Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-05-08
"RUNAwAY" IN COLORADO.
L vsly Times in Denver-An Amusing Incl
dint in the Train.

len EN- O'IoIduos may iofV'
EDITOR EXPRESS: Denver is
booming on the topmost wave of
the Leadville silver sea. Yester-
day there were 43O hotel arrivals;
Tuesday, 397; Monday, 36l; Sun
Gay, 379. And so it has gone on
Tor some weeks, at the rate of near.
Iy 8 600 a week.
Lendvj,Ie is about 140 miles from
here and three railroads are rush
irg tor IT, One of them at least is
sure o reach 1t befoIe many weeks
are over Meanwhilc the journey
Is made part Of the way by rail,
ana he remainder by stage. The
last Atlantic has. by the way, see,
Il lively account of progress thith-
- by . RI n "-Mrs Helen Hunt
J;ckso'., OF Colorado.
Nj e>rryhody gets itch who
o'- j. Y"r..ie, not many solid
fo tone Is made, and the mines are
n,:i s,'ius 10 be exhausted for a long,
l.. z ine IT, co,nn The ore Ia read
il vo.trj, Htd I ew iindiuys are
ro, i',u u heiug made The ore
-'n+iled isto bars Of lead and sill.
vcr ttr'i' are ii'tn s.tt East for
p,i .4t,u Ny friends nf lie Fl st
Na'i"uai Bank Cf this city are p
i,r ut. cir gains by he tens-I
rirb may sal l.. he hundreds
u, ihou-a u~.
Ei",>~- here are ali r"nting and
u-w nurs are building, and u moB-
snr n"tej is jast goihg to be erect
ed. And. while two yrars ago Den.
>r, was dull aud nguishing, now
il is all awake and astir.
At Boulder 1 found also
some signs of awakening life
,hrie Is great confidence in the ul-
limaie future Of the mines there.
which are worked under difficult
ties, and at considerable expense.
My friend. Mr.. Chas. G. Van Fleet,
has recently been elected Mayor of
the city. l was much interested to
see what he has been doing for the
new and struggling Episcopal
Church of the place. Although. /
think, not connected directly with
the organization, he gives them
his light and pleasant hall entirely
free of rent. They have fitted it
up In the simplest manner, with
plain but comfortable bench
es which cost 81 SO apiece,
rude pine boxes covered with
cotton for readi1g-desk and altar,
a movable screen by way of vestry,
and good organ, for which they
pay only $3.50 per month; while by
turning around the benches towards
rough board stage in the rear,
the church is converted into u
theatre for the weekday enter
taipments, which help toward the
IL crease of their finances.
/ think / must regafe your read.
ers with an incident which took
place In our Pullman car tile other
day, which those who were wit
nesses of 1t declared to be quite
good enough for Harpers Drawer.
| won't say precisely when 1t hap
pened, or where; but am very sure
the account of 1t has never appeared
In rrint: The day was Sunday.
| Auc PSioObo VI tuC iibtic uidtuu
were: dapper young Pull.
man conductor; q young lady
somewhat mannishly attired (;
the young lady's aunt, and
the aunps maid. The aunt and
niece have been talking of the day,
how sorry they are to travel on
Sunday, and so on. Shortly after
conductor invites young girl to
a game Of cards. Girl readily con-
sents. and they go forward togeth-
er to an 1noccupied section and sit
down to a game of casino. But af-
ter perhaps half an hour they sud-
denly ,pise and come back with
odd smiles upon their faces. "Do
you know they begin, "do you
know we entirely forgot it was
SundayW "WhatW exclaims the
aunt, "Whatl whyl 60 did Iv'
And with increasing show Of re-
gret and alarm, "Did anybody see
yon?"- 20, of course, everybody,
and they must have thought II
very queer.n And after more ex.
clamations and expressions of re
gret, conductor and damsel retire
to the rear platform 10 weep-ol