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Identifier: threewonderlands00murp (find matches)
Title: Three wonderlands of the American West; being the notes of a traveler, concerning the Yellowstone park, the Yosemite national park, and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, with a chapter on other wonders of the great American West
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Murphy, Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler), 1866-1928
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Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation
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rom manyof the rooms, the weird glories of the Canyon. And it has the Harvey service, which meansthat its cuisine is unexceptionable, for in theSouthwest the name Harvey has become synony-mous with excellence. The founder of theHarvey system of hotels and eating houses is nolonger living, but his spirit still pervades hisinstitutions, and just how exacting that spiritwas is well illustrated by an incident relatedby a lady who once acted as stenographerfor Fred Harvey himself. She said it was hiscustom to visit his dining-rooms wearing anewly laundered pair of white gloves and to passhis hands over the sideboards and tables. Eventhe window-sills and casings underwent similartests and woe to the responsible parties if thewhite gloves showed traces of dust! The El Tovar dining-room is of huge pro-portions—a rustic hall some forty by ninety feetwith massive log-trussed ceiling and two capa-cious stone fireplaces. If fortunate enough tosecure a table near one of the large windows the 130
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THE GRAND CANYON guest may regale himself with a panorama of theCanyon as well as the appetizing bill-of-fare. It is not strange that the Grand Canyoncountry has been the mecca of many artists, andit is therefore appropriate that the El Tovarshould have a picture gallery with many excellentpaintings of local scenery. In the rotundahangs an original by Mr. Moran, one of his mostimportant canvases, and somewhat similar incomposition to Mist After Rain, which adornsthis book. Mr. Morans name is familiar to thehotel people, for he has been a frequent guest,though much of his work was done here beforethe day of the El Tovar. He came hither in thedays of the stagecoach and made journeys, oftentedious and wearisome, to all the more pictur-esque points of the Canyon. His own wordsconcerning the great natural wonder which hehas done so much to bring to the eyes of hisfellow-countrymen may be fitly given here.Following an earnest appeal for Nationalism inArt, in which he shows the opportunities