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J0T' I **i**^ MUNICIPAL FACTS, August-September-October, 1926 A Tale of Wild Adventure in Denver's City Park

HEN you have listened to by EDITH SAMPSON "But what could a swan do to you ?" some traveller who tells "Now say!" Mr. Hill laughed "I'd of wild, weird dangerous hate to tell you—why I know a fellow— places, of hair breadth Water Fowl Island, the No Man's Land a swan hit him a blow on his hip and escapes, of near wrecks, of the Park, uninhabited and unfre­ broke it. Say! don't ever let one of of eerie sounds and unblazed trails—it quented by man, except by the director those swans get after you"—Mr. Hill may have come over you how wonder­ of the Zoo, Clyde Hill. very generously included several other ful it would be to have some such "How would you like" said Mr. Hill species in his warning—and we then adventure at first hand, some great "to go with me to a strange and lonely proceeded to weave our sinuous and hunt in Africa or India, or a trek to place?" silent way along into the tangled depths the South Sea Islands or Australia! "A dangerous place ?" "Well yes" he of the island. Certainly if Mr. Hill had But if you have a simple as well as said, "it may be dangerous and certain­ mentioned a tribe of head hunters it an adventurous soul and an imagination ly it will be weird, and what you will would not have amazed us much after that does justice to a jungle you need see, you will see only if you have the what he told us about the hip-break­ go no further than Denver's City Park. sense to move very slowly and quietly." ers! Whirr! Whirr!—here and there It is then on the eve of a return from The director of the Zoo being some­ birds whizzing upwards disturbed from a trip to the City Park that this story thing of a Kipling, thus prepared the their nests, by the slightest crack of a is written. Of the million or more photographer and the writer for the twig. We followed the slow rhythmical people who visit City Park each season, great expedition to Water Fowl Island. approach of our guide—a few wild there are probably not a handful who From the more common and approach­ geese and ducks remained setting and have the souls of explorers, and this is able parts of the City Park, a canoe little by little we came in sight of the a very fortunate thing because if you was produced and in this we set out swan on the nest. Letting her get fully are going to really explore the Park for the Island, not directly, but in a accustomed to the sight of the photo­ you must come and go with the sun, circuitous water route that gave us a grapher—inch by inch—-we got nearer which leaves you no time for anything good idea of the geography, the prin­ until in about an hour's time the picture else. cipal, ports and bays, patronized by was secured! In the meantime there the leading swans, ducks and geese. were all those other brown and speckled The Hill Expedition Starts feathery things, some of them on the wing but many allowing us to examine Once you have become initiated into Landing on the Island them, right down to the spotting of park lore, you must know that there We finally landed at Swansport. It their protective coloring. As 'to the is in our City Park a lake that is the was one of those more treacherous nests—they were big, medium and envy of other parks, the country over. landings, with the camera tipping in small—and literally covered the Island, This is not the big lake with the band one direction and the canoe in another for besides swans, five varieties of stand, but the little lake, the lake which and Mr. Hill, growing mysterious, geese, and six varieties of ducks, the has at one end the new aviary and Zoo whispering directions about not mak­ Island is popular with the more deli­ office. You may have paused at this ing a noise. The moment we landed the cate wild birds that summer in City little lake to watch the children feed strangeness and the isolation of that Park. There is no chance of meeting ducks and swans or to feed them your­ jungle crept over us, branches hid the on the Island that dreaded enemy the self. Well then did you ever notice the sky from view, gone was every trace island in the center of this lake ? Wild of Denver, and a sudden whirr behind cat. Unfortunately [Turn to page 7] us almost startled one of the party into the lake! Meeting the Hip Breaker "I ought to warn you" said Mr. Hill "about the Swan's nest, as soon as we go in here a little way—if we are very lucky we may be able to do something that is not done once in twenty years— get a picture of a swan on her nest— but swans are awful fast when they get mad. It may be she's off for a rest or a swim—if he's there—he'll be on guard all over the place, if she's there she may get scared and mad at Nesting in a tree crotch the same time." A nest-buildcr on the ground MUNICIPAL FACTS, August-September-October, 1926

Copyrighted The photographer attains—the unattainable Only once in a decode does a camera artist picturize a swan on her nest Here is the—hipbreaker! MUNICIPAL FACTS, August-September-October, 1926

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I Volume IX August-September-October, 1926 Numbers 8-9-10

When East Comes West

T is said in New York that the man the climate, or the cool nights, or the most pronouncedly a "New York­ beauty of the city, but on that far I er" is originally from anywhere more subtle and potent thing—Den­ else. ver's spirit. •4V Not infrequently America's metro­ There were those who attended Colo­ •A polis can make over a cowboy into a rado's Semi-Centennial Celebration type as impersonal as a skycraper. who were present fifty years ago In the Queen City of the Plains a sim­ when Denver was celebrating the ilar metamorphosis takes place. With­ state's admission into the union. in an incredibly short time the most Everything had changed. formal new-comer making Denver A metropolis had developed from a his home, becomes impermeated not frontier town. merely with the spirit of the west— but the spirit of the old west. Aeroplanes had taken the place of covered wagons. During the past summer Denver has And most of all the people. '—those entertained countless visitors from familiar faces, the striking char­ far and wide. Distinguished guests acters of the early days—gone! from every land attended the Rotary Convention in Denver. The Ameri­ Yet one thing remained—one thing can Bar Association discovered the unchanged and unchangeable—the West to many a visitor. Looking back spirit of the west. on the success of Denver as a conven­ —"where a man makes friends with­ tion city, the outstanding comment of out half trying that's where the West the visitor was not on the scenery, or begins." MUNICIPAL FACTS, August-September-October, 1926

The Five Little Bears A Real Live Story of Bears Who Have an Honest and Truly House in City Park!

