Evening star., 1939-03-19
THE SUNDAY STAR, ONE
$50 Sai|ings Planned
To Take Travellers
To Europe
More Than 1000
Events Among
Attractions

A peaceful Europe in 1899 will
mean a large contingent Of tourists
for all countries from the United
States and Canada Approximately
$50 sailings of liners will start from
Atlantic seaboard ports during the
year, and during the heavy pas
senger season, from May to August,
these ports will see an average Of
three liners a day leaving for Europe.
Thousands of vacationists from the
Western and Middle Western States
en- route to the New York Worlds
Fair will continue their vacation
by boarding ships at American and
/ Canadian ports and seeing some
chosen spots of Europe before re-
turning to the west.
Europe itself is ready to welcome
several hundred thousand travellers
from this side, and according to re-
ports received by the Institute Of
Foreign Travel, more than a thou
sand events of national and inter-
national importance are scheduled
to occur. Never before has there
been such a gorgeous parade Of
pageants, exhibitions, sports and folk
festivals as are now announced for
every day Of the year.
Celebrate Yesteryears.
Anything for a celebration: that
Is always the mood of Europe. New
countries like America may choose
1889 to celebrate "the world Of to-
morrow" but Europe looks back and
in 1889 will celebrate the world Of
yesterday. The folk there have
turned back the calendar to see
what happened 1000 years ago, 100
years ago and even so years ago.
and many stirring. romantic event
or significant episode will be flshed
out Of the past and pulled onto the
shores of 1899 as an occasion for a
celebration.
The biggest thing in Europe in
1899 will be held in country that
has no seaports. but receives thou
sands Of visitors every year from
the United States apd Canada. The
Swiss National Exposition at Zurich,
from May 6 until October %. will be
the Old Worlds chief attraction. In
1910 the Olympic games will give
Finland the big harvest of tourists,
but Switzerland is to have 1899
Apart from the usual musical and
sporting events, the visitor to Zurich
will enjoy q yodeling festival. Swiss
costume fetes and all manner of
quaint folkplav performances.
Early in the year Switzerland,
Norway. Sweden. Germany, France,
Poland and Italy offer the visitor
some of the most thrilling ski events
Of the world. However, Sweden's
sporting event of greatest interna-
tional interest in 1899 will be the Lin
glad, which opens at Gothenburg
on April IS. This will be a huge
gymnastic festival honoring the
founder Of Swedish gymnastics,
Peter H. Ling.
Germany Stages Events.
Germany can always be depended
on to produce full year of interest
for visitors, and 1899. like previous
years, saw the famous Leipzig Fair
OF the spring and will see another in
the fall. the usual medieval pageants
and plays at Rothenburg. and most
famous Of all, the great musical
festivals at Bayreuth and Salzburg
in July and August.
Italy has announced year full of
exhibitions and the observance of
scores Of festivals which have been
held for centuries. A great Medici
Exposition will open in Florence in
April and run till October, while
Milan holds this spring an exhibi-
ton of the works, both in art and
invention, Of Leonardo da Vinci.
Syracuse during April and May will
again give its classical Greek drama
in its ancient and majestic arena
theater, and annual events like the
Palio races of Siena and the Le-
vantine Fair at Bari will attract
thousands Of overseas travellers as
we'll as hosts from all over Italy.
Some of the most alluring events
on Hollands 1899 tourist calendar
are its spring flower shows. These
include the great flower show at
The Hague, opening March 80, and
the glorious square miles of colored
bulb fields which are in full bloom
until the middle of May.
Frances Attractions Varied.
Frances first 1899 visitors will in
clude not only the thousands who
are now staying at the Riviera, and
who at Nice, Mention, and other gay
resorts are far from winter snow and
already enjoying spring, but will
number many who will journey for
festivals seen nowhere else on earth.
Paroons and benedictions of the sea
in Brittany and Normandy, pill
grimages to Lourdes and Liseux
horse races near Paris at Auteuil
and Tremblay-all go to make a
thoroughly varied almanac of at
fractions.
Surprising many, Spain comes
back on the tourist map in 1899
Ali the great patron saints days will
be observed with pageantry and
costume, and bull fights are an
nounced at Burgos, Cadiz, Granada
Cordova and Seville, as we'll as other
famous Spanish towns.
Poland not only continues to give
the traveller some of the most
gorgeous fetes of Europe, but holds
many pilgrimages and professions
that can hardly be matched else
where in Europe for numbers. The