The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-28
TOURISTS ON THE WAY.
THE RUSH NORTH TO BEGIN IN
ABOUT TWO WEEKS.

Than it Has Ever Been Before-The
Railroads Preparing to Handle the
Returning Tourists - The California
Boom on the Wane General Man.
ager Haines Talks About Florida.
The travel to Florida has never before
been As great as it has been this season, and
the vast resources of the Plant system are
taxed to their utmost to accommodate the
rush of tourists.
A MORNING News reporter was accorded
a pieasaut interview yesterday with Gen
eral Manager Haines. of the Savannah,
Florida and Western and the Charleston
and Savannah roads, and while he was
thoroughly engrossed with business he read
ilv consented to talk about the anchorage
OF the Northern tourist in the summer land
of the great Southern peninsula.
Referring to the movement Of tourists
North, he said that they are comparatively
few in proportion to the number now in Flor
ida and who are daily going there. Florida,
according TO Col, Haines' observations, has
become the great fashionable winter resort,
and will continue to remain such
CALIFORNIA oUTDoNE.
1t need not fear California That great
less rival Florida. California. he said, is
far away on the other side of the continent
and offers four days Of weary travel through
regions of cold and across dreary alIiall
deserts, while the tourist coming TO Florida
leaves his winter home and after nights
travel is ushered into land of flowers and
genial warmth. Tie il On the high
way Of travel in an equable climate. The
finest ocean steamships in the world run
between Tampa, Key West and Havana
IF were asked said Col. Haines, what
I consider the most perfect climate in the
world in winter I should answer Key
West
The hotel system in Florida Col Haines
alluded to as the most extensive and per
feet on the Continent, and he referred to
the big hotels of Jacksonville, St. Angus
tine, Sanford, Madison, Winter Park, Tampa
and other resorts in the State as unrivalled.
A LAND OF HOTELS.
I'm addition to these there are others where
people who are not supposed to live SO luxu-
riously can have all the comforts of the
first class hotels of the North, and even
those of moderate means can find accOmmo-
dations suited 10 their requirements, These
attractions not only draw the wealthy who
can afford the luXuries of hotel system I'M
equale1 on the globe, but people of moder-
ate meaus as well.
How long will the southbound tourist
travel cOntinueW
In reply. Col. Haines said that the Lenten
season enters largely into the matter If
Easter comes late the exodus from Florida
Will be "Crrespondngly delayed. The rush
this seasz@ Northward viii be pretty well
over by TIL second week in April.
TO 5 ,RRY THE CROWDS NORTH.
To meet the enlarged demands for the
northward travel, ample accommodations
viii be made by the Plant system. Pull
man cars will be massed at points where
they will be required, and trains will be run
in sections, SO that the great rush of
people can be promptly, conveniently
and comfortably moved. There will be no
more inconvenience in getting the tourists
and those wintering in Southeast Georgia
and Florida back North, than III bringing
them down.
Col. Haines was asked if the travel South
is very much in excess of last season, and
he gave very positive affirmative. Last
season the fast mail train was run in one
section only, while this season it has been
run in two sections. Besides, there were no
vestibule trains last season, while this sea-
son a through vestibule train has been max
ing three trips weekly, and this morning.
owing to the increased travel, it will begin
making five trips a week.
THE SPECIAL EXCURSIONS.
There never have been specially con-
Quoted excursion trains from New York
until this season. Three or four of those
excursions have already been run this sea-
son and they will continue at intervals
during the next month. They are alto
gether new feature, and it has proved
very popular one These trains are made
up of Pullman cars and the chaperon
on each train has made it pleasant and pos
sible for ladies to travel without an escort,
something that has not generally been at
tempted before and yet receive all the at
tentiou and be afforded as full opportunities
for observation at points of interest as If
accompanied by gentleman escort.
To give some idea of the way i'll which
tourists are flocking South, Col. Haines
alluded to the fact that in one day last week
there were $50 registered arrivals at
Townsville Through cars from Chicago,
Cincinnati, st. Louis and louisville, on the
Louisville and Nashville, are run via Albany
in connection with the Plant system into
Florida, and through connections are made
with the East Tennessee. Virginia and
Georgia via Jesup, and with the Central
railroad via Atlanta. The Plant system in
Guides the Charleston and Savannah rail
way, over which the vestibule trains run,
and for the travel to Brunswick and the
islands of resort in that section trains are
run from Jesup over the Brunswick and
Western, also part of the Plant system.
TRIP THROUGH vEsTIBULE.
While Col. Haines was talking the whistle
of the North-bound vestibule train was
heard, and moment later it was in the
yard, where it stopped for four or five min
utes for an examination of the car wheels.
"Come over and take look at it," said Col
Haines. 1t was necessarily n hurried trip
through the six cars which composed the
train. "Only two minutes time, sir,n said
the conductor in charge, as the train was
about ready to start. 1t was long enough
though to give glimpse of the luxurious
elegance from the richly flushed dining
room with its costly adornments, the ele-
giant boudoirs, the richly upholstered easy
chairs and lounges, carpeted floors to drown
the football. the gentlemen's reading room
in front with library of popular literature,
daily papers, and crimson chairs upholstered
so luxuriously that one is almost lost in
them. An elegant sideboard where 1.-THE
boys find an antidote for fauced dangers
in "a change of water" and full length
plate-glass mirrors meet one on every hand.
Five cooks were on the train, and the pas
sengerS had just risen from their luncheon
in the Pullman dining car "Alcazar,n but
the appetizing odors of the meal fingered
around the spotless linen and silver service
OF the tables. Their bill of fare had been /.
THE MENU.
Cousomme Jardiniere.
Roast Leg of Veal, Stuffed
COLD MEATS.