New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-14

cr0S6-r0ad along tne u1uuSon i"nii"A
metropolitan public. But this very iac' 40"
caused that section Of this county 10 lose one
charm OF wildness and primitivcness which
remains in this vicinity. Abundant OPP
portunity for the only true sports-hunting
and dshing-exists here. Recently the Canadian
Pacific got out small pamphlet describing tine
streams along that railway whc furnished sport
for the angler Many sought in their BRIEF Vaca-
tons these PARKWAY creeks Of Canada. only 10 re-
turn after two weeks spent in Disappointing
search for trout Here within eighty miles OF
the city trout, some of them weighing several
pounds, abound in nearly all the creeks, NO BET
ter trouting stream is to be found in all the
States or Canada than Wagsaic Brook, whlch
alternates in foaming cascades and dark pools iof
miles through a remarkable gorge OF the noun
tains before it joins the WebutoOk or Icn-4llle
River Recently, for the benefit of the country
mills-wagons, a narrow road has been cut along
| the banks Of this stream and forms picturesque
route through the defle above the town OF
Wassaic where formerly the only method Of
travel was on foot. In the marshes OF the
Webutosk woodcoclS are abundant at this season.
while the huntsman with good dog can find
rare sport in the shape of quail and cartridges
among the hills and in the corn stubble where
the rank growth of weeds furnishes excellent cover
just now, while bne weather Is superb, COoi'
crisp and frosty mornings, while the slopes of the
mountains are blaze of autumnal color-crimson
aud gold and purpe-the blood-red barb of the
sumac minglng with the following leaves of
spruce and chestnut and oak, is the country seen
at its lovelest. Autumn birds are flying from
tree to tree preparatory to their fight to south
ern cline, and the silence of the woods
is broken only by the clear piping
of quail or the shrek of locomotives
as trains hurry through the adjacent valleys
over the Harlem road
If one is weary of the strife and turmoil Of the
city and wants to shake off for brief spell the
"care that never groweth old" let him spend ten
days in the valley Of Armenia Union. There are
many curiosties Of nature in this part Of Duchess
County well worth long journey to see. The
traveller on the Harlem road, looking out of his
car window after passing Wassaic going north,
can see in the valley on either side Of the road
large numbers of moraines, those rounded hills Of
sand and gravel that mark the courses Of glaciers
in that prehistoric period Of the worlds ex
istence on which biologists alone have been able
to shed any light Just below Dover Plains are
the famous wells, where small stream flows
down the mountain in q succession Of rapids three
to twelve feet in height, and at the foot Of each
fall smooth rounded holes have been worn in
| the rocks TO considerable ucptn. NoJ lar IrOW
| the Wells just west of Dover is a remarkable
cavern, the old Stone Church, followed out in
wooded gorge by little stream of water into the
weird semblance of little cathedral not made
with hands, The massive archway of the stone
church cave, the pulpit rock. the walls almost
perfectly arched, and papered with green moss
and white ichcns, the sound of falling water,
and even the spray behind the pulpit-all con-
tribute to make it church of natures own
fashioning or this cave church Benson j.
LOSING the historian, whose home was not far
away, wrote as follows
The Great Preacher continues the same old service
within its Swallowed that was commenced ages
ago. and which proceeds with the same solemn state
ness whether men bear forbear Day and night,
without ceasing, vespers midnight mass and maths
proceed. The decponcd peals as il II were the
wind and the chant of the choir m!ngles Its silvery
tones as muslcnlly as the falling OF water; trumpet
and cymbnl and harp peal and fade and echo. ard
through them trcmbc tones like the farof voices Of
young and maidens singing. Az sunrise. through
all the long summer day, at twilight at evening and
louder night deopeDs the eternal service proceeds,
unwearied By the watchers Of the day. by the changes
Of season. by the lapse Of years by the procession
OF centuries. The Indian flushed and heard 1t; the
white frontlersman heard IL and II minges just the
same with silence with the shrek of the locomotive.