The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-07-27
Ladies Department.
Summer Trips on the Pennsylvania
Railroad,

Summer Trips on the Pennsylvania
Railroad.
People who arc so fortunate as to
live on or near the line of the Penn
sylvania Railroad enjoy rare privilege
in their facilities for making short
and pleasant trips to some of the
most attractive summer resorts in
the land. Its extended system pen
etrates the highlands and mountains,
and runs down to the sea, affording
in its course wide diversity OF seem
cry and choice range of climate.
First among the mountain refugees
is Cresson Springs, with its grand
hotel, the Mountain House, its cele-
brated waters, fine climate. and ro-
mantle surroundings. The highlands
are represented by Luray. with its
wonderful caverns aud hardly less
famous Luray Inn, and the Natural
Bridge, second only tc the Giants
Causeway in point of prominence as
a natural wonder.
In seashore territory the Pehnsyl-
wanna lines are unusually rich. That
territory is bounded only by the con-
fines of the Jersey coast, which from
Sandy Hook to Cape May is one un-
broken series of smiling summer
cities.
The "upper coast" offers Long
Branch, the gay capital of fashion,
with its immense hotels, princely
villas, grand boulevards, and it's
great race course Hollywood, fairy
realm by the sea; Elberon, where
Garfield gazed on the blue deep in
his last moments; Deal Beach, quiet
and pretty; Asbury Park and Ocean
Grove, the home of pleasure seekers
as we'll as of religious workers; Key
East. where metaphysicians solve
knotty problems amid the sea breez
es; Ocean Beach, calm and home-like
Como, with its sparkling lake and
new cottages; Spring Lake, rarely
beautiful; Sea Girt, appropriately
named; Manasquan, a modernized
summer town built up among the
quaint fishing huts of Squan village;
Brielle, bright with gabled cottages
Point Pleasant, an upland village
transplanted on the sea; Bay Head
young but vigorous; Mantoloking,
Chadwick, Lavalette, Ortley. Berke-
ley, Seaside Park. all washed on one
side by the sea on the other by Bar
negat Bay, where fishermen thrive
and are merry with big catches. On
the border between the upper and
dhe middle is Island Heights, the
serene and beautiful home of happy
cottagers, and Toms River, a quaint
old town of ancient houses, wide
streets, and spreading trees.
The middle coast has as It's chief
representative Barnegat City and
Beach Haven, one celebrated fol the
abundance, variety, and excellence
OF tits fish, the other as pleasant
and uppretentious seaside resting
place.
The lower coast begins at Atlantic
City, the peoples great pleasure
ground; thence down the shore is
South Atlantic City, pretty suburb
of the older town; Longport, in the
very midst of the waters; Somer's
Point. the fisherman's home; Ocean
City, the growing seat of seaside
Methodism; Sea Isle City, with its
great beach, pretty cottages, and
handsome hotels; Avalon, new and
promising candidate for popular
favor, Anglesea, Wildwood. and
Holly Beaches, all additionally at
tractive by the grand groves, which
grow from the waters edge; Cape
May. the "Queen of the Coast" With
its magnificent beach. great hotels
athletic grounds, and driving park
and attractiveness in everything
The bright chain comes to an end al
Cape May Point. which divides the
waters of the Delaware from tboeo .,