F you start to tell a Denver child Punch and Judy and Sam Brown and in the Denver Zoo's famous Habitat the story of "The Three Little as for moving pictures where could and have lived there fro>n that day I Bears" you will be interrupted in anything on the screen be found more ever since. this fashion: "It's five little bears, not absorbing, more amusing and more Did their mothers like it? They did three—I've seen them my ownself thrilling than these five little furry not! They sent up such howls and right out at City Park." balls in action! growls of protest against their keepers, The story of the Five Little Bears The five little bears were born in against Fate and against life in gen­ is a true story. Further than this it January 1926 of four different moth­ eral that it was many a week before is a long story and the longer it grows ers. They did not stay very long with they became reconciled and assumed the more fascinated are the children their mothers because the director of their former interest in the life of the and the oftener they will interrupt the Zoo wanted them to be independent Zoo. with "And then what did he do?—" and to learn to play with each other But as for Sam Brown, Punch and and "When can we go and see them, and keep house together. And so one Judy and Jack and Jill if they had can't we go right now?'' Whole books bright early spring day, the five little walked right out of a story book they could be written on Jack and Jill and bears moved into one of the enclosures could not have taken more quickly to MUNICIPAL FACTS, August-September-October, 1926

the kind of life they were going to lead! Learning Their Tricks It was no time at all before they be­ came friends, and very soon they were rolling and tumbling and learning to walk and to climb. The miner's cabin which is a part of their enclosure just suited them to a T. Jack goes up to the roof of the cabin, and then turns very slowly around, as though he were posed on the top of the Woolworth Building and then he backs down the corner of the cabin and—of course—Jill comes tumbling after! Over the top of the roof peek two little heads, being Punch and Judy while out of the door struts Sam Brown. Now for all the world these five little bears give the impres­ sion of keeping house in their mining cabin—and as for their little beds and bowls of soup, it would not take a very great stretch of the imagination for anyone to picture them inside.

The Bears' Dressing Room When it rains, or thunders and lightnings—then the little bears run right into their little house, where they are as warn and cozy as can be— •' • ' ' H. or else they go in behind the scenes of the habitat—which is a kind of dress­ ing room for the bears—where they can get ready to come out and do their next stunt. The bears are very fond indeed of peanuts, having been fed on them almost since the day they were r*ME born and any bear will do more for a peanut than most men will do for fifty dollars! Living as they do before the public, they are used to people watch­ Barless Habitat That Made ing them and they seem quite lonely the Denver Zoo Famous and quiet when there is no crowd be­ fore their enclosure. V jf HHE Denver Zoo's barless Hab- I itat, sometimes called "The -^- Mountain," is the first of its Watch Them Grow! type in America and the first in the There is only one thing that is re­ world of cast work. grettable about these bears—and that Completed as a first unit in a larger is that just like boys and girls—they scheme, the Habitat was something of can't stay small. The little bears in an experiment, but it was so immedi­ the fairy story are always little—but ately and entirely successful that it be­ out at the Zoo some day you will go and came the envy of other cities. It was ask for the five little bears and some copied by St. Louis on a much larger one will look at you and say "But we plan, the one in Forest park being have no little bears—what are you three times the size of Denver's. talking about?" No city, however, has the realistic "But haven't you got some bears background for copying mountains, as named Jack and Jill and Punch and has Denver, and for this reason the Judy and Sam Brown?" rock in City park seems more real than "Oh them!" the keeper will laugh that cast for other zoos. The mining "them great big bears over there—yes cabins typical of the Rocky Mountains, they were born out here. I thought water falls, bathing pools, etc., make you said little bears—now if you come the Zoo's Habitat a hotel de luxe for out here next month why !" animals. MUNICIPAL FACTS, August-September-October, 1926 Wild Adventure in City Park Pavements, Parks and Other (Continued from page 2) ther is no way of keeping a cat out of yaur back yard—but he can't get his Improvements sneaking paws on that City Park para­ dise—and that fact is the talk of every An Interview ivith Charles D. Vail bird in Denver! So far as possible nests are arranged before the nesting season and the birds Y the first of the coming Decem­ avenue to do away with another point come and look them over at about the "1R-ber" said Charles D. Vail, man­ of dangerous crossings. same time that you are out house­ JO ager of Improvement and Parks, "The increase of traffic has kept us hunting. "Denver will have three times more busy remodelling bridges that were Sometimes a duck or a goose will paved streets than she had in June originally intended for lighter loads. move into a ready built nest—with all 1923" Engineers appreciate that the ever in­ the improvements installed—even to "In a general survey of the city it creasing number of vehicles mean ever the heating system, but the more fin­ can hardly be realized how very im­ increasing loads. We are building a icky still prefer to act as their own portant the rapid progress of our new bridge on Thirteenth avenue and architects and build their own. paving program is. The very fact that contemplate remodeling the Bannock we have so little rain and mud and street bridge to make Eighth avenue On the Trail of Crime! that the natural condition of unpaved direct. roads is better in and about Denver You might suppose that living on an has had a tendency to keep many peo­ Installation of Lights Island such as this—the life of a bird ple from realizing how much paving "Many people have remarked the in­ would run pretty smoothly, in fact at was needed. stallation of lights, and particularly first glance it looked as though there the boulevard lighting system through were nothing to disturb the serenity— More Paving Mileage Cheesman Park and on through Wash­ security and peace of bird life. ington Park. It is interesting to note But that is not Life. "In 1923 Denver had but 58 miles in passing that approximately $20,000 No Isle of Happiness is without its of paving. The coming December she has been saved the city by the ju­ home-wrecker! It was when every­ will have 152. Equal progress has been dicious installation of lights. thing was running most pleasantly, made along the lines of alley paving, when nests were inhabited, and "the street surfacing, curbing and gutter­ Park Progress goose hung high" that Mr. Hill went ing etc. and I believe that we may "In the parks of Denver, I can safely over one day, in the late spring, on a point with some pride to the general say that during the past two years weekly tour of inspection. condition of our streets as compared more permanent improvements have The first thing that greeted his with a few years ago. been made than in any other two years eyes—was tragedy—a wrecked nest— "There is another point that I would in the city's history and I will be glad broken eggs—the trail of a marauder. like to make in connection with the sur­ to give the exact facts and figures to Now Chief Reed has had no more facing of the streets. The streets are any interested person or persons at any baffling crime, or rather series of being surfaced in such a way that they time. crimes, than those which took place on are ready for the pavement to go right "Nearly every one who travels about Water Fowl Island, during the late on. This will mean a large saving in the mountains observes the general spring and early summer. And over in future paving expense." progress of the work of the city in our the Zoo office there were daily con­ Mr. Vail then went on to speak with municipal mountain parks, particularly ferences who and where was "Gyp the something of the zeal of a house-keeper Echo Lake and its environs. Two thou­ Blood?" Foot printing and trapping, about the problem of dust and its re­ sand more acres have been acquired guess words and strategy—for three lation to paving and said that as time this year making the acreage more weeks, were without avail, until in­ went on more and more paving must be than double of that owned by the city toxicated by his success—Gyp the used everywhere because of ever grow­ a few years back, and throughout the Blood became overconfident and fell ing traffic in order to keep dust under mountain park system improvements into a trap set by Mr. Hill. He was control and to safeguard the health of have been made on every hand. a racoon—escaped from the Zoo—who the city and countryside. had swum over to the Island and lived "The program of improvement" he Why Not Watch Denver Grow? on the fat of the land. After his cap- said, "is one which is not always "On the whole I think it is a very true—he was tried, found guilty and readily grasped by a citizen, who commendable thing for citizens to keep executed. Then it was that a happy only sees what is going on in his par­ in touch with the work we are doing. summer opened. The swan and geese ticular section of Denver. Perhaps no Why not occasionally drive about the mate for life and live at peace. work is more important, for example city with the special object of see­ Some of the species on the Island than that we are doing in the construc­ ing just what new work is in pro­ are Swans, Canada Geese, Bermicle tion of the new subways. The Iowa gress? To do this in a detailed way Geese, Snow Geese, White Fronted and the 38th Street subways will both would consume an entire vacation pe­ Geese, Blue Geese, Wood Ducks, Can­ be completed this winter and we have riod, but anyone can drive his car vas Back Ducks, Goodwall Ducks, Red now in mind arrangements for build­ about for a birdseye view—and I be­ Head Ducks, Pin Tailed Ducks and ing a subway under the Burlington lieve will find himself a more intelli­ Teal Ducks. tracks on Washington street near 44th gent resident of the city for so doing." MUNICIPAL FACTS, August-September-October, 1926 When Wild Animals Enter Public Life The City Park Zoo Develops Individuality and u Animal Interest" That Is Akin to "Human Interest"

