Mexico weekly ledger., 1902-08-28
The ROUTE TO TRAVEL.
FAST TRAIN SERVICE, GORGEOUS
SCENERY AND A COMFORT
ABLE JOURNEY.
An AIRLINE TRIP GOING EAST.
The Great Wabash and Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western Route
Memorable Places in the
East Described by
r. M. White.
AN AIRLINE TRIP GOING EAST.

19.-When you come East you can find
no better route than the Wabash and
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western.
The train is fast, the scenery grand
and the equipment perfect. In the
Lackawanna train leaving New York
at 10 O'Clock every morning will be
found a Pullman sleeping car of the
latest style and thoroughly up-to-date
in point of comfort, luxury and con-
yenience. This train, the Lackawanna
Limited, divides the honor with the
corresponding eastbound train, OF be.
ing the finest in the service OF the
Lackawanna Railroad. 1t makes the
trip from New York to Buffalo during
a summer day, the traveller has before
him a continuous panorama of scenery
which is acknowledged to be unsur-
passed along any railroad in America.
This scenery is the more attractive
because Lackawanna locomotives,
which burn hard coal, emit no smoke,
and the Lackawanna's roadbed being
stoneballasted, produces no dust. The
dining car service on this train is ad-
mitted to be second to none In the
world, either In polnto Of excellence or
In point Of service. Meals are served
during the entire day, on the a Ia
Carte plan, patrons of the carr paying
only for what they order.
Reaching Buffalo early In the even
ing, this car is Immediately attached
TO the Wabash railroad train and start
ed on its airline trip toward st. Louis,
which point is reached at O'Clock on
the afternoon Of the second day. This
comfortable trip, without change of
cars from New York to st. Louis, con-
sumes, therefore, just 20 hours, which
practically is the best time made by
any railroad between these two
points.
This service opens up to the west
bound traveller not only a magnificent
route to st. Louis, but also splendid
lines to practically any point in the
west, northwest and southwest. Con-
nections to some OF these points are
made simply by transferring from the
through sleeping car into another. land
the traveller has all the benefits Of
thorough service, porters transferring
hand-baggage froTsl one car to the 9TH
er while the owner is enjoying his
meal in the dining car. Connections
from one train to another en- route or
in the same depot, give splendid
routes to Chicago and the northwest
and to Kansas City and the southwest,
in addition to the other splendid gate
way to the southwest offered by the
through car service into st. Louis.
AMONG THE KITTATINNY MOUNTAINS.
The Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern railroad offers the summer tray-
eler a desirable route for reaching
some of our most popular resorts, and
also a direct route from Buffalo TO
New York. II you have never seen
the Kittatinny mountains, a treat is
In store for you should you decide IN
visit the Delaware Water Gap, where
one finds several good hotels, the
Klttatinny and the Water Gap among
them. At the Gap the Delaware
river after a course Of about 200 miles
makes It's way through the mountains
Above the Gap, which is something
like 200 miles long, cliffs rise, l,6OC
feet high. These walls Of rock, at the
southeast end OF the gorge, are barely
enough apart for the river and the
railroad track. North Of the noun
talns there is a valley which the In
dians call "Minnisink," meaning
"Whence the waters are gone. This is
supposed to have been once upon q
time a lake. One Of the peaks which
tower above the Gap isnamed "Minsi''
after the Indians who lived in the re-
gion; the other is named "Tammany,
not in honor OF Mr.. Cookers organiza
tion, however, but in memory Of al
old chief OF the Delawares. The
Kittatinny is situated on one OF th'
ledges of Mount Minsi, 200 feet above
the river. Near the hotel a stream
from a ravIne back I'm the mountains
falls into the river, forming a beauti
full cascade.
The Lackawanna Railroad does Of
fer to the traveller one Of the most
beautiful and interesting journeys II
all America. Its scenery is diversi
fled by mountain, lake and river. II
passes through one Of the Oldest re
gions in the United States, and to the
mind Of the traveller is brought con
tlnually many Of the most interesting
events OF American history and OF In
dian romance.