The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-09-06
MISS GRUNDY's LETTER.
bifc at Chaatsudds STRAY Notes From Ssratoss-
Accessions TO Washington Socicty-Genersl News
from Summer Resorts.


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mental Improvement Some there are who go to ex-
CESS IN ths as others do at the gay resorts In Idle
amusements, for among these students are many
exclnsop M ali ro,roa,,o an,, ,no ,,us,, " ,.e
sufTered In cor.e,ronca Co,,aao ,ss -
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tent fc ia also aeon ~ nm ns,on, rn,s,,o, 1, ",,
th,cklv sc,,Ied ne,,hhorh,o, Ton,a ~ so
nlshe, for occupancy can he rented verv iow
am 'oiu mat this mas been an unusually prosper
ous season mere, anu so great number OF visitors
nave rarely been on this lake before. or course the
n'gh prices which prevail at the very fashionable
resorts on the sea-coast and In the mountains are
unknown here, and. having hcalthful climate and
goou society TO recommend 1t, people who feel they
can no longer afford to pay extravagant rates for
their summer travels are likely to select place like
TINS, or one OF the other settlements the lake.
rhere are fully twenty steamboats,, most OF them
goodszed ones, which go through the lake from end
to end daily, touching at all the landings, and
numerous smaller craft, some OF them private yachts
seamtugs, sailing vessels, and countless r0w-boats
This Is the highest navlgabe sheet OF water above
the sea level In the world being 29j feet above the
sea aud Iso above Lake Erie. 1t is only eight miles
from the latter in direct line The nearest route
thlther from the East and West and South ia via tho
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad. That
goes to Buffalo, whence another comes direct ,o the
lake and connects with the steamboats,.
The New York Central and Hudson River Rail.
road brought swiftly aud safely to Buffalo after
we left Saratoga, whence we took the Lake shore
Railroad to westneld and then came here. Nv the
way, Mr.. Harris, who was for some timc at Will
ards HOTEL in Washington has for three wears becn
keeping the Genessec House. Mt BnfY.lo and ia s,,u
there ran plump up against new Ito me, me-
rdian leaving Buffalo, my first experIence of the
kind in my travels. had planned to 20 to West.
aor.ls
time for leaving at O'clock and the hour for reach
ing westfeld at 9;5O So Thought natura,lv II wa
anly fifty minutes between the two looked at tho
depot clock, and saw that we left on time and that
my watch was exactly with 1t, What then was INV
surprise, when we had been ont for hair an bour
and asked the conductor a ouestIon as IN whom !
would reach my destination. to have him show mo
his watch, which was then only half.past eight vet
he admitted that 1t was nine as said. Inv tho ,eno
clock, when we left BpffaIo See,n, NV ha,,,,,,a.
ment he explained that the New York Contra, Ro,,,
ran by New York time and the o.o shore roi,ro,1h,
the time OF the Goth meridian inst ono bonr s,o,yor
and Buffalo was the dividing line. so nj, mo tina
SINCE when have made apno,n,men,. have ,sa,o
mention whether meant ra,Iro,,, t,mo or NoS vi,
time as there is here exactly an hour dierencc be
tween the two though 7 cannot GOO tha, !, ,n,sas
apy difference in the nerod he,woon srnsa, ",,
bedtime or sunrise and breakfast IN Tho ,r,a,a
therefore I think nrofer tho oI move ,xra,,, -
OF changing time in going Eos, or y,oss ,,,u.a ~
the present abrupt ono os hnt,in, .,o,no, y,
and han, .no.ta,, ts.,,"., "s"ue. ~ 'neiiu'an
hour before Won Know If, ""0''
AT Westgeld oniv six ,,,,o, ,r,,, ,,s.,,.
Lake and ope mile from, 7 ota Fr,o H., M 80"
sentative Rrewer n, ,hIs c. - - n..s M
last Congress- ana xhoso Wiz ro, IN ,ne
80, ,, e',, - So ms. ""e, very hiehiy cuiti-
inuton The vonrCoat sor "a s.u'.,. ".e W Masu-
sIon-tbat Of medicine and snrnar nss, 'ns p.oies