Evening star., 1924-07-07
RAILROADS HANDLE
ENORMOUS TRAFFIC
Holiday Auto Travel Also In.
dicates Plenty of Money
All Over Country.
BY J. c. RoYLE.
Special Disp.teb IN rh. s,.,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, July Like King
Joseph's army in tho old rhyme, the
holiday makers burst out of town all
over the country on Thursday and
Friday OF last week and were hauled
back again last night and today. If
their number is an accurate indicator,
there Is nothing the matter with the
financial condition Of the country as
a whole. Railroads handled record
breaking numbers and the highways
were crowded with automobiles to a
greater extent than any previous Pc
riod In the history OF the country.
On the New York Central road, the
rush began as early as Monday with
the addition of ten extra trains
Thursday night the road had twenty
extra trains with ninety-two extra
Pullmans and sixty extra coaches
running. BY this morning the ma
Jority of the vacationists had re-
turned to their homes. Other roads
reported similarly heavy traffic.
Enormous Auto TraAc.
More than 100000 Philadelphians
automobile traffic across the bridges
leading to the New Jersey Shore re-
sorts was SO severe that thousands
OF cars were temporarily held up
sunday night the road between
Philadelphia and Atlantic City was
a solid line of cars able to proceed
only at a slow pace. The Pennsyl-
vania railroad and the Philadelphia
and Reading handled scores of thou
sand of resorters. and their ferries
transported between 1900 and 1000
cars across the Delaware Friday
morning, and over $4,000 Sunday, with
an average of four persons in each
car. The Pennsylvania ferry sent
away from twenty-six to thirty ma
cnines every two and one-haIf min
utes from noon on.
Resorts Crowded to Limit.
Washington took on almost the ap-
pearance of a deserted city, although
there were enough loyal base ball
fans ian left to FIJI the Washington Ball
lted Coney Island. and the amuse-
ment resorts there did a record
breaking business. Similar reports
come from all parts of the country
and 1t is estimated that more money
"as snent during this Fourth of July
holiday than ever before
1he spending tendency was aug
menteo In some of the agricultural
districts oy the prospects for high
wheat prices and the satisfactory re-
turns from fruit shipments The par
tlal failure of the Russian grain crop,
which promises to result in famine
conolt1on In some parts of that coun-
try. has removed some of the weight
from the export wheat situation. al
though the Canadian wheat fields are
making good progress in spite of
late start.
Canning Industry Booming.
Canning and preserving is proceed
ing actively in many sections, but
without any serious advance in prices
OF sugar. 1t has become more and
more evident that the development OF
the beet sugar industry in this coun-
try has acted as stabilizer and bal
ance wheel of prices. The Cuban raw
sugar producers have but six or eight
weeks in which to unload the bulk of
the last crop still unsold before the
domestic beet sugar production will
begin to come on the market
There is evidence that the Cuban
producers will use every effort to
keep stocks moving to the United
states before that time, and as q re-
suit there is little present indica ton
OF advances in Cuban raws The for
e1gn beet sugars also will then COM
mence to invade the world markets
AS result the consumers are not
rushing to secure supplies and refin-
ers are curtailing outputs until the
demand quickens.
Stocks of Cuban sugar at ports on
the island on June / totaled s46,74s
tons, as compared with 537,5S6 tons
on the corresponding date last year.