The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-09-20
FURNITURE.
From Buffalo to New York City.

New York, Sept. Owe boarded
Lehigh Valley train at Buffalo and
made the 400 mile run in ID hours.
Geneva is the city located at the
intersection of the Elmira branch-the
home of Ex-senator D. B. Hill, and
one of the principal cities on the route
but there are many other good size
places too numerous to mention. The
terminus of the railroad is at the pier
of the Pennsylvania railroad at Jersey
City, opposite the 23rd street depot in
New York City, which you reach by
steamer over the Hudson or North
river; the distance, four hundred
miles, was made in thirteen hours, in
Guiding stops. Along the route from
Buffalo down to Easton, where the
railroad crosses the Delaware river,
the country is rolling, with huge rocks
cropping out at many places. How
ever, many beautiful and fertile val
leys, including Lehigh, the one which
furnishes the name for the road, ap-
pear at intervals, making it alto gether
very attractive. but not equal to old
Maury county. From Easton to Jersey
City, a distance of ninety miles, the
villages are so thick that it might
be almost called continuous village -
on the style of Knob Creek on the Santa
Fe pike. from j. w. Page to Forgey S
store, except it is covered with manu-
featuring plants of every description,
many of which are located there to get
advantage of the liberal corporation
laws Of New Jersey and to evade the
heretofore stringent laws as to corpora
lions in New York while their ex-
tensive plants are in the city of New
York. Besides this, it is one contin-
uous garden, or truck farming on every
inch OF available land that intervenes
between the villages, New York city
furnishing market for every con
ceivable product that is raised, bought
or sold To show the great diversity
columns of the New York Herald of
to-day:
Wanted-Acorns. Farmers will b,
paid two dollars per bushel fol-
acorns, green or ripe, at Pulitzer
Building. Park Row, on Wednesday
next.
We, at home, from the columns OF
our wide awake papers, including the
Daily and Weekly Herald, read of the
Statute of Liberty, Blackwell Island,
Governors Island, Brooklyn bridge,
the Great Department stores, etc. But
nothing but a Personal inspection will
enable you to get any conception of the
Statute of Liberty, that stands or
Bledsoe Island in New York Harbor.
From here in the city it shows plainly
but ON the spot only its immense siz,
and heights can be realized. Its entir,
height is three hundred and five feet, 81,
inches, and forty persons can stanC
comfortably in the head.
Brooklyn bridge cost fifteen and on,
half millions of dollars: is ., $50 fee
long. So feet wide, and 1876 feet abov,
the water. Through ii are two opeI
ways for wagons, four railway track
for trolly and surface cars. and ,
broard walk for fOotmen. 25 feet wide
over which II took the writer just
three quarters Of an hour to walk, go
ing from New York city to Brooklyn
l was perfectly willing to take one o.
the cars back.
Blackwell Island is ia the East river
between Mex York city and Long Is
land. ard although il is place USED
for the correction Of crime. with peni
tentiary.- work-house and reform