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The Season's Travel 1 The arrivals at the hotels have been a little less than 1400 2 up to date. This is at least 500 short
of what the average was prior to the commencement of the recent panic, dating back two seasons. People have felt too poor
to travel. The member of campers has reached almost 2,000. This is a third more than an average. In the Great Register 1,990
visitors have registered as against 1,437 for last season. 1 Dated 1895 by JM. 2 JM holograph revision 1300. Newspaper clipping
from the Oakland Tribune1 ? Military Parks The Federal Government has made three great reservations for military parks
on the other side of the country. These are Gettysburg, Chickamaugo and Antietam. Two other reservations are proposed viz:
Shilo and Vicksburg. This result is due largely to the Grand Army of the Republic in co-operation with the friendly support
of much southern influence. These reservations are all battle fields in the soil of which Union and Confederate soldiers are
buried, and to the memory of whom monuments have been erected. These military parks will be well preserved. The Federal Government
has a military park at Yellowstone. There are no battles to be commemorated there. But the only way in which all the great
national wealth could be preserved was by putting the entire reservation under military supervision. Yosemite Valley is something
less than a military park. But some years ago it was found that the sheep herders were destroying all the young growth of
the forests by fires, and the constant beating of the 00863