Evening star., 1945-07-22
The Travellers Notebook
AsheyiIIe, N. c., Prepares for Folk Festival;
Furness Line Resumes Service to Bermuda;
International House Opened in New Orleans

Resumption on limited basis
of passenger and freight service
between New York and Bermuda
has been announced by Furness,
Witty 81 Co., Ltd.
This service will commence with
the sailing of the steamship Fort
Townshend on August 10, followed
by the steamship Fort Amherst
on August 81; thereafter on three
weeks basis.
These vessels are employed in the
New York Halifax Newfoundland
service tFurness Red Cross Line)
and the itinerary is now being
extended to include Bermuda.
Some 600 performers will appear
on the 18th annual dance and folk
festival program on August 2, 8 and
in Asheville, N. c., at the tradi-
tional celebration of the mountain
people when their crops are laid by
and they take time off for a little
fun Just as in the good old days.
And from Asheville comes this
word:
You ought to be there when
the mountain people between the
Blue Ridge and the Smokes get
together to square dance. 1t starts
before sundown and runs three
nights. Eight to II couples dance
in each set. Some have been prac-
ticing together for months in their
own cove or valley, and some are
naturally SO good they just go in
and dance.
"Sprinkled among the dancing
the ballad singers and fiddlers and
banjo pickers get their turn. Some
of them are past 80 and are known
up and down the mountain country.
Some are just turning IL and al
ready are old hands with guitar.
Square dance teams are not
only from North Carolina but from
the Appalachians of Tennessee,
Georgia and South Carolina, Ken
lucky and Alabama. There will be
string bands, fiddlers, yodelers, clog
gers, -arounders, ballit- singers,
squar-dancers and other manifes-
tators of mountain folklore"
City officials of Wildwood blythe
Sea, N. j., predicted the largest turn
out of babies in history for the 35th
annual parade on August 3 with the
record number of entries already
received.
The parade will consist of six
divisions, as follows: tA) Children
in fancy decorated go-carts, stroll
lers, coaches, kiddie cars, express
wagons, etc. (B) Children in comic
decorated go-carts, etc. Co Chill
dren walking in fancy dress. Cd
Children in comic dress. tE) All i'm
presentations. Cd Floats.
Prizes of S400 in War Bonds and
Stamps will be awarded.
The International House of New
orleans. Americas only open
house" for foreign visitors has for
IlldAN lgo dOOl A1C "OA AA
opening will be held in october and
will be attended by dignitaries from
all parts of the globe, reports the
American Express Travel Service.
In a modern building with the
decorations in the Latin American
motif. the house designed as a CEN
tral meeting place for visitors from
all parts of the world The project
is to be nonprofit and nontrading.
On entering is seen anAengraved
panel which SymbolizeS the tenets
and which reads. Dedicated to the
World Peace. Trade and Under
standing" On the ground floor
surrounded in a dignified club at
mosphere, is the Once of Interna-
tional Affairs of the State Depart
ment. Also, are the departments OF
education, transit information,
customs, and general information.
/ Linguists are among the features,
I together with experts on interna-
tional affairs, with chart and de-
/ tailed information.
| The liberal spirit of the enterprise
is glimpsed by its organization
policy, where nearly 100 men. in
cluding business. civic and educa-
tional leaders from all over the
Mississippi Valley, have by cor
porative system financed the project
from its membership.
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An indication of the trend of post
war travel is the announcement of
the issuing of a new automobile road
map of Canada by the Canadian
Government Travel Bureau, Ottawa.
The map, 20 by So inches in size, is
two-sided. One side shows Eastern
Canada from the Atlantic to Winni-
peg, and the other Western Canada
from Lake Superior to the Pacific
Coast.
The map will be useful for United
States tourists as it shows the entry
points to the Dominion and con-
Meeting highways in those States
that lie within several hundred miles
of the Canadian border.
For the convenience of travellers
the map has been folded so that
motorists may obtain a copy with
that half of the Dominion in which
they are most interested folded out
ward
The location of Canada's famous
National and Provincial parks Is
shown, and by using this map the
vacationist may plan short runs to
close-to- the border sport and rec
eotinnaI areas or trans-Canada