Evening star., 1941-03-30
The Travellers Notebook
Seribbings About the Longest Railroad Bridge,
The Worlds Highest Falls and the Threat
Of the Gypsum Sands to AIomogordo, N. Mex

name because they at the time
could not speak Spanish.
More than centuries old is the
most ancient house in Quebec
Province. 1t stands in Sillery,
pretty village just outside the city
of Quebec. The dwelling is we'll
preserved and is visited by hun
dreds of summer tourists.
Longest railroad bridge in the
United States is the Lucin Cutoff.
The pile trestle structure is 19 miles
long, and carries the tracks of the
Southern Pacific across Utah's
Great Salt Lake.
Unknown to the world until dis
covered three years ago by an
aviator, Angel Falls are reputed to
be the worlds highest. Scientists
estimate they drop from $500 to
5000 feet. Yet to be approached
on foot they waste their beauty in
the remote highlands of Guiana.
They take their name not from the
invisible. celestial flyers but from a
practical pilot of man-made ma
chines-Jimmy Angel.
Anticipating growing interest
this year in Alaska as a vacation
ground for summer-a least an
objective during the warm months
to come-the Alaska Steamship Co.
has scheduled 43 Prince William
Sound cruises from May through
September. Steamers are to leave
Seattle Tuesdays, Thursday and
Saturdays, the round-trip, inside
passage route of $500 to $500 miles
touching such ports as Ketchikan,
Wrangeu, Juneau, Skagway and
Seward, as we'll as others. The
Columbia Glacier, towering 300 feet
above the ford waters, is one of the
scenic phenomena on the voyage.
Also offered will be 81 westward
cruises which travel as far as
Kodiak, and visiting Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau and
Seward. Water and rail tours widen
the variety. Yukon River circle
tours start aboard the Prince Will
liam Sound cruises, and at Seward
transfer to the Alaska Railroad for
Mount Mckinley National Park,
Fairbanks and Nenana. At DaW-
son river steamer takes up the
party, forging up the famed Yukon
River. White Pass is reached. The
Yukon Route railway carries the
travellers down to historic Trail of
98" to SkagWay, where the Seattle
bound ship is boarded. Golden
Belt line tours, 19 days round trip
from Seattle, touch Seward or
Valdez, then go by rail or highway
to the Keystone CANYON, the
Richardson Gold Field Trail,
Mckinley Park and Fairbanks.
Sailings to Nome and other ports
in the Bering Sea area are sched-
uled from June through October.
Each Bermuda paper carries daily
a notice, "Light-up time" that has
nothing to do with smoking. Heed
it, bicycle riders, unless inviting a
court fine. At that minute. all BIZ
cycles and horSe-drawn carriages
must have lighted lamps.
The fact that the famed British
owned playland is composed of 360-
odd islands might cause tourists to
be unsure in mentioning Bermuda.
1t is collective word, applying to
the entire group. Time was when
the isles were known as The Ber-
mudas." And originally, they were
named "Somer's Islands" in honor
OF Sir George Somers, who founded a
colony there.
First concrete building IN St.
Augustine, Fla, was erected about
1885. Most Of the old structures are
built of coquina rock, a sea-shell
formation.
Hardly will the winter crowd have
moved out before Miami begins work
on a new playground. The entire
development, including an approach
highway, will cost about S60OO,OOO
The projected Crandon Park and
bathing beach, to be located on
Biscayne Key, will provide recrea-
ton facilities for several thousand
persons. There will be 2 miles of
sandy beach front, reached from the
mainland by 4-mile causeway. The
beach may be ready for next win
ter's tourists, but the entire project
is expected to take two years.
The old-timey Mississippi River
steamer, the Gordon C. Greene, with
its gold regilded and its ginger