Mr. Anderson went into the saloon business that year, in 1870, on the corner of Front and Pine streets, near what was known in the early days as the Pat Dunphy building. He was there about two years and then removed to the story and half frame building which the Mobleys had erected at Locust and Third, the present site of the Tucker and Farnsworth drug store, for the Independent. The printing office occupied the upper portion of the building and Anderson's parlor for liquid and sometimes turbulent, resfreshment, the lower portion of the building. At that time there was only a couple of buildings on the north side of the town. When he first arrived, the only house was the property originally built by Mrs. Mobley for the printing establishment.

The old Union Pacific eating house was then on the north side of the present Front street, near Pine street, and was operated by James Michelson. After the old U. P. eating house was moved away, another eating house was built further east, down by the depot, which stood east of the present freight depot. In the early 'seventies upon Anderson's venture into the saloon business, he had four competitors, a bar maintained in the Michelson Hote, Kraft's place on the site of the present Commercial State Bank, Bassett's Sample rooms under the Clarendon Hotel, and Cornelius Iver's billiard hall on Third street.

A Dane by the name of Thomsen ran a hotel called the Herman House on Pine street. He was a jolly, good-natured fellow, with a fairly good education. One time he got up a card and threw it around the saloon rather freely. His place was next to John Fonner's livery barn, which went under the title of "American Feed, Livery and Sale Stable." Those were times when so many honesteaders were going through and it was difficult

at times to get a team to take one out of town to look at a piece of land, and resource was generally had to bronchos that Michelson or Fonner might have available. The card which Thomsen distributed read something like this: "When you come to Grand Island you got to go someplace to stop-you just come to the Herman house. And here you get good board and cheap lodgings. When you see what you don't want, just aks for them. Then you want to ride in the country out--John Fonner, next door, he's got some troubles what'll take you out before you start away."

Where the Koehler hotel now stands the old O. K. Store was located. When Anderson first came to town, he says, there was a slough that ran through between Pine and Front, and on Locust street it made a very low place. It is hard for one now seeing the brick buildings that center around Locust and Pine streets, between the railroad and Third streets, to realize that at one time there was a low place on this location. Mr. Anderson opines that a thousand wagon loads of manure, rubber boots, tin cans, and various materials were doubtless filled in there, and when they came to dig cellars, these places were cleaned out and dirt put in around the loles excavated. Where the Glade Mills now stand there was an especially low place. On the alley, on the west side of Locust, between Front and Third streets, a bridge was fixed so when water stood there both sides of the street would not be blocked. The little frame building used by Platt & Thummel has been taken away, and the brick building occupied by the State Bank of Grand Island placed there, but a frame building hauled in during early days and called the Bon Ton Free Mason building still remains on Locust street back of the State Building