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Show THE CITY OF SANTA FE 149 The old palace was not far from three hundred and fifty feet in length and was from twenty to seventy-five feet in width. The portal in front was about fifteen feet in width and ran the entire length of the building, the roof being supported by a row of unhewn pine logs, set at a distance of approximately twelve feet apart. At each end was a small adobe projection, extending a few feet in front of the main portion of the building. On the east end was located the post-office and on the west end was the calabozo.'™ myself to shut was habit city my night after back in the bed-room of the The sixth, executive office proper, and write there till after twelve o’clock. seventh and eighth books were the result, and the room has ever since been to impenetrable The retirement, associated in my mind with the Crucifixion. incoming sound, was as profound as a cavern’s. LEW WALLACE.’’ ‘¢Very respectfully, 101 At the time of the American occupation and for a number of years thereafter the old palace furnished quarters to the officials of the territory. ‘‘The first apartments we come to in going Davis in El Gringo, p. 169, says: the rounds of the palace are the office of the secretary of the territory, which we enter a quaint through little old-fashioned door. office The is divided into two rooms; an inner one, in which the books and records are kept, and where the secretary transacts his official business, and an outer one, used as The latter is divided by a cotton curtain, an ante-room and a store-room. from down hanging the beams above, into two one of which compartments, is stored with the old manuscript records of the territory which have been The stranger will be struck with accumulating for nearly three hundred years. the primitive appearance the roof is supported by a layer of of these ruins; great pine beams, blackened and stained by age; the floors are earthen, and two centuries ago. the wood-work is heavy and rough, and in the style of Passing along under We next visit the chamber of the Legislative Council. midway of the front, and, turnthe portal, we again enter the palace about in the room where ing from a small vestibule to the right, we find ourselves 4 portion of the of wisdom New Mexico annually assembles to make laws. and just large enough The room is a comfortable one, with a good hard floor, to accommodate councilmen the thirteen and the eight officers. The pine occupies president desks are ranged around the wall facing inward, and the with a little red muslin 4 Taised platform at one end, which is ornamented members car- to the walls to prevent the tapery. Figured calico is tacked thing they have no right to do tying away the whitewash on their coats—a is on the opposite executive The law-makers. of capacity their mSide of the passage-way, into which we step, and chamber find his excellency hard at Work. This room is in keeping with the republican simplicity that marks the of the whole establishment. A few chairs, an old sofa and bureau, appearance ae @ pine center table, make up the furniture. Within the last year the indulged in, but before the aduxury of an American-made carpet has been gerga, worth vent of which the floor was covered by a domestic article called overhead for Bleached muslin is tacked to the beams thirty cents per yard. * ceiling, and a strip of flashy calico, about four feet wide, is nailed to the our walls, La Camara de RepresenThis room differs in no about one-half larger, being except amber il-ch particular from the counc of the room by an adobe y bod the from ated separ aving a small gallery tik Next in order essent¢’——the and door is the House of which of Representatives — opens upon the portal. |