Evening star., 1926-04-18

their business acumen has brought
| magnificent business structures and
fine and enlarged hotels into profit
able being: their keen Judgment kas
converted woodland tracts into splen-
did residential areas.
Can Be Duplicated Again.
The story that the past quarter of
| q century has told in the develop
ment of Washington can be duplicated
| in the next 25 years If the peuple Of
| this city take the necessary steps to
make the Shenandoah National Park
q reality.
! DIR. Temple, chairman of the South
ern Appalachian Park Commission
| and the author of the bin in Congress
| which authorizes the establishment of
| the park when the necessary land is
dedicated to the Government. said to
me last night that with 10000, 900 peo'
! pie living within days ride of the
park gates the problem was not going
to be one Of getting visitors TO the
park, but In adequately caring for the
tremendous streams of tourists.
The major number of these will
come or go through Washington.
Every kind of business win feel q tre-
mendous stimulus in those usually
dull months when business is in its
I
clients and patrons.
Studying the business significance
of the park to Washington, ! am per
suaded, in the light of my knowledge
of urban growth in other cities, my
observation of the development of the
National Capital and my acquaint-
ance with what the park-bound tourist
tide has meant to California and Colo
rado, that l err on the side of con.
servation in the following itemization
of what the establishment of this
great national park on the very hori-
zon of the Washington Monument will
mean to the various interests in
/ Washington.
Sees 10000 Visitors.
It means the conversion Of our
hotels from banquet halls de-
! serted" into make e-your.reservation
inadvance" hostelries during the
j Summer months. Based on Colo
radios experience, it will bring at least
| 1000 visitors to the Nations Capt.
tai annually, and Easter season sta.
tistics show that 100000 of these will
stop in our hotels. leaving not less
than 81 900 900 with them each sea-
son. The Easter season filled every
major hotel in Washington.
1t means that our stores ana our
shops will be able to forget the nlgnt-
mare of the Summer season. Colo
ado tourists have converted August
from the dullest month in the busi'
ness calendar into a close rival TO
December. according to the merchants
| of that State.
| II means to the gas and service sta
tions the sale of millions or gallons
! of gas and hundreds OF thousands OF
quarts of oil, the garaging OF tens or
! thousands of cars and the finding OF
as many more hours or new WORK LOT
| their mechanics.
It means to the motor car oeaief
booming market for new cars, new
| outlet for old ones and vast sales OF
II means to the taxicab companies
| millions Of new passenger-cafrying
miles. coming at that season When
| fares are otherwise Scarcest.
Many Opportune Customers.
It means to the speciality shops. the
souvenir stores, the restaurants,
lunch rooms and cafeterias hunoreds
: of thousands of new customers Wnen
| customers are most needed.
It means to the real estate people
| tens of thousands Of new clients ana
| a realty development equal to that
which the past decade has brought.
| It means that we will have, instead
| Of @ World War to stimulate our
| city's growth, a peaceful invasion OF
| new blood to promote it's expansion.
| 1t means we can, in the next
ouarter of century, repeat the
growth that we have. as q city, en-
loved in the 25 years behind us. And
that means a million people in Wash,
| inpton: two billion dollars Of added
| wealth: more than half billion
| dollars of added bank deposits. 1t
means that the merchants will have
| to enlarge as they have enlarged
since 1900.
It means 10000 opportunities for
| our sons and daughters to build up
businesses Of their own to meet the
needs of that growth.
! It means that every line Of business
listed in the Washington trade direc-
tory will benefit financially at every
| turn.
Big Benefit to Virginia.
| It means an era of unparalleled
prosperity for that great area which
is included in the Shenandoah Valley
| ana Piedmont Virginia, which lie in
| the trade territory Of Washington.
| Some 250, 600 people live in this area
and trade with Washington. The in
crease of their huying power means
| an increase in your business.
AS a hard-headed, sound-minded,
patronage bringing. income'earning in
vestment. no hotel, store, bank. real
estate Office or business establishment
in Washington has ever had oppor-
tunity to make a better one. The
l establishment of the park means an
a