Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-06
CORRESPONDENCE.
summer saunterings.
 On tha cars Au0 3d-

On the cars, Aug. 3d, 1883.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND ooURrER:
 For the past few weeks have been follow ing the ruleo allrich and prosperous CD bus mess men and spending as much time as possible travelling from place to place and visiting the numerous resorts of pleasure and fashion and getting all the enjoyment that Can be obtained by observation with recreation. Several days have been spent at the old homestead in New Jersey about which wrote you last year, some days in the hay field and others fishing, and then again travelling to other abodes. To write you 8 description of the more celebrated summer resorts where all of your readers have frequently been would not interest them, but often in way wholly accidental one hits upon bit of experience that is csr- tainly enjoyable to the writer, at least, if not to the reader. Yesterday after call at a hslf-dozen places by chance took train for given destination only to learn when the conductor came for my fare q did not have time to get 8 ticket before starting) that the train did not go ct all to the place I had start ed for. You can easily imagine my feeling of bewilderment occasioned by this, not be- ing very well used to travelling, particularly far from home as was, and after many ques- tions to the aforesaid conductor learned the direction and whereabouts of the place I was going to and giving myself up to adventure I settled down to the situation as contentedly as possible had been riding for some time on fiat car of freight train in the open air, and my eyes were filled with cin ders that came from the far ahead locomo- tive, and could not enjoy the delightful country through which we were passing on that occasion. I did not dream there was such fertility insthis part of the State, of which had frequently heard, but never had seen. At every village through which we O wuhn1n nf pO0ifk uvn 1Atho%Ad at the depot, and in the meadows adjoining the railroad track were large herds of splen did COWS and fine focks of sheep, and well filled barns were seen so often that 1t gave one the idea of ''plenty" as well as peace. Curiosity led me to be more than usually ob- serving, being in strange locality, and the entire surroundings were taken in, while the sun went down in the West. Presently we came to the end of the journey of the train that night, and instead of stopping, as sup posed we would, at some little qu1et spot, where 8 small wooden farmers hotel would be our accommodation for the night, directly in front of the depot was 8 large brick block, many stories high, the ground floor of which was brightly lighted up and containing stores of various kinds, and the upper part was arranged into one of the finest hotels ! ever stopped at. The fur niture was of the newest patterns, the ap- pointments of the office, the colored attend anus a1Q GQS Q1D1QR IOOEu were HI III h6SD1lS with the external, and although it was some what late the obliging clerk (whose head was covered with fancy "skull cap') asked me if would have supper, which offer was cheerfully accepted, and soon I was the only one at the tables of an immense dining hall, and supplied with one of the best sup pers ever ate, from elegant dishes and sur roundings. From my room could look out upon private park belonging to the hotel, in the centre of which was large fountain with graxeled walks, fringed with flowers and several private cottages facing the hotel
 It was a small paradise. It was at the Dutch CT House, Pawling, New York.
 This morning taking the train north 1t was my experience to have small bit of romance. At one of the small stations a young lady took seat directly behind where I was sitting. She was well dressed and rather pretty. As she left the train. at the same station with myself, we accidentally ] met two or three times going from the cars to the hotel, although she did not go into the out of sight. We exchanged no words and the circumstance of seeing her would have been wholly forgotten but for the fact that before l left the place a stranger came te me and inquired about the young lady, telling me she had just run away from home, and soon her father came up, having followed the train with his team, and they too asked me numerous questions of what could tell them concerning her ac- tions since she came on the train and after she left the same. From them I gathered that she had doubtless made an appointment
 which she was now keeping, and left them still on their search while proceeded on my | journeying. The watching of several young men, who, by their dress and outfit, judged were off for fishing excursion, gave me amusement enough for the next few hours, 1 and wished them more successful catch than your correspondent usually has upon such explorations M. c. s.