The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-07-12
BUFFALO, June 80, ls47.

Travel to the Vest via the Lakes
is astonishngly warm here to-day and the crowd Of
New Workers at the hotels is evidence that is less
with you have been annual visitor to the lakes
for the last years. but have before such
q throng of eastern people here as now.
A trip to Green Bay and Chcago-places but few
years ago the very borders of civilizationis
every day affair and the United States does not, pro-
baby afford exhilirating delightful journey
Yet there but few eastern people who know
lively any thing of It's pleasures New Yorkersor at
any rate most of them-seem to think it a long and
tedious journey and to be taken only in of dire
necessity How this idea Is from the truth may be
by short description Of passage from New York
to Chicago.
You take the seven o'clock boat Monday evening
for Albany. The first hour you have fine view Of the
palisades the wild and rocky shore of New Jersey and
the rich green fields and chequered hills Of Weschester
the second the dark peaks Of the highlands rise up
tween you and the last streak of light from the
setting sun or, If the moon is "ridng high
in the clear bright hsaysn they . are casting their
are familiar with III Hudson and its scenery and
not intoxicated with these views you retire to your
berth, and when you wake at dawn of day. you In
Albany Here you your breakfast and at half-past
step to the railroad office pay the clerk twelve
ride for hour brings you to Schenectady and here
you have the first glimpse Of the rich west The first
view OF the TOWN %os: You are some
huddled into of rich and fertile plain
it has the appearance of bed of roses in the of
garden. You now in the valley of the Mohawk
whrling through its green fields and winding around
the rocky base of its gigantic hills at the rate Of twenty
through a village, that seem to and go like some
phantom in vision. And now you find yourself in
rapidity, you fly away to Syracuse where you
stop till morning II too much fatgued to ride all night
II, however, you are In hurry as travellers generally
are you keep your seat in the and al sunrise
the next morning set down In Buffalo But, II you pre-
fer travelling by daylight you spend the night in
opportunity the beautiful villages Of Geneva Ca
nandagua Batavia and the city of Rochester and
rive in Buffalo in the evening Of the second dsy-Wed-
nesday
You now take passage Of the large Upper Lake
boats the most elegant floating palaces in the world.
Here you sure to find large company Of ladies and
gentlemen, bound on voyage Of pleasure, with every
accompanment-guns, fishing tackle, harps flutes,
next morning-whch brings us to Thursdsy-you land
at Cleveland and here, while the boat Is taking In
an n0%r tr 60 rGs the
gentlemen charter some four or five stages, and
they make the town echo with their merry laugh,
CANT streets. The citizens all excitement,
while the boat remains, TOR they learn that
pleasure partly Is on board and every thing that
be, is done make them happy You leave Cleveland
at eleven or twelve o'clock and the next morning. Fri
asy at daylight you are IN detroit another hour or
Macknac. Saturday morning finds you moored amidst
bark and Indian tents close under high rocky
u
breakfast of Msckinac trout trying your luck fish,
ing in water clear that you twenty
feet from the surface-buyng few trinkets from the
young squaws-vstng the forts and barracks you sail
for Chicago, where you arrive Sunday at sunrise,
making the whole trip of fifteen hundred miles in five
days expense Of twenty dollars all told The
fare the lakes is eight dollars about two dollars
day-the same as at hotel This includes passage and
board.
have been rather lengthy and particula: in my des
cripton Of trip to Chicago, because have been 30
often asked how long it would take, how much 1t would
cost, and what kind Of fun pleasure could find In
going such route. To those who accustomed to
spend their summers fashionable watering places and
on shore let say that with half the expense
less time than they usually take from their business
in visiting these places, they can take journey to
Lake Superior, Green Bay, Mackinac, Chicago-cross
the State Of Michigan by land, their return and Vi
st all the principal towns the shores Of Lake Erie
see more-learn more-feel more-think more, and
Joy more, than in a dozen visits to Saratoga
At this time the boats crowded with delegates to
the Convention, and there is more excitement than
usual But all delighted, and am mistaken If the
of s47 does not form in lake travel long
to be remembered.
We take the Empire tonight, with large party Of
the New York delegation and expect to arrive in Chi
cago Sunday morning This Is considered the crack
boat and for the benefit ofthosewho contemplate trip
West would say that she leaves here the 29th July
for pleasure excursion to Green Bay and Chicago.