The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-06
TO FILL RESORTS
TOURIST TRAVEL SOUTH WILL BE
GREATER THIS WINTER.
PANIC ONLY WILL INTERFERE.
SUMMER RESORT CRAZE GIVING
AWAY TO WINTER TRAVEL,

PhtlndeIphian Who Is In the South
In the Interest of Northern Tour
lists Declares That Southern Win
ter Resorts VIII Do the Largest
Business In Their History During
the Present Winter-Tourists Have
Already Begun Securing Hotel Ac-
cancellations and Will Flock
Southwark After Christmas.
Mr.. CLAYTON F. Stilz of the Phila-
delphia North American, who is in
the South devoting his time and atten-
ton to the affairs of Northern and
Western tourists who expect to spend
the winter South, was in Savannah
yesterday, and declares that reports
and inquiries indicate that tourist
travel through the South will, this
winter, be greater than it has ever
been.
Mr.. Stilz has been in the South for
several weeks, visiting the principal
resorts, gathering information relative
to accommodations and attractions, and
says that at every place he has visited
he has found that large tourist travel
is expected.
This, in itself. is a true indication
of large tourist travel" said Mr..
Still, but I have also received infor-
nation from numerous cities of the
North and East, through other sources,
which denotes that Southern people
may look out for the largest tourist
season that they have ever seen. After
Christmas the Virginia resorts, Aiken
and Springfield, S. c., Augusta, Savan-
nah and the Florida resorts will all be
crowded. l have visited nearly every
winter resort in the states along the
South Atlantic coast, and, although in
recent years they have developed Won
derfully, especially the resorts in this
immediate section. I believe that this
winters tourist business is going to
liven up things to much greater eX-
tent than ever before, and that in the
course of two or three more years their
importance as wintering points will be
far greater than at the present"
The North American devotes a good
deal of attention to the affairs and do
ings of the people who flee from the
cold of the North to the more congenial
climate South in winter, and to the
mountains and seashore in summer.
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summer resort is decreasing, and that
throughout the North the people are
becoming more inclined to stay home
in summer and travel extensively
through the South in winter" said Mr..
Stilz. This fact has a significant
meaning for Southern tourist hotels
and resorts, and they will begin to see
its effect with the coming of a little
colder weather.
THE only possible detriment is the
continuation of failures of so many
large financial corporations in the
North, which would cause a panic, but
l hardly think that this is probable"
OF Savannah as a resort city, Mr..
Stilz said it has a great future, land
like all other places, will be visited by
an unusually large number of North
erners this winter. 1 am informed that
the tourist travel to and through this
point has already opened up" said Mr..
Stilz. This is good indication, and
in this respect, Savannah is ahead of
the other winter resorts.
But there is one mistake in which
l think all of the resorts north of
Florida have done in the past" con-
tinued Mr.. Stilz. This is that they
allow the oulk of the tourists to go di-
rectly through to Palm Beach, Tampa
and other Florida resorts. These
through trains from the North to Jack
sonville and st. Augustine are detri-
mental to the resort cities and towns
through which they pass"