The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-06-01

will not permit After a soiourn Of two I,
hours, we found ourselves at the entrance,
and our driver demanding so cents from |
each Of US, and indeed we were very will /
ing to nav it, as we were highly enter |
tanned and much interested in the view, |
as well as the enjoyment Of the bTacing
breezes from the salty reservoir only a
few miles distant. The Greenwood Gem
etery in it's arrangement and beauty is
all that nature and art can at this time
accomplish. There are over two hun
dred hands kept busy in repairing the
drives and walks, keeping it clean and in
order; and IL seems upon reelection that
all that Gao be done, has been done here,
to make the last resting place a desirable
place and TO remove the natural dread
of the tomb; but all for no purpose in
that direction. 1t is only to engage and
satisfy the living and make it as desira-
l BILE as possible for friends to visit and
drop a tear over their remains of their
| departed loved ones. Nothing can be
done for the benefit OF the dead. The
view of tt surroundings-the waters Of
/ the Bay-,Staten Island-all surrounded
/ by water, New York Island, or City, also
surrounded, with small sailboats all
around the waters edge, makes the
scenery to a Jackson county boy. truly
] InaEnluCenl, anu men
returned toward the Tabernacle and got
our lunch After we got our wants in
the animal line" satisfied, we felt invig-
grated and inspired with renewed ankle
ty to enjoy the intellectual festivities af-
forded by the interesting sceneries of the
Empire City" and satisfying our curl
osities with beholding such of them as
circumstances would permit at the time
so in company with the same gentlemen,
together with DIR. Shipman, of Marietta,
Ohio, and Rev Mr. Eastman, of Chilli
cothe, Ohio, we directed our steps toward
the Fulton Street Ferry. There scraped
our pockets for 2 cents each, to pay
our ferry fare. In few moments we
were "at sea," and after gazing upon the
apparent infinite water we turned our
eyes upward, and beheld the most gigan-
tic towers that our eyes ever beheld, and
on each side (or nearly SOY of the strait
evidently intended for a suspension
bridge Of the most majestic appearance,
and upon inquiry we found that those
huge pillars were 365 feet high from the
base, the top of which was about twenty
feet above the water at the time. While
wondering at the almost infinite ingenu-
ity of human intelligence and machan-
ism, in successfully placing such an
edifice of immense size and weight down,
down in the deep waters upon a solid
foundation, stretching forth as it were
out of tho water, towering defantly in
the clouds we were suddenly called to
vacate, aud enter dry land We went up
Fulton Street to Ninth Avenue, and
took passage on the New York Elevated
Railway for the New York Central Park,
and by the way this Elevated Railway is
something new to all of our party. IL is
4 u .
feet high from the street, only one single
column at place. The whole structure
is of malleable iron, except the ties, and
what / would call a safety guide of tim
Der LAID on the inside Of the rails to pre-
vent serious injury from the wheels get
ting off the rail (track). There are
trains of three and four passenger cars
continually going to and from the Park,
drawn by a small locomotive; but while
contemplating this as well as the massive
structures towering heavenward, we were
called to make our exit, that the gateway
oil the celebrated Park mad been reached
and was now open for US Whereupon we
hastened down the stairway, and from
thence to the gateway of the Park.
There we found cabs and carriages of
every description ready and willing to
be desecrated by our sitting in them, for
the ruling idea of New York as well
as Jackson, viz: Greenback money, the
almighty dollar We agreed with the
carriage man, and had one of the most
pleasant carriage rides we ever enjoyed.
Here again, as it appeared to US that will
and power had met together that nature
and art had kissed each other, il would
be useless for US to attempt here to de-
scribe il any further than to say that it
contains S62 acres, and is 2 miles long,
and one-fourth of a mile wide. Total
carriage drive 9 miles, bride or saddle
horse path miles, walk 26 miles. The
"knoll" at SD Street and Ssh Avenue
lj6 feet above tide water. The grand
new reservoir is 3S feet deep, and con-
tains 500 million gallons. The ramble
contains 60 acres, and it supplies the
city, lakes and ponds with water Old
Reservoir sc acres, New Reservoir 96 acres,
Conservatory Pond p acres, Lark Lake
20 acres, Harlem Lake Is acres, Small
Lake acres, all Of which we passed on
our drive, and indeed very interesting
feature of our visit to the Park was the
fact that SO many of the upper tens oi
the Empire City were out in their costly
carriages, drawn by the finest of horses,
J continually passing in every drive way
of the extensive Park. Upon inquiry a
gentleman acquainted with the Park in
formed US that there was from eight tC
ten thousand carriages passing in the
} Park
GREAT DAY IN BROOELYS.
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