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WILLIAM E. CURTIS ON ALBUQUERQUEMetropolis of the Territory is Live and Modern and Supported by Big Area-Thinks the Lumber Mills Are Wonderful.•V WILLIAM c. CURTIS.rvrrmpondew* of mo Chicago Raeerd-MeraM.)Albuquerque. N- M AJbuqnarqu# to • flue totra. amoio Ihe du*' in great activity in »*al afterIt O'riett In iho rooming, when thetriad mihn up and Mow a arrow iho imw. Ii la an amiable and kindly wind, cool and rerrmtnu*. and a hl«» aloe ofttoii cannot M over vailmated Mat It ha. ita drawback.. It Mira up m* top aoll ami thrnwi It lam four face. ajrtM and guetrile Tto dual Bottle* on the nemtncM* ol poot inroai and makes »*ry Cbimty- I »up-poaa lhat l» one meeou why ibmeare an man* ..loop* la Albuquerque. The ni*mt oen*! iroou* and esrenatv* loaa-ikon la III bualoeen dtotriei *««m to tio aeeajUcd nr that Kind ov turn'taw and by aamliliac dana.Miring Hid |ia»t foar or flee roam tlwm hat heeu a remarkable antral reform tbraugboat th» weatwm caan-Irr. particularly In Teaa* and th»northwestern elate#, whtoh aro getting to !« aa atrk-i-aa puritanical, a. no. pe*pl» call it—A* Now Bnglan.l bm -town tbia way everything rtt-matua eld* open. and the waaoa of the workingmen. ih* miner* ahmp herder*. railroad haada. t-lark* and book -keepem am loot utar the aam tiling lahlaa in.i«ad lt;r being deposited In raving# hwnka. The ntty *«• ciaU permit It The moat conaplcttoaa place* upon the pvtaripal «ir«~t of Albuquerque am gwulhllng halla. With bla elwtrln rlgn* and wld opo# doom, and everybody who haa a penny. voting or old. drunk dr aoher, I* alliiwod In play Tbare i* no reatrtettoa. what «*••* A alack of faro chlpa c#a to» purrha*. I at any blt;tur—day or night —aa wily aa a newapapcr or c!*ar. • • •I looked In at throe or four of the principal belto. They wore ailed with men of nil age* nnd nil condition* In Ilia, anting • round roulett* and faio lablna, with their ooaia off. •taninlnn with per* |»l rat Ion and «• eliomani thin would think that th« tnrrehania and other bailneaa men of Altmqunrquu would atop Ihl*. hwaiian It deprive# 'hem of la«llimaw trad*, without m«ard 10 th» moral qnoeUttn involved and iho temptation* lo dla hontat employ ra. It U a staple huat-nee* urotwallJoft. Moat rtf iho money that I* loot in thoao gambling halla would olbcrwtae be ci ponded for fond and doming, or dnpoalted In lha banka. The keeper o| ono of thnm, I am 'old. rank* anno:* the rlrhear men In the town and la on* of the la; goat teal milnte hold**-*.Thin problem haa been perpietlna otter town* beaks** Albuqunrque, and In Teaa* and tba nomiwaaiern atatea. aa I hm* aald. the people have at laat come *o ih- conclueiou that “wide Opofl” low: do not pay. I uiaq a gun* Inman tr.un tbtadwood the Other 'Ml. who told me that all tb« aamb.itig den# ibnr* have i.**a ahnt up. and that now, afthr thirty r*ar» of unieatrined play. fieadwood to a Olnaed town. Not «»en a Blot m* chin-; nor oan of ibo*« antomalln WMi that you ran air In every uar room and rlaar ••'te dowq her*, to allnw.it. and the po.wc b/o watching Ifac llolala fur prlrale gaiueg Of |iok*r.fVr a quartiir 01 a century Uneu-wood ha*t iho larpeac and boat o«»n dn.ted aarab.iBg r.»m* In the enuu try ft had been a amkll Mfmla Carlo, i rivery gam. am* wide open and them vrert right nr ten liouae* imtrunit-d hy different Claaar* of |Kto|tle. which I paid Humana to [hr cittf. The munlrl imy (rivemmaai *t itrmclleeHy tup-poned hy the gamhlera and iho ea-l kam.. ||tr rttvonii» Imtn thoae awn beiu* net*, run III .(toff and lin.ooo ai yoar Uy IrtMid toll* mr tbai between a»e«at and eighty profo.ekmal gam-liloiv WO H oniployni| In ihtjao eetab-itohmeat* 10 run in* tamo*, and lltai the combined way mil* amounti-ff la lanaoon lir.nuo and IlS.bbO a monib. Mi« b«w ovarythiog I* eloand tlghi, and it was dono by a nsramtttee uf eilhRM, ebo raiue lo tho eaat-HMtoa that gauililliig waa a bad thing for tba tuwa. for a long time the cnnimry opinion prevailed. It waa bu'.Jerad to bo a eieid thiag tn bavw tu- gamtdlng h imw op*.n Pwoplc ibought It made thing, lively and attracted mcmoy and Irartu to Ibe town. Thai la Iho atory Ibey mil you tn Albuquerque. Tou beer lh« aam talo In ev-ry wide ofmn town. At Muakogoe, I. T.. aetaral pM.pla mat the fMohiWtlonmguiatlun* mu killing the town. Tb# [rttukto ot OeadwntHl. huwevor. iwom to a differwat coucloaloa. and now ihe men haute eipeet that much of ihe mann will I, fnreiwrty wem oaor the gamtding taMe* qrtil go otor their RNaMti Inateed.
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Albuquerque Weekly Citizen
Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Sat, Aug 12, 1905
Page 8
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Elon U.
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