The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17
WITTY
RAILROAD
MANAGER
DiScOurSeS on the In
fluence of Scenery
on Travel
Relation of Railroads TO the
Solution of the Vexed
Race Prob
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E o. Mccormick, general trafic
manager OF the Southern Pacific COM
pany delivered an address at the
Trans Mississippi congress held at
Seattle on American scenery and its
influence on travel, that is a revala'
ton Of the high character Of literary
bility that is possessed by some OF the
prominent railroad managers Of the
present time.
The address is permeated with
great bredth of thought and bright
touches OF real wit, and It must have
been a real treat to hear IL delivered.
Here is a sample in the opening:
What influence scenery has upon
travel. cannot be reduced to figures.
No statistics can be kept We cannot
catechise people who buy tickets to
learn whether they are travelling for
pleasure. for education. for the sake
OF fine scenery. or me.eiy to escape
from their creditors"
To give our readers and those who
have occasion to make public address.
es a taste OF the fine qualities Of this
production. we quote the following
paragraphs:
Value Of Vacation Travel.
Certain eastern roads estimate
It as worth from 100000 to 100000
to each Of them for a ceason. while
the larger systems. such as the Now
York Central and the Pennsylvania,
must run into millions each year. Mil.
lions of people are believed to pass
over one road and It's connections TO
reach the resorts on the Jersey coast.
those OF Delaware. Maryland, and
north as fer MS Lake Michigan. A
writer In the Worlds Work esti.
mates that into tho White Mountains.
not less than 100000 people go every
season TO the hotels, cottages. camps
and boarding houses provided for the
multitude.
Effects Of Greater Wealth.
Half the world today is going
about seeing the other half. Nature
Is the railroads silent partner oh.
servation is the right bower of 5du.
cation. Seeing is knowing, Books
are all very we'll but to be comforta.
bly, wise one must
I Read what Is still unread
In the manuscripts of God.
Life is not quito easy enough yet
for the multitude In New York or Chi
! cago or Hartford. 10 say: There is
some notable scenery in the West,
on the Columbia. in the Cascades and
the Siskiyou- and the Sierra Nevada.
| am going out to see IT, That would
be ideal. Travel Is the conversion Of
money into mind. and II is well spent
In seeing what the great forces-wise
OF old and beauty loving-have pro
duced. But that ideal time is Just
ahead, The world is growing richer.
Many are climbing up into the eondi.
tions OF ease and comfort, Presently
people will think nothing of cross.
ing from the Atlantic TO the Pacific
TO see the snowy summit OF Mt. Rain.
Ter. the sunset on Mt. Hood or ST.
Helens. the snow.banners on Mt.
Shasta, or the snow-capped peaks OF
Alaska. For with growing bank ac.
count there is also growing appre-
citation Of the beautiful and wonder,
ful In Nature.
Even the Poor Can Travel.
In general. of course, travel is
, immense today because the comforts
are great and the rates low. Once
the loss Of time was very great. Ed,
ward Everett Hale says that his father
read through Gibbons Decline and
Fall OF the Roman Empire while max,
ing the journey from Boston 10 Al
bany In 1928 Walter Scott and his
daughter went from Edinburgh 10
London in a pOst-chais for fifty
pounds. They could go now for as
many shillings. and go between break
fast aud dinner, Does il not mark an
era In transportation when We meas
ure our flight across the continent moi
by days but by hours; when it cost.
but little more to travel than TO sta,
at home, and when the comforts OF !
hrst-olass hotel are provided ON tn,
nying train?
Know Europe But Not America.
Europe Is rich In historical asso
Citations, America In natural sceaer,
OF high order. Europe is wen know
to America but America, to many Il
Europe, is but name on the man q
the world Commercial Europ
knows America. for America ha
thrust herself iRto every port an,
every corner OF the globe. but nelthe