The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-18


you will find the Francis Keppel CAL
lery.
After dinner at the Home, board
Eighteenth street cross-town car for
the East River recreation pier, where
can be seen East Side tenement life
in its happiest phase. Band concert,
and hundreds of tenement children
dancing and enjoying the music and
the river breezes.
Thursday.
Morning-Lenox Library; Metropoli-
tan Museum of Art, Central Park.
Lunch-At Park Casino.
Afternoon - Zoo; children's play
ground; park ride.
Dinner at Home.
Evening-Staten Island and Midland
Beach.
Expenses-Car fare. carriage ride
and ferriage. 20 cents; meals, 81; total,
$3.50.
Lenox Library and Metropolitan
Museum of Art on Fifth avenue are
within walking distance of each other,
reached from the Home by the Madi-
son avenue car line. Get off at Seven
ty-second street and walk one block
west for library. An entire morning
can be given to the museum without
exhausting a third of its interest. At
tendants are courteous, exhibits are
distinctly marked and catalogues can
be purchased for a nominal sum. Lunch
may be had here for so cents.
The Fifth avenue stage will take you
to the Fifty-ninth street entrance of
the park, where you will take a carry
all for trip through the park for 25
cents. Drop off at the Geological gar
dens and from here take the Fifth ave-
nue. stage for the homeward ride. Sit
on top and the driver will point out
homes of millionaires and other noted
New Workers. At the stage terminus,
you will find Washington Park and the
memorial arch, from which point 1t is
but a short walk up Fifth avenue to
the Home.
After an early dinner board the Sixth
avenue elevated train at Eighteenth or
Fourteenth streets stations, ride to
South Ferry and change to Staten ISL
and boat. Interesting view of the
river front. At Staten Island terminus,
board trolley car for Midland Beach,
where you get a Whit of sea air. Re-
turn to New York by boat, a delightful
ride. Land at the Battery, and go to
Home by Broadway surface cars,
catching a glimpse of Newspaper Row
after night.
Morning-Museum Of Natural His
tory.
Afternoon-Coney Island.
Evening-Trolley ride.
Expenses-Car, and boat fare, so
cents; meals. so cents; total, s1.30.
The Museum of Natural History on
Seventy-seventh street, between Eighth
and Columbus avenues, is best reach
ed from the Home by taking the Co
lumbus avenue car at Broadway and
Sixteenth street. Well worth half
days attention. Inexpensive lunch
rooms can be found on Columbus ave-
nue.. Take a train at the Eighty-irst
street station of the elevated road for
Battery Place, where you will find the
Coney Island boat, which runs hourly.
| This trip affords an excellent view of
the harbor, the Narrows, and one of
Americas unique resorts. Opportuni-
ties for spending money at Coney ISL
and are numerous, but much free en-
| tertainment is afforded by crowds of
sand. The prudent woman prefers to
leave the island before dark, dining in
New York.
A trolley ride is a pleasant close for
the day. Walk west on Sixteenth
street to the Eighth avenue line and
ride to the Polo grounds or Central
Bridge terminus and back, past the
entire length of Central Park on one
hand, and on the other many of the
finest hotels and apartment houses in
the city.
Morning-Ocean liners.
Afternoon-Bronx Park, trolley trip
to New Rochelle and Larchmont.
Expenses-Car fare, S5 cents. meals,
80 cents; total. SIPS.
Permits for inspecting ocean liners, a
most interesting trip, can be secured
by applying by letter or in person to
the offices of the following companies,
where information as to steamships
| then in port can also be obtained:
North German Lloyd, No. Broadway;
| White Star Line, 8 Broadway; Cunard
Line, 20 Broadway. officers on board
vessels most courteous in entertaining
visitors. No charge for permits, but
in writing for same enclose self-ad-
| dressed and stamped envelope for re-
ply.
Lunch at Home and walk east to
Third Avenue Elevated, at Eighteenth
street station, take fremont train for
| Pelham avenue station. Short walk to
Bronx Park and a Geological Garden,
which bids fair TO lead the world. AMI
mails and birds shown as nearly as pos
| sible in their natural environment.
Walk through Park to Boston Road and
| West Farms and board Mt. Vernon
car for New Rochelle and Larchmont,
| two of New York's most beautiful sub
urbs on the Sound, noted for their
| yacht clubs. Dine at Larchmont or
New Rochelle, and ride home by troll
ley in evening. Change at Harlem
| Bridge to Metropolitan surface car,
| Third avenue line and see East Side
at night.
Sunday.
Among the churches which usually
attract visitors are DR.. Parkhurst's,
Madison avenue and Twenty-fourth
street; Catholic Cathedral, Firty-first
and Fifth avenue; st. Bartholomew,
known as the millionaires' church,
| Forty-fourth and Madison avenue; st.
| Marks, a quaint, historical edifice at
| Tenth street and Second avenue; and
st. Francis Xaviers, the singing is ex-
| ceptionally fine, and charge is made
for a seat. Doubtless the most inter-
esting afternoon service is o'clock.
| Vespers at the Little Church Around
the Corner, Twenty-ninth street, near
Fifth avenue. This is the favorite
church of the theatrical profession and
many eminent actors attend the SER
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