Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-05-03
BRIGHT ANGEL HOTEL.
Sunday at The Grand Canyon of the
Colorado.

Special Correspondence.
No time since its discovery has THE
Grand Canyon of the Colorado" been
visited by such multitudes of sight
seers, as have visited the fast growing
famous resort during the past week.
S~eventy-eight cars loaded with people
from every part of the world were
drawn up the Grand Canyon branch
line of the Santa Fe in five days. Close
to a thousand people were furnished
with accommodations at the Bright
Angel hotel Sunday, May 81. The
morning was spent by the larger part
of the visitors in viewing the depths of
the wonderful gorge. The general opin-
ion with most people who have never
visited the Grand Canyon of the Colo
RADIO, is that the tinted and painted pic
lures of the gorges are overdrawn and
tucked up with the best taste of mag
nation. But it is not so. No artist
but mother nature could produce its
likeness. No master of art could re-
produce on paper or canvas
any resemblance to such pro-
found sublimity and grandeur. A
very poor conception of it's vastness
can be obtained from the rim. A trip
to the river brink will never be re-
GREETED by an admirer OF beauty n
will be remembered as one of the great
events of ones life. A good trail leads
from the Bright Angel hotel to the bot
tom of the canyon. In some places IT
has been mined along the sides of solid
bluffs of granite which tower perpen-
dicularly for hundreds of feet until
their crests are beyond the reach OF
the travellers eye. Horses and mules
can be obtained at a reasonable price
for the round trip. The journey down
is more difficult than the return.
Half way down to the river, as If, by a
forethought of nature, a n stream or
artesian water springs from the earth,
to quench the thirst of the weary tour
list. Field glasses are not necessary to
get a fine view of the canyons won
drous beauty. The atmosphere of the
clear rarified mountain air is more de-
ceptive than the tense of the finest
telescone. The best pictures are pho.
toTraphed in the afternoon when the
lines and colors of the opposite rim,
thirteen miles away, can be seen and
aFen with reasonable distinctness.
The colors are more beautiful than
thew have ever cen painted. Every
tint. shade and color to be found in the
rainbow which follows a mountain
shower, is 10 ne iOuHu Will u
cf others. which art has never been
aNlc IN manufacture.
In the afternoon after the mule
trains had returned from the river
~nr~e, an open air praise service was
hold on the veranda of the hotel. Be
sides the reading of some appropriate
-salms and the singing of various
Nvmns. Mrs. j. Monroe Miller, wife OF
Representative Miller. of Kansas, read
IN interesting sketch of the descrip-
ton of the formation of the canyon. by
David Starr Jordan, and also a verse
Prom a work by Charles F. Lummis.
Two or three impressions standing out
above the rest of them, may be set
forth in words. First. the Grand
Canyon OF the Colorado. Not
it's grandeur and beauty, its
weird magnifcence, its sublime
supremacy; all the world knows
this. But it impressed no the less
through it's infinite laziness, while
the rest of Il worlds crust had been
making history and scenery with all