New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-18

stones So you feel with your petty caravan OF car
r,aeo and team with the red rocks looking downno,
not at you-but out upon the vssness OF the plains
said that Nature had contrved these wonders with
seeming view to their accessibility Loi mere Is another
welldefned gateway There is great notch In the
red sandstone and massy abutinents stand on either
hand with n Massage as smooth as floor between. IL
ia the "Beautiul Gate" though confess think the
name poorly chosen as suggesting some one Oh the
puuy, hinged, bronze things when mems hahds nave
mde Through this opening Is the OF the
Garden of the Gods" 1t is fantastic realm OF strange
slapes There are obellsks, dvans' monuments sem
bances OF heather images, gigantic mushrooms seals,
lizards perforated battlemens, ETC. They stand on
,rv h. md betweeu you and the red walls which shut
,bem in IL is useless to attempt minute description
here III the reader should wish 10 complete MS lie by
visit here he will thank neither us nor the mutitud
nous Guide books for attempting description OF what is
we'll nigh indescribable In one place STANDS column
which seems TO have been In q glSanuc lathe ana
sbaped into a baustrade. so near the road that you
must drive in its shadow huge pyramid as large as an
od,narv bouse stands upon its smaller end with its
maze I'm the air The foundation contains not more than
four souare feet You hurry by. and are again inclined
70 ask your companion TO hold the reins While You go
and overturn the dangerous trap IL leans llttle you
nereeye and is liable 10 crush tourist In the course OF
time But you pass thousands have passed before
Won. rejecting that 1t has been IN that position
prODaDo tnOusdnu isfVi ~ ~ "''' ~ ~ ''"J
people must look out
what produced these fantastic shapesf What placed
these thousand-ton nodues along the edges of the cliffs
like knobs upon balustradef The man who invented
the sand blast can tell you for 1t was by his process that
IL was DONE And the sandaden wind will 90 on carv-
ing knobs and shapes while there are alternate layers OF
hard and soft rock until there Is no material left and all
will fall down together, mere bouders and red sand
LIFE AT MASTToU
w., drva nm milo throuRh the garden and the
flaming Foptaine and presently through the trees you
see long white hotel This is Manitou. named from
spring so called the locality OF the celebrated waters
The long yerandah ia crowded with loterers and there
il futter OF femnnity upon the rustic bridges and
winding paths. Beyond the house there Is huge
boulder in the midst of he oaming stream which serves
as pier for slender bridge and also beside it is the
most pleasant and beautiful OF these famous springs
This ia " the fountain which bols" from which tho
stream takes its It Is cold but 1t seems to be
scalding hot 1t comes seething up in crystal purity,
and you think there ought to be water enough
10 turn a mill. But the stream which
trickles over the edge IS small as IL
falls into the creek below Even the wanderers over
heated pavements are acquainted with its kind well
enough 1t is soda-water, lacking only the srup.
There was never a harmless thing noisy only
tumberfu OF It. 1t is pleasant TO the TASTE and the
one Just beyond 1t has still another recipe for It's mixing
and ia unlike it, There are all told, each differing
from the rest in temperature and taste yet all close
together. We sightseeing only and viii not enter
into medical and chemical dissertations. IL ia well
understood by old drinkers that Saratoga has ormda
bio rival here and then that famous waterngplsce has
not the solemn front of Pixies Peak beside IT, nor uie
Pass with its steep walls and deep gorge aud balsamc
odors and foamng cascades. behind It.
The visitor may think he will find frontiersmen ana
frontier life here but he will be in some measure dsap
pointed The dashing young lady is here running her
complexion, kdded and 1Ounced and pannered Dreak-
inc heart now and then among the rocks. and staring
at newcomers in the long dinng-hall. Dundreary Is
here with the painful pebble in the same left eve The
brokepdown editor is here, Tuning around after the
mails and daily papers usual and gaining rest ana
redness almost against nature and in spite OF himself
Yon man with the muttonchop whiskers is John Buil
inevitably and your hear him say to the waiter al tea
" Mush avn mlk-aw, wat is that T. the niue NAN
with the ugly venuatlng hat and an awiuiiy DUBIOUS
nose Russian, you are told, and savant mere
the young lady whom you yesterday in the deep
and among the pines and ferns Of Cheyenne
Canon and as she stood upon boulder in mdforrent
and looked up up up at the snow-born HOOD winch lay
like floating vail of lace against the rock, you hearu
her say, lspngly "This ia finer than Montmorencl"
with her white hand against 800 feet OF
sheer rock. and dark pool at her feet, whose foam
never knew sunlight
CHEYENNE CANON.
On all hands in hooks and corners, among the pnes'
and far up Ute Pass the tents OF heathseekers VINO
would avoid the hotel crowd. They come impng to the
foaming springs free TO ALL and carry the waters
in pals and bottles those who cannot come There is
much health in pine odors and mountain shadows, ana
GOODNESS and rest II they find not what they diligently
in the waters alone they do in these Others Here
too is John Chinaman not in the character Of invalid
but of universal laundress He is shrewd in
dustrious and not at all ill-looking. With all they
say of his rateating proclyiucs, John Is kind OF
heather gentleman. Sometimes he dscards Chinese
babiments and in Christian fashion, aud then 1t
is matter OF remark that he dresses WELL Nobody ever
oanght John in q red green neck-tie But as
YOU see him. he is everasngy ironing, and artistcay
squirting water over shirt bosoms from mouthful
which he has convenient.
CHEYENNE Canon ia but four miles from here. I have
already limited at what may be found there. 1t Is
gorge where one cannot help the impression
that when tho world was created the brittle crust
cracked and opened here While the great walls almost
shut out the sun either hand 1t is full OF pines and
silyereafed fir and thousand ferns and flowers. Three
fourths of a mile from the mouth the fals-seven
cascades one above the other Only three of them are
visible from below but tried 10 cast stone 10 the top
OF those three and ANONYMOUSLY failed. day in this
wild retreat beside this rushing torrent amid shadows
and odors and flowers, Is worth journey across the
plains. DEANE MoNAHAs.
LONG BRANCH.
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