New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-29


lions" pleases much better and seems 10 me mueh
more practicable since it tells us how we start from
Boston and the most interesting sights OF the cana
das for $50 in atwo weeks vacation This Is matter
too Of railroads and steamboats, instead OF plstereu
feet and aching backs We can buy ticket 10 go ana
return-we can see all want to see, and at the ehd
our record OF expenses will read something as follows
Ticket Montreal. lebee, and return 0
Hotel bill at Montreal for four days. W
Hotel bill at Quebec. for three days. ."
Incidental expenses Including carriage hire meals,
and berths cars, and boats, &c. &C. discount No
10 w
Making our total expenses for trip OF 10 days, In 20
Canada. ~
Mr. Clark has discovered that in Canada You get equal
comfort in seeondclass hotels at about half the expense
OF the rstclass He tells you precisely where to
20; and thus his book will do admirable guide-book
service.
II Won do not care for Canada, and pine instead for
the ad sea waves your told just how to lay your
hand upon the oceans NAME and camp out near Glou-
eeser or Nantasket for instance-and get much fish,
much ocean wave, and muchtpleasure for almost no
money at all. The enthusiasm with which Mr. Clark
writes OF fishing would delight certain friend OF mine
who unable 10 resist the temptation OF calling on
ms adylove 10 admire shoal of fishes sparkling in the
Run the precise interval between his declarations OF
love and her reply OF she looked at the fishes
and said "no his love for her had been only fish
,tory she thought But should indeed have an en-
y
the sea side and dining off chowder with no milk in it,
and the spiderluck OF whatever may chance 10 nave
been the mornings catch.
I, individually, am much more tempted by the last
and most expensive of Mr. CaTks Vacations. For, look
you, this time you must have money In your pockets
But If you have hundred dollars, then shall you sail
ever sunny seas, and by shores rich IN promise You
shan 20 70 the Maritime Provinces" the seacOast
dominons Of Her Majesty II you for the simple
and unsssuming in human beings aud the beautlfu IN
nature nowhere will find them more satisfactorily
than among the fertile plains OF Prince Edward Isand
or the rugged highlands of Cape Breton. You leave
Commercial Wharf, in Boston, some bright morning
with ST. John ticket IN your pocket committing your
self to the tender merces Of welofhcered steamer OF
The international Line, say the City of Portland You
stop awhile Portland you coast of Oh afternoon along
the red Of the New Brunswick shore rising sheer
out of the water from so TO 200 feet In the glow OF
Summer sunset you approach the beautiful harbor OF
St. John, with the islands and shores clad In living
green with the city sitting regaly ont bluff that rises
directly out Of the side and the smiling
slopes Carleton the other while the clear water
aye with fishing boats and larger vessels The people
OF St. John are pleasant, too; healthy, rudy, thor
Oughly good-natured and hcspitable.
From there the European and North American Rail
way whirs you shedae through the heart Of
New Brunswick, along the coast Of the Bay Of Fundy
and shedac you take the Prince Edward Island boat
When you have reached Prince Edward Island have
found your lost Eden 1t beautiful for words to
picture but Its soft loneliness Will linger forever In
your memory like the one song you heard Patti sing
The natives of the island are fun OF kindly curiosity
You explore their landscape more earnestly than
they explore you; but they hospable they
inquring, and you md in any farmhouse near
which Won chance to beated good bed and good fare
and host who would think the offer OF payment an H.
suit. You find too green peas and strawb berries
here August and COOL still days moreover like
lima prny hara rnn1ap.
fully cheap. That plate of fresh salmon cost five cents
pound; your choice mutton was purchased at the
price and your excellent roast Of beef for ten cents
pound Your chickens were 80 cents pair; your eggs
cent apiece and your butter Is cents pound 1t
quite worth while 10 there with what II would cost
you 1--we year in Boston or NewYork. for you could
live on in Prince Edward Island till you reached
green old age.
But you are only making excursion, you 20 TO
Charlotetown, and take the steamer there for Cape
Breton You stop at Pictou, ana then you go to Port
Hawksbury, the Gut Of Canso and there you find
them all Scotchmen One of them drives you Is miles
90 Bay aud there get little steamer to carry
you 10 sydney 100 miles distant. You Oh board and
are soon threading the intrcaces of that wonderful
Bras d'Or-the Mediterranean of North America-which
extends through the entire length OF Cape Breton, d.
yidng the island into two peninsuas When you have
reached sydney have touched the northern limit Of
your vacation journey and must return home by Of
II
Provinces complete.
You 30 back as far rs PictOU and from thence me
Nova Scotia Railway takes you 10 Halifax. The man
who finds stones ought to make tb4s Journey
from Pictou 70 Halifax. He wOStd thus take III re-
lp,on enough to last him his etime for IFS all stones
though you can little aud visit the home Of
Eyangeline and the beautiful BASIN OF Maas.
Halifax mpresses the stranger. says Mr.. Oark-thus
quite disagreeing with Mr.. Waruer-much favora.
bly, than any other CITY this part OF Her Majestys
doIninions Dalhousie College Is Of Its institutions
and there In rbe chair q Moral Philosophy, think,
told the funny adventures Of the Dodge Femily
Abroad" and wbs lie drawing the mysteries Of
de Living Link" Hafax IL ron sst stopping place
Of importance; and from there you return Boston,
look over your and fDd that you have spent
iost 90 49, want to 90. think will advertise for
party OF travellers conduct thither the strength OF
my acquaintance with this useful book Of Mr. Clarks-
observed THAI tue veg iupecunous gentle
women 90 10 Europe.
There lie scofers who have considered the State OF
Connecticut anxious for gain than for glory but
che town Of wolco has proved Itself exception. II
ts soon TO have published history, containing sketches
Of the distinguished men sod women whO have been
born there One OF these sketches that Of A. Bronson
Alcot written BY Mr. B. sanborn has Just into
my hands In proof sheetS 1t Is brief but comprehep
Ave. Mr. Acot IL 30 Ultimately associated with Ma