The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-17

His Mordt GFas Festival and Min
eraI Palace.
From the New York Sun.
Pueblo. Col, May 27.-It has only recent
" dawned upon the minds of the residents
of Pueblo that ". H. Harvey author Of
Coins Financial School," once lived here.
It is hard for the old-timers TO believe
that the real estate boomer who turned
this quiet town topsy-turvy for a time
is the author Of the book which has be-
come famous. Indeed many refuse utter
~ 10 believe that he really wrote the
book, or that he is the same individual
who tried to make metropolis Of Pu-
eblo.
Harvey made his headquarters at the
Grand hotel here and kept his Office in mis-
hat most Of the time. He came with the
first overflow OF Kansas real estate boom
ers who had swung things so briskly in
Kansas City, Wichita and later in in
terror Kansas towns. The easy-going res
idents of Pueblo did not know what %
make of the methods introduced by the
new arrivals, but they were not slow to
believe all the wonderful things said Of
the glorious possibilities OF the place, and
finally they pitched in with zeal to assist
the real estate boomers.
The first public appearance Of Harvey
was in connection witn two experienced
boom writers who had obtained permission
to have their stuff printed in the only
morning newspaper of the town. Harvey
wanted to circulate the paper throughout
the length and breadth of the land, SO that
investors might know that Pueblo was the
only proper place in which to purchase real
estate. Harvey wanted a fund of money
subscribed to defray the expenses of the
two boom writers, whom he proposed to
send into the eastern states with pastors,
billboard literature, and ready-made in
terviews for unsuspecting newspapers to
publish, and by these several means TO adj
vertise the merits of the great future me-
tropolis of the Rocky Mountain district
He secured a fund of $50, 900 for his pur-
pose and the missionaries started Off \
brass band and street parade signalled
their departure. They stuck thousand OF
blue pastors bearing the word pueblo"
upon freight cars. hotel registers side
walks. and even upon vehicles standing in
the streets. They pasted editions of the
local papers, and occasionally managed to
be interviewed. They were heard of in sew
eral eastern cities, but II was not OBJ
served that the influx of strangers seeking
Pueblo real estate was materially augmen-
ted by the missionary scheme
Meanwhile Harvey had secured possess
sion of a great tract Of adobe uplands sew
raj miles east of the city, worthless as
grazing or farming land, but valuable as
a basis for boom real-estate purposes. The
land was marketable at about So an acre
when he made his first payment upon it,
He had the ground plotted, and beautiful
charts were printed showing how delight
full it would be IS suburban property when
improved. He let contracts for landscape
gardening, had a boulevard built leading
from the city to'the land. and several nat
ural alkali sinks he had designed as pretty
lakes. He made a start upon the boulevard
by having the board of county commission
ers plough up and grade road to his prop
erty, and the spring rains being unusually
heavy, his lakes bore a semblance of mois-
ture. Next he built hotel TO occupy the
center of his suburban residence quarter.
This edifice was constructed of brick and
stone with wide verandas and beautiful
gables and turrets.
Harvey succeeded in selling a great num-
Der of lots at $50 apiece TO eastern buyers
through mail correspondence. The buy
ers may have reasoned that 1t was not
much money to risk, even if the profits
should be a long time in arriving. But
when the boom was up nothing remained
but the beautiful hotel, which stands to-
day out among the bleak and barren hills
just as far as ever from town, while the
wide verandah are occupied only by an
occasional jack rabbit seeking shelter
from a storm. Not a single house was
ever built there by purchasers of lots, and
one by one the individual holdings were
sold for taxes and purchased by eastern
investment companies that do business by
WI ia +
ing the merits of their purchases
During the boom Harvey interested the
Pueblo citizens in another project. He ar
gued that the Mardi Gras festivities in
New Orleans and the Yelled Prophets pa
rade in St. Louis brought annually thou
sands of dollars into those cities from Wis
itors, and that were Pueblo to inaugurate
the same plan, the city would be beauti-
fully advertised, and many sales of real
estate would follow. Mass meetings were
held to consider the subject, and there
Harvey made his first attempt at public
debating. The Pueblo citizens contribut-
ed quite literally, leaving to Harvey and
his returned missionary boom-writers all
the details of the affair. Excursion trains
We're planned to run from Chicago, St.
Louis, Denver and San Francisco; beau
tiful Autograph posters were printed; mag
nifcent floats were suggested and the
citizens declared a holiday week for the
event
Somehow, the eastern people were not
hungry for Mafdi Gras festivals, and the
excursions from without the state failed to
materialize. Harvey found in Denver a
king Rex" and a Queen Rex" who ap-
peared with a retinue. of servants late one
evening in great mystery at the princi-
pal hotel of that city
What does all this foolishness meal? ?"
was asked, but Harvey said: Mystery is
| desirable, my boy; keep your eye on u.s.