davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1906-04-26
Yrs. Adams, Writing at
the Same Time, says:

the Same Time, says:
The house danced like pop corn
on a hot griddle, twisted and
waved like a tree in a storm and
all the while there was a terrify-
ing mixture of sounds-a popping
as of musketry, cracking of limb
bers and a purring roar. The
hour found most everybody in bed
but they did not stay there. Those
who could get out of a bed that
was dancing around the room like
some crazy thing, did SO without
stopping for clothing. Our hous'
settled back to its former situation
after the shake was over. Being
n strongly built frame it did not
suffer to speak of; it may also
have been sitting in such a way
as to receive the shock to advant
aye.
The sun rose as usual. and shone
ON a beautiful day, though upon
II distressed part Of the world.
Most of our neighbors were CON-
PEELED to camp in the street, their
houses ruined. or unsafe to live in.
| will never BE- able to get that
peculiar cracking, popping roar
out of my mind as long as l live.
Miss frankie Handley
of Berkely, Writes:
Miss Handley worked in a MILL
merry store on Market street, San
Francisco, and tells her sister,
Mrs. Tichenor, her experience:
No particular damage was done
in Berkeley, nor was there any one
hurt here. We knew that San
Francisco was badly shaken up,
but We went over on the ferry boat,
to our work, as usual. We went
up Market street to our place of
business, but found it closed.
Then we wandered on up town,
passing dead and wounded, and
people in every possible state of
dress, showing how hurriedly they
had gotten out. There we're no
fires when we went over, but pref
ty soon they began to break out,
and we had difficulty to get back.
We started for the ferry at IL
o'clock, noon, and it took us until
$50 p. nj. to get there. We
thought we would be compelled to
90 into the Park with the rest of
the people.
The newspapers have not over
drawn the situation, in fact, they
could not do it justice and no one
could imagine the situation unless
they saw it.
, 1906-04-26

Arbor day will be observed at the
school in the forenoon of that day.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-10-17
OF JOHN
RICHARDS
WHO DIED YESTERDAY FORENOON
AT MRS. FLoYDS.
Held This Afternoon Under the Au-
spices of Winnemucca Lodge F. and
A. M. of Which Deceased Was
a Member.

The funeral of John Richards. who
died Yesterday forenoon at Mrs. Floyd's
ranch in Grass Valley, was held this at
ternoon under the auspices of the Win
emucca Lodge F. and A. NJ, of which
ne was a member in good standing.
The body arrived this morning and
vas given over to the care of Under
taker Cochran for preparation for
burial.
AT the services held this afternoon
Felix Poulin, w. NJ, presided, with
Rev. Wilson, as chaplain of that order.
assisting. Interment took place in the
Masonic plat.
The manner in which John Richards
met his death was through a severe
cold. He has been a constant sufferer
from asthma, and as is usual in such
cases, a severe cold presents a mortal
situation.
Mr.. Richards was well known in
Humboldt county. He formerly con
Quoted a harness shop here.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-10-17
Napoleon Bonaparte

was the greatest leader in the world.
Billiards. Snow Liniment has shown
the public it is the best Liniment in the
world. A quick cure for rheumatism
sprains, burns, cuts, etc. A. C. Pitts
Rodessa, La, says: u use Ballard :.
Snow Liniment in my family and find
it uncxcelled for sore chest, headache
corns, in fact for anything that can re
reached by a li~niment.' For sale BIZ
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-10-17
IS PAID FOR
WETHERS
ANTOINE LAUSERICA SELLS 1400
HEAD TO BEN NOONAN.
Weathers Are in Good Condition and
Price Paid for Same is Regard
ed AS a Good Figure.

Antoine Lauseriea, a %sheepman of Nc
Dermitt today sold to Ben Noonan 400
head of wethers at $4.75. The wethers
are in good condition and the price paid
is regarded as high. Delivery of the
wethers will be made in Winnemucca
within the next week and they will be
shipped to Santa Rosa.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-10-17
Visiting in Winnemncca.

