Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-14
QUEEN CITY OF PLAINS
Changes An for the Better in
Growing Denver.
TEnDERFooTFEELsAT HOME
Water Wagon in Greeley and Colorado
Springs.
STRANGERS NEED NOT SUFFER
Souvenir Vendors Beat East to a
Standstill In the Pixies Peak
Country.
STRANGERS NEED NOT SUFFER-
Special From Stan Correspondent.


tiers for Denver in this town ard notwith-
standing she affects some of the airs of
way back east centers of population, she
is still a typical western city, steadily
growing in population and wealth and full
of the bustling enterprise peculiar to the
section west Of the Mississippi.
And Denver has not a few things to be
proud Of. She is ideally located for health
and picturesqueness, she has the ADVANTAGE
of class of business men liberal-minded
and full of public spirit and she is the
trade center of large surrounding country
rich in resources. The city is moreover,
beautifully laid out and built up, and the
whole town covered by a street car system
that Is just source of local pride.
Visitors to Denver at this time after
an interval of ten or twenty years will no.
tice many changes, all of which appear to
be for the better There Is noticed less of
the wild-west atmosphere about the place;
Ii is more subdued now and the reckless
freedom of old Is held more in restraint
There seems to be less opportunity now for
the unsuspecting stranger from the east to
lose his money by ways that are devious
and past finding out. The tenderfoot feels
more al home. Yet there are still loose"
spots in the queen city of the plains. 1t is
only within the past few weeks that the au-
thorlties have let up on their strictness
with regard to the numerous thirst cures in
the town. Denver is an open town" now.
Bromo Settler Easy.
A stranger in the city who had been at
tending a little banquet where considerable
liquid refreshment had been consumed
started for his hotel about o'clock the
other morning. After the evening of con-
VITALITY he desired a settler in the form
of a bromo settler. Noticing a good-na-
tured Irish policeman on the corner the
stranger aCCOsted him.
rs there all-night drug store in this
locality, offfcer?'
''Yez will have to go about five blocks
up street to find one," replied the accom-
modating cop.
That's little too far to walk re-
marked the stranger. Il wanted to get a
bromo seNzer."
'If that's all you want" said the cop.
you don't need an all-night drug store.
Just stop in at any of the saloons along
the street.
What. are the saloons open at this time
OF night?"
Just try one and see," said the cop.
There's one across the street. Go to the
side door,
emporium in full blast. The bartender ex-
planned that the new order had been IN
operation only a day or two. All the
others are keeping OPEN" he said. and
then the boss has a pretty strong pull up
among en-"
One would judge that pull up among
EN- is not to be sneezed at In Denver
Probably the board of aldermen is taking
a layoff
Dry In Greeley.
In this respect Denver Is different from
Greeley and Colorado Springs. Horace
Greeley founded the town of that name
many years ago about the time he wrote
his editorial of advice, Go West Young
Man and Grow Up With the Country"
I,o lat loa iDS TOD IN
the stipulatio in all the deeds to real es-
tate within it's limits that liquor should
ever be sold. This has been strictly adj
hered to and Greeley has never had sa-
loon.
Colorado Springs was founded by a CO.
terie of wealthy people who desired homes
in moral. healthful and peaceful COM
niuntty. ALI the deeds to property in Colo
RADIO Springs stipulate that no liquor shall
be sold, and although the city has popu-
lation of about q 900 there is no liquor
legally sold within its limits The citizens
make good laws and enforce them. Just
north Of Colorado Springs, however is q
town called Colorado City. The two munich
palities are so closely connected that the
stranger cannot tell where one town leaves
Off and the other begins. AS the visitor
rides along In the street car and hears the
conductor call out Colorado City, he Won
ders at the reason for having two cities so
close together. glance out of the car
window at two solid rows of saloon build
reason. The sympathetic stranger Is as
sured that nobody In Colorado Springs need
suffer for lack of liquor.
Colorado Springs Is one OF the most beau
tiful cities that one could see in many days
travel Its streets are always clean and
the dwellings all present neat homelike
appearance. While riding in the street car
along the macadam paved streets In the
outskirts of the city, | could not under
stand why the street cars were not followed
and enveloped by cloud OF dust. But This
delightful condition was presently explain
ed when glancing ahead of the car no
ticed streak-sprinkling car skudding along
and throwing thin, but effective sheet OF
water over the car tracks. To one who has
many times tasted the dust OF Washington
streets while on the street cars the street.
sprinkling car appeared discovery OF
great Importance. Perhaps similar cars on
the Washington lines would solve one OF the
District Commissioners disturbing ques-
lions.
Draws Thousands Of Sightseers.
Notwithstanding its beauty and its adj
vantages in municipal government. Colo
RADIO Springs Is known to most visitors
principally as g. gateway to Pixies Peak.
for one goes through Colorado Springs. Col
orado City ard Manitou to reach the cog
railway that winds up the steep mountain
side to the summit. Take Pixies Peak
away and there would probably be but
slight attraction to visitors In that section.
OF course. the little cities have their Gar
den of the Gods Wind Cave. Cheyenne
Canyon. Seven Falls and numerous springs
that give forth evil-taSting mineral waters,
but Pixies Peak is the wondrous protuber-'
anee that draws from everywhere thou
sands Of sightseers.
A trip up to the summit Of the noun
tain on the cogroad Is as full OF thrills as
half dozen of Theodore Kremers melo-
dramas, and vastly more interesting.
And such country for the souvenir
fakirsl The Pixies Peak country has ell