Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-12-31
Real Live Lamplighter Boy
Climbing His Pole Furnishes
Genuine Shock to New Mexi-
co Man.
SPlCK AND SPAN NEW
MONEY ONLY IS USED
Magnificent New Offices for
the CongreSsmeni viii Seri-
ouSIy Affect Down Town Dis
tricti Gossip of the Capital,
(By WIN c. Barnes.J

ing.
For Instance, In New York city YOU
find stree. cars draw iv horses Real,
actual 'horse-cars' Vf:a live. sure
enough horses. SOha, OF them the lit
tie old bob-tailed affairs ~ 80 Sea1s
< When | called ina attention Of
a New York womal, wn1 wa hras-
ging of the fact Of New York; gftat-
ness, to the horse-cars she about hal
a fit and 1t took u lot of argumouI 10
convince her that possibly there rajght
be m cross-town line a lew blocks
long. Her absolute stupihcation as
wei as disgust can Well re imlgintu
when | dug up some stat,sii's IN the
subject and proved to l"r that The
great city had no less than len distinct
horse. car lines using over 1000 horses
II that last year they paid $40 300
FOR horsa shoes alone,
And SO when ] ran access = rcli,
live lamp-lighter boy the pthef night
here in Washington | had - rub my
Yes and take a second took.
But there he was; just such a hoy
as | used to see 80 years lgD when 7
was a boy. a short ladder On his
shoulders, up the ladder Hke a mon
key, the scratch of a matr.l on the
post. a flash In the street lamp. down
the ladder, and OFF On a run q he
next lamp post.
Why, to me. it was like turing
back old Father Time moIc than a
quarter of a century; 10 the ddys .Fvben
a solitary Kerosene street LAMB or, in
the more pOpulOus cities. d E1s lamp,
one to each block, were lighto each
night ard turned off each morning by
"lamplighter boys armed with .
short ladder and a bunch of matches
\ little Investigation into the mat
t,r developed the fact thai the city
of Washington has its streo,s lit by
h.g. gNHaf,Hrn AF l..aYr AIIaFtt. mus
and last OF all. gasolene, for in line
distant outlying parts Of the cl a..
many Of the sire s. are III ny gasolenc
lamps.
The streets arc Nrll lighted with
lamps on both Others Of every street
.aHu rWN IN the eauter Of the blocks.
They ha q none of the overhead arc
lights at AZ owing probably To the
laN again adh overhead wires.
But TIM Gl-a stree. lanipligatpT
hoy in "A c, Of this ciLc IN the day
and century Bad as New works.
horse-cars,
Here In thi, aapital city OF a great
nation one is Ick with t..e amuunu
of gas burned IN the residences,
churches and other public buildings.
Block after block uf as handsome
private residences .ts are in tie lily
have no other light hui gas and rather
poor gas at that. and Tar from cheap
at 1925 a ,housau tAet
Several churches and ono or Two
halls in which We haN, been also use
gas exclusively.
vas told that the reason for this
was the law regulating all wires 10
De underground. which made lol'k en-
pensiVe conduits necessary and me
company would not PM them I'M
II hardly seems possible and Vet Their"
must be some such reason Tor using
anything so inferior Ia lighting as gas,
to say nothing of the heat produce
by it's use in the good DID sum'aor
time" .
There's another udl thing here that
strikes the average western man az
peculiar. and that Is tn bright, >rlck
and span new money. uhuelstahi
that every bit Of paper tA"neN th3t L.
deposited in n city banN, no Httt't
II 4 day old. goes TO the treasury al,d
destroyed and new none! lssllri Ih
it's stead.
one certain and sure hing is lha'
you seldom get hold of a hit ~ pager
money here that shows the least sIe'k
of usage unless you get Il from SOM"
newcomer in the city. who mas
brought 1t with him, g.,
An the department clerks aac paid
of twice "a month: on the Isl am
f5th. in bills right straight from the
treasury. without a crease or iold III
them.
ii looks awfully pretty and clean,
but II Is about the hardest thing To
fold and get into a small package thd'
could possibly be invented.
As for the good old western carr
whecI-thc dollar ot our daddles-
vou neNer see n al All. asked q
cashier in a big store 10 they took l'
MANY and he said very rev ana thoS'
generally are brought iu 10y ptoii'
from the west.
TIE new ufhce buildings for the
members Of congress are going t' n'
quite an injury 10 the business pl',h'
of the city. Probably a third or the
members have maintained "lh''
down town where theA transact tu'
business affairs outside of their p'i'
tiles. for many of the member ~
men Of vast business interests wy.
which they keep in CLOSE and c"h@la"
touch.
with the completion oi these nH-.
and spacious office buildings
downtown offices viii ~nAiuif't {.
given ~ because nothing BOZ tn, Nn'l'
ciiN will equal iu comfort tttst"t
and Consciousness these mess ".Nt''
which viii cost the members h''
cent.
The rne for the house is just ab'u'
finished and the rooms are in n' 'f
NrffinufN 10 the MNtiNNNl"
that no favorirism VIII h' -h'"' .
the matter 81 selection.
Each member viii dra" "a hlIi
hered slip and the number "n ln'
slip viii he the number 90 his i''.l
Cine odd thing about The luIi'
Mas foId me hy a. rnugre%nah guy
that is that no uma Of amy -
shade or trade Is 90 Doe flowed I'
foot within its halloWed anN
riecinctS Not even q
wife or daughter may Ni-i Dim TOD
office rooms.
When tho first of these "''
ing- > opened 3 WIFI cry GEE s
Journal readers an idea oi I
md completeness. for Z aura il.N
in elegance. a. well as couIr
nf e%uuiuulent fram "a hu-irf
roint Or d. far and away ah'aN
uaug im the world.
There - 4 whole iur nf "i
here when onp has time @"
them all Take the cts
When they finished IL q feu
"a splendid great stone 500.
the aycnue-they must hd-