Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1937, Page 37

TRAVEL, 0DD HABITS RULE TRAVELING PUBLIC $5,000,000,000 U. S. Indus- try Inspired by “Getting Away From It All.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 5.—People don't travel to get somewhere; they travel to get away from something. That, 8. Douglas Malcolm of the American Express believes, is the secret of the $5,000,000,000 travel busi- ness. The five billions includes more than merely the pleasure travelers. Nobody knows exactly how the total divides up, because travel includes so much. People have marvelously quaint travel habits. For example, Easterners always go around the world toward the east; Westerners almost always start west. People also continue the old emigra- tion lines, or backtrack on them. Vacationing New Orleans citizenry heads north up the Mississippi. Mid- dle Westerners go west, or southwest, frequently to Mexico. Californians may do either; go on west to Hawaii ©or come east over the mountains. Popularity Changes. People likewise are governed by sea- son, although they are fickle about this. Mexico is now a year-round destination. It didn't use to be. Alaska is now a June destination. It used not to be popular at all Winter people are going to South America (very popular), South Africa, Australasia, and to Norway and Swe- den for Winter sports. Thoustands of reservations were made for the north- land last Winter. Besides the South Seas, South Africa and Russia, people are now looking toward Finland, it seems. Eng- land is hoping for tourist business such as it never had before—thanks to the coronation. This last proved & mixed blessing. Although boats were booked up months ahesd, a cer- tain amount of business was canceled and still more was kept away by fear of crowding. The prospective crush was so bad that months before the coronation Rotary International, which wanted to hold its convention in London, was forced to transfer to Nice. Cruise Idea Born in 1915. ‘The cruise, one of the big travel industries, was born in 1915, when & boat called the Pastores made a circuit of the West Indies. The first round-the-world cruise was made by the Laconia in 1922; the first Mediter- ranean cruise the same year by the Carmania. And the North Cape cruise Wwas born two years later—now & brief &top in Russia and sometimes Iceland has been added to this last. Like everything else, the cruise business has had its drama. This eame in 1928 when a certain travel man snatched himself out of a pre- carious financial situation by making the cruise cheap. People would go to | Bermuda, he reasoned, if hotels weren't | £0 expensive. So he made an inclu- give round-trip rate, and used the | hither and ship as Bermuda Then he thought up the three- point cruise: Halifax, Bermuda, New York. He tried to do cruises to no- where, but the Government stopped that; a ship can't clear a port with- out s destination, Railroads have been making travel sy, t00, and fares cheaper. Speed in Wholesale Lots. Yong stainless steel trains slice off thours between Chicago and the coast, Chicago and Denver, Boston and Providence, many other cities. Six years ago some 30 trains made sched- uled runs of 60 miles an hour or better over some 1,100 miles. Now more than 400 trains, their runs total- Ing 19,000 miles, are scheduled at 60 miles an hour or better. and others, are whipped between Chi- cago and Denver at 66 miles an hour average on the new stainless steel flyers; a day has been saved between Chicago and Los Angeles. Old-timers hardly know the trains, with orchestras, hostesses, game rooms and dance floors. A steam train run- ning between Cleveland and Detroit looks like & handsome club; some of a hotel while anchored at | | From all over the world come visitors to Old Faithful, in Yellowstone National Park, to see for themselves the amazing water “clock.” a weather eye out for the geyser, is a favorite pastime. Chatting on the veranda of Old Faithful Inn, with PRIGE REGULATION BENEFITS TOURIST Italy Evolves System Which Allows Accurate Expense Budgeting. ROME, June 5.