Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-08-05
Editorial Correspondence.
TRIP OF THE PENINSULA PRESS AssO-
CITATION.

ioi &c HuuO0I vi Tue eulIOfS OF Dela-
ware and the Eastern Shore at Broad
Street Station to enjoy the excursion
which had been arranged by Mr.. II. &.
Carpenter with the railroad authorities
for trip through Pennsylvania and
New York States to Watkins Glen
and Niagara Falls. Along with the
editors and their ladies were number
OF others who took the advantage of
representing the cOuldn't-get-aWay
editors in enjoying the Inequalities of
the railroad, the company numbering
some seventy five persons.
The cars pulled out from the station
on time, and sped along through the
beautiful counties of Delaware, Ches.
ter, Lancaster, &c, which looked beau
tul In their bright verdure, freshened
by the recent rains. The corn fields
looked luxuraut, with twice as MANY
stalks on the ground as in Delaware,
and numerous fields and patches of
tobacco. Not shock of wheat was
seen remaining in the fields, but there
were of oats, as this crop was only par.
tally harvested. Fruit Of all kinds seem.
ed abundant. There are peach orchards
about Seneca lake, aud innumerable
grape vineyards.
On reaching Harrisburg we took the
Northern Central road, passing through
WilliamspOrt, Sunbury, Elmira, Mil
ton, NC, reaching Watkins Glen about
7.2O, nearly an hour behind time. The
country through which we passed was
hlily End very diversified. The hills
before reaching the LycOming valley
We're mostly titled though very steep
to n Delaware man, and in the dis
lance the fields look like squares in a
! garden. AT one place, near Williams
port, ten such alternating hills and
valleys could be taken in at one SIGHT.
Alter the latter place the road runs
largely IN valley with towering hills
ON either side. Lumber was a princi-
pal product of the steep hills. and
there were bo0ms of logs and piles of
lumber galore along the streams.
1t was getting dusk when we landed
at Watkins Glen at the foot of Seneca
Lake, and as the hacks could not
carry all the party at one load, it was
well on to nine O'Clock before all got
liked and had their supper. This mat
ter was greatly facilitated by clerk of
the Glen House boarding the cars at
Elmira, and with the aid of Mr.. Car.
penter, going through the cars and as
signing them their rooms, the guests
having nothing TO do on reaching the
mouse but to show their number at the
desk aud pass Immediately on to their
room. Otherwise it would have taken
an hour to assign all.
Watkins Glen is charming Dlace
The location is most picturesque. the
rooms large and we'll furnished and
the table served with all the necessaries
and delicacies. Notwithstanding the
fatigue OF the journey, or what would
nave been the fatigue but for the pleas
ures derived from the continual social
lnterchanges,it was midnight by lifetime
the larger part had retired Another
feature of the occasion was the arrival
during the night and early in the
morning of several hundred Grand
Army men on their way to the Grand
Army Encampment at Detroit. Thew
were only here for one meal, NEARLY
an equal portion of men and womenl
out they had possession Of the tabIe de !
note Tor SOME TWO hours. 1t was get.
ting well on TO ten O'Clock when a
large part OF our excursionists had fin
ished their breakfast.
The preachers, and possibly a very
few Others started directly after for |
Church, but as we were here only
one day, the others sought Ma.
lures great temple in the Glen in adj
mIring the wonders of the creative
hand IN its formation. The chasm or
gorge is a most wonderful freak of M.
ture, If we may so speak of il. Il
seemed IN this respect to exceed the
expectation of all who saw il. and
must be seen to be realized. We can
not attempt a description further than To
say that it abOunds in wonders and
surprises. 1t is, as if by great cata-
ciasm, the massive hill of solid stone
had been suddenly parted to a deDth of
nearly two hundred feet, some places
only few feet and others a hundred
feet wide, now d great clil hanging
over your head, then an OverbanSinS
shelf dropping water like a umbrella
Tau Ching cascade, grOttOs-all wild.
grand and marvellous. The walk
the Glen thus is about three
miles.
We leave here this morning at ?
o'clock to take 40 mile ride I'D the
beautiful Seneca Lake to Geneva and
thence by cars to Niagara Falls
WHO WERE IN THE COMPANY.
H: G. Carpenter and wife, Dover
las. l.. WOlcOtt and wife. Inder. Dover
Jefi II. X. Kenney, ESQ. and wife
Ve'os, SealOrd,; Col. f. r. Gomez
IoVer,; J. G. UsiltOn, Kent Mems. Cbes'
ertOwn, Md, Misses Clara UsiIton
nary Chapman, Clara VannOrt. De
EllegOOd, Susser COuntian. I.anraI.
h. Curtis, Mother and sister Deian, i
0Gre Gazette, G. l.. Vincent and VIE I.
Messenger, Snow HILL; b. S. HigbIv !,
nd wine, Times, Trapp,; J. E. Carroll t,
nd wife, Courier, fredericksburg. M et
!. stephens and Miss Downs. Journal al
benton, Md, M. II. Hishman. Ns,ns .
delaware City,; B. f. Haggaman and
liss Davis, Democrat, Georgetown: r
= kamsdeil and wife, Union, Denton
> H. Grlftenburg, Republican, George.
'Wn,i ). u. Plummer, GreensbOrOu9b
/; w. Dorman, Ne'Cs, Salisbury; ]. b v
lark and wife, Journal, Georgetown. "
pm Z. Todd aud wife, Democrat. Eas. O
m; Mrs. Geo. e. Hallway. Clarence -
odsOn, Miss HOdson and Miss Welsh VI
edger, EastOn. Rev. w. w. w, Wilson
I'd wife, Methodist, Smyrna; g. r
tnchclif, NeiOs, ElktOn; Victor M r.,
Orbert, Wing, ElktOn,; G. ]. Freeman b,
I'd sister, NeIU Era, Middletown. F. La
Crude and wife, Ledger, Newark Pc
W. Edwards and wife, Journal. vii, Oh
ington,i Watson Broadway and wife -
stGVdTean, Dover; e. B. Louder
ugh and Miss Annie ]. Cannon. Sen.
'et, Dover; +. M. Dunn, Del. Pilot
'wesy McKendree Downham and
ISIS Ida Davis, Georgetown: r. ID Oh
1ffecker and Miss Bertha Hofeeker
mes, Smyrna; +. E. Bach, wife and
lighter, Freie Presse, Wilmington. Eo
llson NJ. Taylor and wife, Gazette
ston,; Solomon Hersey, Republican
IlmingtOn,; n. B. Newley, Farm and or,
me, Wilmington; 4. +. Dunn, Chron. ooi
e, Milford; Rev. w. J. Duhadawav. -
Jerence Chronicle, Newark: VIM. T.
lnson, Press, Snow HILL, Miss n. A.
well, Miss 3. x. Powell and Miss u
bridge, Easton. -
tenry Webster Heating, a graduate
Johns Hopkins University, has been