The Holly chieftain., 1909-02-05
WITH PRoFUsE hospitality
LEADvILLE CELEBRATES HER
: THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY.
LUNCH IN A Deep MINE.
VISITING PIONEERS ARE ENTER
TANNED AT MAeNIFicENTs
BANQUET IN ELkS' HALL.

in the Cloud City Invitations to a
homecoming and reunion had been eX-
tended to all who were in Leadville
thirty-two years ago, the year when the
city received its charter and in which
it made it's most phenomenal growth.
And the seventy-niners came from
all over Colorado in large numbers,
and even some from other states.
Not as they came to Colorado in
1879, in stage coaches and freight wag
ons or on horseback. but in the lux
ury of Pullman cars.
Among them were many prominent
men in almost every vocation OF life,
an ex-United States senator, the lieu
tenant governor of the state, justice,
and two x-justices Of the state Su-
preme Court, a member OF Congress-
bankers, lawyers, doctors, preachers,
business men, railroad officials and,
of course, newspaper men.
They were greeted at the depot by
a wholesouled reception committee, OF
which former Mayor 8. D. Nicholson,
manager of the Western Mining Com
pany, was the moving spirit, and
which included a large number of the
leading citizens of the Leadvllle of to-
day. Hacks, on runners, were ready
to take the visitors to the hotel.
They found the snow over two feet
deep and the sleighing magnificent,
but it was very cold, and was snow
ing and blowing to beat the band"
At Manager Nicholson's invitation
the visiting seventy-niners were taken
on a train, furnished by the courtesy
of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad,
up the mountain toward the head OF
Stray Horse gulch, on train of four
passenger cars, with four locomotives
to plow through the snow, to the Wolf
Tone mine.
There, seven at time, they entered
a cage at the shaft house and were
lowered one thousand feet into the
bowels of the earth"-more than
twice the distance to the top OF the
highest skyscraper.
At the bottom of the shaft, as If by
the magic of Aladdin's lamp, they
found large room, an abandoned
pumping station, transformed by bril-
liant electric lights, whitewashed tim
bers, gay flags and bunting, richly set
banquet tables and band Of music,
into a veritable cave Of enchantment,
worthy of Monte Cristo.
Here they were wined and dined,
listened to and made speeches, were
treated to band music, songs by glee
club of ladies and moving pictures by
a native of Leadville. They voted
Manager Nicholson a prince of wiz
ards.
After this they were entertained in
various ways about town until p. M,
when they assembled at grand ban
quet in the Elks' hall.
Col. Kenneth L. Fahnestock acted as
toastmaster, Judge Charles Cavender
welcomed the guests, Parson uzzell of
Denver. pronounced the invocation and
at the close of the banquet a long pro-
gram of speeches followed, including
addresses by Justice Luther w. God
dard, S., D. Nicholson, ex-senator 7.
M. Patterson, John A. Ewing, Hon.
Frank. C. -Goudy, Lieutenant Governor
Fitzgerald and others.
Among those present were N. Max
cy Tabor, son of the late Senator H.
A. w. Tabor, John C. Mitchell of the
Denver National Bank, Assistant Pas
senger Agent Frank A. Wadleigh of
the Denver Rio Grande railroad, for
mer Gov. Jesse Mcdonald of Leadville,
Congressman-elect A. w. Rucker, The
odore F. Van Wagenen, V. Stanley Re-
vett, Thomas Tonge, John j. Niblock,
Henry G. Stevens of Detroit, Michael
Finnerty of Waukesha, Wis, Charles
Boettcher, Max Boehmer, w. II. Bur
chinell and many other well known
people.
Mayor H. c. Rose of Leadville, and
his wife, were untiring in their hospi-
table attention to the guests. as were
scores OF other Leadville people.
The burden Of most of the speeches,
aside from glowing "reminiscences, was
that Leadville, which has, first and
last, contributed $360,0O0,OOO to the
worlds wealth, will continue for long
years to come, to pour out ceaseless
stream Of mineral riches.
e. Z. Rittenhouse. formerly commits
sOner OF insurance of Colorado, has
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