The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-06

| be Labor Day and the railroads lead
ing into New York are expecting the
most tremendous rush in their history
on the days Immediately following.
For weeks they have been preparing
| for it, but the indications are that, al
though their facilities will undoubted-
! ly be greater and better organized
than formerly. the increase in the
/ number of incoming passengers at the
summer vacations end will be even
! greater.
There seems to be no doubt what
ever. in spite of the Wall street trou-
bles, that the ability to take vacations,
| in the way of enhanced incomes, has
been attained by a much larger pro-
| portion of New Workers than ever
! before, and the end -the-season con-
! dition of many of the resorts show 1t.
1t is true that a great many who
would otherwise have spent great
deal of money upon their annual warm
weat her outings have been obliged to
| go slowly because of speculative losses.
1t is also true that the summer has
been cool and that this likewise tends
to hold down the vacation expendi-
lures. Nevertheless and notwith-
standing" these things a great army
of New Workers has been vacation
ing.
Many more than half the people
making up the army of vacationers
are planning to return on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday next, and
the jam which their return to town
will make, augmented by the passage
| through the city of other thousands
bound homeward from the East to the
West, from the North to the South.
from the West to the East, and from
the South to the North, is bound to be
| a record breaker.
More than ever before this year
| New Workers, obliged to keep in touch
with their business affairs through the
| summer have moved their families TO
| shore and country places near enough
to town to make daily trips back and
| forth quite possible.
! This has proved a veritable boom 10
| at least a score of Long island. New
Jersey and Connecticut shore resorts.
! The Jersey shore has been especially
| fortunate in this respect. From the
Atlantic Highlands, where the fastest
| harbor steamers in the world put their
| warm weather passengers on the ra1l-
| road trains. to Asbury Park and be-
yond, all the shore resorts have been
more crowded than for several years
| past. What would have been the sit
| uation had there been a combination OF
| hot summer and a continued wan
street boom can only be guessed at.
Ii. Is down the Jersey shore, too, that
the tendency to go camping for the
sumner, by people who must continue
steadily at work, has developed most
| extensively. These campers establish
| their families in tents at certain fav-
orite places and go to and from their
1 work daily the same as they would II
remaining in town for the summer,
save that they travel by boat and rail-
road instead of by trolley and ele-
| waited.
There must be nearly or quite a
thousand such campers tents along the
Jersey shore within a two hours jour-
ney from the Metropolis. The practice
began among people who were fairly
prosperous, but still not, able to stand
hotel expenses, some years ago. They
got the notion from young men with a.
liking for open-air lifesshut little money,
who began much eafliefkto spend their
two weeks vacation that way.
For a long time the campers pitched
their tents mainly on Sandy Hook
where the privilege cost them nothing,
thus making their vacation expenses,
| virtually no more than the cost of their
tents and their food. When Uncle Sam
took over the Hook as an artffi cry prov
ing ground, however. the campers were
warned away. and now their white can
vas habitations are a noticeable feature
of the shorescape near the railroad.
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They are pitched in villages of from
| ten to a hundred, stretching for some
miles the foot and sides of the hills
known as the Atlantic Highlands be-
ing favorite locations above all
other. Their occupants are so thor
oughly charmed with this method of
enjoying the summer that next year
will probably see a good many more
tents then have been pitched this year,
You see," said a we'll -dreSsed me-
chanic who is camping this year, 10
the writer, this morning, 1.-THE scheme
costs practically nothing except the
ground rent of IS month"; which has
become the standard rate, and the ex-
cess of boat and railroad fare over the
| 10 cents a day it costs TO get from
my Harlem fiat to my work in the
| morning and back again at night
There is the initial cost of the tent
to be sure, but it will last three or
four years. and so it counts only a lit
tie each season.
1T costs no more to live in tent
than in a fiat, and the two or three
months outing enjoyed by my family
of four stands me in not a cent more
than 500. In return for this we get
the health all the year around, that
can be insured only by life in the open
for part of each twelvemonth. This
Is my third year. s There are twice as
many campers now as there We're
when l began, andoI am certain that
there will be many more next year
When l break UP next Monday ii will
be with the firm intention of repeat
ing my camp experiences. next. sea.
SON." 49, .--
Many Of the campers are able to
seclude themselves in the truly prime
val forests that clothe the Atlantic