, 1903-10-08
Editorial Correspondence

this morning. at 5 80, | found the
streets of Cheyenne deserted-and
somewhat untidy. She had not yet
made her toilet. When | registered
at the Inter Ocean. the sleepy clerk
mechanically turned the register
around and was wide awake in an in
slant Jaw, come off. | happen to
know Crawford and I'll swear you are
not he" Then | had to explain that
we had had IA heavy frost up in the
Saratoga valley and that | had been
caught out and lost my whiskers.
He was Modified, but not convinced,
for he rang up the police station and
in less than five minutes ! was con
scious of the fact that | was being
Swallowed by an officer in plain
clothes.
Cheyenne is improving rapidly. |
had the streets all to myself in my
early promenade. The Leader build
ing, which is of pressed brick, makes
ii good showing and covers up Il mul
titude of sins-I vas going to say
across the alley back of the Inter
Ocean hotel. The building is almost
completed and the Leader will have
an ideal home.
Immediately across the street, cor,
ner-wise from the Opera block, the
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone com
pany is constructing ii handsometwo-
story stone building to be occupied AS
an exchange. That was another very
agreeable surprise. As long as | can
remembers far back that the mem
DRY of man runneth not to the o II
trary-there vas a disreputatable,
miserable, little frame shanty ON that
corner, occupied by some Cinnamon
as IA wash-house. Rotten board walks
patched windows and general decay
marked the exterior of the premises,
while II vile smell of studs and un-
washed Cinnamon saluted you with
inf you ever got 50 low as to go
within, which | hope you did not. for
you should still have enough pride
and love of country about YOU to
keep you from patronizing IA Chinese
laundry.
A block east and c]orner-wise
again the beautiful home of the
Elks, nov about completed. 1t is ID
building that any city might well be
proud of and Cheyenne points with
pride" at this handsome structure.
The Masonic Temple has again
come To life. Save for the tile roof
ing (Which is a great Improvement
in appearance,D you would not real
ize that il had ever been DESTROYED
by fire. 1t is entirely enclosed and
the interior is being rapidly complet-
ed, for it is needed, and will be used
just As Dol as it can be gotten ready.
When the word went forth that this
Temple of Mystery, Of Learning, Of
knowledge, had been destroyed,
there was universal regret. Now
that it has been restored there will he
general rejoicing.
From the Masonic Temple | walk
ed to the courthouse and Jail. |
sauntered around there for half an
hour, hoping | might get a glimpse
of Tom Horn, but | was told by a
by that he was mot up yet"
| wanted to get to see Tom aud see
if he would recognize me, OF tell me
to come off" like the clerk at the
Inter Ocean,
The Government building is Chey-
enne's pet Years and years ago,
when this building was, like Elk
Mountain, just a hole in the ground.
| used t. wonder if any one then
living would ever see it completed.
The government, you know, is never
in "A hurry, and it just dawdled along,
doing Il little work, late in the fall,
each year ON this building, and then
knocking off to stand on the street
corner and argue about what kind of
stone it would put into the walls.
Its dilIatory tactics reminded once of a
story told me by one of the ranch
women in our valley. They lived
in a little log shack just big enough
for two, with a family of sin. But
they We're going to have II new house
she said joyfully. Her husband was
going to the timber that fall to cut
the logs; the next fall he would haul
them down; the next fall he would
peel them the next fail he would
get the roof on. and the next fall
they would finish 1t and move in.
Oh! womauhood! your faith and your
patience are sublime and worthy Of
all praise. # is just such faith and
patience as that which is required 10