Arizona republican., 1907-11-09
HOME AGAIN AFTER
 A YEAR OF TRAVEL
General and Mrs. A. ]. Sampson Back From a Tour of Europe and the East.

From a Tour of Europe and the
 East.
 General and Mrs A. J. Sampson re- turned home yesterday after an ab- sence of about one year. A few weeks were spent visiting in the east, follow
 ed by a six months tour of Europe,
 northern Africa and the Holy Land. and few weeks since their return to
 New York. in visiting relatives in diff
 ferent states. On their way west they stopped a few days at Flagstaff where they were the guests of their daughter.
 The general said yesterday that they were glad to get home again though
 they have spent a delightful year and rave seen many wonderful things. He spoke especially of the fact that he had on every possible occasion endeav-
 ored to make plain to those around him the favorable contrast between the Arizona climate and everywhere else
 he has been. He has been quite suc- cessful in interesting world travellers in Arizona, as has been indicated from time to time in the dispatches, and he says that in that way he is not certain
 but that he has done as much for Ari- zona as he could have done had he re- mained at home during the year.
 Just how much he is interested in boosting Arizona is shown by an incl dent that occurred in Chicago the other | day. He was passing the offices of the Rock Island Railway Co. and noted the sign of H. U. Mud~e second vice pres | ident on an office door. Recognizing Mir. Nudge as an old friend he stepped | in the office and found he was out so | he wrote him a note. Incidentally he l intimated that while the Rock Island is booming California and other points so hard. 1t ought to pay a little more attention to Arizona. When he reach 1 ed here yesterday. the general found a letter awaiting him from Mir. Nudge expressing his regret at not seeing him and intimating that he might come to Phoenix this winter when he would en- | joy returning the compliment of his visit. Concerning the advertising Mir. Nudge wrote: "I quite agree with you that our people should give Arizona some attention and am referring the matter to Mir. Sebastian"
 The European tour of General and Mrs. Sampson is of unusual interest | however as both are widely travelled and observing people. It is regretted that the story of their tour cannot be printed at length but 1t would take a book to tell even the interesting fea- ! lures. Asked to compare European with South American scenery the gen. eral said it could hardly be done each being so different from the other. Nothing exceeds in grandeur the huge mountain peaks and voicanoes and some natural wonders of South Amer ica. but Europe beside her nat ural beauties which are iE numerable. has all the facilities and luxuries desired by the traveller. which South America has not and which makes touring an entirely different ex- perience. The good roads of Europe, France. Germany. Italy and in fact nearly all of it. are the thing that ap- peals to the tourist and is mainly the reason that thousands of Americans annually cover the continent in auto mobiles. The general says he was never so enthused over good roads and wants to add his influence to every good road project he can hear about. The itinerary of the travellers was in the following order: Madeira. Cadiz. Seville Gibraltar. Algiers, Malta, Ath- ems. Constantinople. smyrna. Caifa, Jaffa, Jerusalem. Alexandria, Cairo. nineteen days in Palestine. and Egypt, (Galilee. Samaria and Upper Egypt five days in Rome and Naples Nice. Monte Carlo. Florence, Venice. Milan. Lucerne. down the Rhine to Cologne. Paris. London. Scotland. Ireland. Wales. Liverpool and home.
 While in Rome he had the honor to see the pope whom he describes as most charming man whose personal appearance is most impressive and from whose countenance there beams unspeakable love for the whole human race. On that occasion about fifty vis- itors were admitted to the audience chambe- at once and the pope passed by the file of visitors pressing the hand of each one. He stopped to pat the head of a little boy as though the youngster in his childish innocence ap- pealed to him more than any bne in the room.
 Rome has her yellow newspaper correspondents just like the American cities The general has a newspaper clipping showing cablegram sent from Rome while he was there in which it was stated that he. the gen. eral. had had a long audience with the pope and had begged his holiness to intercede in the troubles between church and state in Ecuador. There was no foundation in fact for this statement. as he had no interview with the pope other than as mentioned above.
 The beauties of Lucerne as they ap- pealed to. the travellers. and of various other places visited have already been pictured to readers of this paper by the pen of Mrs. Sampson. Nothing can be added at second hand. France, Scotland and Wales as we'll as Ire- land, have all been treated of briefly by short letters from the general to Phoenix friends. but nothing has been printed concerning their stay in Egypt and the Holy Land. It is interesting to note though that in Wales, where