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Show MOUNT RAINIERPARK A BEAUTY SPOT Washington, D c.. Nov. 14 Tourists Tour-ists from throughout the United States have awakened to the beauties of .Mount Rainier national parfc according accord-ing to the superintendent of the res ervation tn his annual report to Secretary Sec-retary Lane, of the Interior depart ment. According to the report the travel in the park Increased 52 per cenl during the present season over that of the same period last year. The park is one of the most accessible of the national playgrounds being situa ted only a comparatively short dla tancp from Tacoms, and Seattle, Washington In describing the beauties of the park, the superintendent grows enthusiastic en-thusiastic Trails along the uplands and beside the glaciers, he says, have been constructed with a view of making mak-ing the wonders of nature within the park easily accessible "Those upland meadows, benches, plateaus or natural parks," ho con eludes, "are beautifully adorned by nature with flowers and shrubs of infinite variety and color, and furnish to the most skilled botanist, not to speak of the amateur and tho mere lover of the beautiful, problems In nature study novor ending." |