Connecticut western news., 1878-06-20
A CHARMING TOUR.
A Ride throuEh.a Historic and Romantic
 iE A ss. Region. ,&

E E The summer season in this count ry is becoming more and more marked for the interest people take in selecting routes for pleasure. tours, and the ingenuity of railroad and steamboat managers is taxed to arrange attractive excursions to meet the growing demand. Compi- cated tours are made out and catalogued until it requires steady head to get the run " of them. There is one con- tinuous route, however, which combines the attractions of several; and which is annually becoming more popular with the public. Although the mutations of law and capital have declared that there is no longer an Erie Railway, and that in it's place must be conjured up the s' New York, Lake Erie & Western, neither law nor capital, even if they chose, can change the work that Nature has done along this route of worldwide notoriety.
 Railroads of late have been spurred to extraordinary feats of enterprise, un- til to-day American railways defy the world in the elegance, comfort and con- veniences of their equipments, and in the completeness of the systems under which they are managed. Oandor forces the acknowledgement that the much ma- l Iigned and misrepresented mana2 cement of the Erie-Qet us call the road by it's | old, familiar name, for in this instance, r certainly, familiarity will not breed con- tempt)-is the model from which all the systems of railroad management in this country have been modelled, and render ing due praise and honor to the great lines which are necessarily and natural ly it's rivals, it still leads the van in bold,
 new and original ideas-ideas that are stamped with the mark of genius.
 Photographic signals for running trains,
 sleeping coaches, palace coaches, hotel
 cars, and all of tEe modern appur- tenances which have 50 enhanced the
 pleasure, comfort and reliability of rail
 road travel, either originated with, or
 were first patronized by the Erie Rail
 way Company; and traversing section
 of country in which nature has scattered
 the grandest, most varied and choicest
 of her handiwork, 1t is indeed .s'the royal
 route of pleasure travel.
 The itinerary of the railway is through
 the States of New Jersey, Pennsylvania
 and New York. Starting from the his
 toric shores of "noble Hudson," it's
 line of steel rails glearn across the bright.
 est portions of those great States, and
 terminates amid the thunder and mists oi } peerless Niagara. Intervening are the
 most beautiful, classic and historic ol
 valleys the Passaic, with it's wonderful
 cataract in the heart of 8 populous.city
 the fair Paramus, with its old Dutch
 legends the Ranapo, bounded by tow
 ering mountains and noisy with it's tum
 bling river, born of a score of marvel
 ous lakes the beauteous wales that
 make far-famed Orange county land ot
 song; the storied Neversink whose
 placid waters have. ran red with tho blood of pioneers shed by the .tomahawl
 and scalping knife of the aboriginal say
 age; the picturesque Delaware with it's
 great mountains, it's cliffs, its plains, anG it's tortuous river the Susquehanna, a the portal of which is the "gem of tho , east, Starrucca 1; the romantic Che ! mung, the home of tradition the his toric Genesee, with its wild glens an( laundering cataracts, and the great Ale gheny, whose winding course takes i among the widest of mountains and for ) est regions. The key to the charming lakes of Central New York is held by thu Erie /; Watkins Glen, famous whereve
 the English langusgeis is spoken, is among
 its attractions 1; the mountain regions o Northern Pennsylvania, with their trou streams, their bass lakes, and their cat , aracts and gorges, are skirted for man, { a mile by it ; it runs to the very shore of the great lakes Erie and Ontario thu Falls of the Genesee- both the marvel of Portage and the laundering waters a - Rochester-ar within the shadow of it speeding trains and the crowninl , scenic glory of America-the sublim , Niagara-is reached by no other rout , so directly and quickly. Besides al these, the tourist who is seeking tn charms of the farther West may roll il
 the luxurious coaches of this gran'
 route from New York to Chicago-98 , miles-without leaving the car to eat sleep or smoke ..... -..... ..- A tour of the Erie and it's wide con nections is really the most enjoyable consequently the most popular excursion 5 in the East. gs