Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1907-12-01

! directions is to remind one OF doll
house fresh from the toy shop What
ever property or quality of the atmos-
phere that holds old age in such auda-
cious contempt is beyond my ken.
Paint on houses seems to last for years.
At least Denver possesses few frame
houses, everything being brick or stone
But paint lasts in exposed places like the
brick or stone which are forever new.
No dingy houses there, not one 1t IS
a PECULIARLY, almost unprecedented, il
not wholly SO, and can be accounted tor
only in the basis of atmospheric. purity.
There is no. smoke nuisance, and, dust
is not prevalent, and these things may
account for the. life everlasting which
seems to coat the houses everywhere 1t
Denver, is called the Incompatible city,
certainly. she merits the title, If cons1d-
cred from the standpoint of always look
ing like she had Just. had. a. face wash
ing
Away out in the bullying granaries of
the West. where I happened to be- when
the, Wall street explosion took place.
the newspapers printed glazing extras In
red, but they. fell fiat. There wasn't
the semblance. of attention paid to the
published reports. Men went about their
affairs as though nothing more than a
gentle zephyr had blown across the
plains. There is too much prosperity
on hand to bother with Wall Street
There wasn't anything doing IN the
scared line Colorado or. Nebraska or
Iowa could cover themselves in behind
Chinese wall and sustain themselves
for a century even in a state OF siege.
Absolutely everything needed for the
sustenance of man is produced there.
and many of the luxuries. A newspaper
man stated that there were riots in New
York over the Knickerbocker Trust
Conpanys run, but the attempt to play
upon the credulity of the people was
futile. 1t had no effect whatever. The
point to be considered was that panic
was impossible there. No one thought
of withdrawing deposits What con-
cerned them most was how to take
care of the thousands of bushels of corn,
and the thousands of tons of sugar beets
that lie ripened, but ungathered, in the
fields.
Everybody was busy. Panic was their
last thought. They were having war
fare of their own, but it was friendly
strife, a contest. of commerce at home
outgrowing itself. Denver didn't mind
New York; Omaha laughed at it; Kan
sas City went on being more prosperous:
It was as effective out there as would
be the news of riot in Paris or Lon
don. There are no fogs in Colorado.
Everything is clean as ether. l saw the
snow on Pixies Peak glistening in the
sunlight, good omen of hope and beacon
of light for the future. Panic! None
for the Rocky Mountain region. None
for the $50 miles of Nebraska's length.
X
Who can tell when the limits of mod
ern luxury in travel will be realized
it'll the coming of the Pullman car,
and the Mann boudoir car, the evolu-
ton of the vestibule train was rapidly
worked out Of itself the vestibule train
was a wonderful accomplishment. Ii
took away Immediately many of the
dangers of going from coach to coach
but added much in the way of freeing
trains from dust. There are many
trains to-day that render every kind OF
service one can pet in an up-to-date