New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-19
TACATIONS FOR BUSY PEOPLE
FINE OUTINGS POSSIBLE FOR THOSE
WHOSE TIME is LIMITED
WHAT ONE MAY SEE IN DAYS SAIL ON THE
HUDSON OR THE sOrND-ATTRAC1TvE

HUDSON OR THE sOrND-ATTRACT1VE
RESORTS NEAR NEw-yoFK
Not every person In New-york or Brooklyn, even
among the industrious workers can leave the city FOR
any length of time There are those who cannot even
spare the time for outing Of couple or weeks.
To such as these II is an important question TO
know where they can go for day or two or three
days.
Among the most delightful trips may be mentioned
West Point. 1t is probable that no woman ever gets
too old to feel swelling OF the heart at the sight
OF brass buttons. MY love. he's soldier. says the
maiden with the fullest pride MY husband. the
General" says madam the mother, or MY son.
the West Point cadet" There Is no branch or the
Army or the Navy that is without Its admirers
among the Each in her own sphere OF me-
a woman seeks out the soldier. the sailor and the
officers Army and Navy far up on the social
ladder as that ladder has rungs. What wonder,
then that one of the most celebrated walks at
West Point early received the name CT Irritation
Walk?
You reach West Point by sal; up the beautiful
Hudson. and neither the Danube nor the Rhine.
famed the world for their scenes OF beauty
and grandeur. equal the Hudson. Both sides OF
the river are lined with places of interest to every
American II you on both knowledge and pleas
ure bent. you should go with some one who Is well
up In guidebook lore. and who likes to show now
much he knows These people are exceedingly good
IL
listen to a good. accurate talker, recounting the
valiant deeds of yore II Is TO study for the
Journey or spoil your days sport by scanning the
g,,debook and perhaps in the end getting the right
story connected with the wrong place
CONSCIENCE AND DIGESTION RIGHT.
II YOU do not go in for knowledge. land that sort
Of thing" but are just out for good time ard to
see beautiful scenery. you should be with gay
crowd, and enjoy the fun OF being alive. Then If
do baye n deli v there
wrong with your conscience your digestion
There Is the finest of cadets at West Point that
the sun shone upon. and one may get there IN
time 10 witness dress parade or guard mount
These boats do go Sunday. II you live IN
Brooklyn you can make the connection by the
Annex. taking a light breakfast at your own home
You start in the morning. from the Brooklyn side
a. s a. M and from the New-York side at s:4e ana
o'clock Or this same day you can stop at
Newburg the pre;tiest town between New-fork
and Albany
This trip UP the Hudson can be made 10 ac-
commodate almost any temperament. II you are
musical and romantic get party OF congeniai
friends select a moonlight night, and take the
Albany Evening Line. You will go on board ABOUT
8 in the evening. You may eat hearty dlnher oe-
fore YOU start II you choose But If you should not
have time to do this 1t will make no special differ
ence as all the comforts OF are to be found on
board But eat you must somewhere, somehow
Never try romance. moonlight or the legitimate
drama on empty stomach TheTe VIII DE no
mischevous twinkle in the eye OF the old man IN the
moon there will he no thoughts OF iovely niue
cottage. with the proverbial creeping vine. and
dainty dimity divinity therein. All this picture that
Won would like TO see In the moonlight Will be SICK
lied DER with tho pale green cast OF pessHilsm
and doubt. Eat!
Then YOU will be happy. Digestion Will go noise
lessly about its work II you are man ana
smoker by the time you have reached the ehd
ctp
the conclusion that the Hudson River was made
for your especial benefit. and that everything on
earth in the shape of business care worry DOUBT
and the Ike are pure moonshlne; 'ha' VIII
Won are at now Is real-all the rest il fiction,
pure and simple. When at last YOU begin to feel
a sense Of drowsiness which may come upon you
about o'clock In the morning. turn i'll. as the
navy folks Il, sleep. and dream mat you arc
sailing with a pretty girl all around the moon.
EXPERIMENTING WITH SARATOGA WATER
If YOU have few days at your disposal 'here
are many places which you may 60 ior eNdih-
pie Lake George, that the politicians nave ih"ue
so famous or Saratoga. with its many KINDS OF
mineral water A curious experiment mas OFTEN
been made by friends with these waters one OF
the marty would drink one kind of water ana the
effect that IL naturally should have was ho' pro
duced Another member of the same party WON"
drink that same water with normal results "hl'e
the first changing off to another kind OF wafer
one who tasted IT not.
one can go to the Catskill Mountains now IN no
time Where formerly you were Obliged 10 take
= de,our Of fifteen miles you now go straight UP
the mountain in an elevator.
This much for the Hudson. Then comes Long
Island Sound Your sail through the Sound Is
practically the same. whether your destination be
BOSTON New-IIavcn. some of the beautiful sum
,ner resorts on the Sound. Was there ever any
thing more beautiful than that sail up the SouI'u
on clear day You can see the Statue oil '"peIH'
on Redloa's Island the square tower OF the produce
Exchange the Washington building. the tan splie
~ Trinity the Cotton Exchange. and the tquita-
bic Building with its weather signal station on top
The Tribune Building and other newspaper Dul.'-
ings I'm Park Row. And on the Brooklyn s'ue
Columbia Heights and Governors lslahu' oiu
Castle William. with Bu.termilk Channel between
:, ona tho prooklvn shore Buttermik Channel
used in the ol,en days freeze over 50 hard IN
the winter time that horses and heavy wagons
coud re driven across II. Under the Bridge
we sail and here Is the Navy yard just al
the bend of the Hook" There are usually mum
ber of war vessels lying here. Wallabout BAY
,,st i'm front Of the Navy Yard-Wallabo Bay so
famous for the sufferings of the prison ships mar
tyrs who, after their dreadful life suiferlnss ana
after having lain dead and senseiess ior ~
many vears are now TO have monument in
Fort Greene Park Al the Navy YARD you can zee
the Marine Barracks and the Marine Hospital
large white building with long columns in front.
reaching to the roof; then Williamsburg ana that
mart OF Brooklyn that Is called the Eastern Distrlct
Newtown Creek, hunters Point. Long Island
CITY and on the other side New-fork. the fasl
Side where the poor dwell. bu' over "le 'oP'
of povertys homes the tall spires OF the churches
Of III. rich and the immense buildings that have
been reared by business profits.
Bellevue Hospital whore the poor receive Tree 'he
servces OF science that the rich must pay for, ana
ba thing clubhouses and swimming schools Black
a
Now we are passing through He'll Gate. with AS
toria on the right Hell Gate once the terror OIL
seamen but now. by science. made harmless as
duck pond. II you come past the Hell GAZE lisht