Evening star., 1947-08-03
I raveIerfs Notebook
By Jacques FutreIIe. Jr.
The ytor's YroveJ Editor

scale, it also will save millions of
gallons Of gas without cutting
down on the amount OF car usage
The AAA statement explains:
While there is no threat of an
actual gasoline famine in any COM
munity, transportation continues to
be major problem and the situa-
tlon will continue tight throughout
the next month or two. A special
test made by the AAA's Contest
Board showed that car averaging
about 60 miles per hour burned up
So per cent more gasoline than a
car averaging 40 m.p.h. A. study
made by taxi company showed
that slow and careful driving in
cities and avoidance of rapid ac-
celeration resulted in better than
80 per cent saving in gasoline con-
sumed."
/ known as family resorts, the small
seashore cities stretching between
Atlantic City and the tip of New
Jerseys Cape May have built UP a
type of pageant known as the Baby
Parade" Outstanding are those of
Wildwood by-the-Sea and Ocean
City, N. j., and they spectators
ranging upward of 10000. Wild
wood-by-th the-Sea will hold its baby
spectacle Friday. Ocean Citys is
scheduled August IA.
| One of the more recent great
estates opened to the public in the
Hudson River estate country of New
York is Vanderbilt Mansion at
Hyde Park, now a national histori-
cal site. Built in 1898, the three
story marble former home of Fred
erick w. Vanderbilt is considered
one OF the finest examples of italian
Renaissance architecture in the
United States. The mansion Is
located on the western side of U. S.
Route No. 9 at the northern edge of
Hyde Park, about 6 miles north of
Poughkeepsie. Tours are conducted
each half hour daily except Mondays.
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Hastings Sussex, one of Eng
lands more popular holiday places,
describes itself as "the 1866 resort
with the 1866 outlook"
The luxurious cruise ship Stella
Polaris, which has in years gone by
carried Americans to the West In
dies, South America, the North Cape
and the Norwegian fjords, is to re-
turn to the West Indies cruise field,
It's operators have announced. Ports
and dates are to be announced later,
New Hampshire is complaining
again this year that rumors of being
crowded to capacity are shutting
recreational travellers out of good
times. While the better-known ho-
tells, inns, cabin colonies and resorts
are displaying mo vacancy signs,
a large number of resorts still have
fine accommodations for the August
peak season, according to the State
Development Commission.
Another cottage colony on the
beach is scheduled to open soon in
Bermuda. The Reefs, at Christian
Bay on Bermuda's South Shore, Is
nearing completion. Accommoda-
tions are scheduled to be ready for
visitors early in September, the
Bermuda News Bureau reports. The
main clubhouse is perched on a
high cliff overlooking the ocean. Be
low is white sandy cove, ideal for
swimming.
Travel to Nova Scotia is running
ahead Of 1888, the all-time record
season.
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American tourists travelling through
England will be able to use an un-
usual development in transporta-
tion-a return ticket" which will
be good by ship, rail or air. British
European Airways, four railways and
certain steamship lines have joined
in offering the interchangeable tick
cts. Sometimes q price adjustment