Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-12-20
AN OLD RESIDENT.
w. !. Harlow Returns After Many
Years Absence-Was Here as
a Boy.

Captain w. J. Harlow, a ship mas
ter on the great lakes whose home
is in Toledo, Ohio, is a visitor in Santa
re this week. Captain Harlow lived
in Santa Fe and vicinity from 1866
TO 1869 and will be remembered by
old residents. At the time in which
captain Harlow came to Santa Fe. he
was only about fourteen years old and
was the youngest white boy in the
Territory. In speaking of his life in
the then wild west, Captain Harlow
said.
Il am now resting on my oars to
use nautical expression. expect
to locate somewhere in the west but
as yet do not know where Santa Fe
has become too modern for me, I'm
afraid. It's not like the old, out of the
way place / remember when I came
here as a boy. Things have been
Americanized since those days and
Santa Fe is not unlike most bustling
cities OF the west. | left here in 1869
but again revisited the town about
twenty-seven years ago, when | made
call upon my old friends, the Zuni
Indians.
Il was a ship boy on the Atlantic
ocean when | was attracted to the
west by the tales of gold discoveries.
! left my ship at Baltimore and came
to Kansas City then known as West
port Landing. There l met PHILIPPE
Delgado, since dead, and came with
him in a wagon train of twenty-eight
vehicles across the old Santa Fe trail
to this city Here | found employ
ment with the government as a mail
carrier, riding horse back with the
mails to Albuquerque, seventy-two
miles distant. made the trip in one
day, using only one horse. The mail
| carried left Santa Fe on Saturday
Ind the return mail / brought in on
he following Monday. The boys up
1t Albuquerque frequently rode out to
meet me, the sooner to secure knowl-
edge OF what was going on in the out t
1de world. Its all different now. Here I
'ou have railroads, telegraph and ev t
N long distance telephones The old e
lays are gone for good In Santa Fc Il
nd | miss them. When l was fifteeu d
ears old, l went to live with the O
.uni Indians and spent my time trad b
ng among them. They were all my
riends and are yet-those who are /
eft. was a great curiosity to them v
Is | was the first white boy they had n
'ver seen. Later | worked in the r
'tfice of General H. H. Heath, thea !
erritorial secretary. t
"The faces in Santa Fe now are 7
ew to me although l am acquainted {
nth many of the people here. William G
'olander Is the only one of my old |
ronies left to greet me. b
81 also assisted in removing the 9
odies from old Fort Marcy to the
ational Cemetery. | visited the cem- "
terry today but found 1t like every. a
ling else greatly changed. Appar II
ntly nothing can stop the advance or Ju
merican progress in all lines al
my ship which l recently left In ct
Dck. is the steamer Harlow whicn 10
lies between Duluth and Ogdensburg. te
was aboard her during the terrible IN
orm of November when so many YES W
lis on the lakes were wrecked ant al
le loss of life was frightful. | was 81
so in the great October storm. My tn
assel weathered these storms i'll 10
1od shape and | suffered no locs. tn
rom this city, l expect to go on to
sit to the Zuni Indians and will
len inspect the Pacific Coast | still
ie the west and never shall forget q,
le care-free life of early days in and Ia
)out Santa Fe." ia
Captain Harlow is hale and hearty cr
oking and would pass for a man m
uch younger than he Is. There is
)thing to show the hardships OF his de
.rly life, in his appearance. IN