The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-29

grandeur Of these stately ridges II too wen known
to merit much comment. The famous HART. OF
tain ranges OF Scotia and Wales could hardly COM
pete with these in splendor There 10 versatility,
person who has once visited them to return to the
scenes OF his former delight Good hotels are scat
most prominent hills and Others are costly stu
ated in the nooKs Of their spurry ridges.
THE WHITE MOUNTAIN,
the CONNECTICUT saR RIVER Vaey or the Fail River
lines also considered by tourists be Of the
K aI0 White Tasn
Jackson Bethlehem, Northumberland and number
less other mountain stations nne hotels are
saries on the Lake Shore Board in these houses
averages from So to IS per diem.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ' rom Roston and Philadephia.
but only few proceed there from New York.
Florida, with it's genial climate its odorous orange
groves and nowery pateros, lures many invands 10
sALUrIFERous SOIL,
while the western Plains enttce our Nimrods and
mighty hunters, and the towering hills and wales
OF the Rocky Mountalns with their giant cascades,
their green scenery and sky-piercing trees win
Canada frigid, cold and uncharltable during one
third Of the year, looms beautiful In summer
OF the Eastern world, while sports OF many kinds
abound and one can escape from the rapacity or
the United States hotel keeper. The general route
TO
Is via Niagara; from thence the tourist can pro-
coed to Montreal, quebec and take q sail down the
be obtained upon the Ottawa In August and Sep
tember, while St. Catharne's and London tOntariol
are the resorts chosen on account OF the mineral
springs by invalids. The hotel rate throughout
Canada is from % to 81 per day, American cur
rency, and hacks are only allowed TO charge very
There can be no doubt existent in the mind Of
sensible that the s tSa IN na4f
portion Of Great Britain or the European Con-
tinent. Our hills and lakes and wales, in size,
county, and yet the majority OF people, whose
business win permit OF their so doing, spend their
vacations on foreign soil This can be easily &C
THE OLD WORLD
sung in rapturous strains; they read history and
@ TO Wv ad an
plaza abounds with time-honored recollec.
lions. To tread softly over the haliowed
bards; TO view dim cloisters, made sacred
by historical remembrance or romance; to look
back into the dim vista Of long forgotten s ages
enacted'in the days OF chivalry has Tor the Ameri-
can potent charm; but there Is charm more
Europe, q charm that strikes home to the honest
son OF Dame Columbia-he is not robbed. or
course couriers, waters and hotel keepers IN the
well as other members OF society, but Europeans
will not allow themselves to be
SUBJECTED TO ExTORTION,
and consequently charges have to be kept within
bounds. This is the real reason why SO many of
our citizens and their families visit Europe annu-
ally. 6hoddy may 60 there, and with DESTINATIONS
liberalty scatter its money broadcast, but our
well-to-do, not sumptuously rich, but sensible
heads of families 60 there for the sake OF CON-
bining comfort, pleasure and economy. When the
hotel keepers OF the United States choose to re-
member that Americans are not race OF idiots,
and that they like TO obtain pleasure and satsfac
ton at rate that Is not disgracefully extortion-
ate, the vulture element viii die out Of their ma
ture and the summer hegira to Europe Will palpa
bly, diminish in numbers while the pleasant places
OF America will become the resorts not only of the
arstOcracy of this country but also that OF Europe
during 1.-THE heated term"