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DYER & DANIELS —Successors to— T .a nFta in dfc? Sons, We make our best bow to the crockery buyers of Rome and vicinity a:.d request you to write or call on us for prices in our line before purchasing elsewhere. We nave purchased the stock of Lanham & Sons at such prices as enables us to offer big bargains in the line of CROCKERY Glassware, Tinware, Stoves, Etc. We must have room. Have more goods than space to 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 goods is the largest and best selected in North Georgia We mean business when we say that we will sell you goods cheaper than any other house, and a cordial invita tion is extended to every one to call on us and look through our extensive stock. OUR WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT will be kept up to a high standard. 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. Scrofula I Miss Della Stevens, of Boston, Mass.,-1 sg writes: I have always suffered from hereditary Scrofula, for which I tried I ; various remedies, and many reliable ) S physicians, but none relieved me. After ) S taking 6 bottles Os I Ss lam now well. 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