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Show wfavV When a Mining Camp Was a Cultural Center , tD F .vo ft I''"1'- '. . 'r - , t- ?4 Vjwa. ' JMr s'- - ' Tfr,r v '- UUlj M f ij - A Waterfront Battle - v -- ;- ' A V' ,'"X" ,s - a. By FLOYD GIBBONS - Famous Headline Hunter. f -- 7s'', fcV V r&, r 3 l; ' z P r-ilS-- .&., It 't5 ' jjr , v Wrf Central City, Colorado nr By ELMO SCOTT WATSON 3IONG the entries to be written down in America's Book of Time for the year 1035 undoubtedly will be this one; A new gold rush in the West For the higher price of gold and ver, established by governmental de cree during the past year, has revived an almost prostrate Industry, has caused a bustle of excited activity In many a mining camp and has brought to life more than one ghost town whose deserted cabins and grass-growstreets were pitl ful reminders of the glories that had once been theirs in the bonanza days. Especially has this been true of the state of Colorado through the tapestry of whose history runs many a golden and silver thread. Lead Tllle, Idaho Springs, Breckenridge, Falrplay, Alma, Cripple Creek, Victor, Ouray, Sllverton. Creede (Its day all day In the daytime and there Is no night In Creede") and Aspen once more those are glamorous names. Last March the name of LeadvIUe appeared X. In virtually every newspaper In the United States. For out of that town came the news that a poverty-strickeold woman had frozen to death In a tumble-dow- n shack on the side of a Once Paved With, Silver hill In feeadville. Iler name was Elizabeth Doe Tabor and the busy world paused for a moment and established himself In a log building called to remember that she had been the famous and the Montana theater. The s were beautiful "Baby Doe" Tabor, that a President hungry for entertainment and Langrishe's venof the United States had been a wedding guest ture wns successful Ilia season when she was married to II. A. W. Tabor, a there lastedImmediately for three months. Then he returned Colorado bonanza king. And It remembered, too, to Denver. But after year Langrishe came that, when the great Tabor fortune had slipped back to Central year City. According to a contemtheir through fingers, she had gone back to porary chronicler They give us a change of bill Leadvllle, there to spend her last poverty daily and a satisfying variety each evening. stricken years guarding the Matchless mine, Everything in the entire range, from tragedy to which had been the source of most of their farce: tonight It will be Young Lochinvar (with wealth and from which she never ceased bellev a real horse on the stage) and a tritle of English lng that wealth would come again. comedy, such as 'She Stoops to Conquer'; toTo the list of those mining camps whose fame morrow a stirring melodrama, relieved by a light has been revived recently there should be added farce; on !(; 41 Saturday night Macbeth or 'Richard.' another. It Is Central City, Six months of the year the company In played Little Kingdom capital of the Little King-o- Denver or visited the mining camps of Montana. n dom of Gilpin In Three months were and Gilpin given to Central City and many respects the greatest the Little Kingdom of Gilpin" and the other of all the Colorado gold camps. At one time three months to other camps George Gulch, DelCentral City was not only the wildest, roughest aware Flats, Buckskin Joe Gulch and Frenchand happiest mining camp In Colorado but It mans Gulch. But for all that Central was Central City was also one of the very richest. As such City's Famous Opera House a crude boom town" in the heart of the mounhelped save the federal Union by pouring Its tains. difficult of access and Inhabited for thp gold Into the United States treasury when the most part by miners, there were perhaps 50 So such stage notables as Edwin Booth, Lawsuccessful prosecution of the Civil war was at families whose education and cultured tastes rence Barrett, Joseph Jefferson, Emma Abbott, stake. But despite these facts nnd the fact that kept alive the interest of the better Fotta Crabtree, Christine Nil-type of theCentral City is sharing with the other gold camps atrical productions. They were the main noil Call gon, Madame Janttschek and supIn a renewed prosperity, a revival of Interest In port of the little theater; in fact, they supported of Notables the