pass that shown by many men and women ? The bear being crippled made no move towards the meat that was thrown in. Here was the opportunity for Wonder to eat his fill—and many another greedy animal would have done so. The dog however figured the case out. The bear was sick. The bear ought to eat. How far he went with this reason­ ing it is of course impossible to say— "Bitter-enders"—Both but what he did was to carry the meat, his own as well as the bear's and lay Adonis you must know. He is the pea­ it in front of Old Blackie. Day after cock who struts and preens with all day and week after week Blackie was the magnificence of his many hued tail. fed and nursed and assisted by Wonder Self centered but fascinating to gaze —until one day Blackie was well. By upon, the only thing about him that is this time there had come about one of ugly is his call—and that is always as these friendships that only Death can shocking as it is to hear a pretty sever. The dog and the bear were as woman speaking common language inseparable as any two old college with a common inflection. chums you ever knew. Wonder still continues to live with the bear and Othello is our old familiar friend the with other bears. He much prefers turkey, but he belongs to that branch them to those of his own kind. He of the turkey family known as the Wild Three deers—"Clyde" with his twins may seem to some people like an Amer- Turkey. An interesting bird because he is a bitter-ender—always ready for a fight to the finish and as touchy as yp hen "Wonder/' a fellow who carries two guns. Desdemona is a turkey hen, the life the female Alaskan dog arrived in Den­ partner of Othello. The placing of ver, by aeroplane from Alaska, it was these three fowls in one pen seemed a question as to just where the best justified. There was every reason to place for her in the zoo would be. After believe that they would get on amiably. some debate it was suggested that a And so they did for a time. dog being faster in movements than a bear, might be safely placed in the The peacock struts cage with "Old Blackie"—a bear sadly crippled with rheumatism. ican making his home in a foreign country—but at least he is giving a With a close eye on the results—the demonstration of adaptability, unself­ experiment was made. But just as hu­ ishness, loyalty and control that are man action is the one incalculable ele­ not to be passed by unobserved. ment, the reaction of an animal is also astounding in its way. Certainly no one in the zoo had anticipated what Adonis, Othello and would happen in this case—for who Desdemona could have suspected that in the great Alaskan dog there dwelt something are three Zoo characters involved in a that may be described as sympathy, triangle love affair that approached a and a sympathy so unselfish as to sur­ tragic end. The opossum and their young MUNICIPAL FACTS, August-September-October, 1926 The Bottle-Fed Baby of the Zoo is little Orphan Annie. What happened to the mamma and the papa of this little mule-deer fawn is not recorded—but the fact that she is an orphan has resulted in her bringing up under a strangely human super­ vision that separates her more widely from the three other fawns than the road between their two enclosures.

If in the early summer you were to go into the large enclosure among the elk How the fawn camouflage Orphan Annie at lunch and deer you would find these trim, delicate graceful creatures eyeing you It looked once or twice as though anxiously for they are seeing some­ the hill—and the hill was all because Adonis and Othello were in deep con­ thing that you can't see—their three of the sheep.) ference and it might certainly have spotted fawn in hiding. In little clumps been inferred that they rather ad­ of grass, these baby fawn look so much Who ever heard of mountain sheep mired each other. Perhaps they had like the ground that you come upon without a mountain? By this simple discovered some remote ancestry. And them entirely unawares and if you are system of logic Mr. Hill was so con­ then came one certain lovely morning. clever enough to practice Mr. Hill's vincing that he actually erected an imi­ The air was so fresh that it seemed slow approach and succeed in picking tation of a mountain where the wildest that you more than breathed it—you one up—you will think the Twentieth animals on hoof could get a com­ drank it. The sky was the deep blue of Century Limited slow when you put it manding view of the Zoo. a perfect late summer Colorado morn­ down! It is just one flash—from one Mountain lovers know how rare a thing ing—the birds all about were singing. end of the enclosure to the other! it is to actually see mountain sheep. On this morning Adonis sxrode about— They know how to make themselves plainly agitated. He was meditating on Now then you have only to cross the scarce—and when they do come into the one subject of deep importance to road to come to the home of little Or­ him—his beauty. The moment was ar­ phan Annie—and what a difference. At view they are to be seen way up high riving when he could show his new the sound of your approach she comes some place looking you over—it is al­ found friend Othello what beauty in a jumping to you—a stiff legged little ways by their leave and not by yours! bird really was. Othello all unsus­ jump—but she might be your own dog And so it is on Clyde Hill—the moun­ picious of the mystery of a peacock's welcoming you home. Of course she tain sheep stand guard. But there is tail—was also walking about happily wants her picture taken—but more a special reason and that reason is in the sun shine, when suddenly little than this she wants her bottle—and Little Bo Peep. Now no little baby of by little like the rising of the sun, he she gets it! doting millionaires is more carefully saw to his horror the peacock's tail watched than Bo Peep. She is never rise and a great fan begin to spread allowed out. She is kept hidden under out in a rainbow of color. Little Bo Peep the rocks and always—ever since her birth—there stands a ram on guard. lives up on Clyde Hill. (Yes, there is a You can go there any day—and you Up to this time the wild turkey had place named Clyde Hill as well as a will see him there—a symbol to Bo probably known no bird more beauti­ man—the place having been named be­ Peep's mother—that the lamb is safe ful than himself. That one should ex­ cause the director of the Zoo insisted on and all is well. ist and should deliberately walk be­ fore Desdemona in the immodesty of his greater beauty was more than he could stand.

