The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-02-26

flood Here are some of the facts
about it.
Tourists to Southern winter resorts-traNeiers
by rail. 100000; by steamer and private yacht
$4,000; by automobile. l3oOoo; total, 4ooooV'
Hotel expenses S44.SO0.oOo.
ADJUSTMENTS, S4O,OOO,oOo.
Cottage and bungalow rents, $30.OoOooo
Value of homes owned by Northerners, $500
100000.
YES the migration is on. About loo sieepinS
cars leave New York and Chicago daily for the
South and at least 800 automobiles begin the
journey every day.
OF course California has also golden winter
food from the East-which is another story.
And the North has return flood from the
South in the summer-of which something ia'er.
This migration season is looked upon by those
sections of the South where the Northern tour
ist focks as one of harvest. Crops and fruits
for which Florida is known, take second place as
source of revenue The hotels are crammed
to overfowing cottages and bungalows are filed
for the entire season at rents which make that OF
New York apartment seem fairly reasonable
the beaches swarm with bathers forgetfu OF fhe
ice which binds the Northern waters and the
crack of the golf ball sounds from Asheville to
Key West.
This costs money. Just how much nobody
knows 1t used to be said that S100,OOOOO0 was
spent by tourists in Florida every winter, but that
was before the war and the cost of touring mas
gone up The estimates must be revised.
Some approximation of the facts can Ire OBJ
tanned, however, by diligent search among the
railroad records. The season starts little
earlier in the Carolinas than in Florida, and then
laps over again after the Florida season, but the
season of capacity is considered by railroad men
to be approximately fifteen weeks. During TINS
period the travel South is fairly constant. There
are two main gateways for Northern approach ~
the South-ChicagO and New York. Out or chi
cago there are running every day 90 Southern
| sleepers which hold an average of l,oOo per
| s,ns. From New York by rail and boat there
| leave about the same numbers, 2OOO persons III
| all With season of about 100 days. that reaches
total of 100000 persons who travel by rail and
| boat.
| 100000 to Go South.
| The automobile traffic carries others who are
| nc inconsiderable part of the whole Fully oV"
| cars day are now going South Three persons
| to car and 100 days of travel would indicate
| that 10000 persons find the Southern touring
| pleasant relief from bucking snow drifts.
| In all about 100000 persons will go South this
| year. These figures can be checked up somewhat
with the hotels There are some famous places or
| recreation, which are filled from the time they
open until the end of the season. hotels in resorts
such as Asheville, Pinehurst, Aiken, Southern
! Pines in the Caronas; Augusta and Thomasville,
| in Georgia and Belleaire, Miami, Palm Beach, ST.
! Petersburg Daytona and st. Augustine, in Flor
| ida.
The total hotel capacity of these places is 49,
667 The average stay at most of these hotels can
| be reckoned at about two weeks. That would
| give a population in these better known hotels
1 for three months of about 100000 persons. The
i other 10000 find their way to the smaller places
and to bungalows, cottages and boarding houses.
1t is from this great majority, also. that the
| bulk Of the revenue comes. One is apt to think
i of FlOrida-for Florida is the Ultima Thule of the
1 Southland and has more recreation places than
4 all the others put together-as place dotted
Il with million dollar homes and surrounded by a
protecting otilla of costly yachts. But, as mat
\ ter of fact the great majority Of the people who
| 60 TO Florida are neither enormously wealthy nor
Il great spendthrifts.
Bungalow cofonies growing all over the
state built by people of moderate means. who e.
to Florida not for pleasure only. but for their
Ihealth There are, 1t Is said, more old people in
Florida than any other state in the Union; they
60 there, to keep alive.
/ The people Of wealth. whose names associated
with Palm Beach have made It one of the most
famous resos:S n the world. are very few 10 NUN
~. bot naake Up for that By the vast smouata