Evening star., 1948-09-26
By Jacques FutreIIe. Jr.
The Ssos's Trovsi Editor


The S,or's Travsi Editor
hotels in the Chilean lake region
It is situated on Lake Pirehueice
cPeer-way-co"), near the Argentine
border, "A hours from Santiago BY
overnight train, motor coach ano
lake steamer.
Washington, D. c., placed eighth
among visitors signing the guest
book in the Governors Palace al
Colonial Williamsburg in August
Eight Eastern States and Texas
accounted for 80 per cent of the
visitors during the month.
Curacao, 80 miles of the coast OF
Venezuela and largest of the six
islands in the Netherlands West
Indies, has an average temperature
of Just below 30 degrees from De-
cember through March. Tempera-
ture variations between night and
day are greater than the annual
variations.
The Wilbur Wright Hotel at Nags
Head, N. c., plans to stay open
until late october this year.
Pan American Airways sacrificed
the galley on its DC-4 Clippers to
provide extra seats for its new
tourist rate flights between New
York and Puerto Rico, but that
doesn't mean passengers will 60
hungry. On the nine-hour south
bound fight a midnight snack OF
consomme and sandwiches will be
available, and a breakfast of fruit
juice, pastry and coffee will be
served before arrival in San Juan.
A box luncheon of sandwiches, cake
and fruit will be served northbound,
with consomme available later in
the afternoon. The tourist rate
schedules started last week.
The s4,000,0O0 Sherry -Frontenac
Hotel, now being built at 6565 Col
Inns avenue, will be Miami Beach's
largest when it opens December /.
It will have 300 rooms, Turkish
baths, a night club. three restau-
rants and private 150-foot bathing
beach and cabana club. Designed
in the functional modern archi-
tectural STYLE" the hotel will have
13-story towers rising on each side
of a central three-story lobby.
Among complaints voiced by the
American Automobile Association
on behalf of motor tourists is the
practice of changing the route num-
bers of important United States and
State highways during the heavy
travel months. It suggested that
highway officials should announce
route changes in December, effective
the following April /.
The annual Welsh song festival,
"Gymanfa-Ganu will be held at
Endicott, N. Y, October 10.
The Chicago Railroad Fair will
close its gates next Sunday night.
The Cunard White Star liner
Caronia, designed for cruising as
we'll as transatlantic service, will
sail from Southampton for New
York January 4 on its maiden voy-
age. 1t is one of the lines ships to
pegin series of cruises from New
York to the West Indies and South
America on January 20.
That debatable tourist attraction,
the Loeb Ness monster, recently
made its appearance. At least
George Dimes, an official of the
British Travel Association, says 1t
has. And until lately, Mr.. Dimes
was a skeptic. The monster became
a newsWorthy note some 20 years
ago, and about 1000 persons since
have given graphic and detailed
descriptions of the elusive creature
as it disported itself in the Scottish
loch.
Two new developments will be
added to the many ski facilities Of
New Hampshire the coming winter.
A 3,200-foot chair lift on the North
Peak of Mount Sunapee, which will
be capable of taking 400 skiers an
hour to the starting point of three
ski trails, is nearly finished and will
begin operation as soon as ski SHOWS
arrive. 1t is State project. A new
Constam Alpine ski lift on Black
Mountain Knoll, in the popular ski
town of jackson, will carry 600
skiers an hour to an elevation of
2.O1O feet. -Four trails will be avail
able from the top of the lift.
With the changeover to standard
time, BOAC flights to Bermuda will
depart at 4:30 pm. (EST) instead
of $50. Flights from New York will
leave Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday
and Friday. Flights from Baltimore
are on Monday, Wednesday ana
Friday.