Evening star., 1939-09-10
BY JACQUES FUTRELLE, Jr.,
Travel Editor.

Travel Editor.
All countries in Europe, even those
of neutrals. have been blacked out
as far as the traveller is concerned,
but Americans will continue to
travel wherever it is safe to travel.
They always have travelled in great
numbers and they will continue to
do So"
The statement, coming from Doug
las Malcolm of the American EX-
press Travel Service when the war
was less than week old, probably
confirms what the vast majority of
American tourists have been think
ing since the venerable but gay Old
World was removed as the brightest
scene in the travel picture.
Mr.. Malcolm's views sum up not
only those apparently held by the
travellers themselves but by the ex-
perts who serve as the link between
the American and his charming
memories of foreign lands-the
/ travel agent. For the travel Offices
in Washington as we'll as other parts
of the country have been busy not
only with cancellations but with
selling tickets to what the traveller
believes is the most satisfactory SUBJ
stitute. And the touring eclipse OF
Europe is destined to spread the
realization that travel glamour lies
in other directions as we'll
"At present" continued Mr.. NAL
colin, they can go anywhere in
the United States. to Mexico, Cen
trail America. South America, Ber-
muda, Hawaii and Alaska Through
the falD. We do not know yet
whether cruises will be offered this
winter on neutral ships, but if such
voyages can be made safely they will
be popular"
Juggling of ships to handle car
goes along routes where the war
boom draws them with attractive
rates is the shadow that hangs over
the prospective cruise passenger.
There is also ghost more grim
that the sea war will get out of
bounds, leaving ocean trips only to
the less cautious traveller.
The cruise business is opera ting
now somewhat on day to day basis,
with special sailings and ports of
call still being adjusted to the
shock Within the past two days
cruise sailings of the Mauritania
and the Lancashire, English liners,
have been Cancelled. Germany's
recall of all its ships has taken the
st. Louis and the Columbus from
the Caribbean, knocking out three
cruises scheduled for the last half
of September The Roma was due
to sail September is and 80 for
Havana and other ports, but the
italian lines luxurious passenger
vessel'has gone back to trans Allan
tic service to return Americans Only
the popular Rotterdam remains in
the special cruise field. A neutral
ship of the Holland-American line
the Rotterdam is scheduled to sail
from New York September "a and
October and 81 with an itinerary
changed to avoid ports of belliger-
ents in the Caribbean. st. Thomas
Porto Rico. LaGuira and Curacao
are now listed. The Kungsholm of
the neutral SWedish-American line
now engaged in evacuating Ameri-
cans from Europe, is to leave New
York on cruise October 10. Mas
sau and Havana are the two ports
originally scheduled.
Sailings of all British-owneds ships
even those plying to nearby Bermu-
da, cannot be guaranteed The
Queen of Bermuda was called across
to England as the war broke out
At this writing, the Monarch of Ber-
muda still was making trips to the
sunny isles Pan-American planes
will continue their flights to Ber-
muda, offering three round trips a
week.
/ Unless the war scare is brought
close to American shores, coastal
cruises in American ships, such as
those of the Merchants & Miners,
sailing from Baltimore, and the
Clyde Mallory Line, will continue
popular. While the cruise schedule
of the latter line has been garbled
by diversion of the Shawnee and
the Iroquois into Atlantic
service to help evacuate Americans
from Europe, sailings to Charleston,
Jacksonville, Miami and Galveston,
Tex, are expected to be maintained.
The Merchants & Miners Line has
announced no change in its sched-
ule of all-year service once week
to Boston and frequent cruises to
Miami and Havana, other Florida
points, and Savannah, Ga.
But neutral ships, practically all
American owned, abound now in the
Caribbean trade and unless some
untoward events take them off their
runs, a steady ferry service" will
be maintained between New York
and Jamaica, Haiti, Havana, Mex
leo, Colombian ports, the Dutch
West Indies, Venezuela, Puerto Rico,
Kingston. Panama and Nassau
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