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DYER & DANIELS
—Successors to—
T .a nFta in dfc? Sons,
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prices in our line before purchasing elsewhere.
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such prices as enables us to offer big bargains in the line of
CROCKERY
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keep them, with new goods coming in. We carry the
choicest and newest productions of the leading factories of
the world. Our stock of high grade and medium class
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DYER <£ DANIELS,
236 Eioad. Street.
COIN WHEN A BOOMER
. W. H. HARVEY’S ATTEMPT TO MAKE
PUEBLO A METROPOLIS.
Sow He Tried to Boom City and Suburban
Real Estate In Colorado —His Mardi
Gras Festival and Mineral Palace—His
Advertising Methods.
It has only recently dawned upon the
minds of the residents of ‘ Pueblo that
W. H. Harvey, author of “Coin’s Fi
nancial School,” once lived there. It is
hard for the old timers to believe that
the real estate boomer who turned this
quiet town topsy turvy for a time is the
author of the book which has become
famous.
Harvey made his headquarters at the
Grand hotel and kept his office in his
hat most of the time. He went with the
first overflow of Kansas real estate
boomers who had swung things so
briskly in Kansas City, Wichita and
later in interior Kansas towns. Harvey
Wanted a fund of money subscribed to
defray the expenses of two boom wri
ters, whom he proposed to send into the
eastern states with pasters, billboard
literature and ready made interviews
for unsuspecting newspapers to publish,
and by these several means to advertise
the merits of the great future metropo
lis of the Rocky mountain district. He
secured a fund of $50,000 for his pur
pose, and the missionaries started off.
A brass band and a street parade sig
naled their departure. They stuck thou
sands of blue pasters bearing the word
“Pueblo” upon freight cars, hotel reg
isters, sidewalks and even upon vehicles
Standing in the streets. They pasted big
Sheets upon baro walls, distributed
boom editions of the local papers and
ocnpsionally managed to be interviewed.
They were heard of in several eastern
cities, but it was not observed that the
influx of strangers seeking Pueblo real
estate was materially augmented by the
missionary scheme.
Meanwhile Harvey had secured pos
sessiqu of a great tract of adobe uplands
several miles east of the city, worthless
as grazing or farming land, but valua
ble as a basis for boom real estate pur
poses. The land was marketable at
about $3 an acre when he made his first
payment upon it He had the ground
plotted, and beautiful charts were
printed showing how delightful it would
be as suburban property when improved.
He let contracts for landscape garden
ing, had a boulevard built leading from
the city to the land and several natural
alkali,sinks he had designed as pretty
lakes. Next ho built a hotel to occupy
v the center of his suburban residence
quarter. This edifice was constructed of
brick and stone, with wide verandas and
beautiful gables and turrets.
Harvey succeeded in selling a great
number of lots at SSO apiece tn eastern
buyers through mail correspondence.
But when the boom was up nothing re
mained but the beautiful hotel, which
stands today out among the bleak and
barren hills just as far as ever from
town. X
During the boom Harvey interested
the Pueblo citizens in another project.
He argued that the Mardi Gras festivi
ties in New Orleans and the Veiled
Prophet’s parade in St. Louis brought
annually thousands of dollars into those
cities from visitors, and that were Pue
blo to inaugurate the same plan the
city would be beautifully advertised.
Mass meetings were held to consider the
subject, and there Harvey made his first
attempts at public debating. The Pue
blo citizens contributed quite liberally,
leaving to Harvey and his returned mis
sionary boom writers all the details of i
the affair. Excursion trains were planned
to run from Chicago, St. Louis, Denver
and San Francisco, beautiful litho
graphed posters were printed, magnifi
cent floats were suggested, and the citi
zens declared a holiday week for the
event.
Somehow the eastern people were not
hungry for Mardi Gras festivals, and
the excursions from without the state
failed to materialize. Harvey found in
Denver a “King Rex” and a “Queen
Rex” who appeared with a retinue of
servants late one evening in great mys
tery at the principal hotel of that city.
“What does all this foolishness mean?”
was asked, but Harvey said: “Mystery
is desirable, my boy. Keep your eye on
us. ” ,
For two days “King Rex” and
“Queen Rex” lived like real monarchs
in Denver, their expensive retinue of
servants eating rapidly into the subscrip
tion fund furnished by the people of
Pueblo. Then the special train went to
Pueblo with the ruler of the carnival
and people who had received free passes.
Arriving in the city, a street parade was
formed, but the floats failed to material
ize, and all that appeared was a string
of delivery wagons of local merchants.
The night pageant proved a still greater
failure. “King Rex,” now seriously in
disposed by his several days of revelry,
had to be held steady upon his triumphal
car, and the wicked driver toward the
end of the procession turned down a dark
alley, unhitched his horses and drove
off, leaving “King Rex” slumbering )
peacefully upon his high perch. What :
became of “Queen Rex” no one ever *
knew.
