The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-08-30
BIG DEMAND FOR
SUMMER COTTAGES
Reports TO State Publicity Bureau Indi
cate Prosperous Summer Bust
ness i'm This State.

BURLINGTON, Aug. 30.-It may bel
poor vacation travel season elsewhere, |
but there is no falling OFF in the num-
Der OF tourists coming to Vermont, ac-
cording to the results If a recent survey
made by the State Publicity bureau.
Hotels and boarding houses generally
report increasing business Many hotels
have been full to capacity and people
have been obliged to go elsewhere as
they were unable TO obtain accommoda-
tions. One summer hotel has enlarged
It's plant by putting up camps and tent
bungalows, which have been very pop
ular with the guests, and the PROPRIETOR
expects to put up more lieNt year. Many
tourists stop only occasionally at the
hotels. and automobile camping parties
are now frequent sights along Vermont
roadsidCs. They come from every state
in the union and Canada. The camps
are full in most localities where cot
tagcs are rented Thirty-seven different
states are also represented in the boys
and girls camps, bringing thousands of
! boys and girls and their parents into
the state each summer.
The publicity department publishes
annually booklets descriptive of Yer
mont, and advertises and distributes
these pamphlets outside the state for
the purpose of giving the public addi-
| tiOnal information concerning Vermont.
Besides numerous publications of inter-
| in Vermont and Green Mountains of
! Vermont, the state also publishes a di-
rectOry of hotels and boarding houses
called Where TO Stop When in Yer
mont, in which any reputable hotel or
summer boarding house keeper may ad
vertise free of charge. \ list of Yer
mont farms for sale, a booklet contain
ing lists of Vermont cottages for rent
or for sale, and a booklet of summer
homes in Vermont for sale, are also
published, in all of which any owner of
Vermont property may advertise, free
of charge. The above information was
gathered in an attempt made to check
up on the value of this advertising.
There are not enough Vermont cot.
tageS to 90 around. One cottage owner
in Nergennes writes: There have beer
more calls for cottages this season thar
for the last three seasons put together
ard | think there viii be more next
summer as people are beginning to real
ize the beauties of Lake Champlain anC
the mountains
If every cottage owner had the spirit
of this cottage owner from Lake Mem
phremagog, it would not take long t,
make Vermont the foremost vacation
u playground of New England. He writes
Il received letters of application 70
cottages from Maine. Massachusetts
4 New York, Pennsylvania, and New
\ Hampshire, probably Is in number thi
n >tdSOH, dIl mentioning bllt "a" tOiLd4
rental booklet. | had rented my cot
= tage previous 10. these applications, bu
in each case of a letter coming iron
lpcople reading the booklet. replied ant
gave full information in regard to othe
cottages. also a description of on
lovely lake and surrounding country
d The past few seasons have brough
many strangers to us. and | believe tn
:. plan of advertising to be wonderful
one for Vermont. | am now trying Il
d purchase land to build another cottag
this fall ] believe one hundred cot
n tagcs could be rented if land could b.
secured for them around this lake. as
have had man" inquiries besides thos
coming from the booklet advertising.
appreciate the privilege of this opDOr
tunity, to advertise very, very much"