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Show Week-End Trips of Folk in Big Cities NEW YORK. Americans are great travelers, not only by automobile but by train and boat. The outpouring from a big city for a summer week-end Is an astonishing spectacle; especially when a holiday falls on Friday or Monday. A New York newspaper has checked tip and analyzed the exodus by train and boat from Gotham for the weekend week-end including Labor day, and found some interesting things : Figures from railroad and steamship officials indicated that over 600,000 persons per-sons left New York city, bound for seashore, sea-shore, mountain and country resorts. The rush, which began Firday, was continuous and all trains leaving up to early Sunday morning were packed. Accommodations were impossible to obtain unless they had been engaged In advance, and nearly every through train which pulled out was ran in two or more sections. Some of them had as many as four. The heaviest travel over the Pennsyl-Tanla Pennsyl-Tanla system was to Atlantic City, Long Branch, Asbury Park and the other New Jersey coast resorts. All of the trains bound for Philadelphia were crowded and the rush to Atlantic City was biggest of all. v The greater proportion of those who left town on the New York Central lines was bound for the Adlrondacks and the Catskllls. Hotel proprietors reported re-ported that their accommodations were engaged to the limit. This condition also prevailed all over Long Island and at the various watering places along Long Island sound. The Bar Harbor express left in two sections, each one completely filled. The travel to Maine resorts was even heavier than on Friday night, when the greatest rush hitherto known this season sea-son was experienced. The White Mountains Moun-tains also drew their quota, and all trains bound for Canadian and Western West-ern points were crowded to capacity. The various steamship lines to Boston, Bos-ton, Sound ports and up the Hudson had more passengers than they could accommodate and scores of applicants for staterooms were turned away. The peak of travel came with the home-coming crowds Monday night. Whereas the outgoing throngs had been distributed over two days, fully 85 per cent of them sought to return between 4 p. m. and midnight Sunday. Add to this travel the thousands who motored and the totals are Impressive. Other big cities reported the same thing. It would be interesting to know how many millions the outing cost. |