The sun., 1903-06-07
EVERYBODY TAKING HOLIDAYS
TEN TIMES As MANY PEOFLh
NOV GO OiT or TOWN.
Employers Glad to Let Folks Get Away Ut
Dull Times TO Insure Healthy work.
ers in Busy Months Spreads Prosper
uy. Too-Resorts Are Twice as Good.


ers in f,us, Months Spreads Prosper.
nv Too-Rpsorts Are twice as Good.
More people went on vacations lastine
from a week to three months last year than
ever went before. Still more will 20 thls
year than last. The vacation habit Ii
growing on American people Il. all classes
And nobody q,arres with the habit now
Time was when the week VI more In the
country at the seashore, or up among the
Mountains wa4 considered All indulgence
only for the well.io-do. That notion has
passed away, gone where the old moons go
Everybody now. from physicians to en-
poyers, no longer thinks i'll OF the moderate
vacation The fact that all work and no
play makes "a dul! sort of Jack has come
home to great many people who used 10
hear the saving without having very
good opinion of the truth behind 1t.
Even the country folks take their ho!i-
day, though th-y don't choose the good old
summer time for it They play in the
winter or the spring, and they come to the
city for the playing But the principle il
the same.
OF course, though, it is city people who
need holiday most, and by city people is
meant the city residents who work You
can live pleasantly enough in town all sum-
mer long, if you care to try and you can keep
cool and have good time There are days
when the city is cooler than, and quite as
ENJOYABLE as a great many places outside its
bounds
" isn't that AZ all. 90 the physicians say.
II Il the change Of habits and Surroundings
thu. counts the transfer to new scenes
and among new people the day long in the
woods or at IN" SeaShore. You might quit
work and stay at home, live we'll and pass
your days IN the parks. That would do
some good But to go away from 1t oil
to a new atmosphere entirely, and among
new people, to find new occupations. to row
and fish and swim, to climb mountains, or
TO explore a hit Of green woodland. to drive
and bicvcle or, better still to tramp through
new places, will do ten times as much.
So in these days a vacation fund has be-
come part of the necessary expenses of
nineteen households out of twepty. Almost
everybody finds some way of getting out Of
town for a while.
Even the employers have become con-
verted. There are few who don't think it
worth while to let their paid workers take
weeks vacation, anyway, when the hot
days come upon the city. There are known
to be several big establishments in which
II is a rule that every one in them shall take
two weeks holiday every year. whether he
wants to or not
1t isn't a question of benefiting any one
30 much as a matter of busness, 1t makes
all the difference in the work done after
ward. Summer is not busy time in these
places and the other seasons are, and it's
all the better for the employer if there
come to the winter work men and women
vigorous with renewed vitality, workers
who won't get sick when they are needed
the most For the sake of securing this
week or two lost in the dull times
when few employees can BY more readily
pared than not, counts as nothing
A very large employer of labor was talk
ing with physician in large practice on
the platform of the Grand Central station
one day toward the end Of last summer
train brought in from New England a
throng of home coming holiday makers
tanned and healthy from their stay out of
town.
Look at those faces, said the physician
where does my living come in for the next
few months from people who look like
that"
self laughed the employer. Initiate me and
let nothing interfere with your summer
vacation Then you won't look 40 tired |
and jaded and you'll feel twice the man
you were. | made a universal weeks |
holiday rule in my shop last year and I've |
had only one-half as much time lost from |
sickness since. |
By the time the first straw hats appear
in the streets, which is the city's sure sign |
of summer. folk, begin to think about !
vacations. Shall II be seashore or noun |
tans this year, or just a taste Of the plain |
cou ltry, where n river runs nearby? Water !
of some sort, even II it be the tniest sort |
of stream, seems to be inseparabe from |
holiday plans.
Each has it's advocates. The seashore,
perhaps. Is hotter than mountain resort, |
but the average seashore colony Is probably !
veer. But then, again, country living !
is better. Often it Is cheaper, too. So
one year it is the beach and another the
hills that attract. Perhaps the truth .
about it is that each is equally enjoyable !
for people in the mood for its pleasures, ,
and 4 change is best of all. !,
No one need ygo to The, same place twice +
in this country If he fancies change There
is no such holiday land anywhere in the
world. Leaving out of consideration the
long tours to see new phases Of Uncle Sans
territory, where else is there such choice
rs between the :Adirondacks and Maine
and the fashionable coast resorts, the Lake ,
country, the mountains up the State and
near by in Pennsylva ania southwestern .
New Jersey, between the Sound and the y
Hudson shores and the beautiful old ,
fashioned farming country that hens in !
the city on every Sioes Is it any wonder
that New York loses half of its population |
for few weeks every summer?
Every kind of holiday L. afforded by
the region Immediately around New York.
There are mountains where you need never
know that there is such thing as a hot
night There are forests in which you
can forget that there ever was such a mass
Of brick and asphalt as the city There
are gorgeous hotels where the display Of
dress and fashion is as great as in Fifth
avenue in the season, and farmhouscs and
quiet seaside hooks where fine clothing is
az much out of place As it would be in an
Alaskan mining camp.
All the sc within five hour. Of New York
city. and no moro trouble TO reach them
than is required to pack trunk call an
exprefsmpn and make your way to a seat
IN the trail Only il il As well to be sure
that there are quarters for you In the resort
10 which you are bound, for all the city
wants TO move out In the same few weeks
and the best quarters so to the first in the
field.
In all the talk about the development OF
trade and growing prosperity, very little
has been heard of the summer resort folks;
yet it is they who have benefited more
than auy other class by the good times