Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-28

liners were added to the European service
this yesr By the companies operating from
New York
Even Telephones Aboard Ship.
These are all floating palaces with every
convenience and luxury that modern inge-
nuity could suggest. But even such things
a. elevators. gymnasiums. roof-garden res
taurants and the like, which were unheard
of q few years ago. are taken as a matter
of course today by the transatlantic trav-
eier.
Telephone systems are no longer consid
cred luxury. but have become positive
necessity, now that the liners have grown
to twice the length of the ordinary city
block and have no fewer than eight decks.
If the traveller wishes to speak to some
telephone is his only reliance. and engage
ments to meet on deck would be impossible
without the hello arrangement Then too,
some bachelor business men are so occus-
toned to having a chat with central
every day or SO they would sadly miss the
diversion IL they were deprived OF 1t during
the six or seven days at sea. Central 8
job on shipboard Is not sinecure by any
means. for sometimes numbers and orders
come hurting over the wires in hfty-seven
different varieties OF language.
7 Between, January and July 20. inclusive.
64.5g3 first cabin and %, 123 second cabin
passengers. total OF 11S1e6. sailed east
ward from North Atlantic ports. So far
this year 151.067 persons have been carried
1852 over last rear. an indication that the
foreign population Is rapidly becoming rich
err and are able to take trips home for a
visit or else to return to their native land
with what they consider q comfortable ut
tie fortune for the rest OF their days. The
San Francisco disaster IS said by the ship
ing agents to have somewhat seriously az
fected European travel this season, the ng
| that aha a falling OF
OF some 5000.
increase In Ocean Travel
GAS against the. ~ 582 steerage passengers
carried eastward from January 1 to July
20, 724,6lO were brought into the country
The westward, travel in first and second
cabins during this period was also unus-
uaiiy large showing an increase OF nearly
80, 600 travellers over the same period OF
last year.
June was, as usual, the time of the great
est rush eastward. The season of the
ships saidfng direct to Mediterranean ports,
which usually begins to wane after the
LIST of April and be over by June l. con-
trued this year until the middle OF the
present month. The Mediterranean trip,
leading from here to the Azores. thence to
Gibraltar, Alexandria, Naples and Genoa, Is
becoming more and more popular with
European travellers. 1t has the advantage
of O.. longer stay at sea for those who are
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and the ships are usually big. comfortable
beats making from fifteen to sixteen knots
All hour. They sail on an even keel and do
not feel as IL they were being hammered to
pieces do the vessels whose propellers
lash the In the fury of twenty-five
knot clip.
To the uninitiated, however, 1t is strange
to see ship bound for the southern ports
of Europe, head due northeast as soon as
they clear the bar at Sandy Hook They
continue to the north till they get to the
Grand Banks Of Newfoundland. when with
last farewell sent quiverfng through the
or Cape Race, they gradually turn to the
south. You ask the captain why 1t is neces-
sary to come so far north and set every
one to shivertng when they brought along
raiment for sail in southern waters. He
looks at you benign1y and says because 1t
Is the shortest route Being long away
dwelt upon geography and the shape of tho
earth OF late you look puzzled. Then as
your teacher used to do In the days Of your
childhood. the kind-hearted skipper pilots
by taking course to the north. like follow
ing the arch of a rainbow. you take adj
vantage of the shortest way over the round
ed surface of the earth.
Then at last, after patient days and
years OF waiting, you realize the advan-
tage OF knowing that the world is round
instead OF fiat. In your boyhood days you
paid little attention to the fact, and were
for you never felt like falling OF the
earth, and as far as you could see there
was no curve. A trip to Europe is educat1
ing from the very first.
New York as Summer Resort.
The height of the vacation season is at
hand here IN New York. but despite the
fact that the railroads say they have car
ried away about 10000 people during the
first three weeks of July very little I'M
preston has been made upon the activities
Of the city. The reason for this is that
while New Workers feel they must go away
when the hot season comes there are tens
OF thousands of people scattered through
out the country who count a trip to New
York during the summer one Of the pleas
ATTEST outings imaginable.
For every New Yorker who goes away
In summer two persons come into the city
from interior and southern towns Quite
few Of the theaters are open and the
immense business they are doing has so
filled other managers with envy that num-
erous early August Openings are an
mounted.
Col. Henry watterson of Kentucky is
one of the most distinguished and enthu-
sastic believers In New York as a summer
resort He spends every summer here,
enjoying himself in quiet hooks Of the IL
braries or the smoking rooms Of the num-
erous clubs to which he belongs.
There are about one hundred days in
what we call the heated teEmp said the
colonel q day Or TWO ago, "and of these
fifty are just as cool and comfortable as
any one wishes to enjoy. If the thermom-
eter begins to climb and the day has a
you to fifty different resorts. New York
city. to my mind. Is the great American
summer resort"