great Modjeska In fact, Its name and fame Is not due to any such mn It to the extent of 90 consecutive performances virtually every great actor terial reason. The reason Is cultural I For Cen every year. and actress of that period at one time or anan has tral City opera house and thereby hangs A disastrous fire Central City In 1S74 other trod the boards In Central Citys Opera one of the most romantic tales In the history of and the Montana swept house. Moreover It continued to have other theater, along with most of the American theater. celebrities as visitors, for the Teller house, built the In other buildings . the First of all, consider some of the back A F ire and place, went tip In smoke. But by Senator Henry M. Teller, was one of the most gTound history of Central City. In 858 pros- Its Aftermath re could not kill the Interest famous hostelries In the whole country. Presipectors In what was then Jefferson territory of Its citizens In the fine arts, dent Grant stayed there when he came to Colorado and at the time of his visit the citizens of washed from the sands of Cherry creek some They conceived the Idea of erecting a really fine shining particles of metal. Others found some opera house. Financed by popular subscription, Central City did a spectacular thing. They paved an entire street to the very doors of the hotel of the same precious stuff In the Pikes Peak was finished In the spring of 1S7S. It was 75 miles The was word carried south. substantial region structure with walls of stone four with silver bricks In honor of the President coming. back East to a people still suffering from the feet thick. panic of 1857. Immediately the great Pikes This, of course, was In the days of Central A Denver newspaper of that time describes the Peak gold rush was on. Within a year more Interior thus: The greatest glory. But that glory soon began Citys large and comfortable gal- to than 60, (XX) fortune seekers had stampeded lery Is swung across the rear of the fade. As other mining camps prospered Cenauditorium across the plains to this new El Dorado. but not carried down the sides. The floor of the tral City began to decline. At one time a hunBut most of them were doomed to disappoint parquette and dress circle dred families moved from Central City to Denver slopes gently to the mcnt, for the amount of free gold which could be stage, giving every spectator a clear view of the In one group. Eventually the town dwindled panned out of the performers. It Is well lighted and heated, the away to a town of only a few hundred people. A Stampede to streams of the moun central chandelier The old opera house was dark now for months being a counterpart of the and taIn country was rel one in Central years on end. Mountain rats took It over Presbyterian church In Denver. "Gregory Digging atlvely small. Most There Is not much gingerbread about he woodplayground. Ownership of the building of It was still locked up In a matrix of quartz. work of the Interior, which Is neat, not finally passed to Peter McFarlane, one of the gaudy, contractors for the building, who kept On May 6, 1S59, a settler named John II. Greg but the frescoing Is fine, very fine, as elegant in original It In memory of the splendor that had once been In a its line as ory discovered evidences of gold quartz in the anything country. The artist gulch some CO miles north and west of Denver. appeurs to have been more at home in the Central Citys. Several years ago the heirs of the McFarlane The Rocky Mountain News of Denver published theater than In the church. The centerpiece Is its first extra to herald the news of the strike an open dome and one can almost Imagine he estate decided to present the historic old buildand a stampede for Gregory's Digglns begun. is looking through the roof at the sky overhead, ing to the University of Denver. A group of public spirited Denver citizens decided to restore Soon the hills and valleys of that region were with angry clouds hurrying by en route to covered with the tents and crude shacks of the Georgetown direct, without change, as the rail- the opera house and make a living monument of It by reviving the romance of the gold The boom towns of Black Hawk road guides say. The drop curtain is also days and very and Nevadaville came Into existence and since fine, representing a Rhine scene, shown