Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-12-21

err long and puts II off until the next
year and again until the next, until
at last he buys a lot and builds a
house, and only returns TO the East on
his wedding journey, Denver appeals
to him more than do any Of these other
cities, for the reason that the many
other Eastern men who have settled
there are turning It into a thoroughly
Eastern city The two most striking
things about the city to me were the
public schools and the private houses
Great corporations insurance compan-
les and capitalists erect twelve-story
buildings everywhere. Tn Denver there
arc not only the big buildings, but mile
after mile OF SEPARATE houses, and OF
the prettlest strlctest and proper ar
chltecture. It Is n distinct pleasure 10
look at these houses, and quite impos-
sible to decide upon the one In which
YOU would rather i've They are not
merged to gether IN solid rows, hut
stand qrart with a little green breath
Inc spacc between, each IN It's turn as
sorting its own individuality The
greater na,t Of these are built Of the
peculiarly handsome red stone which Is
found so plentiful In the Silver state
As for the public schools they are more
like art museums outside than school
houses. Denver possesses those other
things which make a city llvable, but
the public schools and the private
houses were to me the most distinctive
features"
While there are many business blocks
and private residences In Denver which
SAVIOR Of days when the city did not
wear the gay METROPOLITAN parb that
1t has now donned II nevertheless has
many public buildings that would do
credit to New York or Chicago. It's
state canto Is one Of the best in the
land. The "seeing Car" man tells you
while YOU are being whlrled over thirty
miles Of track through beautiful thor
oughfares on an up-to-date street rail-
road line, that there are but three bet
ter in the United States, one Is he
says, that matchless edlhce at Albany
New York. which was twenty years In
building the other Is at Austin, Texas,
and the third in whatever State you
happen to come from. The cost of this
building was S25O0OOO
The federal buildings comprise the
United States postodlce and federal
court house, located at the corner OF
Sixteenth and Arapahoe streets ana
constructed Of lava stone on the archi-
tectural lines usual to most federal
buildings at cost Of S5OOOOO and the
United States mint, which Is rapidly
approaching completion in the imme-
date vicinity Of the capitol on south
Thirteenth street and West ColfaX ave-
nue..
The Arapahoe county court house AT
fremont and Sixteenth streets, Is an
other striking edihce It Is built oil
Colorado sandstone and cost with
grounds sl,2OOOOO The city hall is
at Fourteenth and Larimer where a
substantial structure Of undressed
limestone, built at the cost of about
S25O.OOO, serves as municipal headquar-
tiers.
The Chamber Of Commerce and the
Mining Exchange are two other hand
some buildings Of a more or less pub
lie character, while the Union depot.
at the foot of Seventeenth street, Is a
large and convenient building with am
vle accommodation for city that Is
one of the greatest railroad points In
the West twelve railroads centerlng
here and radiating to all points of the
| United States, thus giving her almost
unsurpassed facilities for transcontin-
entail traffic. other handsome build
ings are referred to on page eight of
this paper, under the heading Some
of the Spires and Domes Of Denver"
II there Is one thing more than an
other of which Denver is proud 1t is
her school system, which 1t must be
admitted, is about as near perfect as