Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-08-11 | Page 13 | Tourist Horde Swoops down on Capital for Vacation Visit

T Tourist uri t Horde Sw Swoops ops Down I on Capital for Vacation Visit By Uy MARGUERITE YOUNG Press Prest Staff Writer I Aug to 10 AP- AP c ry 00 per persons on in recent re months month have av ascended to the top tol of or the lie w a monument monument and and e c l that number surpassing all nU of or record I i ha hns ms been rl rh b by troops tourists o nl at th the capitol other wellsprings wellsprings' n of ot S r 83 historic und and ni mental governmental govern govern- Interest the the- For Por r the tho capital despite ln al al periodS period'S or f excessive c hen heat t t i hat has toro more tourists Vi this fi summer than has season on drawn draw 11 here In many year While hUe scores trudged trudge hot but eager toward the entrance of or the monument today a an nn official gazed past them and up along the silver shaft Exactly have hn been up UI Ji t to time the top tOil during this thil year 31 ha h said laid and that is 6 68 more than w we had during durIn the same name months lust best year And lAnd 1259 of oC them walked up UI the stairs lr this year r ca 1 Officials Js Q at t government buildings said th that t ever since Easter FAster Monday Mon Mon- do day when man many r records cords began to crumble before the U tide fl of ot visitors records have e continued to tumble ono one by on one The public tourist camp on the speedway ay by the Potomac river hn has be been n a mushroom tOWI town of tents tent and cabins abins filled to capacity Here temporary tem tern shelters 2 disappear Into halo packs 1 and are told folded d away only to be r re replaced replaced re- re placed by Last night nearly l 1600 OO were In camp and Inco January Janu Janu- nr any ary a n. total of of- have been harbored bar har bored there for tor periods varying from a a. day to a a. week City streets arc full of ot automobiles automo automo- hues biles other licenses than that of or the District oC of Columbia arid the h souvenir shops along long Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania avenue al' al are thriving on the sale salo of ot m mementoes among amonS' the most popular of at are small glided gilded buts busts of or national figures from H r- r bert Hoover to lo Charles A A. A Lind Lind- bergh The rho chamber of PC commerce esti estimates estimates mates that hotels have had an Increase in increase in In- crease In business of ot between 20 and 50 60 per pcr cent over o laet last summers summer's to totals to tale and bus excursions and nd tours seem stem to Increase dally daily In number the great gre-at vans traversing tra tho the street almost t continuously To accommodate tt the time tourists of- of have IU open opened d' d the Lincoln memorial me rue- morial to tu visitors during the tIme eve- eve ning a arid and d In Jui July 1761 individuals took advantage of the oPI opportunity between und and I p. p in tn At the east cast entrance of ot tl the Whitt House u Ie hers is-hers sightseers start on Inspection tours of ot tt the lower floor flooK a u. member of ot the thc guard observed cd Hoover ad administration nd- nd that for tor visitors th th ministration I h breaking nil all record records rec rec- ore ord s During July alone ho said Mild parlor visitors equipped with wIlh special special cial permits ts were were escorted through the tho spacious roomy rooms while about MOO others visited the mansion dall dali dally There were only S IO l parlor visitors visitors' vis via S f Hors Hors' during luring the three months of or June July and aid of at last year and greatest number ho lie added the tho for Cor an any July of oC the Coo administration admin was wa a The rho hn largest st strouPs groups for tor nn any July of ot President hardings harding's administration totaled about aboul