Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-03-21
H. F.. w. SchaIler
Discusses Conditions
In the Sunny South

southern regions. He was accompan-
led on his journey by his daughter,
Miss Marie, and by Mr.. j. w. Dough
erty and daughtr, Miss Ruth. They
report a most delightful trip, having
visited, among others, such cities as
Kansas City, New Orleans, Biloxi,
Memphis, Hot Springs, coming home
by way of st. Paul and Minneapolis.
The Schallers and Doughertys met
by Encouragement at Chicago and
proceeded l~eisurely to take in" many
of the gulf cities and chief points of
interest in many of the southern
states.
South Full of Tourists.
Mr.. Schaller, responding to an in
qulry on the part of a representative
OF The Saturday News, said that The
South seems to be having what may
be termed a big run'' of tourists. In
the course OF the evening the streets
OF ihe southern cities take on the as
pect OF a semi-holiday occasion, no
small percentage of the people appear
ING In public being si~ght-seers or
.pIllSt7i IKE themselves.
The situation in Europe. suggested
the Watertown merchant, seems 10
have drigen many of our American
tourists to investigate the beauties of
their oWn country. This, of course.
appiies to only a small proportion Of
southern tourists, but enough probably
to add somewhat to the crowds one
sees IN the parks and on the streets.
Beautiful New Orleans.
New Orleans said Mr.. sohaller,
continuing the conversation in reply
10 further questioning, "is a most
beautiful. city-one of the most beau
utui have seen in America. all
phases considered. Its streets are
We'll Kept, it's parks Inviting to a
stranger, its %profusion of flowers and
s%hrubbery delightful to the eye.a
The city comprises several hundred
Thousand in population, perhaps 400.
OV0, or a little more or less. NOT
Wlthstanding 1T is distant from the
ocean some seventy-five to eighty
miles, 1t is, to all intents and pur-I
poses. a seaport, inasmuch as the
large ocean-going vessels load and IN
load at its W%harves, coming up
Mississippi river.
Life and vitality, continued the
tertoWn merchant, are in evidence on
every hand, while wealth is evidenced
Dy the numerous magnificent resi-.
dences and fine business blocks.
Ship Load of Coffee.
never saw SO much coffee in all
my life before went on Mr.. Schaller|
refefrlng to his visit to the wllarves.
.One ship had arrived direct from
Brazil, the great coffee-producing
country, you know, with a cargo Of
what Americans have come to regard
as q necessary breakfast delicacy. Wei
happened to wander along in the vi
entity about the time the workmen-}
\ suppose ! should call them steve
sdores-began to unload the vessel.
packing the coffee in the great ware
house which covers. an acreage equal
or surprising n of our city blocks.
We watched the process a while
and then continued our meandering.
returning the following forenoon mi
the course of our strolls. What sur
prised us was that the ship was still
lying alongside the wharf and thel
men were still carrying the bags from
the hold and piling them up in the
e Wet taken il for
granted, without having given it any
particular thought, that q single shin
would not be carrying trainload upon
trainl0ad Of goods, but it seems d full
trainload makes but a comparatively
slight impression upon the great stor-I
capacity Of one Of those immense
ocean vessels,