Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-12-14
A FAMOUS OLD HOSTELRY.

The burning of the International hotel at Virginia
City, Nevada will sincere regret to every Od-tme
Nevadan What memories are awakened as the famous
old hostery is recalled 1t was indeed famous for around
The ring of the world wherever there wide awake
mining men and business adventers, such as seek out
the unknown sections of the world there were some who
knew the International 1t the big hotel in the
biggest city of 10000 people ever built up since civza
ton began
Its bar which is in Nevada hotels is always the most
important feature Of them was of rosewood and mahOg-
any and its garnure silver and cut glass Its doors were
solid silver and from roof to basement boasted every
convenience of those days
Under its hOspitable roof some OF the best known
Americans have found shelter and just to recall their
names is to the makers Of Nevada history and some
who wrote pages in national history we'll There Uncle
George" Hearst father of William, and his universally
loved wife "Aunt Phoebe, were frequent guests. There
"Bil Sharon the little redheaded SENATOR found home
There Lucky" Baldwin talked horse and accumulated
millions by avoiding the "horses" the lower levels
There Mark Twain held forth in his visit to the scene of
his first newspaper work. There Bret Harte mingled
with the best people in the world the miners of the early
Comstock There big jim" Fair held out while with bull
dog peIssency he sent big shaft down on the line be-
tween the California and 'COn. Virginia" in sOcaled
barren ground and tapped the Big Bonanza that for
twenty-five months declared dividneds of $2O0000O a
month Just below it, on C street. Flood had his whole
sale liquor house and saloon and dug up the money along
with Mackey and 0Bren that paid for the Fair shaft
There c. c. Goodwin editor of the Virginia City Enter
prise and one of the nations most fowey writer's found
genial company as did his predecessors, Daggett and
Caggett At its multi-mimoIed bar Jim" GateW0od the
prince of horSenen and no souch with gun either az
ranged many a race 1t was he who got Theo Winters
and Judge "Charle" Bryan into horse-racng contest
that finally led to Winters sending east for Norfolk and
Bryan at the same time sending back to his brother in
Kentucky the carte blanche order: "Buy the best
horse in America regardless of price," and which fill
ed by the purchase of Lodi though he could not beat Nor
folk There John Mackey held forth while the "COn Vir
gnia poured out its millions for him. part of which he
used in laying cable across the Atlantic There James
W. Nye one of Nevada's first two senators and warm
personal friend of President Lincoln made his home
did Bill" Stone his fellow senator There Laura d. Fair
played Venus to Attorney Crttendons Adonis and in the
Lage and Jimmy Hand made merry with the golden
stream countless mule teams permitted them to pour over
the bar
But what's the use One could go on indefinitely each
name recalling other and each Of these again some
incident until the odmer gets genuinely homesick for
a glimpse of the old days once more
Seva is in hard lines She is so situated that Russia
cannot 90 to her relief without crossing Hungary and
the Austrans object strenuously to this. England and
France could help her by sending expedition by way Of
the Mediterranean and Adiac but they cannot just
spare the troops the kaiser keeping them pretty busy in
Belgium and France, Austria is sweeping her ter
rtoly and it looks as though she would be in the
same boat with Belgium With an army only about half
the size of that Austria has sent against her. she put
ting up desperate resistance but the end can be fore
seen Servia will have to wait the end of the war before
she is again on the map under her own rulers.