Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-08-21
EXCURSION ROUTES.
The Quickest, Shortest, Safest and
Cheapest Routes by Rail West,
South and Southwest. Very I'm
portant to Travellers, Tourists,
and Those in Search of New
Homes, &c.
Charms of Climate and Attractions Of
Novelty.
A FEW WORDS TO TOURISTS AND TRAv.
ELERs BOUND FOR BALMy BREEZEs
AND THE BEST CLIMATE IN THE
WORLD

WORLD.
With the Pleasure seeker the Emf.
grant or the Invalid bound for the
Middle, Western, Southern or the Gull
coast resorts, the next question after
settling ,chen TO 90, is, hoU to go. First,
ofcourse, parties east OF Pittsburg take
the Pennsylvania Central, the best
mangcd and best equipped railway line
in the world, over which line and its
connections, Mr.. L. p. Farmer, the
General Passenger Agent, has arrang.
cd a system Of Summer travel, not
even possible with any other road than
the Pennsylvania. 1t is scarcely nee.
essary here to mention that Col. Il. A.
Scott is the President Of this grand
and magnificent road, and Frank
Thompson its General Manager.
Arriving in Pittsburg, the convcn.
lent schedules arranged by Col. W. l..
0'Brien, General Passenger Agent of
the Pittsburg Cincinnati and st. Louis
Railway, render il almost matter of
course that this favorite "Pan Hahdle
Route" will be taken. Mr., D. w. Cald.
well is the General Manager of this
road, and Mr. s. NJ. FELTON,, Jr., Gen.
eral Superintendent. In connection
with tho great Pennsylvania Central
it is the quickest, shortest safest and
cheapest route from New York, Bos.
ton and Philadelphia to Pitsbwg, Co
tumbus, Cincinnati, 81. Louis and the
Great West to the Pdcifc-one direct
and continuous line without an equal
in all its appointments traversing the
most densoly populated portions Of
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, &C.,
reaching either by direct or connect.
ing lines, every city and town of any
magnitude between Lake Michigan
and the Ohio River and South thro'
Kentucky, via the Cincinnati and
Louisville Short Line and the Louis.
vile and Great Southern Rail Road to
New Orleans or intermediate points.
From Cincinnati to Louisville you
take the l.. & G. SHORT LINE" con-
meeting those two cities, the shortest,
quickest, cheapest and best route con-
meeting those cities; managed by care
ful, competent and clever officers, and
riding in clean, new coaches, attended
by polite and attentive employees. The
"Short Line" is the only one running
its entire trains through from Cincin.
natl to Louisville over a stone ballast
ed track, entirely free from dust, and
known all over the Southern Middle
States as the peoples Favorite." 1t
is eighteen miles the shortest route be.
tween those cities 1t is the only prin-
cipal connecting link to the Great
South for a network of Rail Roads
having their terminus either directly or
indirectly at Cincinnati. All passen-
gers going South from the East, North,
Northeast and Northwest find their
way to Cincinnati and thence over this
splendidly equipped Road Souah. Jno.
Macleod is the General Superintend-
ent of this road, and Mr.. S. S. Parker
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
AT Louisville the traveller, whether
bound Tor Middle Tennessee, Alabama
or New Orleans, takes the Great South
ern Line. The commendable energy
Of this line through Louisville, between
Eastern and Southern cities, keeps it
at the front, with the quickest time
between New York and New Orleans.
The through run is now made in sixty
hours and one minute, not however by
excessive speed, but by running thro'
trains for through passengers. All the
latest improvements applied to passen-
ger transportation have been adopted
by this line, and it boasts steel rails,
stone ballast and Westinghouse air
brakes. Through sleeping cars be.
tween Columbus, Ohio, and New Or.
leans, pass over the Great Southern.
The General Passenger Agent, Mr.. G. |
p. Atmorc, has thrown his great ex.
pcricnce and energy into the work of
forwarding passengers, and some idea
of his ability may be gained from the
fact that, over this route passengers
leave New Orleans at 5.45 p. M, and |
arrive at Columbus, Ohio, for break
fast on the second day, Pittsburg at A
p. m, and New York at Gas a. M,
third day, sixty hours from New Or
leans to New York City.
The Pennsylvania Central, the Pitts
burg, Cincinnati and St. Louis ("Pan
Handle Routc,") the Louisville 4 Gin
cinnati Short Line, and the Great
Southern have connecting and inter
penetrating timetables and schedules.
II you would go to Alabama, with
its million acres Of land inviting North.
ern enterprise, its grand clmato--no
fevers, and no chills and no cold win
ters-take this route and no other.
If you would visit Mammoth Cave
with its marvellous avenues and starry
grottocs, take this route and no other.
If you would see Pensacola, the Ma.
pies Of America, and visit Florida, the
Italy Of America, with its genial,
healthy, life giving atmosphere, land
of perpetual Indian Summer take this
route and no other
If you seek a home in the South.
west at any point, or If business calls
you to New Orleans, Mobile, Calves.
ton, Austin, or any Of the Gull cities,
take this route and no other.
And when your journey brings you
TO Pittsburg stop over at the Seventh
Avenue Hotel, where the most elegant
hospitality awaits you a fine new ho-
tel, whose reception rooms, parlors,
and bed chambers, furnished in the
most elegant manner, elicit tho admi.
ration OF all its visitors. At Cincin-
natl you will stop, as oil tho knowing
ones do, at the "Grand" Hotel, whore
its hundreds Of rooms, its splendid
halls, and healthful, large, airy sleep.
ing apartments, and its unrivalled Ia
BILE, the traveller is compelled to unite
with the press everywhere in praising