Gilpin observer., 1914-07-09

they gamboled in the magnetic water
or the pool, with their auburn, golden
and raven tresses streaming in the
opalescent twilight of the fading day,
their beautiful faces suffused with
blushes from the vulgar gaze of the
motley throng, formed family group
once seen, is never to be forgotten.
gotten.
Manager Kirk, whose every pulsa-
tion Of the heart beats in sympathy
with philanthropic and divine teach
tngs, presented each and every one
OF his assembled guests with two
fishes. and gave each of them a due
bill on the Russell Gulch bake-shop
for five loaves of bread thus fulfill
in the Scripture, For l will feed the
multitude on five loaves and two
fishes and still have fishes left.
The old 200-foot drift at the bottom
OF the lO0O-foot shaft is to be fitted
up as adio-palpitating bath house
where the patient is filled with ra-
dio-active energy, and then placed
upon the cage that is shot heaven
ward by the aid of compressed air,
to the eighth floor of the hotel,
where a'.fndants take them into the
nlassage room and subject them to a
message, that brings a rugged color
to the skin by vigorously rubbing
with brushes made of pine cones from
the Surrounding forest.
A bronze statue of the engineer in
charge is tc be erected on the sum-
NIT OF Pewabic mountain facing the
west, that his glorious achievement,
that found conception in his fertile
brain, shall ever be spread before
his sightless gaze. The most beau
tiful of all the mermaids, Miss Nep-
tune Pluvious, will pull the cord, ex-
tendillg to the pool, that denudes
the statue of its drapery.
The mayor of Russell Gulch, custo-
dian of the merm aid aquarium, and
Manager Kirk, of the hotel syndicate.
are both enamoured of the charms of
Miss Pluvious, and in order to adjust
their differences, Mr.. Kirk, in his ini-
mical way, suggested the clipping"
of coin, for the mermaid's affec-
tions, heads l win, tails, you lose"
The coin was ''flipped" and fell in
y
Miss Neptune, who gracefully swan
to tie ether side OF the pool and
spert it for an ice-cream cone at
Pete Barnabe's refreshment stand.
a Central City NJ. D., who has re-
Gently returned from Chicago, where
he took a postgraduate course in
surgery, hss been delegated by the
management to perform an operation
on the mermaids, that their luminous
orts may feast on the beauties of
this terrestrial sphere, and also to
substitute pedal extremities in lieu
OF tails. that they may perambulate
midst the delightful groves on the
shores of the pool, escorted by love-
lorn swains languishing on its grassy
banks.
Manager Kirk and his efficient
corps of engineers are now arrang-
ing a contract with the legislative
body of San Francisco, whereby they
are to tap the thinnest part of the
earth's crust, thereby relieving the
congestion of its molten interior,
thus affording a relief valve that for
ever prevents earthquakes.
1t has been decided by the manage
ment to close the hotel and grounds
on October 81, corresponding to the
date terminating the fishing season.
Large incubators are now in course
of construction heated by huge blocks
of pitchblende, for protection OF the
mermaids during the winter months,
and Dave Wood has been delegated
to teach them to walk, and care for
their sanitary condition during the
long and severe winter season.