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REYNOLDS, President By A.C. their necks abroad for one who attempted to climb at home. You were told that America lacked the picturesque, lacked the human, lacked the historic. You might have. grown apoplectic disproving each statement. American tourists neither heard nor heeded you. They headed for European resorts as fast as steamers sailed. One year, when there were sixty thousand round-trip tickets sold to the Pacific, there were two hundred five thousand round-trip tickets sold to Europe. Sir George Paish, the great statistician, estimated that each of The clinging moss of the Florida country makes sylvan avenues of the roads. these American tourists spent an average of $1000. Many spent only $400; but many spent more than $5000; and, what with travel junkets and clothes and trinkets, he figured the average at one thousand dollars-or a round expenditure of two hundred million. dollars a year by American tourists in Europe. The thing became endemic and epidemic. It grew to the proportions of an unconscious conspiracy-a conspiracy to make you want to see Europe more than you wanted to see America. It came pouring in on you in advertising circulars at the breakfast table-how cheaply you could "do" Europe, how much there was to see, how easily one tourist agency could pick you up and pass you on to another. You caught it in your morning paper. There were ten advertisements of round-trip tours to Europe for one in America. The Northwesterner, went to Europe to get away from the cold; the Southwesterner to get away from the heat; and THE INDIAN BOYS OF THE DESERT, PROUD OF THEIR CLEAN LIMBS "In the desert are ranch houses, where you can board at two dollars a day; or, if you take your own provisions, you can sleep under your own tent, under the stars, or in one of the prehistoric caves.' The the Easterner for styles and clothes; while the Middle-Westerner went to Europe for culture, with a club. When you came to buy tickets you found that the steamship agents were allowed a latitude as to rates and commissions quite impossible to agents of all-rail American lines. You quoted a $105 all-rail excursion rate to the Pacific and back. steamship agent countered with a rate. of $75 to Europe. That was not return; but it included berth and meals, which the rail rate did not. Likewise, it did not include soap and towels and "coals", which they never sell in Europe in large enough quantities to be massed as "coal"; but the boat seemed cheaper; and you bit. When you ask why two Americans have toured Europe for one who has toured his own land, you are handed out a lot of diligently circulated counterfeit excuses: It costs more to go West than to go abroad. America lacks the picturesque, the historic, the human. Game has been killed off in the West; no more good hunting or fishing. No good motor roads. The West does not want invalids. Does it cost more to go West than to go abroad? Yes, if you stay at $2.00 a day pensions in Europe and $5.00 a day hotels in America it will cost more; but unless you strike away from the line of railroads and hotels in America you will never see the real West at all. You will only see hotel rotundas that are weak imitations of the East. Strike away from the beaten trail, and you can live on $1.00 to $2.00 a day in the very center of the most picturesque parts of the West. Here you can break your neck climbing peaks which have never felt human tread, or catch more COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD trout than you can lie about. From the Middle West to the backbone of the Rockies will cost you $30 railroad fare one way. You can not go half way across the Atlantic for that. If you stay in a Western hotel in the heart of a Western city you will see no more of the West than if you had gone to Europe. Choose what you are going to do on your tour. Is it to be the sea, the mountains, camping, hunting, motoring, or climbing? Pick your stamping ground! For the sea-Galveston, Pensacola, San Diego, Monterey, Santa Barbara. If you stay at $5.00 a day hotels, of which there are plenty, your trip will cost you as much as in Europe; but in each of these places you can board privately at $2.00 a day, or you can rent a cottage and live at $20 to $30 a month, according COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD to the number of people in the house. I have done all three, and fared better keeping house at a maximum of $25 a month for each person in the house than at $5.00 a day in a palatial hotel. If you are going to the mountains to hunt and camp do not waste time in an expensive hotel. Choose where you |