Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-15
0LD LAND MARKS DISAPPEARING
 QUICKLY
March of Progress Is Making Main Street Solid Row of Modern Structures - Old Timers Are Sad.

One by one the old landmarks of the city are disappearing before the
 march of progress, and in their stead are erected structures in which are embodied the ideas, inventions, mater ials and workmanship which are the product of more advanced ideas. To
 become aware of this fact one has but to take a look at Main street. whereon several new buildings have already been erected, and today preparations
 are being made for the construction of several others.
 It is not so long since Main street,
 at that time stretch of affectionate
 mud, was fanked on one side by the old library building, which for years
 had served as a lounging place. where men when not on shift would stick
 their feet up on the railing around the porch and swap stories about the diff ferent camps which they had visited, while in between times they would cover the floor of the porch with to- bacco juice. Now in the place of that old building rises a modern structure, on which have been expended thou sands of dollars, and which compares
 favorably with any building in the ter ritory.
 On the opposite side 6f the street from the old library was the ire house, i where the city council met, svore, told. stories, chewed tobacco and at tended to business during the inter- yals between stories. Now on this site a portion of the finest banking room in the territory is located, while the city fathers occupy quarters in a municipal structure, where their coun- cil chamber Is furnished with real mahogany table. and polished arm
 chairs have taken the place3of the old Kitchen chairs which accommodated them in the years gone by.
 Next to the library building was the old dispensary, which is now fast dis appearing under the hand Of the lhousewrecker, and in its place will be constructed a modern building for the accommodation of the medical staff of
 the Copper Queen company. It is prob ably safe to say that every Ill known to materia medica has been treated in that old building.
 | And so on along the entire line. The Told booze dispeusaries have given way Ito liquid refreshment parlors, fitted up | with latest of fixtures, so that man can sink down into leather, cushions press an electric button, and order from the immediately clad porter any thing on the calendar of booze. n
 the old days you were fortunate if you could get up to the bar to order drink; you were more fortunate if yot did not get shot if you asked for any
 thing but straight beer or booze; ant
 you were most fortunate if you go
 soap box to sit on while you were
 enjoying the refreshing beverage. Now comes the word that. new of fee buildings are to be erected by thu Henniger Brothers and Peter Johnson
 by Hoover & Co.,, and by several othel , property holders. f>
 It may seem sad to the old-timeri
 to see the old landmarks going, but i is uqquestionably true that the remip
 iscences will be more enjoyable thaI the structures themselves, and wheI : some of "the United States senator who voted for joint-statehood for Ari :. zona because they thought the plac'
 Twas wild and woody. visit the territory
 they will see that Bisbee is not at al
 behind the effete east so far a
 wholesome advancement is concerned