New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-07
FROM 4 UES TERN WATERING PLACE.

Correspoudeuoe o, Til. N. Y. Tribune.
.FALcoNwooD, July, ls5s.
"And where you ssk, is Falconwood -
Well, you know Niagara; you know Buff 10, and
a'so know that on the steamboat route down the
Nisgsr,, from Buffalo TO Chippewa, on the Canada
iide, Grand Island, with its fifteen or twenty
thousand acres, lies midway between Lake Erie and
the Fss, btlted in by about equal currents of the
river for nine or ten miles Of its course. About
mile below the head, or upper end Of the island
and halt dozen miles distant ffom Buffalo lies
Falct nv ood q new waterir g-place and Summer
resort, got up last Spring By Lewis +. Allen, esq ,
on part of his extensive farm. which he has cut-
waited for many years past.
Buffalo, although city OF near h hundred thou
sand lnlabltants has never before had domestic
watering place of NJ own. II has Niagara 10 he
sure, in lis immediate vicinity, twenty mile, or 40
away but Niagara, With IL great hotels It's ever
lasting throDg OF runners, hacks and shoWmen
s,aircsses, precpces and crowds OF strangers, is
hardly the thing for families and children private
picnic-, fishing parties. school excursions and the
hundred other little rurslties IN which the quiet
people of considerable city often choose 10 indulge
But N Ialconw Ocd they have i. Here j beluti-
tul bathing besch of half nile IN extent with a
smooth, saLdy bottom. running TAR into the water,
clear as cIy.isl, With grassy shore, finely ,kirted
by noble trees just below That a high. green
sopirs bank. covered with thick forest %. thrifty
second-gIowth trees 0f thirty or forty acre. ia
extent steamboat wharf in front and the
Island House, commodious building OF sixty
feet r,ni and ,oiue thirty feet deep, With broad
veranda Toe kin. Oit on The water, n the midst OF
the grove. ia 'front.' Near by arr open GLADE, of
grass and AVN stretching sHsy 10 the head OF the
Island, past Beaver Greek small arm Of IN.
RIVER which embraces Besyer Island a charming
spot Of somc forty scres-snd beyond and enbrac-
ing sll tbs les Mr.. Allen. main farm. Of which
some IN seven hundred Ci rs nearly thousand
scrt, are cultivated, chiefly in pasture snd NOV ng
ard ttyoied 70 The rearing 9ud feeding OF stock
The Whole isrm i, within 81 "a. of ;he city or rather
the city : "A ul sight Of the farm for three miles
around rs western southern sud eastern boxudaies
on esch otwbich the d.y.ded waters OF the Niagara
rrin. De rNcr herr, I-arly mile vide
i0p M IN an easy course of coup.. If
mile. an hour present. the finest bay scenery In
stretches OF several MES up and dowh, afford.
rs the finest opportunities for regattos with
either Yachts or row -boats-sn institution
stTsnge 70 .sy, tba, neither the business nor plea.
suIe seeking young men Of Buffalo have yet begun
10 indulge in. There is, also, the ine.tbass aud
perch fishing II the Nsgsrs, where they are taken
IN the summer season IN untold thousands with the
hook aid line, both by professional fishermen aud
smateurs. BY IN. way, the black bass Of these
Western Lake. ard their connecting straits are
ore OF the finest OF American fishes for the table "a
well as afoIding the best sport to the angler. 4
peri. CT bass IN shape, but beautiful dark bronze
green IN color, they embody in flavor of flesh and
activity Of mo'ement the charms Of capital good
eating, and n take them demands deal OF angling
ingenuity. Trolling is the favorite scientific way
OF catching them. You take light. clinker. butt
boat OF some twelve or fifteen lee. long, at
buffalo or Black Rock, enter the river uliie below
90 down the current three miles 10 opposite the
head OF Grand Island, tacn bait and throw oa.
your hook-, slowly drift down the ryer near tie
'sisDd .aore, add BY tie t9e .oa r,eca t..os-