Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-01-13

larry and quit till you get rested zip. Ii
all. the "Ohs" and ..Ahs'' and 'magnifi.
cents and "wonderfuls" and "sublimes''
and '''indescribables'' that have been ut
tered by wondering travellers around
that canyon could be gathered into one
bunch Of language it would make Web.
ster's Dictionary look like a vest pocket
diary.
The Santa Fe people have gone UP
there, seven thousand feet above sea
level. and among the pine forests, and
built a hotel that cost a quarter of a
million dollars. It's one Of the most rest
full places : ever saw. It's all built out
OF native logs. hewn and stuffed between
with oakum. It's steam heated and cleo.
trio lighted, and orname ted with, a Won
'derful assortment of Indian and other
,curios from the great Southwest. The
atmosphere, praise the Lord, is entirely
monumental. You are not pestered to
buy anything or to take any trips or to
do anything you do not want. The San.
ia Fe is to be %evcrlastingly commended
for the air of decency and dig
nifty with which this place is run. A mild
hammered and gentlemanly young mar
comes to you when o. arrive and asks
do you say so. and he tells you. If you
don't. that the end Of it. It's one of the
few places where they do not slap you
in the face wit. postal cards, besiege
You with shell and bead ornaments, ami
bother you to death until you wish you
had not come. Praised be the Santa Fe
and the Ell Tovar management.
1t wasn't exactly easy to build this
hotel, nor is it easy to manage it. All
the water is hauled in t k cars from a
distance Of more than a hundred miles
from near Phonix, Arizona. There's ple,r.
~ Of water down in the Colorado river,
but 1t is six thousand feet below the
hotel and they have not found any way
to pump 1t up and AZ it takes a day to
make the trip. 1t would take too ;ong TO
send q bell boy down after a pi:c.er of
water. Consequently they charge seventy
five cents for a bath up there. but it's
worth the money. The cuisine is ex-
cellent. The hotel is run on the Amer
lean plan, and the charges are reason
able. The appointments are splendid ard
I would ask nothing better some :icne
than to spend a week at Ell Tovar.
Last night I went over to Pasadena
and attended the monthly salon given by
DR.. n Mrs. Robert Burdette at Sum
ny crest. DR.. Burdette, l am sorry to
say Is in extremely poor, health. He SUI.
fers from a trouble with the pancreas
and Is in great pain a good deal of the
time. TITS touching that this fire ?sIonleed
and splendid man. full Of human kind
ness. charity and ,-helpfulness, should be
so AFFLICTED. He is in bed d hood deal
OF the time. but last night got up and
mingled with his guests, who included,
the artistic. literary and musical lights
OF this section Of Southern California.
They were so Kind to us It seemed like
getting back into the bosom Of ones own
family. Mrs. Burdette entertained US
with a description of her six hundred and
description, gathered t rm all parts Of
the .worldHa collectionzEcof great value
and the most wonderful anywhere. She
has p little bell no bigger than q thinnble
made from q fragment OF Cid. Liberty
Bell which it crackSd and shed. a few
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