Middletown transcript., 1907-09-21

country Wnere bno f0aQ runs. Ii lS !
rolling hilIy country but no high hills Oh
mountains. Further on we struck some
pretty steep hills that Pennsylvania would
find it hard to beat. 9.45, we are now
at Preston, quite place but SO far as
can see even the stores aIe few Of them
higher than one and half and two
stories. In fact. l, see none higher anC
plenty only one story high. This country
is full of hay ricks, some Of them pro
tected by canvass or wooden roofs, mos
are unprotected. Here we are stopped
again at Pacific Junction, quite plact
but still all low buildings. 2.l5 P. M.
just had dinner as we got to Counci
Bluffs, train halted on bridge as We
crossed the Missouri river for Us to have
a view of it, quite wide but seems TO be
full of sand bars and not very deep. VIZ
are now stopping at Omaha, Nebrask a.
have yet 533 miles to go, how does thai
sound alongside OF 81 miles to Philadel
phia? Omaha is apparently large town
but sticks to low buildings. AT 9.S(
P. NJ, we are crossing the North Platts
river which is very wide but looks to be
very shallow and full of sand bars. AS
P. NJ, stopped at Lincoln, Nebraska,
evidently very large city. Got out and
walked around. 7.45 P. NJ, had supper,
whilst eating it stopped at Hastings, Neb.,
this is quite a large town. August 20,
routed us out at 4-30 A. NJ, western time,
6 80 eastern time, had breakfast at 5
o'clock. Now near Brush, COL, this
seems to be cattle country exclusively.
1 see no crops, little bits of shacks for the
cattle men and no buildings at all, that |
see, apparently very rough and poor
country, don't see how it feeds stock but
it does however. Not a tree in sight, to
me it would be dreary in the extreme.
l should be apt to cry with the boy Il
want to go home" Here is a corn field
at last, first have seen, and now good
many clusters of trees, seems to be more
of farming community, more hills, more
and better buildings and some crops. 8.45
o'clock eastern time, they say We are
near Denver, have just passed Derby, last
town before getting to Denver, there is
quite stretch of mountains off to the
right. 7o'clock eastern time, we are just
running into the suburbs of Denver, it is
certainly big city, here we we're met by
reception committee who put US in sight
seeing trolley cars and showed US over the
city, spending good part of the morning
at it. 1t is large city indeed, with
many fine buildings but not many of
them very high considering the size Of
the city. We are 5000 feet above sea
level here. Left here at IL noon eastern
time, arrived at Colorado Springs about
80 eastern time, were met by the Grand
Army Post and big crowd of citizens,
had button hole bouduets for US. Marched
up to the Antlers Hotel, the finest one in
the place, where We we're welcomed to
the city by the Mayor in a warm and
hearty address. There are 25, 600 strang-
ere here, tourists who have taken posses
sion of the rooms of the hotel that were
intended for us and only 100 can be
accommodated here, the balance, about
l75, going to the College Dormitories,
where we are very comfortably housed.
ALI however take their meals at the hotel,
the ball room having been handsomely
and patriotically decorated as a dining
room for US during our stay. Our Sleep
ing quarters are about mile from the
hotel but that does not amount to any
thing as we are furnished with all the car
tickets we want to use. / slept poorly
as it takes me sometime to get used to
strange bed. Wednesday, August 2l,
after breakfast formed in line and marched
% trolley cars provided with guides and
'ff we went on sight seeing trip, and
inc trip it was, over to Maniton to the
springs which tastes very much like soda
water. This is a great health resort as
we'll as pleasure resort. They can't give
1ou bathing suit and send you into the |
turf to bathe but they hire you burro
'r donkey and send you riding into the |
Mountains, The place and surrounding
country was crowded with people hunting |
health or pleasure or both. These places,
specially Maniton, remind me of our
places and pleasure resorts east.
Many of the side shows or attractions are
imilar. OF course the riding takes the
'lace OF bathing. Off we 60 again up the
Mountains to Mount Cutler, part of the
ime we walked as change. 1t was GER
ainly grand and beautiful, there are lots
# towns laid out and buildings OF all
Iilids i'll the course OF erection, some with
anvass walls, some frame, some brick.
)ne multi-millionaire is building a hum
lred thousand dollar house way up here
n the mountain. There is a very fine
jasino, Zoo gardens, gentIemen's clubs,
iding and driving clubs, parks and
bureau of Information, grounds hand
onely laid out, and lots of these health
eeking people riding horseback or in
arriages or walking about. A man by
he name of Stratton, now dead, had
'eautiful park which still goes by his
Iame, He mads his money in the gold
mines here, he was not a miner but
who located some mines and
Vas very successful, and after time sold
lis gold mines to an English syndicate
Or eleven million dollars and rewarded
lis agent who sold them for him, with
commission or fee OF S9O0,OO0. With the
money from the mines he layei out and
improved tStratton Park" This after
oon we had great time. General
'almer whilst he knew that we had once
een as well drilled regiment as it was
ommon to find, also knew that at this
ate day we were only ''has beens.'' so
Did the citizens that we would not parade
or them but the citizens claimed that the
ieneral was theirs and as we were the
they had a right to have a
nnk lo0k at the hove who. foII<,,,.,<1z 49,: