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...grey day, while Santa Fe's celebrants slept, a little group of mourners gathered in the yellow old Denver and Rio Grande Western depot to watch the train pull out. It was the last run of the "Chili Line" and the end of the D.&R.G.W.'s famous track-the narrow-gauge line from Santa Fe, 125 miles to Antonito, Colo...
Much of the freight it hauled was chili peppers. That was how it got its name. But when busses and trucks began to compete, business on the Chili dwindled. Offi cials of the D.&R.G.W. asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to abandon the line. Permission was granted, and last week the mourners gath ered, and wreckers moved in to "roll up" the track...
...wired for sound. Inspired to take to the air by a broadcast of Alexander Woollcott, he arranged his sportscasts in a pattern as intricate as that of the Town Crier, substituted whipcord for Woollcott's lace. His first sponsor was the proprietor of a chain of chili joints, whose clientele listened with stunned admiration to his high-class composition. From his chili sponsor Baiter got $10 a broadcast, zoomed into the big money within a year...
...Mayor Maury Maverick solemnly advised a group of local respectables that they were violating the law by banqueting out-of-doors. If he and they could break the law, Maury Maverick went on to say, why not let the Hay Market Mexicans do the same? He promptly invited the "Chili Queens" to return. This did him no harm with the thousands of Texas Mexicans who are now his stanchest supporters...
...night last week the Mayor and his attractive wife went down to Hay Market Plaza, bought 15? portions of tamales, enchiladas, chili, tortillas and hot sauce. Guitar-playing troubadors in flaring red ties strummed and hummed La Cucaracha, La Golondrina, El Rancho Grande, and the resurrected Queens (aged 17 to 70) did a booming business at their red and green tables on the Plaza. There was one innovation. Mayor Maverick insisted that the Queens be clean...