Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-07-06

A trifie hot, warm enough for
duck suits, and il you didn't have
duck suits you could duck into the
shade. Warm enough to coax out
the pretty linens and lawns, with
prettier girls inside of them; warm
enough for the men to appear decol-
lette, to wit: minus coats and waist
coats. There was not a single ac-
cident to mar the perfect day, not
a thing to disturb the glorious right.
The mines got busy early in the
day; too early for some people. The
air was rem at daybreak with the
detonations of dynamite, and the
three mountains came back with The
reverberations. makiag the eamr
ring with the great salutes OF The
natal day. Anybody who could
sleep through that storm o. mining
artillery was a wonder; but the noise
was not supposed to induce slum-
Der.
There was a parade to start the
celebration, and the To1opaa band
was in its glory all day. Grand
Marshal Dick Davis marched at The
head of the column with his aides by
his side, The sidewalks and the
streets were lined with the Young
and the old, the gay and the best
The houses were decorated with
streamers of red, white and blue.
The national colors were Ia evidence
everywhere. The girls wore knots o.
them. the men wore them for neck
ties; the autos and other vehicles
were garlanded with them.
There was patriotism on every
hand. The miners on the hill were
busy sounding great guns. the
t small boy on the sidewalk cracked
back with his walking stick eharsed
with noise; the indians, the native
Americans, were there with their
yells and they We're there in the
1 games and outdoor sports.
Every child in Tonopah, girls end
Y boys, bore a small American flag, the
e gift of Hon. George A. Bartlett, ant
e the children were proud enough Of
e the emblems to keep them waving
e all day, and carry them home a
night. 1t was a great day for tn,
h children, a great day for their ma
e mas and their big brothers and biz
sisters.
D.. 1t was at the opera house in tn
e afternoon that the children had thei
innings. Here, under the espionag,
It Of their mothers and their younj
lady sisters, they listened TO the mn
| sic of the band, they were delightet
with the spectacle of moving pic
| lures; they heard a patriotic speecl
by Mr.. McCarran, the district attor
ney, and they had lemonade and ic
cream to their hearts and stomachs
content, There were no hungr
children for supper last night.
The Tonopah brass band was
busy band all day. They played 70
the crowds, they played for tn
children, they played for the prize
fight. They played the songs of tn
sunny south, they played the airs o
the north. The strains Of Dixi
mingled with the sounds of March
ing Through Georgia. We heard tn
20 Old Kentucky Home, and the RED
White and Blue. We beat time t
y Yankee Doodle, and raised our hat
g to the glorious anthem, The Sta
IS S~pangled Banner.
It was a busy band. And whe
9 the day was closing the musician
serenaded the various houses i
town, winding up with a parting Sc
lection in front Of the Bonanza OF
fee.
If the day We're perfect, what mus
= be said of the night. No strange
would imagine that we were in tn
heart of a great desert, more tina
six thousand feet above the level Q
the sea, to walk about the street
" last night. Overhead there shon
myriads of in~candescent lamps. shut
ting out the light of the stars. Their
/ were stringers of these from house /
house across the principal street,
:. the bright white lights intermingle
with the red, white and blue lamp,
Pretty ONE in costumes of whit
thronged the streets, forming