The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-22
ENGLISH BEGIN
 TO "SEE ENGl AND"
Yankee Tourists No Longer the Only Travellers Seen Nosing Around Ancient Castles.

London. Sept. 22.-The English are beginning to "see England" The motor bus and charabanc threaten to make the Brtton a tourist in his own land.
 Only the third-c1ass passenger and the flower middle class" have been bitten by the travel bug as yet, but that is a beginning, and today one can see the unprecedented sight of scores, even hundreds of English be- ing guided about over their own his toric towns.
 It is difficult. in England. to find anyone who has. for instance, visited Stratford, that mecca of all American tourists So far as Merry England is concerned, Will Rogers may be right in intimating that of the two he is the William who is famous.
 The upper class Englishman bowls through his country to some hotel sign above it's door, testifying that the automobile associations have given it report equivalent to a Bradstreet "AA-1." He and his family go to their favorite seaside resorts and to the inland watering places by train or motor. and the muSty castles are Jumped in his mind something to be unhoaded on American mi1lionaires. and devil take the guide books.
 Beneath his notice also are the bus and charabanc routes which have grown by miracle in two yours until they make a network of England. The upper class Englishman doesn't ride buses, nor have recourse to tiered sight seeing cars that crowd nearly 40 persons into a gasoline wagon that races 20 and 25 miles an hour through rural England.
 Interurban Network
 But his interiors so to speak, are not fastidious. They are making motor and bus lines rich. and. doubtless swelling the dividends which permit the Swank of the land tn roll along n Rolls-Royce style.
 The ordinary folk, of no particular lineage, have discovered that they can hop a bus approximately at their doorstep and ride high in the air, overlooking high brick walls, 20 miles or so. for shilling or two. And that if they desire, they can take a small portion of luggage" and spend days transferring from one bus line to an other and from one charabanc trip to another, travelling always through England's most beautiful country and visiting historic and picturesque spots for the sight of which Americans must pay hundreds and thousands of dol lars.
 Even the small towns have become great motor centres On hotel bulletin boards of such towns as Oxford, Gov entry, Canterbury. Folkstone. IIfra- combe-Smau towns aIl-are lists of 10 or a dozen separate charabanc trips to points of interest some of them providing a swing of much as 150 miles on a single days journey. At any point of interest three or four of these giants of the road are to be found parked at almost any time Of the day. Along the main roads they travel literally in droyes. Every | suburb of London has its two or three big garages whose chief business is charabanc trips, varying in cost from | 75 cents to $4 for full 12-hour jour- ney.
 ''See England First" mn tar .lSlI- n 1tr l bus, the universal means of transpor- tation in London, where there are comparatively few Street-car lines have crept further and further into | the country. County lines have been | established These connect with the | city lines. The buses are drawing ru- | ral England into closer contact with | the towns, and one district into con- | tact with another, just as the growth | of interurban electric lines did ir America 20 years ago.
 l Demonstrating touring possibilities l of these fixed route bus lines a news | paper reporter has travelled from | Dover to Blackpooi, diagonaily across England, a distance of about 35C | miles, in five days at a, cost Of s10 1T | fares, entirely on bus top. Connec | tions oyer a greater distance doubt
 less cam be made by charabanc.
 In the old days the traditional tour ist was the Yankee school Inarm, witf | her guide book and spectacles. | Today whole English families fol lowing an elected leader. who read.
 aloud from a "tupenny'' guide book 1 may be seen everywhere, brushing III on English history Pure cockney i spoken in the land of Shapespeare b.
 adopted the slogan See Englant First