The Newtown bee., 1904-11-18

since they now have ia railroad that is a railroad" The ferry to Newburgh is progressive, the ferriage being now only seven cents head, lately reduced from nine, and formerly ten cents. Competition is impossible, as the ferry interests control the Fishkill water front. The ferry charter is a royal one, given by one of the English sover- eigns long before the Revolution. One of the terms is that a boat must be kept running all the time. l am told that when the river is frozen over, they make show of trying to get the boat across. Then they charge toll for walking over the ice on boards laid down. I have been over several times this fall, and invariably the pilot steers the boat awkwardly into the slip.
 steep, with level land back of it. There are some streets so steep that the tray ell does not keep the grass down at all.
 The stores are not extraordinarily
 large, New York being too near.
 Po1ghkeepsie, slightly smaller, is
 much more of business town. New
 burgh has plenty of shoe stores; per
 haps the steep hill streets in the busi-
 ness parts keep up so many. There
 are no grade crossings in the heart of
 the city, the West Shore railroad hav- |
 go around. The roads in the town of Newburgh are good as far as travelled.
 The town and the city of Newburgh are next door neighborS, nothing more,
 as York State cities are divorced from towns on being incorporated. The
 next continued strip of good roads on
 the west side was in the town of Esopus, but of varying qualities of
 goodness, however. The landscape was clad in "Turkish rug harmony" of colored leaves, ranging from the greens to yellow, rusSet, orange and brown,
 or to the reds, melting away, through a violet yelling into the blue of the
 distant mountains. These colorings
 are mingled in way that sets at de-
 fiance all human laws of color har-
 monies.
 The west bank of the Hudson is in
 this part of it's course generally higher,
 coming down abruptly to the water.
 The road usually runs out of sight of
 the water. Marlborough, a few miles
 above NeWburgh is in the midst of a
 fruit belt. Vineyards, berry patches,
 orchards, all are close together. on level
 land or hanging on the hillSideS. Some
 strawberry patches need no. straw be-
 tween the rows to keep the berries clean, the small stones being nearly
 thick enough to serve the same pur-
 pose. Farther north only orchards are
 found. One yoke of oxen only was seen all day, being before wagon Of apples
 Parker's picture began to appear in swarms below EsOpuS, in the flagman'S shanty window, in front windows, up stairs and down, even on the barns
 when the house is too far back. In
 this succession of pictures there is one discOrdant note; some believe in "the strenuous life" displaying Roosevelt's
 picture The other republicans, if there be any, have hidden their views and left houses pictureleSs. A mile south of Kingston Roosevelt adorned the lower windows, while the minority of the household had Parker in an this house(in Port Ewen) have large
 banner, carefully gathered to one side to prevent the breezes from down
 Esopus way checking the varnish.
 More Parker banners were encountered during the day than Roosevelt.
 passed Judge Parker's gateway, but did not recognize it, it not being the style to have "nO trespassing" signs up with the owners name on. The houses are placed overlooking the river and back from the highway. There are no gates or chains to bar the entrance, as at many of the places of the "big feel ing" people between Rhinebeck and Poughkeepsie. As 1 had seen the Judges house from the river it did not matter much. In lieu thereof visited his church in Kingston, the Mission church of the Holy Cross, open daily | for prayer. According to the bulletin posted, he is on the vestry committee | of music and finance. The ceremonial there is not what PreSbyterianS con- slider the Episcopal service ought to | be. The parish is stated to be made | up largely of the working classes, the | they averaged nearly dollar a com municant, last year, for missionary | purposes.
 Kingston consists of two parts, | Kingston on a tableland, and Ron dout, along the waterfront. To reach | the latter from the south, quaint, antiquated chain ferry, two cents if you please, must be crossed at snailS speed. It is fashioned on this wise: A chain is stretched across Rondout Creek, by means of which the boat with one stuffy woodshed for the pas sengers who are tired of standing, and another for prehistoric engine. As the Creek is navigable tide-w water, a bridge is not very easy thing to have built. As the sun had commenced it's downward course in the blue heavens, my tarrying in Kingston was not long, nor journeyings extensive. The mountains loom up back of the city in majestic manner, Kingston proper seems to be level, but the ascent thereto is not. There used to be two rival trolley nj al f0r nh hn streets. One dived under the West Shore tracks to get to the Union sta tion. The other used the Ulster and Delaware tracks to reach the New