NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 15 
What the Summer Resort Business Means for New England 
EW ENGLAND is undoubtedly doing this year the 
greatest summer resort business in her history. Fig- 
ures compiled by the New England Lines would indicate 
that about 1,400,000 people spent their vacation within the 
confines of New England in the year 1912, and the re- 
ports so far show that this number will probably be 
greatly exceeded this year. 
The railroads operating in New England try every 
year to get on their lists every hotel and “boarding house 
open to summer boarders. A compilation based on these 
lists and covering all the railroads shows that last year 
there were 4406 hotels and boarding houses in New Eng- 
land with a total capacity of 222,141 persons. For the 
total number of persons accommodated it would probably 
be fair to multiply the total capacity by six, figuring on 
the average vacation being two weeks and the season 
to consist of twelve weeks. This would give 1,332,846 
persons accommodated in the season. Estimates based 
on these figures and from the reports of hotel keepers 
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would place the amount spent by these vacationists at, 
roughly, $100,000,000. 
That the summer resort business is one of New Eng- 
land’s leading industries is indicated when comparison is 
made with her agricultural figures. ‘The total value of 
all of New England’s crops in 1909, as given by the Cen- 
sus, was $141,113,829. The total value of her dairy 
products in the same year was $50,720,766, or about half 
the estimated amount which summer visitors spent last 
year. 
There is probably no other region of this country 
where so much is reaped annually from summer boarders. 
The compilation made showed that last year Maine 
had 1265 hotels and boarding houses with a total capacity 
of 69,073; New Hampshire had 1157 with a total capacity 
55,953; Vermont had 513 with a capacity of 9,194; 
Massachusetts had 695 with a capacity of 44,676, Rhode 
Island 163 with a capacity of 15,400 and Connecticut 613 
with a capacity of 27,845. 
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