Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-24
sperial Correspondence Of The Star.

NEW YORK, September %. 1911.
GREAT many proprietors OF
~ summer resort hotels are In
IA New York for their vacations.
II Most Of them wear such long
faces that their chins are
dragging upon the ground, so 10 Spedh.
Bad season" is the reason.
Everybody knows. Of course, that 1t
is the perfectly natural thing for the
summer resort hotel proprietor TO talk
bad season" even after he's had a
pretty good if not an excellent sea
son. But this year il is different They
are positively moaning bad season"
this time, and giving facts To support
their moan I've heard quite mum ber
OF them talk about closing up for good
and all and going out oI the business.
When you ask them what is at the
bottom of the bad season business all
of them glare savagely al the passing
motor cars in the street and fairly
shout: The internal automobiles:
Which the same is the truth The
authorities on the subject know that
the automobile has, in recent years,
given summer resorts what IS col
loquially SPOKEN o. hard belt.
Folks wcll-to-do enough to own ears
are all for touring. instead OF setting
down at one place Tor their vaca-
lions. They want TO see the country
and enjoy the thrills OF speedy loeomo-
ton. the variety of scenery and Incl
dent the SomethinS-new sensation all
the time. And there are tens OF thou
sands of persons in this car-owninS
class Not only do they ind that they
have more fun motoring about the
land but they discover that the ex-
pense is considerably less than sum
Iner resorting at expensive hotels, even
with the cost of car repairs, new tires
and on. taken II TO consIde IA ton.
A man who owns and conducts one of
The great summer Resort hotels 10y the
sea in New JerSey-not iii Atlantic City
told me yesterday that he figured his
losses. durns the past three years
owing 10 the falling off of patron
age due To his patrons getting the sum
Iner touring habit, al 500 go per annum.
Literally hundreds OF his regular guests
who had been staying with INN Tor ten
and fifteen years had taken to motoring
instead of summer resortinS, and new
ones didn't come along to compensate
him for the loss of these patrons. de
said that many of his patrons not only
had taken to motoring through the sum
mer months in this country, but great
many of them had developed the Euro
pean motor habit; and he frankly owned
that they could make the dandiest kind
OF motor tours through Europe with
tI1tH ldlHlliCS DIT JcHSluGi dblS itSs IA-
pense than they could remain for the
summer at his great hosiery. But he
made WY face when he acknowledge
this. they all do.
There are business men in a great
many other lines who look unhappy when
the automobile is mentioned: but the no.
tel men who run the summer resort
places look the Saddest. Some of those
I've met this week looked as ii they
might burst into tears at any moment
But the line of automobile dealers from
18th street up to about Tooth street are
looking like the feline that enveloped the
canary. The thing all evens itself up
some way, and IL just happens that the
puryeyors of the take-you-there machines
are now getting what is called the
break"