through by preserving for posterity the best traditions of Gregorys Digglns" was midway between them, parted drapery. The great Stage is fully equipped the American stage. Among them was Allen Nathaniel Albertson, John Armous and Harrison with handsome new scenery everything Is new True, a nationally known mural artist, who volunteered to restore the Interior decorations of G. Otis, who platted the town site to Include the about the building, from roof to basement and the name of theater, buried under years of accumulated the Central It gave camp, there are four elegant dressing rooms, besides original gold all the necessary apace for the multitudinous grime. City. As a result of the work of this group, the old Calling this mushroom camp a city was paying properties of the profession." house has resumed Its former splendors opera It a rare compliment Indeed, for It was pitched Besides the opera house they also built a and summer a play festival Is presented every runsome Its of streets with hillside on a rocky squure stone school house and churches of many there. For the lust four years Central City has ning almost perpendicular from the gulch where denominations, for Central City was flourishing, been a center of culture, as expressed In again used there In made his fact, discovery. both as a business and cultural center Among Gregory the theater. In 1!).12 It captured the to be a saying in Central City that If a man fell the people of all grades and conditions of society the art of of the world Imagination for he'd roll front his However, off steps, days. who were flocking Into the l.lttle Kingdom of Gish in Camille." In RKII by presenting Lillian The Merry Widow" ImIn the camp grew both In population and Gilpin" were several destined for Inter fame. was produced there with Gladys Swarthout, was of the when and county a When Gilpin uurrow gauge ruilway as um irom Natalie Hall and Richard portance Bonelll, stars of the organized and named for Thomas Gilpin, first Deuver to Central City U boomed still more. oi era, taking the lending roles. In territorial governor of Colorado, Central City But for all this, the opera house wns an experl Metropolitan l!KU Walter Huston closed the success, became the county seat imnt that was not always a success. Even with "Dodsworth," to play the lead Broadway In Othello," supa was to ruilroad Central rush the still remote and on, While the Gregory's niggles" City r ported by Nan Sutherland, Helen Freeman and a certain J. S. l.nngrishe, an eastern theatrical It wus sometimes difficult to persuade t tie best Kenneth McKenna. Last year there was a revuq, producer, remembered the success of Lotta, Adah theatrical companies to make the trip Into the Central City Nights," written by Richard EdMenken and Lola Montez during the California mountains. Then, too, other mining towns were mond Jones ami the music arranged under the gold rush 10 years earlier. He decided that there springing up. Leadvllle had struck the richest llroetlon of Frank St. l.eger, conductor of the was a golden opportunity for him in the new pay dirt ever found In the state. Slowly but Houston Symphony orchestra and formerly didiggings and sturted west. But he didnt reach surely an exodus from Central City began. When rector of the Chicago Grand opera. V. ISliO too It A. Denver until the fall of when was Tabor built his Tabor Grand opera So vvlilie there has been a revival In the malate to penetrate the valleys of the house In Denver, t he If'lshoess ol that theater nia piospeilty of most of Colorado's nun-,vLittle Kingdom of Gilpin.'' So he opened In uite oveisluidowed Cei.'rul Citys opera luuise 'amps theie lots also been a revival of uuotner Denver us O'Cullaghnn In Ills I.nst I.egs, follit It helped the mountain theater In one way; suit In one of (hem. It Is a cultural revival In lowed by a furee, "Nature and lhllosopliy, In the Talior Gland brought to the West evety tour lie one Unit vvas once fumed as a place where Which his wife was starred. In company of any couxequem e and when they lie ail ol the theater flourished in Ceulrul City After a successful season ot six months in n.ved iu Dcuvef they also played iu Ccniul iiuj its old Opera houe. Denver he went to Central City the next spring Ity. Wciiua Ntwtpipct Uni os. sil- - A.4 n S n the same old story, boys and