The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-07-20
Summer Trips on the, Pennsylvania Rail.
road.


People who are 30 fortunate as To
live on or near the line of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad enjoy rare privileges
in their facilities for making short
trips to some of the most attractive
summer resorts in the land. Its extern
ded system penetrates the highlands
and mountains, and runs down to the
sea, affording in its course wide di-
versity of scenery and choice range
of climate.
First among the mountain refugees
is Cresson Springs, with its grand ho-
tel, the Mountain House, its celebrated
waters, fine climate, and romantic sur.
roundings. The highlands are repre-.
sented by Luray, with its wonderful
caverns and hardly less famous Luray
Iun, and the Natural Bridge, second
only to the Giants Csuseway 10 point
of prominence as natural wonder.
In seashore territory the Pennsylva-
mia lines are unusually rich. That ter
ritory is bounded only by the confines
of the New Jersey coast, which from
Sandy Hook to Cape May is one un.
broken series of smiling summer cities.
The supper coast" offers Long
Branch, the gay capital of fashion,
with its immense hotels, princely vii
las, grand boulevards, and its great
rase course; Hollywood, fairy realm
by the sea; ElDeron, where Garfield
gszed on the blue deep in his last mo-
ments; 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 breezes; 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; Baielle, bright with
gabled cottages; Point Pleasant, an
upland village transplanted on the sea;
Bay Head, young and vigorous; Man
toloking, Chadwick, Lavalette, Ortley,
Berkeley, Seaside Park, all washed on
one side by the sea on the other by
Baruegat Bay, where fisherman thrive
and are merry with big catches. On
the border between the upper and the
middle is Island Heights, the serene
and beautiful home of happy cottag-
ers: and Toms River, a quaint old
town of ancient houses, wide streets,
and spreading trees.
The middle coast has as its chief re-
presentatives Barnegat City and Beach
Haven, one celebrated for the abund-
ance, variety, and excellance of its
fish, the other as pleasant and un-
pretentious seaside resting place.
The lower coast begins at Atlantic
City, the peoples great pleasure
ground; thence down the shore is
South Atlantic City, a 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 Me-
thodism; Sea Isle City, with its great
beach, pretty cottages, and handsome
hotels; Avalon. new and promising
candidate for popular favor, Angleses,
Wildwood, and Holly Beaches, all ad.
ditionally attractive by the grand
groveswhich grow 'FRONT.' the waters edge.
Cape May, the "Queen of the Coast, "
with its magnificent beach, great ho-
tells, athletic grounds, and driving
park, and attractiveness in everything.
The bright chain comes to an end at
Cape May Point, which divides the
waters of the Delaware from those of
the Atlantic
On the Delaware coast is Rehoboth,
possess'n ng one of the finest beaches on
the Atlantic; Ocean City, Maryland, a
quiet and popular resort; and further
south Old Point Comfort, equally at
tractive in summer and winter. This
is galaxy of pleasant places that can
not be surpassed in the world, and
with the individual attractions each
possesses it would be fastidious and
exclusive taste indeed that could not
find satisfaction in some of them.
Excursion tickets to each point men.
toned are on sale at the principal
stations of the Pennsylvania Railroad
and the lowness of the rates and liber
atty of return limit brings delightful
vacation trip within the power Of
every one.