The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-06-25
WILL YOr GO EAST OK WEST
I!l RAIL OK BY STEAMER :
EXCURSION TICKETS For A SONG

The season for summer travel is at hand,
and Tor few months half the world will h.
away from home. An immense amount of
travelling IL done in this country In the sum
mer season. People whose desires do not
lead them, or whose purses will not permit
them to Visit Europe or the fashionable
watering places, crafty their desires for
change and recreation by excursions to
beautiful and picturesque places In our
owN NATIVE LAND.
Some combine business with pleasure, and
take such routes a. will allow the III tn attend
TO come small matter by personal attention
| which would not warrant the expense in.
Cured were II not combined with pleasure
and recreation. Those who seek pleasure
only are oftsn at loss 10 determine which
way to 20 or which route will embrace the
most variable and pleasing scenery, give
most comfortable accommodations and touch
lightest that highly necessary companion,
the pocket-book. For who l. there among
all those who travel In search Of pleasure
who tries to see how much expense can be
incurredy And again who II there who
does not endeayor In all cases to incur a. lit
tie expense and get n much In return n is
possiblel The Illinois Central Railroad
company with commendable liberatity and
enterprise on the part 81 itself and the vari-
Gus routes with which il connects. have
issueda
ROUTE BOOK FOR TOUR sTs
For the summer Of 1873, containing routes
and rates for excursion tickets for the sum.
mcr season. These tickets were placed on
sale In Cairo AT the company's ticket office
June |, and will continue 10 be -old until
August 1sI3, and will be good until the first
day Of November 1873, being four months
and hall from the present time. They arc
sold ut greatly reduced rates and may
be purchased either in Cairo or at
the company's Office at i02 North Fourth
street. 1T. Louis, aud are sold only for the
round trip. Persons DESTROYS oi taking a
summers jaunt into Michigan. wi-con.
sin or Minnesota have the choice Of no less
than
rORTY-EiGHT DIFFERENT ROUTES.
From Cairo or -. Louis. Some of these
routes are all rail. others are part rail and
part steamer. For Instance the tourist who
wishes TO take a trip to Milwaukee NAV buy
ticket tor <2o 40 and take his choice OF
seven different routes after reaching Chi
cago II he wishes to reach IT. Paul, he can
buy ticket for the round trip tor ga 10,
and from that up Ia SO ~. On The irst he
can travel from Cairo TO Dubuque by rail
thence TO -. Paul by steamer. and return
by the same route: The more expensive
tickets take him via Chicago aud other
points, aud pleasing variety l. added To the
Journey by a change from
RAIL 10 STEAMER.
Excursion tickets can also Ice had tor
Madison, Wisconsin, Baraboo, Waukesha,
Green Lake, Duluth, Marquette, Elkhart
AXE and Iipon, the prices running from
go W to Si9 ~, according 10 distance and
route chosen. All Of these routes take the
traveller through some Of the grand. st, most
varied scenery ON the American continent
gives him sight OF the grandest Of the
great lakes. superiOr) and It's companion
lake Michigan. The BaraboO valley. the
beautiful lakes which are in the vicinity OF
Madison and Oconomowoc, Waukesha with
its noted mineral rprings, and many other
PAGES OF notes, descriptions Of which, to-
i ssiner win 8. ,S many Sor the diersn,
be found in the guide which viii he sup
piled tree ON application at the ticket OIL
ices.
The Western and Southern tourist who
wishes to travel east, is not lett oat in the
cold Special excursion tickets from
CAIRO TO BOsION AND RETURN,
The round trip for forty-tyc dollars arc
ohcred giving the traveller the choice OF
three different routes, from Detroit east
by the first he may go IRON Detroit TO Port.
land, Maine, by the Grand Trunk railway;
thence to Boston via the Boston aud Maine
or Eastern railways; the second, same as
above, to Montreal, thence Via the Vermont
Central railroad along lake Champaign
through the Green mountain region via
White river junction, Concord and Nashua
to Boston and return the same route. The
other is the same to Ogdenshnrg, New
York; thence through northern New York
TO Rouses Point; thence along lake Cham.
plain same ~ No. . TO Boston and return BY
the same route. In connection with the eX-
cursiOn tickets those who wish TO pass
through the Thousand islands and down the
rapid. NJ the 1t. Lawrence river hy steamer
from Kingston to Montreal can do 90 At an
extra cost of four dollars; Toronio TO Niagra
Falls and return Via Lake and New York
Central railroad three dollars and sixty
cents; Richmond junction TO Quebec and re.
turn Tor three dollars.