This fiasco disgusted the citizens and j
reduced their faith in Harvey. His sub- ;
sequent magnificent conceptions were ■
frowned upon with one exception. Har- i
vey conceived that an exposition of some
kind would be a clever advertising plan ■
for the city to adopt, and as the “pal- j
ace” idea’ was abroad in the west he j
wanted one for Pueblo. Sioux City had
done well with its corn palace, Fort j
Worth with its cotton palace had been a i
financial success, and he believed a min
eral palace ought to go in Colorado.
This plan met with general approval. A
company was formed, and the palace
was erected in the midst of a luxurious
growth of sago brush iu an unimproved
part of the city. The structure still
stands, and is admired by the visitors
who occasionally go out to inspect its
treasures. —New York Suu.
THE ROME TRIBUNE. THURSDAY. JUNE 20. 1895
THEYDEALL...... M.S
GREWSOME ORDER BANDED TOGETH
ER AS “CEPHALISTS. ’
Members Will Tbeir Skulls to the Organ
ization—Have Catacombs For Heads.
Mvsterions R tes In a Cavern-
The Cephalists is a secret society
which is bound to get ahead. Dr fact,
the society has several heads now, its
aim being to collect them after the orig
inal owners have ,no further use for
them.
The Cephalists, since, they were or
ganized, have used all endeavors to keep
the peculiar nature of their organization
a dead secret, and it is only after a
great deal of hard work that we are en
abled to tell some of their doings. There
are still many mysteries and strange
rites, which will never be known except
to members.
Th© society is not composed of cranks,
but of level headed citizens, nearly all
of them well known in business circles
in New York and Brooklyn. Their meet
ings are held in a cavern somewhere
near Bay Ridge, N. Y. The emblem of
the society is a skull and crossbones, and
the object of the society is to keep in
trust the skulls of men of their kind.
The society thinks it a shame to bury a
real nice, finely shaped skull in the
ground or to have it cremated and think
the proper thing is to preserve it in their
cave, where it can be admired for all
time.
The members meet twice a month in
the cavern, generally on Sundays, and
when all are assembled the “Skull
Song” is sung.
The members of the society claim
that they are philosophers. They say
that skulls have been promised them
from all over the world, and while
their collection is very small at .present
they expect to have a fine collection as
the years roll by and skulls roll in.
Every member who joins must sign a'
blank, the following being a copy :
KwV.-jk -. ...ISO..
I hereby. redeem luy prarise ar.J cedes my
skull to tht) above tmd their claim
prior to any other Err.'.igcuient.
Signature ......
Witness
A reporter met Diogenes Krueder at
his residence in Eighty-first street i-.nd
asked him if he would throw some light
on the Cephalists.
“Whatl” he exclaimed. “How did
you find out anything about it?”
The reporter did not inform him, but
said, “Is it true that you collect the
skulls of members after they are through
with them?”
“It is true. ”
‘ ‘ How do you get them ?’ ’
“Well, when a member dies, wo have
i his head cut off. ’ ’
“This must be rather trying on the
nerves of the members of the deceased’s
family, is it not?”
I “Oh, yas, but we try not to let them
! know it. You see, each skull is willed
-to us. A man has a right to leave his
skull to whom he pleases. ”
“Who cuts off the heads?” •
“That I cannot tell you. ”
“When the head has been cut off,
who prepares it for the showcase in the
cavern?”
“That I must decline to answer also.
If you want to learn all our secrets, join
the society and will us your skull. ”
“How many members have you?”
“About 45. ”
“Are you trying to get up a corner on
skulls or form a small trust?”
“No. Wo think it a shame to have
the skulls of cur friends destroyed, and
so preservo them to' remember thevLe
parted. ’'
“Is it true that you drink out of
them ?’ ’
“ Yes. ”
“How are the skull collections now?”
“Well, there are not many coming in,
but 1 am not going to tell you any
more. 1 have sworn not to reveal any of
the great secrets, and I will not. You
must join us if you want to learn more. ”
It is said that the society is anxious to
get a member of the name of Skully, so
as to make him a high official. No ini
tiation fee is required, everything being
run on the deadhead principle, and in
spite of the grewsome surroundings the
meetings of the society are said to be
very cheerful affairs.
“Brahma” Max Schroff, the secretary
of the society, sent the following com
munication, which speaks for itself:
To the Editor of The Recorder:
I find an article m your paper today under
the heading, “They Deal In Skulls,” which
misrepresents our society in several vital
points. Whoever your informant may have
been, if one of our members ho will be sum
marily dealt with. I hereby ask you publicly to
retract those points that give a wrong iinpres
sion. which are: That we are not a secret so
ciety; that we do not meet Sundays; that we
need not claim being philosophers, as we are
philosophers and 16,000 strong; that we are
looking for no man named fikully, since we
only accept full grown skulls (not skullies)
that posse <1 sound brair.s.in life, and finally
that we do not “deal in skulls.”
If you are pot willing to correct these will
ful misstatements, I hereby, in the name of
our high tribunal, publicly challenge you to
mortal combat, in which event the society
feels certain of getting your skull. Yours
truly. Max Schroff, Secretary.
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