August Hoffman, a brother-in-law of
Chris Diehl of the stationery depot and
insurance agency, arrived in Winnie
mucca yesterday from Idaho, where he
recently sold out his ranching and
stockraising interests.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-10-17
Arrive With Cattle.

The vaqueros of the French Glen Cat
tile Company, who arrived with 500 head
of cattle, have pastured the stock in tn
Reinhart Stauffer fields, awaiting ship
ping facilities.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-10-17
Postofiices established

New postofices have been establish
ed in Nevada as follows: Lander, Ian
der county, Nevada, j. A. Bianchi, post
master; Monarch, Nye county, Nevada
William r. Williams, postmaster.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-10-17

D. co.
W. Andrae. Manager.

We buy and sell improved ranches
and city property, vacant lots and bus
mess opportunities, stocks, bonds, min
ing properties.
RENTAL AGENTs-Money to loan.
We can sell your business, no matter
where located.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-12

every time he sees the words Coney Island
in print.
Now the circus parade has come to dis
turb her less and less, and incidentally she
Is getting the excitement her emotional
nature Graves. Already she has received
a bruised back during one of her wild rides
in the show, has had her shoulder dis,ocated
another time, and as this is being written
her left arm is wound in bandages put on
in the reception hospital after her bronco
had insisted upon tripping on the stage
railway tracks and knocking over some
stage carpenter architecture upon her
before she could scramble to her feet.
A few hours later she was on the job
again as Jane Rogers, the admiration
Of the cowboy critics of Workmanship.
the despair Of press agents n the JOY
OF the sulphites, who, knowing nothing
OF her personality, look upon her from
afar as they would upon a p~icture-merely
as "a spot on the wall"
some VIII are on the ~esplanade along which
Jane Rogers parades her troop you will
see a sallow young man, hands In pockets,
and usually wearing a yachting cap. His
careless pose Is a correct imitation Of a
man In the thr5es OF not working. But
be works.
"Oh, any chump can open a set of books
modestly says Skip Dundy, whose ability
to turn a shoestring into a few hundred
thousand dollars has made Fred Thomp-
sons dreams OF a new Coney Island and a
Hippodrome practical.
When you press him for details of the
things the two young men have accom-
plished no s~traightway shifts the glory
to his partners shoulders.
when / met Fred, a few years ago."
says Skip, y saw that / needed him, and then
I deliberately skinned him and handed it
back to him before I could convince him
how much he needed me. Then we got
together on a scenic stunt called "A Trip
to the Moon which you'll find sandwiched
in down near the gate
About this time Fred began to smoke
Turkish cigarettes, and from that, of course,
II was only a step to dreaming out loud.
He sprung some Of the dreams on me and
I told him to smoke another and then take
a long, refreshing sleep.
One day I must have smoked one OF
them myself, because / started out, l
remember, to get somebody to bet a million
On the game. Talk about pulling teeth
Then m night We got Luna Park open, with
$40 in our pockets and 5000, 900 In debt.
II you came here the opening night
you probably remember that o got in
free II you offered the ticket seller any
thing larger than a ten cent piece. We
had to let hundreds in free during the frat
few hours, because we didn't have the
money to make change.
sAt the end Of the season we had prob
ably as much as $40 between us. but we
had paid more debts than l ever owned
before.
'The wheels In Fred's head were throwing
OF sparks now. Did you over listen to
him think? MOI Well, that's the only
time he sta down=When he's thinking.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-12

