Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-12-02
THE INDIANA ECHO.
Scenes About Santa Fe as Pictured by
the Editor of H0sier state
journal.

The Marion, Ind, Leader, whose edito
vas one the excursion party recently en-
tertained here, says:
Until the time came for us to leav,
Santa Fe with all its cha rms, We had no
realized how near a close our tour O
inspection had reached. But as the
shades OF evening began to gather at the
close OF that beautiful, and to us, long tC
be remembered Sabbath day, and we re-
membered that there was before us only
one more stop in this wonderland, il
seemed at once that we had almost set
out for home; and we began to conjecture
whether or not, after all, we had failed tC
nal ke the most of this magnificent oppor-
| tunlty.
Supper being over, we were borne in
carriages to our coaches; and there
through the flying hours of the evening,
we unused in retrospect over the scenes
of the day and the events of our jour
ney. There at our feet lay the peace
ful, happy city, yet representing the
aggregated spirit of energy and thrift
about us famed the breezes rich, rare
and bracing, still laden with the breath
Of the vast flower gardens and fruit
orchards. There still stood, specterllke,
the walls of the Oldest structure reared by
the hand OF civilization IN America,
There was the Spanish adobe, American
lied and utilized by men of thought and
action.
There was at once the newest and the
oldest part OF the United States, each in
a strange struggle to prove the lode-stone
that should attract q share OF the
teeming popuace of newer parts Of
the land, which by the turn of events
had become the older parts. On
the one hand, for 500 years the treasures
OF this favored land had been known to
the world, and yet there we were learning
the Il c of the same lesson. Before our
eyes were the scenes Of great battles the
chosen Citadels of race lost to history,
or known only in the curious relics that
have detied the touch OF time. And yet
there stood the adobe palace in which
Gen. Lew Wallace sat and wrote his Won
derful book, "BensHur," which to day is
fresh upon the shelves of the scholars
libraries of the world. We had rambled
through the halls Of that building and
promenaded along It's piazza; we had rest
ed a while in the very room where Ben
Ilur was given to the world, and there
strained 10 catch the inspiration that
proved the touch-stone Of tie work. In
strange contrast with the adobe palace,
hard by rose the stately walls of the terri
torial "Capitol' building, Of modern archl-
lecture and workmanship.
We had been received and chaperoned
during the day by committee of gentle
men who plainly showed that they were
not only gentlemen of culture, but men
who had had the experience in life nee
essary to place them at the van of all that
pertains to modern civilization and gener-
GUS American citizenship.
During the day We had had the pleasure
of spending half day in buggy in COM
pany with General Hobart, the surveyor
general of the territory of New Mexico.
This proved one of the most interesting
and instructive associations that occurred
during cur trip. In another, and closing
article We will give our readers some OF