Evening star., 1935-08-04
The Travellers Notebook
By Jacques Futrelle, Jr.

cludes Victoria Falls, ride on the
famous Maid of the Mist below the
falls, Goat Island and Cave of the
Winds.
The traveller stops for the night in
Albany and the next day boards a
day line steamer for trip down the
Hudson River to New York City, ar
irving at 6 pm. After night in New
York and day Of sightseeing, the
plane goes on to Boston, with the
same schedule as in the other air
cruise. However, instead of flying
back to Gotham, stateroom is pro-
vided on an Eastern steamship line
steamer which sails around Cape Cod,
hugging the shore inside on Marthas
Vineyard and Long Island. Landing
in Gotham at 8 am, the passenger
hires his taxi and goes to either the
Hotel New Yorker or the American
Airlines Office at As Vanderbilt avenue
for transportation to the airport and
a plane back to Washington.
This cruise may be made in seven
days by omitting the Boston leg.
VET another cruise, more ambitious,
has been mapped for the Ameri-
can Airlines traveller. 1t is trans
continental journey to San Francisco
or Los Angeles, via Memphis, Dallas
and Phoenix On the West Coast a
Dollar Line ship is boarded for a trip
through the Panama Canal, through
the Caribbean and up the Atlantic
Coast to New York. The last leg of
the journey. to Washington, is made
by plane. Dollar Line ships sail for
the East August 9 and %, September
and 20 and October 4.
GCRIB BL1NGS% S%The superliner
Queen Mary, now under construc-
ton, will have three motion pitcure
theaters . At one time there were
only 20 bison in the national parks
Yellowstone alone now has more than
1000 The second annual Rio
Grande Valley fishing rodeo will be
held of Port Isabel, Tex, August %
to 25 267 ,920 persons visited the
Louvre in 1884. The towers of Notre
Dame attracted 30,752 Labor day
falls this year on September 2 (where
are you eoing?) All Swiss post
Offices issue travelling check books.
The checks may be cashed at towns or
villages without banking facilities
Archeologists have failed to determine
the origin of the pyramids of the
sun and the moon, 80 miles from
Mexico City. The sun pyramid is
almost as high as Egypt's greatest
In the last two years more than
So 900 honeymoon couples have taken
advantage OF Italy'S reduced rail and
hotel rates. One Eastern potentate
caShed in on the reduced rate and
brought his 20 wives Egypt.
in abolishing the gold clause, put Suez
Canal tolls on silver basis. The
action is expected to stimulate travel
through the canal Signs warn
national park visitors not to feed
the bears The woodcarvers of
Verona, Italy, are famous for their
sacred images and church furniture
Due to the architecture of its
churches, Salzburg often is called a
German Rome Montmorency
Falls, Quebec. are 274 feet high and
the highest in Canada . One of
Denmark's attractions Is Kronborg
Castel, where Hamlet saw the ghost
OF his father . Amsterdam, Holland,
is built on piles. and some 60 down
into the mud about so feet Re
versins Falls are at st. Johns, New
Brunswick, and are the only known
falls that turn around and run the
other way :. A nine-hole golf course
has been built on Mont Blanc, France,
$500 feet high >. Montreal is the
fourth largest French-speaking city in
the world .. Ships entering Kingston,
Jamaica, can sail over the wicked
city of Port Royal. part of which
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