Evening star., 1954-09-19
Traveller S Notebook
Jottings About Vacation Places and Events,
Including Easy Chair Buying ofRoil Tickets
By Jacques FutreIle, ]
The Stars Travel Editor

purchasers will be permitted to
park free in the building court
yard.
Louisiana,s calendar for Sep
temher and October is crowded
with so or more festivals. Some
of them have achieved fame be-
yond the States borders: the
Shrimp Festival, for instance.
The 1854 version OF glorifying
the shrimp Is all over now, but
a couple of other celebrations are
coming up. They include the
Sugar Cane Festival. September
"a and Is. New Iberia; the YAM
bilee at Opelousas on October
ST. honoring the States sweet
potato industry and with the
theme this year centered on the
migration Of the Acadians from
Nova Scotia, and the Interna-
tional Rice Festival at Crowley.
October 27 and %.
Trodins PostShoppine
Every summer the Canadian
National Railways conducts an
excursion by luxury train into a
hardy and primarily wild region
Of Northern Manitoba. The trip
starts at Winnipeg and reaches
the Port of Churchill on that
out-of-way geographical feature
known as Hudson Bay. The train
passes through prairies. wheat
lands, green and rolling hills, a
beautiful lake country. mining
areas and, finally, nearly barren
tundra. More than 200 adven-
turous travellers. mostly Ameri-
cans, made the recent 2.300-mile
trip. They fished, saw white
whales taken, went sightseeing,
visited trading posts and, even
there. went shopping. One New
Yorker, for instance, brought
back a wolfskin parka for his
Massachusetts, hunting trips. He
paid $25 for it. A Monrovia
(Calif.) woman also shopped for
furs. She returned with two
stunning white fox skins draped
over her shoulders. The price
was $25 per fox.
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The $2.5 million Bahia-Mar at
Florida's Fort Lauderdale is get
ting things shipshape to berth
the winter seasons 1000 or more
yachts. The operators expect the
all-time single-day record Of 274
boats to be topped, party because
OF the recent rate reductions.
Yachts, power cruisers and sail
boats dock at Bahia-Mar for 81
to 81 q day. depending on loca-
tion and the utilities required.
Part Of getting ready for the
winter fleets invasion includes
installing air-conditioning in the
dining room and cocktail lounge
A large fresh-water pool is
being added.
Ouotdoor Art Show
The Greenwich village out
door art show Is open in New
York's Washington Square
Strung along the walls of build
ings, srailings and iron fences
are some 10s000 objects Of art
oil paintings, water colors
pastels. pen-and-ink sketches
sculpture and metal work. The
exhibit this year Is Greenwich
Villages largest in its 20-yeal
history. Prices generally range
under $50, with some interesting
works as low as SIS and $40
Artists On hand readily will ex.
ecute a pencil. charcoal or paste
portrait, If you have 20 minute.
or so to pose. Rarely do these
run above IS, and a 81 version i.
not hard to negotiate. The show
continues to October 8.
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Girls are practicing up on tn,
hulas, Chinese dragon dancerl
are breaking out their lion ans
unicorn masks and flower ex'
perts are designing gorgeous
floats for Hawaii's Aloha Week
This years event opens Octobe,
Is and stretches across the foul
main islands to, November il
When the Honolulu week-lon,
event ends, the theme and fun
and display will be taken ovel