The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-08-16
TOURIST REPORT IS SPROMINENT new
MADE FROM VISIT YORK MUSICIANS
TO OTHER CITIES VISIT CANON CITY
WE'RE GREATLY ENTHUSED OVER
BEAUTY OF ROYAL GORGE AND
SKYLINE DRIVE. WILL pEpi-
CATE MUSIC TO ITS BEAUTY.

Mr.. and Mrs. F. W. Mckee of New
York, accompanied by the latter's
father. Mr.. Beeman, also of the me-
tropolis, with A. R. Mitchell of the
Palace Drug store as guest and chap
erone, made an automobile run over
Canon City's scenic highways Friday
morning, much TO the enjoyment OF
the entire party.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mckee are both prom
inent in musical circles in the east:
the former as director of McKee's or
chestra of eighty pieces. perhaps. one
of the most distinguished organizations
of its kind in the United States, and
leader of McKee's instrumental trio.
known all over the world to the own
ers of the records of the Victor Talk
ing Machine company. for which it is
an exclusive player.
Mr.. Mckee. as well as His wife, is
a musical composer of wide repute
and their productions are highly es-
teemed in all parts of the country.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mckee have travelled
N many lands, but nowhere, in their
opinion, are there more alluring
mountain vews, or more majestic
scenes than those afforded from the
roads about Canon City. They made
the trip along the Tunnel highway up
the Arkansas river; to the top of the
Royal Gorge and looked down into
the depths of the canon and returned
to town over the Skyline drive.
The excursion 10 the visitors was
one never to be forgotten and they
were enthusiastic in praise of its
beauty and of the grandeur of the pan
Drama of the nearer hills and valleys
and the distant peaks which il un-
folded. They We're highly appreciative
OF their surroundings and in looking
into the nearly fathomless Royal
Gorge they realized that they were
gazing into a cleft in the earth ten
thousand times larger and more won
derful than the Panama canal; the
most stupendous work of man in re-
cent times. To them il seemed as il a
-nillion men laboring in constant re-
lays for a thousand years could not
have removed the rock that had been
worn away by attrition and the cur.
sent of the river in the ages past
To people of such a temperament
and understanding the Royal Gorge is
one of the masterpieces of Nature. fit
to be associated with Niagara Falls,
the Yellowstone National park and the
Yosemite in California. They declared
it to be more awe-inspiring than the
Grand Canon of the Colorado.
Marvellous as the Royal Gorge had
appeared 10 Mr.. and Mrs. Mckee they
temporarily forgot its wonders when
the first view from the Skyline drive
burst upon their vision To them the
scenes from the latter was one of less
er greatness when measured by the
standard of the geolog:st, but of al
most ineffable beauty that appealed to
the artistic instincts as nothing else
they had seen had done They were
unable 10 describe their delight with
the view that obtruded itself upon
them as il some great painter had pic
tured the vision of his dreams and i'm
agination on some gigantic canvas &c
attract the admiration and hold the
attention of the observer. Mr.. and
Mrs. Mckee expressed the belief that
the scene from the Skyline drive was
the most marvellous and attractive in
all of the Rocky Mountain region and
the former announced his intention oil
dedicating musical composition tc
its beauty
Mr.. and Mrs. Mckee were surprised
that all of the scenic attractions about
Canon City were free to the visitor
and they suggested that that fact
should be advertised to the country al
large. There are few other places, they
asserted. where such alluring pros
poets may be enjoyed without money
and without price. They were SC
charmed with Canon City and its en-
virons that they will tell their New
York friends about them and will urge
that they be included in the itinerar,
of any trips that they may take to tn,
Pacific coast.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mckee and Mr.. ant
Mrs. Beeman left Friday afternoon fol
Glenwood Springs. determined to. re
turn to Canon City for another rid.
over the Skyline drive before leaving
the state for home. Mrs. Beeman wal
indisposed on Friday and compelled