Reno : a book of short stories and information . ts lobby is artis- 152 RENO tically and beautifully equipped, as well asall parts of the bank. It is finished entirelyin white marble, with blue velvet hangings,and no luxury or comfort known to a mod-ern bank building has been forgotten in itsconstruction. This bank was built in 1915 by Wingfield at a cost of approximately$200,000. From the North corner comes the can it be that sometimes its emergesfrom the West! Last but not least is the beautiful CourtHouse. It was rebuilt in 1 909 at an approx-imate cost of $150,000. It i
Reno : a book of short stories and information . ts lobby is artis- 152 RENO tically and beautifully equipped, as well asall parts of the bank. It is finished entirelyin white marble, with blue velvet hangings,and no luxury or comfort known to a mod-ern bank building has been forgotten in itsconstruction. This bank was built in 1915 by Wingfield at a cost of approximately$200,000. From the North corner comes the can it be that sometimes its emergesfrom the West! Last but not least is the beautiful CourtHouse. It was rebuilt in 1 909 at an approx-imate cost of $150,000. It is located in avery prominent part of the city, and faces abeautiful little park; a very imposing build-ing with its big golden dome, numerousmarble pillars and broad steps. These stepsmight truly be called the great divide, asmany thousands have tripped up united andreturned divided; which incidentally doesnot mean united we stand, divided we fall. Perhaps much more so: united we fall,divided we stand! As one looks at this palace of Justice one. RENO _153 cannot help conjuring up mental pictures offamous beauties and prominent men, whosestories have furnished headlines for the lead-ing newspapers of our big cities in years goneby; they seem to pass in review; a continu-ous procession ascending the steps in searchof freedom and new happiness .... Through this little city flows the TruckeeRiver, which I think is one of its chief beau-ties. This river is one hundred miles long;flowing out of Lake Tahoe, it empties intoLake Pyramid, a desert lake with no appar-ent outlet. The waters of the Truckee areas clear as crystal, except when they reflectthe rose color of the sunset, or the thousandhues from the mountain peaks when theyturn green and gold, rose and purple: I haveseen them look as though covered with helio-trope velvet, just at the hour between sun-set and moonrise. One can follow the Truckee River fromReno to Lake Tahoe,—a motor run of aboutthree hours, through scenery of
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