The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-14

above the roaring, foamlng Fountain gu
Bouille. The drive is simply idyllic.
! Glenwood Springs is the latest GOMEZ
among the Colorado resorts, but it is des
+ tined to be the Newport of the west. Ther'
are no adjectives 10 properly describe this
! exquisite spot, which bursts upon you
] sight just after you have been whirled
through the awful and impressive canyon
OF the Grand river
Nothing more beautiful could be con.
I ceived than this stately and lofty piece OF
Italian renaissance architecture, called the
Colorado, standing on an imposing eleva-
ton around an open court. terraced down
TO the river edge and adorned with great
beds of roses and geraniums, rustic bridges,
arbors, fountains and hedges OF wild vines.
Around rise the glistening, snow crowned
peaks Of the Continental divide. In the
valley leaps and roars the raging Grand
river. It is like an imposing stage setting
without the tawdry paint or Srtifciality.
The hills about are highly colored, many
taking on vivid red and orange tones,
which contrast beautifully with the deep
green Of the cedars below and the glitter
ing, icy purity of the everlasting SHOWS
above
Just below the hotel is the famous
swimming pool of hot water. 1t covers
an acre and is from 81 to So feet in
depth, with a cement bottom. The hot
water pours in at temperature OF IGO de-
grees L. and at rate of 1000 gallons per
minute, but is reduced TO Il pleasant tenn
perature for bathing by fresh water from
the mountain streams. IN winter as well
as summer the bathing is delightful, the
temperature of the great body of water
being from % to 9S degrees +.
A woman's Plan.
The thing TO do at Glenwood Is 10 to-
boggan into this pool. There is q splendid
slide built for this purpose, and every
morning it is thronged by swimmers wait
ing their turn. a man in bathing tights,
holding pretty girl in a stunning bath
ing costume, goes to the top. There is a
breathless silence for moment. Then.
amid shrieks, screams of laughter and hal
loos of encouragement, down come the
daring pair and burl themselves with a
wild plunge and laundering splash into
the pool. It's the maddest, merriest kind
of fun possible.
There is magnificent peachblow sand
stone bathhcuse near the pool, erected at a
cost of $4,000 1t, too, has terraced
lawns and flower bordered walks and
drives. There are half hundred bath
rooms, a mems lounging and smoking
room, a ladies' parlor, physicians Office
and reception rooms. a broad piazza is
built directly over the pool, where people
may sit and watch their friends founder
and splash.
The Colorado is as perfect a hotel as
can be found at any eastern resort, and 10
has the distinction of having been to all
practical purposes planned and designed
by a talented woman, Mrs. A. ". Bailey,
the wife of the manager. More than this,
it was furnished by this same lady with
the view of having it like home and not
like hotel. The result is that the rooms
are like those of a palatial private resi-
dence. And all this luxury in the heart
of the Rocky mountains, in the wild and
woolly wegtl Truly eastern people know
very little of life beyond the Mississippi.
EDITH SESSIONS TUPPER.