The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-01-15
BY Frederic j. HaSkin

it's natural wonders and beauties of ma
ture, attracts upwards of 10000 visit
ors year. the majority OF whom come
from east of the Alleghanies, Railroad
fare TO and from this park to such
sight-seers means almost as much ex
| pense as trip to Europe. The Gosem-
| lite valley, inaccessible as it is, is visit
| ed by 5000 sight secrs yearly, nearly
all of whom come from great distances.
The volume of travel TO Colorado has
increased so rapidly during the last few
years that, although carpenters have
been kept busy through the entire win
ter building new hotels, each summer
the capacity of the State is taxed TO
it's utmost. During last year some sixty
conventions were held in Denver.
Thousands of travellers 90 down the ST.
Lawrence every summer, and thousands
more 1ock 10 Florida in the winter.
, Although Asheville. n. c., is not looked
upon as one Of the great National show
places. it is now attracting 10000 visit
ors every year,
Enthusiasts for Expostions
Our people are great enthusiasts for
expositions, celebrations and convcn-
lions. At the st. Louis exposition one
morning a group of newspaper men and
officials were talking about the money
that has been squandered in this coun
try on expositions. An inquiring young
scribe asked an exposition official if it
would be possible TO estimate the sum
and compare it with something. This
was the reply. "Just say that if all
the money that has been thrown away
on expositions in the United States was
gathered together and put in heap, it
would make a pile so high that you
couldn't fly balloon over it, There
were $500, 900 paid admissions at st.
Louis, and il is estimated that the Wis
,t.,- - . L. Gov n,ot ln 000
in the city while the big show was in
progress.
a good illustration of the American
fondness for "going somewhere was
afforded when The annual reunion Of
the United Confederate veterans was
held at Dallas, Texas. At this time
the census credited Dallas with a popu-
roads sold 10000 tickets to the re.
union Therefore the hospitality of
Dallas was taxed with the remarkable
responsibility of entertaining nearly
three times as many people as II had
population. But Southern hospitality
was equal to the emergency, and be-
fore the week was over every visitor
was ready to throw up his hat for
Dallas.
Homecoming Week.
The "Homc Coming Week is a new
uepdTluEt III anu lucIt IL
a good story in connection with its
origin. Miss Louise Lee Hardin,
former Kentucky girl living in Denver,
listened to a band play "My Old
Kentucky Home one night and got
the blues, She wrote letter next
morning. suggesting that Kentucky's
wandering sons and daughters be in
vited to return for Homecoming
week The suggestion was adopted,
and il cost $4,000 OK -Keutuckians not
less than half n million dollars because
n bluegrass girl in far.off Colorado got
homesick; but every Kentuckian
thouoht il was well worth the money.
One of the best established and most
popular annual festivals in the country
is the Mardi Gras at New Orleans The
Southern city does itself proud in pro-
viding entertainment for its visitors
on these occasions. Four professions,
Momus, Protous, Rex and Comus, cost
$25, 900 each, or 100000 for the four.
A gorgeous ball is given in con-
Dection with each of 6hesc process
slons, the expense of which amounts
TO $4,000. Other entertainments, illu.
limitations. decorations. rich and rare
costumes, etc, run the expense up to a
quarter of 4 million dollars for the
weeks festivities. The New Orleans
people figure that every visitor who
comes TO town during the carnival