The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-10-02
ny FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF Colo
RADIO.
BY MRS. A. c. CRUCE.
In Four Letters.-Fourth Letter.

August, after eating an early |
breakfast, bidding our hostess and
Friends a hearty goodbye, and
taking last look at the lovely
parks and grassy lawns of Color
ado Springs, which are already be-
ginning to show, by the few falling
leaves, the first FAINT sign of au- |
tumn, we started for Denver, in
tending from there to make the
trip to Silver Plume over the IA
nous loop" Arriving in Dem
yer about 9 O'Clock, we went at
once to the Brown Palace hotel,
but failed to get rooms, even in
the ninth story, the cause being the
Bankers Association, which met
in Denver at that time. We soon
found a comfortable room, how
ever, and the finest of meals, at
the Home Dairy, where hundreds
of people are fed every day, on the
choicest food the market affords.
We found Denver to be thriv-
ing western city, but much the
same in most respects as other
cities. We enjoyed looking over
the beautiful Brown Palace hotel,
with its lovely onyx wainscoting
and handsome cabinet of minerals,
with nuggets of pure gold and sill
yer, worth at least a hundred
thousand dollars. We went up in
: the elevator and looked down the
, vast hollow square, which extends
from the first floor to the ninth.
Then we saw the capitol building,
which is really a thing of beauty,
/ built of white stone, with a hand
: some pOrticO on each of its four
1 fronts, wainscOted with Colorado
marble. polished like a mirror. 1t
? is set on the top of a gently slOp-
ing hill, and its terraced grounds
Q are beautiful. Colorado may well
be proud of its capitol. Of course
: there are many other beautiful
palaces to be seen in Denver, but
d one may see a beautiful city any
/ where. Our land is full of them
So we do not tarry here, but hur-
i ried on to what, to me, is the most
\ interesting and beautiful trip Col
!, orado has to afford her thousands
o of tourists, the trip through Clear
e Greek Canyon over the loop" to
, Silver Plume. After travelling
is for an hour more through the rich
= !. valley in which Denver is situated,
e enjoying the mountains at dist.
= ance, dimly outlined against the
Ie sky, and thinking of the vast re.
- sources of the west and the wisdom
'r of Horace Greeley's remark, &c
n west, young man, and grow VI
,. with the county," we enter Cleal
e Greek Canyon, a region so full O.
E' grandeur and beauty that / hest
It tate before attempting a descrip
3 ton of it, well knowing that m!
J. readers can get no proper idea O
10 it from q mere pen picture. Fo
r miles we wound through this won
'S derful gorge-walls of solid rOcl
10 on either side shooting high VI
ot ot into the clouds. The railroad
I'd turns and twists, now to the right
y now to the left, around the base o
the rocks, often in such sharl
- - curves the engine is hidden from
th the passenger looking out of tn
ne coaches behind. In many place
e the tops of the rocks cannot b
n I. seen from the car windows. On
lr and on we go, around Inspiration
m Point" and past the old Roadmas
n, ter. Higher and higher climb
ly the railroad track, the cars creep
IN IN ing up and clinging to the side o
n the mountains, the way becoming
ID more tortuous until it reaches it
ho climax in the famous loop" an
er crosses itself on bridge nearly 10
It. feet above. We wonder, as W
pt re look out over the dizzy hight a
N the engineer, who could perforr
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