New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-08
Mr.. Rodewsd and family. Dr. Lee and family, New.


Mr. Rodewsd and family. Dr. Lee and family. New
York.
NJ. Ryman's-C rockingham and family.
EEIGHBORINa SUMNER RESORTS.
Eight miles below Milford Is Dingmans. village
smaller than Milford. and favorte Summer resort.
Its surroundings delightful The waterfalls there
about ars unsurpassed in the valley. The bingham
Creek is particularly wild aud romantic stream On
IL near the village the High Falls the Soap Trough
Factory Falls and many Others. Inc soap ironsn y,
scarcely yard wide 1870 feet high breaking me wafer
into streak OF white foam It's SURROUNDINGS are pcto
esaue in the extreme Tho High Falls Is a grand cat
aract not far from the above The High FAILS House. III
Dingman's, DR. p F. Fumer Is the largest 10 the county
Ths following the visitors at this hotel TINS season
The Rev Howard Crosby, ID. D.. Chancellor OF the Unl
versty of New York, and family; G. r. Barnard ana y
Rogers, G. b. Waldo, G.. II. Mumford. Mrs s 4 Eichol,
son. Miss Emma Beers Miss Given, Mrs H. T. Dnpee
and sou, +. l.. Beach. +. Beach. O. W. Chamberlain.
New.York; DIR. W. ID. stroud aud family, Major g. 9
White aud family Mis-. Clara Ludlow Mis- M m5m S2 K
gore Philadelphia the Rev. ID. d. Demarest, ID, NeW
BrunsTick j. Prot j. Neyin; Princeton n S
Mass; the Rev. Il. Hartley, Brdget0n, ". d.
Busbki - miles further down the river, Is another
quiet country village much in favor as resort ms
place is principally visited by Philadephians, many OF
them Quakers. The attractions OF Dushkili are of tho
that OF Milford and Dingmans. The Bush
Kill Falls on the Little Bushki Creek mile from
the village, among the grandest in the State. The
Upper Fall is OF great volume and pluDges over ledge
OF solid rock over hundred feet almost perpendcu
larry. The water flows short distance through an
inaccessible gorge, when IL is again precipitated
another hundred feet Jagged wall OF rock
INTO basin, the sides OF which rise far above
the top OF the Falls. Through the narrow pass the
wafer PUSHES from this basin and from there on
Is succession OF beautiful lesser cataracts for
nearly mile. From the top OF the first fall TO where
the stream empties into the Big Bushkill, mile and
half the descent 500 feet Near the main
fall, creek called Pond Run joins the Little Bnshk
short distance above its mouth there Is very pictu
RESCUE fall, 70 feet hgn The Big Bdskll rising way on
In the lofty mountains OF lower Pike County mas fall
half mile before IL reaches the Punging
the many rocky leaps and cutting its through
deep gorges its course Is marked by scene OF c0Dtln
uous grandeur and mdgnihcence. OTIS Barren Falls
"a hundred feet higd, the Buttermilk Falls.
Beaver Leap, the Cake-Out and many others. are
among the cataracts and Wild spots found in this creek
Mr. Peters, at Buslkl has good hotel, and there
several excellent boarding houses at the same place
Adding 10 the picturesque region described the won
derful Water Gar, Is miles from Bushkil with its
weird aud romantic surroundings II Is doubtful II
rich scenic grandeur be found the
continent as this Valley OF the Delaware IL lacks
only railroad, many think, to develop and make more
valuable its manifold beauties.