Arizona republican., 1908-09-14

joined a party of fifty other delegates making the trip to Boston and back again over the finest tourist route that has yet been laid out between the trackless west and the tracked up east. They first detrained at Detroit and saw the sights. then drifted down to Niagara, got off and walked around the falls, floated over the heaving breast of lake ontario and fell into the welcoming arms of the local Toronto union. After doing that burg in auto mobiles they went to Kingston for a repetition of the royal reception in the kings dominion.
 The next boat for Montreal was boarded and as they threaded their way through the Thousand Islands Mir. Ball was convinced he had found the tourists paradise. He would have stuck up a location notice but the handsome summer homes and bunga- lows and club buildings on the islands reminded him that he had been born a hundred years too late.
 Montreal claimed attention for a day and was well worth the money. | They didn't ask for any change back and would have been willing to pay : more From that city they started di- rect for Beanville, through the White mountains which he was informed were constructed by the state of New Hampshire, solely to give Union printers on an outing trip a touch of high life. Arriving in Boston he put his carpet sack in the tavern and set out to see the town. He says those New Eng | land people are all right and are for the most part honest, for his grip sack
 was there when he finally came back | to claim it. And their hospitality is | all right too. It is a different kind from the southern hospitality where there is no lock on the gate or the door, but when a Yankee sets out to entertain he sure does it." Boston | town is all that the press notices in- dicate and in some respects a great deal more. The streets are as crooked
 as a yeggman's career and the houses conform to the streets. In the old part of town he said he could hardly find a building with a square front. Some of them are concave. some are convex and some of them are undulating like a | snake, all these contortions on the part ' of the houses being necessary for them
  | sidewalk. He just wandered around
 and looked at things and when he wanted to go somewhere in particular f he got somebody to put him on street II car. He couldn't get to any particular place on foot for he couldn't go more than a half block without running into
 himself. Even the policemen don't know the streets. All they try to do is
 to keep in touch with the general
 sentiment of the street cars and steer the people as near as possible in the di-
 rection they want to go. The original survey of the town, which the poem
 says was laid out by following a calf trail through the wilderness has been
 cut up until the calf could not follow
 it if he were to attempt it today.
 The Boston unions had prepared a
 very extensive program oI clam bakes, boat rides, etc, and he took in as many
 of them as a fairly healthy and husky
 printer could stand up under. They
 shot him through a subway under the Ibay and along elevated railroads, here land there, regardless. His eyes were
 banqueted on the raw material of
 American achievement and his system
 was gorged with historical memories. They dished out poetry and colonial
 sentiment as lavishly as Arizona ped ldles her climate. He fought his way lover the fileds of Lexington and Bunk CT Hill and yelled for liberty in Faneuil
 hall. He stood under the elm tree
 where George Washington assumed l command of the American army, and
 tried to break into Harvard college and the handsome residence of President Eliot. But the president was away and the school house was locked up for the Isummer Then he wandered over to
 the spreading chestnut tree and after sizing it up concluded that Longfellow poem about it. If Longfellow hadn't already covered the ground Ball would have had to.
 The return trip was made over the same itinerary except that he made a
 side trip to Rochester which he says is fine place, a regular rich mans town. He didn't stay. But he met a couple of wealthy Rochester manufacturers who were much interested in Arizona
 and Eho, after he had given them all the information he could, expressed the probability of their coming to Phoenix this winter to look things over, possi- bly to invest. On that subject he says ] he noted a great deal of interest be-
 ing taken in Arizona. Everybody he
 met when he had time to talk, wanted
 to learn all he could about this coun- try. At the convention he took occa-
 sion in his presentation of the sanitari- um plan, to tell as much about this
 valley as he could, it's life saving
 qualities as well as its business Oppor- tunities. He said nobody ever died
 here if he behaved himself, etc, etc:
 He thought he was making quite a
 hit, but the next speaker informed the convention that he too had been in
 Arizona and found more undertakers
 than printers here.
 Returning to St. Louis, where the ex-
 cursion broke up, MT. Ball travelled
 down through Arkansas into Louisiana
 then west into Texas to see the home
 folks and finally to the land of per