Evening star., 1941-03-02
The Travellers Notebook
New Orleans Chooses Peak of Floral Trail
Blooming to Introduce New Queen; New Rail
And Water Poekoged Tour to Nassau Available

lines are parties in the arrange
ments
From Washington, the traveller
may head either North or South by
rail, to New York or to Miami. If
he goes first to New York, the pas
senger boards the Eastern Steam
ship Lines Evangeline, with first
class accommodations for 600 pas
sengers, for Nassau. The Evangeline
sails every Saturday at pm, arriv-
ing at Nassau at s am. Tuesday. AS
the rail tickets are good for 60 days,
several weeks may be spent on the
nearby British isles. The next leg of
the trip is to Miami on the American
flag liner Berkshire of the Merch-
ants g. Miners Line. The Berkshire
leaves Nassau every Sunday, Tues
day and Thursday. The return trip
to washington from Miami is made
by rail
In reversing the trip-going to Mi
ami first-the traveller sails from
the Florida port to Nassau on Mon
day, Wednesday or Friday evening,
returning to New York on the
Evaneeline. which leaves every
Wednesday at am, reaching Man.
haitian Friday.
Railroads participating in the
plan are the Pennsylvania and Bal
timore & Ohio for the Washington
New York leg of the trip, and, SOUTH
ward to Miami, the Seaboard, the
Atlantic Coast Line, the Southern
and the Florida East Coast Railway.
Meals are included in the new rate
while aboard ship, but not on trains.
Planning a circuit trip to Nassau
for Easter involves a slight change
in arrangements if the traveller de-
cides to start by way of New York.
The Evsngeline, instead of sailing to
the isles on Saturday, will depart
Friday, April II, at pm, accord
ing to recent advices from the
steamship line. This arrangement
will permit an 8-day cruise, with
passengers-other than those partic-
ipating in the rail combination
using the ship as their hotel during
the three-day stay at Nassau.
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Some indication as to Nassau's
appeal to the late winter tourist is
furnished by figures on the number
of visitors. During the week of Feb
ruary 9, 1910, Nassau played host
to GOT tourists: the same week this
year, 1853 visitors were counted.
Nassau, incidentally, is looking
forward to a continued free flow of
tourist traffic, without the passport
requirements for British possess
sions on which American bases are
to oe established. 1t is recalled that
recently the United States State De-
partment listed islands for which
passports would be needed Nassau
escaped the stipulation, Bahamas
officials explain, because site for the
base has not yet been selected. Fur
ther. they feel that the base is to be
built fal south Of Nassau's island of
New Providence and that passport
red tape, involving the recently an
nounced views that it would take
10 days for the applications to clear,
will not be needed even later.
Passports are required not only
for tourists stopping over on Trini-
dad, but also for those who fly over
on american clippers. They
are necessary in Bermuda only if
the tourist leaves his ship for a
stay on the islands. If he is 'in
transit continues on the same ves-
sel-a tourist card sufices. The
same is true of Jamaica.
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March will end Southern Califor-
MAS five-month sun festival in a
blaze of floral glory. While some
of the expanses of blooms are dated
tentatively, because Of Mother Ma
lures whirns, events to anticipate
include:
Pasadena garden tours, March /,
7. 8-Visits to private gardens
usually arranged for special days
during March.
Sierra Madre Wistaria fete, March
1 to April Is (tentative)-Largest
wisteria vine. at foot Of Mount VIII
son, blossoms.
CALIFORNIA; "200,0O0-acre citrus
empire" all March-Orange bios
som time, with air fragrant with
perfume of orange and grapefruit
blooms.
Bernheimer Oriental Gardens, Pa
ciflc Palisades, all March-Prim-