The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-12-01
concRATutATEs ROSWELL.
Col. Parker Earle Writes a Letter
From California.

JUS 40 L gill SALlAA6 Q0WA " WlAtO
you this letter the Saturday Record
is handed in by the postman, with it's
exhiliarating announcement of the re
demption of Roswell. I must stop to
congratulate you, and Mr.. Hagerman
all of whose u~tterances concerning
public interests have always com
manded my endorsement-and the
Mayor and City Council of Roswell,
and all men who love civilization. No
more gambling in Roswell with the
public sanction. 1t is a grand advance
ment. l was never so proud of my
home town. At last we are stricken
of the list of barbarian communi-
ties. At last Roswell can be recon-
mended to civilized strangers as a
place altogether desirable and fit to
live in, without qualification or apollo
gy. This is the breaking of a new
day of prosperity.
DuI, ID OOS1hllAS ~ W1llO oOoul
this lovely Southwestern corner of the
great Republic. San Diego is at once
a disappointment and a joy. 1t is the
one spot ON the whole continent where
it is never hot. and never cold. They
never have destructive frosts here.
and never any annoying heat 1t is
not summer. It. is not winter. 1t is
a perpetual spring, but with the excit-
ed pulse beats OF a Northern Spring
WHOLLY left out. None of the dancing
joy that comes Of the ~out-bursting
flowers as they escape the depressing
land of winter. The roses and the
honeysuckles and the heliotropes
bloomed last week, and they bloom
this week, and they will bloom
week; and they will bloom all of the
weeks of all of h years. Herein is
the disappointment. There is nc new
delight to be unfoIded. We have got
it all now. The delighted SILVER of
expectation has little chanc here.
Every glory that is born of the mild
skies and the sweet air has been
shining en- the San Diego hills ever
since men first planted seeds n
shrubs and poisoning trees. Every
where you go is the e-nchantment of
Ebeauty, and of sweet -odors, and of
this mild ethereal spring, which goes
on, and on, while life lasts. We have
reached a climatic climax. We a
the delighted senses. So we can ex-
pect nothing better. The future holds
gives.
All this is very delicious; but it
naturally takes the stimulus out of
life. It is the climate Of laziness and
comfort. But l find myself already
longing for the tonic breezes of the
hills. This lazy languor, this indolent
sense of luxury in the sunshine n
the shade, with the charm of a thou
sand flowers offering tribute of fra
GRANGE and beauty, and a knowledge
that it will continue as long as you
will stay with the enchantress, is We
ry captivating; but it is very destruc-
tive of all those energies that exhort
you to meet the duties of the world
when things must be done.
This climate is not exhilirating.
1t is soothing. 1t is a contrast to Ros-
well. The one mildly e~nervates. The
other strongly stimulates. The older
city has for a generation been mildly
contemplating it's vast commercial
opportunities. 1t has not grasped
them. The younger city of the great
plains goes for all the things in sight
and it seems, for some that it only
dreams of. The climate of the high
attitudes is a of energy. I
confess l like best that higher air
the very breathing OF which fills all
the pulses with e~xultation.
Yours for the future of a renovated
Roswell. PARKER EARLE.
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