The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-29

American coin in the course Of their trav-
I els. French bankers think that the totcl
/ income of that country from tourists
amounts 70 more than a half-billiOn dol
lars. Even Egypts toll on the tourist
amounts to as much annually as would be
required to rebuild the library of con-
Sress.
1t is a great boon to a given region to
become tabled in song and story. The
/ Prisoner of ChillOn'' has brought many
a shekel to the region Of Lake Geneva,
and the Lady Of the Lake" has done
equally well by Loeb Lomoad. The LAX
Country" Of England draws a host Of lit
erary tourists. Lake Lucerne is the most
frequented lake in'the world. In an on
million and half Of people, and thou
sand tons Of baggage.
But Europe has no gripping monopoly on
the American tourist. South America, the
West Indies, Mexico and the Orient are
each year getting larger share OF the
tourist business from the United states
and Canada Jamaica, with its splendid
roads, its wide range OF climate. and its
] beautiful scenery. has become one OF the
favOrite winter resorts. and Cuba, with its
great new automobile race course and its
new roads. is also making bid for the
man who has time and money 10 spend
Everywhere the world has wide open arms
for the tourist. He brings new ideas and
plenty Of money, and goes laden down
with things which cost little and sell high
To meet the constantly expanding tour
list business new passenger steamers by
the score are being built and placed IN
commission. IL a single month as many
as fifty big transatlantic liners will leave
New York alone, with passenger lists
ranging from 200 TO $500. ana nine-tenths
of those aboard will carry tourist trans
pOrtatiOn. 1t is not to the important folk
who engage cabins de luxe that the steam
ship companies look for their revenue nor
indeed, even to the first cabin passengers
but TO what they call the middle mil
lions"
II Is rernar ts q 1,la how r,,rlpt, {. costs To
send one Of those big liners across. and
how much it takes To stock one Of them.
The expense OF a single trip may total
$50 coo. The rOvisiOns are supplied on
large scale. Meat equivalent to the weight
of % men; ham, sausage and chicken
equal to the weight of fifty men, some 80
barrels Of flour, 5000 dozen eggs and f.Vy
quarts of milk are some OF the larger
items Of a ships larder. But as a trip nets
the steamship company at least $500.
they have no objection to a well filed
larder. One of the big steamship com
panies used 1900 beeVCS. 1880 hogs, l5,Vj0
sheep. 100000 eggs. $4,000 pounds OF cot
fee and 1.1S9,0o0 cigars in "A single year
The railroads are getting considerably
alarmed over the growing number OF
Americans who are spending their vaca-
tiOns abroad. They are the people who
used to fill up the mountain watering
place and the seaside resort. and they
have been profitable patrons Of thu rail
roads and the iunkeeDers. How 20 turn
the tide back 90 the shores Of America
and keep it there il a question with which
they have labOTed earnestly and long. But
they have never made much headwav in
the solution of the problem. At one time
il looked as if the See America First
movement might accomplish that purI use.
but tens Of thousands still go abroad who
never saw the Niagara Falls, Yellowstone
park or the Grand Canyon.
One Of the most remarkable evidences Of
the widespread taste for travel Is the vast
Tumber of books of travel and guide books
1ruf n feh Cd
look up the literature on the subject. he
finds no place too remote to have a guide
book describing il. nor too far away TO be
told about fully by some writer Of travels.
In fact. the literature Of travel is one
Of the most complete there is And u is
being added to with wonderful rapidity.
Furthermore, il is always popular. A well
written book of travel or a carefully pre-
pared series of newspaper travel stories
has always been popular and never 50
much so as at present Those who cannot
be tourists may be readers. The day When
one half the people did not know how the
other half lived has almost passed. The
descriptive writer and the camera have
brought the Who'll" world into recognizing
familiarity with the rest of humanity.
1t is the prediction OF tourist agents
that the business Of globe trOJting is yet
in its infancy. They assert that for every
one that goes. at least two others are
inspired to 20 on his return. and that
thus The business IS bound to eNpand.
Seasons Of depression cause the tide of
tourists 10 ebb. out good times and free
money make il to flow in more genial cur
rent than ever. The tourist agents see
many fat years ahead. They offer some
consolation for the quarter-billion dollars
that departs from our shores with the
tourists. by saving that at least half Of ID
comes back with the foreigners who come
across to look US over. and that IL IS not
going to be manv years until the tide of
tourist monew which flows this way will
equal that which flows the other way EU-
* a ID
est do not lie east of the Atlantic
Copyright. 1909 by Frederic j. Haskin.l
Tomorrow-Sons of American Revolution.
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