Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-29
Miss Helen Marie Bennett. the bright
Young woman who edits the Daily Pioneer

Miss Helen Marie Bennett. the bright
younS woman who edits the Daily Pioneer
Times said the other day:
.Those who have lived here in Dead
wood for the past quarter of century.
year in and year out, even month in
and month out. have not noticed the
changes in Deadwood's individuality. as
those who have gone away and then re-
turned after time. The change has
been SO gradual and insidious that We
were all surprised when we woke up one
morning and realized that our town was
no longer the mining camp of old times.
cabined burg of the seventies, we had
a modern city, it was hard for time
to adjust ourselves. We looked around
a bit-and found at last to our delight
that all the best characteristics or the
old town We're still retained-that 1t had
really lost nothing by the change eX-
cent some undesirable features, and that
our present city is lucky In standing
at the point where merge the 1rontler
DAYS and the modern civilization. Now
we have the best of both.
Materially the city has but little in
common with the camp that sprans INTO
being within "a few weeks In 20; called
into life by the phenomenal gold dtScoy-
cries We have no log cabins; We nave
no unside-walked Streets-and even the
sham fronts which are always the delisht
of a woud-be two-story building In a
new town have long since gone the way
of the gun-man and the placer mines.
Those old days were the picturesque ones.
These days are the profitable ones. Inose
were the days when life ran hlgh-When
excitement flew like wildffre on the heels
of each newly reported strike, when mems
blood was holland times were gay ana
raw and new. Now. life In DeadWood
Is externally much as life in any prosper
Gus small city which is rather more en-
cit-o
her neighbors.
Deadwood Has Grown Up.
"The real difference. however, between
the old, Deadwood and the new-the diff
ference in individuality-is the same diff
ference that you would find between a
poy Of twelve or fourteen and the same
lad grown TO mans estate. Innate char
acteristics would remain. The truthful
boy would grow into an honest man, his
generosity would remain with him. as
would also his other dominant traits; but
the wild outlawry would have become
modified-the unsettled state OF mino
would have resolved itself into definite
purposes-education would have subdued
the savage in him, and time would have
smoothed over the rough places.
Just so it is with DeadWood. She re-
tains the best of the old-but she has
grown up. Many of the early day char
acteristics, most admirable, still survive.
She is no longer the town of Wild Bill
and Calamity Jane. but she still retains
the attributes of high courage and wide
generosity which characterized those two
once famous westerners. The splendid
westenrn characteristic of honesty still
shines out respondent. Great frankness
contempt for anything underhanded or
deceitful, independence of thought and
action have always been among the most
notable characteristics of western people
and civilization. and are still the keynote
to its riSinal development. man still
stands in Deadwood for what he is--not
for who he Is. or what he has. Life has
taken on a more quiet, mild hue within
the last twenty years. but the town and
its people still TEEN with the same energy
of life and ambition that helped to start
the town and that made 1t come out