Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1902-03-28
STAlD PHILADELPHIA
How the Town Appears to a
W00leY Westener

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George Mclaughlin who was in this
city few days ago fresh from Phiia-
delphia was asked by Carson &C
quaintance if Philadelphia was not
rather slow town.
Pretty staid old Quakers there
suppose?"
We'll l supposed so too when l ar
rived but my mind was soon disabused
of that idea. At first | though l had
better not let people know how wild
and woody l was and concluded if l
said l was from Carson City they
would think l was patron of prize
fights and might taboo me, so l kept
that in the back ground.
well, the second night l was there
was wondering how l would pass the
time as my family had not yet arriv-
ed, when some friends l had met sug-
gested that l should accompany them
to little sparring exhibition few
blocks from the Mint. l accompanied
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with roped ring in the center and
tiers on tiers OF people waiting for the
contestants to get together. 1t was
about the livliest crowd l ever saw.
The noise was beyond description.
saw at once that it was no Quaker
meeting that l was in.
presently a colored fighter and a
white man got in the ring and went
to work. 1t was just pure and sim
pie smuggling match and no science at
all. Every time man got a special
ly hard swat the crowd nearly lifted
the roof and when blood began tc
flow from both men, the audience was
fairly wild.
Presently the white man was
, knocked down ana at once the coloret
, man fell on him bodily and kneelins
, alongside began to batter away at hi:
; face Then when the crowd ell
a ed foul he deliberately got up and be
s gan jumping on the PROSTATE white
0 man. 1t was here that pandemoniun
e broke loose. There was rush TO
d the ring and l saw at least a doZel
l. men so wild to get to the ring tina
l. they swung themselves down from tn
Y first gallery and dropped about tel
, feet down to the lower floor.
l. The colored race is very much i
d evidence in that section and very co
e dialy hated. In less than five second
r after the colored man jumped on tn
s other he was down himself and
s. crowd OF about fifty men on him tryir
Z to stamp him to pieces. The polio
made break for him and the plac
E. resounded with just about one cry an
g it seemed to come from every wber
= all that you could hear. When the p
it lice were able to get to him he was i
It sensible and his face unrecognizab
e and some ribs caved III. His Stat
- they call them there. He was take
off in an ambulance wagon to son
lie hospital and that was the last l ev'
q heard OF him. | looked in the pape
or next morning for some account OF
to but found that such things were
ne common that they were hardly wor
W reporting in the newspapers.
ed Il wondered why the fight was
r. lowed in one OF John Wannamake1
81 buildings, but the Club had lea
AZ and John had 10 stand it,
e Politics lively tnera?'
nd Il never mixed in politics there b
often noticed that the returns oftt
~ showed a bigger vote than the req
a. tered voters of the wards or precinct
ay | judged from this that the polite
80. campaigns there were somewhat Ia
I'D id. Both sides appeared to consid
do it the correct thing to have the retur
We loot up more than the Eu.abe of re
: istered voters and I guess they had
I'D tacit unt;ers; ani:Eg tor neither par
ii! to make any undue fuss about it.
lis Where they only ran lew hundr
gh over. they let i go at that.
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