Arizona republican., 1907-08-12
THIS LITTLE WORLD
AND WHAT'S IN II
General SIMPSONS Testimonial to the
Virtue of Arizona Climate, and His
Travels abroad.

The influence of a good word spok-
en- at the right time, in these days of
telegraphing was referred to before in
these columns by mention of a brief
cablegram from London TO Boston, CIV
ing in few words General Simpsons
comments in comparison Of the Phoe-
nix climate with that of other and more
famous resorts. A few days later a
clipping of the item from an eastern
man was sent here, and the following
day another clipping OF the same item
arrived here from California, while in
the meantime it had appeared in nu-
merous other papers. The New York
World of July IA. produced a very
sensible editorial on the strength of
the Sampson statement, and clipping
of, that editorial has now been received
by The Republican. In line with the
first thought in this article, il will be
interesting TO the reader, to know that
the editorial clipping is forwarded from
Ancona, republic of Panama, or more
commonly speaking. from the isthmus.
The sender is Captain A. F. Banta,
an Arizonian of the old line, more
specifically the oldest line, for he was
here before there was any Arizona
He went to Panama several months
ago and concerning his activities there,
more will be said at another time
For the present he is mentioned in con-
nection with the above facts. all of
which show that the little old world
is not very large any more and most
everybody in it runs against the other
fellow, or hears from him frequently.
Here is the editorial in the World:
Gen. Sampson, of Phoenix, AriZ.,
late Minister to Ecuador, has visited
since January Portugal, Spain, France
Greece. Turkey. Egypt, Palestine. Italy,
Switzerland and Germany. but, he says,
I'VE have not found the climate any
where equal to that of Phoenix, Ariz.,
in winter"
Gen Sampson is not blinded by local
pride. He states a fact The despair
of the European globe-trotter is that
all the fine winter climates on his
side Of the world are south of the
equator and all the centres of culture
north OF it. Every country which Gen.
Sampson names is rainy in winter ex-
cept Switzerland, which is snowy. All
the Mediterranean shores are pestered
by the detestable scirocco. Rome, Flor
ence and Venice have warmer but more
unpleasant winters than New York.
The Adriatic coast gets the fierce Bora
wind. Even Egypt has grown cold and
rainy since Lord Cromer built the AS
souan dam and increased the irrigated
area. The French Rivera is the best
there is, but the Arizona winter eli
mate is much better.
The United States has better summer
climates as well as better winter CHI
mates than Europe. England is fairly
cool in summer, but "muggy" and in
tolerably rainy after June. There is
GOODNESS in Switzerland, but only at
high attitudes, and weak hearts will
not stand that. Cape Cod. Long Is
land, Cape Ann, the New Jersey coast,
the Maine coast, the woods of Maine
and the Adirondacks. are only a few
of the American regions enjoying an
almost ideal summer
There are good reasons why Ameri-
cans go abroad. Better climate than
their own land furnishes is not one OF
them.
Concerning General and Mrs. Samp-
son, their tour of Europe is rapidly
d
in New York again sometime this
month. Their friends here have been
receiving numerous post cards lately.
The last, sent in the latter part of
July was from Dublin where they were
attending the Irish International Ex-
position. The larger nations of the
world are all represented but the most
interesting exhibit after the Irish dis
plays were from Canada and New
Zealand. The General says that he
never saw more attractive displays
than these in any OF the large EXPOSE
tions he has visiteT
The grounds are almost within the
city of Dublin and the area is only
fifty-two acres, but space is well utiliZ-
ed. and the illuminations are incompar-
able both electric light and gas being
used. The buildings are large and ar
tistic The Grand Central palace COW
ers two and a quarter acres and has
one Of the largest domes ever built.
Several of the buildings contain each
from $4,000 to 100000 square feet OF
floor. The surprising thing is that
such enterprise should be exhibited ii:
a city where the stores do not open for
business until 3 o'clock in the morn
ing.
Before visiting Ireland the tourists
Travelled through Scotland and mailed
cards from various interesting places.
one card shows their hotel in Edinburg.
Writing OF provincial life the general
says, "On the way here / saw thous-
ands of acres OF grass. almost worth
less. which had been cut for weeks,
perhaps turned two or three times TO
get it dry but the rain would again
come before it was ready to put up.
For three days and nights. including
Sunday, the farmers had been trying
to save their hay. One thing of special
notice in Scotland is the thousands OF
miles Of nice stone fence four or five
feet high.
Another card from Edinburg shows
the picture of Holyrood Palace and
Abbey the building of which began in
1929. 1t was long known as the royal
nalape and was often visited by Queen