TRAVEL: 1926 N.P.S. tour of Palisades Interstate Park NATIONAL PARK MEN PRAISE OUR SYSTEM Special to The New York Times. New York Times (1857-Current file Nov 22, 1926; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg 24 11/22/1926 NATIONAL PARK MEN park system they seemed to be as- tounded. Mr. Albright, who is Assistant Direc- tor of the entire National Park Ser- PRAISE OUR SYSTEM vice. in addition to being Yellowstone's superintendent, said the entire annual appropriation for national parks seemed palty compared to what West- 22 Superintendents Make Tour chester had poured out for its park- way development. From Here Up Hudson to He explained that while the great Western parks were larger in size and See Reservations. more impressive in their scenery, the architectural development of the West- chester Parkway was the most remark- able he had seen. UNEQUALED IN THE WEST At Kensico the aerating plant seemed to remind Mr. Albright of the Yellow- stone geysers, and he told his col- leagues that here were sixty Old Faith- Come From Washington Meeting to fuls. all spouting at once. From Ken- sico the road took them to Peekskill Make Inspection-Enthusiastic and thence over the highway leading at Bear Mountain. to the Bear Mountain Bridge. See Review at West Point. After luncheon the park tourists jour- Special to The New York Times. neyed north on the west bank of the river, traversing the picturesque Storm HIGHLAND FALLS. N. Y., Nov. 21. King Highway and watching a review -Twenty-two officials of national of the Cadet Corps at West Point af- parks, from the Grand Canyon and terward. In the evening they sat in Mesa Verde in the South to Mount front of a roaring fire in the Bear McKinley Park in Alaska, made a tour Mountain Inn, hearing a talk on the Interstate Park trails by Raymond H. of New York's parkway system and Torrey, who has explored almost every the Palisades Interstate Park today. one, and witnessing a moving picture When they returned to the Bear Moun- film of the Interstate Park and its de- tain Inn for dinner in the evening, velopment. Throughout their trip the visitors they expressed their amazement at watched for evidence of vandalism or what New York had done to set aside carelessness by New York motorists and campers. They found surprisingly outlying park space for its millions, few signs of littered grass, even along and said the West could not duplicate the Bronx River Parkway, where it .it. passed through crowded residential dis- Earlier in the afternoon they had tricts. stood on the highest point of the Storm Elbert W. King, Assistant Secretary King Highway, on the Drow of a grim of the Palisades Interstate Park Com- mountain peak, 387 feet above the Hud- mission, told them that in his opinion son River. H. M. Albright, Superin- New Yorkers were learning gradually tendent of Yellowstone National Park, how to respect their park property. albight a domain larger than Delaware and Mr. King said that there was less de- Rhode Island together, stood there liberate vandalism now than before, looking down the river in admiration. and that a younger generation of H. P. Karstens, one of the only two hikers and campers was growing up living men who have cilmbed Mount with more orderly outdoor habits than McKinley, the highest peak in North their parents. America, grinned with pleasure at the Tonight the park officials are staying automobile highway, cut into. solid at the eBar Mountain Inn, and are rock so high above the river. planning a brief tour of the lower Pali- sades region tomorrow, from Nyack to Equal to Any in West. Englewood. C. J. Kraebel, youthful superinten- Those who went on the trip included Joseph Bolton, Hot Springs National dent of Glacier National Park in Mon- Park: L. W. Collins, Lassen Volcanic tana, said flatly that New York could National Park; George B. Dorr. La- hold its own with the West, even if fayette National Park; J. Ross Eakin, Grand Canyon National Park: R. T. its mountains were not so high or so Evans, Zion National Park; E. P. impressive as his own snow-capped Leavitt and W. B. Lewis, Yosemite ranges in Montana. National Park: Frank Pinkley of the "We Westerners love to boast, and Southwestern Monuments: J. T. Need- we do it frequently," said Mr. Kraebel. ham, Muir Woods National Monument: "But after what we have seen today J. L. Nusbaum, Mesa Verde National we are going to have to tone down our Park: C. G. Thompson, Crater Lake boasting. This work shows vision and National Park: Roger Toll, Rocky foresight which New York can pride Mountain National Park: O. A. Tom- itself upon." linson, Mount Rainier National Park, The Ntaional Park officials had come and John R. White, Sequoia and Gen- to New York from Washington, where eral Grant National Parks. they had just completed the ninth con- ference of field representatives in the National Park Service. Early this along the broad highway, flanked with morning they left in automobiles from lawns and shrubery. through Mount the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York, Vernon and Bronxville and then de- accompanied by Major William Welch, toured to inspect the new Tibbetts general manager of the Palisades In- Brook Park at Yonkers. Later they terstate Park, and Stephen Mather, di- regained the parkway and journeyed rector of the National Park Service. straight up through Westchester to the Their route took them through Cen- Kensico Dam at Valhalla. tral Park. up the Grand Concourse and Bridges Interest Them. through Mosholu Parkway to the be- ginning of the Bronx River Parkway, Few things interested them more just north of the Botanical Gardens in along the route than the picturesque Bronx Park. Their automobiles sped stone bridges and the landscape archi- with permission of the eepyright owner F tecture of the Bronx River Parkway. When they heard of the colossal sums Westchester County had spent on its [Totop of column 2]