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Show ' T - - - r t "v - O r " , ' I i ASoIrcs S:lt L?::c Citj t:!:Sajs K:t:r:l Hcscurccs . . x Arc Iict Utilized to Full EitcaL 4 C Whlttmaix a Bwlss tourist, who" has been sojourning In Salt take City for the past few days, la much Interested In all he has observed about the city. . He eaysof all the citlea east of this that , he has visited he ha found none that I pleased him mora. The wide streets, the cleanliness and) tha rood, healthful air are all that he could expect of' any city. v'ext to Bait Lake, he t well pleased with Denver. la tie citlea east he flnda no charm The streets are narrow nar-row and crowded and all Is a hurry and a bustle after wealth. Tha costly and grand manalooa are crowded for room and rook more like club than homes. In this city and Denver he found spa clous grounds surrounding the homes of the wealthy, which added mora to their tharm than their elegant finishings. finish-ings. . 4. , It puzzle Mr. Whlttman when he ea all about, him In this city natural medicinal springe) and the marvelous Water at the lake. HesCays that European Euro-pean capitalists would. build sanitariums sanitari-ums with such resources at their command. com-mand. Great hotels would be built on I the shores- of the lake and at the hot springs, where sick people could find ! health and pleasure at the same time. Everywhere he has been in America he has found something about the hotel and restaurant system that was in great need of improvement. At Pike's Peak he found such a wonderful won-derful mountain aa - he had never thought the New World possessed. But there were poor hotel accommodations and still poorer. facilities for satisfying the healthy appetite 'of the mountain-climber. mountain-climber. : The Rocky mountains are not excelled by the Alps or other European mountains, moun-tains, according1 to the impression of Mr. Whlttman. The awe-inspiring mountain passes of the Grand canyon are equal In every respect to those abroad, to which Americans Journey In countless numbers every year. The Amerloans, he says, have such beautiful scenery and delightful mountain resorts re-sorts that It Is the greatest wonder of all to him that they will travel so far and at such a great expense to view Just the things that are, excelled in their own country Mr. Whlttman's Impressions of ' the East and Its people will be received with good feeling by those of the West. In the East, the Swiss tourist says, there are too many nationalities. They seem to be divided into colonies and, such being the case, they work in factions fac-tions for the particular good of their countrymen. In the West the contrary is true. While there are as many races represented, there are not sosmany of each, and they seem more like the people peo-ple of one nation. They, are not colonized, colon-ized, so to speak, but work for the good of their commonwealth. ' The Westerners' Western-ers' strike Jiim as being more in tfecord with the meaning of the term American. Ameri-can. . . Mr. Whlttman has completed his tour of th world thus far and Is' now on his way to the Pacific. Before going there he will go to the Yellowstone national park. There, he experts to see such things, as in the Old World are unknown. un-known. Mr. Whlttman expects to reach Japan before .the war Is over, and expresses ex-presses his deiight in the, possibility of viewing some of the troubles at the front. . ...... |