Word: masons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Cook instituted an excursion, he tried to cover the territory personally. He was a great diarist, noting down the beauties and historicities of locales. In 1872 he pioneered the first annual tour around the world. Now the organization which he left in charge of his only son, John Mason Cook (died 1899)* arranges such tours with the casualness of a banker cashing a check. A host of other travel agencies have since entered the business, among them: Raymond Whitcomb Co., American Express Co., Frank Tourist Co., F. C. Clark. So too have various steamship lines. Yet none of them...
...saving force of the South has been found. Wallace Buttrick, writing in the Review of Reviews, asserts that education is developing apace below the Mason and Dixon line. There has been an awakening to the inadequacy of the school system and to the necessity of providing schools for the long submerged classes whose prosperity is growing. In 1924 the amount expended for public schools was over ten times that of 1902. Secondary schools are multiplying rapidly and higher education is not far behind. Great improvement in the existing universities has resulted from greater appropriations and private gifts...
...Mason and one other of our party go to Belize with Malaria, I will go to a site on Cozumel and there visit Xharel again as well as Chaemaltun near Ascension Pay. There the boat will get Mason and he and I will go from Lab Cruz to a place called Tabi, southeast of Lba Cruz, and to Saban and possibly to Kabia oast of Valladolid. Large mounds and temples are said to exist here. It seems perfectly safe so far as the Indians are concerned, and we plan to carry on work here...
...native Indians and how they have succeeded in protecting themselves against this peril. Most of the country has never been conquered by the Mexican Government, and the hostility of the uncivilized natives has frustrated many former attempts to explore the inner portions of this region. Mr. Spinden and Mr. Mason by an agreement with the Mexican authorities have received the services of a band of Mexican soldiers and so far have experienced no difficulties with the native Mayas...
...Mason wrote on the departure of the expedition concerning its purpose as follows...