Prescott High School - Hassayamper Yearbook (Prescott, AZ)

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very low at all seasons, giving zest to study, which, no doubt, accounts in part for the high intellectual standard maintained by the pupils of the Prescott schools. C hurch life is active in this city, there being seven well- appointed and commodious houses of worship, with pulpits regularly supplied by pastors of unusual ability. A fine Car- negie Library, replete with books on every subject, is one of the metropolitan features of Prescott. Among the civic institutions, The Prescott Chamber of Commerce, having an active membership of 230. deserves es- pecial mention. I he '1 avapai C lub, devoted to the housing and entertainment of its 200 resident and non-resident members, occupies one of the finest buildings in Arizona. Club life among the women is well exemplified in the Monday Club, which takes a vital interest in every phase of civic and social progress and which would be a credit to any city of ten times the size of Prescott. Projects now in train, the purpose of which is the building up of the city and the county of Yavapai, will undoubtedly be the means of doubling the present population of Prescott, before 1915 and making it. more than ever. “The Place To Live.” PUBLIC LIBRARY. PRESCOTT. ARIZONA

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PRESCOTT RESCOTT WAS the first permanent Ameri- can settlement in the Territory of Arizona, having been established in 1862. When Arizona became a political subdi- vision under United States jurisdiction, the seat of government was removed to this city, February, 1864. Following the founding of Whipple Bar- racks, a military post just outside the present corporate limit of the city, the settlement grew very fast: so that by 1871, it had become the commercial center for the northern part of the Territory. Tt has maintained this prestige, growing more and more as the years passed, until, today, its prominent men are the representative citizens of the Southwest, not only in the learned professions, but in every walk of life. In 1900. a disastrous fire swept the city, destroying a large portion of the business community and necessitating the entire rehabilitation of the mercantile quarter. The reconstruction has been carried out with an idea of architectural harmonv and beauty, which gives Prescott unqualified prestige as the most ornate and substantial business community, for a citv of its size, 6,000, on the American continent. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war. in 1898. Prescott was the first city in the Great Southwest to furnish its cpiota toward the formation of the historic “Rough Riders, placing in charge as its captain. Willnm O. O’Neill, then major, and affectionately known as “Buckey” O’Neill, who died a hero in the engagement before San Juan Hill, and whose life-size equestrian statue in bronze in the plaza is one of the characteristic sights of the citv. Next to its situation, surmounting the very heart of the so-called '‘arid region, at an altitude of 5347 feet. Prescott’s climate is its chief lure. Nestled among mountains on all sides, in a thickly-wooded pine belt, it is insured against severe sand-storms, so prevalent in lower altitudes and protected to a very large extent from winds. The water supply, coming from living mountain springs twenty miles distant, is marked by clear, healthful and pleasing to the taste and has been pronounced pure bv the Government Chemist at Washington. The climate of Prescott is ideal. At all seasons of the year, the temperature is pleasant. July and August, the hot- test months, are thoroughly enjoyable, a blanket being re- quisite every night, while the winter days are delightfully mild, bright and sunny. The relative degree of humidity is

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Senior Photos and Quotations WILLIAM GLAE PAUL. Born Xov. 14, 1893. Peru, Indiana. Better men than I may have live'1 but I doubt it. IRENE HELSA. Born January 3, 1893, Tama, Iowa. Tis true that she is much inclined, to chin and talk with all mankind.” HAROLD FARLEY ELLIOTT. Born June 17, 1892, Durango, Colo. He loves its gentle warble, He loves its gentle flow, He loves to wind his tongue up, And he loves to hear it go.” ROW EXA ISABEL DEMING. Born Dec. 16, 1892, Swartswood, Xew Jersey. Love seldom haunts the heart where learning lies. '3