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Show AUTO CAMPING IS QUITE POPULAR Becoming More and Mere Important Factor in Car Industry. Fifteen million automobile campers will fill the Ions, lens trails from the Atlantic to the Tacilie coast this summer, sum-mer, according to estimates compiled for the Women's Home Companion, from cities borderinj; the best known transcontinental routes. Anticipatini; this peal; In the form of summer outings, which has grown like a speeding avalanche in the past few years, automobile and sporting goods manufacturers have met the demands de-mands of the tourists with ingenious devices providing the nearest approach ap-proach to home comforts and towns and cities have so improved the rest camps In their outskirts that the 1",-OOO.tXK) 1",-OOO.tXK) wanderers will be able to realize real-ize only by the intervening scenery that they have left their own domiciles. domi-ciles. Under Roof for Night. Those who do not like the hardships hard-ships of sleeping In tents will be able to travel over the northern trail from the Atlantic to the 1'aeitic northwest, down the const to the southwest and back again, without being deprived of the shelter of a roof for the night. This is due to the cotage camp system, which has been developed to such un extent that auto camping does not necessarily have to lie camping. The cottage camp affords a screened and furnished lodging, lacking only cooking utensils, gasoline stove and blankets. Moreover, many of the camps provide playgrounds, laundries, cafeterias, barber shops, and even beauty parlors and soda fountains. Prefer Real Camping. There are still many, however, who prefer real camping as they go, but even for them there are improved tents with sewed-in floors, compact cooking outfits which even permit of freshly-baked pies and roast fowls, luxurious air mattresses and auto connection con-nection lighting systems to smooth out all the little irritations that used to go with the shortest outing. The tremendous growth in popularity popular-ity of motor camping Is becoming a more and more important factor in the automobile industry. |