The personality of American cities . lled the Switzerland Trail. Youll like that trip, he said, with the enthusiasmof the real Denverite. Its wonderful, and such a rail-road ! Why, there are thirty-two tunnels between hereand the divide. The tourist to whom this suggestion was made lookedup — great scorn upon his countenance. That doesnt hit me, he growled, not even a littlebit. I live in New York — live in Harlem, to be morelike it, and work down in Wall street — use the subwaytwelve times a week. I dont have to come to Coloradoto ride in tunnels. Tourists form no small portion of Denver indu
The personality of American cities . lled the Switzerland Trail. Youll like that trip, he said, with the enthusiasmof the real Denverite. Its wonderful, and such a rail-road ! Why, there are thirty-two tunnels between hereand the divide. The tourist to whom this suggestion was made lookedup — great scorn upon his countenance. That doesnt hit me, he growled, not even a littlebit. I live in New York — live in Harlem, to be morelike it, and work down in Wall street — use the subwaytwelve times a week. I dont have to come to Coloradoto ride in tunnels. Tourists form no small portion of Denver has restaurants and souvenir shops, three to a block;seemingly enough high-class hotels for a town threetimes her size. Yet the restaurants and the hotelsare always filled, the little shops smile in the sunshineof brisk prosperity. And as for rubberneck wagons,Denver has as many as New York or Washington. Theyare omnipresent. The drivers take you to the top of thepark system, to the Cheesman Memorial, to see the DENVER 271 All the time you are letting your eyes revel in the gloriesof those great treeless mountains, the megaphone manis dinning into your ears the excellence of his companystrips in Colorado Springs, in Manitou, in Salt Lake assumes that you are a tourist and that you will havenever had enough. Tourists become a prosperous industry in a town thathas no particular manufacturing importance. Great idleplants, the busy smelters of other days, bespeak the truthof that statement. Denver, as far as she has any com-mercial importance, is a distributing center. Her re-tail shops are excellent and her wholesale trade extendsover a dozen great western states. Her banks arepowers, her influence long reaching. But she is not anindustrial city. That has worried her very much, is still a matter ofgrave concern to her business men. Their quarrels withthe railroads have been many and varied. Denver re-alizes, although she rarely confesses it, that she
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