Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-22
DR. PARRY ENTlERfAliis. Ii
Takes His Audience in Spirit Through
 Yosemite Valley.


 |, Dr Parry delivered an Illustrated lecture entitled "A Trip to California; at the First Baptist church last night. The speaker said in part:
 we are to make a trip tonight to California. We can stop only long enough en route to take few hurried views of the wonderful scenery through which we pass. We will i'm agine ourselves aboard one of the sumptuous observation cars of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad, which is the great Switzerland route of America. giving the tourist the grand est of natures panoramas. as it carries him through the wierd and picturesque scenes of natAre's sublimest handi- work, piercing the heart of the Rocky mountains, crossing and re-crossing the Great Divide between the Atlan- tic and Pacific slopes. penetrating fine canyons, each of which is worlds wonder. and no two having the same characteristics.
 Eighty miles from Denver we come to Manitou, where we see that valley of wonders, which the Indians. with that fine poetic appreciation which makes so many of their names eloquent, called the place after the God they worshipped, Manitou, or the Garden of the God. In this solitude, nature has perpetuated many strange freaks of sculpture and of architecture
 Here are found hints of Athens and the Parthenon, Palmyra and the pyra- mids. karnac and her crumbiing col rmns. Many of these monoliths are nearly tabular and reach a height of three or -four hundred feet. Two of the loftier ones, with narrow space between them. form the gateway of the Garden of the Gods. After their form. their most striking feature is their color. which is a terra-cotta red unlike any of the sandstone of the east Our Journey westward is q grad ual ascent. through the Black canyon of the Gunnison, through scenes kaleid- oScoplc in their constant change; at one tune the train rolls along between frownlng and towering walls of rock. over some of them falling stream of water white and f1eecy as wool like that. for example. of Chippewa Falls. which bitches from the edge of a prec- ipice 2.OOO feet above. Then we come into spacious amphtheater. in the center of which stands a tremendous monument of solid rock. the famous Currecanti needle a spire as graceful as though it had been shaped by the hand of a Gothic builder. and termi- hating in sky-piercing pinnacle.
 Thus does the twenty miles of | scenery in the Black canyon hold the awe-stricken attention of the tourist. But after he has thus passed through the mountains he must go over them. and the ascent of Marshall Pass is begun This climb will lead to the Great Divide of the continent. and we will pass from the Atlantic to the Pa cific slope. The summitsfs II .OOO feet above sea level. As the train winds up the steep. there is seen. stretching away to the view. the most perfect of all Sierras. The sunlight falls on the snow-capped spides of the Sang1i de Christo range and on the arred crater of Mount Gray, a volcano whose fires died out ages ago. Tine route of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad over the Marshall Pass is one of the greatest triumphs of engineering skill in the railroad world. The descent is ended at Poncha Springs, and then we enter the valley of the Arkansas from which is gotten fine view of the col | leSlate range of mountains. includino the peaks of Yale, Harvard and Prince ton. each of which is more than 14OOO feet in altitude
 Words cannot describe the Grand | canyon of the Arkans:ls.> It is seven miles in length and is filled with some or the grandest and most awe-inspirinp scenery in the world. On one side boils and surges the Arkansas river. and above the red rocks of. the canyon. The progress down the canyon is by means of many intricate curves. When the Royal gorge is reached the eanyan is not wide enough for both the road and the river, and so a remarkable i feat of engineering has been resorted to. Right across the gorge a series of great iron braces has been thrown. from which huge iron bars depend, holding long iron bridge in suspen- sion. that clings to, the face of the cliff and runs, not across, but parallel, with the course of the river > The cliff is more than 3.G0O feet in height above the level of theSriver. Passing many other wonderful views. we come intoathe Eagle River canyon.''
 The mining camp and shafts at Gil man were here shown and described.
 Passing through the valley of the Ea gle we enter the canyon of the Grand river. This canyon is greater in extent and more varied in character than that of tie Arkansas. In places the effect is that of giant Egyptian art and architecture, vast Bastions of granite rise to stupendous heights. There are columns, buttresses, walls, pyramids. towers and turrets. We pass out of the canyon of the Grand, leaving its gray. twisted. massive forms behind
 and come into q region of the most glowing color, where the vermilion
 green. maroon and yellow color abound and mingle in contrast, giving pic lures more vivid, and presenting q more bewildering succession of bright colors and strange forms than can be found anywhere else on earth. Just
 beyond the Grand canyon. at a height
 of 5.2OO feet above sea level we come to Glenwood Springs in the midst of it's immense and beautiful park or val. lev. Since our main object tonight is