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Show BUSINESS BETTER SAYS PARRISHON RETURN FROM EAST Prosperity is co mig , back in the east and in southern south-ern California was the impression gathered by Dr. Charles Parrish on his month's vacation that included a visit to the large cities o the east, Havana, Panama and Los Angeles, he reported on his return to Milford yesterday. yes-terday. Business men of the east told him of increased business and prosperous days ahead. He himself noticed the activity in building in New York, Chicago, Chi-cago, and especially in Los Angeles. His trip included visits to Chicago, Buffalo, Detroit, Philadelphia and Rochester. He took boat at Albany and sailed down the Hudson to New York where he spent a week. From New York he sailed on the S. S. Virginia Vir-ginia to Havana where he visited the new capitol building which he characterized char-acterized as "showy" beyond anything in the United States. Here the love of ..display characteristic of the Latins found expression in the placing of a diamond the size of a fifty cent piece in the entrance hall of their capitol. Another point of interest he visited in Cuba was the tree that is supposed to mark the landing place of Columbus. Colum-bus. While in Cuba he noted the anxiety anx-iety of the Cubans for anexation to the United States. A desire that was expressed to him by all of the Cuban's with whom he talked. Leaving Cuba, he sailed through the Panama Canal and remarked the tropical tro-pical beauty of the canal zone whert mangoes, bananas and palms fringe the shores and shelter a queer assortment assort-ment of brilliantly colored tropical birds. Investigating the toll system of the canal he found that revenue derived by the United States from the canal was about a million dollars a year Which contribiied toward its maintenance mainten-ance and toward paying for the fifty millions spent in its construction. The entire canal zone is under rigid military mili-tary rule, he observed. Stopping over in Panama he visited the historic ruins of the Old City, which has never been rebuilt since it was sacked by English Pirates three hundred years ago. Here he saw the golden altar, the only thing of value . that escaped the pillage of the pirates. It is a solid slab of gold twenty feet high and fifteen wide and valued at two hundred thousand dollars. The natives at -the time of the invasion whitewashed the altar so that it escaped es-caped the notice of the buchaneers. Leaving Panama he sailed to San Diego where he visited the old ftr grounds which have been turned into an interesting zoo and avary containing contain-ing all varieties of tropical animals and birds. From there he went to Los Angeles. In Los Angeles he saw better business busi-ness conditions than anywhere in the United States. Business is on the way to recovery, he reported, and -building is active. Unemployment is not so ac-cutely ac-cutely felt. While east, Dr. Parrish visited a number of clinics, among them Mayo's in Rochester. He also attended the annual convention of the American Medical association where doctors and scientists from all over the United States gathered to lecture and offer demonstrations of the newest developments develop-ments in medical science. On his return to Milford yesterday, Dr. Parrish said that though he had enjoyed his trip to the fullest he was pleased to return home to receive the hearty welcome of his friends and to take up his work again here in Milford. |