Evening star., 1939-12-31
The Travellers Notebook
scribbIings About Casey Jones' Widow,
the We;ghty Sport for Women, the Timid
Souls Ideal Cruise and the a. B. c. Isles

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mate. Richard w. Gray, meteorolo-
gist Of the United States Weather
Bureau. is quoted as reporting that
the temperature never has climbed
above 90 degrees nor fallen below
50 In all the years the weather rec
ords have been kept. Furthermore.
"the average winter temperature of
Puerto Rico is % degrees higher
than that Of Nice, on the Riviera;
20 degrees higher than at Cairo,
Egypt, and Los Angeles" Mr.. Gray's
report said. In the average year
the sun fails to shine only five days.
Unique in American politics is the
inaugural Of the governor of the In
dian pueblos in New Mexico. Chosen
by secret ballot under the supervi-
sion Of representatives Of the In
dians' factions and an Indian serv-
Ice ofncial, the governor takes office
January 8. He stands on a raised
platform and says-nothing. His
people tell him what they expect
and he simply indicates approval,
rejection or negotiations.
The Sixth Annual Silver Sailfish
Derby of West Palm Beach. Fla,
has been moved up to January IA.
1t will continue until February f.
De Land, Fla, host in 1910 to the
annual tournament Of the Florida
Switchboard Association, has
brought its total Of playing courts to
81. The tournament, which is ex-
pected to lure 500 expert shutters to
determine the championship club
team and the champion singles and
doubles players, will be staged
February IA, Is and 16. De Land is
located in the rolling pine hills of
Central Florida, and about 20 miles
from the Atlantic Ocean.
The Scott's Cobble ski run, ad-
joining the Lake Placid IN. " Golf
and Country Club, has a vertical
drop of 500 feet over a course nearly
half mile long. There are expert
and novice downhill runs, slalom
courses and open ski slopes. Other
peaks attracting skiers in the Lake
Placid snow sports area are White
face, an expert run with maximum
grade Of 80 degrees and an average Of
20 degrees over y miles; Mount Van
Hoevenberg. intermediate to expert
courses, 4,500 feet long, with a maxi
mum grade of Is degrees Mount
Whitney, an expert run IA miles
long, with maximum grade of 30
degrees and an average of IL:
Wrights Peak, "a miles long, inter-
mediate to expert, maximum grade
Of 80 degrees and average of IS;
Marcy, 6la-mile run down the high
est mountain in the State, with
courses for all from novices to ex-
perts; Sentinel North Notch, 234
miles long, for novices, grades up to
20 degrees.
Made to order for the timid soul
who misses his cruises on the At
lantic and in the Caribbean, yet
appealing to hundreds of travellers,
IS the 21-day cruise down the Ohio
and Mississippi Rivers from Cincin-
natl to New Orleans aboard the
steamboat Gordon c. Green. It
sails from Cincinnati January %,
and on its journey Of several thou
sand miles is never out of sight OF
land.
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The words and music of the
Christmas hymn, Silent Night,
Holy Night" have been folded away
for another year, but 1t is not too
late to point out to travellers that
the ever-recurring song was written
In one of Austria's loveliest villages,
Obendorf, on Christmas Eve. 1918.
Curacao, one Of the most fascinat-
ing islands in the Caribbean, is the
largest of the three "A. B. c." isles.
The others are Aruba and Bonaire.
The Florida paper that gives away
its editions every day the sun doesn't
shine before press time is the st.
Petersburg Evening Independent.
The policy has been carried on by
the publisher, Maj. Lew B. Brown,
since he dubbed the resort THE
Sunshine City" nearly 80 years ago.
Nassau, in the Bahamas" is