Othello flew at Adonis. In less time than it takes to write it there were long peacock feathers lying about on the ground. Adonis had his tail folded up more tightly than it has ever been before or since—and for days after the battle he refused to open his fan by so much as a feather. Othello and Desdemona were quickly taken away to another part of the Zoo.

As time went on the peacock thought no more about them—having returned once more to his favorite reflection on his own beauty and today he struts in greater pride than ever. The guardian of Bo Peep looks the photographer over 10 MUNICIPAL FACTS, August-September-October, 1926 Seeing Denver's Parks & Parkways The City Landscape Architect, S. R. De Boer, Points Out Things That Citizens Are Apt to Miss!

A RE you one of Denver's resident- the bucking broncho's favorite tricks. And then you are on your way out i^\ tourists or are you a citizen To make the trip as picturesque as pos­ Montview Boulevard, or the Seven­ -*- -^- that takes the same interest in sible and to skip no effect, to be able teenth Avenue Parkway. Here and the city's parks and parkways that you to crane his neck in the right direction, there Mr. De Boer insists on stopping do in your own garden ? and watch a mountain line between two to call your attention to some at­ Does your information consist in re­ trees the landscape architect drives his tractive little mountain vista framed marking to visitors, "This is the Seven­ car in most unexpected curves, dia­ through the parkway—and as you walk teenth Avenue Parkway and this is gonals and futuristic patterns but as through the parking, you think what a Monaco street and now we are on he talks you realize that you have never pity it is that so many people miss so Seventh avenue"—or are you noticing before been over the parks and park­ much since they have ceased to walk. from year to year the delightful ways of the city. Coming into City They lack leisure for the subtler ap­ changes, some small, some great, that Park by the impressive approach of the preciations. How much charm is lost are taking place as the beauty of Den­ esplanade, you whizz through with to the motorist! All this bouquet of ver comes to greater maturity? Mr. De Boer to the new Twenty-third fragrancies that you inhale as you avenue speedway which is to be the stand in the parking, whiffing pine Making Denver a Garden means of removing so much traffic mingled with flowers! The landscaping of a city is not an from the park. You then turn on overnight task. Just as you have your tracks and re-enter the park from The Seventh Avenue Planting planted your garden only to be disap­ the upper end and slowly circle it, while pointed this year and to make your your poetic driver talks to you of city You pass Monaco, which might well plans for what will be growing next park as it is not but is going to be. be a day's journey rather swiftly and year and perhaps the year after—as In this way all the time you are liter­ you make a non-stop trip of upper you can see in your minds eye the ally driving around one city park, your Sixth avenue, in order that you may shrubs that are to screen off your brain is driving around another and swerve into Seventh avenue at Colo­ alley, and break the hard lines of your you see the Wild Water Fowl Lake with rado Boulevard. Here you must ob­ house corners—so the city landscape full grown bull rushes, wild rice and serve the fine scheme of planting that architect S. R. De Boer has in his water lilies! You listen to the ex­ now calls itself to your attention and mind the full growth of many a young planation of roads that will come out demands that you alight from the auto­ planting that will be a spot of rare a bit here to give place to roads that mobile and walk a few blocks so that beauty in future Denver. And as the will come in there and you notice the you may get a little of the effect and first glimpses of the scheme of land­ happy results of the planting of many a sketch of the idea in mind. Upper scaping begin to take form, they are shrubs and flowers of which the City Seventh avenue has been planted in only the reflection of the thought that Park Superintendent John L. Russell blocks that are alternately high and has visualized them years in advance. had spoken earlier in the season. You low, so that it gives a wide play to Of a late summer afternoon, when take a long breath as you visit the rose light and shadow and brings in a strik­ the shadows begin to travel Eastward, garden, and stop to examine the water ing contrast in growth. This is an in­ Mr. De Boer is wont to wander about lily pond, in which you are told there teresting note in the landscape ar­ the city in his car, which has some of are now three thousand gold fish. rangement. [Turn to page U]

An interesting view of Denver's celebrated natuml barrier habitat MUNICIPAL FACTS, August-September-October, 1926 11

A colorful scene in the Platte River bottoms in the fall of the year Colorado's Crisper Celery

OLORADO now the sixth state in thrived and prospered in their under­ are given to satisfy fall appetites—and the union in the size of its celery taking. the approach of the great feast days of C crop will soon rank as fifth. Requiring as it does bottom land, the year. California capitalists have secured with an undergrounding of gravel, the "Celery" remarked Mr. Burton, "is 2,000 acres east of Pueblo which they banks of the Platte River have been one of the more treacherous crops—in will devote to the growing of celery. selected for the cultivation of celery. fact it may be said to be the most This will raise Colorado's present 800 Of a fall day there is certainly no treacherous crop. In order to grow celery acreage to 2,800 making this more picturesque sight in or near Den­ celery you have to understand it. Let state the fifth and eventually, agri­ ver than is to be found in this little it get too chilly in the spring and it culturists predict, it will be the first known section of the city. Italian will go to seed. Give it too much water or second. women, some quaint, some utterly and it will rust." Nowhere in the United States is a charming, with their broad brimmed The present celery crop of Colorado more uniform quality of celery grown hats and bright colored work frocks, is estimated as worth about $380,000 than in Colorado. A large part of Colo­ men with great sombreros—look as a year. Following is a list of the states rado's golden self-blanching summer though they were painted against the with their celery acreages and crop crop is exported, while her fall pascal bright blue sky and the startlingly values: celery, with solid hearts grown in the vivid green of the celery leaves. There ground, is used, for the most part, for is a tang of frost in the air, but the sun Florida—4,300 acres $5,200,000 home consumption. The two largest is warm—almost hot. The pungent California—5,890 acres 2,270,000 celery growers in the state at present odor of freshly stirred earth is mingled Michigan—3,860 acres 1,318,000 are F. F. Burton who has twenty-five with that of burning leaves. The celery New York—4,789 acres 1,719,000 acres at Petersburg and C. J. Ford with is being rapidly crated, and to look at New Jersey—1,510 acres 984,400 another twenty-five acres at Brighton. it and smell it stirs up a train of asso­ Colorado—800 acres 380,000 Up to this time the celery industry, ciated ideas until you find yourself Ohio—680 acres 264,000 has been largely in the hands of the thinking of turkeys and mince pies and Oregon—380 acres... 184,000 small growers, all of whom have pumpkins and all the good things that Pennsylvania—380 acres...... 172,000 12 MUNICIPAL FACTS, August-September-October, 1926

