The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-02-13
.DABNEY TAKES
AUDIENCEABROAD
OLD WORLD SCENERY IS SHOWN
Comparison Made Between Building and
Bridge Construction in Foreign Lands
and in America

Although the crowd was not very
large, O. p. Dabney and Secretary r.
+. Scott, collaborating, the illustrated
lecture that was given at the rooms of
the Commercial club Monday evening
was made very interesting. After
Mr.. Dabney had shown the picture of
some wonderful bit of scenery of the
Old World. Mr.. Scott would have the
view Of some local scene put on the
Kaleidoscope that the audience might
draw comparisons. The old country is
not only full of scenery naturally
beautiful, but men have wrought to
make the most of this scenery. The
buildings that have been erected and
the bridges that have been built have
been in keeping with the country. The
mountains, hills and clear blue lakes of
Switzerland will last forever, and the
residents there have built structures
that seemingly endure for all time.
Mr.. Dabney showed a bridge in Swift
zerland, across an arm of Lake Lucerne
that was erected l3 years before the
birth of Christ and which is yet in a
good state of preservation. The local
scenes that were shown were those of
Mount Hood, the O.-W. K. 4 N. rail
road bridge, the old wooden bridge at
fuckers and the steel wagon bridge
across the Hood river.
I'VE build constructions of this
kind, " said Mr.. Scott, because they
are cheap. However, for an expendi-
ture of 30 per cent more we can have
stone or concrete bridges. These
bridges will be in keeping with our
country and will enhance our natural
scenery"
In closing his lecture Mr.. Dabney
said: while ! was in all of the AL
pine territory and saw the principal
sights of the mountains, | must say
that saw no place that could equal in
scenic beauty that of the Mid Columbia
Cascade district. But as yet all of our
glOries of nature are bottled up. Those
of Europe are thrown open by the best
Of road'. Oregon's and Washington s
beautiful scenic spots must be tapped
by highways. We must have more
roads and we will become as famous as
is the Switzerland of today"
Just before the meeting adjourned
Secretary Scott flashed on the canvas
clipping showing that in his message
to the Legislature of the state the gov.
ernor of Maine recommended that the
tourist business be the third in import
ance In their consideration. The New
| England executive classed manufactur
ing first, agriculture second and tn
tourist business as third. He said tina
he thought the summer boarder bust
ness deserved an appropriation of $50,
900, 600.
"The New Englanders have realized
the Importance of their scenery al
assets, says MIR. Scott, "but have
they got anything that can in the east
compare with the mountains, the
streams and the lakes of 0regon?"
1t was getting late. the night was
cold, and nothing much was said, but
the lecture, while not phenomenal
caused those who heard it to think.
Those who went abroad with Mr.
Dabney Monday night began at New
York. He first told them to be sure
and provide themselves with American
Bankers Association cheques or those
of the American Express Co. These
he said, can be cashed at any foreign
bank or at the Offices of Thomas COol
and Son.
The travellers of Monday night who
saw the world sights by Kaleidoscope
first went to London. Mr.. Dabney
carried them through the Tower and VI
to Stratford- Avon. They passed t
the north across the border of Scot
land. They saw the Bonny Bridge o
Doom, where Sir Thomas Moore wrote
the last few lines of 'The Last RosC
of Summer. The "LOchs and thu
Bens," that Scottish writers like t
talk about passed before their eyes
They saw the orchard that Rober
Burns father used to till. Then from
the land of romantic Scotland they
proceeded to Ireland. Had their for
tunes told at the Wishing Well" a
the Giants Causeway and kissed tht
Blarney stone. They were filled will
pity on beholding the poverty of Corl
and other parts of the Emerald Isle.
Mr.. Dabney then proceeded to take
his listeners to the continent. To Os
tend, where hundreds of pretty girls
| frolic in the sunshine on the warn
beach sand, to Amsterdam, to An
twerp, to all of these place the pic
lures of the Kaleidoscope carried the
listeners. "At Cologne" " said Mr.
Dabney, are the great cologne factor
les, where the worlds sweetest per
fumes are made. These, according to
Mr.. Dabney, are not bad places tC
visit; for on entering one of these
places pretty girls swarm around one
and send sweet scented sprays from
atomizers over ones clothing.
The audience was perhaps more in
terested in the pictures of the Alpine
scenes than any other. The people
there have realized that their chief
crop is that of tourists. Everything is
done to make the visitor comfortable
and to display to him as dramatically
as possible the scenery, In Switzer-
land, men with huge horns pass in
front of the hotels and boarding houses
in the early morning. just when the
Alpine glow is appearing on snow Gov
cred natural mnaret or on the blue ice
crag of a glacier, to awake the travel
ers that they see this wonderful effect
of the first rays of the morning sun.
The scenes shown we're from post
cards that Mr.. Dabney had gathered.
They were displayed by Rev. +. A.
| Harris. who transferred his rehecto-