Evening star., 1940-06-02
BY JACQUES FUTRELLE, JR.,
Travel Editor.

Travel Editor
Scribblings: Lonely visitors to New
York's World Fair last year Gre
ated parking problem by Turing
chair guides away from their We
hicles to sit at refreshment coun-
ters and talk, to stroll or even
dance A solution comes this year
with the announcement that guides
husky and handsome college boys
may be assigned visitors for 81
an hour, without chairs. They will
talk with you, walk with you, dine
or dance, but they are under orders
to turn down drinks.
The annual Pocono Mountains
Horse Show will be held in the
Arena of the Clouds" August %,
% and "a.
Breaking into public print so often
has made Pixies Peak appear larger
than 1t is. It is not the tallest
mount in the Colorado Rockies, and
neither is Longs Peak. Mount FL
bert, towering l4,431 feet, is tallest,
only 64 feet lower than California s
Mount Whitney and 32l feet higher
| than Pixies Peak.
Maine has 100000 acres of water
surface-and much Of it is suitable
for fishing.
Settled by colonists from the bor-
der country of the British Isles,
Western Canada's town. of Lloyd
| minister looks much like an Eng
lish village Its visitors find the
town was laid out on the boundary
line OF Alberta and Saskatchewan
Provinces. Running North and
South is street that lies within
Saskatchewan, but the buildings and
their shops on the west side of
the street are in Alberta.
Ice sports will make their bow
in sunny New Orleans this month
with Ice Capades" scheduled for
the Municipal Auditorium from June
l6 to June 90 Stellar skaters will
appear in the show, which will
be a prelude to ice hockey games
In the fall.
Jack London's Valley of the Moon
is in CALIFORNIA; Sonoma County.
One visitor in 5000 sets a forest
fire-the other 1899 are welcome to
the national forests. states the
United States Forest Service. With
the summer season promising to
take thousands of Americans into
these wooded areas, the service
calls on vacationists to remember
the match, the cigarette. cigar butt,
pipe hell, the campfire and any
small ember left unattended and
alone.
In May, 1899. Mr.. and Mrs. David
Curry established the popular resort,
Camp Curry, in the Yosemite VAL
ley. 1t had friends from the start
With seven tents and one paid cook,
the camp accommodated 300 persons
that first season. The camp has
grown, the seven tents becoming
more than 500-and with the tents,
cabins and bungalows, 1900 persons
now find accommodations at one
time.
What has been described as the
worlds most gorgeous display of
purple rhododendron is promised
again on Roam Mountain, in the
Cherokee National Forest of North
east Tennessee from late June to
the middle of July. Purple rhodo-
drendon is rare in nature, yet on
Roam Mountain are solid banks and
beds of 600 acres. The Tennessee
Department of Conservation reports
that buds indicate profuse Towering
Niinaki, in the Lake of the Woods
region of Northwestern Ontario. was
the fishing ground of the Indians,
who guided their birch bark canoes
over the sparkling waters. Today's
tourists find the Red man named
the region well-Minaki means
beautiful country"
Bermuda jottings: First time Wis
itors to Bermuda are easy to spot,
especially if they are on a bicycle