Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-01
ON THE WING.
MISS LEILA ]. LINDLEY'S VISIT TO
CHAUTAUGUA.
Fitting About Among Beautiful Scenes
and Enjoying Summer Vacation
bound for GU .eheo.

MAYvILLE (N. w. August 10, 1889.
We have started on cur summer iaunt
md have gotten thi S far on our journey.
We left Pittsbur at S A. M. on the Allie
;hany Valley Reilroad, and came through
| country full of interest, namely, the
yreat oil re- sion of Pennsylvania. The
RI yer winds in and out between
he green hills and beautiful silyery fields
If buckwh.eat. The scene is one of con-
'tant delight and pleasure as the cars go
along. The water is so clear,
The hills are reflected in it and the sight
is really magnificent. A more perfect
mirror than this pretty stream cannot be
imagined. Just at the approach of au-
tumn everything seems SO lovely. The
Indian summer comes SO gradually upon
us we are almost unconscious of it until we
see "the leaves begin to turn" and the
bright tints seem to long for the biting
breath of Jack Frost that their already
gorgeous colors may turn even brighter. l
have been through much beautiful coun-
try, but the trip along this river surpassed
| have yet seen in the way of
truly gentle loveliness and natural beauty
of scenery. Yet 1t has not even a touch of
grandeur. 1t is simply beautiful. Canal
boats, skifs, shanty boats and pleas
ure boats are going up and down the
river all day, and it is SO nice to
look upon pretty things and places
when you are weary from travelling.
Ere long the beautiful illusion is some
what dispelled as you approach Oil City
and other towns in northwestern Penn
sylvania. Getting up into this vicinity
the sight is novel one to those unaccus-
toned to seeing oil wells as thick as ants.
The bluffs and hills are dotted here, there
and everywhere with conical shaped scaf-
folding, which is the heunvarying gsign of awell.
Within few hundred feet | counted over
hundred wells. 1t was very instructive
and interesting to be shown the ways and
means of working these contrivances. All
along the river, where the oil has run into
the water, it forms in all kinds of shapes,
and the sun shining on it, gives it an
lrrldescent coloring that is most brilliant
to see. To a novice it looks a little odd to
see these oil wells on every side-in
peoples front yards, back yards and under
the windoE-why, it runs as though the
oil had leave and license to go anywhere.
Front gardens and kitchen gardens are on
par when it comes TO ornamentations of
the scafolding family. Miles and miles
of oil tanks shine out all along the line,
and it did seem as though bees about a
hive could not be much thicker. ! could
not help but think of Champagne Charley
and Oil City Tommy. Was it both, or
which one was it, that made fortune in
this slippery region. That item in the
history of oil has slipped my memory.
OIL CITY
Is queer kind of place, and but for the
business it maintains there seems to be lit
tie of interest going on. Our car was fitted
with a buffet, and we all decided to dine
on board, and inspect Oil City during the
twenty-five minutes the train is supposed
to stop. We sauntered forth happily and
unthinkingly, and had been about seven or
eight minutes, may be, on the way to 'town"
when we heard someone yelling, and look
ing around we saw our fat little porter
running, and losiPg nearly all his breath
At every step. - MS wil4 gestures we
interpreted them = mean we had tarried
too long, and, sire efsough, the train was
late, and the conductor had decided to try
and catch up. As he had told us we had
twenty-five minutes to spare, he felt in
duty bound to hunt us up, and we no doubt
made a lasting impression on the towns
people as we rushed pell-mell through
their midst. So many laughable things
happen while on the wing. We are disap-
pointed if something ludicrous doesn't
happen; We are so accustomed to incidents
of all descriptions.
Continuing on our way, we finally reached
this pretty village, at the head of Lake
Chautauqua, and but few minutes sail
from the renowned literary camping ground.
Chautauqua-the name is so suggestive of
knowledge. We must see it; hence we
took the steamer and went round the pretty
lake and landed at the great and wonder
fui Chautauqua. People-people-people
where did you all come from was our
first thought, as we stood waiting for the
gangplank to be lowered. The dock was
mass of surging humanity. We elbowed
our way through the throng and paid our
forty cents apiece for admission to the
grounds. Your ticket gives you the free
dom of the place, and you can't get out
again without showing your ticket Unless
you indulge in a season ticket, the daily
tax of forty cents is levied on all who
would enter this
WOODLAND TEMPLE OF LEARNING.
First and foremost, we were famished.
and being directed to the I" Athenaum "
we dined sumptuously. This hotel is an
enormous building, and has a mammoth
dining-room and corridor. The piazzas
are equally extensive, and on three sides
command a beautiful view of the lake.
After dinner we wandered up to the Audi
fortuna square open building, not SO
very large, but the amphitheater is i'm
mense. An organ recital and reading by
George Cable were the attractions this
afternoon. This structure has roof but
is not inclosed on the sides.
Chautauqua has many pretty places
Palestine Park Museum, an inclosure con-
tanning model of the city of Palestine
which, presume, is very good, though my
knowledge Of the Holy City comes simply
from having seen the Cyclorama, and the
miniature city is surely very like the pic
ture. The avenues and various streets
about this great camp ground are very
dIS OF cottages,
many hotels and boarding-houses. stores
and curio shops. The lake is seemingly
placid sheet of water twenty miles long
and three miles wide at the widest point.
Swift-hying steamers take you as far as
jamestown, which is Just at the outlet of
the lake. on a little stream called the Mar
rows, through which two steamers could
scarcely pass, though it has been done in
case of emergency. One of the principal
places on the lake is
LOVELY SPOT,
Called Lakewood, which perhaps is really
the only place that looks as though the
summer throng did not find books in the
running brooks, sermons in stones" etc.
For Lakewood is undoubtedly the fashion
able resort on the lake shore. There are
two fine hotels-Kent's and Sterlingworth.
The latter place is most peculiar in archi-
lecture, having front appearance of an
ancient castle, with its numerous round
pwers and innumerable corners and turns,
while the back makes one imagine an Eng
lish inn, such as We read Of
Point Chautauqua, Bemus Point, Green's
and other smaller places are very charm
ing resorts, but on a smaller scale than
Lakewood and Chautauqua. Just before
jamestown the lake seems TO
come to an end, and for a few miles the