Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 29, 1920, Page 6

Aprosos of the discussion of « tourist camp: for Casper by the Chamber of: Commerce Forum tomorrow, thefollowing addvess by Marry K. Fritchman, ex- mayor of Boise, before a convention of timely interest. eT are well lighted with electric Ughts. Plenty of tables an@ benches are pro- vided, most ef which have been made by the tourists. themselves. This make: our Tourist: park as complete as we know how to make it. of anything more that would add to the comfort of our tourist guests, un- With the development of the auto- mobile and the increasing popularity of that machine as @ means of touring the coun’ came the demand for bet- ter highw. In response to that de- mand thousands of miles of automobile roads have been built since the advent. of the automobile, thousands of miles more are under construction in all parts of the country and still thousands of miles more are contemplated and will be built. With the building of good roads which makes travel by automebile a real pleasure comes the demand for auto p grounds. They are just as neces- to the comfort and happiness of utomobile tourist as are the good Boise's Tourist Park. discussing this subject briefly I going to ask your permission to In am describe in a few words Boise's Tourist Park; how it was created and how it is operated, from which you will ob- serve the benefits derived therefrom to the community in general and te our profession in ‘particular. In the spring of 1918 some members of the Chamber of. Commerce observed that auto tourists. in considerable num- ber were camping by the roadside out- side the city, and conceived. the idex that it would be a fine civie ag well as good business proposition ta. estab- lish a camp ground for tourists. The matter was presented to the Chamber and decided favorably. The site selected and dedicated to this purpose was a beautiful piece of woods on the north bank of the Botse river inside the city limits. We named it “Tourist Park.” We called it a rk because the natural beauty of the ace suggested it and the plain words “camp grounds” did not seem to fit the oecasion. iM Kirst Built a Kitchen. The first building erected, was a kitchen—a place where tourists could cook their meals. It is a 24 feet equare and is open on all sides, except that it is screened to keep out the flies, and other insects. This kitchen is equip- “ped with eight double electric cooking plates. Natural hot water ag well as cold water is piped into this kitchen, and it is equipped with sinks, drain beards and wor’ tables, making it as complete as any to be found in the most modern home. There were no other "improvements put on the grounds that year except toilet accom modations ' Fine Community Spirit Develops. In 1919 we decided to build a bath and this is the way we did it. got all the material om the ground and then under the auspices of the. Chamber of Commerce we scheduled 1 big celebration down there after busi-| I Ww ness hours one evening. It was qaual { to an old-fashioned barn raising in New Englahd. Plenty of refreshments and a good time. had carpenters from the ‘ss’ Union” who donated their services and 100 helpers from the Chamber of Commerce, and you never saw a building go up as fast as that} one did. hen it got too dark to see we headed our automobiles toward the} building and turned on the headlights. We worked until nearly midnight. Three nights of this kind of celebrat- ing completed the building. The hot and cold water were both piped in. There were two shower rooms, one for the men and one for the women. There -is also a laundry room equipped with an electric washer as well as an iron- ing table equipped with electric irons. Nor did we forget to string several -hun- dred feet of wire clothesline outside, Car Washing Platform This Year. This spring we put in a double co. ment car washing platform to which is Tourist Park at Boise, Idaho, One ot City’s Greatest Assets, Says Prominent Realtor in Convention & phonograph, and you don’t need to drive in there to find- just such an ad dition. Northwest realtors at Spokane, is. of We can’t think less it would: be a dancing pavilion and he surprised next year if you should The park to date has not cos* the city. of Boise a single penny. It has all been donated, both material and la- bor, by loyal, live citizens, How Park Is Managed. But a few words as to operating the park. It is under the management of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce. We have a superintend- ent whose duty it is to look after the wants of the