—The tourist trade being one of Italy's greatest indus- tries, each tourist becomes a valued customer whose pleasure and satis- faction is the personal interest of every Italian. This is the viewpoint of the government, which has taken unusual steps to welcome the Ameri- can tourist, with assurance of the maximum comfort, convenience and protection. Italy was one of the first countries to waive the visa fee for Americans without a reciprocating clause. All Americans enter Italy free of charge, although the Italian going to Amer- ica must still buy his visa. Debarkation Speeded. To amooth the visitor's path and save his time at the Italian port of arrival, the Italian officials board all Italian passenger ships at Gibraltar, and all American passports are stamped en route from Gibraltar to Italy, leaving the pessenger free to step off the ship the moment the gangplank is in place. Other official regulations greatly facilitate customs examination of tourists’ baggage, and all customs of- —Rolphe Dauphin Photo. CANADIANRAIS TOPVARIED AREAS Special Arrangements and Privileges Made for Sum- mer Tourists. MONTREAL, June 5.—No matter where the tourist may wish to go in Canada, whether it be to quaint old Gaspe, in eastern Quebec; lightful maritime provinces, where | the surf rolls in from the Atlantic; the great playground of Jasper Na- tional Park in Alberta, with its group of rustic lodges, known as Jasper Park Lodge; the holiday land of Brit- ish Columbia, on the Pacific Coast, or simply a train excursion to a local or more distant point, tourists have a wide range of vacation possibilities placed before them through the Sum- mer schedules of Canadian rail lines. With low week-end fares in effect on the Canadian-National System to stations in all parts of Canada, spe- | cial fares permitting a three-week stay in lower Qeuebec or the mari- time provinces, rail tours to Jasper National Park, Alberta, and the Pa- cific Coast; ‘“‘economy” yon during week ends, when fares are lower than the ordi- | nary one-way fare for the round, and | a series of steamship cruises, Summer travelers are presented with a varied choice, indeed, of recreational areas. From the middle of June to early September a popular arrangement by the railways will be the sale of round- trip tickets at special reduced fares from Montreal and points west in Quebec and Ontario to centers in the lower St. Lawrence and maritime provinces, permitting a stay of three weeks, thus providing plenty of time for a good holiday at bathing beach or other restorts along the Atlantic Coast or inland. Vacationists may see the famous Gaspe Peninsula this Summer by traveling by rail to Mont Joli, Que- Vacationists, | P6C:_from which point are operated daily automobile tours of three and four days along 550 miles of pic- turesque scenery, mountains and sea, the river and gulf of St. Lawrence and‘ Baie des Chaleurs. These tours, personally conducted by Gaspe Tours, Ltd,, from June to October inclusive, have been planned to provide a com- prehensive all expense included trip, requiring & minimum of time and ex- pense. the de- excursions | | Tastes of Tourists In France Set in Well-Defined Lines NEW YORK, June 5—From statistics gleaned over a period of years, Hubert Lejeune, Amer- ican general agent of the railways of France, reveals the oddity in the tastes of tourists who travel through France. The men na- turally turn to the battlefields. Veterans returning want to see their old fighting ground. Strange as it may seem, the storied life of Napoleon and places associated with the life of the man have an attraction. The women turn to the beau- tiful and the romantic. Chartres Cathedral, the Rhone Valley, with its castles and the romantic Loire and the Garonne also have their lure for the feminine taste. The life and lure of the Riviera never loses its appeal for the woman who once has tested its charm, nor can she resist the ap- peal of the watering places, such as Biarritz, on its silver coast. The student selects the histor- ical, such as the arenas at Nimes, Arles and Saintes; the temples at Nimes and Vienne, the triumphal arches at Orange, Rheims and Saintes. Architects and men of strong inclination for the glory of building select the ramparts of Carcassonne, the chateau of Pierrefonds and the ramparts of Fougeres, which stand in a scene of verdure and strength of land- scape to enhance their beauty. AUSTRIAN MUSIC DRAWS TOURISTS Duke of Windsor's Stay Also Credited With Attracting Thousands. By the Assoclated Press. VIENNA, June 5—Austrians have new evidence that music hath charms also to boost tourist traffic to a dom- inant place in this nation's business. The merry strains of the operetta “The White Horse Inn,” the Duke of ‘Windsor’s jolly notes on his bagpipes, the Tyrolean mountaineer’s yodeling, the annual Salzburg music festival— all, re-echoing through the world, are million-dollar tunes for Austria. Put into figures, the happy song is this: Austrian hotels, with an in- ficials are mindful of the essential need of speedy efficiency and courtesy to Italy's American “customers” en- tering Italian ports. Passengers’ bag~ _e is taken ashore from the Italian ships in jig time, and porters, fully paid for their services, are forbidden to take tips for this service. The tipping prob- lem in hotels is handled for the tour- ist by the addition of a traditional percentage of his bill, a plan insti- ATLANTICCITY'S PROGRAM LIVELY Wide Range of Events Plan- ned to Entertain Sum- mer Visitors. ATLANTIC CITY, June 5.