The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-20
IN LEADVILLE.
What There Is to Be Seen and How
One Gets Thcre-The Scenes on
Press Day.

It's day all day and there is no
night in LeadviIle''-Old King Carnival
has swooped down upon and caught
to his wintry- tinseled embrace that city
above the clouds, and in the ecstasy
of mad delight the whirligig of time
gets fairly dizzy going round
The great ice palace so speedily
reared by those peOple-reared in an
inverse ratio to a stack OF 10000 cold
simoleons that petered out just as the
last glittering block swung into place
on the topmost pinnacle, is the primal
cause of it all-no wonderl
Montreal and st. Paul have had their
ice palaces, and in themselves excited
the wonder and admiration of the very
many thousands of people who visited
them. Right here it must be said that
both the palaces known to these cities
( in the past could we'll be put within
the area given to the one at LeadVille,
and there would then be room enough
left on which to build coy and gilt
tering ice palace all by itself. From
this it viii be readily cleaned that
Leadville people trundle their dimen-
sion ideas around on broad-guage
tracks-they do it all the time whether
at home or abroad-that's Leadville!
PRESS DAY IN LEADVILLE.
Last Wednesday was press day in
Leadville. and the Colorado roads did
very nice thing by the pencil pushers.
The general passenger agents of the
Gulf, Midland and Grande got together
and said: Way up yonder is Lead
vile, and the great crystal ice palace,
and we turn over to You our trains
that you may go and make merry"
And here be it said that the pencil
pushers showed their appreciation of
such kind offer made them.
UTAH WAS IN IT.
To the above report must be tackled
on additional the fact that wnen the
news of such good cheer was waited
to the valleys of Utah the general pas
senger agent of the Utah road didn'
do a thing less than make such order
cover the new state, and though but
little time for preparation was then
left over, still did delegation of thir-
teen Utonians hurriedly prepare for the
journey, and they journeyed, too!
A MERRY CROWD.
The Utah delegation left this city on
Rio Grande Western No. 4 last Tuesday
night, and on midday following reached
the Cloud city.
Newspaper representatives on board
were for the Ogden Standard, Spring
vile Independent, Men and Women,
the Argus and the Salt Lake Herald.
The Herald had four members of its
staff along, a representation in keep
ing with the position taken and early
work done in advancement of ice pal
ace interests, a feature that has been
all along appreciated by the people of
Colorado.
Accompanying the Utah press gang
was General Passenger Agent Wad-
leigh and Travelling Passenger Agent
w. ]. Rid.
The genial Billy Ridd had mission
to perform, !. E., to take out and bring
back the party, and it goes without
saying that he did it right royally-he
was the right man in the right place
the Western can be congratulated for
having such men on its pay rolls.
THE ROUTE.
We ensconced ourselves comfortably
in the chair car leaving this city, and
for hours conversation ran smoothly
the while first class iron steed whisked
us on through the night at a rate rapid
in the extreme-what did it matter?
Weren't we on one of the smoothest
and best road beds in the country?
That we were, and at perfect ease
When the dial of time pointed to five
times in the morning, we were pulling
into Grand Junction, and our chair car
was switched to the Midland train
our prescribed route was over that line
going and the Denver & Rio Grande
returning, allowing us 90 drink in en-
chanting and weirdly grand scenery
both ways. And we did drink of it
the scenery. The train wound on
and up over the Midland, bringing in
to view more freely natures wondrous
panorama of peaks, canyons, gorges
and quaint cliffs, the whole livened up
by steady ascent that kept the onlooker
in a fever of pleasurable anticipation
But all this was buried in a thought
full silence when the crest of the great
ridge was neared, the train pulling
into the rock-ribbed bowels of the
earth-nol not exactly that-it's the
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