Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-09

/ as elegant and q wonderful structure.
Mr.. Cook had the pleasure of meet
ing Neil Tourtellotte in Boston. He
is attending the Boston Institute of
Technology and intends to spend the
summer in the city working during his
vacation. He states he is pleased with
school and has got the grit to go
through and will come out at the top.
Visited Other Cities.
After leaving Boston Mr.. Cook and
his daughter visited the cities OF
Washington. New York. Albany. Phila-
delphia and Baltimore and also made
the Hudson river trip, one Of the most
scenic in the country. At Washington,
he states. they saw the finest city in
the United States as far as cleanliness
and beauty are concerned and the only
one which comes near 1t int that line
as far as he has seen Is Pasadena, Cal.
They visited Washington's old home,
made trip to the top of Washington's
monument, visited the Smithsonian
institute and saw the Roosevelt collec-
tion Of animals, chief among which
was the horse tailed monkeys captur-
ed by Colonel Roosevelt. These
monkeys, he states, are black and
horse which is mostly white. The anil
NAL is not much larger than the regu-
lar species. he states.
They attended the Presbyterian
church where Lincoln used to worship
and sat in the pew adjoining the one
which he occupied. Mr. Cook stated
that neither he nor his daughter had
any desire to sit in the same pew al
though it was open to the public as
they felt 1t was too revered a place
and he believes the church would show
better taste to drape the seat and put
cord about it to keep people out.
Called at White House.
While in the national capital they
called at the White House and were
shown through a portion of it. While
there they did not see any of the Idaho
representatives as they were too busy
seeing the sights of the city in their
two days stay.
Mr.. Cook reports that he found busi-
ness spotted. Some towns were forg-
ing ahead and building while in others
business seemed depressed but gener-
ally he found conditions good and the
people sanguine over the future. What
part of his trip was his visit to his
old home, Marshalltown, Ia, where, he
states, three years ago they ousted the
saloon and today there is not vacant
store building or house in the town Of
5000 inhabitants. He found the no.
tells and rooming houses crowded to
the limit with people waiting to have
homes built for them. Upon arriving,
he states, they went to the place of an
old friend who runs a rooming house,
but were unable to get rooms there. He
attributes the excellent business con-
dition in that town to the fact that the
saloon has been banished, but states
he did not do so until he talked with
many business and professional men
there. He states should any one wish
to investigate for themselves he will
furnish them with the addresses of
bankers who were in sympathy with
the vets before the town went dry,
but have since seen the error of their
ways. At Marshalltown. he states,
new Y. NJ. c. A. building 60x1SO feet,
four stories high, is being constructed
and also several other substantial bus
mess blocks and residences.
keal Estate values
Speaking of real estate values, Mr..
Cook reports that improved farms in
Iowa are selling at prices ranging from
800 to $3.50 per acre, but that he re-
turned home feeling that the lands
here are cheaper at the prices they
command, and while ne states much
Of the land Is held at boom prices,
Idaho is not experiencing a boom and
its land must be sold accordingly, but
he feels certain the state will come
back to its own.
Mr.. Cook returns believing that taxes
here must be lowered, that the official
hirelngs in the state must be reduced
to a reasonable number as it will be
impossible to continue with the over
burden Of official timber which the
state IS carrying. He declares that as
soon as the state can get rid of lot
Of it's commissions. which he ventures
to say viii not pay the state so cents
on the dollar for what they cost, the
sooner conditions will be improved
here and taxes lowered.
Mr. Cook states he is highly pleased
to be back home, but feels amply re-
paid for his extended trip through the
eastern states. He returns more than
satisfied that his home is in the choic-
est part Of the great American nation.
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