Evening star., 1940-04-28
The Travellers Notebook
seribbIings About 20o-Miie-Long
Dinners, Fishing in Minnesota and
The Drop in Air Travel Costs
BY JACQUES FUTRELLE, Jr.,
Travel Editor.

BY JACQUES FUTRELLE, Jr.,
Travel Editor.
Scribblings: Dinners served on
american clippers between the
United States and South America
are 200 miles long from "soup to
nuts" Served on tables with china,
silver and hotel swank, the typical
meal is: Shrimp cocktail, celery,
olives, vegetable soup, lamb chops
with mint jelly, parsley -buttered
potatoes, garden peas, pineapple
sherbets, iced tea, mints, demi-
tasse.
Admission to the Golden Gate Ex-
position remains so cents for adults
this year, but the price for children
has been cut. Youngsters 13 to 18
will pay Is cents; from 6 to IL,
10 cents.
Minnesota boasts two national and
81 State forests and 81 State parks.
The State Department of Conserva-
ton also has counted 1000 lakes
and thousands of miles of streams,
in which fishing will open next
month. The trout season begins
May l and continues until Septem-
ber /. On May Is the fishermen
legally may take wall-eyed pike,
saugers or sand pike, great northern
pike or pickerel and muckellunge.
This season closes February Is.
Crappie fishing opens in Mime
sofas southern zone on May % and
in the northern on June IL. These
zones and dates also apply to large
mouth, small-mouth and yellow
bass; sunfish, rock bass and perch
Daily takes of wall-eyed and great
northern pike, saugers and muskel-
lunge are limited to 8, with 10
allowed in possession. Other daily
limits are: Crappies. Is take and Is
in possession; bass (all three kinds)
6 and IL; sunfish and rock bass, IS
and 30; trout, Is and 25, or not more
than 20 pounds.
When Bermudians boast about
their weather, they are apt to para
phrase Izaak Waltons comment
about the strawberry and say,
Doubtless God might have made
a better climate, but doubtless God
never did" Another phrase one
hears from the natives, anent exer-
else: Pull some sagebush each day
and keep the doctor away"
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Domestic airlines' fares averaged
- cents in 1926, the year before
Llndbergr flew the Atlantic. In
1882 the average was almost half or
6.l cents. In 1888 they dropped to
ST cents, and the estimate for 1899
is ST.. Revenue passenger miles on
domestic lines have more than
doubled since 1886 In that year
the mileage was nearly 27O,O00, 900.
In 1889 it reached more than 677,-
1926 900. The average trip per pas
senger on domestic lines went up
steadily from 224 miles in 1880 to
1887, when it was 432 miles. The
distance was trimmed to Ais in 1898
and the estimate for 1899 is 1876.
Campeche, Mexico, whose harbor
bristled with rakish pirate craft in
the 18th and 18th centuries, is to
celebrate its 400th birthday ami
versary this summer.
Passengers sailing on the May II
trip of the liner President Roosevelt
will see the New York Fairs re-
opening ceremonies in the first tele-
cast to a ship at sea, under arrange
ments now being worked out. aft
ernoon and evening televising of
colorful events at Flushing Meadows
will span the miles over the At
lantic to the southbound liner and
the Roosevelt itself, with sending
equipment aboard, will televise ex-
perimental scenes to Bermuda.
Passengers will be introduced to the
mysteries of mans latest feat in
conquering the air and will even
participate in demonstration pro-
grams, performing in one of the
public rooms of the ship, while a
receiving set will pick up their act
ing in another. The technique of
appearing before the telecasting set
and the art of television makeup
will be taught the amateurs before
they 60 on.
Travellers with liking for cock
tail parties have reason to pause
before 437 Rue Royal, in the Vieux
Care section of New Orleans. The
store is an antique shop now, but
it was there that the drink was
invented and the cocktail got it's
name. The story goes. like this:
Antoine Amedee Peychaud went to
Louisiana from San Domingo after
the native uprising in 1795 and
opened an apothecary shop in the
then new building. The Pharmacie
Peychaud became a rendezvous of
Sociable fellow Masons of the pro-
prietor and it was his custom to
serve drinks in his individualistic
style. To a toddy of sugar, water
and cognac, Peychaud added bit
ters he made under a secret formula
and instead of serving it in brandy
tumblers he used a double-ended
egg. cup, the French coquetier
tko-kay-tay. Guests who spoke no
French began to call the concoc-
ton "cocktay," now known as cock
tail.
May is lei day in Hawaii.
Don't be so wary of the sunny
sands of the beaches at Nassau and
other spots in the Bahamas. You
can scorch your feet at beaches un-
der the blazing sun along the CONT
mental shores of the Atlantic, but
sands in the Bahamas are coral and
cooler.
Anticipating a heavier demand
for ship service to Bermuda, already
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