St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-19

ing this wild, remote region. But
when you leave the stage at the camp
you hasten at once up the hill to
calculate as quickly as possible the
extent of your imbecility. Up through
the odorous pine forest you trudge,
and as you reach the summit, sud-
denly, without any premonition, the
earth yawns beneath you'll You stand
upon the brink of the bottomleSS
pit. Terrible! An indescribable emo
ton seizes you. You wish to topple
forward, to fling yourself into that
awful chaotic chasm. You recoil,
step back and lift your eyes, and
10! the gates of paradise seem swing
ing before you, and through them
you see the walls and ramparts and
golden streets Of a city not made
With hands.
And that is just what the Grand can
yon is-a combination of regions infer
nal and celestial. 1 am not going to
try to describe it, for before it's SUI
perhuman majesty, it's splendor, it's
1oveliness, words become as sounding
brass and as a tinkling cymbal. I wish
L
looked at it first, flooded with the soft
golden and violet lights of sunset,
Ionged for trumpet to send forth a
clarion call over his vast country and
to cry: stop, stop, Americans! Do
not go abroad. Look at your own
country first. Come here and see what
God has wrought
HOW TO GET THERE.
wish in this letter to tell Americans
something of the way to reach the
Grand canyon, what to expect in the
way of fare and entertainment, how to
dress and to give a few other practical
hints and facts regarding this yet al
most unknown land. First if you
fancy that you can make the trip on
fiowery beds of ease, live on truffles,
mushrooms and quail, take Saratogas
hiled with expensive finery to fiaunt
before the natives of Arizona, don't
go-with very large capital d.
But II you love nature so we'll that
Tor her sake you can endure certain
discomforts and are prepared to rough
1t in order to look upon a scene which
will blazon and burn its image into your
memory forever and aye, which will
move you if you have one little bit
of soul in your body, then go-with a
very large capital G. And go quickly.
before the railroad, which the great
Santa Fe system is sure to build with
In the next few years, shall penetrate
this tremendous wilderness and bring
the world, the flesh and the other fell
low to these sublime precincts.
For now one Of its greatest charms
Is that it lies remote, alone in it's awful
grandeur, thing apart from all the
world, wrapped in primeval silence, de-
handing due homage from the p:l-
grims who travel from afar to kneel
at its terrible shrine
A LONG STAGE RIDE
You leave the railroad at Flapstaff
A. T., a typical rough frontier town
If possible, get away at once to the
canyon, for the only hotel in the town
is an impossible place for Clearly peo-
pie. Moreover, you can eat nothing
which is set before you. This place is
noted for its very bad cooking. In
many of the toughest mining camps of
Colorado, have had much better fare
Mr.. Thurher, who runs the stages to
the canyon, is an accommodating man
and will send tourists on any hour they
wish to so, although the guide books
advertise the stages as running bui
three times week. While / was there
q New York man came into the camp
at 2 a. m, having been sent by special
delivery from Flagstaff. So there is nc
reason why you should stop and suffer
In the town.
The stage ride is one of seventy
miles. There are three relays of horses
on the route and stop is made mid