Evening star., 1945-09-02
The Travellers Notebook
New Orleans Seeks Spotlight as Winter Capitol;
Pennsylvania Developing New Reereotionol Areas
Ormond Beach Hotels Announce Dates for Season

ton Of its colonial and ante-bellum
life.
Chambers of Commerce in the
Pymatuning Lake area in North
western Pennsylvania are working
on plans for the recreational devel-
opment Of the entire region. Pyma-
tuning Lake is Pennsylvania's
largest inland body of water with a
shore line Of 70 miles.
The first step in the development
OF Pymatuning as a recreational
area was taken by the last session
OF the State Legislature when a law
was passed permitting the use of
motor boats on the lake. This pre-
viously had been prohibited because
the lake was used primarily as
wild waterfowl and fish sanctuary
Now a portion of the lake has been
set aside for the wildlife sanctuary.
|Sailboating always had been per-
mitted.
Warren, on the edge of the Alle-
gheny National Forest, also in North
western Pennsylvania, is consider
ing plans for increasing the facili-
ties and accommodations for vaca-
tionists and tourists. So is Port Al
legany, Somerset, Hawley and a
number Of others. Wellsboro, near
Pine Creek Gorge-known as the
Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania
is making an effort to have the
State take over large acreages of the
gorge lands and plans are being dis
cussed for more and better accom-
modations for visitors.
Two hundred acres of verdant
woodland high upon the slope of
Negro Mountain, Somerset County,
nave been leased from the State
by New Kensington organization.
Mount Davis. Pennsylvania high
est point of 3,213 feet elevation, is
nearby. The site was formerly oc-
cupied by CCC camp. A summer
and winter playground, a hunting
and fishing lodge, a camp for under
privileged children, Boy Scouts and
Girl Scouts and other groups will
be provided for.
Dates for the formal opening and
closing for the 1856 season of
the Breakers at Palm Beach and
the Hotel Ormond at Ormond
Beach have been announced by Of
ficials of the Florida East Coast
Hotel Co. Both properties are oper-
ated by the Flagler System, pioneers
in the building and maintaining of
resort hotels in Florida.
The Breakers, regarded as one
of the finest resort hostelries in
the world, will open for the COM
ing season on December "a, 1945,
and will close on April Is, 1916. 1t
will again be under the manage
ment Of John w. Greene.
The Ormond will open its por-
tsls January next, and will re-
main open until about April Is,
1916. The manager again will be
Peter p. Schutt, who at present is at
the Bethel Inn, Bethel, Me.
Stripers (rockf1sh) now are being
caught in Croatan Sound, Roanoke
Island, N. c., and the season" for
good fishing is expected to last well
into November.
The guide and boat situation has
been tough, but the following guides
are available now: At Kitty Hawk,
Milton Perry and Charley Perry; at
Manteo, Horace Dough, and at
Mann's Harbor, Stan White.
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Every State has it's curiosities OF
nature and nearly every State has
its oddity dwellings and places of
the unusual. points out the Trav-
eler's Cheque survey Bureau of the
American Express.
Four States claim the worlds
smallest churches. At Plaquemine,
La, is the Modonna Chapel. 1t is
just large enough to accommodate