visitors camped there. When a new arrival drives into. the park he is met by the superintendent who registers him, assigns him to his shade tree and instructs him in the rules of the park which he must obey if he remains there. By registration I mean the tourist upon arrival is issued & permit to eam. im the park for the time he expects to remain. This per- mit is signed in quadruplicate by both the tourist and the superintendent. One copy is retained by the superintendent for his records, one copy is delivered to the Chamber of Commerce and the other copy to the morning: paper which prints every morning the arrivals. of the previous day. This permit gives the following information: Date of ar- rival, name of tourist, his home ad- dress, his. destination, the number of persons traveling in the car, the last stop made before reaching Boise, make of car he is. @riving and a record of the license-his car carries. At the end of the season all this information is compiled by the Chamber of Commerce which makes a valuable record for fu- ture reference. Park Privileges Not Commercialized, ‘The privileges of the park are not commercialized in any, degree whatever. No soliciting of any nature is allowed. No literature is permitted to be dis- tributed. No sign boards. No adver- using. The, visitors are left entinely, atone to enjoy themselves in peace and quiet as Jong as they desire to remain. Tourists. Insist on Paying. One thing is noticeable among the tourists, and that is their desire to pay for the privileges of the park. It was not the intention of the management in the beginning to make a charge of any kind for camping privileges, but the disposition among the tourists to pay was so strong they decided to accept a maximum of 25 cents a day per ¢ar, not so much to get the money, but be- genes the tourists seem betten? satis- fied. So a receptacle was installed jn the kitchen to receive the coins. I sh money is collected ip this man n to pay for the glectricity used for cooking, lighting, washing and ironing, Advantages to Tourist. Now what dees the tourist do when he drives inte this park? He finds him- self in the midst of the most beauti- ful surroundings—nice big shade trees, clean blue grass lawn on which to pitch his camp, @ beautiful river flowing by, good cold water to drinkk and warm water to bate in» Assuming now that it is about the middle of the afternoon when he arrives with nis wife and three children, which is about the average family to register, the first thing of course is to pitch the tent and arrange the camp. In doing so they drive the stakes just a little bit deeper than usual and the arrangement of the camp piped both the het and cold w: and plenty of hose is attached. Two cars washed at the same time. driveway through the park sprinkled tw! is We can rig you up seasoned rig timbers. is a little more permanent than usual because they have already made up | thee minds that they are going to stay | awhile s Interested in the Town. After the camp has been arrangea he_tourist_ and the son’ takes tl with all sizes of the best Give us an opportunity to quote prices on all of your lumber requisites. Keith Lumber Co. Phone, 3 ‘CAPITOL LIFE’ McGREW Phone ISS. Make the world sate for your posterity to the washing platform and wash it zon to one room and the daughters to the other, and they get the first reat bath they have had since they left home. They put on clean clothes and the whole family returns. to camp feeling fine. Pretty soon it is time to cook dinner. No trouble to do that, There is the kitchen’ completely equipped: In fact, in many instances ‘better than they have been aceustomed to. No trouble to wash dishes, there is plenty of hot water. They spend a Pleasant evening and get acquainted with some of their neighbors. When | they are alone this tourist says to his | wife: ‘Mary, we must be in the edge of/a live town. Amy community that will set a welcome like this for .stran- gers who happen to come this way is net a dead one, and I am. going to find ; out something about it.” | Refuse to Beat It, Next Morning. De they get up early next morning and best it ott of town like they did the morning before where they camp- ed hy the readside and drank ditch wa- ter? They do not. By morning they are just getting ready to stay. They, haven't done the washing yet; they are up bright and early in the morning all | right, but it is not for the purpose of | leaving town, and it isn’t long until) the electric washer is going. In a lit-| tle while the washing is entirely out of | the way. Then they say: “We are all settled 2nd cleaned up now. Let's go up and look at this town.’