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first order that will quite compare with the 
Rocky Mountain National Park. Three 
railroads to Denver skirt its sides, and 
Denver is only thirty hours from Chicago. 
This range was once a famous hunting 
ground for large game. Lord Dunraven, 
the famous English sportsman, visited it 
yearly to shoot its deer, bear and bighorn 
sheep, and once he tried to buy it for a 
private game preserve. Now that the Gov- 
ernment has made it a national park, the 
protection offered its wild animals will 
make it, in a few years, one of the most 
successful wild-animal refuges in the world. 
These lofty rocks are the natural home 
of the celebrated Rocky ]\Iountain sheep, 
or bighorn. This animal is much larger 
than any domestic sheep. It is powerful 
and wonderfully agile. When flying from 
enemies, these sheep, even the lambs, think 
nothing of dropping head downward off 
precipices hundreds of feet high. They do 
not land on their curved horns, as many 
persons believe, but upon their four feet 
held close together. Striking some ledge 
which breaks their fall, they immediately 
plunge again downward to another ledge, 
and so on till they reach good footing in 
the valley below. They also ascend slopes 
surprisingly steep. 
They are more agile even than the cele- 
brated chamois of the Swiss Alps, and are 
larger, more powerful, and much hand- 
somer. It is something not to be forgotten 
to see a flock of a dozen or twenty moun- 
tain sheep making their way along the 
blown-out volcanic crater of Specimen 
Mountain in the Rocky Mountain National 
Park. 
The prominent central feature of the 
Rocky Mountain National Park is Longs 
Peak. It rears a square-cornered, box-like 
head well above the tumbled sea of sur- 
rounding mountain tops. It has, unlike 
most great mountains, a distinct architec- 
tural form. Standing well to the east of 
the range at about its center, it suggests 
the captain of a white-helmeted company. 
the giant leader of a giant band. It is 
supported on four sides by mountain but- 
tresses, suggesting the stone buttresses of a 
central cathedral spire. From every side it 
looks the same, yet remarkably different. 
One does not know Longs Peak until he 
has seen it from every side, and then it 
becomes to him not a mountain mass, but 
an architectural creation. 
For many years Longs Peak was con- 
sidered unclimbable, but at last a way was 
found through an opening in perpendicular 
rocks called, from its shape, the Keyhole, 
out upon a steep slope leading from near 
its summit far down to a precipice upon 
its west side. The east side of Longs Peak 
is a nearly sheer precipice almost 2,000 
feet from the extreme top down to Chasm 
Lake, which was the starting point of a 
gigantic glacier in times long before man. 
Chasm Lake, which is not difficult to reach 
from the valley, is one of the wildest lakes 
in nature. It is frozen eleven months of 
the year. 
NEW TREATMENTS OF STONE SURFACES 
Notwithstanding the wonderful mechan- 
ical progress made in stone-working within 
the past decade or two, there are still new 
effects in the treatment of stone surfaces 
that can be applied to monumental work to 
secure unusual decorative effects. One of 
the finest of these in recent work is 
seen in the monument illustrated here, 
which was erected in Lake View Cemetery, 
Cleveland, by the Tiffany Studios of New 
York. In this the entire surface of the 
stone has been given a heavy “pointed” 
treatment, giving what might be termed an 
“antique” finish that contrasts strongly 
with the car'.ing and lettering, and brings 
out beautifully the details of the decora- 
tions. This is a very skillful application 
to stone work of what is known in pen- 
work and process engraving as “stippling.” 
Its possibilities as applied to monumental 
backgrounds are astonishing, and a variety 
of interesting panel effects with stippled 
backgrounds might be worked out in the 
execution of the family name. This proc- 
ess can be used to good advantage in bring- 
ing out the texture and color of various 
COLONIAL TABLET WITH ANTIQUE FINISH IN LAKE VIEW CEMETERY, CLEVELAND, O. 
