Arizona republican., 1901-09-30
ARIZONA AND ELSEWHERE
o Observations of Dr. Foss who Spent
 the Summer Abroad.

Dr. T. w. Foss has returned from his summer outing, which was both vaea-
 tion and a season of work for him.
 Mrs. Foss went away with him, but | will not return for few days yet. | They went first to California, and be- ginning at Santa Barbara visited every | point of interest as far south as Tia Juana in Lower California. His object
 in visiting these places was simply for the purpose of personally studying the ! climate and making comparisons be- | tween these famous resorts and Ali zona- If there was any better place than Arizona for any particular dis ease and. especially for diseases of the | lungs, he wanted to know it. His con- | clusion is that there is nonSe. Elderly l people and children, he thinks, may do well in San Diego, but the average humidity of the climate there being over 70 per cent makes it objectionable
 for most people afflicted with lung 1 trouble.
 The trouble with great many Ari-
 zcna peop.e, he says is that they do
 not travel enough into other climates l to appreciate the value of what they
 have at home. When they do go away the most of them go to some cool sum-
 mer resort, and inthe fall return again congratulating themselves on having i escaped a hot summer. If, on the other hand, they would travel into almost any section north, south or east, aside from mountain resort or the sea
 coast, they would be quickly convinced that even the Arizona summers are more comfortable than the same sea son in most countries. The people who stay here year in and year out
 naturally find the summer a drag, as people do who live all their lives in
 any one climate
 There are pretty places and health
 fu places in California, but none of them, in his opinion. can equal Ari-
 zona, all things considered. Incfoent-
 ally. he says, Arizona Is coming to be
 pretty well known abroad and par
 ticuarly in California. Well known
 brokers in Los Angeles tell him that capital is rapidly being directed this way and that. moneyed men are ack- l nowledging that they find more profit able legitimate investment opportuni- ties here than elsewhere.
 Dr. Foss says that the funny talk about rattlesnakes, centipedes, etc. does the country great deal of dam age. as great many who hear it take everything for granted, become ner- V0uS and pass by everything that
 
 thought that it will interest them per-
 sonally to read it. He tells of an in- cident at Flagstaff, where a lady was thinking of coming to Phoenix, and a gentleman informed her that the streets of this city were infested with hydropho5ia skunks, and it was a
 dangerous Tlace to go. The man was talking for fun, but the woman be- .ieved it. On the contrary, Dr. Foss !, 4, IL saw Was in California, but California does not talk about those things
 From San Diego Dr. and Mrs. Foss went directly to Chicago. where the summer was spent in sightseeing and by the doctor in the study of special lines of professional work. One of the favorite points of interest which att tracted him during his leisure time was the Field Museum. He says Mir Field is arranging to erect new stone building for the permanent home If the museum, which Is compact and weN-ordered worlds fair TEe exhibits are mostly contributed and are carsd for, of course, by the museum management He says that for $500 Arizona could make a better mineral display than anything now on exhibi- ton there, and that it would do more good than an exhibit at a big fair, SuIl as the fan-Amer1c2n and the proposed St Louis exposition, and for the reasons that it would be nicely looked after, and it would be a perma- nent display. and at least a half mil lien people visit the museum annually. Then, too. they are of the best class of people and they go there quietly to see and learn and are not bothered by the rush and counter attractions of a large show. His suggestion is certain ly one that should be considered by those interested in advertising Ari- zona- Without doubt all the big mines in the territory would furnish speci- mems and all the expense attached would be freight and trouble
 The doctor says that the most im- pressive thing he saw during the sum- mer was the great parade through the streets of Chicago on the day of President Mckinley's funeral. There were 2.500 policemen on duty along the line of the parade and from that fact some idea may be gained of its mag ritude The soldiers of the regular 1 army and the National Guard led the parade. then came a band followed by the Grand Army organizations. At their head was the carriage in which the president rode two years ago. with his vacant seat draped in mournig As it passed the band played "Nearer My God to Thee and 'Auld Lang Syne. and every head was uncovered 1 At 2:30 o'clock. the hour of the funeral. the big parade stopped and for five minutes heads were uncovered and the million people that thronged the streets were as silent as though at the funeral in fact. The silence of the null