Arizona republican., 1913-04-05
WORLD TOUR OF C0L. HATCH
Well Known Phoenician and New Yorker in the Cltv in Course of a Cir clumnavigation of the Globe

Col. Frank C. Hatch of New York l but an old PhOenican of a generation ! ago with all the interest, sentimental l and financial in the valley he ever had ! has arrived in the city on his way 1 1 home from tour around the world. 1 Though he has visited. in the course of several years nearly all parts of the clNlhzed world he never set out on the i clrcumnaVigation Of it before. COL Hatch with three companions | sailed from New York on October of 1 last year on Hamburg American liner 1 Tor leisurely voyage with long stops. 1 He wanted especially to see India, a ! country that in all of his wonderings ! he had never visited. He spent eighteen days there. The trip through the i Mediterranean was not a new one. But it was q remarkable tour on ac- | count of the weather which seemed to have been especially ordered for the tourists. Col Hatch said that there was hardly a day much unlike that of yesterday in Phoenix. A little lower temperature was encountered in North China but everywhere else the weather N'iH " ftl III anu SullIlN AL lIo lllilt III the voyage was it necessary to fasten the deck chairs or attach the racks to the dining cabin tables.
 There was another remarkable thing about the journey, so far as concerned Col. Hatch; he never missed an issue of The Republican which he ordered before sailing. It was to be sent in care of the Hamburg American line which was directed to forward it to him on any side trip he might be taking. For time the paper followed him east and he usually found it at stopping places, awaiting him, SueZ. | Ba ataVia, RangOOn, everywhere. There | was generally an accumulation of seV- eral copies The papers followed Col. Hatch until he passed Rangoon and after that they were started westward and met him. He found an accumu- iation at Kobe and another at Homo lulu. There was still another at the Bohemian club at San Francisco and another at the California club at Los | Angles
 one of his companions had ordered l the san Francisco Chronicle and an ! other the Los Angeles Times. Col ! Hatch had also subscribed before leaV- ! ing, for the New York Tribune. None of these papers were received with
 quite the regularity of The Republican
 The travellers throughout the long
 journey kept thoroughly in touch with
 affairs al home but they sometimes got
 earlier information from English news
 papers published in the cities they wis
 ited They learned of the result of the W ! nlo
 Col Hatch expected to make a lOne
 stay in Phoenix but it has been cut short
 by an agreement with MT. w. H. Crane
 to join him in European trip. He vii
 therefore leave tonight for New York
 He has been a close personal friend Q
 Mr Crane for many years and it wa!
 with surprise and pleasure that h. learned that the famous actor was il
 Phoenix. When he learned that MT
 Crane would be here he sent him U telegram of congratulations but un fortunately it was forwarded the da. = after the departure of the great actor
 Col Hatch became a resident O , 1 Phoenix tWenty-nne years ago an, ; lived here for several years closet, 1 identifying himself with the bushes y life of the young town. There wer
 then only four brick buildings in tn '. city. He has visited Phoenix a som 70 time of the year almost every yea
 since.
 He has retained part of ais holding
 here including a section of land fo
 which he is thankful and he also wishe
 that he had the foresight to acquir t, business property in the heart of th
 city
 Yesterday Col. Hatch was driven Ove
 the valley by F.. J. Bennitt and on hi re return he said that he had never see Is so much water going to waste and Wa sh | thereby impressed that there was muC it 1 of it in the Roosevelt dam.
 sh He is very much interested in tn be subject of irrigation and on his retur cn here some years ago from Egypt h $. brought with him photographs an
 much data concerning the great As = souan dam. He was deeply intereSte
 in the irrigation projects of the Dutc in the island of Java but nOwher said he, is there any enterprise tha may be compared with the Salt Rive valley project.
 He has a high opinion of the Unite
 States reclamation service and espec ally of the members of the service WI ' have had charge of the local project.