The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-08-05

WATKINS, N. Y, August 2. 1891
Splendid nights-sleep last night,
Done up the glen and went to church
to-day, at Methodist Church down in
The town of Watkins. Heard a preach.
er named Rev. Dwight Smith preach.
He was dull, and HIS congregation was
both dun and sleepy. There were two
Wilmington Conference preachers in
the congregation, either OF whom
would have preached better sermon
without half trying. They were Rev
Nv. w. W. Wilson and Rev. W. j. Du'
hallway. A press excursionist present
sent card TO Minister Smith appris-
ling him of the presence of the two dis
Delaware preachers, ex.
Ipecting him to ask them up in the
pulpit. lie went out and spoke to Mr..
Wilson but did not urge him to take q
seat in the pulpit. As he gave news
papers Trap in the course OF his ser
mon he must evidently thought that
THAT the whole thing was a put up
job on him" to get an editor to breach.
But to the glen. There will have to
be some new words coined to give ex-
lpression to its maZnifleence and
grandeur, no words In the old diction
aries can do it,. The glen is over
three miles long and when you go
down into it by carefully built stair
cases hundred feet or more, you
Twill come across a cascade of water,
pouring over ledge, fifty feet deep
farther down. The roek-ribbed sidee
rise up in aweinspiring grandeur on
either side, in many places leaving an
Opening at the top narrower than the
spacious amphitheatre below. The
stream is small one, no more water
in 1t than runs down Shipley run but
lit is as clear as looking glass. The
rocks through which IL has been pour
ling ever since Noah's Ark rested upon
Mount Ararat have been worn away
Until these indescribable caverns,
pools, grottos, and cliffs have been
formed.
The stone Is soft shell slate In
blocks. Every spring some of them
become detached when the floods
carry them down into the poole,
whirl them around, wearing the holes
lin the rocky foundation larger
and smooth as polished marble. Every
lgrotto, mphitheatro and cascade has
Ia name. Amongst them are the En-.
trance Amphitheatere, Entrance Gas.
Icade, Glen Alpha, Sentry Bridge, Still
water Gorge. Minnehaha, Fairy Cas-
lcade, and a hundred other names We
might mention, but space will not al
How. Amongst the most noted falls il
Rainbow Falls where the water comes
down over ledge OF rocks
from hundred feet above, and the
sun shining against the spray forms
Ia perfect rainbow.
A picture on canvass by James Hope
the celebrated artist of these falls, ex'
Ihibited in the art conservatory at the
Ienifnnce to the glen was withdraw
from sale after $50, 900 had been offered
for it. We will not attempt any far
Their to describe this indescribabl,
freak Of nature. The glen can only bt
appreciated by being seen and th'
number OF visitors to it increase every
year. The Glen Mountain House is
model hostelrle. The dining room,
lare ON Swiss chalet across the
glen, which is crossed by an iron ledge
and all cooking is done at the SAINT
lplaee. From the landlord down to
1.-The walters and cooks, all are polite
land leave nothing undone to add to
the comfort of their guests. Watkins
S the county town of Schuyler county
n. y, and has about l2, 800 Inhabitants
TO morrow the excursion party will
itake.the boat and go up Seneca Lake AZ
miles to Geneva and thence will go by
rail to Cannndaigua and Niagara Falls,
ARRIVING at this late great wonder oil
mature before the sun goes down to
morrow night. Lewis b. Morrow and
Walter i. Butler arrived here early
this morning on an outing trip. Mr.
Morrow reported fire in the Malleablt
Iron Works yesterday afternoon
which the Wilmington excursionists
regretted very much to hear, but il
was afterwards found to be one o
Lewis jokes, as he said there was al
ways a fire there.
My next letter will be from Niagara
Falls. S. II.