Evening star., 1944-10-01
The Travellers Notebook
Keep Away From New York, Vocotionists Warned;
October Is High Season at Vrginio Hot Springs;
B.. O. President Foresees Biggest Travel Urge

Reports reaching the Traveller on
hotel space in New York City are
so bad that he warns any potential
New York City-goer to postpone his
or her trip.
A reservation in any hotel in the
city famed for the number of hos
telries is impossible to get in the
first two weeks Of October, this
writer found after an attempt by
telephone and telegraph to obtain
such space.
The shortage may be attributed to
any number OF causes-and no one
of them seems the right answer-the
number Of servicemen In town, a
convention Of the Tanners Of Amer
lea, Dewey's back in New York, more
people than ever want to see the
shows. You can take your choice.
Thus trip to New York City
at the moment leaves any potential
tripper facing the threat Of sleeping
under the Stars-and the parks in
Gotham are cold on an october
evening.
Something new in brevity of an
nouncement has reached the Trav-
eler from Augusta, Ga. Here 1t is:
After three years the Army has
left Augusta, Ga. Augusta is very
quiet, is not crowded and will remain
so for the. duration. (Signe6 :,
Augusta Hotel Association"
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October Is traditionally the high"
season at Virginia Hot Springs, and
the Homestead will play host to a
capacity house. Social activities will
not be stressed, however, as most
wartime vacationers are more con-
cerned with rest before delvine in
once more for the winter. Hence
the cure takes on added significance.
The first two weeks of October
have been fall tennis week and fall
golf week, respectively, for so many
years now-over quarter of a CEN
tury-that it is hard to contemplate
break with tradition, and so there
will be fall tennis week for the
players of the colony with War
Bonds as prizes. No effort has been
made to bring in outstanding players
to compete, and the same Is true of
the fall golf week next week.
At this time OF year there is al
ways increased activity among
horseback riders and carriage driv-
ers, for the first signs OF autumn
are appearing in the foliage. The
two golf courses are thronged, and
| althouh the dearth of male tennis
plays is noticeable, there are enough
OF the fair sex to occupy the seven
new courts. A new court for all
winter use has just been completed.
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Predicting "the greatest travel
urge in American history after the
war r. B. White, president of the
Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad. declared
last week in Cleveland, Ohio. that
American railroads las a whole are
better prepared to face the future
than they have been for many
years"
The travel urge" a result of the
100000 men and women in the
armed forces and the travelling of
their relatives and friends, promised.
the railroad president said, a VOL
ume OF traffic that the railroads
would be in particularly favorable
position to handle.
Possible keen competition" with
the development of the airplane in
dustry, merchant marine and the
construction of new and better
highways and miles of pipelines
may be blessing in disguise" Mr..
White asserted.
1T has had an important part in
putting the railroads on the alert
and this alertness to postwar trends
and prospects will doubtless prove a
most valuable asset"
EH
Floyd E. Rush, formerly general
manager of the Hotel Washington
here. has purchased Sedgefield Inn
OF Greensboro. one OF the largest
resort hotels in North Carolina. Mr..
Rush will personally direct the man
agement OF Sedgefield Inn and is
planning full program of social
and sports events during the fall
and winter seasons.
Guests of Sedgefield Inn will have
the privilege of participating in all
the live fox and drag hunts con-
Quoted by the Sedgefield Hunt Club.
The club will officially open the
hunting season at this Midsouth re-
sort on October IA when it will hold
live fox hunt to be followed with
a barbecue.
A glance at the map Of the world s
highways before the war, and a
glance today. will graphically show
how Mars is debating the motor
roads Of tomorrow. In defiance of
climate and landscape. power shov-
els and bulldozers are pushing
to completion and extending dream
routes to total over 10000 miles on
six continents, according to the
American Express.
by 1945, military construction
will have nearly doubled the worlds
motor mileage" states the travel
service. China's Burma road" is
typical of the tough terrain and is
a 700-mile ledge chiseled out of
rocky topography. In Russia, China,
India and the Near East. nearly 26,-
900 miles of highways are under
construction.
RESORTS.