The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-04-28
CoIorado-A Summer Resort.
From the Colorado Miner,

From the Colorado Miner.
Those wealthy and fashionable people
of the East, who draw from princely
revenues to pay for regal delights, are
doubtless beginning to discuss i'll their
minds where they shall go to spend the
summer. Probably no country in the
world affords more choice-a greater va
riety of scenery, of climate, of wild, ro-
mantle experience than Colorado, and
here the summer pleasure-seeker, or the
excursionist in search of adventure, may
find his measure of the truest enjoyment.
The most celebrated place of resort, OF
course, is Saratoga, It's pleasant Locations;
the curative properties of tho water its
splendid hotel accommodations, together
with the admirable and enjoyable means
/ of transit which the various lines 81
| railroad and steamboats, afford in reach
ing it in summer, have,all assisted in
stamping Saratoga as the most fashionable
of American watering places 20
These fashionable and aristoeratic re-
sorts-the Long Branches, Niagaras, and
Saratogas--are for the most part mere
parade on muster grounds for pretty
women in pretty toilets. 1t was at Sara
toga that the famous !" Grecian bend, the
most hideous invention Of the age, first
made its appearance. Life at those places
is brilliant holiday Living is exorbi-
family high conversation invariably
frivolous; the promenades are conducted
with all the method and exactness OF
imperial regime the ceremony of a table
d'hote is marked by killing preciseness;
and the parties are always brilliant, the
women are always pretty, the men are
always ugly, and the babies always asleep.
People who go there must pay twenty
five cents to breathe.
What hollow mockery 1t is mys-
terry to us how so many people manage to
pass u whole season in these places where
only the splendor or novelty of dress isl
to be seen. Saratoga, for instance, can
never be more than simple play ground
for capering frivolties. There Is nothing
about the place, when We speak OF natu
raj aad vantages unusually attractive orI
picturesque Even at. Niagara, in the
presence of the Fails a few days sufficcsI
to exhaust the variety of scenery; theI
fashionable ear becomes weary of thel
tumultuous roar of falling waters, and
from thence the visitor huries away.
AS was stated at the commencement
Of this article, Colorado offers to thel
tourist the adventurer, the summer ex
cursionist to whoever shall come, the
greatest variety Of scenery, the grandest
views, the most exciting pleasures, the
purest waters, and the most exhilirating
breezes to be found anywhere between
the place OF sunrise and the region of
sunset. The fact is beginning to bel
pretty generally believed that mountain
air. such as one inhales in Colorado, is
much healthier, for fashionable people
than the sea. breezes of either the far
eastern or far western seaboards Some
people who live in the interior, and who
are strangely constituted, may find the
sea side, and such places Us Newport, the
best adapted to their wants; but for per-
sons who live by the sea, and who sell
dom visit the interior, we should counsel
Colorado and our own Rocky Mountains.
4 few years will suffice to place our Ter
ritory first on the list Of charming summer
resorts. We are surrounded in this
country with all those rare advantages oil
scenery and climate such as have render
ed Switzerland d famous pleasure-gr ground
Hence we hear Colorado spoken of in
books and newspapers as the Switzer
land of America"