Pueblo chieftain., 1921-12-13
OUR OWN ORIGINAL MOVIE.

OUR OWN ORIGINAL MOVIE.
Half a year has passed since the
Pueblo flood of June 8. yet it is still
a topic of live interest. There is not
a day but we hear or utter some al
fusion to 1t. and sometimes an equally
pressing reference to the next torrent.
There were innumeraple flood stories
that never yet got into print. the
intimidation performed SO many fan
tastic tricks, developed SO many freaks
of conditions or of inconsistencies or
|of condolences, we really have a
Pueblo volume all our own, altogether
original, never described or thought
of by novelists.
We could have passed lifetime
without once realizing the dependence
of civilized people on the one article
of glue. Nobody ever thought OF
glue and 1t was not even visible. After
the flood it seemed as If everything
had come unstuck." Pianos. organs
and many less essential articles OF
furniture became mere chunks OF wood
for lack of glue. Thousands of pencils
kept their gaudy paint and looked
pretty well and even wrote well the
first inch, then fell apart. Yet enter
prising men looking for some eligible
had never thought of starting glue
factory. Better do it now.
This page and then the next one
could be filled with original descrip..
tion of the comparative pehaVior OF
900 kinds of material under action OIL
and furs, fabrics of ali known flbers
from wool to cotton, linen, silk, ramie,
hair in bolts or in garments, cotton IN
bales and in mattresses, wood OF all
known trees, all known metals, to-
bacco in all forms, paper in al! FORMS
building materials in all forms, clays
and compositions and powders ana
liquors ad lib.
Few of the people OF Pueblo really
saw the flood. All OF them saw It's
surface, but the owners Of stores ana
the Mesa, and when they arrived down
town could not get within blocks OF
their ruined goods. Thus II is that so
few show the least realization OF the
fact that water constituted only half oil
the flood: the other nalf was its ter
like ours. An eastern intimidation Is
mere water, which does not hammer
and pound and battes out brick walls.
So even now petty schemes Of future
defense fall to picture the sideways
power of water u feet deep running
as fast as . railroad train.
In the same line OF experience. the
llayman observed that every bridge
should be spiked down or tied down
with guy wires or anchored with deep
cables, and not merely trusted to It's
own weight. A few dollars worth OF
old cable would have kept all those
bridges In Phantom canon.
But any remarks on the next flood
and how to calculate against 1t arc
taboo and unpopular. Not a bucket
of dirt or pound of rock has been NOV
ed for. the next flood In this half year,
with one exception: On Third street
east Of Court tho cellar windows or
a. building when rebuilt were pro.
vided with curved shields of wall
three feet high, one brick thick, with
cement mortar. This would keep out
the water Of the previous floods. At
any rate. There could be offered
long and interesting arEument to prove
that any ordinary b.sfding of brick or
stone could be given flood-proof doors
and shutters which on ten minutes
notice would keep out every gallon
of water. Extra expense OF one or
two hundred dollars would fix 1t.