Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-07-31
A PLEASANT EXCURSION PARTYT0
AusabIe CIasnl .

Ausable Chasm.
A very pleasant party OF about sixty left
here yesterday morning in special car al
s.: Il for trip 10 this delightful place
They stopped over night at the Van Ness
| House. Burlington. and visited all points
of interest in that beautiful city and re-
1 turning reached home this Thursday ev-
ening at a little after eight O'Clock. Inc
party consisted of Mrs. and Miss Swou OF
Boston; Mrs and Miss Stone, Miss Lottie
and z. Hodges, Mrs Luxe Parish, Ran
dolph; Mr.. Stoll o. j. Wernert, Selden
Holman and wife, Boston; z. q. Partridge
OF Phila.; Misses /. n. and l.. Welch, Chas.
n. Mccall, wife and son, Fred Leeds, Mrs.
Bragg, f. A. Eaton, New York; Mrs: Sort
well and son, Eugene Bancroft of the n.
Y. World staff, Brooklyn; Fred Harris, OF
Jersey City; A. ID. Lamson and wife, Cora
and Master AFRO Lamson, II. n. Story ana
wife, Mary Story, Samuel Howell and wife
and Mrs. E. A. Gaskell, Mary, Alice and
Willie Gaskell, Phila. Pa. Masters Albert
and Frank Chandler Brooklyn; Selvy Hoi
man, j. II. Lamson and wife, Mrs. Nj. j..
Lamson, j. w. Atwood and wife, X. J. Kim
ball, Clara, Annie and Eugene Kim ball ;
Clara Dame, Harriet Smith, Maude Blanch
ard. +. z. Evans and wife, and Arthur
Bean, Rev.V l. Haughton, West Randolph.
This most grand and beautiful wonder
OF Natures workmanship now becoming
so widely known over all portions OF the
civilized world, principally through the en-
thusiastic reports and representations OF
tourists and travellers who have seen it,and
solely upon the reality of its own beauties
and merit, is situated in Essex County, N.
", on the west side of Lake Champlain,
and three miles from the steamboat land
ing at Port Kent.
Having strangely remained long totally
undiscovered and unknown, until, by
chance, being op5ned up and rendered ac-
ce6sible at all to the venturesome traveller.
il, in a short space of time, with no adven-
titious aid or fulsome advert 'ng, has sprung
into place where, as well worthy as any
OF those mentioned and Justly celebrated
points, Niagara Falls, Lakes Champlain
and George, the White Mountains and the
Adirondacks, are to be sought and visited
by the lover of the beautiful and grand in
Natures handiwork or the tourist wishing
to form some idea OF American scenery,
Ausable Chasm win remain among their
number, in no less degree worthy OF mem
ton, or less to be remembered, in any OF
those spots preserved in the recollection
of the traveller, for their beauties and won
ders of natural scenery, whether in Amer
lea or the Old World.
The Chasm itself, SO called, is the chan
mel of the river Ausable in its rapid fall
daeks in the west, 10 empty into Lake
Champlain through a narrow ravine or
canyon, having lofty sides of rock in some
cases nearly two hundred feet in height,
with mountain precipices of varied form
towering above its dark waters, the tops
and sides of which are fringod with cedars
whose somber shadows add to its mysteri-
Gus and we-inspiring grandeur.
Lateral assures or gorges project from
the main Chasm, some wild and rugged in
whose rocky caves the sun never shines;
others bright and beautiful, and softly
clothed in moss and fern and endless flow
ers
The length of the Chasm is nearly two
miles. In some places the river is over 80
feet wide, in others it is compressed 70 on
~ fifteen, and is OF great depth and still
ness; in some il leaps against the giant
rocks, dashing ana whirling through its
tortuous pathway, with many beautiful
rapids and cascades, giving a life 10 the
scene in the musical rush of the waters.
There are perfectly safe walks, stairways
and bridges constructed along its entire
course, from which visitors can see many
points Of interest without discomfort or
fatigue, OF which the following are few,
the iron Cantilever Bridge, about $50 It.
above the bottom OF the Chasm, Rainbow
Falls, Horseshoe Falls, The Elbow, Pulpit
Rock, gigantic Elephants Head, The Ov-
en-, Jacobs Ladder, The Fernery, The Cir
eular Well, Mystic Gorge, Shady Gorge,
Long Gallery, Hyde's Cave, Column Rocks.
Pass, Upper Flume, Table
Rock, Cathedral Rocks, The Sentinel The
sentry Box, and others too numerous 10
mention.
Until the Spring OF 1890 this wonderful 4
,hasm has been accessible only TO a few at 1
expense, owing 20 stage trans I
being required from Port Kent 1
. the Chasm, but with the summer season /
II 1890, the keesville, Ausahle Chasm q I
AXE Champlain Railroad has been con-
tructed, running direct from Port Kent
o and across the Chasm, so that excursion
PARTIES, as well as individuals, can now
.isit Ausable Chasm at popular excursion
ates.
There have already been several large
xcursion parties since the above road was
pened, and thousands of people on the
vest side OF Lake Champlain, who have
wed within few miles Of the Chasm, and
rho have never seen il, viii look upon its
ionders this season for the first time.