New Orleans Republican., 1873-07-26
Colorado Society.

colorado Letter to the St. Louis Globe.
Society seems to be singularly mixed here.
As in ali newly settled places, part OF the
people consist Of those who. having been
unsuccessful in financial affairs at home,
come here to retrieve their fortunes in what
they have been led to believe is new Edo
RADIO. Many, perhaps most, have come to
seek for lost health. Some are ''ne'er-do-
wells.' whom despairing friends have sent
out in hopes that q purer and clearer at
mosphere and loftier altitude may clear
their moral vision and elevate their aspira-
tions. But a larger proportion than l be-
lieve ever before existed in an entirely new
ly settled place, are persons OF intelligence
and fine education. 1t is not at all uncom-
mon to meet with graduates of not only our
best American colleges, but of English uni
versities also.
Appearances are az deceptive as are the
distances. Our butcher is a graduate of
Yale: one of the gentlemen working IN the
printing Office is q graduate Of Cambridge
and winner of the Bishops medal for pro-
ficiency in the classics; ranchman near
here is a son Of General in the British
army, and a near relative OF George Ste
venson, of railroad fame. Four other
ranchmen are the four sons of former
Governor of Bengal, who is still very
wealthy. Two are the sons of an eminent
London banker. A graduate Of one Of the
universities manages a dairy, and attends
to most Of the milking personally. l said
to an English lady Of culture and refine
ment, friend Of theirs, why IS 1t
that these young men choose to
leave their homes of luxury and ele-
1T is to escape that life that they come
here. They are tired of it. There seems to
them SO little manhood in it," Within their
tents are constant hints of the comforts and
luxuries with which they have heretofore
been surrounded. Elegant dressing-cases,
valuable watches and jewelry, the finest
linen bedding in quantities, damasks OF ex-
quisite quality, while scarcely week
passes that presents from friends testify,
not only to their remembrance, but to their
wealth and liberality. Yet these men lie
down with the stars for their canopy, the
earth for their bed, the mountain wind
for their evening song, with only
. blanket about them. / asked if they
really worked hard. or if it was
the romance of "roughing it," ''They
sought work. said my informant, "they
work. like galley slaves" A great deal OF
English capital has been invested here
which, together with the salubrity Of the
climate and the beauty Of the scenery, has
attracted q very good class from that coun-
try to settle here. Large shares not only in
the railroads, but in lands, are held by their
capitalists. A villa is to be erected at
Manitou Springs this summer for an Eng
lish lord, and an heiress from that country
is just completing a beautiful residence
there. The reputation, as physician, OF
gentleman resident here is such in London
that he was recently paid $4,000 by patient
whom he had Just visited. In riding, last
week, we called at the house of a German
Baron, and found him hoeing in the garden,
and his lady at work in the kitchen. give
these instances to show you the formative
state society is in.