Image 3 of Las Vegas morning gazette (Las Vegas, N.M.), December 12, 1880
author: Anonymous
source date: 1880
availability: public_domain

Ls Vegas Daily Gatrtte B STONE y RORflER SO JAFFA BIROTnllERS SUNDAY DIXKMIJEIi 12 1SS0 How Ility Mrrp in feailvlllo n old lamp with i tlhty diipuUil lnk that fitted well with Uio tiling iiround it swung low cuougli above the wak of one of our lonir rrciokcd streets to light the casual iascrby to a gloomy door in a long rickety frame building New York has its teeming tene ments California its swarming Chi nese dens but no such noisome place as this It is one of the cheap lodg ing houses where for a fraction of a dollar the poor prospector and the capitalist whom the disastrous tide has overtaken may sleep alike Death is a great leveler Out it must yield its palm to the cheap lodging house Here all reduced by one common for ttiic mix and mingle here the man who can f crape two bits together knows that he has lengthened his lease of lile for twelve hours more at least for certain death awaits the wretch wha sleeps out in the frozen Lead villo night The traveler who wouid venture in desceuds two stairs and knocks on the door on which the tar