Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1916 — The Tourist Movement. [ARTICLE]

The Tourist Movement.

We all know what the temporary loss to Europe has' been in tourist trade diverted on account of the war A thousand and one evidences of L •were given in the trans-Mississippi country last year. Now Fred F. Harvey^:ater* r o' celebrity to. the traveling public., tells us- that this loss to Europe is permanent. He has just returned with vivid impressions from the •• rn. - - over which a flood of - . -ner pleasure seekers >; read-in Lie months* and reports that the volume of traffic- during the coining --on. .may be as great or even crt-ater. With the; eastern tourists, shunted off- front their.''us'.o::;* itrip to Europe, it has been a cas* b? seeing is believing, ...They; have .j an appreciation of the *>. :- >• -o: our western country whi h . r.< amount of topographical d* s.-i j. -lon or academic generalization canid convey. Thousands of summer hon.ehave been purchased of built in this section by Americans, ch telly residents of the east. Mr. Harvey says. Hundreds of ranches have been acquired by them as outing places. New resort centers are planned for their entertainment and preparations are made for looking more systematically than ever before after their comfort and convenience. No other continent has such a playground as our own. It has long been suspected that if the current of travel was ever directed towards its wonders, it would never diminish Persons now living may see the time when European tourists will come to scenic America in swarms as great as those in which American tourists up to 1915 have been going to scenic Europe.—-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.