Evening star., 1939-10-08
Survey Disc|oses
Travellers Responding
To New Directions
Between-the-Americos
Trips to Be Featured;
Winter Resorts Prepare

NEW YORK, Oct. 7.-Americar
travellers this winter will, have q
wide variety of destinations in spite
of the European war, and travel
within and between the Americas
promises to reach banner proper
tions, according to the monthly
survey and forecast of travel ten
dencies released yesterday by the
American Express Travel Service.
The survey is, gathered through
the company's domestic and foreign
Offices and Is checked with all lead
ing railroads, steamships and air
lines.
Americans are already adjusting
themselves to the world situation
and preparing to spend their win
ter vacations in our Southern resort
States, in Latin America, the West
Indies and Hawaii" states Douglas
Malcolm of the Travel Service.
Domestic escorted tours and the
Independent travel plan bid fair
to come into much wider popularity
The use of domestic railroads and
airlines for pure pleasure travel is
bound to increase, and all winter
resorts will be given q decided
impetus"
Local Travel Expected.
october, the survey finds, will be
a month of local rather than of
long-distance travel. Excellent hunt
ing is promised in most States. The
football season will get under way,
with resultant heavy travel over
week ends. The New York Worlds
Fair, which now has 50-cent gate,
will continue through the month,
and the Golden Gate International
Exposition in San Francisco will be
open until October 20. The theater
season will get under way In New
York, and starting october 13 San
Francisco will have its fall opera
series. Northern States will be in
fall dress and Vermont will cele-
brate on October 16 with a State
wide Autumn Foliage Festival.
In the immediate rail picture, the
Northern Pacific reports the best
September in its history for its east
ern territory. The Missouri Pacific
finds that travel to Mexico has
shown very noticeable increases in
the last two or three weeks, and the
Union Pacific expects October to
show gains over the same month a
year ago. The Santa Fe reports
traffic for September ahead of last
year.
New Train Makes Debut.
In the equipment field. the Chi
cago & North Western has just put
into service two new streamlined
and Diesel-powered "40O's." During
the month the Lehigh Valley will
put in service the first of 10 new
coaches. The Exposition Flyer, op-
Grated jointly this summer by the
Burlington, Denver & Rio Grande
Western and Western Pacific, will
be kept in service the year around.
During October all railroads will
lay plans for winter traffic, the sur
vey says. The Santa Fe reports
that every one expects exceptionally
good traffic to California and Ari-
zona. The Florida season looks very
promising to the Atlantic Coast Line,
and both that road and the Seaboard
Air Line will provide faster and
better service this winter to the
West Coast resorts of Florida. The
Great Northern looks for a very
definite boom in domestic travel.
The Rock Island expects very good
and California business this
winter and the Southern Pacific
finds the outlook very promising.
Mexico should have a wonderful
winter, according to the Missouri
Pacific, and the American Express
and other travel companies are now
planning tours there, Both Cana
dian Pacific and the Canadian Ma
tional are now laying plans for the
ski season in Canada. Americans.
these railroads report, can enter
Canada with the same ease and
facility that they always have. The
Northern Pacific finds growing in
terest in Grand Coulee Dam and
this winter will open new ski runs
at Martin, Wash, at the top of the
Cascade Mountains.
Airlines See Upturn.
Airlines, like railroads. expect
banner traffic, with Southern resorts
enjoying greatest favor. Pan-Amer-
lcan looks for heavy travel to the
West Indies and South America,
and Eastern is buying three new
sleeper transports for its New York
Brownsville service. American,
which has just ordered 20 new 81
planes for next spring,
expects a good October, and Eastern
estimates So per cent increase in
revenue passengers for September.
Other news is that Trans Canada
Alrlines is putting in a two-city
service between Montreal and To-
ronto, to supplement its other flights,
and that T. w. A. expects excellent
Southern winter travel.
In the steamship field the travel
picture is rapidly clarifying. Some
September cruises showed a passen-
ger decline, but every indication is
that West Indies voyages will be Of
fered as usual this winter by Amer.
lean and other neutral ships. Cuba
Mail reports that it is optimistic
about the coming season, and that
both Cuban and Mexican traffic are
ahead of last year. United Fruit
and other lines are running their
cruises as usual, and Clyde Mallory
reports that bookings on comparable
sailings have been better than last
year.
RESORTS.