Bisbee daily review., 1908-09-17
WHAT SOME TOURISTS MISS.

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 September. mellow and fair, the full-blown rose of the year, is home coming month. So soon as nature be gins to don her summer cloak of changeless green for the brown, red, and yellow robe of autumn, the trend of the tourist and resorter is city ward. For the business man, the toll CT, and the school child alike, Septem- Der is the sunset of the care-free va cation day. Already every summer resort is emptying. From Europe the 1908 tide of American tourists, sec ond to none, despite tEe recent fnan- cial unrest, has set back toward this country. In its westward flow it comes, as usual, bereft of the golden crest which marked its going and which it spread over the old World to gladden. the hearts and fatten the purses cf bonifaces, tradesmen, and the thousand and one lesser benefici- aries Of American rrodigaJtty.
 The amount of money left in Flu rope this season will not fall far be- low that of last, rhe record year, which was we'll into the millions. This lavish expenditure. season after season, has long been a source of re- gret to the American business man and of wonderment to the public at large. No pains have been spared to check it; but, despite the growing popularity of resorts in the United States pleasure travel to Europe has in no wise diminished; nor is it likely to. says the Washington Post.
 In many cases the American "does the continent" because he believes that there only are to be found the things really worth seeing. Seven times out of ten he is glibly versed in the storied grandeurs of the Old World and deplorably ignorant of the sublime works of nature in his own country. The eastern hemisphere has nofbipo soania sS ofYar +boF fb1 un;tod States can not eclipse Germany boasts one Rhine, America has seven; Africa contains one Sahara, America two; Switzerland one chain of Alps, America three. The Columbia, the Colorado, the Hudson, and other rivers of the United States possess stretches of scenery to be exceIled nowhere else. There is as much of grim TO- nance about the Colorado and Mojave deserts as clusters around the Arab ian waste; just as much deadly ad- venture in the towering peaks of the Rockies, the Cascades, and the Sierras as in the Alps.
 Again, there is only one Niagara; only one Mount or the Holy Cross; only one Yosemite, with its glorious Bridal Veil falls, it's towering prcci pices, its transparent lakes, its gi. gantic forests of redwood and Iiae; only one Yellowstone park, wi.h It's geysers and gorges; only one Grand Canyon.
 Historic association doubtless plays great part in the lure of the old World. Yet how much more romantic may have been the story of America in that period when the Old World was too young to remember; in those un. recorded days when the sea swept over Nevada, the roof of the West De fore map-effacing volcanic action left 
 of that gigantic body of water but the syer-diminishing waters of Great Salt Lake. When all is said and done. le. gendary half-truths play the para mount part in historic attractions; and the American imagination, loosed be fore the mute stories of the mystic past that mountain and desert yield to him who would read. is sufficient to weave all the ramonce desired. Ger tain it is the American traveller abroad who has not first studied his own coun- try has missed more than he has seen.
 According 10 the Piffshnr1 nis.