Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1930 — Page 13

Vacation Guide

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Top photos show riders indulging in popular pastime at Pokagon state park and Ciifty inn, topping the hill, at Cliffy Falls state park. Pictures in center of layout show crowd going over suspension bridge over Sugar creek, in Turkey Run state park; looking east up the Ohio river from Ciifty Falls state park: and coming down Sugar creek from Sunset point in Turkey Run park. Bottom, herd of elk in Pokagon state park and the old mill and distillery in Spring Mill state park.

SUNDAY RISKS

It we are to co-operate toward a 1 eduction of motor fatali- % ties this summer, we shall have to stick to the right side of the road and yield the right of way to those who are entitled to it. As pedestrians we shall have to be more careful crossing the streets, and as parents we should see that our children stay off the streets. For failing in these furnishes the causes for most traffic fatalities, 17,000 of which occurred during last year’s vacation season, according to the Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn. From a survey of about 50,000 traffic violations, the investigators find that one-fourth of the violators failed to grant the right of way, while one-sixth drove on the wrong side. Other accidents resulted from cutting in and out of regular lines of traffic and nearly a fifth of the violations were due to speeding. And most of these accidents occur on Sundays, the day when motorists who never drive during the week take their cars out for an airing. Sunday, however, can still be the day of rest, even with the automobile on the road, if the motorist will enjoy his driving more and forego the idea of trying to get ahead of the other fellow just because he happens to be in the way.

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Scenes of Rare Beauty Abound in State's Parks

The Indianapolis Times

HALF BILLION SPENT FOR HOT DOGS AND SOFT DRINKS

INDIANAPOLIS residents planning vacation trips this summer can get something of a conception cf the extent to which the American people go touring about in their autos every year when they learn that the hot dog and soft drink stands along the roadsides do a total business of around $500,000,000 a year. This figure is furnished by Dr. John Klein, assistant secretary

Parking a Joy By .Yi’JL Service JEFFERSON CITY, Mo„ May 31.—A novel parking device, designed to permit parking in the smallest possible space, has been invented by R. W. Bransom of the Missouri state auditing department. It consists of two small wheels attached to the car's front axle and hinged so they may be dropped to the ground through a control on the instrument board. When the small wheels touch the ground the driver tacks the car a few Inches, thus raising the front wheels and decreasing the turning radius to a small circle.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1930

of commerce.l He finds between 110,000 and 125,000 roadside stands; more than half of them keep open all the year round; new ones are being added at the rate of 3,000 a year. Half a billion dollars is a sizable turnover for any business. The hot dog stand is pushing its way up into the rank of major industries. Some organizing genius probably will come along presently and loop a few thousand of these establishments into one vast coast-to-coast chain; meanwhile the industry, unique in i; land of great mergers, is composer of innumerable small, one-man con cems—a new field for individualism in the business world. It isn’t the size of this business that is interesting, however, so much as it is the meaning back of it. The number of tourists must be simply stupendous for the hot hog and pup sales to rise to half a billion dollars. That sales figure reflects s spread of vacation ahbit greater than anything the world has ever known before. u m m THE surface of the earth has been pretty well furrowed, in the course of history, by the migrations of its peoples; but was there ever anything like this an1■ ■ „

nual migration of Americans and Canadians? Millions of men, women and children go roving every summer. They make the wanderings of the romantic gypsies look puny. They cover a whole continent. Dwellers in the interior go spinning off to see what the oceans look like; coast folk swing over the mountains and have a

