White Owl Saloon

Saloons littered¹ Marble Springs’ streets with raucous music and mystery. The White Owl crowned these places. Jake started the White Owl in 1876. When he was injured in a gambling accident, Emmy took over. By turning the White Owl into a train station resthouse and inn, Emmy straddled the line of respectability and held on while all the other saloons dried out from the Silver Panic and the women's vote

The inn lasted until the Mateson sisters’ deaths when a snowslide buried the inn in the winter of 1929².

Footnotes

1. Then
Voices slur into the
night. Pans clatter;
someone tunes a fiddle.
In the forgetting of
things, you found
peace.

2. **Now*
Boards tumble over
each other, tearing at the few
remaining shards of glass
in the window panes,
groping for the fresh cold
sun of winter.

Marble Springs 2.0 screenshot of the White Owl Saloon

Marble Springs 2.0 screenshot of the White Owl Saloon

It's Marriage

Jake Mateson and Mollie Mateson
Bart Morrison and Ruby Mateson
Millie Horner and Pastor Horner
Alison James and Alfred James
Paul Granger and Matilda Granger

It's Family

Jake Mateson and Mollie Mateson had Ruby Mateson and Emmy Mateson

It's Hatred

Alison James¹
Alfred James

Footnotes

1. The Saloon and Politics.
Hand in hand go politics and the saloon. The corner saloon is the recruiting station of the ward boss… To these resorts would be attacted not so much the mother or the society suffragette, but the poor working woman; the woman who often has no home, or little money, and craves excitement.
Wages and the Ballot by Miss Mary Dean Adams.

It's Friends

Griffith and Jake Mateson and Bart Morrison
Bridget O'Shanty and Billie Rose Cattering and Cleo Cat and Emmy Mateson

It's Business

Recovery
Doc Nancy
Maddy Bates

Millinery customers (mostly ostrich feathers)
Ida Jenkins

Jail and most of the customers at the White Owl
Matilda Granger
Paul Granger

The girls at the White Owl
Bridget O'Shanty
Billie Rose Cattering
Cleo Cat
Rebecca Reaver

Crystal River Railroad

It's Complicated

Edna Harris

It’s a secret tearing at the soul

Matthew Cole and Cleo Cat
Paul Granger and Rebecca Reaver
Pastor Horner

It’s a secret growing in the soul

Doc Nancy and Bridget O'Shanty and Billie Rose Cattering and Cleo Cat
Abigail Miller
Washerwoman

It's outside the wall

Graveyard
Church
Fool's Rise

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