Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-08-04 | Page 33 | Early Relics of Wild West

EARLY RELICS S OF WILD WEST Tombstone Has Three Famous Fa Fa- inous Buildings Are Still Standi Standing g. g t Tombstone Ariz Aniz Aug AuS' 3 TIme The The BirdCage Bird BirdCage Cage opera house tho Can Can-Can restaurant restaurant res res- the Red fled Light saloon and anti the the- Tucson stage office remain as relics of or Tombstones Tombstone's time one glory as a a. ml camp These old buildings were once the scenes cenes of or pioneer Anzona Arizona Ari An- zona ona mining camps life lite but are aro now occupied b by hats bats and are slowly CallIn fall Call In Ing Into deca decay The Tho Bird Cage opera house was the most famous In the territory It Is a n. rambling two two-stor two story structure with the glass In tho time rough board front broken b by tho time elements A lon long bar occupies one end or of tho the building while the piano plana players player's raised platform faces It at nt The he opposite end It was yas on this platform that the famous sl sign n hung which read rend Do not shoot the piano player lIe He Is doing the best ho he can A gallery extends around three sides sIdes' of or the opera house and the stage stac-o oc occupies occupIes occupies oc- oc tho the fourth side On this stage the most famous variety performers from tram San Francisco appeared In theold tho the old days Lithographs announcing their coming still hang hanS on the walls of oC tho the opera hou house e the ink still bright upon them A dumb waiter connects tho the bar with the sa gallery 11 r above e where drinks were served ser at tables placed In each the tho little or of rooms which open onto the hl big dancing floor loor Many fany killings s have occurred In the Bird Bind Ca Cage and anti It has e. e been the scene of or a n number of at western stories of frontier life At tho the Can-Can Can restaurant steaks once sold for tor 3 each h and men waited In lino line to be served d at tho the height of or orthe time the Tombstone gold old boom The Red ned LI Light ht saloon was a n. gambling house and the discarded roulette and faro fare layouts ma may be seen cen stacked In the rear of ot the big building with sith Its broken brok brok- en bar anti and maho mahogany an fixtures Tho The stage e office is I an adobe building with witha a corral flanking it It and It was there that the stage from from Tuc Tucson on pulled In each ench lay day rind the early settlers settler re received re- re their mall mail from the outside world Another nother relic of or old Tombstone Tombstone Tomb Tomb- I stone tone Is the time monument erected to Ed I-d the tho founder of ot Tombstone end Ind the time man who gave e a It his name Tho The monument Is built of or boulders from first mine A in the ho Panhandle told that ho hI would not find gold gokl hut but a n tombstone In his quest of or a gold goldmine goldmine old mine In the Huachuca Hu mountains mountain found round gold and named th the town Tombstone remembering hl his friends friend's nd's prediction When hen ho he died his body lody was as returned hero here and the tombstone tombstone tomb tomb- I stone tone em el elected at nt the spot where he hein in mado a do the gold Jold strike that caused a great rush to this camp t