Members of the Mountain Parks advisor]/ board and city officials attending the opening of Echo Lake Lodge. Left to right—S. R. DeBoer, Ruben W. Hershey, Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton, Charles D. Vail, Peter Seerie, Craig Bradford, Edith Sampson, Fred Steinhauer, George Harvey, Charles McAllister Willcox, Frederick Ross, Henry E. May Echo Lake Lodge Complete Another Gem in the Precious Setting of Denver's Unique Chain of Mountain Parks

V |f NHE opening of the new Munici­ if there were only some place where Built at an expense of about $10,- pal Lodge at Echo Lake, marked we could comfortably linger on here 000 in money, Echo Lake Lodge is also T another step in the development for a day or so!" the product of ideas. While it is ar­ of Denver's mountain park system and Echo Lake Lodge then is the natural chitecturally interesting, its three placed at the disposal of Denver's resi­ answer to Echo Lake, for there are in­ fundamental ideas are shelter, good dents and guests, a place that is as deed few travellers who are not en­ food, warmth and good beds. The picturesque as its setting. chanted when they find themselves in story of its building in the tempre- In the imagination of every moun­ these Olympian heights. To view the mental weather moods of the high tain traveller there is always some sunsets and sunrises on lofty Mount mountains pays its own tribute to the such stopping place as Echo Lodge— Evans, to ascend and descend from energy and perseverance of the men —a place that is an intregal part of Summit Lake, at any hour of day or employed. the scenery, where one can be warmed night, and to thoroughly absorb all that By far the most pretentious shelter and fed and bathed and rested, and this vicinity has to give to visitors, re­ house in the Mountain Parks, the new where a few hours or a few days can quires more than an hour or two— lodge has already become an estab­ be spent at choice. Caught by the un­ and there is the lodge with its wel­ lished feature of the famous Mount expected beauty and possibilities of a come suggestion "why not stay on and Evans Drive and already plans are locality, who has not exclaimed: "Now see it all?" being made to enlarge its capacity. MUNICIPAL FACTS, August-September-October, 1926 13

Echo Lake Lodge and its unique interior 14 MUNICIPAL FACTS, August-September-October, 1926

found anywhere else For the artist perhaps no place in Denver has a greater appeal than Berkeley Park. There is probably not a spot in Denver where you can see such magnificent sunrises and sunsets as are to be seen across Berkeley Lake. Here too you are on the edge of the city and you look straight over the open spaces to the mountains. "Do you know what time it is?" asks Mr. DeBoer "it is nearly seven o'clock." Hunger will conquer even the most poetic nature—so with a reluctant backward glance at the lake he turns his car eastward. "Some day we'll get an earlier start and really see some parks/' he says.

The Personality of Pretty Polly Some birds have personality. Polly was one of these. To begin with she was the only bird in the City park to have the official right to the name "Polly." She wore beautiful feathers, she was amiable, and she made friends rapidly. In a word, Polly was what is popularly called a "good entertainer." When you were tired of tricks and gestures, when you wearied of throwing pea­ nuts, or became restless under the con­ tinued flapping of the seals, you could always stroll over to the aviary and have a good, sensible talk with Polly. Mayor Stapleto?i and Charles D. Vail shovel snoiv above Echo Lake, July 20 True—Polly for the most part re­ Seeing Denver's Parks of the park are in full bloom and its peated your own remarks—but what long bowling green as smooth as vel­ in the world is more sensible to you (Continued from page 10) vet. than the remarks you make yourself? will admire the tall silver cedars, and As you pass down Speer Boulevard And to show how the world likes to then, as you proceed down you find Mr. De Boer points out with pride how be agreed with and imitated, in its con­ many of your tree friends native to the line of beauty is advancing, having versation, Polly's circle of friends Colorado — yellow pines and blue come up from the Sunken Gardens, grew and grew, until in front of her spruces and many others. Alternate which are below Broadway, to Down­ cage there was usually a waiting line blocks are planted with flowers and ing, the edge of the new Arlington of those who wanted to get in a word low shrubs. At Williams street you Park Improvement. with her. will cross over to Third avenue and by In North Denver you stop at three Among the birds, Polly was popular the Marion Parkway to Washington small but delightful little parks Jef­ —and as for the Zoo officials, they Park. ferson Park at 23rd and Elliot, High­ adored her. The new street lights on Third ave­ land Park at Federal and 32nd and Mc- Polly was winning more and more nue, Williams and the parkway make a Donough Park at 42nd and Federal distinction. She was making her way pleasing note in these streets, which, Boulevard. In a way these little parks among the members of the bar—and with their fine trees and interesting come near to fulfilling the ideal of the talking with so many intelligent and architectural development s—are park—small as they are, they are se­ world-traveled people—there is no tell­ among the most beautiful in Denver— cluded, they are quiet, and they have no ing just how remarkable and famous and probably among the most beauti­ vehicle traffic of any kind. Jefferson Polly might have become—had it not ful in America. Park, shaped like a great green saucer been for the sad fate with which she Washington Park you find alive with is indeed a place to linger with a good met. people—preparing supper—swimming, book on a warm summer day. She was poisoned by some un­ strolling about, or like yourself, driv­ One of the delightful things about known enemy. ing. Along the outer edge of the park the Denver Parks is that each one large Polly's death was a sad blow. you stop to look at the first outline of and small has a well developed char­ She will be stuffed and her souvenir the Replica of Mount Vernon Garden acter of its own To each park one will be kept in the director's office at taking form. The beautiful gardens goes for something that is not to be the Zoo. MUNICIPAL FACTS, August-September-October, 1926 15

