Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1891 — Pikes Peak. [ARTICLE]

Pikes Peak.

An exchange prints a story of a voung lady who went to Colorado for her health, and while sojourning at Manitou fell into conversation with a gentleman on the hotel piazza. The gentleman remarked upon the grandeur of Pike’s Peak, which towered majestically before them. The young lady expressed her appreciation of the wonderful spectacle. “I suppose.” said the gentleman, after the conversation had proceeded a little way, “that the mountain has a peculiar interest to me from the fact that my own name is Pike.” “Naturally it would.” answered the lady, promptly: “and I may add that my own enthusiasm is probably increased bv the fact that mv name is Peak.” The coincidence was extraordinary, and the story has strong marks of truth. If it had been made up, the inventor would almost certainly have gone on to say that the acquaintance thus happily begun soon ripened into friendship; that this in turn gave place to sentiments of a tenderer nature, and that the young woman soon became, like the mountain itself, Pike’s Peak.