Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-08-01

month, and played SNOWFALL. Some
climbed tho tower, the highest on earth
and looked through its telescope. For
most OF us the only disagreeable
sensation was n julness in the ears and
a slight deafness, but others were quite
overcome and tainted. Colorado Springs
looked like the squares of checker
board, no houses visible on the plain
below. Two enterprising young men
publish newspaper, the Pixies Peak
Daily News, on the summit, and claim
that 1t is the highest publication on
earth. They SECURE the names of visitors
as they ascend the mountain, insert
them in the paper and Helb 1t to them
on, the decent for 10 cents. The
ascent of the peak took about two
hours. Cottages were perched on rocky
hedges sheer fall Of thousands of feet
sometimes from their front porohes.
People were cooking their supners by
camp fires or making their toilets in
the open. These were presumably
invalids living there for health's sake.
In the afternoon we drove out to the
Garden of the Gods, whose entrance is
magnificent cannot say 1t Is the
finest thing of it's kind, for there Is
nothing else of it's kind; IL is unique.
a W. RlhIb pOIlaibs Dbb Abch hiBht EhR't
the on trance. Their coloring IL glorious.
dull, rich, but glowing red with
velvety surface, charming in contrast
with the rich dark green of the dwarf
pines and the cool gray green of the
sage Mt their base. To complete the
coloring the outer portal is of soft
yellow sandstone. 1t is surprisingly
beautiful, but we ought to see IL under
morning, noon and evening sky to catch
its varying beauty. There is something
solemn, mysterious, supernatural about
| the great gates. appropriately named,
for they seem lifting entrance TO q
pleasure garden OF the gods, lifting
| themselves against the wonderful blue
| OF Colorado Sky with the sharpness
| of outline Of an etching. Cliff swallows
have made their nests in the hollows
worn when these rocks were probably
at the bottom of the sea, and they
circle twittering and squealing around
their SUBMITS. Within the garden the
ground for the whole immense surface
| isl of the same rich terra Gotta hue,
underlying arabesque of green and gray
| where grass ard MOSES have crept, or
pale masses of gypsum crop out. The
| silver stems and delicate foliage of
| young cottonwood trees are grouped In
| one SPOT, a strong young hemlook stands
| boldly on rocky cliff In another.
| Strange grotesqus shapes. mammoth
caricatures of animals Chamber, crouch,
orspring from points sometimes hum
dreds of feet in air. 1t is like a
gigantic peep show ia pantomime.
/ Slender cathedral spires lift them
selyea, a battlemented wall is pierced
by round window, cube of rock as
large as dwellirghouee is balanced on
pivot at its base, looking rs if q
1 child could push it over. Imagine all
J of this glowing with color under sky
of dazzling sapphire. Yet the garden
itself is not 30 overpowering as the
vaat outlying wilderness, the great
pillows of giant mountain range
against the sky with the regal, snow
crowned nassiyeness OF Pixies Peak
rising above the others with easy
dominance. Jutting from the range il
the massive outline of Cheyenne
mountain, on whose side Helen Hunt
was hurled. A local poet describes
the garden thus:
As If to bar the dawn's first light
These ruby gates are hung; S-
As II from Sinai's frowniDg height
These seven tablets flung.
This Ereenswatd. girt with tongues of fam,
With spectral pillars strewn,
Not strangely did the savage name
IA haunt of gods unknown. a- 1,
With torrents wild and tempest blast,
And fierce volcanic fires stf
In secret moulds has nature cast
Her monoliths and spires.
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