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Show A Hailroad Town. The- follow-description follow-description of Kit Carson, Colorado is from the pen of a Cincinnatian to a gentleman of that city. It reads like a description of some towns between the Black Hills and Sierra Nevada, only not quite so much so : Had I the time I should like to give you a few pictures of this "city of the plains," a city of six weeks' growth moved from Sheridan, eighty-four miles east of here, 1,1200 inhabitants, hotel fare $4.50 per day. It has concert con-cert and dance saloons, gambling of every kind, monte, faro Ac saloons where the vilest liquor is dealt out in miniature glasses at twenty-five cents a drink; cicar shops, tended by women, faded and worn out. a taint semblance of that beautiful type of womanhood imagination loves to dream of; boot blacks ("shine yer boots, sir"); in brief, all those outside evidences of our modern civilization, testifying in unmistakcable terms that "westward the star of empire takes its way." "Evidences of our modern civilization" civiliza-tion" is good, decidedly, and truthful; that's where the point comes in. |