* ‘They find good stores, pleasant clerks! to wait on them, prices fair and the! firet thing they know they are buying something. They stock up with grocer | ies, buy ore or two pairs ef shoes, a couple of new tires for the car and} go back to the park with a very nige | jag of merehandige. The next thing| they ave taking in the places of inter- est about the eity. It is only a few blocks to the nataterium where they take a plunge in the artesian warm water, Tho more they see of the place the better they like it. Bocomo Interested in Country. ‘Shen this tourist. says to his wife: “Mary, I am. going to take John in the morning and. drive out and see the! country areund this town. You stay here-with the girls and rest." So he and John, Junior, get in the car the next morning and start out down the valley, they keep driving and are gone all day. They get home in the evening and he says to Mary the first thing: "John and I have cer- tainly seen some fine country today. We followed this’ valley down fifty or sixty miles. We went down through! Caldwell and returned) through Narnpa, both good big towns right here in the valley. We saw fine orchards, big fields of grain and the biggest alfalfa { ever saw, We saw fine herds of dairy cows grazing on blue grass, and they were grazing three cows to the acre. You know it takes twe acres of our pagture to graze one cow. I tell you, E am going up town in. the morn- ing and call on some of the real ex: tate men. I am going to find out what this land is worth.” Where the Realtor Cqmes In. Now do you see the point? Do you see the connection. between the toucist | park and our profession? | I te you, gentlemen, the story I | y have just related to you has happened! § over and over again in connection with eur tourist park. We ha’ what we believe to be the most beautiful, the host located and the best equipped tour. t park in the United State er fr se | mi i APPO! | LEAGUE OF LIBRARIAN pe age INTED ce =Wilsom served with the American ission in, Paris was appointed chick librarian for the Reague of Nations. ‘not 2 tourist comes there but what, has heard of it long before he arrives. A fellow dreve im there the othes da. who said heard of it before he left home, an oti one frora West Virginia said the same thing, and while fam standing here us you about it there are at least |‘? hesitate @ moment to look. If a lot 'If 300 people camped there, whieh: to for ne town the size. of ours is quite an ecbhze om Rochester, N. Y., t. Let me give you some figures. 1918, the year we started our park, we registered 715 cars. tered 2,321 cars. business is going now we will register The average is five passengers to the car, and the av age, stey in the -park is seven day: In 1919 we This year the ore than 5,000 cars. SEE BEN Icy streets means more liability to your automobile. Are you protected against loss to your car re- sulting from accident of this nature. We Write Automobile In- surance doe Ben Really 108 W. Midwest Ave. PHONE 74W means that 25,000 visitors camp in the park this seagon. Let. me tell you another thing the | Wil superintendent told me one evening last whe camp in the park are looking | n ;—either for a farm or a bust- your FOR! vote Fler. bonds to jaKow windows filled with the finest ; Merchandise in that store, arranged tn the most attractive manner possible by the highest salaried: man in the institu- tion. What are all those windows for? It costs thousands of dollars a year. to maintain them. What for? To at- | tract the attention of the public to that |store. To induce the people whe pass ople will look, some will go in- Te some will go inside, some who Ingide will buy. Your tourist park ig PIONEER GROCERY AND MEAT MARKET PHONE 345 THOS. FIDDES, Manager Corner A and Jefferson Sts. ee . Sandison & Fiddes As: in resi way Lumber has been reduced 30 per cent since last March. You can buy lumber in Casper cheap- er than in any other town in this part of the country. Have you though of that? Come in and talk. it over. ‘A complete, bright stock always on hand. 0. L. Walker Lumber Co. Phone 240 ACCOUNTANTS aesenes Seo oe see eeoerereserHeess bd DR. J. H. JEFFREY b * DR. ANNA GRAHAM JEFFREY Phone 660 saceee * 41 Largest Marke _129 East Second Street Loin Steak, Per lb. 30e eg ak 300 Per th weed di 30c Fresh Killed Poul- try and Game Sauer Kraut, Sweet, Sour and Dill Pickles in Bulk. BUTTER, EGGS, LARD Finnan Haddie in Glass Russian Caviar French Mushrooms Blue Hill Peanut Butter Gorenflo Wet Shrimp B. & M. 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