Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-10

u~ N to Washington" is the
slogan Of an army of
motor tourists, which
winds and wends its way
from the Rocky Noun
tains, the Mexican Gulf, the tree
crowned highlands Of New England,
the prairies of the Northwest, the
alluvial lowlands of the Mississippi
delta and from the sun-kissed farm
ing country Of California.
This cavalcade, which gets in mo-
ton with the sunrise Of Spring, and
which continues to longest highways
and shortcut trails until Winter
broadcasts it's proximity, floods Wash
ington with foreign license tags and
adds it's ver-multiplying force to the
vast concourse of visitors that comes
annually to our City of Presidents.
Rolling swiftly over improved high
ways on cushions of air, these motor
lists represent every class and condi-
ton of life, all strata of society and
every field of human activity. Time
was when the clothes he wore were
the measure of the man. Today, the
car he drives is his outstanding stamp
of identification.
The motorized vehicles which stream
to Washington represent every type
OF automobile that will roll under its
own power. The range runs from the
snubnosed sport roadsters driven by
college students to the luxurious linn
cuisines Of millionaire manufacturers.
Camp carts Of every description, port
able homes on wheels, touring cars,
coaches, phaetons, sedans, coupes,
- I'D n
the Nations Capital loaded to capa-
city with motor campers eager to
scan our slightest sights and our
Federal wonders.
Washington's only tent city, Uncle
Sans champion tourist camp in
East Potomac Park. is the local cen
ter of this invasion. 1t is a melting
pot Of motordom, where Iowa bank
ers "buddie" with New England
blacksmiths, where Eastern manufac-
turers shake hands with hard-fsted
farmers from the corn belt and grain
belt, and where the planters from the
South rub elbows with producers
from the North.
This remarkable city Of cabins. cot
tages and tents, a neighbor to one of
Washington's popular municipal golf
courses, shows q constantly changing
complexion. Travellers come and go
the average stop-over in Washington
OF the vacation tourist being four
days. Some remain two weeks or even
month. but these are the exception.
The call of the hard-surfaced road is
so irresistible that even the historical
sights Of Washington cannot for long
detain the touring hosts. They sight
see" until their eyes are sore while
encamped at the Washington tourist
camp. Then they speed away even as
swiftly as they came. Over the back
trails. they fit to their home COM
r>unities to inoculate their neighbors
with the germs of "Washingtonitis. -
These selfsame neighbors and their
relatives and friends live in anticipa-
ton of the days when they may make
similar trips-and eventually see them
fealiZed
One-fifth Of the 81 900 motor tourists
who camped and broke bread" at
Washington's tent city last year were
repeats More than 10000 of these
automobile visitors follow the practice
of stopping in our city of lawmaking
once or twice every year. For the
most part, they belong to that order
of Winter dodgers" who step on the
starters and speed toward Florid,
Georgia. Alabama and Mississippi with
the advent of cold weather ThcSe
same climateworshiper roll north
warl like motoring robins in thc
Spring again, visiting Washington OF