Show I 1 ITHE I 1 THE surian SILURIAN REAPPEARS t I 1 I 1 1 1 his tradition lary attitude r 0 forbids high buildings I 1 I 1 1 THE DUDES AND THE ATHLETES I I 1 I 1 changes in son san Francis cos social ways the third generation more 1 danly than tile second one of the I 1 ancient col colonels anels outlines it 0 great layout lay out fa for r nevada hearst and I 1 eis newspaper per ventures 1 1 I 1 i correspondence tribune san francisco nov 15 1893 1895 I 1 thought that the Siluria ns I 1 it was had bad had baa their day and that henceforth I 1 they were to be nothing more danger ous than a growling reminiscence but I 1 i the passage by tile the supervisors of 0 an ordinance forbidding the construction tall buildings lots lets us know i ot of very I 1 that the silurian Is still belll awake and capable ot of throwing ties across the track 0 progress mayor or sutro has tent sent in his ve veto to but the supervisors wont fault mind that ot of course there are A jf lovelier things in the dolid than B anky ky structures and it la Is quito quite like PA 7 4 piercing ly that the first serious earthquake will remind capitalists and architects that the peninsula ot at san francisco Is wobbly but at the same bame time it Is incomprehensible how anybody who wants to see the city improve should feel eel moved to put ary any obstacle in the way of 0 the rare person who desires to op depend e nd his money in putting up any sort c of building he chooses SO BO long lone as it Is better than the primitive shanties and aad frontier one two and three story I 1 brick affronts that occupy so 60 much space on market street streel that thoroughfare Is 13 just beginning to take on a modern look in spots the new 11 aar ar ro rott t t block black Is beautiful and here and th there ere along tho the route there are plies v balch aich enable one to fancy vividly what the broad street will be like when the dear old pioneers and their economical architecture hanc baic disappeared the palace hotel used to lirt lift itself like the great pyramid above the level of the desert but now it Is quite dwarfed by the higher end and more sightly buildings that multiply within the una line of vision san francisco know how bow she Is changing the influence of 0 chicago and new york Is everywhere t isible to all who be are acquainted with those cities it Is not that the town Is in creating creiner rapidly la in population the myriad empty houses prove the contrary but there la is a new style about things money bloney is s spent freely for ornament an extravagance that would have seemed equally senseless and sinful to the pioneer who gilded himself on r his is lavishness chiefly cli lefly because he paid two bits for his drinks drink and drank treely freely because he was denied other amusements yet even in his specialty he was crude new saloons on the grand and scale open now and attract no general notice that would have been famus amus throughout the world with a 0 tenth of their gorgeous resa had they come into being when the argonaut held the floor whether lt Is a pain gain or a loss lose Is it a matter of renste if taste but men are learning to dress F vell in san francisco the sons of 0 the rich old accumulators bring back with them from europa and tho the var wardrobes drobes that would outfit IL a society actor and are not ashamed to wear them in public no longer does docs the native turn and store stare atter after a youth who Is rigged out as an a swell ot of tho the order pictured in life and vogue A dozen years ago a claw hammer at the theater awakened scornful doubt of 0 the tha wearers bearers wear ers masculinity now claw ham mers or are L as common as aa drinks between the act acts 9 commoner in tact 0 or the 1 good of old d custom ot of bracing up to to endure what Is coming when the curtain goes up appears to bo be waning young toung men are not ambitious to be thought hard cases by the girls they take with thorn them to the theater theat erat at least they dont leave them as their predecessors did to saunter linter sa ot off to the bar at every opportunity port unity and como come back to diffuse a I 1 sweet odor of whisky and cloves through the he auditorium the old boys the colonels and majors and judges whose mustaches are ara white totter oft off in the ancient way and return with a I 1 reinforced contempt for the younger 1 generation but the younger generation i the sons of pioneers sons lire are better then men thin than their fathers ayou good deal and almost as aa stalwart as their t i Crand grandfathers fathers were college life ond and I 1 athletics have given us a brawny lot ot of young bolion s 8 v m lio ho it if they are dant dies also look like ilko men and the miscellaneous 1 cel Cell youth to Is B more manly chap I 1 to gaze at than the average native son used to be lads have va t work for f their living now and do riot not have to 1 11 1 subsist on the old gent lemans i of 0 past wealth and his chances in tho the stock block market lite life has become settled sunk bunk to a matter of retting getting on an by toll to instead of 0 a demoralizing gamble de be 1 tides aides football and baseball are superior to chorle the cigarette us As muscle builders there r a are plenty 0 of tall and stout young men on the streets of san franciaco the reproach that native sons are puny Is not PO fo well deserved as it was the state 14 is outliving the pioneer JF traIn As an individual the pioneer was waa fine but as a pros eni ator of I 1 he had his deficiencies mostly acquired q ll 11 I 1 ITA when the colonels and majors a and nd judges have fallen quite into their dotage and young san francisco has hil 5 come to leel feel that it owns the city we p shall all have no