The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-09
FLIGHT OF THE TOURISTS.
The Hotels Closing ana North Bound
Trains Crowded.


Trains Crowded.
The second north bound hotel help train
of the season and the first over the Florida
Central and Peninsular passed through
Savannah yesterday for New York. The
train was composed of coaches, and car
ried 226 passengers. The greater number of
the passengers were servants in the Flori
da hotels, but many were people who took
advantage of the cheap rate of Sl4 from
Jacksonville, where the trains are made up
to New York.
The hotels of Florida are many of them,
already closed, and the rest are closing
from time to time A great many of the
hotel employees are thus without anything
to do, and they are in hurry to get back
north to secure places at the summer no
tells that will soon begin to open.
The tourists, too. many of them, do
not scorn to take advantage of the cheap
rate, and good sprinkling of them were
among those aboard yesterdays special.
There were some fifty Cubans bound for
the north. Through tickets on these
trains are sold for intermediate points,
every person aboard the train was bound
for New York.
Four of these hotel help specials are
run during the return season of the tour
lists. The first was April 2 over the
Plant system, and the third will go over
that line about April 20, the exact date
not having yet been definitely settled. The
last viii be run over the Florida Central
and Peninsular. When the Plant system
has the train it connects at Charleston
with the Atlantic Coast Line, which takes
the train to Washington, and thence it is
al fn q nj
Florida Central and Peninsular handles
the train as far as Columbia, where the
Southern takes it. The latter road carries
it to Washington and again 1t is turned
over to the Pennsylvania.
The last vestibule train Of the season will
be run next Tuesday by both the Florida
Central and Peninsular and the Plant sys-
TEN. The trains on both roads on that day
will be north bound, the south bound trains
being run for the last time on Sunday. The
taking off of the vestibule trains is prac-
tically an Acknowledgement of the close
of the tourist season. There are many
northerners in Florida now, and there will
be many after the vestibules are taken off,
for Il is usually the case that number OF
the visitors remain till even June l. How
ever, the greater part of the travel Is now
over, and that by the regular trains after
the vestibules are taken off will be but
slight, so far as returning tourists are
concerned.
With the closing of the season
a very successful run of bust
ness for the railroads will
be received. The season has probably
been the best that has been experienced
since the winter of 1893, which was an
exceptionally good one for Florida. The
year 1895 was also welcomed by the rail-
roads as one OF good business, but It is
thought that there has been more done
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seasons tourist traffic was in its sudden
commencement Last fall the passenger
officials had begun TO fear that the busi-
ness for 1897 would not be anything great,
but as soon as January's closing days
drew on they were encouraged.
All of a sudden the tourist traffic began
to improve, and soon the vestibules were
running with loaded cars. Since then the
business has continued good, and II IL
believed that the heavy travel of the last
two months will make up for the dull
fall.