girls. Adventure never shows 1 up when you look for it always pops up when you least expect it. Take the case of Edgar Columbia. Ed chased adventure from Canada to Mexico and back again, but the scare of his life came to him when he went into a lunch room one night to get a cup of coffee. TTS That cup of coffee cost Ed five cents, and came doggone tear to Ed costing him his life. It was In the early part of January, 1923, and wns In Portland, Maine. Up there he was a member In good standing of the International Longshoremens union, Local 801, and engaged In the work of loading and unloading the boats that came In and out of Portland harbor. It was a Job, and Ed says he met up with some characters along the Portland waterfront pretty The men who frequent the dock districts in all seaports, Ed says, are apt to be a pretty tough lot And Portland was no exception to the rule. Human flotsam passed through there from the seven seas and the all of five continents. They were toughs crooks yes, and murderers them flocking to the shabby waterfront Rialto as beetles flock to a bright hard-boile- hav5' t fortable compartment ner dinner beneath . aky far above the the eastern Pacific, of a larger-thanuh! thrill at Bptasaing gon 0Te, d light Nice People, These Waterfront Folks. In Portland these characters could be found on Commercial street. Fore street and the lower part of India street. They hung out in dives, cheap beaneries and In the back rooms of blind pigs. That was the sort of locality Ed Columbia worked in, and his work was as hard as the neighborhood was tough. When a boat was scheduled to leave In the morning, the longshoremen worked all night to get it loaded. In the winter those nights often ran a temperature of 15 or 20 degrees below zero, and at such times the men took turns going out for a cup of coffee to keep them warm. It was on one of these nights, about 2:30 a. m that Ed started out lunch rooms of for a cup of hot Java. He went into one of those India street, and sat down at the long, wooden lunch counter on one of Then on again, by sT" over a necklace of keys to the little Mi w where a we!l.appointe; your overnight stop, t next day to Wake in the vast Pacific Isla, Th pass a night Another A night on Guam, The'r finds you In exotic Manila. Then the follow ' you step ashore for s, China Itself. w. L. Daniel Sayre In CosmnJ- Land for Every Oa Friendly Isles in; Tonga, In the Pacific, nounced that there 1? iana one In Its islands. QUfeD her husband, who Is prime have seen that every yo, Friendly Islands on reach,-I- s given a quarter of an ac in his village and eight He must build a hut coconuts. Education Is free pulsory In Tonga, and 99 Tongans can read and wr;. clip-joint- The proper for a all-nig- gold-seeker- snow-locke- d I r treat bilious d THREE STEPS T0 BEUEYIHB h i;i A cleansing dose toiag; t quantity tomorrow; less r until bowels need no kip i s oi NY mother A knows th- - her child stops pk little, is hard to manage. Cor But what a pity so few nsensible way to set things r The ordinary laxatives, .ordinary strength, must be regulated as to dosage. A liquid laxative is tie mothers. The answer to worries over constipation, can be measured. The dost exactly suited to any age Just reduce the dose eacht the bowels are moving of tj accord and need no help. This treatment will sn" any child and with myo.L The doctors use ijuid1 Hospitals use the liquid isft is best for their use, it home use. The liquid lass families use is Dr. Caldwt. Pepsin. Any druggist has it i- tvJfi as-th- eir . P gold-seeker- ill'Li 1 Y ? v -- .Tsfrxv.vs,'- K, ' , n J ' T T r, ", z pv . ADVENTURERS CLUB V. V.. v .v IAS 1 fZ , X ' Tou can now bUy . you to the OrienV you on board the tv San Francisco noon. You will bp carry Then Socko Ed Let Go a Haymaker. those round spinning stools. There were 15 or 20 eggs sitting around at nearby tables, drinking and playing cards, but they didnt as they were and worry Ed any, because Ed was just as weighed 187 pounds In the bargain. Ed ordered his coffee nd an egg sandwich. While he was eating his sandwich and sipping his coffee, a gent came walking into the lunch room and, with a string of curses, flopped himself down on the stool beside Ed. The tough guy had a pretty good cargo of liquor aboard. He was, as a matter of fact, at that stage of drunkenness where he was getting meaner and uglier by the minute. But well that was none of Eds business. He went right on eating and drinking his coffee as If nothing had ever happened. g tough-lookin- tough-lookin- g tough-lookin- g Ed Takes Abuse as Long as He Can. 