The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-06-19
ny RAIL OR BN STEAMER .



and for a few months half the world will be
away from home. An immense amount Of
travelling i done in this country in the sum
mer season. People whose desires do not
lead them. or whose pur.cs will not permit
them to witt Europe or the Fashionable
watering places, crafty their desires for
change and recreation 10y excursions to
beautiful and picturesque places in our
owN NATIVE LAND.
some combine business with pleasure, and
take such routes ~ will allow thcm to attend
10 some small matter by personal attention
which would not warrant the expense in.
Cured were 1t not combined with pleasure
and recreation. Those who seek pleasure
only are Dion at a loss 10 determine which
way to 20 or which route will embrace the
most variable and pleasing scenery, give
most comfortable accommodations and touch
lightcst that highly necessary companion,
the pockct-book. For who ]. there among
all those who travel IN search OF pleasure
who ,rie. to see how much expense can be
| incurrcdf And again who j. there who
does not endcayor In all eases to incur "a. lii.
! tie expense and get o, much In return q. l.
/ possible; The Illinois Central Railroad
company with commcndable libcra,ity and
/ enterprise on the part Of itself and the Nari.
! Gus route, with which il connects. have
| issued
ROUTE BOOK FOR TOURISTS
| For the summer OF 1873, containing route.
/ and rates for excursion tickets for the sum.
mcr season. These tickets were placed on
sale in Cairo NJ the company's ticket Office
June. /, aud will continue 10 be sold until
August 1873, and will be good until the ir,,
day Of November l-73, being tour month,
and half from the present time. They are
/ sold at greatly reduced rates and may
! be purchased either in Cairo or at
| the complny's Office at lO2 North Fourth
| street. -. Louis, and are sold only Tor the
I round trip. Persons DESTROYS ol taking q
summers jaunt into Michigan. W.con.
/ lin or Minnesota have the choice OF no lc.,
| than
! ToETi-EIGHT DIFFERENT ROUTES.
/ From Cairo OF y. LUui.. some Of these
route, are all rail, others are part rail and
| part steamer. For instance the tourist who
wishes TO take a trip 10 Milwaukee may buy
ticket Tor $40 10 and take his choice of
| seven different routes after reaching chi.
| cago. " be wishes 10 reach Il. Paul. he can
buy ticket for the round trip Tor S2i 10.
and from that up to s3G 40. ON The iir-t he
can travel from Cairo TO Dubuque by rail /:
thence 10 I. Paul lay steamer, and return
4 by the same route. The more expensive
tickets take him Via Chicago and other
/ points, and pleasing variety j. added 10 the
| Journey by change from
| RAIL 10 STEAMER.
ENcursion tickets can also he had tor
Madison, Wisconsin, Iiaraboo, waukesha,
/ Oconomowoc, Grand Haven, Green Bay,
Green Lake, Duluth. Marquette, Elhiurt
AXE and Ripon, the prices running from
ego 10 sig 90, according 10 distance and
route chosen. All of these routes take the
traveller through some Of the grandast, most
varied scenery on the American continent (:
gives him sight OF the grandest OF the
great lake., SUPERIOR and its companion
Ike Michigan. The Baraboo valley, the
beautiful lakes which are In the vicinity of
Madison and OcononIowOc, Waukcsha with
II. noted mineral rpring., and many other
? acc. Of notes, descriptions of which. to-
gcthcr with many Of the different
towns Of the Northwest can
bee found in the guide which will bee sup
pied tree on application at th" ticket OF.
ices.
The Western and southern tourist Who
wi,hc, to travel east, j. not LETT ont in the
cold. Special excursion tickets from
CAIRO 10 BOSTON AND Return,
The round trip for forty.iilc dollar, are
offered giving the traveller the choice OF
three different routes, from Detroit east
BY the Inst he may 20 from Detroit 10 Port
land, Maine, by the Grand Trunk railway;
thence TO Boston Via the Boston aud Maine
or Eastern railways: the second, same a,
above, TO Montreal, thence Via the Vermont
Genital railroad along lake ,hamplain
through the Green mountain region via
White river junction. Concord and Nashua
TO Boston and return the same route. The
other j. the same 10 Ogdcnsbur., New
YORK; thence through northern New York
to Rouses Point; thence along lake Cham
plain same as No. = TO Boston and return by
the same route. In connection with the cN-
cursion tickets those who wish 10 pass
through the Thousand islands and down the
rapids Of the -. Lawrence river hy steamer
from Kingston To Montreal can do 20 al an
extra cost of four dollars; Toronto to Siagra
Falls and return Via Lake and New York
Central railroad three dollars and sixty
cents Richmond junction to Quebec and re-
turn Tor three dollar.