The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-09
DENVER is A BIG CITY.
But it Didn't Appeal to this Eastern
Man.
IN SPITE OF ITS MOUNTAINS
II Has Lots of scenery and Big ana Costly
Buildings and the Best Street Cars
Going, But lie Likes IL Best IA Good
Distance Away.
What is Denver (!

"A city larger tnHu IrONlueHCe anu ulucn
more conveniently laid out There is a
/ l~rfect checker board arrangement of the
! cross streets and queer way of number
/ ing houses so that one gets the impression
that there are thousands more houses IN
/ the city than there really are. Every
| block on every street is numbered within
one hundred; that is, the first block begins
( with 100 and runs as far up as IL caii--
there may be ten houses in the block. but
the next block begins with 200 and with "a
! bang. so that there is no occasion TO burn
bunch of matches in looking for No. 35l
on the next corner If the last house in the
/ last block is No. $50. The next number is
/ 400.
Ninety nine one hundredths of the
| houses in Denver are of brick and the
hearts of the owners are of adamant--that
is If the owners are not the occupants, for
rents are frightfully high.
The cost of "a wooden house is so much
greater than one Of brick, on account of
the high freight rates, that brick of the
homemade variety, and good bricks, are
used even for the houses OF the artisans
and day laborers.
Lnmberg There are not trees enough in
Denver to make lumber for "a hen-house.
OF course there are shade trees that thrifty
and thoughtful people have set out To re-
mind them of the grateful shade expert
enced on a New England street during a
hot summers day; but the lumber pro
ducing groves are as numerous as the
hairs on the top of Bill Nye's head, where
the flies slide about in wild glee.
IL is "A fact that while was bowling land
] use the term caustiously, for there are
express trains and express trains) through
Colorado and Nebraska actually saw five
trees in "a group. They were half-starved,
melancholy looking trees, and my friends
and myself on the train wept copiously as
we thought of the people of the two States
gathering in the heat of midday and
wildly lighting for "a chance to let the
shade fall upon them in spots. The trees
were of the cotton variety. | believe that
they make baseball bats out of cotton
wood, and | do not wonder that Paul
Hines can make "a home run with one of
these bats One look at these scraggly
trees ought to be productive of "a home run
or the horrors TO a man accustomed TO
great New England grove.
Denver is the home of the money maker
The stranger when he arrives can find am
pie opportunity for investing his funds in
straight goods or in shares of stock which
are prettily engraved. IL he is wise he
will keep his money in his pocket until he
learns the town, when he can invest to ex-
celleut advantage. Denver has some
grand streets. Some of them are paved
Next spring, when the street men can get
TO work and cut oil "a foot or two of the
top dressing OF red, sticky, oleaginous
mud, the paving will be discovered.
You see that the cross streets
are not vet paved; the others are
covered with asphnlt which cannot be
felt! When the vehlcular travel begins in
the early morning the red mud is carried
TO the other and improved highways, and
there is "A condition of affairs which is ru-
inous To the business OF the missionary,
who is endeavoring to dissuade the people
of the city from resorting to expletives
and emphatic utterances which are
tabooed in Sunday school. Col. Arkens Of
the Rocky Mountain Nclcs is about To
raise a fund for an exploring party, who
Mill find the pavements or perish.
Scenery; lots OF il, mostly mountains.
Everywhere you look, excepting to the
east, there is an everlasting range of
needle-pointed mountains that seem to
say, we are the grass, keep off the
grass" The warming is needless. The
pair of shoes that are to be worn up 10 the
tops of these mountains. the Rockies, aud
the birth of the grandfather of the heifer
that is to furnish the hide for the shoes,
hasn't yet been thought of by the ranch
men.
The best suggestion of what the noun
tain scenery rs at this time OF the year
from the streets of Denver, can be had by
standing at the corner of Brook aud
George streets and looking down towards
Fields Point. The hills of Denver have
ebout as much snow on them as can be
seen Mt Fields Point, and all that is re-
quired is that you should stick some
mighty sharp toothpicks in the hills to
simulate the peaks of the Rockies
From Capitol Hill, in Denver. you can
see Pixies Peak, apparently twenty miles
away: but IL isn't-it is nearer 100. You
take the cross-town cable cars to ride over
to North Denver TO get near the range
You think you have arrived within not
more than two or three miles of them
but there is long deceptive plain be-
tween you and the foothills and from ten
TO twenty miles must be covered to reach
them. Getting fortune in Denver has
the same deceptive qualities attached to
the undertaking us are experienced in
walking To the foot hills.
The general effect of these everlasting
is To produce the impression
that you are about To be crushed by them,
or that a giant tidal wave is sweeping
towards you TO knock you out or existence
about the time that you want to he spared
To vote for the next Presidential ticket.
Denver has larger, better, more costly
than Providence; she has mil
lions To draw from from the great treas
ury in the Rockies which nature has laid
up for "a rainy day, and people pay 10 per
cent. for borrowed money there aud never
wink at it, Denver is the delight of the
speculator; the Joy of the young enterpris-
ing eastern man, the Mecca for the indus
trious and the home of the consumptive.
II you are well, keep away from Denver.
IL is mile and quarter up in the air
and the altitude and the thin air
contribute sickness and
death to the we'll who drop i'm. In
the summer there is an epidemic Of
typhoid fever in the winter there is all
pleasure which goes with pneumonia and
iiphthera. The sewers Of Denver empty
into la Platte river, at present stream
with bed fifty feet wide and brook in
It's centre about four feet wide and steenths
Of an inch deep The sewage is dumped
into this alleged stream and remains there
until the spring freshets caused by the
of the snow ON the mountain
sides deluges everything and carries the
filth down To the next county then the
floods subside the stream becomes curl
osity becomes a curiosity because of its
size, and the aftermath of
sewage lies i'm the river bed and causes the
fever When the snow isn't causing
floods i'm the spring IL Is amusing itself by
sliding down the mountain sides and
burying the miners under from thirty To
-eventy-Gve feet Of the beautiful, where
they remain until the summer heat mets
away the cold coverlet and the remains
.l.tt. In eIox.