Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-08-03
SECOND ANNUAL EXCURSION
TO OLD POINT COMFORT ON
THE SEASHoRE.
Thursday, August 9th the Date.

| that on Thursday, August the 9th. a
special train will run under the aus
pices of The company from the line of
! the Newport News and Mississippi
Valley Company, Western Division.
TO Old Point Comfort on the seashore
The train will be composed of the
handsomest day coaches and Pullman
Buffet Sleeping Car., and will be
under the direct supervision of Mr..
w. j. Berg, General Travelling Agent
of the company. who so a,teDtiyely
looked after the comfort of the Hon.
kinsyille party last year both indivi.
dually and collectively and who ad.
ded much TO the pleasure of the trim
IL is the intention TO make this the
most attractive excursion ever run
nom Kentucky; ample provisions
will be made for passengers so that
mona of the cars vii, be crowded.
A yearpoo when the first excursion
was run 10 Old Point there were only
few along the limo of tbe Chesaneake
x Ohio VINO were familiar with the
trim. hut as all who went on last wears
excursion have been nraising II in
the most enthusiastic terms, the great
Atlantic Coast Resort is now as well
known in Kentucky and Tennessee ms
il 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 a Ohio Is tae most celebrated
of American RAILWAYS. The CANYONS
of New River, the barriers of the AL
Iegbsuies. the Battle Fields of Vir-
ginia and the beautiful valley of the
Shenandoah, need no comment. Old
Point Comfort is situated on Hamp.
ton Roads. the largest Harbor on the
Atlantic Coast. The HyCeia 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 arc reached by a fifteen
minutes 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 Atlan-
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,
and Hotel Warwick at Newport News
is not surpassed by any other seashore
resort.
There are a Great many attractions
along the line of the Chesapeake &
Ohio and as stop-overs will be grant.
ed on the excursion tickets, they may
ALI be visited.
Richmond, the Capital of the late
Confederacy, is among the chief at.
fractions. Ills specially interesting
In relics of the late war.
Luray Caverns and Natural Bridge
are only a short distance from the
main line of Chesapeake & Ohio,
and side-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 |
steamshin. IN Providence. r. I. 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 |
American mountain resort with a
Hotel capable accommodating $500 |
peopIe. is Immediately on the line of
the Chesapeake & Ohio, at the |
Heights of the Alleghanies.
Special rates will be made at the
Uvgeia Hotel, Old Point Comfort, to
those presenting excursion tickets.
The Special Train will start out
from Dyersburg, Tenn, at 4 80 a. m.
August 9th and will pass Nortonville
nj il 10 a. m. connecting with the l..
n N. train from this city at 1852 |
Arriving at Anderson, in the Allie
ghanies. for breakfast at 8 A. NJ, and
at Charlottesville for dinner at 3 30
p. M. reaching Richmond at s As p
M. and Old Point Comfort at 8 :l5 p.
NJ.
A representative of the Hygeia Ho-
tel will Join the train at Richmond