Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-08-27
mage, Colonel Robert Ingersoll. Hon. John
Kelly, and several others.
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A pleasant drive OF two or three miles
first down the famous California Guch aud
then up the foothills lying about the base
OF Mount Masslve-brings one to Ever
green Lakes, the Coney Island Of Lead
vile. The lakes are three In number, cir
sular, and each about half a mile In diane
ter. They are supplied by never-fsiling
springs OF pure and ice-cold water. and
are stocked with countless numbers OF
specked trout. A large hotel oyerlooks
the lakes, and here again appears one OF
the oddities OF Leadyillo lie. The hotel Is
in two sections. The front part is as quiet
and respectable az one OF the hotels at Min
netonka, and the best people OF Leadvllle
20 there with their families. The view
from the piazza Is one OF the finest In Ape-
rica. The whole Arkansas Valley lies
spread out before you. with tho snow
tipped pesks on either hand. Mount Mas
siye, Mount Lincoln, Yale. Harvard. and
Princeton Peaks, Mount Sheridan, Gray's
Peak, and hundreds OF others less famous,
all over 1900 feet high, are in plain sight.
Across the valley is Leadville. California
Gulch. Orc, Flyers Hill, and right at your
feet are three OF the o,eliest little lakes In
the world. A mau could sit there all day
without turing OF the magniicence OF the
scene.
The other half Of the hotel Is given up to
the revels OF the miner. Accountable
whiskey, horrible music from a squeaky
fiddle and a cracked piano, and immoral
dances and songs compose the order OF eX
ercists, and the refined and pious citizen
or citiZeness, who has gone out TO sit on
the front piazza and commune with nature,
must End 1t hard work with the devil and
all bis works in full blast and ful hearing
Just around the corner. Still, that 10 Lead
vile. and it has 10 be endured. The rear
portion OF the hotel is by far the most prof
liable TO the proprietor, and be seems to
think the straight-laced people IN front
should be glad they are allowed there st all.
1Hs CHARACTER OF L1ADvrLLE.
The visitor to Leadyile who goes there
expecting TO find lawless, mllrderous city
VIII be most agreea5ly disappointed. Lead.
Vile j. much more orderly and law-abiding
nowadays than many portions OF St. Louis,
and there are proportionately fewer arrests
there than in Chicago. A man stands dozen
chances Of being held up, robbed, or muir
dered in Chicago where he stands
one here. The police are a fnoly-or-
gained body Of men, and they do their
duty laithIully. IL Is true that the faro-bank
and the saloon are open at all hours and
on Sunday a. well as week days, and it il
also true that many Of these places are on
the ground floors OF buildings on the prin-
cIpal streets, and open 10 the glze OF the
passer-by, but some way or smother iel-
low gets an idea that this sort OF thing il
better .han the secret bAck-door methods Of
the eastern cities. There Is certainly no
hypocrisy about il; the Scpulchre is not
whtewashod. but lies open with all is foul
ness and uncleanness in full view. He who
walks in can see what he il doing. and il
he comes out second best he has no one to
blame but himself.