Bisbee daily review., 1919-11-09

BiSDee Of years ago anu IhO
 of today was written for the Review bv one who has known this city TOT many years, and who was actively identified with the olden days or which he speaks so well. It is be- lieved that it will awake many a memory in the hearts of that dwlnd- ling band of pioneers which IS stlli at home in Bisbee, and which looks hack npon the beginning of the War ren district through a mist of years which is plainfuliy shot with sun beams.)
 By A. E. ZEH,
 Cananea, Mexico.
 How could you let the following article pass you by without doing a little moralizing, or make some com ment on it? Not the slightest whis- pering murmur, the smallest peep or screech did you let out of you. Whats the matter?
 TURNING BACK THE CALENDAR. Sixteen Years Ago Today in slsbee. (From Bisbee Daily Review, October
 21, 1eo3.)
 James Quinn was arrested last
 Friday by Officer George Chi
 chester on a charge of grand
 larceny. It seems that Quinn
 was given money by Andy How
 ard with which to play poker
 In plain words, Howard staked
 him in the hope that he would
 break the game. The amount al
 legged by Howard, and admitted
 by Quinn, was $50. Quinn played
 faro instead of poker, and his
 donor had him arrested for mis-
 appropriating funds.
 If would be curios to know the re- suit of the trial, whether the culprit was convicted, or was turned loose In these days this must have been a crime of the darkest hue, 1nVolV- ing lack of honor, misplaced friend ship. and perhaps indirectly depriV' ing wife ana children of in res and tortillas. A crime oi lnIs na- ture must have stirred the social foundations of fair Bisbee from the old flood-gate at the upper end of Main street, to the extreme end of the prominent and fashionable thor oughfare of Brewery Gulch. If the culprit was really guilty of such a misappropriation of money entrusted
 
 least twenty-five years at hard labor in the pen at Florence. But there may have been extenuating circum stances, for if after going to both the Turf and Orient Saloons, he had found all the seats taken at the poker tables, and there was no likely show for him to get seat for seV eral hours, he may have been per fectly justified in taking a seat at faro layout.
 During these good old days, which will never return again, many ar honest, hard working miner had tc struggle for hours in order to get . seat at a poker table or a look IT at a faro game, only to be deprived of it at the last moment by some one slipping in ahead of him. Anc then the poor man, with gold burn ing in his pockets, would have to. gC to his lonely room heart-broken anC pray for better success some othel night. He may have been able, how ever. to force his way up to tho polished mahogany bar and console himself with drink or two before hieing himself away in despair to hi cold and gloomy room, but even thii would be almost impossible on pa! day night. Strange as the fact ma! seem. many a brave and rugged mal has nearly died from thirst while waiting a chance to get one foot ol the brass rail in front of the bar but there have been cases knowI where a mans life has been save' by having a drink passed over tn heads of those in front, which reach ed the expiring man just in the nicl of time.
 Talking about being on the desert forty miles from water and fort feet from hell, there is no compar son. It required brave men to fac such perils on a payday night i Bisbee sixteen years ago. to endur the music and the songs, and tn noises of the jungle one was so sur to encounter in the Turf and Orien and many other palaces of pleasur or sorrow, so well remembered b the old-timers. But alas, are only memory. and these places and scene are now as ancient as the wint swept mounds of old Troy, wher only goats find pleasure now and tn