The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-13

and disappointment to tourists coming as
| did from the well-keDt modern, palatial
hotels of eastern Florida in search of resort
comforts, luXurieS and attractions along
the gulf coast.
If the Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Company. which controls traffic through
this region, would build first-class hotel
at each of the four principal points on It's
G.. G. branch and get able, large minded
managers 10 run them as II. Nj. tlagier
has done in promoting tourist travel along
his Florida East Coast Railway the one
thing needful being then supplied TO II,
the gulf coast of Mississippi with its
superb natural advantages, would leap at
once into assured favor as the most popu-
lar seaside winter resort section in Amer
lea Failing TO find. by reason only of its
poor hotel accommodations, an Eidorado
along the Mexican gulf in which L could
contentedly settle down and to which l
could ascribe unqualified praise as a, In all
respects. lust right resort territory l re-
turned yesterday to Savannah, which, on
the whole. | must still insist is far and
away the best abiding place in all the sun
ny South for a Northern tourist, and where,
taking mine ease at mine mn the peer
less De Soto--my satisfied soul finds no flaw
nor lack to qualify its full approval of
place as near perfection. it seems to me, as
an earthly paradise well can be-
HOW TO TRAVEL.
From several sources 1 have recently re-
ceived an intimation that, while my pres
ent series of travel articles have been very
acceptably explicit and specific in pointing
out the best places in Dixie TO go or stay
at. the said articles have been somewhat
provolkingly deficient in information as TO
how TO get to these best places L must
concede that the point they make against
me is we'll taken by my correspondents,
! for il is one OF the cardinal principles of
my belief and plan in writing letters of
! travel and how to so Information should
| always accompany where to go advice,
| they being of equal and inseparable impor-
| lance TO readers or prospective tourists:
/ Referring again, therefore. to the list or
best places in Dixie that were recon-
/ mended as objective points for tourists IN
my article of Jan. q. | will now say That
/ among all the many routes leading south
/ from New York L myself always select the
/ "Rovhl Blue line because il is the cleali-
/ est (only anthracite Goa! used by r. b l..
! enginesD, quietest (nO crowdinS ever al
! lowed TO drive day-coach passengers into
Pullman cars, on other lines), fastest
/ (makes the trip TO Washington in hYe
/ hours actual time, not on paper alone, as
| it's rivals do) railway operated between the
/ metropolis and the capital of the country.
! From Washington on south the Southern
| Railway is the best and most direct route
| to Aiken. Augusta Asheville and Savan-
/ nah. and 1.-The Seaboard Airline the most
/ direct highway TO Pinehurst. Southern
/ Pines and Camden. From Charleston and
/ Savannah the Plant system is the great
| distributing transportation medium of Flor
! ida-hOund travellers. L cannot undertake 10
/ discriminate between the Southern and
/ Seaboard railroads in recommendation of
I either as the better route for through pas
/ sengers from Washington to Florida or the
/ gulf coast because | have found them both
| frst-class and both giving the public a
| service of excellence that could scarcely
/ be improved upon.
! To those of my readers who simply want
| to make a trip TO Charleston and back TO
/ see the expositon-a very good show, in
/ deed, by the way-eXcursion tickets from
now be bought very cheap. and the trip is
/ a delightful one. IAN aboard then for
/ whatever point points YOU decide TO
visit and by whatever route YOU decide 10
\ take The season Is now at its climax. and
/ within the next four weeks the cream of
delight will be ripe for you to skim off of
| Southern travel.