Evening star., 1927-05-19
VACATION JAUNTS
TO AID RAILROADS
Americans to See More of
Country Than Ever Before.
Roads Preparing.
BY j. C. ROYLE.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, May 19.--More Ameri.
cans are going to see America in the
next six months than ever before. The
transcontinental railroads declared to-
day they anticipated one of the great
est passenger traffic seasons on record,
If not the greatest. The Northern Pa
eiflc, the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific and the Union Pacific all were
In agreement on this point
The amount Of money which wifi be
spent on the Journeys will certainly
not be less than SO to SIS a day for
each traveller. It is obvious that there
Is hardly a section of the country
which will not be benefited both ma
terially and in other ways from this
widespread circulation OF citizens and
currency.
Millions of short trips will be made
by automobiles. but most Of the main
journeys-which will serve to show the
inhabitants of the far-fiung districts of
the country that the Nation ends nei-
ther at Buffalo for the Fastener, nor
j at Cheyenne for the citizen of the Pa
cif1c slope-will be made by train.
Preparing for Rush.
This trend has been encouraged by
the rates which have been agreed on
and which furnish a tremendous
amount of travel for a moderate sum,
and by stop-over privileges, which
have made it almost as easy to stop"
and "go" as the traffic signals at con-
gested street corners. Nearly all the
transcontinental roads are increasing
train schedules, adding additional Pull
man and dining car accommodations
and preparing for the rush.
The Rock Island. for example, has
added through Pullman service be-
tween Chicago and California via
lDenver, as have the Denver & Rio
Grande Western and the Southern
Pacific, which offers q wide choice of
routes. This road has laid out as one
OF it's mail travel attractions a. run
from Chicago to Denver, then to Glen
wood Springs and the Royal Gorge
over the Rio Grande to Salt Lake,
thence through the Canyon of the
American River to San Francisco and
back by way of Los Angeles, Phoenix,
the Apache Trail, Ell Paso and Chi
cago. Tickets are so arranged that
travellers can stop off practically any
spot along the route that interests
them.
Not in years, according to Northern
Pacific officials, have travel baron.
eters indicated such a trend toward
heavy travel as is now in prospect.
The road today is just completing its
arrangements to cope with this de-
mand for transportation. Arrange.
ments have already been made by hun
,dreds of parties who intend to visit
Nhe Pacific Northwest during the
@pring and Summer, although some of
xbese parties do not expect to start for
&bur months yet. The inquiries which
Have come to the passenger traffic de-
Rartment have been far more numer.
bus than in other years.
Travel bureaus in the Pacific North.
ewest report their tourist aid divisions
hlready are rushed to capacity, al.
Though the vacation season has hard
~ started. The Northern Pacific is
preparing to handle not only a rush
70 the North Pacific Coast and Cali
%ornia, but to the inland empire of
eastern Washington, northern Idaho
md western Montana, the Summer re.
HlrtS in Montana and North Dakota,
SHe various ranches of the plains
0buntry and the lakes and fishing re-
5brts in Minnesota.
Yellowstone National Park is cele-
brating its fifty-ifth year as host to
thousands of sightseeing tourists and
is ready for its busiest season. The
Northern Pacific is preparing to han.
die visitors to this wonderland of Ma
ture, to Rainier National Park and the
other national forest reserves in the
Northwest. Rates to Alaska also will
be available.
ALI the traffic will not be one way
by any means. The Northern Pacific |
viii authorize low rates on eastbound
Summer tourist traffic from points in |
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon |
tana to the Yellowstone and the East |
ern seaboard. A solid train will be |
run through from Chicago direct to |
the Yellowstone Park, serving both |
the Bozeman and the Gallatin Canyon |
gateways.