—An in- teresting program of events to appeal | to the varied tastes of the visitors | is planned for the next three months. “Children’s week,” June 24 to July 1, provides a number of novel ate tractions for the youngsters who par- ticipate. All of these are free to any child under 12 years of age, who is registered with a parent at one of the co-operating hotels. Hotel rooms and meals also are provided for the little guests at no cost. Included on the program are a freckle contest, rides on the city fire apparatus, spe- cial entertainment on the Steel Pier and Million Dollar Pier, a party at municipal radio Station WPG; concerts, games on the beach and a variety of several other attractions. “The Water Follies of 1937" is the feature attraction in the municipal | convention hall, July 1, 2, 3, 4. A cast of outstanding professional acquatic stars, including among their TRAVEL. * INDEPENDENT AND ESCORTED TOURS o the Wedl AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL SERVICE Circle fours o e scenic wist California, the National Parks and Pacific Northwest included .. . 40 independent, all-expense tours leaving Washington daily ++ .2 and 3 weeks at approxi- mately $278 and $329 up . . 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The show, which has been presented on a smaller scale in most of the metropolitan centers, has met with tremendous success and will be more elaborate here. The windup of the ice show marks the opening of the annual jublee | with its beauty and talent contest to | ‘se]ect “Miss America 1937." Already | local contests are under way in the | various States and citles to choose | their representatives to come here. 58 STEAMSHIPS. D. C, JUNE 6, 1937—PART TWO tuted in Italy a decade ago for the protection of the tourist. The gov- ernment controls hotel tariffs on a principle of making Italy’s tourist costs much lower than in most other countries. Strict supervision of restaurants also protects the tourist in the mat- ter of other lving oosts. Italy’s transportation system also is modern but inexpensive. Sixty per cent of Italy's railroads are elec- trically operated and conversion from steam oontinues on all of the coun- try's roads. Rallroad travel costs the tourist about 1!2 cents a iaile, and rolling stock is spic and span, under the care of “railroad militia” which also looks after the comfort and safe- ty of the tourists. “Drive yourself” cars of the amall, speedy Balilla 4-seat sedan or “sport model” type may be hired ecomonic- ally, with gas sold at half price to American visitors, who are supplied with special gas coupons. Taxi driv- ers are under strict supervision, and any complaint by passengers is promptly investigated by the special traffic police. TEA FIELDS COLORFUL SHANGHAI, June 5.—The pictur- esque tea flelds of China present in the Bpring and early Summer months an artist’s paradise for color. The visitor standing off in the distance would imagine the countryside pep- pered with various dots of color amid the great forest of trees. It transpires on closer inspection that these dots are hundreds of women and girls, their heads wrapped in cloths, busy picking the tender tea leaves. Because of a superstition that only tea picked by delicate feminine hands will retain its sweet flavor, only wom- en are employed. There are literally thousands of these butterfly-costumed women working in the great fields at Keemun, China’s famous black tea- producing center. TRAVEL. Visiting Québec and Montreal via the St. Lawrence Seaway ‘10 FROM NEW YORK up JULY 21 - 31 - AUGUST 10 - 20 Sail up the picturesque St. Lawrence aboard the 30,000- ton Trans-Atlantic favorite, Duchess of Atholl, with all the styleand thrillsofa European tripin miniature. Real French cities...a day for quaint Qué- bec...24 hours for gay, cos- mopolitan Montreal ... with swimming, dancing, deck sports all the way there and back! Your travel agent or C. E. Phelps, 14th and New York Ave. NW. Wash, D. C. National 4235, TRAVEL NANTUCKET ISLAND FAMED FOR FISHING 0ld Salts Lend Willing Hands to Novices Seeking Gamey Blues. NANTUCKET 1SLAND, June 5.