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Biltmore Mansion, long a tourist
attraction of the Asheville, N. c.,
section, probably will be reopened
to the public after the war. John
Frances Cecil, son-inlaw of George
Vanderbilt and now in control Of
the estate, is reported to have agreed
to resumption of tours of the place.
Meantime the magnificent 380-room
chateau is open to service men and
women at certain hours of the day.
The mansion, once center of a
100, ,000-acre forest estate, is fur
nished with many priceless treas
ures, including beautiful paintings,
tapestries and antiques. Included
are Napoleons chess table and a
bathtub reputedly used by Julius
Caesar.
All except 1900 acres of the origi-
nal estate was given to the Govern
ment as nucleus in establishing
Pisgah National Forest. Some 500
persons are employed on the estate,
mostly in connection with the dairy
herd At one time, the mansion it
self required some 40 maids and so
menservants, but now six attend
ants guard and maintain the build
ing.
With Venus Ramey, Miss Amer
ipo of 10Ad rnioniy,n Alto r,tic
City today was to witness its largest
wartime Easter parade.
Practically every hotel in the
beachfront area is filled to capacity
and thousands of servicemen from
the Army, the Air Forces, the Navy
and Coast Guard on hand to swell
the crowd, an estimated 10000, will
take part in the traditional trek
along the Boardwalk, starting short
ly after noon.
For the smartest Easter bonnets,
the city will award War Bonds and
warsages, with Lou Appleton neck
wear for the 10 best-dressed men.
The annual sunrise service in the
ocean stadium of Steel Pier at 6:45
is expected to bring out many.
Music will be by the Army Air
Forces Band. The 50-voice choir of
the Coast Guard Training Station
Glee Club also will be heard.
Easter also marks the beginning
of Atlantic City's annual Salute to
Canada" week. Mayor Joseph Alt
thn ToroIioy1
the Park Place pole Sunday after
noon to launch the weeks program.
Candy Bridge, the 6mile span
Petersburg with Tampa, is perma-
nently toll free as the result of ac-
ceptance last week by the bridge
stockholders of the Governments
purchase price.
Assurances that summer vaca-
ton facilities of Cape May, N. j., in
ample time for the 1945 season was
sounded by T. Alfred Stevens, Cape
May commissioner of public works,
in report on hurricane damage re-
construction.
Urging prospective visitors to
make reservations as quickly as pos
sible, Mayor I. Grant Scott said that
early cottage rentals and hotel book
ingS point to season of capacity
crowds for Cape May.
Four centuries of splendor in a
setting of blue sky and lofty peaks,
Spangled with the luster of colorful
tourist lure, has long been Guate-
mala's bid for tourists. The colorful
capital, in the land of the Quetzal,
is about to come into its own.
Transportation is shaping the iSo-
lated capital of but a few years ago
to be Central Americas new tourist
mecca for postwar travellers.
Six days from New Orleans by
combination rail and steamer were
the transit handicaps of what
seemed only yesterday" says the
American Express Travel Service.
Today, in giant clippers, you leave
New Orleans in the midafternoon
and that evening have dinner in
Guatemala. Your plane flies across
the Gulf of Mexico, over the Yucca
tan Peninsula, with daylight birds
eye views of the Mayan ruined
cities.
Today, beyond Oaxaca, down on
the Suchiate sector, 5000 men are
working on the new Mexico City,
Guatemala highway, which is ahead
of schedule with promise of COM
pletion in few months. This
transit by air and highway are the
twin factors which are making new