January 25, 1927, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Louis Graveure. When Editors Correspond February 8, 1927, Guy Maier, Lee Pattison. February 23, 1927, Mary Lewis, Reinald Wer- Alva Swain, a well-known Colorado hills are so adjusted as to permit of that en­ renrath. publicist, wrote to a fellow editor in tertainment. When you and the rest of my April 19, 1927, Chicago Grand Opera Trio. Vermillion county friends come to Colorado, the east, what he really thought of the we will go to the Black Forest one day, then Civic Symphony Concerts trip to Echo Lake. Mr. Swain's letter we will rest a day and the third day we will follows: go to Echo Lake. Now, isn't that tempta­ Friday and Sunday, October 29 and 31, 1926. tion enough to cause all of you to get in the Friday and Sunday, December 3 and 5, 1926. DENVER, COLO., July 10, 1926. Fords, the Nashes, and the Lincolns, and Friday and Sunday, January 7 and 9, 1927. DEAR MRS. GALLOWAY: come on out? Friday and Sunday, February 4 and 6, 1927. So you have to get out another issue of If you are still editing the Hoosier next Friday and Sunday, March 18 and 20, 1927. The Old Reliable. Do you want another week your Denver letter will be about west­ Friday and Sunday, April 22 and 24, 1927. ern politics. Colorado letter? Nominal charge of 25 cents. What shall we talk about this time? I'll Yours truly, tell you what is on my mind. It's another ALVA SWAIN. September 2 and 3, 1926, Dahlia Society of scenery story. Last Monday my two boys, Colorado. Free show. their girls and myself drove to Echo Lake. September 13, 1926, for one week Mr. Peter It is a wonderful mountain trip. Echo Lake is about fifty miles from Denver and is in The Coming Season at the McCourt will play Rain with two matinees. the heart of the Rockies. One climbs to a September 23,1926, Eastern Star. j point about 11,000 feet above sea level and Denver Auditorium During the month of October the World's then drops down about a thousand feet to a Series baseball will be played free in the very cozy little valley surrounded by tower­ The following are the attractions at Auditorium. ing peaks and there is Echo Lake. We made the Denver Auditorium during October 28, 1926, Denver Firemen's Ball. the trip to the lake in three hours and five the season 1926-1927 November 3, 4, 5, 1926, Flower Show. Free minutes with Newton driving. The last ten to public. miles was in a driving hail and snow storm Robert Slack November 7, 8, 9, 1926, Colorado Made Goods and when we reached the lake there were Association Display. four inches of hail and snow on the ground. October 8, 1926, Lawrence Tibbett. November 14, including November 22, Den­ We sat in the car and ate our picnic lunch November 2, 1926, E. Robert Schmitz. ver Community Chest will hold their noon­ while the snow and hail beat on the windows November 19. 1926, Will Rogers and De day luncheons in the Auditorium. of the Essex coach. Some way to spend the Reszke Singers. November 23, 1926, Colorado Fox Breeders' fifth of July. There were about two hun­ November 29, 1926, Elsie Janis and Company. Association will have their Convention, in­ dred cars that had made the trip. One fel­ December 2, 1926, Ukrainian National cluding the 27th. low brought a watermelon and buried it in Chorus, 65 Voices. December 10, 1926, Woman's Club Ball. the snow to get cold. He then went to the February 3, 1927, Carl Flesch. February 13, 1927, including February 20, log cabin hotel to get warm. When he re­ February 24, 1927, Tito Schipa. 1927, Auto Show. turned the watermelon was gone. Yes, he March 17, 1927, Sigrid Onegin. March 14, including March 16, Colorado Ken­ was mad. Very mad, but that was all the April 6, 1927, New York String Quartette. nel Club Dog Show. good it did him. The return trip was about April 11, 1927, Galli Curci. May 1, including May 10, Denver Music like the going, ten miles in snow and hail and Week. the rest in wonderful weather. A. M. Ob erf elder May 31, Veteran Volunteer Firemen's Dance. To my mind the beauty of the mountain trips is not the snow or the hail or the differ­ October 19, 1926, Mme. Claudia Muzio. Free Winter Concerts ent temperatures one passes through, but the October 27, 1926, Mario Chamlee, Ruth Miller. foliage. I cannot, but there are many who November 18, 1826, Russian National Sym­ Sunday afternoons, 3 p. m. Given by the can, tell the elevation to within one hundred phonic Choir. City, Shrine Band, Olinger Highlanders, feet by the timber and foliage growth. I November 30, 1926, Mischa Elman. Organ recitals. can tell it to five hundred feet. I know where the pine grows and where the hemlock and where the spruce and the aspen and the choke cherries and the wild currants are to be found. I also know at what elevation we find the Columbine and the Indian paint brush and the mountain Johnny Jump Up. To me that is the most interesting part of the trip. Many mountain climbers have the study down to a far more perfect detail. Of course, the scenery is delightful and the cool breezes are entrancing, but the foliage and its different colors and different leaves is the greatest study. I helped to set out the trees around our old home at Dana nearly forty years ago and I never get to Vermillion county that I do not go over and rest under their shade or against their solid forms. To me the next best thing to a beautiful woman or a child is a tree. You know all persons describing heaven talk about the willows. Willows are alright, but if I get there I want some old beech and black oak and pine and spruce and hemlock grow­ ing around, and I wouldn't mind cutting a sliver off an old wind shaken slippery elm and chewing it, would you? But back to Echo Lake. It's the highest large body of water west of the Mississippi. I don't know how large it is, but it derives its name from the fact if you stand on its shore any place and holler or yell the echo of your voice will come back time and again for several seconds and in the quiet of the night it has been known to keep reverberating for mm over a minute and a half. The surrounding A vista of the Rose Garden at City Park 16 MUNICIPAL FACTS, August-September-October, 1926

Photograph bu V. K. Phillpot On a day when Echo Lake is the mirror of the Great Divide

breathed a long sigh and started to The Escapades of Teddy make his plans. Why not that clump of evergreens which had beckoned to ^ VERYONE who visits the Den- ously—but he takes all the pleasure him across the moat? He would hide H . ver Zoo knows Teddy. Teddy is that it offers—and once in a while, on there until nightfall and then get the big grizzly bear who lives the few remaining days of the month, away—perhaps have some fun in town over in the Habitat and who daily en­ he allows himself to picture a life more before leaving for the mountains; in tertains his audiences in a manner extended and free-er than the Habitat fact, do anything that might occur to that might well be the envy of many and food more delicate and delicious him. Into the evergreens he then pro­ an actor. than peanuts. Yes, Teddy has given ceeded. Hardly had he turned around Twenty-nine days out of the month several proofs that he is not so con­ than he heard a voice calling, "Teddy, Teddy is a comedian. His one thought tented as he might lead one to infer. Teddy, here Teddy!" An affectionate seems to be how to keep the spectators Born in the Rocky Mountains, he animal, Teddy has a deep friendship laughing and wondering what he is was captured twelve years ago when and admiration for Clyde Hill. At the going to do next, and his great passion he was very young, and, although he sound of his voice he was compelled to is peanuts! came to his full growth in the Denver rise up above the evergreens and see For the love of a peanut, Teddy will Zoo, in his memory of long ago he what in the world Hill wanted. Why do his stuff. In fact, he may be said knows those days of wild freedom and was Mr. Hill so coaxing? Irresistible to be a peanut-trained animal. Teddy a life where rocks are real and bears to Teddy, who followed him like a dog will put out his fore-paw or his hind- are bears. and the first thing he knew was back paw, or alternate them, or put his hind One of Teddy's stunts is to bathe in the enclosure—another dream fin­ paw round his head, or roll over or and swim a bit—though it was not the ished. stand up on his hind legs—and then by stunt that sent him across the moat, Three times Teddy has fooled every­ way of a change he will do something over the fence and out on the sidewalk. one and caused the rebuilding of the that no one has seen him do just like That was a serious intention to escape! moat, but this time it has been made that before. Skilled in the art of keep­ Three hundred people were gathered so wide and so precipitous a climb ing the watcher in suspense—he has about his enclosure at the moment of that there is nothing for Teddy but a held many an audience at that breath­ his final dash for freedom. There were settled contentment with his peanutful less point—that is the making of any three hundred and then pff!—there public. performance. were none; in fact, the park was as But Teddy, besides being a comed­ empty as even Teddy might have de­ The Cover Design ian, is by nature a vagabond and an sired, for the very ground had swal­ Teddy held one of his favorite poses while adventurer. Being something of a lowed up those crowds! And down the the photographer, O. E. Lindevall, took his picture. Teddy likes to pose before the camera philosopher, he does not take life seri­ walk lumbered Teddy—out at last. He and will do as much for you any day. MUNICIPAL FACTS, August-September-October, 1926 17

