Evening star., 1944-07-23
The Travellers Notebook
New York State Offers ,cIossicor to Tourists;
Blue Ridge Country Enjoys Greotest Season;
New Railroad Headlight to Reduce Accidents

The New York State Department
of Commerce has issued series of
vacation booklets describing the
recreational possibilities and interest
in the "15 great vacation lands"
within q State famed for its old
Dutch, old English. old French and
classical name towns.
Commenting on the booklets, the
American Express Travel Service
states:
"The visitor who passes through
Central New York's rugged scenes
can in Imagination not only hear
the muffied drums of the Mohawks,
but the distant march of the Medi-
terranean armies of antiquity"
Outside the cities of Rome, Troy,
Utica, Syracuse and Ithaca are 81
villages of classical names and IS
towns with such names as Ulysses,
Brutus, Aurora, lion, Cicero, Virgil,
Cato, Attica, Ovid Pompey, Greece
and Homer.
In natures wonderland of the thou
sand Islands, where the French flag
few for the last time in Eastern
America and amid towns Of French
origin. is such antiquity-named
town as Galilee. On the shores of
the st. Lawrence are Carthage, Mas
sena and Pyrites. .
In the recreational region radi-
ating from Syracuse one may step
back to the worlds most ancient
history by such names as Hannibal,
Camillus, Marcellus, Homer, Cincin-
natus. Memphis, Virgil, Marathon,
Mycenae, Cicero and others.
In the southern tier, with coun-
trict one may vacation among such
places as Genoa, Italy Hill, Naples,
Ionia, Palmyra, Montezuma, Rom
ulus, Jordan. Macedon, Rheims and
18th century Relius.
In the Southern Tier with coun-
ties of Elmira and Canisteo, is Min
evan, namesakes of the GLORY of
the Kingdoms, and the Biblical re-
named Damascus. In the Genesee
region are the towns Of Greece,
Sparta, Medina, Batavia, Livonia
and Ossian with Athens and Corinth
amid the old Dutch-name towns
along the Hudson River.
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Virginia is reported as enjoying
its greatest vacation season, with
home folks and nearby visitors ex-
ploring its seashores. the Blue Ridge
Mountains and the camping facili-
ties Of Shenandoah. National Park,
with the States oddities of nature
becoming national landmarks.
Number l summer vacation at
traction is Natural Bridge in Rock
bridge County. Annually visited by
thousands. the bridge first was
purchased by Thomas Jefferson
from King George III OF England
for 20 shillings. The mammoth
arch is 215 feet high, 100 feet wide
and 80 feet between the spanning
walls.
Natural Tunnel in Scott County
where nature has carved a beauti-
full passageway. is spectacular
creation. In the great tunnel, 100
feet high and 100 feet wide, are
the most perfectly carved ceilings
known, many tinted in the soft
color tones of the ages.
Subterranean Halls, in the great
caves on the slopes of the Blue
Ridge. occupy an ever-increasing
tourist attendance. headed by Luray
Caverns with its Singing Tower. In
the great Virginia underground
wonder world are the diaphonous
shimmering fabrics of many
colored stones.
The Pinnacle Wonders in Lee
County offer the. Grand Vista of
Six States" Here nature has carved
out great towers in great heights
OF fantastic formations. No less
interesting are the natural CHM
neys. which rise to enormous
heights.
Some persons like to play golf
some like poker and some keep
race horses. Miles Clark, Elizabeth
City oil man. doesn't like golf
poker or horses. But he does love
a parade. and so, not as improbabl,
as it might seem, Elizabeth City
N. c., has a while of band . s
great big 85-piece band, which i
attached to the Elizabeth City High
School. but which for number o
years has been a Clark enterprise
because of his financial support
Possibly there are few more loose.
jointed musical aggregations in thi!
country. One week it played before
every tent at a carnival to whooE
up crowds for the benefit of fire.
men; the next night at Methods
Church revival. Every week the,
give concerts for servicemen ane
they head off every War Bono
drive in Pasquotank County, N. C.
as well as the city's other public