— Thirty miles off the Massachusetts coast, this farthest-flung outpost of continental America has in recent Years found an increasing interest in fishing among the Summer visitors. Although Nantucket is no longer the greatest whaling port in the world, the islanders are still a seafaring peo- ple, and their experience is at the disposal of all. Under their guidance many & novice “off slander” has be- come & skillful sailor and wielder of rod and reel. Bluefishing is a favorite sport on the island, and when the gamey “blues” are running there are many places where this keen sport can be enjoyed. While bluefish are caught all along the shore, the favorite grounds are Great Point “rips” and Smith’s Point “opening.” Nantucket, the first town along the coast to pro- tect the sport against net fishing, has set aside an area almost encircling the island, extending three miles out to sea, for the exclusive use of the sportsman. Off the east and south shores of the island cod, haddock and pollock are caught, while scup and flounder are abundant. Georges Banks, the greatest and best-known fishing banks off the New England coast, are nearer to Nantucket than any other port _ TRAVEL. California Mines Index. An index of all California mines, With their histories where available, is, being made with the aid of a Federal relief grant. Get this free book now... . talk over your choice with THE MAN AT COOK'S THOS.COOK & SON—WAGONS-LITS INC. “World's Foremost Travel Organization™ 8172 Fifteenth St. N.W. (Shoreham Blds.) FREE—New Engiand Vacation Guide. 40 bixr pages. Fully_illustrated. Write | New Englend Coun- eopy. Bost. Let us help with your Waestern vacation Ifinerary. 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W., phone Dstrict 1424, a Personal don at 14-16 Regent etc. ng and Sunday Star vestment of $742,990,654, showed & net return of $35,514,019 in the tour- ist year just ended. That is more than half of the deficit in the unfa- vorable Austrian trade balance. During the 1936-7 Winter sports the Diesels are as beautiful as an ex- clusive hotel. Already there are air pullmans, espanning the country in little more than a night, and planes serving hot Personal Travel Service 14-16 Regent St., Piccadilly Circus London, S. W. 1, England - MOSCOW’S RED SQUARE WILL BE EXPANDED meals. There are bus pullmans, too, long, tall giants of the road. People traveling to get away from something ean begin relaxing the moment they leave home. FAMED SIGHTS IN INDIA Taj Mahal and Everest Sunrise but 2 of 7 High Lights. BOMBAY, June 5.—Travelers to India have in store seven of the most interesting sights in the world. They are: (1) The Taj Mahal, first and foremost, the beautiful symbol of an emperor's grief which has been said to reflect the very soul of India. (3) Sunrise over Everest. This means & morning’s journey by rickshaw or pony from Darjeeling to Tiger Hill. (3) Temple of the Tooth at Kandy. (4) The great mosque of Jami Mas- Jid, Delhi. (5) Burning and Bath- ing Ghats on the Sacred River Ganges (Benares). (6) Fatehpur 8ikri, the deserted city, not far from Agra. (7) The Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon. Roughly the route of travel will take the visitor to Bombay, Cal- cutta, Rangoon, Madras and Ceylon. STEAMSHIPS. < - “Transatlantic’® I Atlantic Bermuda!.. popular, delightful tri travel. BOOK EARL Monarch or Queen. CURRENT SAILINGS: JUNE 12,17, 19, JULY 2, 7, ete. ICAL TRAVEL AGENT or urness Bermude Line, 34 Whitehall St., New ) 23, 26, 30, ONSULT YOUR L York City. uxury to mid- .one of the most in pleasure for _choice accommodations on the famous Building Xnown as ‘“Goom” to Be Razed to Make Area Largest of Its Kind. MOSCOW, June 5.—The city’s world-famous Red Square is getting too amall to hold the multitudes which periodically parade across its already vast expanse, and the Moscow Soviet already has plans under way to en- large it by tearing down the rambling structure known as “‘Goom,” opposite the Kremlin wall. On this side of the square will stand a huge building to be known as the “House of Industries.” After enlargement this will be far and away the largest public square anywhere. The museum of St. Basil's on the south side will probably be kept. Built by Ivan the Terrible un the fifteenth century, its fantastic Byzantine domes and its craslly vaulted interior constitute a relic which, it is felt, should be retained. The enormous crenellated wall of the Kremlin looms on the western side and in its shadows stands the beautiful marble tomb of Lenin. At the far end is the Historical Museum, devoted to the events leading to the October revolution in 1917, STEAMSHIPS. NEW LOW ALL-EXPENSE RATES 6 DAYS...