Bisbee daily review., 1914-02-08

the point2 It's different in some other
 places. They are nearly all Ameri.
 can citizens understanding the En-
 glish language. clean, highgrade lot. And now that we appear to be talk ing of men. we want to say before leaving the subject that we were very proud of the praises we heard for the
 boys" from our home who hold such
 responsible positions in the camp.
 Capt. Jos. Hodgson and John C. Greenway are real men and so re- ferred to by all the people here. min ere. businessmen, professional men, everyone. Coming here as strangers
 they have the confidence and esteem
 of the entire population. as well as of other populations around about.
 And as we before mentioned, the
 spirit of the town is fine It's like
 this. The Y. M. C. A. boys wanted
 a swimming pool. It is particularly
 good fin this climate. Much money
 had been raised (you know Capt
 Hodgson) to make up old deficien-
 cies. as the organization had run
 down pretty badly, and they didn't
 feel like making another raid on local
 pocketbooks So one party agreed to
 eouip the pool if another would pre-
 pare the foundation, and, as we have
 previously hinted, foundations here
 are something to cope with but the
 men went at it with picks and shovels
 and wheelbarrows and dynamite. It
 needed expert blasters, and they were
 forthcoming, but the shovels and bar
 row men were not all miners. Some of them were railway agents and oth'
 CTS soft-palm operators, but they
 stood out their shifts, salved their hlisters and made good. The pool is ! now about ready and Is fine acquisi- a ton which many will appreciate. This , is just one illustration of the public . spiritedness of the community. The
 Eiks lodge can furnish another. A
 new building that cost much money . burned down, a total loss, Hard times
 came on. coppers were at the bottom /. and digging winzes in the bottom,
 but the Elks came to the front again with another building. Its all paid |, for, money in the treasury, and ready ,s for another fire. The honest fellow s can always raise a grubstake here. a The population of Bisbee proper is s variously estimated. at from 12,000 tc n 14,0O0 Depends little on whom Il you talk to. but all agree that in the n towns and It's surroundings, Lowell l. Warren and other contiguous loca e tions there are about 15,000.
 {. There are about 2.000 depositors ir )f the Bisbee banks with total of about g '32O0,O in money savings and other s. accounts The Lowell bank having ar Ie additional sl25,0OO. Men earn goot 10 wages and many 6f them are thrifty ie putting something in the bank eacl of pay day. There are three banks. none of of which are national institutions h. There once was one but it failed. @ The school attendance is abou le 1900 A new high school is beinl a built. and a public playground, witl to much popular apparatus can now b' re seen in the yard of the old school 10 There's a lot of noise and hundred At of youngsters revel in the joys of thu le amusement here afforded them. Tn $ physical director of the Y. M. c. A is has charge and the enterprise is prop 's erly conducted. And it's particularl ''' good for Bisbee children as here tn a streets are too narrow and too dar V. gerous to play in, and the town con
 mons or even the town vacant lot i i. here missing. The playground is VI m tai to the youngsters of this con - munity. It would be almost crimina ,a not to have them.
 ',a There is evidence of business a' ,t. tiyity on all sides here. and 'sides ,r. is the correct term. The stores ar to well stocked and well patronizet m. Every one of several moving pictur ,d. shows is filled not only at nights br m. at daily matinees, a dozen boot-blac ce stations find full seats. showing tn as neatness of pedestrians. Automobile ,m are everywhere, you see them nearl Int on top of you. below you. and abov TO. They come out of seemingly imposs ul- hle chutes and rockets and we veril nd believe some of them could go in an nd ont of the mines. Expertness an ng alertness is demanded of the aut est driver here. and if there's an ordi his ance again the muller cut-out i ,re broken into kindling every secon or There's a roar of exhausting gas' Ing here that is something wonderful. ay. certainly keeps the town awake.
 ,ld Bisbee is to be complimented upc her it's daily newspaper the Bisbee Dai
 "I Review It's welcome visitor eve all morning. is ably edited. showil for much enterprise and it must enjoy rst fine business to meet it's running c the nenses which are very heavy in col ,er- narison with costs of newspaper pu un- Itching in many other fields The sn't view renders this community sple res. did service and we wish to say tn ow- 2 good newspaper such as it is, had one of the best things real. Ii and people can have No other iniuen hey extends quite so far for communi