Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-07-13
aRooND ANNUAL R2ovasiaN
ro'o1D POINT COMFORT ON
THE SEASHoRE.
August 9th the Date.


pices of the company from the line of
the Newport News aud Mississippi
Valley Company, Western Division,
TO Old Point Comfort on the seashore.
The train will be composed OF the
handsomesl day coaches and Pullman
Buffet Sleeping Cars, and will be
under the direct supervision of Mr.
w. j. Berg, General Travelling Agent
of the company, who so 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
fiom Kentucky ample provisions
will be made for passengers so that
none of the cara will be crowded.
A yearag when the first excursion
was run TO Old Point, there were only
a few along the line of the Chesapeake
Il 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 the 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 Vir-
ginia and the beautiful valley of the
Shenandoah, need no comment. Old
Point Comfort is situated on lamp
ton Roads, the largest Harbor on the
Atlantic Coast. The Hygeia Hotel,
ct 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 a fifteen
drive. Norfork, Portsmouth
and Gossport Navy Yards are
reached in three quarters of an hour
across Hampton roads. Virginia
Beach and Ocean View, on the Allan.
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, il is only
eight miles distant from Old Point,
and Hotel Warwick at Newport News
is not surpassed by any other seashore
resort.
There are Great many attractions
along the line of the Chesapeake &
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 of the Chesapeake & Ohio,
and side-trip tickets will be sold in
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 /
Steamship Company from
Old Point or by the Cape Charles
Rail Route through the Delaware
Peninsula; TO Boston and return by
steamship; to Providence, Il. 1. and
return by steamship; to Baltimore
and return by bay line steamers up
Chesapeake Bay and to Washington
City and return by the Potomac River
Steamers up the Potomac River.
White Sulphur Springs, the largest
mountain resort with a
Hotel capable accommodating $500
people, is Immediately on the line of
the Chesapeake & Ohio, at the
of the Alleghanies.
Special rates will be made at the
Hygeia Hotel, Old Point Comfort, to
hose presenting excursion tickets.
The Special Train will start out
from Dyersburg, Tenn, at 4 80 a. m.
August Sth and will pass Nortonville
At IL IL a. m. connecting with the L.
4 N. train from this city at 8 :52.
at Anderson, in the Ale
ghanies, for breakfast at 0 A. NJ, and
at Charlottesville for dinner at 3 go
p, NJ, reaching Richmond at s AS p.
NJ. and Old Point Comfort at 8 ;l5 P. |
NJ.
A representative ofthe lIygeia 1Io- |
tel will join the train at Richmond |
and will assign rooms to passengers
ON the train SO that upon arrival at
the Hotel they may go at once to
their rooms without confusion,
The round trip rate from Norton
vile will only be $l4. which places il
within reach of all. Tickets will be
good going only on the seashore spec
ial August Sth and will be good to
return on any regular passenger train