The fight between Mrs. Grenfell and
Miss Herey goes merrily on. These
are hard people to get along
with each other.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

Five more S.. Louis aldermen have
been found suiliy of boodling. ST.
Louis, however, still has several prom
nent citizens who are not in Jail.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

The man who is appointed receiver
for Venezuela will receive the largest
batch of trouble ever handed out to
anybody.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

Tho governor of Kansas may be
Hn' ing off because he thinks it would
be ungallant not to take Kansas
lady.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

: southwest section is going to
lead ,he van in way of new enter
prses the coming year. Our time is
near at hand.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29
NEvERslIP HORSE ehon1sal
AT JAckSoN's.

II you want your cards. circolar
hand bills. etc. delivered righA seos
word with John Dsvie. 712 ~ 80
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

Avhlicans who are willing to have SEN
a;utia. lightuing strike them.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-29

Denver appears to be having a
hard time With burg lrs of the porch
cliI,I az kind
The Lamar register., 1902-06-04

| to say whether there was danger there
or not. TIen, too, the governor was
coming, and moreover. his family was
coming with him. Could there possi-
bly, be any danger where so eminent
and so important personages as these
were? Also company of soldiers
from Forl de France We're coming,
and while the St. Pierrans were talk
ing of tI"lr arrival the company ap.
| peared.
1t seems singular that the presence
of this small band of soldiery should
have inspired misplaced confidence.
| but 1t was so, though none seems to
have asked what good tle soldiers
could hay" done. or even the might
est army have effected against vol
canic Pclcc
The governor came. and with him
his family arrived from Fort de France
on the little steamboat Topaz. With
the governor came the biologists. the
wise men who were to sit in judg-
ment and to SO fatuously misjudge.
They rOndered long, and then gave
fatal assurance that all was well. The
people read the assurances which the
papers printed, drew long breath of
relief and then turned their attention
to other things. to affairs of business
and pleasure and all that goes to
make up the indolent happy life of
the pleasure loving natives of this
isle. And that night-the night of
May THE wise men FASTENED back
to Fort de France.
The governor and his family were
to have followed the next day. the
French cruiser Suchet having been di-
rected to leave her anchorage at Fort
de France at o'clock for the purpose
of bringing home the governor and his
party.
That plan. if carried out, would
have brought the cruiser to her doom.
and her crew will never cease to
thank their saints and bless the blum
| dering mechanic who broke something
| in the ungine-room as the vessel was
about getting under way. which acci-
dent delayed her departure and proba-
bly, saved the lives of all on board.
Wednesday night-eve of horror!
There are none left alive to tell
what the city was like that night, but
just around a little promontory at
its southern edge nestles the little vii
lage of Carbet, pretty town of some
six or seven hundred people. And
not one of them was hurt, the town
having been screened by the high
ridge which lay between it and St
Pierre and runs sheer to the sea.
Its northern wall was precipitous
and built close up to 1t was the south
ern section of St Pierre. a thickly
! populated district whose houses left
The Lamar register., 1902-06-04

analysis; they were too simple, too
West Indian for that. Sufficient that
the rumble had gone.
st. Pierre was gay that night of May
l. The municipal band played music
in the plaza. as was ITS wont Thurs
day evening. This band night was
the one when youths and maidens
might mingle in public. and the young
gallants and mademoiselles, promo
nading around the square under tie
watchful eyes of fathers and mothers
and duennas, talked lightly of Pelee
and that whitening fall
Up near Morne Rouge, abode of St.
Pierre's well-to-do. there was a
lawn party that evening, which car
ried its gayety far into the night
zitzas tinkling in the tropic air, and
mantilla-draped girls dancing in the
moonlight to the click of castanets.
Friday. day of the evil omen, dawn
ed over St. Pierre. 1t was made
sombre by thunderstorm, which
brooded over the mountains and from
whose dark clouds came intermittent
flashes of lightning. The nervous
started at every thunderclap and anX-
iously asked one another If that was
not Mont Pelee, while others sought
to trace the 1linding flashes to their
source. to see If they were really the
mere play of lightning or volcanic
blazes from the time-worn crater.
which many believed, and all hoped,
was long ago extinct. Then a heavy
mist settled over the city and its sur
roundings, and under its depressing
influence the day wore itself to a
close.
Saturday, May 3! Just five days
to the obliteration. to death, utterly.
wholesale, sudden and tragic! And
yet ST Pierre went forth that day to
carnival doings, local celebration In
honor of something or somebody.
Facts are meager as to that one day
and those following. for it must be
remembered that nobody survived the
horror that was so soon to come. But
there were some who had spent days
in the city just previous to the trag-
edy-some who had left 1t only a
scant half-hour before the holocaust.
Grieving for their own lost dead and
with nerves unstrung by the narrow
Hess VI theii o"h os'ape' ~ hioy be
that their overwrought minds are
coming visions now, but these tell ear
nestly of a column of smoke which
arose, black as a pail, from Pelee's
white shroud to rear its pillows of
Grape into the form OF a great up
ended coffin. However that may De,
there is evidence that all festival gay
ETY. went when showers of pebbles be-
gan to rattle over the city, with now
and then a shower of sand. of grains
hot to the touch, despite their long
flight through the air.
st. Pierre, it is now said. was in a
more sober humor that evening than
it has been within the memory of those
who tell disjointedly the tale of the
days that ushered in it's doom. And
The Lamar register., 1902-06-04
ST. PlERRE'S DAY OF DOOM.
To the Population Refused Believe There
Was Danger, Though Warning Was Ample

