Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1915-03-19

home enthusiastic and happy, feeling
nat they had seen everything which
: was possible to see and had done
everything which il was possible tC
10.
And so Editor Bowman was urged
20 get up another party and another
and sOCn he was conducting tours tC
Niagara Falls, to Atlantic City, to the
Canadian cities, to Yellowstone Park
and the far West, to the Mardi Gras
at New Orleans, to New York, Phila-
delphia, Washington-everyw
In fact, the thing grew like a snow
ball, and Editor Bowman had a big
tour business on his hands in a few
years. Good service did it.
What Mr.. Bowman does not know
about points of interest in the terri
tory covered by his tours could be put
| in d very small pamphlet, while the
accurate information which he has
gathered in nearly twelve years on the
| subject of American travel would fill
several volumes the size of Webster's
International Dictionary.
His really enormous list of persona
| friends in every part of the Union has
! undoubtedly contributed much to his
success and prestige as a tour cOnduc-
| tor. 1t has enabled him to give 10 his
parties special pleasures and oppor-
! tunities which would not come to the
| Individual traveller. Once in Cleye
| land one of the Bowman parties had
| the pleasure of being presented tC
| John ID. Rockefeller. The COrcora~
! Art Gallery in Washington. which
every one knows is always "hermet-
| icaliy sealed" during the summer
! months, was thrown open to Mr. Bow
mar and the members of his party in
| August. as an extraordinary courtesy
| by special order of the trustees. At
| NatcheZ, Miss, they were guests Of
! hCror of the NatcheZ Chamber CT
| Commerce. One time they were al
served off gold plates in a handsome
| private dining room OF the most exclu
! sive hotel in the East Patrons OF
| BOwmar's Tours are usually the re-
| cipients of much attention and un
usual courtesies. While Mr.. Bowman
| Toes not guarantee these extras, "
some charming thing is quite likely tC
| ooh up which was not in the itinerary
But the great point about Bow
mars Tours" is the service. This is
Mr.. Bowmar's hobby. He says:
Most Americans travel for rest and
relaxation. They want maximum OF
pleasure and interest with the
! smallest reducible minimum of re
sponsibility. That's the ideal for a
tour agency to work towards"
Bowmar's Tours have worked for
hat and attained It, They are mod
crate priced, but no tours under per
'cnal escort in the country surpas'
hem In service. Mr.. Bowman accom-
| Danies every party.
| The parties are always harmonious
! There Ia an atmosphere OF good feel
ing and you are certain to meet nice
cOngenial people and no other kind
| The "all-expense" feature is another
Of Mr.. Bowmar's hobbies. The Amer.
| lean people are liberal" said he, but
| they are buSiness-like and accurate
and they like to know in advance wha
| the whole thing will cost ! tell them
| don't deal in glittering generalities
| give my patrons an itemiZed state
nent of everything that is to be in
| cluded, They don't meet with unpleas-
ant financial surprises on the trip"
A big Bowman tour for the cominl
summer is a four weeks trip through
the West to the California expositions
starting August 2. For more than a
year Mr. Bowman has been engaged in
working out details of this tour The
itinerary includes visits in San Fran
cisco. Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and
San Diego, California. stop-overs at
the Grand Canyon and in Denver
Colorado Springs and Manitou, Colo
RADIO, and Salt Lake City, Utah. There
will be other Bowman tours in July
and September to Atlantic City, New
York and Washington and to Niagara
Falls and Canada.