$75 % 12 DAYS . $120 «» 19 DAYS $172.504p or similar trips of varyine fuig, it 7 EiEelds T e ST P A v Y season, 429,696 persons visited skiing resorts—a 17.9 per cent increase for foreigners. For the current Summer Sseason nearly 1,000,000 visitors are ex- pected in Austria. The increases didn't just happen. Tourist officlals credit world-wide propaganda and the influences inter- nationally of the former British King's stay, the popularity of “The White Horse Inn” in New York and other capitals, and festivals, including those in Salzburg, Linz and Klagenfurt, which have been so successful finan- cially that efforts are starting to duplicate them in other localities. Tourism has, in fact, become a slo- £an in almost everything. Russian Children Open Railway. Children have just opened a new reilway planned, built and operated entirely by them, near Moscow, Russia. STEAMSHIPS. Ay GUEST CRUISES From Philedelphia Every Tuasdey AN Ixpenses Here's the casval, free and easy sort of ship- board life thet is really restful. Board a snow- white liner, beund for vivid Guatemala. Each ol f the Great White Fleet has eool out- side reoms—deck sports and permanent Ppoois—attentive, friendiy service. In Guate- mala you'll enjoy eight days of comple! sightsesing, coveri sensational rail trip te Guatemala City, motor tours to historic from New York 17 and 18 days. .. $190 wp variously to Havar 1o lovely lakes, charming Notel and inn accommoda- reughout the trip. pusblos. . . wi tions included 12 DAYS $130...4 ! Apply any antberized Travel Agent or UNITED FRUIT COMPANY Pier 9, North Wharves, Philadeishia You will enjoy your vacation twice as much if you start it with a few . days at sea. Refreshed and rested, you will find new sights and new places doubly interesting. Here are only a few samples of the many defightful M. & M. all-expense tours from Baltimore. - 9832 7 days-BOSTON 9 days-QUEBEC-MONTREAL *103 11 days-CAMPING-IN-MAINE %81 11 days-MIAMI - '68 For interesting illustrated folder, write or phone M. & M. Travel Bureau, M18 H Street, N. W., Washington (Tel. National 4612) —or authorized tourist agents. 'MERCHANTS & MINERS Your Choice of Tours from Washingten or Montreal Travel independently or “all expense.” y service. June to September, be- tween Niagara and the Saguenay. SAGUENAY TOURS DE LUXE TOURS (8 times weekiy from Washington.) Personally Escorted, All- Expenses. To Montreal, Quebec, Ste. Anne de Beaupre, and the Sague- One Week nay, including Pullman, outside stateroom. sight- room with bath MONTREAL-SAGUENAY CRUISE Daily from Montreal, Inde- pendent cruise—?2 days, 3 nights, meals and berth’ in- 337 G ch fare New eal, $16.90.) GASPE-SAGU!NAVM TOUR All_ Expense. Tri-weekly from Montreal. 3 days cruis- 10 dass ing: de_luxe ' 5-day motor tour (7-pass. Limousine): s 3 nights and days at Cha- teau Front Quebec, enas with sightseeing, etc. Weds. and Suns. Frontier Tours [7eds and Suns Personally l.ocnmd All One Week plain_including _outside stat taeeing, hotel and 382-50 all llfl:lnl. FRONTIER-SAGUENAY TOURS A combination of the Prontier and De Lu: ay Tou 1 the 11 days 1325 GREAT LAKES CRUISES (The only Covriss Dy water betwecn Deeroit and Duluth;, 11 _D; Al Ex s, T8 com- de- ? oad & P thorized touriat i L CANADA STEAMSHIP LINES FESTIVALS Vienna, June 6.20; Danube at Linz, Tuly 16:21; Wosrth ersee Sport Festival, July 10- August 21; Salzburg, July \34-August 31; Passion * Plays at Thiersee, Sundays, July,/ August, early September. gom'Npine'Tyra’Iothe 1y Danube shores, the liftle ;" laughing inns invite you. En- joy Feldkirch's storied Schat- tenbergkeller, the ancient “'Adler” at Innsbruck; stop at ) “the original '‘White Horse Inn" in St. Wolfgang; dine at Sacher’s, Vienna's celebrated rendezvous of royalty. Taste life's romance in fabled Salz- burg, on the beautiful blue Danube, in smiling Carinthia. Austria is overnight from all ports, and offers spas, sports,: varied vacations, distinquished company, a charming design, for living, innumerable bright revels, but remains, withal, one of the most inexpensive, countries in Europe. Consult your travel agent or Dept. W.S. AUSTRIAN STATE TOURIST DEPARTMENT 630 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK