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Show SILT LUKE NEEDS MORE ADVERTISING Foreign Passenger Agent Says City Is Not Before Eyes of Public LOSING OPPORTUNITY Thinks This Country Should Become a Great Maritime Mari-time Nation. j ' ' Salt Lake doosn 't advertise enough," declared G. II. Corse, Jr., for-ei:n for-ei:n passenger agent of the Union Pacific Pa-cific system, who is a visitor in Salt Lako. . i As Mr. Corse probably does almost as much extensive traveling as any man in the country, his observations were particularly interesting to railroad men with whom be talked yesterday. Mr. Corse was formerly a Utahn, before he began to make the eutire globe his home, ad therefore takes special interest in-terest in this section of the country. For nearly twenty, years his father was Union Pacific agent at Ogden, To pain some notion of the way Mr. Corse runs around the country and the hemisphere, it may be noted that in the last six weeks he has made business visits in New Orleans, Jacksonville, Palm Beach, Havana, Cuba; New York City, Portland, Me.; Montreal, Seattle, Portland, Cve.; San Francisco, Los Angeles, An-geles, Denver, Chicago, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, Philadelphia and he landed in Salt Lake yesterday. In the paBt six weeks, he calculates, he has covered some 15,000 miles, and has talked to passenger men, high railroad officials, tourists, commercial men and others in all walks of life that he meets in business busi-ness conferences and on Pullmans. "The Salt Lake City Passenger association as-sociation issues a folder," said Mr. Corse, "but I don't see enough of them around at the tourist agencies and such places. I don't know what is done with them, but the fact remains that this city does not get before the eye of the tourist and the prospective tourist as it should. ' ' Favors Roosevelt. Mr. Corse takes a keen interest in politics, and declared yesterday that many people would be surprised if they knew what a growing sentiment there was for Theodore Roosevelt as a presidential pres-idential candidate. All over the country, Mr. Corse said, business men. and professional pro-fessional men whom he has met have expressed a preference for Colonel Roosevelt. He believes Roosevelt will ho a strong factor in the coming national na-tional election. For ten years Mr. Corse represented Pacific steamship companies in the orient, and he is as familiar with Hongkong Hong-kong as ho is with New York, and knows the highways and byways of Siam, the Philippines and India as well as he knows those of Utah, or California, Califor-nia, or Illinois. He is vigorously opposed op-posed to the seaman's act, which he says drove the Pacific Mail Steamship cotnpanv from the Pacific. The law discriminates against the very American seaman which it was intended to help, in .his opinion. On the Pacific, as well as in other waters. Mr. Corse snvs, there is almost a disastrous lack of steamers at the present time. It is almost impossible to get accommodations for tourists who desire to visit the Orient, he says. Foreign For-eign freight departmeuts for railroads, insonie instances, are forced to refuse shipments of freight intended for the Orient, because spaco cannot be secured. Situation Improving. The situation, however, is being gradually grad-ually relieved, according to Mr. Corse, nud there is more relief in sight by June, when the American International corporation will return two of the Pacific Pa-cific Mail steamers to Pacific trade. In a Manila paper which he received yesterday yes-terday he also noted that one of the inter-island boats operating in the Philippines is now being put into transpacific trans-pacific service. Even a few sailing vessels are now doing what they can to relieve the Pacific freight congestion, conges-tion, he says. Mr. Corse believes there is a great opportunity at the present time for the United States to become a great maritime mari-time nation. "We are now the richest nation in .the world," said Mr. Corse, "and we must not narrow our perspective perspec-tive so as to forgot the responsibilities ; that such a condition brings us. We have got to see with a world vision, and not be hampered by narrow prejudices. : There is a great responsibility resting 1 upon this nation now, and I sincerely hope tho nation lives up to it." Mr. Corpo does not agree with those who believe that tho Europenn war will continue for two or three years longer, lie says lie believes the war will end abruptly, an,l nat tn0 c,1d will come before very long. The end of tho war, ho said, would relievo much , of tho trans-oceanic freight congestion. Approximately Ap-proximately 2000 vessels are now interned in-terned on account of the war, Mr. Corse said, and these will be released for traffic as soon ns peace is declared. |