boards of surer supervisors visors standing landing in the way of 0 modern modem changes it Is not to lie be interred that the an clent citizens the are direct I 1 ly responsible for or the order of the su relating to extra tall build ings doubtless those with whose plans the supervising order interferes quid dip disclose close other than but were vcr wo n not 0 afflicted with a large collection 11 cu wo f r elles enamored ona e mored ot of tile tho I 1 anat anclin on regime abos board would not have dared to level its shotgun at the builders tall buildings will g go up P of course the action of the in way y increase their cost hut but thy t h will go up the order wilt will he be repealed p led when its repeal becomes necessary speaking of the pioneers I 1 met an elderly man mail from nevada the other day who revived the traditions though elderly this man was riot not venerable tor for his voice was raised in behalf or of sin Us lie Is a colonel ot of course and chows chews tobacco with a so southern athern accent by god gad clr said the colonel flipping a speck specie or two ot of san francisco and from the spray of sagebrush Bae bruh in his buttonhole butto button aholo hol Nev nevada alln ought to be ashamed of herself it if the state had bad done her duty the world would ba have V known which Is in t th he better man corbett or ritz almino ns theres no reason re on earth why we have bod that lightnr fight light no natural reason when we wore were all too busy mak making ing millions or thiekl thinking 9 we were coins to make ton millions to bother about thing ng else any we nye adopted a constitution being in a hurry we took one ona ready inac the old C constitution of calltop sri prize and sla that forbids alda lotteries and fighting if it been for abot it i 1 constitution n w which I 1 the public opinion opinion but the represents not or I 1 nevada we should have had a state 11 try years ago and enriched our burrlee pelves by setting rame game for the bial erae r to buck I 1 against tal now the blue owes of the ja ra 1 I have 1 1 aced a lot kot in and in the coners n arsa 0 f the hb united tickets totes t ift to t close 10 lo h in mails ils to lottery and a as innocent ind rc specia I 1 I 1 ille ble a 0 form of 0 gambling as the mind of man can daviro has boon been plumb ruined theres things worse than gambling am bling it if gamb ramblings lings bad and among those things I 1 count inconsistency tency and hypocrisy wheres the con call ris tencY in licensing llo banking games game 3 laro faro roulette chuck aluck a luck and ami ro rouse 0 et noire as ai a i wo we do and setting our races faces against lotterle lotteries N nevadas 0 vadas hari hard up sir ifer her resources are magnificent but her population la is small find and growing smaller why there aint anoren litty thousand ot of us left in the sagebrush counting women and children arid and leaving out indiana and Ch loamen capital follows fashions and its the fashion now to rack pack off good money to africa for mining minim investment and well havo have to wait malt till the fashion changes before our nines mines get another chance defore before that happens wo may mar all be dead what nevada ought to do Is to adopt a new constitution and throw things wide open reno on ill the L banks ot of the elie truckee Is as beautiful a town on as beautiful a stream an aa there Is under tinder the canopy rono had bod ought quirlie to be another monte alonte carlo there should bo be pavilions there for dancing and 1 for or every sort of 0 fun thit that history cry tells of there thera had ought to be a ring with porphyry posts and a solid silver floor tor for the stir star pups bugs of the century to battle in whenever they like and music and good liquor and no puritanism anany in any form why with an layout lay out like that sprouts of 0 the earth would a assemble in ileno and bring brine their money moncy there thero thera should be 0 spot in the country where a gentleman can so go and do as aa he be likes everybody with blood in him wants to do as lie he likes and everybody who Is anybody comes pretty near doing it no matter where lie he flies 11 es only he has to do it on the sneak which is 13 morti lying to a gentleman my idea simply Is that nevada should do openly what every other state does docs on oil the quiet and make legal the amusements of 0 gentlemen pent lemen no crime you understand but no doggone hypocritical interference with vice A strong pollee force to keep order and ever thing thine licensed the scheme it if a man wants to open a game jot jet him whack up and pay his license and KO go ahead it if a preacher comes along alone bent on spoiling sport let him pay his license and sail in it hes bes cot the sand to face social odium give us a new constitution let us ua do what we pleased so long as wo we interfere with any other gent lemans play and im betting nevada would be the greata t summer report on two hemispheres TI acco atco ibbett fitzsimmons mill which our jay constitution has made us miss would have put more money in circulation among us than weve been the lower levels of the bon bonanza anza mines were abado abandoned ned it aint any chimelis im talking understand there taci ea m a new constitution movement gro growing it sam davis had bad the pluck to write 1 as he thinks and im rambling gambling he will m i ll 11 before long the movement ll have the carson appeal tor for an organ Virtue N 8 all right when its ical and oll all round but the virtue that runs in streaks and manifests itself by preventing other people from doing what they want to do and you dont aint suited to the stalwart manhood of the sagebrush and by gad it makes me I 1 tired red enough to fight |