The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-05-07
SEEING AMERICA FIRST.
Lifted From
~ FRED c. KELLY
Copyright, 1915. By Fred c. Kelly.)

Lifted From Diary:
In the old-fsshioned school Biographies in use
twenty or twenty-five years ago the state OF
Colorado. as | recall the circumstance, was
marked the map in sort Of greenish brown.
And that Is precisely the color OF Colorado "a
seen from the irsin--a greenish brown. the
brown being the granite that forms the warp
and woof OF Colorado and also the mountainous
spinaI column OF the American continent.
Colorado Springs has more miIlionaires. acre
for acre, and population for population. than
any place At least, that is the city's proud
boas'. and there seems TO be no one prepared
TO stalk mp and say IL nay. And not only are
there more millionaires In Colorado Springs
bat there are more different kinds OF million
aires than you can find elsvhere In a CORES
pondlng area OF population You drive out the
principal residence streets from one given point
thTty-ssyen millIonaires. as nearly as can now
remember the statistics. OF hat number. many
were pronounced millionaires almost simultan
ecusly with the doctors announcement Of their
arrival Others became millionalres by mar
rage and few qualified by gradual process
But the great majority OF millionaires In Colo
rado Springs mIllionaires because OF the
circumstance Of being brought into sudden con
tact with gold mine over Cripple Creek way.
You hear Of men who became nilionaires first
and learned 20 read and write aftervard.
Quick wealth f. full Of whims and tempera-
mont inclined 10 DO funny things and have It's
oNn way A Colorado Spring. multi-million
aire took a room ~ the leading hotel IN Denver
one night a few years ago, and behaved In a
manner that caused him TO Oe ordered away
Ie wsnt away quietly enough. but he went 20
lawyers office and within half hour had
tarrarged 70 buy the hotel Then be discharged
the manager and returned 10 his room.
Old General Palmer. -ho built the Denver =
Rio Grande railroad. did not make his money
az suddenly as a number OF the others. but he
neyerth eless acquired notions q having things
Just the way he wanted them When he built
big house on his landed estate near Colorado
Springs he desired an odfashioned tile roof
and furthermore. be wanted the roof IN be
real antique He went over 20 England, bought
castle with the kidd Of tile roof he had in
mind had the tile taken off. and shipped IL in
boxes 10 Colorado Springs. where II was placed
on hts house
The consequence % 20 NAM mfionaires ~
one kind and another In the community is that
money counts in Colorado Springs No 0na
ever frets himself over how perso- s~rui--
his fortune The main question asked by the
he got t.
Two different weather theories seem 10
abound in Colorado Springs. One man told me
that II would not warm up until more OF the
snow had melted off the mountains. Another
declared that snow would not melt of the
mountain sides until u warmed up
Cripple Creek. the world famous mining town
near Colorado Springs. r. stu chuckling over
the municipal retort II handed 10 Julian Street
When that writer was doing his series abou,
various American points 81 interest under the
title OF Abroad AZ Home" he visited Cripple
Greek. and as the say Ia. wrote u up" Most
Of his article however was devoted 10 Mason
street the main thoroughfare of the tenderlon
section OF the city. The populsce 81 the min
Ing town resented Streets article as giving IN.
due emphasis 10 a feature OF the city that they
preferred TO regard as one OF ts lesser attrac
tons. SO the City Council changed the name
Of Mason street II Is now officially known as
Julian Street