Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1881 — Durango’s First Baby. [ARTICLE]

Durango’s First Baby.

Miss Una C. Pearson, iaftint daughter of John and Elia Pearson, bean her honon gracefully of being the first child bom in Durango. The happy event occurred on Monday, January 81, 1881. We have noticed an unusual number of people going in the direction of the young lady’s domicile for a few days past—frontiersmen who probably had not seen an infent for twenty yean; old minen who would pot with their last nugget for a glimpse of the fragile bit of humanity; prominent business men, teamsters, doctors, lawyere and women, all wended their way to se the new arrival. One old miner from Silverton presented the little curiosity with aMg of gold dust; McFadden ft Son gave a deed for a town lot on Second street; Mr. Lnttrell followed suit with a corner lot on the boulevard ; Mr. Creek sent over four tons of coal; Newman, Cheetnut ft Stevens made the little one’s heart glad with a dozen bottles of soothing syrup, and John Taylor, ir., followed with a soft hair-brush, while Griffin ft Carpenter sent in a rubber ring and a box of safety pins. Mr. ana Mrs. Diamond gave the baby their little “cross dog” Prince, to play with when she gets old enough. Robertson and Rowley, as soon as they heard the news, went to work making a baby carriage. Ed Rchiffer wanted to give away his baby steam engine, but it makes such a racket that it- would keep the little one awake, so, Instead, he presented a receipt for a poet office box. The Record put her name down for a year’s subscription to the daily and weekly, gratis. Finch, of the “Nose Paint,” thought his goods were too strong, so he bought a powder-box as his offering, for face paint. Dr. Co wen, of the Windsor, gave a box of toothpicks—that's about as much as a bachelor knows about babies. Baldwin, the shoe-maker, tried Jto take her measure for a pair of shoes, but his lasts were all to small. Justice Flagler and Craig and ex-Jus-tice DeMattos, of Leadville, made a call in a body and took depositions that she was really the first born. Mr. Eldridge, of Leadville, presented a quilt. Myers, (another old' bachelor) of Myers ft West, brought up a pony with a side-saddle on for tne young lady to take a ride. Other and various things, to numerous to mention, were offered at the slirineof the first-born, and take it all in all, no other baby ever received such a rousing welcome as this one in the “glorious climate of Durango.”