The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1922-06-14
National Park Director Mather
Outlines Plan for System
Reaching Across Country.
is NOT GOVERNMENT PROJECT
echeme is Purely state Proposition,
but VIII Have Approval and Ae-
distance OF National Govern
ment--Fo!low Rail Reutee.

the Pacific along half q dozen or more
Of the great travel highways was OUT
lined in Omaha by Stephen T. Mathef
Of Cbicago.' director Of the government
national" park system. . Mr.. Mathef
emphasized that, while these park iineB
are not sponsored by the government
and are purely state projects, they
have the approval Of the national sys-
tenn in every way.
ut is a gigantic undertaking" shya
Mr.. Mather.
: Mr.. Mather is now in the West get
ting the great national parks. yellow
stone, Yosemite, Rocky Mountain, Zion
and the other Fairgrounds ready for
the coming sightseeing season.
MANY Of the states are working on
these park lines now" says Mr.
Mather, land we hope to have others
Interested very quickly"
viii Follow Rail Roates.
West Of the Mississippi these park
lines, rs outlined by Mr.. Mather, will
follow closely the big transcOntinental
railroad lines. One system of parks
will follow the Southern Pacific rotrd
from New Orleans across Texas, New
Mexico and Arizona to California A
second line will follow the Missouri
Pacific and Santa Fe from ST. Louis
through Kansas City and on to the
Pacific through Kansas and the states
west. A third line OF parks will fol-
low the Union Pacific from Omaha
across Nebraska, Wyoming, L tah and
Nevada to San Francisco with
branches at Ogden to Los Angeles and
Portland. Still another park system
will extend from st. Paul and Mime
apolis out to Seattle. :, - -;
East Of the Mississippi these lines 0f
parks will follow trade routes across
New York, northern Ohio and Indiana
to Chicago; across Pennsylvania, CEN
tral Ohio and Indiana to Chicago and
81. Louis; across Maryland West
Virginia, southern Ohio and Indiana to-
st. Louis and down the Atlantic coast
and around to New Orleans.
1.-THE national government has noth;.
Ing officially to do with these park
lines" Mr.. Mather states, "but we are
assisting all along the line. These
parks will be under the control Of the
different states. They will be small
compared with the vast government
Fairgrounds. Some Of them will con-
tain but n few acres. Here they will
take in bit Of rough land with an
especially fine View there the park
may horder on a small lake, again It
may be on the, banks of stream, It
may commemorate some act of state
wide Importance; 1t may be located
around landmark, etc. All these
small parks will work right in with
the national system.
'"The day of the park and of the
great outdoors has come in America.
The people are getting ready to play
again. We are expecting the largest
crowds ut the national parks this
coming season that have visited them
for number Of years.
"For five or six years the American
people have done very little playing.
There was the war and there was the
expense OF travel. But the war Is over
and travelling expenses have been ma.
terially reduced.
Steamship lines to Europe are adj
vertising a specific amount as the ex-
pense of a trip abroad, everything in
cluded. To:offset this the government
park service has figured the necessary
cost, including railroad Sfare,, Pullman
and dining: :carIeXtras and the expense
in the parks themselvesy While" our
service has nothing to'~do with ;ex-
penses outside the park,tlt has every
thing to do With those within the park
boundaries, and we have forced The
total cost down to minimum.
May Use Different Roads.
"The government service has ar
ranged with the railroads which reach
these parks to take passengers in at
one entrance and permit them to leave
the parks at entirely different gate.
ways and use different railroad
thenceforth, If they wish to do so.
From Inquiries the park service 10
receiving now, we believe the word
pleasure Is coming back into the
vocabulary Of the ordinary people,
and this year these great western
parks will entertain their largest
crowds for many years-if not in their!
histories.w Il, s,,gG, /,
'The people are going to- enjoy tho
great outdoors more In the future than
they have In the past, and when the
different states complete these chains
OF state parks across the country tho
American people will get a new. idea
Of what,it means to be ont-of; f;dooFs."
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