Photograph by O. E. Lindermll The appeal of Timberline is like the fascination of the desert

satisfactory of all life's tastes—a love Happy Days for Happy Girls for the out doors. The president of Denver's execu­ T was sunset. Up Soda Creek three Under the care of expert guardians, tive council is Mrs. Josephine Lee Pal­ miles above Idaho Springs, a thoroughly versed in such knowledge mer. Miss Doris Kent, a recent ar­ I group of girls stood at attention. as pertains to camps and fires and rival from Michigan, is executive and At the Denver Camp Fire Girls Camp birds and trees and flowers—three Miss Constance Nuckles of Kansas they were lowering the flag. Inciden­ hundred Denver girls have enjoyed City, Mo., has been the director of the tally it was supper time, and there was safe, sane health-building vacations at camp the past summer. wafted from the dining-room the wel­ the camp during the past season and Following is a list of the members come odor of hot baking powder bis­ many of them who were guests in the of the council: cuits. For a moment they "held the early summer have returned for a sec­ Mrs. Josephine Lee Palmer. pose," while Old Glory fluttered down, ond vacation during the late summer. Mr. Newcomb Cleveland. and then groups of happy, hungry Altogether there are twelve hundred Dr. L. W. Bowen, treasurer. Dr. David C. Bayless. girls went singing on their way to the members of Denver's branch of the Mrs. Roblin H. Davis. dining-room, and heaps of hot biscuits Camp Fire Girls. The parent organi­ Dr. Atwater Douglass. were soon leveled lower than wheat in zation has its headquarters in New Mrs. D. R. Hirsch. Mrs. S. A. Ionides harvest time. York City, having been started in 1912 Mr. W. L. Johnson. Fairly bubbling with health and up in the Maine woods. Mrs. W. L. Johnson. with the spirit of the camp the girls While girls all over America are en­ Mr. Stephen J. Knight. Mr. Caldwell Martin. would continually interrupt them­ gaged in keeping the fires burning out Mr. Guy Martin. selves in the act of eating to join in in the open, there is certainly no place Mr. Jesse Newlon. one of the popular camp songs—and in the country, not even the Maine Mr. Edmund B. Rogers. Mrs. James Grafton Rogers. less than ten minutes spent in the woods, so ideally suited to the develop­ Mrs. Morrison Shafroth. camp is enough to convince any Den­ ment of the work as Colorado. In the Mr. Morrison Shafroth. ver visitor how very much worthwhile very heart of the nation's playground, Mrs. Robert Stearns. Mrs. Stansbury Thompson. is such a vacation to the growing girls there is every natural inducement for Mr. Henry Toll. of a city. Colorado girls to cultivate the most Mrs. Harry Trimmer. 18 MUNICIPAL FACTS, August-September-October, 1926

of "Colorado I Love You"—the whole Colorado's Semi-Centennial Year town caught it up and the celebration became a great big family party. ITH Denver as hostess, Colo­ most significant—was this national Of particular interest was the com­ rado took a three-day holiday air event. The largest meeting ever ing of Vice-President Dawes to spend W:on the first, second and third held at so great an altitude, there were a day in Colorado. On Sunday he of August to celebrate her fiftieth in Denver thirty-five types of aero­ gave literally every hour of the day to birthday. planes, and states from Pittsburgh to the various official demands upon his Admitted to the Union on the hun­ California were represented. Major time. dredth birthday of the nation, Colo­ W. H. Dayton had direct charge of the The message of President Coolidge, rado, the land of legend, adventure, field, where a comprehensive three-day broadcast throughout the state, fur­ romance and wealth, was at once program awarded contestants more ther stamped the official character of known as the Centennial State, a title than $4,000 in prizes. It was esti­ the celebration. which she has carried ever since. mated that at the first meeting on Sun­ One of the successful features of the In these days of advertising and day, August 1, more than ten thousand celebration was the All-State Motor publicity, we have come to discredit persons witnessed the events. parade. The eight state bands, a sym­ the kind of report that travels more That more than half of Denver phony concert and a grand ball were rapidly than the wind itself and is of turned out for the parade on Monday other events that gave character to the a power that is almost magic. How night it would be safe to venture. Not celebration, while the fire department was that Colorado of fifty years ago since the armstice has there been such out did itself in parades, special runs, so well known? How did it not only a crowd on the downtown streets. and a special show, "The Battle of number among its citizens cowboys With one of Colorado's cloudless, cool Flames." and Indians, but English lords and starlight nights, the setting for the The manager of the Colorado Semi- earls, and why was it the mecca of parade was perfect and the crowd was Centennial was R. H. Faxon. It was people of all types from everywhere— in a friendly, neighborly mood. When directed by a small group of public- providing only that they were men and Dr. David Bayless started the singing spirited men. women of courageous, adventurous spirit? The tales that were told of Colorado were tales that made men restless back home. Colorado was the land of their dreams. Sitting on the grand stand, the night of the parade of August 2, was an old man. He sat there watching the great parade of the states indus­ trial activities, the floats of the mer­ chants and those pictorial historical scenes—and, finally, the impressive turnout of the Denver fire department —he sat there almost in a dream—and then suddenly he said: "You know this is a good parade; yes, it's good, but you ought to have been here fifty years ago when Colorado was celebrat­ ing—I was here that night too!" Fifty years ago, Denver was just a little frontier town. There were those who did not think she would ever be anything more—and then there were others—men of vision. When they talked of the things they were going to do—many people thought they were crazy—but, they had the spirit— yes, they had it—or there would have been no celebration in the year 1926. Fifty years ago, the cowboys went yipping up and down the streets. There were floats too, and prominent citizens to make speeches predicting all the things that were going to hap­ pen—and, yet some they could never predict. For instance, who would have fore­ seen that Denver in 1926 was to have a Mile High Air Meet? One of the most significant features—if not the A wing of the new aviary at City Park MUNICIPAL FACTS, August-September-Octobcr, 1926 19