Campers’ Oven An easily constructed oven for compere who tire of a constant fried diet is suggested by a writer in Modern Mechanics magazine. Small holes are punched along the seams of a five-gallon, square oil can and the joints laced with wire to prevent the can's opening up if the solder melts. Next, half of one end is cut away with a can opener and the piece removed is wired to the edge of the can to form an oven door. Holes are punched in each side of the can and heavy wire passed through for a supporting grate. Cover the can bottom with a layer of dry sand, which helps

look at the midlands. Mountains and lakes and rivers and sea beaches and deserts slide under the wheels of a million cars, and provincialism goes out of existence under a million sets of rubber tires. The whole nation shuffles itself each year, and Mr. Average Citizen, perched behind his steering wheel, does more traveling in one month than his ancestors did in all their lives—and does it in incomparably greater comfort. And—just to set the picture In its real proportions—the incidental food and drink bill of these roving tourists comes to half a billion dollars. There never was anything remotely like it before. Its ultimate effects hardly can be estimated, but you may be sure they will be profound. The American ' spirit, fifty years hence, will be infinitely the richer because of this background of wandering. Many Death Traps According to the American Automobile Association, there is an average of one unprotected grade crossing to every fourteen miles of highway of all types in the United

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STATE PARKS ARE MAGNET FOR THOUSANDS; RECORDS FOR ATTEN DANCE BROKEN Vacation Rush in Full Swing, With Pleasure Seekers Thronging Beautiful Grounds of Recreation Centers. NEW BUILDINGS ADD CONVENIENCE Horseback Riding Featured; Zoo at Pokagon I Attracts Many; Bus Tours Prove Popular; Active at Dunes. Attendance records at Indiana state parks already have been shattered this season, Director Richard Lieber of the state conservation department announced today. He predicts this season will be by far the greatest since the department was organized in 1919. Parks and game preserves are in charge of Paul V. Brown, chief of the division of lands and waters of the state conservation department and Lieber’s assistant. Among additional 1930 attractions are horseback riding, made available at several of the parks; bus tours from Indianapolis, and the new zoo, or wild deer and buffalo range, at Pokagon state park, on Lake James.

RAILWAYS WILL GUT RATES FOR VACATION TRIPS Greater Variety of Tours Offered Than at Any Time in Past. BY FRANK J. MCCARTHY Chief Clerk C.. C., C. & St. L. The vacation traveler of 1930 will have a greater variety of interesting modes of travel and places to visit than has been offered at any time in the past. Rates will be lower than for several years. Rail lines have improved their equipment, speeded up their service and lowered their rates to attract the greater volume of summer tourist travel. Bus and air lines have added attractive service for the summer months. The tourist who uses his own automobile will have the advantage of treking highways that are in better condition than at any time in the past. Tour companies and travel agencies have announced organization of various escorted trips ranging in duration from four to 120 days and ranging in price from SSO to $4,000. These escorted trips will include all features of travel—rail, bus, air, water and automobile. Low Rates Granted Continuing the policy adopted In the summer of 1929, eastern trunk line railroads will grant low rates to practically all Atlantic coast points and to summer resorts and scenic centers in eastern United States and Canada from Quebec and Ontario points down through New York, New England, New Jersey, the Carolinas, and the Virginias, to Norfolk and Virginia Beach. Diverse routes and combination rail and water tours are being offered at attractive low rates and vary in size from the combination rail and water trip to Niagara Falls to the large eastern circle tour covering Canadian points, Newfoundland, the Atlantic coast, including Boston and New York, Atlantic City, Washington, D. C., and Norfolk. Summer tourist rates also have been named to lake points in northern Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Besides offering trips from Indianapolis to all lake points and return, these rates also are the basis of personally conducted trips from Chicago through Lake Michigan to the Upper Peninsula and Mackinaw through Lake Huron and Georgian Bay to Detroit, across Lake Erie to Cleveland, Buffalo and Niagara Falls, and returning by rail to Indianapolis. Reduced Fares Southwest Southwestern and Mexican lines have named reduced rates to points in the Rio Grande valley and Mexico and summer carnivals have been arranged throughout this region as an added inducement to atract travel. The great west and northwest have lost none of their glamour and attraction for the summer vacationist from this section. With the Grand Canyon, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Denver, Glacier National Park, Seattle, Victoria, Vancouver, Banff, Lake Louise and last and grandest of all—Yellowstone, the golden west extends a mighty invitation to lure the visitor from the central states. Any or all of these points can be visited by rail, bus or air lines, or combination of all. House parties on wheels, personally conducted, have been arranged to include practically any or all points mentioned and combining all the different methods of travel. City la Fortunate A direct trip to Denver or the west coast and return may be made in a week or a fortnight and extensions may be added to include side trips through the scenic wonderlands sufficient so that the entire summer may be spent in a pleasant and charming vacation tour. Indianapolis is particularly fortunate in having well informed representatives of the principal railroads, bus, air and water lines located here. Complete information, well-planned itineraries and valuable travel advice may be obtained from the railroad passenger offices, the Union Station, the city offices on Monument Circle, bus stations, bank travel agencies and individual travel and tour companies In the downtown district.

