Arizona republican., 1906-03-16

sewerage system was also installed and the health of the citizens insured against disease. Handsome homes were built and with a cOpious supply of that life giving fluid" trees, vines and lawns spring forth and add beauty to the contenment of the citizens.
 Prescott boasts of her public schools and school buildings. Nowhere will one find better schools or a more eff cient corps of teachers or a better building for school purposes than here The new public school building was built upon the site of one which was found inadequate to the growing needs of the city. Nearly opposite is large high school building. Upon the bluff overlooking the city on it's west is d large and handsome struc ture in the mission style in which is maintained a private school by the Sisters of St. Joseph. When the con gressional party was visiting this city under the leadership of William R. Hearst and later a second party under the guidance of J. H. Tawney, they were shown through the public school buildings and that of the Sisters of St. Joseph and were overwhelming in their praise of Prcscott's educational insti- tutions, remarking here, as some of them have since on the floor of con gress. that Prescott's school facilities would compare favOrably with the best of those in the east.
 The Episcopal. Congregational Methodist, Baptist and Catholic socie- ties maintain places of worship and many of them have handsome churches. There is a large member ship and attendance.
 Northeasterly of the city and close to the city lies WhippIe barracks, a military post established by the gov ernment many years ago. and which at one time was headquarters of the department of Arizona The ola post had been ordered abandoned and at the commencement of hostilities with Spain in 1898. the last Of the cOm- panies remaining there were ordered to the front and the fort was placed in the hands of a keeper. All was ruin and decay. Some of the buildings were burned. Efforts were made by the citizens of Prescott to have the post Te-established and rehabilitated
 but owing to the antagonism of Gen eral Miles. apparent successful efforts were time and again frustrated It ! O M Murphy. made the fight for it's rehabilitation his own fight;
 until he went to the seat of war" at Washington and fought the fight almost entirely alone, measuring lances with General Miles, the commanding general of the army, in the war department itself, that an order was issued reoccupying the post by a company Of troops and the re- building commenced.
 It will not be out of place here for me to say, and l am sure no one will deny. that the entire honor and credit for the establishment of Whipple barracks belongs to no other person that F. M. Murphy, whose indomitable will, persistency and pluck. even in the hour of defeat, fighting almost soli- tary and alone, and at his own ex- pense, against almost Overwhelming odds, snatched victory out of defeat and caused the establishment of | this post, followed by large and liberal appropriations for it's rebuilding.
 A modern post has been surveyed and laid out under the supervision of Major Charles D. Walcott and hand some barracks and officers quarters of brick, containing the most modern sanitary appliances and other inn provements were completed over a year ago. There is something like
 $3OO,OO0 being spent in Improvements
 during this fiscal year.
 Whipple barracks when finished | will be the most complete modern post in the west, and one of
 the most pleasant and healthy army
 barracks in the United States. When
 completed, which will be some years i hence it will be sufficient for and be
 occupied by eight companies of troops. most likely being made a regimenta
 post.
 Prescott and Whipple barracks are
 connected by an electric street car system. fine, new, up-to-date street cars, leaving each terminus every twenty minutes. This mingles the peo-
 pie of the two communities as one and adds to the society of the town on al
 occasions.
 Prescott has an electric light plant
 Q gas plant and a telephone system the latter reaching to all the impor-
 tant mining camps of the county and
 to Phoenix and elsewhere.
 There is small but modern ant
 handsome public library building, built I by the generosity of the people of the
 community, and a large and handsome
 the order of EIks This building i.
 auditorium with handsome interior
 boxes, large stage and scenery, and
 would be credit to a city of 5O,OOO