Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-03-13

crowds go there in pursuit of the same
relaxation and enjoyment, and upon
no night in Spring or summer does the
tired musician or attendant get rest.
As rule, all the resorts are conducted
with strict regard for the proprieties,
aud il is an uncommon thing to note the
least disturbance. These are the breath
Ing places of Cincinnatians; popular be-
cause so easy of access; no toiling up
steep hills, although they are many hun
bred feet above the level Of the river that
runs mile away, but you are trans
ported noiselessly and swiftly to the top
by n steam railroad that seems TO end in
the air. Truly, this is the city OF in
,lined,planes, and were they abandoned,
the thousands of people residing on the
hills, up which these planes so swiftly
take them, would be placed at great in
convenience,
One of the most beautiful parks in this
country is close by the Highland House.
It is plot of many acres of ground, or
iginally known as the Garden of Eden.
Here, upon these now beautifully rounded
hills and macadamized valleys and road
ways, was where the well known Nicho-
las Longworth raised the grapes for the
wine that made his name famous. Years
ago these 206 acres were purchased by the
city and converted into Eden Park. They
lave already cost the city $50, 900, and
part of it has not yet been improved
Through these beautiful grounds, shut
off from the city by Mt Adams and its
sister hill, on which stands massive
building just completed, and which has
been dedicated as an art museum, runs a
line of street cars connecting Walnut
Hills and jacksonville, the latter six
miles away. From the car window one
can enjoy most enhancing view of hill
and dale; can see the graceful bend of
the river as it flows eastward between the
hills of Ohio and Kentucky, and gaze with
delight upon the fertile and populous
plains of the latter state, and known rs
the Kentucky Highlands. Dee.
II the glare and glitter of the hilltop
resorts or the beautiful lawn of Eden
Park pals on ones TASTE a short ride will
take him to the Geological Garden, one of
the largest and finest in the United States.
substantial and costly, the
acres comprising it rendered rs
beautiful as the art of the landscape
gardner can make it, dotted over with
lakes and fringed with leafy and UNI
brageous shelter. there is no better pill
grimage than to this, the pride of the
Queen City. With nearly thousand
specimens of animal life, culled from all
parts of the world, within its en-
,losure; with neat and tasteful place
n which to administer to the wants of
he elmer man." he must be n cynic in
Iced who can find nothing to in,terefs ste 8.
'1i .l.., ~ i'IienYcs, and perhaps operate en-
are given within the
rounds, and at these times all Cincin-
att turns out and has gala day.
But it is not necessary to even find
hese places il one is in search of amuse
nent. Go "behind the canal" as the
\nglo-German has it-equivalent TO
crossing the Rhine, and in five
you enter a portion of the city
IS distinctiyely German as though you
lad been suddenly transported by fairy
nto the streets of Berlin or Munich.
You leave behind you the moment you
ross the dull, flowing, uninteresting
ANAL that divides the German quarter
rom the native, every evidence of an
American city; you see signs printed in
German; you peep in at doors through
which are waited the songs and notes of
music of the "Faderland"; you meet
with fair-haired, stalwart men and
women, whose costumes
bespeak their nativity; in fact, the
change is startling. Every other house
is beer saloon with garden attached,
in which are seated promiscuous as
semblage, seen nowhere else in the west.
Everybody is talking-all are drinking.
The music, from string and wind instru
ments, strikes the ear on every side; the
lights from hundreds of windows dazzle
you; you are jostled by the ever surging
crowd of idlers that surge by in either di-
rection, and it is with difficulty you re-
alize that in such brief walk the change
can be so great All is life hustle and
animation. Concert halls, theaters,
saloons, shooting galleries, "weiner
wurst' stands, and all the outdoor sights
and sounds incident to dense population,
all commingle. You stop and wonder
where all the people come from and
where they are going. This is Vine street
of a summer night 'over the Rhine. Z"
No disturbance, al is decorous, but the
scene is animated and well calculated to
interest and amuse, TIulyrlife in great
city affords sufficient excitement for the
most restless, and no city in the country
holds a more unique place in this regard
than the paris of America
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