Show AND THE CARD CARi CAME BACK Earry arry Postal Po tl On Pikes Pike Peak An Aug IS 1 Harry Shipley the commercial co u erdal photoS photo photographer received receive through the Ute mall Mail Tues TUell Tuesday day dar a postal card he be had bad deposited depo under UDder a rock on top of Pikes Pike Peak near Manitou Colo Coin more than two tw months ego ago 0 The card was sent to him by It the finder because It bore his hia address and anda a statement on a card rani pinned to It that whoever found it would woul receive a photo photograph photograph I graph of the top of the peek peak taken by him that day dayI r I I visited the top tori to of oC Pikes Peak on OnI I It u 1 said Shipley The summit is I not Wt t peaked as one ODe laes by b zt t I the t mountain O J from f a distance While Ute the i top Is pot not flat there are about ten tan acres aerI there oC ot y level rr cov coy covered covered I ered with rocks It is the habit of tour tourS lets to place their cards carda on a large larce atone stone i S and cover them with witla a smaller rock reek The 1 he j I top of ot the mountain Is III covered with these thelle 1 little monuments ranging in height from froma a single siegle tone stone to a hastily built wilt mona mond mont ment of a foot or more I i I saw sa many of the cards card so deposited and I 1 decided to play at the game my ny myself self lIell I had bad a postal card in my pocket i also atao one of my business bu cards caro I addressed ad addressed dressed the postal card myself and on onI the tale back pinned one of my business I cards cant upon which I wrote that whoever might find the card dard if they would mall mail mallit it to me I would send them a photograph of the top of the peak which I 1 took to k that day Tuesday the mailman on my 1111 route left the card at my studio On the sack hack of it ItI I was written I Harry Kan x Oct 16 I I Dear sir I 1 found this card on 00 Pikes I 1 Peak PeM Colorado on oa Sept M II and send assid d dat It at to you as requested reque Louis C Barry I f Hector Wan Minn The rho postmark winch which I not ot very plain shows that the card was w mailed on some Kansas Xana X City westbound we train traI on Oct 17 11 That date and the crumpled condition of o othe the card shows that Mr Barry had car carried ried it in his bis pocket from frets Sept ept JO 10 the I day he h found it under the rock I had bad hadI I placed it on Oft top of Pike Peak until Oct 17 n almost a month later whets when he M posted S it in a mail mall car on some westbound we train at some e amali Kansas Kan as town towa the same name of which I cannot decipher True to my promise I will send MIld Mr MI Barry a print of the photograph which I took of the top of Pikes Peak The re rp return return turn ot of the card to me goes coe to show what funny things will happen in this world When I 1 placed pieced my card under the rock I Ihas had has no Mea I it would ever be e e returned to tome tome tome me Really RIly I had bad forgotten an all about tile the incident l until I received re the card I T |