Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-11-28

like New York's force. and a large
paid fire department also exists
The business streets are unusually
vide and are paved with vitrified
brick. d pavement Il would be well for
some 81 our some owns to look into
for &c s. clean. n0n-slipping and the
mayor tells me almost a. lasting as
granite and much more 50 than as
uhait.
All % the business streets we're
washed Off early every morning by
the fire hose. and were as clean and
pretty as q walk ia ones own yard.
Oklahoma. as You ail know j. "a
prohibition state. and one sees no sa-
looms nor bars. and during our stay
drunken men were very scarce.
WHAT Il VII be under the state
management Is hard 10 tell. for up to
date Uncle sam has had the enforce
ment ~ the liquor business. and has
made fife miserable for Violators ~
the law. OF course lt can now be
shipped In by express. ana probably
there viii Doe more drinking than IN
the past
The California delegation shipped
almost a carload 0f California wines
here 10 use iH dispensing The hospi-
tatilty Of the coast city. but. alas for
them. IL was not allowed 70 be used,
the JAW Nt NAAfFAaAtAA NHHN hHAAHH NAhh AHf
but the giving ~ IN away. SO it was
turned back % q less particular state
n was new 10 lots Of US 10 see Wag-
on after wagon loaded with cotton
pulling through town all day long
from rhe cotton fields 20 the gins In
the olty. We saw them picking 10 in
the same fields where the oil wells
were pouring out oil on every side
OF course the black brother is very
much iu evidence here. was inter-
eEted ia seeing how they are going
into business for themselves IN the
south. on one street for several blccks
were strictly negro stores. Several
sized ones. too. especially one
department store Of four stories. full
or goods. owned. operated and patron
by blacks / asked one ri the
proprietors u they had much white
trade, and he said about one-third Of
their trade was from white people.
81 he %patronized them because they
their goods.
There were drug stores. hotels.
stove and furniture stores tin shops.
undertaking embellishments. lawyers.
doctors and about every class Of trade
profession was represented by
C0lored man. even a colGred
heater being operated.
So far they have no "Jim Grow"
covering cars. but every one says
the first law thai is passed by
he first legislature. saon 10 meet. will
be a law regulating this matter.
The street car system Is "a flint one.
covering every portion Of the city.
which, to my surprise. Is laid u on
1 long range of hills. giving them
drainage. / had supposed
his country was an a heal level. but 10
+ a beautiful rolling country, with
many good sized hilly ranges
The residence portion of b city is
plendidly built up. II has lots Of
handsome and expensive houses Ow-
10 It's newness. the residence por- .
does not show SO finished "A IN
ition. - the streets are torn up and
lot well graded, but for a ~six-year-old
{ is "A wonder.
Altogether. his whole Oklahoma
Is marvellous IN its resources,
development and possibilities, and as
have said. was a wonderful surprise
% the most Of us who rather expected
sort Of struggling village Of Indians.
.egroes and ~half-brceds, with "a few
White men thrown IN. =
hut it's a city IN every sense Of the =
FORD. and we'll worth any ones time e
10 visit. lust 10 show Us that when it :
ONES 20 growth. there are others be-
our own little burgs.