El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-14

THE COMING RESORT.
Written for the HERALD.

Written for the HERALD.

greet
The weary stranger with melody divine!
What is the message that ye bringf
What Is the secret of so vast soltudeE
Say, have we here eternal Spring.
Or is your matin but forest interluoef
Man, it is said, is PROSECUTING an
imal: if he has good thing ne mus
tell it to his nelghb Dor. Woman, unae
the generic term, has q procltv1ty fol
"passiup it on also; nor is she sparlne
either nf 6etail or circumstance.
Rslielously exact Is to data, thli
supplementaI article on the suO]ect o
Cloudcroft will, it Is conceived, anu
c;pate many questions OF lntenolne
tourists. ;,,;.s
hinged upon the very heavens-the
outskirts of Paradise! On the sum.
mit of the Sacramento mountains, 81
an altitude of 5000 feet above the
level of the sea, this attractive resort
even at high noon, with the Dog Star
10 the ascendeucy, is burning her
beacon fires on the mountain top slgnai'
ing:
Come up, oh ye toilerF, all who may!
Cloudcroft's a bit of the heavenly way!
Her craegs sharp etched on the ultramar1ne
OF the heavens beyond, the silvery sheen
OF aspen and pine just glinting between,
Echo:-Ccme up from the low!ands
And rest, rest, rest!
Otherwhere no spot is so fair.
Cloudcroft's the best, best. best!
A natural outgrowth of the develop
ment of the country north OF III faso
nv the Ell PasO and Northeastern ana
the Alamogordo and Sacramento rail-
way Cloudcroft ia being rapidly con-
verified into an oasis in the desert, re-
fupe for the nomadic peoples OF equst-
orlal Texas and the great southwest.
Such was the original idea, the desi-
deratum: but the mills of the gods no
longer grind slowly. Cloudcroft has
signsled from the mountain top, ana
the index finger OF Dame Fashion
points already confidently this way.
Cloudcroft is natures symposium OF
rural sights and sounds. What q
pleasing contrast of cerulean skies and
"Creening" woods! The diversions of
the guests are Is varied as are their
enliLies. A German madonna sits I'M
der the pines and gszes with rapt ex-
pression into the eyes of her babe, eyes
shat reflect the gobelin blue OF the
heayeusI AT her easel under my win
dow sits little Swedish lady absorbed
In pigments and brush. She is paint
ing Cloudcroft souvenirs. Delight
fully unconventional as yet, there Is
lust enough social function, social for
mula, not too much. You may explore
the mountains If you will, or bang-a-
long at the piano in the big reception
room at the pavilion, or sit idly at your
window inhaling the balsam1c tonic
of the pines.
No one wonders what another is
doing, and idlinR is prominently the
fashion. Lots of merry making In the
evenings, formal and informed card
parties, impromptu cake walks, and
always the dance: On Sundays you
NAV near an excellent sermon in the
dancing hall of the pavilion. All day
there are kodak parties, picnic parties,
with lunch al fresco in some romantic
woodland spot OF on an angle OF the
CLIFF. Mrs L. L. Hill of New York,
the exceedingly interesting daughter
of Col ana Mrs. Harvey. host and
hos tess of THE Croft, recent gave
progressive "high Eve" to hundred
guests of the hotel. Mrs. Curry OF Dial
las, the honor guest. won the hrst
prize.
Cloudcroft will grow upon you; 1t is
more than spectacle, 1t Is gooo
place 10 live in: you will want to re-
cbristen it Tarry-a-while. And if you
are given to scribbliog you will seize q
pencil and begin: "a chiefs amangst
We ,skin' notes an faith ell preDt IL.
Bnt YOU will leave off directly to join a
"a party going two miles over the noun
lain TO gather wild raspberries. To-
morrow you will GO to the sulphur
baths down at Toboggsn. for your COM
plexion, you Know. Then to Scenic
Point perhaps, to look at the wonder
full inlaod "sea" of sbimmerlng sands!
You will try in vain to make your bur-
pnnralu
preliminary to the start back. Or
coming or going he lice down for nap!
You soon desist, finding respiration q
bit d fficult at SO great an altitude.
In the heyday of her natural beauty,
Cloudcroft is today carnival OF wild
flo ers, wildwood. and creeping, peep
ing wild thing. Today Cloudcroft is q
carnival of summer refugees from the
metropolitan cenrers of Texas and the
south west. Dallas, Fort Worth. San
Antonio, they are all here, and the
cream of her first season has not been
SKINNED. Kaleidoscope they pass in
review, either exploring the mouatain
Businesses Or losing them selves in the
mazes of the dance. The dance goes
Cd, the Mexican band playing, in the
intervals, ravishiug bits of La Psloms,
La Lorauda, La Golondrina. InvOlun-
tarily we drop our pen to listen; in
voluntarily we think of TolstOi and
the Kreutzer Sonata. The weird music
takes On tangible shape, appeals direct
~ to the personal ear. Yet. even as
you catch eagerly at the dominant
str ain it has played you false! 1t is
wasting its wierd sentiment out on the
mountains, up in the tops of the aspens
and pines,
If you really and truly love nature
you will go down, down, down, and lose
yourself in the canon Nature is at
Worship there in the sol.tudes.
There she swings her censors re;1olent
of growing shrub and flower all the
subtle perfumes that haunt the forest.
The crisp invigorating air has already
given you an appetite, and laid wild