The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-27
WOMEN AND SUMNER TRAVEL
TBsT roar ~ PER tENf ~ RIM
TfetffOV SFGHFRa
elst WeatHee RSaslas Hsaias WIN ne stsss
~ 1aWs ffeseaefs faesf fhe WssH'ai's
NsteFts, haf #say NeN ~ tHfssa
VssV "FsfsuHanV q HHaretftF' reeFt

Sseg "FsrsgHsnt . 6HdreteF' reuFs
Sges shsas buaiesss n ~ - sssp tfssH
N sasneisf fftysi ~ iHs, tis ut'1m
sota4 drap aUt ~ me buaiaess n suH'sh
Nv ssaefti su,i Ses y0fs scheu N ~
tealfe sitphti isfNia ~ spend ths vH"tuHH
ssasssB ~ lF,his
Aay shrre fr,m "A ~ 10 rsf esH' " tstt
ssst N gia puuittftH Fhieh paeFs lis tftns
ebao lbs Nv = stfas dffs fyifHa sei tnraeHa
10 aaalH ssn SITTER feinf utv l. ieuinlne
Wtrn fNs lsHsins tfout ~ = vsesuon
1suf cnnrsfn shirh pefafnslly enHiitets
men, gnmaN attl chNFNeH ~ 0vrt ths earth
go asked far an Du.u.Hp On Tits rntut
b. resrhsi fas y istrk ftn hia eve oVsr y
Ne ~ naHtcs anil std
stiers " n PARTY ~ ihifty tNu pcfous
tryokst =, staft ,ndrf Uir management
aatt werh f1r Eunrpr and twcnty uhe ~
tho humbef arc y'men ani tha' pFuispr'
tlsn I think indicates the avefaa" number
Of woinrn I'm ail our parties. the mafi'ntsn
baing about u per cent
In c-ofrol1fatlon ~ this statement q hast
aaas assn, fof ono n Tho arrat railroad
lines tanning Now YORK stld that fully
three quarters ~ tho ginmcr tfavellefs
we're womsn,
Il am not speaking q the commuters,
said he, who summer near enough 10 tho
city tn O. In and out every day, hut ot tho
individual and families who start on "a be
gono anywhere from two wcoha 10 iour
months aud generally put q Feycfal hours
tourney between them and New YORK.
And those figures do not give tho relative
proportions Of tho baggage handled, he
added. 1T would bo nearer tho marx.
perhaps, 10 gay that nIne-tenths of the
trunks aqut out ~ and into New York belong
10 women, and for this reason
More than half the men-younR men
especially who 60 away for a couple ut
weeks or a month manage 10 cram their
belongings into q suit case, which Ia carried
az hand baggage. If they are going camp
ing the suit caee IL not very big at that
For a woman to get along with a suit casa
only is rare. ore trunk and a suit case
too are about as little as any woman ] know
can get along with
At the Office of a local express company
the clerk, whose main duty Is to write down
the addresses ut which trunks are to he
called for, mopped his brow with a tired
air when asked what proportion Of his
orders came from m The day had
been a swelterer for May and the rush of
business way beyond the normal for this
time Of year.
Ear more than IS per cent, / should
say he answered. brisidy. "Nireteen
women to every man has Teen about the
proportion here during the last week. any
way. II there is q woman now left in New
York | wonder at it, considering the bust
ness We have zen doing Of late. Almost
every tine the telephone rings q woman's
voice tells us TO send for my trunk at such
and such an hour ard then asks questions
which show plainly CROUCH there IL no
man in the party. 1t is the same way with
orders delivered in person. Women,
women, rearly every time and the checks
and receipts show'that most of the trunks
we move belong to women.
"Our rush starts in soon after May
1 and lasts until after August l.,
the heaviest weeks being between June 1
and July u. From early in May until
pearly September | am obliged to have
an assistant. whose principal duty is to
receive orders by telephone. My time is
all taken up attending to orders. over the
counte and entering orders IN the books
The small army Of New York's women
po-away va may be divided into three classes:
Women young. old and middle aged Of COM
narrative leisure, easy as to money matters
and mostly single or widows, who az a gem
eral thing live in boarding houses or hotels
the year around; teachers in the public
and private schools and other classes of
~breadwinners; mothers and daughters and
mothers with small children, who, following
the up to date vacation customs, leave the
father in town TO shift for himself during
most Of the summer. Almost any one well
acquainted with the average New York bust
ness man long ago discovered that If COM
PEELED to put in more than wo-or three
weeks at an ordinary type summer resort
he Is sure to kick. To commune with nature
for longer than two weeks at a stretch Is
usually too great a tax on the will power of
even the most devoted of husbands and
fathers; hence the poor showing numerically
Of mon at summer resorts.
According to a woman employed by a
summer resort agency, the New York
teacher class Of travelling women seek the
mountain in preference TO the seashore.
= Economy may have something to do
With it," she explained, "for it is easier to
get SO a week board in the Catskills, say,
than at any seashore or lake resort ! know
of. But whether they pay IS a week or S.