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PARK AND C EM ET ER Y. 
sight-seeing automobiles, making trips to 
all the interesting points of the city and 
the foothills west of Denver. 
“The Seeing Denver Company” makes 
the following trips : 
Eighteen miles through the city; 1(4 
hours; fare, 75 cents. 
"Seeing Denver” observation trolley car, 
25 miles, 2 hours’ time; fare, 50 cents. 
“Seeing Mount Morrison,” automobiles, 
45 miles, 6 hour’s’ time ; fare, $2.50. 
“Seeing the Foothills,” 51-mile trip, 3 
hours’ time; fare, $1. 
“Seeing the Boulevards,” automobiles, 
(twilight trip); 20 miles, 2(4 hours’ time; 
fare, $1. 
All trips start from main office, “Seeing 
Denver” Company, 336 Seventeenth street. 
Denver’s system of mountain parks is 
fast becoming world renowned, while yet 
in the infancy of its development. Prac- 
tically all the labor which has brought this 
chain of natural j)arks in the fastness of 
the mountain within easy access of the 
masses by means of mountain roads that 
can be traversed by any vehicle, from a 
motor car to a bicycle, was expended in 
the year last past. 
Denver’s great municipal highway begins 
down in the crowded city and ends in the 
seemingly inaccessible mountain tops. It 
takes the visitor to the mountain top so 
easily and the grades are so gradual and 
the scenery so exquisite that he hardly 
knows he has been ascending. That was the 
object of the road builder. 
This mountain road, which belongs to 
Denver, is built to mend itself, to keep it- 
self in a state of constant repair, to flush 
itself, drain itself, preserve its shape. It 
is a perfectly formed highway, draining 
toward the inside, where a ditch carries 
away the storm waters and the seepage 
from flood and thaw. It means a road 
which has been constructed with an eye to 
winter snows, on which no drifts can form 
and which cannot be blockaded by the ele- 
ments. Three roads running up the hill 
climb like a modern Jacob’s ladder, up- 
ward, upward to the skies. Start in Den- 
ver. Three thoroughfares lead to this 
mountain park road. The north way is 
West Forty-fourth avenue, past the White 
City. The middle way is West Thirty- 
eighth avenue, past Elitch’s Gardens. The 
south road is West Colfax avenue. All 
run direct to Golden, and there a hundred 
wonderful side trips for automobiles over 
these matchless roads that lead through the 
mountains in all directions. 
The campaign to make the Rocky Moun- 
tain National Park one of the most popu- 
lar summer resorts in the country is now 
in full swing. 
The Fall River road, connecting Estes 
Park with Grand Lake, has been begun, 
but needs a considerable expenditure of 
MAP OF DENVER'S MOUNTAIN PARK SYSTEM, , 
Showing- the network of connecting highways through the mountains within an hour's 
run of Denver. 
money and work to put it in shape. 
This will then make one of the most 
beautiful circle drives from Denver through 
the Rocky Mountain National Park that 
could be planned and one that no other 
city can ever equal. A committee headed 
by former Governor Ammons and Vice- 
President Johnson, of the Denver Cham- 
ber of Commerce, is urging the Governor 
to secure from the Department of the In- 
terior the appropriation due from that 
source for the completion of the work. 
NEW BOOK ON PLANNING THE HOME GROUNDS. 
“How to Lay Out Suburban Home 
Grounds,” by Herbert J. Kellaway, has 
just been published by John Wiley & 
Sons, New York. The book is well written, 
profusely illustrated and embodies a num- 
ber of new features, four new chapters 
having been added. They give suggestions 
as to the kind of trees to plant, the use of 
shrubs for the beautifying of grounds, and 
planting of perennials, vines and annuals. 
Taking the book in its new edition as a 
whole, it is both suggestive and practical, 
and one that may well be studied by all de- 
sirous of making the most of their 
grounds, be they of very modest dimen- 
sions, from both the standpoints of beauty 
and usefulness. The application of land- 
scape architecture is becoming more uni- 
versal not only in the large public and' 
private undertakings, but even about the 
modern moderate home, for which this 
work was especially written. That it has 
accomplished much in making the home 
surroundings beautiful is the best reason 
for the believing that this new edition wilt 
be helpful. The book sells for $2 net. 
