The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-08-28

To Philadelphia
Via PotfSViIie
Written for The Tribune.
~ HERE ARE divers and diverse ways of Jour.
noying from scranton to tho metropolis of
i the Keystone statc--tho city Of Penn. The
Delaware Lackawarnd and Western route
Offers picturesque in its passage over the
Pocono and through tho Delaware Water Gdp.
The jersey Central runs through the heart of
the poet tamphcll> Fair Wyoming" valley, ls
does the LchiEh Valley which, IN addition,
climbs the Wilkes Barre mountain, giving won
dcrful views of that famed vale But the Penn
syivani railroad route through Potsyillc is as
yet the least well known Of any ot those offered
10 the tourist seeking 20 reach the city Of the
earliest great international exposition on Amc'i-
can ground, and Of the present time great con-.
mcrcial museums another departure Tor hroadnn.
ing every avenue OF American uIde existent in
MI the world
Tie Penns, ,lyania route is 'hc least known 10
scranton people simply because - happens 10
he the latest one opened To- them. II takes no
longer time t. reach Philadelphia that way
than 10y any oi the others, five hour, nom
tcrnoon express; close connection ior each being
made by way OF the Delaware and Hudson, ror.
sonllly. would advise taking the morning
train because that gives you the beautiful views
OF southeastern pcnn,yyJnit's exquisite gard
land, rs its toiilr, Smelly cultivated meadows,
folds and uplanlS may well hn called, after loLv.
ing our own picturesque mountain regions he.
hind. Leaving by the late afternoon train the
evening. OF course. will cio,n in upon you 10y
the time you arrive at Reading. But / am
aware there are many travellers who like best
To end journey in the soft dimnoSs ct evening
or with moonlight flooding the landscape they
look ont upon, There is, you perceive, choice
Of either.
one satisfaction in taking this route is the
admirable roalbcd a matter OF the highest in.
portanco 10 every traveller, especially to those
whom an III -bilLstcd road over which the 'irs
swing and rock like a cookie shell boat in
stormy sea, brings sickness equal 70 any at.
| tack of nal -dc.mCr.
For the first fifteen minutes We looked out
| upon the familiar yet ever new beauty Of w.
oming and its circling hills green To- their sum.
nits Then the Honey Pot mountain. rising
| above Nauticokc where the majestic hill ranges
draw together from cast to west, shuts the vale
| from view The SuSquohdnuI flowed on beside
| lis in the narrowed channel i, had cut tor itself
| wears ago and presently the Landscape broad.
| ,ncd ont as We nod on to N"cdnaqua, the little
| town whose Indian name brings M visions of an
| earlier time vet one. measured Icy historic
memories, not very tar away.
| The mountains were with lis yet as the train
| rushed on yet with a certain change in outline
| and aspect that attracted the eye. The waNy,
| bilow outline all recognize as belonging %
| the Wyoming md Iackawanna valley ranges 20
| the Moosic Highlands ot Wa,nc and the POGO.
| no mad. way a, we ,pcl ,1utbvard TO more
roni,,l sb,pcd hills occasionally seeming to rise
| up quite alone indcpcndcr' n uthor, But No,.
| copcrk Mountain, whose oft.,oN,llpd name sug.
rests its gracious and glorious beauty presently
| folds river and railroad in As both wind on
| sometime, close together, sometimes farther
apar
| 49,
| Tbcrc WAS one sprciaI source Of pleasure as we
| wound ON our way through all the morning
| Every mountain slope was green from base to
| IcssIv robbed Of Icir urim,yll forest wealth
have been pcrmittcd of late Years 70 send M
| second Growth" trees -tharks 10 Forest Com.
| missioner RorLrock's untirirg educational work
| his magnificent enthusiasm So the eve is filed
with beauty that enhances the grandeur. and the
mind is content As il looks with the seeing eve
Of Imagination into the soft green and knows
| that updar the shaded. lcaFmouId enriched turf
,hc ,prinos will Gather again.
%
| HAVING lott Scranton at & 81 and wilkes Barre
| ot : 1, our train pauscd Al H1zlcton at twenty.
four minutes p,,t o and for the next hour. un.
| ,n pott.,nlc was ,c,,bod W. yyrrr aware thar
vn ,yorc in tho bc,rt of tho lower oval of coup.
tr,, whore anthracite is Eipp. But tho nir,ur.
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n ono rsr,llcI from, its apnosrtcncss of appli.
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