Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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A10 SPECTATOR n . ,..., BUFFALO BILL'S GRAVE AT LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN grave is a large house in which the Colonel probably lived. This house is now used as a museum and contains some very interesting Indian relics, together with portraits, weapons, and clothing which belonged to Colonel Cody. After leaving Denver, our next stop was at Colorado Springs. This stop proved more exciting and more interesting than the trip at Denver. Here we went through the Garden of the Gods, were in the Cave of the Winds and visited the o

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SPECTATOR 9 and her delight at seeing him proved that his affections were, in some degree, returned. . On the way home, Edward told the girl how he had perpetually sought her, since the morning of her disappear-I ance. She told him that she, too, had sought him, and con- fessed that she loved him fully as well as he loved her. After they had reached her home, Edward bade her good- night, but quickly turned back and laughingly exclaimed, Hjovel l forgot to ask you your name! lncidents of My Trip to California With the 6th District Rotary J. Earl Opperman, '23 The Sixth District Rotary Special which carried the Ro- tarians of the Pittsburgh district to the annual convention in Los Angeles, macle its first stop for a sight-seeing trip at Den- ver, Colorado. Denver is an important city, but the interest of our party centered in the trip to Lookout Mountain because of its association with Colonel Cody, better know to the American boy and girl as Buffalo Bill. When '-Buffalo Bill died a few years ago, it was his desire to be buried on the highest point of Lookout Mountain. His wish was carried out to the letter. The point selected is over 9,000 feet above sea-level. It commands a wonderful view of the surrounding country, for a short distance from the grave there is a sheer drop of several thousand feet. The grave itself is very simple. The monument is made of plain cobble-stones set in cement. The grave has a border of stone which is filled in with cement, the whole being surrounded by an iron fence. The inscription on the monument reads: ln Memoriam COL. WILLIAM FREDERICK CODY Buffalo Bill Noted Scout and lndian Fighter Born-Feb. 28, IS45, Scott County, lowa. Died-jan. IO, 1917, Denver, Colorado. The vicinity of the grave was Buffalo Bill's headquarters during most of his career as an lndian fighter. Near the

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SPECTATOR 11 top of Pike's Peak. l shall remember that ride as long as l live. ' We started in the morning at eight o'clock, mountain time, in a Cadillac touring car. We first went through the Garden of the Gods. Here We saw the huge gate-way rocks, the kissing camels, the lion's head, the baggage room, the balanced rock, and numerous other strange images made by the action of the wind and of the water. The baggage room is a huge mass of square rocks piled up like so many trunks. Having seen the Garden of the Gods, we went on to the Cave of the Winds. This wonderful place, which is l475 feet above sea-level, was discovered and explored by two young boys nearly fifty years ago. The cave is no longer windy, as the old entrance, through which the wind rushed at a rate of thirty to forty miles per hour, has been closed and a new one cut in at a place where the wall was thin. Some of its chambers are two or three stories in height. There are stalag- mites and salactites throughout the cavern. On account of the great number of stalagmites and stalactites and because of their remarkable beauty, tourists have been tempted to break them off and take them home as souvenirs. The Cave belongs to the United States Government, which imposes a very heavy fine and a long-prison term upon anyone caught breaking any of the stalagmites or stalactites. The tour of the Cave of the Winds completed, we set out for Pikeis Peak. The road by which we traveled to the top is eighteen miles long, and has a three to four percent grade. Every mile of the road is marked by a sign post with the number of the mile painted upon it. The elevation at that point is also marked. This system of marking every mile makes the journey very tiring as the travel is slow and it seems to be a very long time before the next mile post is reached. General Pike, who discovered the Peak on November l5, 1806, tried, for two weeks to climb it and failed. lt took us but half a day to go up and down. We had luncheon at Glen Cove lnn, II,425 feet above sea-level, and seven and one-half miles from the top. At the elevation of l2,000 feet all vegetation stops and the mountain looks like one huge pile of rocks thrown up in confusion. The altitude of Pike's Peak is l4, l 09 feet or two and one half miles above sea-level. The whole top is snow covered and is hidden by clouds most of the time. To be