Anew brick hotel building has been opened at Turkey Run state park under direction of William Guthrie. The new buildings jins the two earlier buildings and provides new office and daylight kitchen on the first floor. There are twenty guests in the new unit, bringing the total at the park to 100. Turkey Run Popular Turkey Run is one of the oldest and most popular of all the state parks, according to Brown. Its annual attendance runs more than 100,000. The state highway commission co-operated with the conservaion department in construction of anew highway entrance from United States Road 41, this spring. The park is seenvty-two miles frdm Indianapolis. The new zoo at Pokagon state park already has proved a drawing card, according to Lieber. A herd of ten elk, a pair of buffalo and four deer are ranging in corrals there. One hundred acres has been set aside for this purpose and the animal stock will eb added to f' om time to time, Lieber said. Olifty Falls state park continues its fame as a point offering the best view available of the historic Ohio river. The front porch of the inn is the best position to view the great valley and winding stream and there are 600 acres of woodland in which to wander. Great Hotel Planned The Indiana Dunes is the site of the most active building developments, as a great hotel and concession is being planned there. Thousands of Chicagoans, as well as Hoosiers, congregate daily at the Dunes throughout the summer, the beach being one of the largest and best bordering Lake Michigan. Anew bath house will be ready for the bathers this season, department officials announce. ' Clark county state forest, with its 4,800 acres of timber, attracts many pleasure seekers who love the woods. Muscatatuck state park offers a charming section of scenery along the river after which it was named and also an inn with exceptional meals. Spring Mill state park is one of the new additions to the state chain and the restoration of the village there offers something concrete and dramatic for those interested in early Indiana lore. Folders describing all of the state parks and points of interest in Indiana, with the best highway by which they may be reached, may be had free from the conservation department at the statehouse. FAIR OAKS CONVENIENT City Service Given Cottagers at Tippecanoe Lake. Fair Oaks, on Lake Tippecanoe, gives city conveniences at the cottagers’ doors and groceries, meats and all the things necessary to a pleasant vacation are obtainable. The cottages, which face the lake, are furnished nicely and electrically lighted. Nearby are tennis and croquet courts, horseshoe pits, boating and bathing, a sporty eighteenhole golf course and Pottawatomi Gardens, where one may dance each evening. OAK GUARDED BY STATE Hybrid Tree Named After Noted Indiana Botanist. Dean oak is a natural hybrid of the white oak and the chinquapin. It was discovered in 1904 in a woods about three miles northwest of Bluffton, Ind., by L. A. and E. B. Williamson. The ground on which the tree stands has been deeded to the state for safe keeping. The tree was named in honor of Charles C. Deam, research forester and a noted botanist. BLUE BLUFFS POPULAR Saturday Night Square Dances Are Well-liked Feature. Blue Bluffs, near Martinsville, was opened to the public thirty-one years ago, and each year has seen an increasing number of vacationists who have told their friends of this ideal recreation spot. Saturday night square dances are featured for both young and old, and this form of entertainment has increased the popularity of the place materially. Tourists Canada's Best Crop Ernest N. Smith of the American Automobile Association estimates that the American tourist business will be worth half a billion dollars to Canada in a few year*.