San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-16

THE EXODUS.
Travel from the City and Expected
Returns Next Fall.


Returns Next Fall.
The early months of the hot season,
May and June, witnesses sights that
are highly pleasing to ticket agents
and proprietors of fashionable resorts.
In these two months in continually
increasing number Of families, there
is strapping of trunks, hustling and
bustlIng and general mad rush for
the cool, atany rate fashionable, sum-
mer resorts of the country.
Judging from the number of people
who have flocked to these various
resorts from this city, one might
think that one-half of our mansions
and cottages would stand lonesome
and neglected, or possibly bear the
well known signs Of ito let" This,
however, is not, excepting very few
instances, the case.
When q family has determined to
leave it's hearth for few months, it
generally is on the lookout for
some friend or suitable family
to occupy it until the possessor's re-
turn, and the real estate man must
forego the pleasure of announcing
In heavy faced type the fact that
this house is "to let' by his firm.
The family that takes charge of the
new home, often gives up its little
inconvenient house during the few
months in which it revels in the
spacious we'll furnished home. Thus,
when the families return from fashion
able resorts, there will be lively lit
tie rush for houses, but not
to the extent which we might sup
pose. Although a large number of
buildings are under course OF con-
struction, they are being occupied as
fast as they are habitable, and the
task of securing suitable homes in
September will not be an easy one.
In regard to the summering this
year, the size of the travel and its dis
tribution, Milton Everett, of the Ar
ansas Pass road, told the reporter
that this years summer travel had
been the heaviest that he had ever
experienced. The people used 10 all
flock out of the state, but now q
very large portion of them, since
the better hotel and other accomno-
dations at Kerrville, Corpus aud Rock
port, visit these and other pleasant
Texas resorts, for they are as fine and
enjoyable as any in the whole country.
A great deal of our people have gone
to resorts in Colorado and West Vir-
ginia this year.
Mr.. Young, the local agent for the
Mallory line, speaks enthusiastically
over this years summer travel. vt
is undoubtedly the largest that we
have had for many years. The travel
to Europe, though not as heavy as
last year, is still very great. The
number of people, however, who
have gone to New York and
other eastern points is something
enormous. Our weekly steamers
have been unable to carry all the
people who applied for passage, and
this rush for northern resorts will not
abate until near about September
In view of the continual increase of
summer travelling, the line will run
two steamers a week between Texas
and New York for passenger service
only.n
Mr.. Geo. F. Lupton, of the Sunset
ticket office, says that this years
summer traffic has been very great.
Most of the travellers have for their
destination the well-known resorts
outside of the state. The traffic has
not yet Stacked up any and he is con-
fident that August which always has
been a dull month, will see quite lot
of travelling on account OF the excess
sive heat, this year.