New-York tribune., 1905-07-02

Nearby Resort Where One Con Get
Close to Nature.

Although New-Yorkers are In the ma9or''S ~
ell Of the big summer resorts, best oresseo'
most ,ewe1led. superlatively gay, prodigiouslJ
Tree handed, money spending na'ority' 'h". l
ioritv represents only a most minor minority OF
the horde OF humans who have claim 10 Ine
title "New-Yorker" For ten who go off on va
rations thousand stay at home through the en-
fire summer. making the best Of the Saturday
haIf-holiday and the Sunday off. Nor Is the iot
OF the stay-at- homes so utterly hard, as any one
who looks into the matter will find
A result Of this condition is that every outing
,,,aca within reach OF ferry or trolley on every
side of NeH-York has "oen well developed aho
used at the weeks end and the next weeks be-
ginning to the fullest extent There are scores
of nlaces which the summer slayer in town can
reach In an hour or two for fare OF hVe' eight
,r ten cents, and OF these there none more
beautiful than the Palisades across the HUDSON
hom the busy insular hive OF modern acuViS-
If "a only within year two that the pleas
ures Of the Palisades, combining country
meadow green with life and picnic grove with
mountainous bluffs and dashing rflls. have been
appreciated by the masses. But the news f'
spreading like fire on prairie, and the pres
ent facilities for getting to the combined para
disc are taxed 60 the utmost
One starts for a day the Palisades from
West 125th-St. or, rather, tne CONTINUATION oI
that main Harlem thoroughfare. which strikes
the river at about 13Oth-st- The Fort Lee ferry
they call the line OF wheezy boats which ply
back and forth across the great river
Not one in q hundred knows whether Fort
Lee is on the New-Jersey or on the New
York side; whether 1t figured in the Revolution
or the Civil War; whether or not 1t Is an historic
spot worth visiting. The only person whom
Tribune reporter heard worrying about 1t last
Sunday was a teacher in one OF the Harlem
public schools
II asked the question IN history examina-
ton not long ago." she explained, "and nine
answers out Of ten were to the effect that Fort
Lee was ferry across the Hudson"
The course followed on the ferryboats Is q
diagonal one. the fer-yhouse on the New-Jersey
side being considerably further up stream than
the one in Manhattan. One noticed all sorts and
conditions Of folk the ferry. The rich were
represented by dozen automobiles. bound Tor
q spin over the excellent country roads ON the
other side which are perfect as Cleveland or
Chicago boulevards- There was an Italian Ia
borer and his mutitudinous family, and his
neighbor from Sicily and his offspring, equally
numerous both reeking with the garlic OF thelr
recent breakfast; each and every one including
the men, displaying dazzling dash OF color IN
some one garment. II not In all. There was
German group merry already with the antlcI-
patton of the days outing. burdened like dray-
horses with things to eat and drink. There was
an American family. holding little aloof, keep
ing their Joy signs conservatively hidden but
none the less happy for the chance to get into
the country; and there were all the other eie-
rnents that Join In making Manhattan SO COS
mopoltan-
At the gates Of the ferry on the NeW-Jersey
side electric cars were waiting to zigzag their
loads of picnickers to the top of the bluff For
those to whom carfare is an item there was
winding path up the hillside Hot climbing they
found it, with the beating down on them,
but none seemed mind that
The cars were crowded, for the most en-
toyable spots are to be found some distance
up the river. On reaching the summit the air
seemed cooler and more fresh than 1t had been
closer to the river. Immediately above tho
ferry there is thriving suburb of comfortable