Evening star., 1942-09-20
BY JACQUES FUTRELLE. Jr.,
Travel Editor


The Nations railroads, laboring
under a heavy wartime load OF pas
senger travel. acted last week 10
tighten procedure on reservations
and prevent abuses by passengers
holding accommodations after they
have dropped plans to use them.
Effective last Tuesday, these rules
were adopted by all lines IN the
United States for sleeping car par
lor car and reserved coach space,
Reservations made Is weekdays or
less In advance tSundays and hoii-
days will not be counted will be
held until 5 pm. of the following
business day but not later than three
hours prior to departure. Both ran
tickets and reserved space must be
purchased by that time to protect
reservations. This applies to all res
ervations made in the city from
which any trip originates.
Where out-of-tow reservations
are made. the deadline for purchas-
ing rail tickets and reserved space
will be pm. of the third business
day following the making OF the
reservation but not later than three
hours prior to the time of departure
from the point which the space is
to be used.
weeks have been working toward
these regulations, but the September
Is date made the practice uniform
on all lines.
Scribblings: Palm Springs, Calf,
instead of closing down because
of the war. will begin its season
earlier. The Desert Inn, for in
stance, is scheduled to open October
/. Some uncertainty as to the
season developed when the Army
took over the luxurious Ell Mirador
Hotel for hospital. The news gave
rise to reports that all accommoda-
tions would be enlisted for Army duty,
Reporting encouraging prospects for
the tourist season, on the basis OF
early inquiries, are the Oasis, Del
Tahquitz. Lone Palm, Casitas del
Monte, Palm Springs Hotel, Deep
Well. Smoke Tree guest ranches and
the Casa Palmeras.
Malheur National Forest, of more
than a million acres in the Blue
Mountains of Southern Oregon, has
a section set aside for hunting. But
no modern weapons are permitted,
all game must be taken with bow
and arrow. The area set aside for
skilled archers to hunt is known as
the Canyon Greek Game Preserve
Answering questions OF former
winter residents as to whether rates
have been increased for the coming
season, the St. Petersburg fla
Information Bureau informs pros
pective visitors that rentals have
been frozen by the Federal Govern
ment as of last March l.
X
| Perpendicularly, Colorado has five
zones: Semi-arid, from 1885 tf
5000 feet altitude: foothill. 5000 tc
5000 feet: montane. 5000 to 10000
subalpine. 10000 to 1880, and al
pine. 1850 to 14,431 (high point al
tip of Mount ElberD.
/ The Kings Palace in Carlsbao
Caverns National Park, in New
Mexico, is 829 feet below the surface
I of the earth. =-
On October 10 Yorktown, Va will
celebrate the surrender of Lore
CORVALLIS to Washington's Army
Kate Mountain clover, appro'
priately enough, is found on Kate.
Mountain, in West Virginia. Other
rare plants growing in that area
include the box huckleberry. The
mountain was named for Kate Car
penter. Her husband, Nathan, wa:
killed by the Indians in pioneer
days.
La Tuque, in Quebec Province
got its name-like many another
French Canadian town-from q
picturesque feature of the land.
scape nearby. A great rock nearby
is shaped like an old woolen bon.
! net, or tuque.
No modern. booming chamber o.
commerce put across New Mexico!