The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-12-08
3Sl, 1886 and 33S River Street,
Il, ID, II and 10 Fourth Street,

by the name of river, which flows
through the valley just in the
rear of the large Union sta
ton, to the park on the top of the grade,
two or three miles back of the city. In
no city that we have yet seen is the cleo
trio car service so uuiversical and so
good as in Denver. l have learned since
that they are al owned and controlled in
the East Denver has this elegant sys-
tenn virtually at the expense of some
eastern cities and towns, which badly
need it. One can ride on twenty differ
ent lines or more, cover all parts of the
city, through almost every street, and yet
never ride more than one way on any
single road: this includes also most of
the surrounding country. / was sur
prised to find so few paved streets, but
they were just getting at that very nee
essary work. Tho residences are in
many cases magnificent, and in no part
of the city can any tenement houses be
found; every family seems to have it's
own home, small though it be. The great
number of one-story houses, in many
places built in blocks, is feature of the
city; they look very small, but we were
told they were quite roomy. The State
capitol is handsome building, occupy
ing the centre of large square: it is
now being enlarged by the addition of
a story, which will greatly improve its
appearance. All the finest residences
are about and beyond the capital, on
what is known as Capitol Hill, although
for hill it is very slight elevation.
The western cities have great advan-
tage over those of the East in the matter
of handsome residences, as the western
people are prone to put the greater part
of what they have into their houses, a
fad which adds greatly to the appearance
of a city, but the eastern fashion of
building more plainly and having better
bank accounts seems to be the better in
the end. A very pretty park of several
hundred acres has been recently opened in
Denver, on the western edge of the city,
and already gives promise of great
beauty in the future. Denver appar-
emily has an overplus OF hotels, but just
before our arrival, three of the leading
ones had failed: two hoped to resume,
but one was to be turned into flats. The
finest one, the Brown Palace" Is mag
nificent, but entirely too large and ex-
pensive for city the size of Denver. 1t
is eight or ten stories in hight, occupies
the whole of a triangular block, and diff
fers from any hotel ever saw in the in
terror arrangement. The centre of the
building is open, a court the same shape
as the outside of the building,
open from the ground to the
roof, which, over the court is of glass.
The halls surround the court, and this
arrangement permits every room in the
house to open on street. The office
occupies the ground floor of the court,
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and other valuable stones are used in pro-
fusion; the cost was enormous. Not sat
isfied with this great outlay, they built a
big annex across the street in connection
with an expensive theatre. Denver has
what is said to be, the largest and finest
Methodist church in the country; a
splendid stone structure; the architec-
ture very imposing, and the interior par
ticularly well arranged. 1t contains
the largest organ ever saw in a church,
the instI ument has four banks of keys
and 72 stops. Handsome churches are
numerous in the city; it is an exceeding
| ly pleasant place for residence. There
are two great smelters in Denver which
work up immense quantities of ore, some
of. il coming from a great distance; one
smelter has chimney $50 feet high.
The principal pleasure resorts are out
beyond North Denver, which is across
the big river already mentioned, and are
reached by various lines of electric cars.
They consist of large enclosures contain
ing many buildings, used for various
| amusements; each resort borders on a
small lake: sheets of water are highly
valued in that part of the country, and
these little lakes are made to do full
duty. They have high sounding names,
but Manhattan Beach seemed slightly
out of place for resort on lake we
would call mill pond. One of the re-
sorts was a large geological garden, not
owned by the city, however, but by pri
vate parties. The most of the money
troubles were over when we reached
Denver, but the banks still solvent were
making tremendous struggle to KEEP