OFFICIALS OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER of the Second fudicial District of Colorado, and State School District No. I

CITY HALL BOARD OF EDUCATION, SCHOOL CIVIC BENEFACTORS COMMISSION Mayor B. F. Stapleton DISTRICT NO. 1. Hon. Piatt Rogers Mrs. A. Hungerford Secy, to Mayor and City Accountant.I. H. Merritt Administration Bldg., 411 14th Street Hon H.V. Johnson Mrs. S. D. Walling Manager of Impr'vem'ts & Parks.Charles D. Vail Lucius F. Hallett, President Hon. Henry J. Arnold Mrs. D. K. Lee Manager of Revenue Clem W. Collins F. M. Taylor, Vice-President Hon. J. M. Perkins John Evans Manager of Health and Charity .George A. Collins C. M. Schenck, Treasurer Hon. W. H. Sharpley Harry Newcomb Manager of Safety & Excise.Reuben W. Hershey Arthur Weiss Mrs. Margaret P. Taussig Hon. W. F. R. Mills Cassius M. Day Dr. Minnie C. T. Love E. W. Robinson Hon. D. C. Bailey Mrs. J. B. Grant CITY COUNCIL Supt. of Schools Jesse H. Newlon Mrs. Verner Z. Reed D. C. Webber President Harry W. Risley Secretary of Board W. A. E. Stutt Mrs. O. E. LeFevre Mrs. I. Rude Edgar L. Mitchell Gus Reddish W. R. Freeman Mrs. Serafine Pisko Thomas F. Azpell James G. Edgeworth BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS Mrs. Cra wford Hill Harry C. Riddle Thomas F. Dolan 1509 Cleveland Place George P. Steeie Louis Straub President C. C. Schrepfei-man MOUNTAIN PARKS ADVISORY BOARD Clerk of the Council.. .Mrs. Genevieve Sherrick Manager R. S. Sumner C. MacA. Willcox Fred'k C. Steinhauer Auditor Geo. D. Begole B. C. Milliard Dr. Geo. P. Schumaker Fred R. Ross Finlay L. MacFarland Deputy Auditor W. H. McNichols Frank L. Woodward Benj. A. Sweet W. M. Downing Geo. H. Harvey, Jr. City Attorney Henry E. May Hiram E. Hilts, Secretary E. E. Sommers Peter Seerie 1st Ass't. City Attorney Thos. H. Gibson City Engineer A. K. Vickery ART COMMISSION ELECTION COMMISSION Deputy Treasurer (City) Earl R. Hoage President George William Eggers Court House Commissioner of Supplies Louis E. Ormsby Secretary Mrs. Clara S. Dieman City Organist Clarence Reynolds Irving C. McCrary Cyrus Boutwell George Sopris W. S. Lail, Pre«. Deputy City Clerk W. S. Peck F. J. Chamber! in Fred E. Mount joy J. H. Hamilton, Secy. David Davidson Director Municipal Band Henry E. Sachs Frank E. Shepard Director of Public Welfare and ADVISORY BOARD TO MANAGER OF City Chaplain Jim Goodheart LIBRARY COMMISSION HEALTH AND CHARITY Secretary Mgr. S. and E Chas. Lewis Chier of Police .Robert F. Reed City Library Chairman Dr. Edward F. Dean Deputy Chief of Police H. R. Williams President Frederick R. Ross Dr. Frank P. Gengenbach Dr. Edward Jackson Captain Detectives Geo. R. Merritt Librarian Malcolm Glen Wyer Dr. T. D. Cunningham Dr. W. W. Williams Chief of Fire Department J. F. Healy Rev. W. S. Friedman William P. McPhee Deputy Fire Chief J. J. Moses Halstead Ritter Miss Anne Evans AT THE COURT HOUSE John Campbell Stephen Knight Building Inspector Jay T. Williams x Deputy Assessor C. L. Emmick Chief Plumbing Inspector Frank Zink Isabel !errington Deputy Treasurer (County) ... San ford H. Baker Chief Electrical Inspector C. F. Oehmler Clerk and Recorder and Public Trustee. W. S. Lail Chief Boiler Inspector Harry Wright BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT—ZONING Deputy Clerk and Recorder. . .Mrs. Maude Crosby Superintendent Mountain Parks..Craig Bradford Chairman Geo. H. Williamson Undersheriff Frank E. Simonton Superintendent of City Parks Eli M. Gross W. W. Grant, Jr. Frank Skinner County Judge George Luxford Asst. Supt. City Parks John Russell E. H. Coykendall L. F. Eppich Clerk County Court Thos. L. Bonfils City Forester G. A. Klaiber Secretary-Engineer Fred W. Ameter Juvenile Judge Ben B. Lindsey Secretary, Mgr. Imp. and Parks Fred Wallis Clerk Juvenile Court Josephine Roche Highway Commissioner Fritz J. Altvater MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Justice of Peace Superintendent Paving. C. H. Draney City Park Walter E. White, Albert T. Orahood Supt. Denver General Hospital. .George A. Collins President Frank M. Taylor Coroner George A. Collins Treasurer Harry C. James JUDGES SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT Secretary, Bureau of Charities Secretary Persifor M. Cooke Florence W. Hutsinpillar Director J. D. Figgins Division 1 Julian H. Moore Chief of Inspection Dept E. M. Macneill Division 2 (Presiding) Geo. F. Dunklee Sealer Weights and Measures Wm. Sheriff BOARD OF EQUALIZATION Division 3 Charles C. Butler Editor "Municipal Facts" Edith Sampson Division 4 James C. Starkweather County Supt. of Schools. .. .Alice B. MacCormack Court House Division 5 H. A. Calvert Harry W. Risley Clem W. Collins T->- • • ~ /Henry Bray Warden County Jail Thomas Clennan DlvIslon 6 Clyde E. Hill, Supt. Zoological Card., City Park Charles D. Vail, Chairman \ Charles C. Sackman CLAYTON TRUST COMMISSION Clerk District Court Harry J. Raymond CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION Jury Commissioner John H. Bergen City Hall Court House Dist. Attorney, W. S. Court Foster Cline Albert E. Bogdon W. W. Grant, Jr. B. F. Stapleton, Pies. Clem W. Collins, Sec.-Treas. Public Administrator, Foster Bldg J. W. Kelley James C. Agnew, Secretary Harry W. Risley, Vice-Pres. Stanley C. Warner

THE PEOPLE DISTRICT JUDGES Sunset and Evening Star Viewed Across Berkeley Lake