Evening star., 1937-09-12
SEPTEMBER GAINS
TOUR POPULARITY
Growing Vacation Army
Learning to Enjoy Un-
crowded Resorts.

NEW YORK, September 11.-Sep-
tember, long considered a home
coming month by the travel industry,
will this year enjoy greatly increased
popularity as a vacation season in its
own right, according to the monthly
survey and forecast of world travel
tendencies of the American Express Co.
Several new trends in the world of
travel give promise of making this
month banner one, one factor being
that many who are tired of the hustle
and hustle OF great city life are now
saving their vacations until Septem-
Der, when fuss and hurry at resorts
Is past Modern transportation by
ship, rail and plane now make Fall
vacationine an easy matter, and prac-
tically every part of the country which
has mountains and lakes is at its best,
cleanest and most enjoyable at this
season. Steamship lines and travel
companies, after numerous expert
ments with September cruises, find it
just as easy to fill them as to fill those
offered in the height of the vacation
season, and many other factors point
to tightening of peak Summer travel.
Every report from the United States,
Europe and the world in general bears
out the prediction that 1897 will be
one of the record travel years of the
decade. In the domestic picture. New
York is now preparing to welcome
100000 people when the American
Legion holds its convention there
September 20-23, and steamship lines
estimate that thousands of the visitors
will embark for the pilgrimage to
France and Italy. With special Legion
cruises to the West Indies and Florida.
September will mark an early start
for the Fall cruise season.
Cruises to West Indies.
Notable are the interest in and
bookings for such transatlantic liners
as the North German Lloyd Columbus.
the Holland-American Rotterdam, the
Cunard White Star Berengaria and
Carinthia and the Gdynia- America
Batory, all of which will visit the
West Indies during September. The
heightened interest of the Middle
West and the Pacific Coast in the
West Indies will this Winter take the
Holland-America Veendam to New
Orleans for a series of three cruises.
Advance bookings for the Rio cruises
OF the flagship Rex of the Italian
Line. scheduled to sail January 20.
and for the Normandie of the French
Line, to sail February S, exceed all
expectations and show greatly height
ened interest in the countries of South
America. In Chicago alone, one line
reported over 80 requests for informa-
tion on the day its South America
luxury cruise was announced.
American railroads are now report
Ing summer travel increases of 8 rrr
cent to So per cent, with the ma joritv
recording increases of 20 per cent and
more. Facilities for Fall travel to
California and the West Coast will be
augmented September Is, when the
Southern Pacific inaugurates an all
coach and tourist-car train, air-con-
ditloned, between Chicago and San
francisco. Also in the domestic pic
ture for September rail travel is
Mexico, which the Wabash Railway.
the Missouri-Pacinc Lines and the
National Railways OF Mexico are fea-
turing in weekly Fall tours.
Bermuda Goal Of Many.
Advance bookings by such regular
steamship services as the Furness-
Bermuda, the Canadian National. the
Colombia and the United Fruit Lines
indicate a continuance of the record
travel TO Bermuda and the West In
dies, while the air service to Bermuda
Is proving so popular that Pan-Ameri-
can Always and the Imperial Airways
are now each scheduling two round
tr1p flights week TO the islands.
In the domestic air picture. East
ern Air Lines. as part Of its replace
ment policy, will in the next few weeks
put into service five new Douglas al
passenger planes. This month United
Air Lines celebrates the tenth ami
versary OF commercial coast-to-coast
air transportation.
With the heaviest tourist trafic
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In recent years, Europe prepares for
gala Fall season. In Paris. great
festivities will mark the visit of the
American Legion, and the Interna-
tional Exposition is now attracting A
quarter of million visitors day; in
Italy preparations 90 forward for the
Exhibition OF Rome under Augustus,
which is scheduled to open at the
end OF the month. and everywhere
fairs, festivals and special celebrations
will take place
Plans for the 1888 travel season are
Also now under way. Norway an
nounces = great exhibition OF Nor
wegian culture. life and industry, TO
open in Oslo next May, and Scotland
reports that Canada, Australia, South
Africa, New Zealand and Ireland have
now decided to take part in the Scot
tish Empire Exhibition in Glasgow,
also to open next May.
Nearly 100000 Americans are still
IN Europe, transatlantic steamship
figures compiled at the end of August
show, and all lines report capacity