Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-07-17
SECOND ANNUAL EXCURSION
TO OLD POINT COMFORT ON
THE SEASHoRE.
August eth the Date.


! pices of the company from the line OF
The Newport News and Mississippi
Valley Company, Western Division,
to Old Point Comfort on the scashore.
The train will be composed OF the
handsomest dav coaches and Pullman
B lilet Sleeping Cars, and will be
under the direct supervision of Mr..
w. j. Berg, General Travelling Agent
OF the company, who 80 attentively
looked after the comfort of the Hop
kinsville party last year both indivi-
dually and collectively and who ad-
ded much to the pleasure of the trip.
1t is the intention TO make this the
most attractive excursion ever run
nom Kentucky; ample provisions
will be made for passengers so that
none of the cara will be crowded.
A yesrsso when the first excursion
was run to Old Point, there were only
few along the line of the Chesapeake
" Ohio who were familiar with the
trip, but as all who went on last years
excursion have been praising it in
the most enthusiastic terms, the great
Atlantic Coast Resort is now as well
known in Kentucky and Tennessee as
it Is in tho Eastern States.
There are several features of this
trip which specially commend them
selves TO pleasure seekers First, in
the scenery along the route, the Ches-
apeake & Ohio is the most celebrated
of American Railways. The canons
of New River, the barriers of the Al
leghanies, the Battle Fields of Nir-
ginia aud the beautiful valley of the
Shenandoah, need no comment. Old
Point Comfort is situated ON IIamp-
ton Roads, the largest Harbor on the
Atlantic Coast. The Hygeia Hotel,
at Old Point Comfort, covers more
ground than any other seashore re-
sort. The surf bathing is excellent
and perfectly safe. Fortress Monroe,
Americas great military training
school, Is within a stones throw Of
the Hotel. The National Soldiers
Home and the Indian Normal School
at Hampton are reached by fifteen
minutes drive. Norfork, Portsmouth
aud Gossport Navy Yards are
reached In three quarters of an hour
across Hampton roads. Virginia
Beach and Ocean View, on the Attain
tic Coast east of Norfolk, are within
an hours ride from that city. New
Port News, at the head of Hampton
Roads Harbor. near the scene of the
great Naval Encounter between the
Merrimac and the Monitor, II is only |
eight miles distant from Old Point, |
aud Hotel Warwick at Newport News |
is not surpassed by any other sesshore
resort.
There are a Great many attractions
along the line of the Chesapeake Il |
Ohio and as stop-overs will be grant.
ed on the excursion tickets, they may
all be visited.
Richmond, the Capital of the late
Confederacy, is among the chief at.
fractions. tits specially interesting
in relics of the late war.
Luray Caverns and Natural Bridge
are only short distance from the
main line ofthe Chesapeake Il Ohio,
and slde-trip tickets will be sold in
connection with the excursion
Other cheap side trips have been ar
ranged specially for this Excursion
among them being the trip to New
York and return, either by the Old
Dominion Steamship Company from
Old Point or by the Cape Charles
Rail Route through the Delaware
Peninsula; to Boston and return by
steamship; 10 Providence, II 1. and
return by steamship; TO Baltimore
and return by bay line steamers up
Chesapeake Bay aud to Washington
City and return by the Potomac River
Steamers up the Potomac River.
White Sulphur Springs, the largest
American mountain resort with 4
Hotel capable accommodating $500 ,
people. is Immediately on the line OF
the Chesapeake & Ohio, at the
Heights of the AlleEhanies.
Special rates will be made at the
IIygeia Hotel, Old Point Comfort, TO
those presenting excursion tickets.
The Special Train will start out
from Dyersburg, Tenn, at 4 80 a. m.
August Sth and will pass Nortonville
at ii ~ a. m. connecting with the l..
II N. train from this city at 0:52
Arriving at Anderson, in the Ale
ghanies, for breakfast at 8 A. NJ, and
at Charlottesville for dinner at 3 20
r. NJ, reaching Richmond at s :45 p.
NJ. and Old Point Comfort at 0 :l5 z.
NJ.
A representative ofthe TIygeia lIo-
el will join the train at Richmond
md will assign rooms to passengers
)n the train so that upon arrival at
he Hotel they may go at once to {
heir rooms without confusion,
The round trip rate from Norton i
fillo will only be $l4. which places it
within reach of all. Tickets will be =,
good going only on the seashore spec
al August Sth and will be good 20
return on any regular passenger train
until September 9th. No stop-over
will be allowed going, but q
stop-overs can be made at any station
between Lexington, Ky. and Old v
Point Comfort returning.
Those who desire to go with the C
excursion should leave their names
at once with w. A. Wilgus at the O
SouTH KENTUCKIAN Office SO as to
have arrangements made for their p
accommodation, and secure berth on
sleeper. An elegant Pullman day :,
coach will be set on the side track at "
this depot for the Hopkinsville par
ty, so as to insure perfect comfort U
Names are being handed in every day
and if you intend going it will be o
best not to delay.
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Reader, did you ever pause for a
moment To consider the vast amount V