The Newtown bee., 1904-08-26
Co1orado's At-
 fractions Brightly Pictured By E. L. Johnson. COLORADO SPRINGS, CRIPPLE CREEK AND OTHER POINTS
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OTHER POlN IS
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 We arrived at Colorado Springs Thursday, July IA. A friend of Mrs Johnson knowing of our expected com ing had procured board for us in g private family in the residential part of the city, where everything was SC homelike that we were soon rested anG ready for sightseeing on the following day. We had read about Colorado Springs, heard people who had visited there talk about it, property holders had told us of it's glories, but when we came to see it for ourselves, mingle with it's people and gaze upon the won. derful scenery in and around the city we were ready to believe the "half had hot been told us." Although the city proper seems one vast plain, yet it is practically in the mountains with an elevation of 5000 feet, sheltered on the west by range of mountains with Pike's Peak, Colorado's landmark, IA, 147 feet elevation, as the central figure. Of to the east lie the bluffs, while spur of the mountains called the "Divide" lies to the north, and on the southwest the Cheyenne noun tains. The streets are laid out at right angles, and are 100 feet in width, with fine shade trees growing on both shade. The avenues of the city are l6O feet wide, 100 feet from curbstone to curbstOne, with two rows of trees in the center of the avenues, and the sidewalks each 30 feet in width. Nevada avenue is the finest avenue of the city. Clear cold mountain water is brought in iron piper and flows along the main streets in open sluices for ir- rigation purposes. No fire engines are necessary as the pressure is so great water can be forced from the hydrants to the tops of the highest buildings.
 ITS BEAUTIFUL CITY PARKS,
 clean and we'll kept, are the resort of the home people, while the almost end less variety of mountain scenery easily scc essible, furnish an almost unlimited opportunity for the tourist to enjoy every degree of scenic beauty. Nature when she built Pike'S Peak and the scenic wonderland all around did her work on grand scale. Cheyenne mountains lie four miles distant from the city, and can be easily reached by carriage drive. We visited both North and South Cheyenne canyons. Stu pendous gorges they are, each entirely different from the other. It was on the eastern side of Cheyenne noun tain, where, at her request, the body of the authoress, Helen Hunt Jackson, was buried. The place is pointed out to the tourist as one passes by, but be- by tourists her husband has had the remains placed in the city cemetery, though eager eyes peer though the dis tance to see where once the grave was. At South Cheyenne Canyon are the ''seven falls", the water flowing down from it's dizzy height in seven distinct falls, before it reaches its lowest level By graded stairway of nearly three hundred steps we climbed to the tor of the cliff and saw the clear crystal water flowing from a-higher level be- fore it made the final plunge. On the eastern side of the city, few miles from the business streets, lies a tract of 1900 acres which Gen William J Palmer after improving it and build ing two driveways, six miles each ir length, gave to the city, which is to be known as Palmer Park. We visited that. One portion of the park is made up of rock formation as grotesque as the rock in the Garden of the Gods though not on so grand scale. Colo rado Springs is indebted to large ex tent for it's exceeding beauty to the liberality of Gen Palmer. He is { typical Western millionaire and is { marvel of public spirit and generosity We were shown portion of mountain road and were driven over a stretch o it, called the Bear Creek road, whicf connects with the South Cheyenn' canyon road making highway Il miles in length, through wonderful. grand scenery. We also drove alonl another course where this same mal had large gang of laborers workini under skilled artisans, improving strip of land along Monument Creek within the city limits, some four mile in length. There is no danger of tn public over-estimating the value o such men of wealth, and we shoul bid them Godspeed, whenever an wherever found. Of course we visited the
 GARDEN OF THE GODS.
 A visit to Colorado Springs would b incomplete with that left out. T reach it we drive across wide mes or plain of thousands of acres and i so doing were somewhat sobered as W passed three enclosed plots of grOun on the wild expanse, where we wer told were buried three of the forty miners, who in trying to reach the Ian of promised gold, fell by the way, an lie in unknown graves, and perhap some lone mothers heart broke in tn waiting for the boy who never re turned. Before going into the Garde off the Gods we drove to Gleneysi Park, tract of land comprising abou 100 acres, where is Gen Palmer's resi I 2