Louis nan had one concession at the
resort last season n Marie Dressler sole
peanuts from June till September. An
drew Mack ran a fishing booth.
Charley Green, first husband OF Annie
Ward Tiffany, had the milk concession
and the contract to feed the little people
of Midget City. Ellie Andreas, formerly
with the Savage forces, Is content with a
thinking and dancing part in another con
c~ession as long as she has her morning salt
water swim and sea breezes as perquisites.
When one looks over all the interesting
persons that help to make the wheels 60 at
Coney Island, perhaps Miss Laurel Ormond
o fLakewood and Manhattan maybe selected
as especially interesting. All the others
have been connected more or less with
stageland-even Jim Gabriel travelled with
Buffalo Bill for a few seasons-but Miss
Ormond never did anything in her life until
she became the bandit queen Of a Luna
show this season, unless under work n
includes riding her horse at Lakewood,
finishing a college course and studying art
with William M. Chase.
To begin with, Miss Ormond-which Is
merely a stage name-is not pretty. She is
beautiful, and perhaps one must be an
artist to understand the nice distinction.
Henry James's Lady Beldonald Of AThe
Beldonald Holbein' story, for instance,
would doubtless puzzle her bromide brain
to find the attraotiveness OF the bandit
queen which Sargent commented on while
visiting the Chase school, and which Harri-
son Fisher, Jay Chambers, William Jordan
and other artists who have seen Red Shirt
at Coney Island are talking about.
Lady Beldonaid. 1t will be remembered
was the pink and white English beauty
who employed as a companion an Ameri-
can woman whom Lady Beldonald consid-
cred plain, and who would therefore act as
a foil to bring out the English girls charms.
Then, in true Jamesesque fashion, nothing
really happens except that all the titled
young woman's artist friends promptly
desert her to fall in alteration before the
American with opportunities to be per-
mitted to paint her portrait, while the
English girl, solitary In q corner, tries to
figure 1t all out.
Miss Ormond's people have seen her do
the unusual 80 often that long g they
learned to accept herw hims as inevitable.
Nevertheless hands were raised in horror
last spring by her parents, her sieter, and
her brother-in-law, who is we'll known in
his profession In Manhattan, when the girl
announced that she was going to support
herself by going on the stage.
Brother-in-law pleaded, and when be
found that things were going against him
he asked Miss L~aurel-that much Of her
name Is her own-at least to take a stage
name. Her sister sent her a note sum-
moning her to the Holland House, where
sine hoped 10 talk down the stage notion
during luncheon.
And for heavens sake, LAUREL con-
Guided the note, wear something decent
for once In your life
Wherefore Miss Laurel met her sister
In Of the parlors Of the hotel d fsv
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-12

days later wearing a brown cloth rainy
daisy and shirtwaist. Below the'skirt hem
was a pair of tan riding boots from the
Widest West with big Mexican spurs fast
ened to the heels. Miss Laurel clanked
toward the hotel dining room quite uncon-
improved on the girls own selection of a
costume. with its tawny leather riding
skirt and tan boots, whose softened value
merge so beautifully with the crimson
waist and olive complexion. Instinctively
she seems to have realized hat one bit Of
ribbon would have spoiled all the simplicity
of the costume, and because Of this innate
aesthetic sense there Is no ribbon.
Mother and daughter were in no mood,
however, to go in for aesthetics just then.
Mother sank back or a bench. The bandit
queen jumped to the ground and was she'd
ding very unqueenly tears while she famed
her.
Between sobs she was assuring her mother
that she disliked the parade part Of the
work as much as mother did, but that she
Just had to do it, 30 there! At this moment
along came Bill Thompson, press agent
extraordinary, and for the first time he
learned who Miss Laurel is.
Since that day life has lost it's joys for
Press Agent Bill. Day fades into night
while he stands before the queen and pleads
with her to let him tell in the newspapers
her name and family history back to her
grandfather.
Again and again she answers that the day
he does she will leave the park, n Bill,
who knows that she will keep her word,
cernedly.
@Now don't waste time talking, Clara"
she began, because l We signed q contract
with the train robbery people at Coney
Island since / saw you last.
First I went up to the H~ippodrome and
told them I wanted something to do that
had ~plunging horses In 1t, and in which l
could ride, and Mr.. Temple told me OF the
position 1 nave now. I had to wear my
boots here to-day because by the time I
get back t O the island this afternoon I
shan't nave much time to change my clothes
before the show begins
When Clara told her husband later In the
day Of what had happened brother-in-
law Gidn't express any violent longing to
go down to see the performance, and al
together the family showed a woeful lack
Of appreciation Of the fame that had come
to them. Clara, who Is q twin sister Of
Laurel, held back for a few days also, but
finally when her mother insisted upon
going to the island to see Laurel do her
stunts Of craftsmanship she felt 1t her duty
to accompany mother.
As Mrs. 'Ormond' and her married
daughter entered the park they saw at the
head OF a little parade coming toward them
a hatless girl. raven haired. dark skinned
and wearing the crimson waist that has
given the girl the nickname Of Red Shirt
among the show people. riding a bronco
just back OF the cowboy band. A great
tone painter like Whistler could not have
wrings his hands and bleats. And up In
Manhattan brother.in-law begins to trembAaA.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-12

