A Tour of Europe in Nineteen Days: Report to the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of European Tour, Made in the Interest of the St. Louis World's Fair
A Tour of Europe in Nineteen Days: Report to the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of European Tour, Made in the Interest of the St. Louis World's Fair
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...and a state of inertia by pride in the achievements and triumphs continuing through cycles of success. Within the limits of Spain, confined by the Mediterranean, the Atlantic and the Pyrenees, awaiting development, are resources richer than those of the Spanish colonies, whose products and wealth led the people of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...and a state of inertia by pride in the achievements and triumphs continuing through cycles of success. Within the limits of Spain, confined by the Mediterranean, the Atlantic and the Pyrenees, awaiting development, are resources richer than those of the Spanish colonies, whose products and wealth led the people of the mother country into a life of luxury and idleness. There are still those in the land of Columbus who are imbued with an unshaken confidence in the inherited prowess of Castilian superiority, and contend that their defeats were not merited, but were purchased by the gold of their adversaries. Such, however, are few in number and are rapidly passing away. CHAPTER IX. New York, And Home Again. The foregoing report was written upon the steamship before landing in New York harbor on Tuesday, March 17th, where, after a detention of about six hours in quarantine on account of a case of small-pox aboard, I landed about 6.00 o'clock in the afternoon, and was met landing in by Director John Scullin and six or ten newspaper representatives. It was then that I received my first knowledge of the interest with which the tour had been followed by the press of the United States. As I had not seen a St. Louis paper of later date than February 21st, nor a New York paper of later date than February 24th, I was not advised as to the space that had been given in the columns of the St. Louis papers or in those of any other publications. On arriving at the Waldorf I learned that a dinner had been arranged for me in New York by the Missouri Society of that city; that the date fixed therefor was Thursday, March 19th. As extensive preparations had been made for the function, over 400 acceptances having been received, I did not feel at liberty to decline the honor, alth...
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