The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-04-06
J. GEORGE TOURS. THIRTY STATES,
 MOTOR JOURNEY
Local Merchant Thrilled by Mardi Gras-M. George
 Fractures Leg

With more than 10000 miles of auto-touring, plus 1500 miles of water travel and half way across the nation riding behind him, Joe L. George, joint proprietor of George Brothers Pay'n Takit store here and manager of the Pay'n Ta- kit Liquor Store, returned to Ju- ncau aboard the Canadian Pacific steamer Princess Norah from the States.
 Heading south from Juneau short ly after the first of this year, MT George made brief stops on busi- ness in Seattle and San Francisco On his way further south by train to visit his father, Mike George, at Pasadena, California.
 After a month at Pasadena, he bearded train again to head across country to Rochester, Minnesota, where for five days he was under he care of the celebrated Mayo Brothers Clinic Leaving Rochester he went to Detroit to take delivery of a new maroon Packard coupe and commence his motor travels.
 At Old Family Home
 Leaving Detroit by the under-river tunnel to Canada, MT. George toured eastward through the Province of Ontario to Niagara Falls, where he crossed back into the United States and stopped five days. enjoying the sights of the honeymoon mecca. Leaving Niagara, his next stop was at lis old family home at Paw | tucket Rhode Island, where he re- turned for the first time since leav- ing at the age of twelve.
 After renewing relationships and old friendships there for nearly a week, MT George motored through the outskirts of New York City and south along the Atlantic Seaboard to Florida, where, setting out from Jacksonville, he made the complete $50 mile circuit of the Florida coast.
 Heading west again, he hugged the Gulf shore across Alabama and Mississippi to arrive in New Or leans just in time for the Mardi Gras. Fortunate enough to secure hotel accommodations in tn a t crammed carnival city, he remained there five days, including three days of Mardi Gras revelry which he de- clared to be alone well worth all his journeying. He described the sen- sation his car with it's Alaska license plates created when he first drove up before his hotel in New Orleans i; attracting hundreds of people who crowded so closely about the car that he had difficulty in opening the doors to emerge.
 Visits DistiIlery
 From the Mississippi port, MT. George headed back up through the heart of the Nation to Detroit for a tune-up of his car at the factory then retraced his route southward to Arkansas. Enroute south he stopped for day at Peoria Illinois. to visit the worlds largest liquor dis tillery operated there by Hiram Wal ker and Sons
 Facing westward again from Ar kansas, MT. George sped through Texas and New Mexico into Ari- zona, where, after keeping about three days ahead Of storm and flood on all his previous travels, ad- verse weather caught him and he was forced to battle through a sand storm that stripped all paint off the nose of his car and pitted wind shields.
 Back at Pasadena, he spent an- other ten days with his father, who i during his sons second visit had the misfortune to fracture his leg falling from tree he was pruning
 Finally, after passing through thirty states and one Canadian pro- vince, MT. George arrived back into Seattle, where, after having the sandstorm ravages to his car, re- paired, he boarded ship for Juneau.
 Business Conditions
 MT. George reported finding busi- ness conditions apparently favor able through most of the Nation and said that he had been informed by one reliable insurance company ex- ecutive that prosperous times are expected throughout the country later this summer.
 In Seattle, he found businessmen. in general, looking to the admins tration of newly-elected Mayor Langlie as great boon, while union circles point to MT. Langlie as a fore-runner. of doom. All is very much still in the air, however, re- garding the salmon cannery situa- tion, MT. George stated.
 Although his trip was mainly re- creational, MT. George completed business transactions for his firm in several cities he visited Although he would like to repeat his journey. he is glad to be back in Juneau. We are very lucky in having here none Of the absolute Restitution I saw in several of the States, notably Michi- gan Mir Gporoa daoloraI