Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-08-05
Ashland Hospitality.

(Edltorlal from oregon Journal
Ashland has set a high standard of
hospitality and as a result its fame
is being carried everywhere by auto
mobile tourists. On arrival at the
outskirts of the city the traveller is
directed to the city park, that has
been especially fitted up for his con-
venience. There are electric lights
and rustic benches and tables. There
is a cook house and sleeping quarters
and even gas stoves and kitchenware.
The traveller is made to be thorough
ly at home. 1t is an experience that
he appreciates and he does not neg
lect to tell everyone he meets about
il. The example of Ashland could
well be followed by other cities.
A Good Example at Ashland.
Editorial from Eugene Daily Guard)
An example for western Oregon
cities of the second class is being set
by Ashland, which is the first Oregon
community outside of Portland to set
Systematically about working up a
great tourist business. Ashland's
springs are not the only item eX-
plotted, although the community has
bonded itself for $4,000 to operate
these springs as a municipal watering
place. The natural surroundings
the parks, the drivevays, Mt. Ash
land, the orchards-are being eX-
plotted, too.
That western Oregon and western
Washington are the country's finest
summer Fairgrounds and that Italy,
Switzerland, part of France and Ger
many and Great Britain and even
parts of Spain, have been kept afflu-
ent by getting themselves famed as
recreation spots, will bear repetition
until the ideas are thoroughly in the
consciousness of every western Ore
gon town. 1t costs money to play; a
goodly portion of the hundreds of
thousands of American fasteners
who devote each summer to play may
just as well leave their money in Ash
land, Medford Roseburg, Eugene,
Albany and similar outfitting places
for scenic recreational wonders as in
the Catskills or Colorado.
1t takes time and organization and
persistency to roll up the beginnings
OF a tourist business, but the ball
rolls fast and gets large rapidly once
ii is started. There is no final and
ultimate reason why several trains
should daily pass Eugene each way
without a tourists ever getting off
TO 20 up the Mckenzie or to visit the
happy grounds along the Willamette
Pacific in the Coast range.
Let's not forget these facts as an
incentive to some tourist work. The
tide OF summer travellers was turned
to the Pacific coast this summer as
never before by the fair and the war
together. Portland for several
months has been a second Los An
geles. Ashland is setting out to be
a spa. Lane county has much to Of
fer and Eugene is in the center OF it.
At present we haven't even a summer
chautauqua.
New Promotion Opportunities.
Editorial from Eugene Register
The automobile, as everyone knows,
has brought about great changes in
the industrial and social life of every
community. By its marvellous sales
growth it has become an important
factor in general business conditions,
for it has turned money into chan
nels that were undreamed Of decade
or so ago. BY supplying quick and
easy transportation it has done much
TO destroy the spirit OF local provin-
eialism and has made people broader