'Suddenly, and for no apparent reason, the drunk turned on Ed and began calling him every name he could think of. It seems that some man had stolen his girl from him, and Ed looked like that man. For a while Ed paid no attention to him. He was furious," says Ed, and my Indifference didnt help any. Finally, I told him to pipe down and go to h 1. Then he went completely nuts. The drunk began yelling at the top of his voice, threatening to kill ,Ed Then he jumped to his feet and made a grab with both haads for the stool he had been sitting on. Those stools were Just round seats set In Iron pipes. On the bottom of each seat was a sort of stem that fit loosely Into the pipe a metal s sp.ke protruding about of an Inch that the drunk picked up. Holding the seat with both hands, he raised It high about his head and tried to drive the spike into Ede skull. Ed Jumped and none too soon, either. The edge of the seat grazed his head, and as the drunk raised It for another blow, Ed started backing away toward the corner of the room. As ho backed away the drunk followed, raving mad and still yelling bloody murder. At every lunge," Ed says, I backed away, until I was caught In the corner. I was afraid to make a grab for that spiked seat, because If I missed It, It meant a broken arm or wrist. I didnt know what to do and In that corner, with no means of escape, the situation was getting pretty desperate. three-quarter- It Took a Cool Mind and a Sure Eye. the Time Cuticura Relies s And Ed aure took that cue. He drew back hi waited for those arms to go up again. Then socko Ed right fist and let go a for that unprotected Jaw. The haymaker landed and the bird dropped. He was lying qn the U f SllirnrbaDcakDt went f F I ill with 'ftingworm started be crust on my little boy s and turned Into eruptions W as In a terrible way. tions itched and when they would burn,not broke out He could cried all the time. I tried different remedy year eruption lasted one aaJ Cuticura Soap bead B v, now my boy's without I will never be M Soap and Ointment." Margaret Carter, 19 rt o t r iet Hu s.'e 810 Ml Baltimore, Md, Soap 25c, Ointment Talcum 25c. Sold ereff' A r. sample each free. Dep cura Laboratories, Adv. Mass. ve Finally, I had to do something. And what did I do? Well, remember how be was holding that stool seat with both hands? time ha ,,ce d Jaw ES Ringworm cal Child Cried, m J J ru hay-mak- er oZZ'' dr " per!pi" 1 Thats the way adventures run up along the waterfront U Portland. WNU Strvtc Coffee Tree Believed to Be Native of Ethiopia ing coffee as a beverage gradually spread throughout the ret of the world. The early history of coffee as a The tree, according to some beverage Is obscure. Ethiopia Is reacquired the name coffe garded as the original home of the from Kafa, the name of the provcoffee tree, which Is Indigenous to ince where Arabs first found U many parts of Afrien, says a writer growing wild. Most etymologists, In the Indianapolis News. however, derive coffee from the Large virgin forests of coffee the Arabic word Khaivah, through its Turkish form Kahveh, trees are found In meaning Ethiopia. In a decoction or beverage made from some cases the outer fringes of berries. these forests are worked by the naCoffee berries, It seems, were tives, hut for the most pnrt the berfirst ries full to the ground each used, not for a beverage, but ai year a food, being eaten In the and are wasted. form ol Tradition has it that an "?,te It Is said that the coffee tree Ethiopian priest accidentally diswas originally found by Arab travcovered the elers In the Ethiopian province of coffee berries stimulating effect of when a flock of mrs flso ate a quantity of them and goat that then were taken to Yemen In Arabia, whence the custom of us neglected their proper resL Latet tne coffee was fermented into wine T LAKE'S NEWEST SALT O Our lobby I cooled daring the stun" Radio tor Every Rooi I 200Rooms-200Bat- Hl ' 'ft .... HOTEL Temple Squj Rates Th. llofl j I H phrre.You ulale, tipr.nw'r .t thoroughly (or. uiutrrwn K1XL. lla y l! 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