The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-21
BOSTON DRAWS FEWER VIsI-
 TORS.
Marked Falling of This Year in its

Marked Falling of This Year in its
 Popularity as a. Summer Resort.
 Boston, without abating one Jot or tit tie of it's reputation as a summer re- sort, is this summer losing some round numbers of it's usual summer resorters. That is, they are measprably consplcu- ous through absence. So many of them came and saw and were seen last sum- mer and summer before then, that now, when the great crowds of vacationists are going in other directions, we miss them.
 People who within the past month have noted groups of visitors wander ing about the Old Granary burying ground, or lingering over that curious rosette in the pavement of State street where Crispus Attuks fell, may have taken it as a sign that Boston was ill., ing with western tourists. as of yore, but the managers of hotels and restau- rants anr the caretakers of public buildings and shrines of historic inter est know full well that the summer throng this year has been only a frac- tion of what it was two years ago and has fallen considerably below what it was last summer.
 One need do nothing more than look over some of the registration books tourists and that sort of visitors are wont to write their names in in order to realize the tourist deficit of the pres ent summer. Of course all western or foreign tourists visit Faneuil Hall when they come to Boston. In 1893, in the month of July, 5,42O persons registered there. In the same month of last year there were 1865; while in the July just past there were only 1,S16. It is the same story at the Museum of Fine Arts. While July of 1903 brought 39,454 visitors and July of 1904 brought 13,954, the number in the July past was only l2,658. Four hundred more people went to the top of Bunker Hill Monument in July a year ago than in July of this year, while a round 1,700 persons reg istered at the Old State House III July, 1904, barely more than 1860 have fol- lowed their example in the last month.
 True, those registrations represent hardly more than third of the people who hover over and around the regis tration books; but 1t seems fair to as- sume that the proportion of those who write their names will remain fairly constant. And waere no records are kept those in charge of public buildings have noted falling off in attendance this year. Even the public library feels the difference. Though there are people in the corridors all the time, there are no such throngs as crowded the place day after day last year and year before. And the sightseeing troll leys, pretty sure indicator of, the tide more than eight or ten cars a day so far this season, whereas for many days last year and year before the number of cars required often ran to fifty or sixty, and above.
 Yet, after all, there is nothing sur prising in the falling off. It simply means that Boston has had very few conventions this year. For several years past there have been either one or two large conventions or number of smaller ones, so arranged that they brought into the city an almost eontin- uous stream of people from the west and south.
 Aside from the matter of conventions, the Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland, Ore, has done much to set the tide of travel this summer vest ward instead of astward.-Boston Transcript.