which II lie stated that the girl Ia to CONT
to Coney every evening during the season
to dance only with the Harlem plutocrat
of canned goods. As the season wanes
the man comes less and less, but In the
meantime the s~tenographer must be on the
Job II she wishes to earn the $40 a week the
grocer pays her for doing 80.
Most Of tho old ~disreputable Coney Island
was wiped out by Fred Thompson's dreams,
aided by the big fro. What Is left OF 1t Ia
mercifulIy covered from all except those
who deliberately sock that sort Of thing.
One glance at the hollow eyed girl lurk-
ing in a dark doorway at midnight, however,
tells you that back Of the gayety there arc
sadness and sorrow too. Still, the most
innocent country girl visiting New York
on her ten day vacation can 60 to the new
Coney Island without fear Of harm. She
does 20, thousands OF her, and as she steps
from the Car into Surf avenue, eyes wide
with wonder and lips parted and gazes on
the fairyland, her gladness is good to see.
And when dusk falls and the forest OF
tapering towers and minarets take on a
weird, unearthly simmer as they reach
toward the bluest of skies, one can UNDER
stand her little throaty gasp as half a mill
ion planets flash out suddenly upon pima
Gle and dome TO bring the daytime back
again. Every night the miracle is repeated,
and each repetition is still a miracle.
Flash after fash responds to the touch
of an unseen hand. Vague masses that a
moment before stood cold and ghostlike
in the gathering darkness burst into light,
and as the bands begin their evening music
buildings become consultations, while
along quaint caves and balustrades OF the
stage carpenters Europe runs the magic
glow, arch shimmering above arch and
tower above tower, till all abosat is a lace
work Of delicate, trembling beauty.
As the home bound boat turns back
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1'And then,' he begins in the middle,
taking it for granted that you know what
he has been thinking. about right along
and then I'll ave 200 girls CONF out on
the stage dancing a ballet on horseback.
That ought to hold 'em for a while, eh2'
Sure it will I'd say, soothingly, like
the keeper in the violent ward. Smoke
another, my boy
Then he'd just smile pityingly at me
and away he'd go baot into a state Ct
coma again; and as the dreams began to
straighten out in his brain he would smile
j~oyously at his own thoughts. i had it
all framed up about this time to write home
to his folks about him.
. n day he got out some sheets Of draw
ing paper mt began to design stage settings,
limelight architecture and tanks with one
hand, while he balanced a hot dog sand
witch with the other, Finally he handed
me a bunch of nice, tidy drawings on yell
low paper that made them look like lemons
at first. When I had looked EN- over,
however, / took an afternoon OF and we
built the Hippodrome."
Young Mr.. Thompson wasn't seen much
in Manhattan while Luna Park was build
ing. Opon work trousers are very en-
barrassing on Broadway at any time and
were doubly 30 at that period, when mems
coats were much shorter than they are
DOW.
And Skip Dundy, the watch dog Of the
treasury, couldn't be convinced that foolish
things like new trousers should be bought
when the money would get many feet OF
brand new lumber. Nowadays the matter
of frazzled trouser wouldn't mako 90
much difference, because when Mr.. Thomp-
son or his partner come up Broadway this
summer they are usually seated in one of
the FIRMS herd of plunging automobiles.
At almost every turn on the island one
will meet a sulphitio Snowman, sometimes
raw and crude, sometimes q college man
or ~self-educated, but always interesting.
A business man sat down with Skip Dundy
n night and listened to tales Of the resort
from the financial side-of the $500 600 loes
which every rainy Sunday In ummer means
to Surf avenue, and Of the tons of perish
able goods that are carted away from
there on the days following; Of the auto
mobile service that Skip established be-
tween the island and the Sub Treasury
when he learned that the banks did not
wan to bother with 150, 900 or more pennies
at a clip.