strange quiet of the racked earth.
Thomas T. Prentiss. United States
consul at ST. Pierre, was sitting on
the veranda at his home in the early
hours of the following morning. a
friend came driving by in buggy
you had better get out of this
he called to the consul Il am getting
out, and getting out as fast as | can
"Oh, you are just merely little
scared" Mr.. Prentiss replied. There
is no need of anyone going away
''It is better to be safe than sorry,
retorted the citizen as he whipped up
his team and hastened on.
1t is from this man, who witnessed
the disaster "A short time later from
a neighboring elevation, with few
who survived the wreckage in the Of
fling, and the few who looked on the
cataclysm from distant points. that
The Lamar register., 1902-06-04

color-red tiled roofs cutting sharp
lines on walls of creamy white, yellow
and orange and bird's-eye blue, min
gled with the green of tropic verdure.
Built on long undulation, which slop-
ed to the sea. where it clustered in n
riot of color near the shore, its sub
urban spots could be picked out here
and there along the fianking spurs
and foothills which roll from Pelee's
base. that great volcanic bulk whose
crest is ever shrouded in veil of
clouds.
Over the doomed city the morning
OF May l broke in miracle splendor.
skies bright and blue, and foliage
washed to a rresher green by hard
rain which had swept over the island
the preceding night. But it was the
last fair day that st. Pierre was to
know.
The market place. the first section
of the city to show life when West
The Lamar register., 1902-06-04

fall, tell of how short-lived the fright
was and how quickly the mercurial
population regained its buoyant spir-
its. Some there were who looked
grave when ashes, white and fine as
powdered magnesia, began to sift
from the great cloud which hung over
Pelee's crest, but it seems that none
thought to connect these myriads OF
floating particles with the deep. muf-
fed rumble which mad just been
heard; none to trace the one to the
other-the effect to the cause. Their
minds were not grooved to such
The Lamar register., 1902-06-04

barely enough room for streets, the
buildings huddling close to the steep
and wooded activity, as If seeking to
escape on the otner side of the ridge.
The intervening distance was short.
By the broad, finely graded, bridge .
and tunneled highway which connect
ed rity with village, one would judge
thai a five minutes brisk walk would
be amply sufficient to reach the one
from the other.
But none sought safety by that
road-at least none escaped by it.
The heart-breaking pity of 1t all is that
safety was SO near-at the end OF
one fingers almost. For Just over
the ridge the grass and palms are
everywhere as green as any in the
tropics to-day, while up to the very
crest of its northern slope are the in
eta, cable marks of ruin and disaster.
as if some sea of flame had brimmed
to the very crest of the ridge, to suck
back again before overhowing on the
other side.
So it is the the village folks of Car
bet that one must turn for the last
act in this horrible tragedy.
Night fell, the villagers say, with
an unnatural, unearthly quiet. Not a
breath of air to stir the palms firing
ing on the shores; not a ripple to
break the mirror-like clearness of
still. waters. 1t was as If the hush of
death lay everywhere. True earth
quake weather, more than one of the
villagers observed as they noted the
oppressive stiffness of the air and the