The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-01-23

#. st Trip OF the New York and Florida
Limited.

When the New York and Florida Linn
tied rolled out of Jersey City on January
16th, for its first fight Of the winter, the
season of migration to the sunny south
lana as formally and brilliantly opened.
Tt edition de luxe of travel operated by
tn southern Railway System and con-
nee ons, was greatly admired by crowds
-gstsered at the start. When the last for
tunate passengers arrived on the 10. 40
ferI les from New York. and W hen ar-s s q
p. NJ, the magnificent train flashed out
from Broad Street Station, Philadelphia,
for the magical swiftness of the change
from winter icy grip to the balmy summer
skies of Florida in one day of travel
The train which began this regular
winter service ON January 10Th will be run
daily, except Sunday, until the early part
of April, and for the inaugural trip all the
accommodations available had been en-
gagged long in advance. mo wonder its
filed up every day of the season., said an
old railroad man yesterday. That New
York and Florida Limited is all the ad-
vertisement it wants itself. Just look at
it and go aboard of it once. That's the
most luxurious train in the world, and
I've looked over most of the crack flyers. :"
The train which aroused the veterans
Experts highest admiration was composed
pullman compartment cars drawing
sleepers, library, dining and obser-
bn cars, furnished and finished with
hue taste and richness. In the COM
tment cars, each was complete in itself,
be used singly or en- suite; while the
awing room sleepers were the ones used
President Mckinley and party in their
ecent tours. The library suggested the
reading room of perfectly appointed
#club, with easy chair and sofas, writing
ydesks. and the latest periodicals. The OBJ
serv alton Car at the end of the train, with
sides and ends of plate glass, and spac
ious enclosed platform was a veritable
sun parlor with piazza attached From
bath rooms to ershop nothing was
lacking to replace every comfort and con-
venience left behind by the pilgrim, in
house, hotel, or club, no matter how ex-
cellently appointed.
This train is whirled through solid, a
flying palace, between New York and st.
Augustine, excepting one Pullman draw
ing room sleeping car which leaves the
train at Blackville, S. c., and goes to
Aiken and Augusta and one Pullman
drawing room sleeper which leaves the
train at Jacksonville and goes through to
Tampa.
To leave New York at lunch hour of
one day, by the New York and Florida
Limited, and be strolling in the palmy
gardens Of St. Augustine couple of
hours before one needs to dress for dinner
the next afternoon, is to leave discounted
the fairy tale OF the Flying Carpet.
From January to May, in what is scarce
ly more than an over night fight is the
calender of steam racing with the calen-
der of the sun. The seasons seem to be
flashed by as if the round were completed
in day, instead of year. Yet Florida
is four or five months distant in air and
sky and sea and vernal, caressing lowell
ness. st. Augustine, whittier the pilgrim
is borne in his home on spinning wheels,
is an ideal entrance into charm of the
Florida winter time. The picturesque at
mosphere of old Spain fingers yet after
three stony centuries, in the crooked
Streets while trim northern maidens play
golI 8xound the gray and ancient fort and
cit wall, and stroll about the palatial
h9t.ls which are world famous for luxury
"a harmonious splendor of architecture.
From Jacksonville or st. Augustine,
travellers by the New York and Florida
Limited are able to reach any of the at
tractive regions of the sea washed and sun
bathed peninsula, to Tampa and the West
Coast, and further on to Key West and
Havana, or down the East Coast to the
tropical paradise of the India River and
Lake Worth with the superb chain of
hotels, and from Palm Beach across to
Nassau, or direct from Miami to Havana.
The interior of Florida also is filled with
popular and charming resorts by blue
lakes and pine forests and mango groves,
which are reached soonest and most pleas
anti by the Southern Railway System.
FLORIDA draws more winter birds of pas