New-York tribune., 1873-07-26
COLORADO SPRINGS.

A WATERING PLACE FOR RAILROAD MEN-PBoM-
NFNT OFFICIALS NOW THERE 90 MAGNIFICENT
SCENERY AND BRACING AIR.
lFROM An OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIDUSEl
COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, July 1j.-l write
from new watering place, which this year has reached
an unexpected popularity and Importance. II has col
eced through the information disseminated by Senator
Scott Professor Porter w D. Kelley, Dr. Pancoast, and
others who visited last year. number " that class OF
halfinvaIiis which our peculiar mode OF life produces
in considerable numbers-thOse who suffer from over
worked brains, and who through the management II
many and weighty ahrs have found their nervous ell
erges exhausted. To this class belong large number
Of our railway managers and prominent politicians.
Following the lead Of the above well known gentlemen,
there are now collected in this beautiful valley at an
elevation OF over thousand feet higher than the
top Of Mount Washington, number of prominent mon,
who with their families and friends form teupo'
rary community Of marked interest. As yOu look
around the dnngroom Of the principal hotel the Mani
tou House. you see table occupied by j. Edgar
Thomson and family accompanied by several gentlemen
and ladies from Philadelphia, and three English ladies'
two Of them the daughters OF the London banker Gead
A. Smith At the next table Is senator Norton with his
family and several Indiana ladies; also Judge Newman
and family OF indianapolis Near by sit s. NJ. FELTON,,
President CT the Philadelphia and Baltimore Railroad
Co,opany and broherOf President FELTON, Of Cambridge,
and family. with q party Of fifteen who have come
through like President Thomson from the seaboard IN
special car At a neghborlng table is Judge Jewitt
formerly President OF the Pan Handle Railway, with his
family; near this party Samuel j. Lewis, Auditor OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad with his family. While at
the table just vacated by Mr. Whelan, q prominent
philadelphia banker, and family, sit newly-arrlyed
party consisting OF Messrs. Stevens and Parsons,
managers Of the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway,
with families and friends Scattered the room are
other gentlemen known in the railway world, among
whom are Gen. w. ]. Palmer President OF the Denver
and Rio Grande Railway; Robert H. SambOrn, Wee
President OF the same company; Mr.. North. former
attorney Cf the Hudson River; Robert i, Carr Presi-
dent and John d. Perry exPresdent Of the Kansas Pa
ciac; E. sickles Superintendent and Chief Engineer
OF the Union Pacific Railroad, and number OF less
prominent officials.
The bracing atmosphere the health-giying
mineral springs, the magnificent scenery the ad-
mirabe roads, aud the exhiaratng and inspiring sun-
shine with cool nights and the absence Of annoying
,nusketoes and flies, combine TO keep those who
come in nearly all cases, longer than their plans
proposed. Senator Morton is generally believed
20 be investigating the question OF the admis-
sion OF the Territory into the Union, while the
the railway magnates hold daily circles upon the
porches while their daughters dance and nlrt in the
parlors. Sometimes party OF young men set out or
return from the top OF Pixies Peak TO which point II to
90 persons ascend daily. Sometimes riding party goes
galoping by sup in the Garden OF the Gods Chey-
enne Canon, or Monument Park. Sometimes the
young ladies give amateur tableaux; sometimes MIS-
Greatorex and her daughters bring the old swtzer'
land tO the new with their yode and their zthern
or friends with gmpses OF the sketches OF the
neghborng scenery that they are preparing for an
other volume like that they have already published OF
the Oberammergau Valley. Grace Greenwood has pur-
chased a lot near the ManitOu House, and Is already
having plans drawn for IL by local architect Fremont
found this valley one OF the most beautiful be saw
during all his Western rambles. Hayden who is now
with his various parties here cOnsiders u geolOgl,
cally one Of the most interesting. Porter botanzed
here last year with unusual interest and Lesquereu1
studied It's fossil plants Leidy ana Cope are
both on their way Cope Is now In Denver
10 collect archaeological specimens In the neighDOt-
hood. one finds peripatetic photographers IN every
sheltered valley, aud accompanied with splendid
ouf 10 the top OF Pixies Peak, last week. where Tor the
first time grand panorama OF mountains seen from
that pOint feet hb) secured Tor the lower
world. All the hotels and boarding houses, 10 OF ~ III
nnmber are full 1870 horses kept IN constant use
from the ueigbOrng livery stables, aud not less Than 20
tents are pitched along the streams near the oOnng
s,rinps Two years ago tents were the only shelter 10
be had since then The narrow gauge railway has cen
hut The Town Colorado Springs with It's iOJ people,
has ceu created and all the life that have told VI In
this letter has cOlDG ~ suppant the solitude.