Arizona republican., 1912-09-03
TRAVEL NOTES
 BY CHAS. C0X
On "The Trail of the Lone some Pine" and Many Other Trails Since Leav- ing Phoenix Nearly Two Months Ago


 across the coltinen,, his ultimate destination being his old home at Frankfort, Ky. He was there only q short time for he had so many other places to go.
 He went from Phoenix directly to New Orleans whence he took a steamer to New York. He visited Washington and other eastern points after which he turned westward, stopping at Frankfort on his way back.
 It was an exciting and interesting tour. MT. Cox, against his wishes. threw the dry goods trade of New York into a brief spasm of activity. On the boat with him was a mer- chant from Houston, Texas, who was on his annual purchasing trip to the metropolis. Arriving in New York he introduced MT. Cox to a salesman at hotel as a merchant from Phoe- nix, Arizona In a little while word was spread throughout the entire wholesale district that a buyer from Phoenix was in town.
 The next morning a salesman called on him at his hotel and began talk ing business. MT. Cox tried to avoid the subject, saying that he had not yet had his breakfast. By a cO-in- cidence the salesman had not and he invited MT Cox to join him. The salesman took the Phoenix merchant to one of the high class restaurants where as MT Cox said, They seem tn YNip fine looking young men. They are all dressed in swallow tailed coat each with a diamond in his necktie. One of these walters stands behind every chair and when you go to sit down he grabs it I thought the waiter that was standing behind the chair where I was going to sit was trying to jerk it out from under me and we had a devil of a wrestle over it but finally he let me have it.
 T couldn't make out the bill of fare but I waited until the salesman ordered and then 1 told the waiter, The same for me- That breakfast left nothing of a ten dollar bill"
 Other salesmen infested MT. Cox and against his will he dined with them and lunched with them and breakfasted with them and at length one of them induced him to visit the sample room of his house. MT. Cox had been trying to escape these at tentions but he could not do so without putting his Houston friend in hole. But when he was shown into the sample room he realized ln1 iptn and must somehow reach shore. He told the salesman that he was not the buyer for the firm that as matter of fact he had only recently gone into the business and knew next to nothing about it. He had come east only on a vacation but his partner, Cecil Creech, of the firm of Creech & Cox, who was the buyer, would arrive in New York Tn about a week.
 MT Cox visited Washington and attended the festivities of the sen ate for the first time. He had eX- pected to find a highly dignified set of gentlemen He had heard some where that the United States senate was the greatest deliberative body on earth
 But it was not deliberating while MT. Cox was there. One senator was paving the air and shouting some thing about the tariff. The few senators who happened to be m the chamber were gathered in several little groups talking about various matters and paying no attention whatever to the speaker. But ne hau an attentive audience of two, one Dl whom was Hon. Henry fouhtalh Ashurst. It was the surmise or MT Cox that the other auditor. whom he did not know, must also nave been new one and, like MT. Ashurst' believed that if he did not hsten U the speeches they would not give nm his salary. Rut what the senate lacked or dignity and seriousness was made m bv the attendants in the gallery and elsewhere. They were extreme ly pompous and curt. After one ol l them had cut MT. Cox OH Shoi "s and after he had recovered ms Wih' he asked this attache another queS- ton: Which of you fellows sl''ih5 around here is President Taft? President Taft is not in the capl | tel" was the reply.
 q don't know him." said MT. CoA' Out I thought a president ought 'o look like some of you" Whether 'i'e attache felt complimented or Whe'h- CT the sarcasm of the inquiry poreu | into him. he softened toward MI 1 Cox and they had an agreeaole ch"' 1 in the course of which 1t was leei | ed that they were both rom heh lucky It was agreed upon that liieS l should have a drink the next 'iiiie 1 they met So far as MT. COX Kho"s that was the only agreement reacieo in the senate that day.
 The most delightful incident ol li' | journey was a visit to Big 0loiie Gap Va, famous as the birthplace ol John Fox Jr., and where most oi bis delightful stories, among theii,' The Trail of the Lonesome flhe'
 are laid. MT Cox met John Housee' 1 from whom the character Of Joiih Hale in "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" is taken In fact MT. Hodges