The business man caught a late train
without having visited any Of the shows.
but he said on the way home that Consy
Island was far more interesting than he had
expected.
Oddly enough, the real show In the
opinion of the natives of Coney is not in
the islands own attractions, but in the
people that visit them from New York.
Sam Davis, manager Of one Of the big
dancing floors at the resort. says that an
interesting book could be written on sThe
Freaks That Come to Coney."
Sam will point out to you the young
Brooklyn stenographer who has signed a
contract With Q Yeslthy Hariam 0 In
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seek an outdoor job for a while II he wanted
to see the snow fly again. Two Yale fresh
men work in Bostock's and say they are
having the summer Of their lives. A Har-
ward student got a job helping people out
Of the boats at the foot OF the Mountain
Torrent, but he spent so much time in the
gin fzz belt that things happened to him,
and he went away from there.
Jim Gabriel, who says he was decent
before Il CAM from Gods country to this
place, where I now hold up and rob the
same train six times a day, wake indignant
when asked II he was an actor before he
came to Coney Island. Impressively he
tells you that he was born and raised among
Western hills so high that you lave to
look twice to see the tops OF them" and
when you apologize for having told him
that he looks like-Edwin Booth he will show
you his we'll thumbed letter from Gen. Miles
which commends the ex-scout for his
bravery during the Wounded Knee cam
paign.
His fat scrapbook Is filed with clippings
about his endurance ride when, mounted on
Grizzly Adams, the horse he now rides at
Coney, he made a lonely journey across
the mountains and plains from Fort
Sheridan, Wyo., to Chicago In e~ighty-fve
days. The Government sent Gabriel on
that trip to test the staying powers Of the
American range horse, and when Grizzly
Adams had completed the long Jog ten
days earlier than had been expected the
exports OF Western horses for service In
European cavalries increased IS per cent.
Ex-Sherif Buttling, hero OF many a
political sorimmage in Kings, bustles about
Dreamland directing affairs in the big
white park and lodging horsemen who
want to name q runner after him. Last
year a horse owner called one Of his string
Bill Buttling, and the ex-Sheriff felt it his
duty to got out to the track to bet much
money on his namesake.
When the Sheriff had to leave the track
to hurry back through the afterglow toward
Dreamland, Bill Buttling was still running.
A few weeks later, however, Bill vent to the
post a 90 to 1 shot and got away with it,
but Sheriff Buttling didn't 60 out TO the
track that day, and 30 he now says that
there's nothing to 1t.
You will find more stage people along
Surf avenue tn an you can round up at
Broadway and Fortieth street at high noon
big" Mason, a brother Of John Mason,
and himself al actor, manages Dreamland's
Creation show. Mart Cody, who for If
teen years was stage manager for old Fritz
Emmett when he wasn't trying to manage
Fritz, not long ago made the individual hit
Of Ninety and Nine and now, astride a
horse, he chases bad Jim Dalton every time
the bandit robs the train.
Joe Artressi, who does the talking for
Marceline IN the Hippodroms stage during
the winter. was a spieler in front of q Coney
show early this summer, until one day
Marceine caught him at it. Now the
Hippodrome clown pays Artressi SIS a week
all summer to stop spelling and DO save his
voice from ruin.
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through the Narrows little people with
tousled heads are sleeping in their
mothers arms. The tired mother still gazes
back, fascinated. from the after deck
toward the fading picture where the dis
tant lights Of the Island AVE merged into
a great live coal. And somewhere in
among the lights a young man is still dream
ing his dreams beneath his pancake hat
and the hollow eyed girl is standing in the
shadows of a doorway, and a bandit queen
her crimson shirt discarded now for
quieter street dress-trudges home alone
toward her little room in a oheerless hotel.