The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-16
MONTH FOR MOTOR TOURING
WHOLE FAMILIES IN AUTOS MET
on NEW ENGLAND ROADS.


Two or Three Cars in . Carayan-Pood
question Notwithstanding About
the Fare Served ct the Average Coun.
try Hotel In New England Districts.
This Ia the month Of motor car touring.
There arc never times when one does not
meet on the road o greater or less show OF
automobiles which indicate by the pres
enoe Of luggage aud other unmistakahle
Ggns that the occupants are on q tour.
but August 10 the most popular month for
these excursions and the roads Of New
England are just now moro crowded with
automobiles than they have been at any
other time this summer.
There 10 one special reason for this.
August 10 the month that papa takes of.
He may have had his family until this time
al Lake Geneva, Waukeeha. Hot SPRING.
or lake Minnetonla.
Wherever they were. he joins them now
and tho tour starts northward. II may
be to the White Mountains or Bar Harbor.
but 1t ID sure 10 be somewhere in the cool
New England region.
Some OF these domestic caravans consist
Of two automobiles. and there have been as
many 40 three In the service of one family.
The tourists orange the trip 30 as to reach
o good hotel. or at least as good q hotel as
they can find. by night.
The dusty machines drawing up In front
OF the hotels are q picturesque feature Of
the New England landscape this month.
Later the tourists gather at the hotel table
father. mother and two or three children,
while the maid and the chauffeur are ac-
commodated in the other dining room.
The second motor is not always run by a
chauffeur. When father knows how to
run the car he 10 in charge. but more fire.
quently 1t is the oldest con who looks after
this important duty.
The better cara have ample accommoda-
tons for luggage. so the passengers that
arrive by motor are able to dress nearly as
we'll as the regular dwellers in the hotel.
1t is noticed hat the ome are generally
able to appear In light silk gowns. and the
men are often in evening dress.
Naturally the question Of food is closely
connected with the pleasure Of touring. and
about that question n hears divers
opinions. This ID the story Of a man who
came back on Saturday from a trip to the
White Mountains:
After we passed Hartford. where we
stopped the first night he said, there was
nothing to be had In the way Of eating that
did more than help to preserve life. 1t
! could not be considered under any circum-
stances to constitute a delight Of the table.
] almost agreed witt the man VIC sold his
touring car because he said there was no
place In this country where the food was
travel about.
'Imagine, for instance, the inconsistency
Of my arriving at a town In Vermont In a
$4,000 car and being compelled to put up
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and designed to appeal to the taste Of the
unfortunate drummers and actors who
happened to be stalled there. That dinner
is the endless succession Of tastelees dishes,
served on small plates with no paliating
happened to be prohibition. Such an ex-
| perienoe Is almost enough to spoil the
pleasure Of q days tour.
Think OF the contrast abroad. This
Europe It would have Been possible to get
a good dinner IN such q place whether it
was in France, Germany or Italy. Yet the
restaurant abroad would probably not have
been halt as large as the Vermont hotel.
like it, pretentiousness, but the food would
have been well cooked, would have had
some taste. and there would have been a
passable bottle Of wine to 60 with 1t.
distrsssin s.i from Sa1ss q C culinary y1 Point int Of View,
| We arrived at an inn devoted to summer
boarders. It was the only place to 60 with
the exception Of q so-oalled hotel at q juno
! ton where the rooms looked directly over
| the railroad track.
well. this hotel supper was the usual
summer hotel Sunday tea. with canned
peaches, cold tongue and microscopic bits
| of angel cake. Now / submit that o day
like this was enough to discourage any
motor owner.
1T is not that We demand the same food
that we get in New York hotels or clubs
| or In our own houses. All we ask Is reason
ably good food. Any man who Knew good
cooking from bad would rather eat q well
and the stun hashed up on that Vermont
bill Of fare. 1t would have been cheaper.
too
It 10 this question Of food that makes
prospective motor car tourists so anxious
to accept the invitations Of friends with
houses along their route. They much
prefer than to the hotels.