The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-09-01

blTlkeS, saw AZ q e1lAupSSS 1UuJ YOU
wonder how these electric lines could
ever be built in such places, AND
creeping up the mountain sides ane
then clear on top. don't think
the Pixies Peak trip could ever be
better.
We no more than get back to the
mining center again, when "all
aboard" is heard and everyone is glad
to start home. AS you leave Cripple
you go up on this high trolley line
and just as luck would have it, we got
one of the prettiest views of a rain
storm in Cripple and we were SO high
that the city could not be seen at all
on account of the clouds below being
so dense. 1t was almost showing
where we were and seemed quite cold
all the way back to the Springs. The
crowd were all so tired of looking that
we didn't care to spend all of our
time viewing the scenery as we did
on going up, so kept ourselves busy
in entertaining and being entertained
and guess the whole car load knew
that we were jolly set before we
got back But say, when we got into
the Springs it was raining so hard
that we hardly knew whether to ven
ture to the hotel or not, although we
got into the hack and arrived in good
time for our dinners; but / was SO
tired that could not eat; that was
all there was about that.
Monday morning upon coming down
to the library Of the hotelwe learned
of the serious wreck, and Immediately
found that could not get home be-
fore afternoon, and so made the mo-
ton that we go over to Manitou and
see what we could see. The crowd
wanted to take a burro ride as well
as /, SO we four got a donkey and
started for Iron Springs; slow Kiyi,
Mexico, and the others I do not re-
member, and stopped our trail at the
foot of the Pixies Peak cog road, then
back, hurrying all the time, but there
is no hurry to those things. AS we
got off these burros and ready to take
trip through the Garden of the
Gods we saw Mrs. Jno. Cowan and
Marguerite, VINO are stopping at re-
sort there. Said she had been sick,
and she didn't look very well. Now
we got into two-seated rig with the
same driver we had the day before,
and as congenial a fellow as one
would want and he took us all through
the Gardens. This is a wonderful
place, a garden of images and one has
to draw on his imagination more than
anything else, but some of them are
quite plain. The balanced rock,
steamboat rock are so pretty, and it
is on the back part of this steamboat
rock that our pictures are taken. My
kodak took notion not to work about
the time was ready to take a pic
ture of the balanced rock, and there
fore l had to abandon that idea for
the day. Upon this steamboat rock
is a. gai'iGsr to initiate the idea anS
me c1Sy M - - 81 X
also a telescope lookirs toward
Pixies Peak, and when CHANGED I
two people standing near, also the III
tel up on its summit. When you leav
| this wonderful place you arrive
what is called Glen Eyrie. Now TIL
ground and also the Garden of tn
: Gods belongs to one man, namel
General Palmer, a general of the we
of 1860. He was donated this groun
when he sold out his interests to tn
D. & R. G. R. R., for eight million do
lars, and has an idea in his mind thu
there is no place for a home quite S
novel as, being away back here in tn
beautiful scenery of the mountain
and his lovely million dollar hon
stands at the foot of the hills. II
allows no automobiles nor street cal
to come any nearer these places tina
Colorado City and Manitou. He ha
as his favorite exercise horse-bac
riding, and special path alongside {
the driveways you can see wendin
it's way here and there. He takes
ride every day, hardly ever riding i
carriage. He and his three daugl
tiers are touring through Europe 6
the present, while his new home
being finished. His barn they say
magnificent, costing $4,000. Jus
, to show to the people that ne is nc
, a miser he is now building park q
, the Springs costing thousands an
, thousands of dollars His expense
every day now average about $1,000
Then he hires thirty servants, flu
nishes them with a home, and thei
homes are scattered through thes
hills till you can not see them fror
the regular drive to his own mansion
He furnishes a school house, with
tutor, and pays her sos per month 70
her services, where all the childre
of the servants may be schooled free
and then he has a herd of 600 mil
cows that he enjoys seeing herded i
his fields of beautiful country. Thi
| milk is delivered every morning eiti
err to Colorado City or Manitou, an
before they take it the servants ar
never forgotten and each one receive
Il all the milk they want free of charge