Arizona republican., 1912-09-23
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SiXtie Il Anniversary of American Society Cele- brated by Nation Wide Tour Includes Phoenix ; Noted Savants in Party

Knickerbockered, laden with cam eras and drawing outfits and cov-. cred with badges, sixty members of the transcontinental tour of the Am erican Geographical society," including aS guests many scientists of note from foreign countries, are speeding across the United States toward Phoenix and the Roosevelt dam It Is probably the most distinguished
 body of savants that ever assembled in one set, men who have sought the edges of the earth, climbed the high est mountains and pierced the densest jungles.
 Professor William F. Davis of New
 York is the director of the excursion.
 He is the representative of the so- ciety the arranger of all details and
 the manager of the special train
 which whirls the tourists about the country.
 To celebrate the sixtieth anniver-
 sary of the birth of the society d
 tremendous visit scheme was evolved
 by the members They arranged the
 tour, then invited members of the learned societies of Europe. planning to take their guests through the most interesting parts of the new world All the important industrial centers | of the east have been visited already at each factory or plant the scientists | have made inspection tours Now tha' | the east has been passed the points
 of interest are natural ones, places | where the earth itself has wonders | and phenomena on exhibition. The | Rockies, with their host of sights. | both pleasing and awe inspiring. will be chief among the attractions of the | excursion. Arizona owns three of the | most wonderful show places in all | the land, the Terrified Forests. the | Grand Canyon and the Roosevelt dam. l The expedition left New York 1 August 22 and will return there to | crd the celebration with d grand ] banquet October IS. On the fourth of | next month the train will arrive in 1 Phoenix: and that same day will see l the tourists headed for Roosevelt in l Studebaker cars loaned by Manager l Wayland Wood of the Arizona Mo tor company. The route as previously | announced will take in Granite Reef, 1 valley about Mesa and Tempe The | first sights that will greet the | saVants, after they leave town by | the Central avenue boulevard will be | the great orange groves near the l mountains and the alfalfa fields along | the banks of the canal roads Re 1 turning, they stop in Mesa for lunch 1 ard on arriving in the capital city, | go immediately to the train, to take 1 up again their swift flight across
 the state.
 | The entertainment of the visitors
 at the dam has been left in the | hands of Howard $. Reed. engineer l in charge of the canals, their Oper- | ation and maintenance. Nothing elab- l crate has been planned for the sight l Of the dam and it's lake in the hills | will be wonder enough for any man | However, there will be a dinner at
 Roosevelt and a trip over the giant
 structure. personally conducted by 1 men who are able to answer ques- | tions about the water bank
 Just what the impression of the foreigners will be, it is impossible to | preconceve From the fact their party is drawn from forty-five diff ferent countries, and that among them they speak in over sixty lan- guages, and further that the major ity of them are of the more exc1table races, it can be foretold the occasion 1 of their first glance at the dam will
 be full of words and gestures. Even 1 the Americans and Englishmen, who l are used to concealing their feelings | will let go just for once when their eyes fall on the mighty man made l Atlas, shouldering a wealth of water
 back against the desert hills. Those
 who are most accustomed to strange
 and wonderful traces of mans hand
 on the face of nature must eXclain
 at the scene that greets the travelel
 on topping the last great rise
 whence between the jagged rock
 sides of a miniature canyon, the dam
 shows q thousand feet below white
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