The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-28
MOUNTAIN AND SEA
MANY. sAVANNAHIANs WILL SEEK
IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS.
SUMNER TOURIST RATES
NOW IN EFFECT ON ALL RAIL
ROADS OUT OF SAVANNAH.

Many Inquiries Reported Tending to
show Coming season Will BE
Marked by Heavy TraveI-NOrth
Georgia, the CarOIinas, Virginia
and Tennessee Resorts the Most
PopuIar-MOre Visitors Than U.s.
uaI Expected at Eastern Resorts
Because of Cheap Rates for Spe-
CfaI observation-disclosures COmpa-
mics Get a Large share of This
Patronage.
The railroads have already put into
effect their summer tourist rates from
Savannah. and within a few weeks the
annual exodus of Savannahians to
mountain and seashore will begin. The
inquiries at the ticket offices as TO
rates and hotel accommodations have
already been so large as to presage an
exceptionally heavy travel. when once
Possibly the most popular of the
mountain resorts with Savnnahians
are those of North Carolina, Asheville,
Saluda, Waynesvillefe BreYard, Hot
Springs, Blowing Rock, Tryon and 9TH
er and smaller places. These are
reached from Savannah chiefly by the
Southern Railway, which each year has
an increasing traffic from Savannah
and this section.
The same system both by direct
route and through connections, reaches
most of the resorts, coast and noun
tain, of South Carolina, Virginia and
Tennessee. and these, too. claim a fair
amount of patronage from this section.
Information relative to connections,
schedules and hotel accommodations is
issued each season by the railway and
can be secured upon application at the
local ticket office.
There are other mountain resorts that
are nearer Savannah, however. re-
sorts that are as attractive as those of
North Carolina, and that each season
are becoming better known and more
popular. These are those of North
Georgia, chiefly Tallulah Falls, Clarkes-
Vile, Turnersville, Demorest, Toccoa
Falls, Dalton, Marietta and others
reached via the Central of Georgia,
which also has heavy summer travel
to Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain and
other Tennessee resorts. This road,
also, reports an unusual number of in
quiries for so early in the season.
Still further north, the Virginia and
West Virginia resorts claim their quo
ia of summer residents from among
Savannahians. Notable among these
resorts, are the several springs hot,
sulphur, alum, sweet, chalybeate and
others. They are reached chiefly by
way of the Sea board Air Line, the At
lantic Coast Line and the Southern, and
their connections, the Chesapeake and
Ohio and the Norfolk and Western.
The passenger representatives of the
Seaboard Air Line expect to see a
heavier summer travel to the North
and East this summer than ever be-
fore. Mr.. c. F. Stewart, assistant gen
eral passenger agent of this system,
bases his opinion that such will be the
case on the fact that number of large
conventions and meetings Of various
sorts are to be neld North at a season
that will fit in with the trips of the
summer tourists and as the rates to
these meetings, rather on account of
them, will approximate one fare for
the round trip, many persons will take
this opportunity of getting farther
North than would otherwise be the
case.
Among the events for which special
rates will be allowed are the big San
gerfest in Baltimore in June, the con-
vocation of the Supreme Lodge of
Elks, to be held also in Baltimore in
July and the meeting of the national
body of Mystic Shriners to be held in
Saratoga in the same month.
The travel incident to these will be
in addition to the general tourist trav-
ell of which the Eastern resorts always
claim a fair share. These are all
reached by the roads operated North
from Savannah, and in addition by the
steamship companies. Indeed, the wa
ter route for summer tourist is one of
the most popular ones and during the
hot weather every north bound steam
er carries full complement of passen-
gers.