Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-08-25
ABROAD
IS OPTIMISM
MRS. CHARTER is BACK
FROM TOUR OF
EUROPE

ut was very much of a surprise to
find optimism prevailing wherever |
went in Europe" Mrs. F. E. Charter
told a Pilot representative after her
return Tuesday evening from tour
OF Europe, including Italy, Switzer-
land, Germany, France and England.
Everywhere there seeed to be album,
dant harvests and at times you forgot
that there has ever been war;
Landed at Naples
Mrs. Charter was one of party of
| eighteen people making the tour with
Miss McCombs, of Wilson college.
The landing was made at Naples,
early in the evening. at would be
difficult to tell how wonderful the
| first view of Naples was. Miss Nc
Combs says that in her seven trips
| across the water, ours was the first
landing made during the day that she
had experienced. We entered the bay
| of Naples between islands and in the
distance were the high mountains, the
sinking sun shining through them,
and to one side was Mt. Vesuvius,
smoking as usual. 1t was view the
impression of which will be lasting"
There is tremendous amount of
tourist travel through all of Europe
at the present time, not only Ameri-
cans but people from Sweden, Norway,
Spain and other foreign centuries,
making excursions. Illustrating this
fact, Mrs. Charter said that she had
telegraphed ahead to Cologne, Ger
many, for a reservation but when she
arrived, had been informed that the
hotel could not accommodate her. The
four leading hotels were filled to over
flowing and eight places were phoned
before room could be found for her
In Berlin Mrs. Charter experienced
the same difficulty, the three leading
hotels being filled.
Went to Germany
After seeing Italy, where Mrs. Char
tier was impressed by the cultivation
| of the mountains to their very
submits and by the primitive mode of
| transportation, the party went to
Switzerland and there Mrs. Charter
broke away, going alone into Ger
many. The other members of the par
| ty did not make this trip, believing
| that too great delay would be ex-
perienced and that proper food could
not be had
when l reached Wiesbaden,
wrote back My head is on my should
ers and my limbs are still whole The
rest of you will be green with envy
when you know that | had cream in
my coffee here for the first time since
arriving in Europe The manager of
the hotel there said he could not I'M
derstand why the impression prevail
ed that tourists were not received
properly in Germany Mrs. Charter
found German factories running and
the people are laboring diligently to
carry out the obligations of the peace
treaty. Military occupation by French
and British troops still goes on and
there are some Americans on the
Rhine. Mrs. Charter found the
Rhine huge commercial waterway,
and she declares that there were hun
dreds of barges on the river carrying
coal, boxes and lumber.
No Resort to Arms
| About the time of her visit to Ber-
| lin, Mrs. Charter tells of confer
ence that had been held when it was
| the expressed hope of those partici-
pating that all questions of dispute
would hereafter be, settled without
resort to arms. She tells of one Ger
man who said the war was not by any
means the desire of the German peo-
pie but that they were forced to carry
out the order of the Imperial govern
ment.
Besides spending five DAYS in Paris,
where the military spirit still pre-
walls, Mrs. Charter toured Belgium
and saw practically all of the devastat-
battle fields, where the work of re-
construction has progressed with
marvellous rapidity, hardly any traces
of the trenches being left. The party
also visited the spot twenty miles
from Paris where Gen. Foch repulsed
the Germans who retreated for sixty
miles without destroying thing.
In England Mrs. Charter says
there is little discussion of the Irish
question. The people seem to believe
that newspapers exaggerate the stu
alton and that Ireland will eventually