Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-09-26
Seventy. Four of the Earlh's
Most Distinguished Geo
graphers Visit Gal.
Iinas Canyon.
COMBINING PROFIT
AND PLEASURE
Party To go to Grand Canyon
and Returning to the
City of Mexico.

One fthe most distinguished par.
ties this city has ever had the pleas.
ure Of welcoming arrived in the city
on SPECIAL train yesterday afternoon.
The party consisted of seventy.four
members Of the International con.
gress of Geographers. A special train
was made up here and Manager Wal.
lace, Agent w. J. Lucas, Col. r. Il.
Twitchel and a number of other Las
Vegans accompanied the scientists up
the canyon of the Gallinas as far as
the line is open. The day was per-
feet and il goes without saying that
the visitors were delighted with NE
beautiful mountain scenery and the
matchless air of the hills. "It re.
minds me of some of the loveliest re-
sorts in the Alps, but the climate Is
finer said Sir John Murray of Edin-
burg, to an Optic man. "Of course
I mustn't admit that we can't outdo
it in Scotland, but really it seems to
me that you ought to have one of the
biggest health resorts in the world up
in these hills. If ever get consump-
tion ! am coming back sure and |
would Ike TO come back even If
shouldn't contract the disease" AS
Sir John is the picture of robust
health there Is Little danger Of any
immediate return Of his visit for re-
cupcrative reasons.
Nearly every country in Europe is
representa- on the excursion by it's
leading geographers
There is DR.. Penck Of Vienna, Aust,
who is reported the greatest geo.
graphical expert in the world. DR..
Oldham comes from Cambridge, Eng,
and DR.. Wallach OF Oxford. There
are Frenchmen and Germans, Rus
slams, Danes, Spaniards, Italians,
Greeks. and Belgans. Among the ia
nous names that every student of
science will recognize are those of
Doctors Braem, Chalikiopoulos, Cla-
parde. Duchauffour, Dumont, Fischer,
Haid, Ianzlik, Hassert. Lionel-Marie
Naldonado, Marek. de Martonne.
htIf 1r,an Do fnvlh h Ii H.
rigny, Quelle, Schmidt, Streuli, Pet
zner, Trfhder, Verworn Vidal de la
Blache Wagner, Waldeyer, Wanner.
Zieten and Mile. Bieberstein.
The excursionists are the guests Of
, the American Geographical congress.
DR.. Robert +. Hill the eminent geolo-
gist is in charge. With him are asso-
ciated Dr. Davis of Harvard, Or, Day,
DR.. Fuller, Or. Morgan, DR.. Waring
and other famous American savants.
/ After the meeting of the Interna.
tional congress in Washington, the
excursionists were taken to Niagara
Falls, to New York and thence to st.
/ Louis. There was meeting with cIe
American Geograpners in the Worlds
Fair city. Judging by an Incident at
the canyon yesterday, the foreigners
didn't have altogether a hilarious
! time of it in St Louis.
| Dr. vallach mounted on a stump
and made little speech that was ad-
| mirably received. Gentlemen he
said, ethese mighty cretacious uplifts
are located on The edge Of the great
plains we have been traversing for
two days. We have measured more
man thousand miles and, gentlemen,
| am rejojiced TO say that we have put
a thousand miles between ourselves
and the Inside 1nn."
And then every distinguished sci
enlist threw his bonnet into the A
mosphere and Justify yelled "Hurrah.' II
Many of fne visitors were accom-
panied by their wives and daughters
They seemed to be enjoying the ex.
cursions QUITE as much as though
their heads were not stored with the
accumulated wisdom of the ages
They we're extracting much pleasure
from what was primarily intended to
be work.
For the trip, be IL known, was
planned and is being carried out in
the interest of science. A careful