The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-10


abroad to collect funds for its support and that
she don't do it. What does Wall street say to
that?
Summer Pleasure Travel-MAtters Mt the
Watering Places.
We have crossed the Rubicon that separates
the world Of trade aud that of pleasure-that is
to say, we have got over the Fourth Of July-on
which suspicious occasion some two hundred
thousand people went out of town, but finding
the temperature slightly Arctic, turned about
and came back again. Travellers to the sea.
side should take their fanneIs and furs, good
supply Of spirits, preserved meats, and other
reouisites to sustain life in the high latitudes
Dadinage apart, the weather so far, with the
exception of a day or two here and there, has
not bean esna..;allv provocative Of summer
travel. A good many people have gone out G
town; the higher law courts have adjourned
over; the fashionable churches are shut up:
people who own or bire country seats have
entered upon the delights and the miseries at
tendant thereupon, and large number of male
and female Bohemians- artists, opera singers,
yfanears, etc are vagabondizing about between
Saratoga st. Catharine's, the Falls of Niagara,
peepiDg over the Heights of Abraham, or ex-
ploring the splendid scenery of the forest
crowned Saguenay. 1t is, as yet, too
frigid for the White Mountains and rather
early for Newport. Boston is growing to
be rather popular watering place, and, in
order to heighten its attractions, the people are
going to SELL during this week. all sorts Of things
af,a {ho Eacb &c fho oov1
in Germany. No doubt considerable quantity
of loose cash will be left under the shadow of
che Aihenian hills and the hearts of the shop
and tavern keepers gladdened thereby. Look
ing toward the South the prospect is not over
brilliant. We hear nothing from Cape May nor
Old Point, and at the Virginia Springs there
are, it appears, hardly three hundred guests all
told. The President goes to Bedford Springs
this week; ne will Of course attract many fol-
lowers Ia that direction. Incidental to this line
Ct country, we may say word or two for the
benefit of tourists who are, as they say, on the
feace as to which way they shall travel From
this city travel to the North aud East is any
thing but comfortable or agreeable A trip
up the Hudson by steamboat is pleasant
enough; but Heaven defend US from the
horrors Of rice on hot summer day over
any of the roads out Of Albany. The cars
can only be ventilated by opening the
windows, when one is half stiaed with dust;
there is always crowd, aud between fighting
for seats, dangers Of accidents which are becom-
ing disagreeably frequent Of late--hunger and
thirst, this railway riding makes one feel as he
had been thumped and kicked and choked and
punched within an inch Of his life, and may be
considered as near an approach TO perdltion as
any ordinary sinner can experience In this world.
II the free tourist would turn his attention to the
mountainous regions of Virginia, Pennsylvania
and Tennessee, he would find it ;ile most agree.
able locality for a summer journey. The rail-
ways are nearly all new and well equipped The
rate Of speed is moderate, for obvious reasons.
The natural beauties Of the country have been
the admiration of travellers from all parts Of the
world. 1t abounds in mineral springs Of all
possible varieties, and at every turn the eye is
greeted by new and surprisingly beautiful
landscape. And the temperature in this local.
IT, though it is far to the south of us, is cooler
and more bracing than In central New York.
Formerly the region to which we refer was not
accessible without the expenditure ofmuch time
ard money, but now the railways have put it
within carpet-bag distance Of the metropolis.
So much for the free and Independent tourist.
Those who 90 with the crowd and make the
usual trip Saratoga, the Falls, Canada, Lake
George, White Mountains, Newport and Cape
May-wili get under way with the first hot spell.
The city is now full Of strangers-Southerners
Cubans, &c.-ready for the exodus, which, as
the weather Is not very hot, and as there is to be
tremendous matrimonial demonstration on the
18th, will not begin until the latter part Of this
week or the beginning Of next.
Meanwhile, the hotel keepers at the fashionable
resorts are like forsaken ones They are ready
with their magnificent furniture, their gentle
manly clerks, their accomplished and Chester
feldian walters their battalions of artists de
cuisine, their polished bootblacks, and all the rest
of their immense trains, to take In the lonely
traveller, or the lonely travellers wife or chill
dren, or big trunks, and treat them in the most
princely way. So let the lonely traveller ap-
pear directly. And let Boniface profit in the
future by the experiences of the past. Let him
be light In bis charges, modest in the extras,
small on the sundries. Let him give his CUES.
good dinners to eat, good wines to drink, and
good beds to sleep in, aud at fair price So
shall he receive the reward of success in this lie
and when he dies there shall be inscribed on his
tombstone these glorious words: I" He can keep
hotel"
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