The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-08-07
Dr. &c Of CHORUS
GIRi.S fLATf CUB
Tucumcari Theater Goers
May Have Opera House
Real Soon.
DEAL WAS REPORTED
Kansas City Circuit Com
pany Wants T'ucumcari
on Opera Line.

A News cub was ne busy ss q Ply.
moth Rock hen with q brood Of ducks
early in the week when word reached
the office that the Legal Tender saloon
block, the pool hall next door and
Streets Livery Stable had all been
sold to the Kansas City Circuit Com.
pany who bought I. for the purpose
Of erecting large opera house and
two hundred room hotel.
What excellent dopel And so early
in the week, too. The deal had been
made Saturday night, consideration and
details still unknown, but any way,
nothing less than a double column head
would dt the story. So out no went
with pencil and pad, to interview Mr..
Webb, the representative Of the com.
pany. hut Webb, who was Webb aud
where could he be foundi No such
name on the registers at the hotels and
those who should have known him had
seen him not.
Still the cub lost not his heart and
the more be made inquiries the larger
grew the visions Of the double column
to say nothing Of the large sky scraper
which soon was 10 adorn the corner
Of Second and Main. A sky scraper
such as had never been built in the
Southwest before tha, would strain the
necks Of all the farmers in the com.
munity and cause visitors TO wonder
IL IL really seraped the sky.
Such q hotel, with q large lobby,
where enough news could be gathered
In an hour to fll a daily, with all the
hustle and hurry Of the Washington
in St. Louis or the Burton House In
San Jon, where bell boys in Uniform
run to and fro and elevator laddsss
cry "going pp." Such . dream, and
the Opera House, too. 3 play every
night to which the stan would OF
course get comps, with reserved seats
near the orchestra, and where clear
Judgment could be passed on the chorus
girls, both from IN up and down point
Of view.
Then too he thought Of the privi.
ledge Of being behind the screens ON
certain occasions and Of how after the
fellows about town would have TO
bribe the back door keeper 20 deliver
notes with supper invitations, written
fancy.
One man only knew about the af'
fair and he had heard that the deal
had been made and that the new pos
SCISSORS Of the property had already sold
the lumber in the old buildings TO the
Catholic Church to be used in the con-
struction of that edIfce.
But alas (not 4 lass) and alack soon
were the dreams to come to q painful
end and the chorus girls to fade far
away and dissolve in the distant mist,
for W. =. Buchanan seeing the busy
stride Of the reporter stopped him and
asked the wherefore Of his haste. The
affair was told with full details Of the
pink cheeks and white hose but these
seemed to appeal not to the deep brow
ed banker who with a single sentence
blasted all hopes Of the present report,
but seeing the distress Of the news
| gatherer added that the probability OF
such a sale is reasonable and may not
be without foundation In the near fu'
turs.
The fact 10 that an attempt In being
made to purchase the corner for the
purpose of erecting the hotel and opera
house here. IL this deal 10 not made
the Circuit company viii doubtless buy
other property aud there is little doubt
now but what Tueumeari will be wit
Messing all the best plays on the road
the season after next.
such a proposition, none doubt but
what II would pay, for Tueumcari has
many lovers Gf amusement and a good
opera house would be we. patronized
In this city. ine Tueumesri theatre
goers are people who have been aecas.
toned TO witnessing tho best plays
every season and the one regret of
their evenings Is tine denial Of the privi'
ledge of witnessing them now.
II h also known that the Crawford
Opera Company, Of Topeka, Kansas
IL considering the erection Of large
and uptodate play house In Tueumeari
They too are after the same corner and
Il IL rumorsd that there II some pos