Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-06-06
EARLY TIMES OUT WEST.
Horace Greeley's Experience in a Col
orado Neutrality-suspicious.
Court Conduct.

In his "reminiscences Henry Willard
tells of Horace Greeley's visit to Colo
RADIO, says the Chicago Daily News. He
and a companion went in one OF the
express stages and had met with a SIN
guIar and perilous accident. In driving
through a herd of buffaloes the animals
probably maddened at the sight OF the
red color of the coach, had attacked and
upset it. Greeley had received a severe
cut below his right knee, Gripping him
for several weeks. Being confined to
his room in the hotel by his wounds.
Greeley was greatly disturbed by the
sound of revelry by night that rose un-
ceasingly from the barroom. Willard
writes: Ills wrath eliminated on the
third night of his tortures. | was for
tunate enough to be with him and thus
became an eye and ear witness of what
happened. About ten o'clock he got up
and insisted on limping to the barroom.
His appearance, though his presence in
the building was generally known, Gre
ated surprise and instant silence. He
begged for a chair, and, Friends, said
he, 4 have been in pain and without
sleep for almost a week and | am we'll
nigh worn out. Now am a guest of this
hotel, | pay a high price for MY board
and lodging and | am entitled to rest
during the night. But how can | get ii
with all this noise going on in thif
place. Then he addressed one of the
Ipoct nathatic dpnaa1c 7 oVpP hoard IN
those around him to abandon their vi
cious ways and become sober and in
dustrious. He spoke for nearly an hour
and was listened to with rapt interest
and the most perfect respect. He sue
ceeded, too, in his object. The gambling
stopped and the bar was closed every
night at II o'clock as long as he re
NAMED"
During this period of his life Willard
got a glimpse of western judicial ma
chinery and gives this vivid picture OF .
term in June. "The judge presided
without his coat and with unbuttoneG
shirt thrown wide open. He sat thus
disarrayed, tipped back in his arm chair,
with his legs on the desk before him.
The attorneys naturally followed his eX-
ample and made themselves as cool as
possible. One marked incident has re-
manned fixed in my mind. While one OF
the most loquacious attorneys was MAX
ing a fiery argument he was interrupted
by the Judge. who called to him: Jim
you had better keep cCol in this hot
weather and give me a bit of your to-
bacco,' The pleader stopped, pulled out
his plug and carried it to the judge, who
took a hasty bite, %whereupon the pro.
c~eedings We're resumed"
OF his own arrival in Colorado Willard
writes: I'VE brought a mail of several
hundred letters and newspapers, the an
nouncement of which fact drew three
cheers for the express company. It was
a great boon, the last news from the
Missouri river being nearly five weeks
old. Of course, | was the center of at
traction and overwhelmed with cues
tons. Some n proposed that | should
tell the news from the states to them
all, and | was made to mount a log and
entertain the audience for half an houl
with what had happened during the four
weeks before my departure. for which
got a vote of thanks and which secured
me at once the good will of all the set
Tiers"