Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-04
VACATION RUNS FROM OMAHA
What the Railroads offer to the Mar
Seeking Pleasure.
REACH MANY ATTRACTIVE SPOTS
All the Lines Have Something and
Hold out Great Inducements 90
Patrons who Are Looking
for Diversion.

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rest and comfort may be secured. Rail-
roads are making a regular business OF
providing literature for summer resorts,
reached on their lines.
Any vacation ls good, but q vacation in
COlorado-an outing In the Rockies-means
the fulfillment OF every promise and a
succession of delights which cannot be
found elsewhere. Colorado will satisfy your
most exactinR demands. The desire for en-
joyment may be gratlfied In such a va
riety of ways as to captivate and draw you
back another time to feast your senses in
this land Of enchantment, with its pure
air and golden sunshine, lofty peaks and
canyon depths, sparkling streams and mir
rored lakes. Very low fares are made ef-
fective each summer from all quarters to
Colorado and return, and the visit to the
Rockies is thu placed within the reach OF
those Of modest means. stop-overs are per-
United on tickets to points beyond, and OPP
portunity given for visiting resorts en-
route. The Rock Island enters both Colo
RADIO Springs and Denver directly, obviat-
ing the necessity Of going through one point
to reach the other-although one may do
80, II desired-and affording the tourist
who IL ready to return from Colorado
Springs or Denver ample direct service
without the loss Of time and additional
travel.
New vacation ds.
In north central Arisona Is the most
unIque vacation ground in America. Within
an area OF one numbered and fifty miles
square are to be found more natural won
ders than can be seen in any similar scope
Of country in the world. There you will
come upon many things that may truth
fully be called 'The biggest thing" and
besides these are others, that of their kind,
are the most unique.
Within this area is the great Petrified
Forest, where ten thousand acres are
thickly covered with the agati1ed trunks,
fragments and chips Of trees that grew
flourished, and died, no man can say now
many thousand years ago. There are
trunks ten feet in diameter and two nun
bred feet long, changed by slow time into
solid masses of agate, topaz and amethyst.
There are chips innumerable scattered
about the ground that look like rare jewels
from some royal diadem. Within this en-
ohanted land Is to be found the greatest
Natural Bridge so far discovered, two
hundred feet high, with an extreme span
of over 500 feet. 1t has upon It's broad tloor
an orchard Of several acres, while be-
meath it's might arches, miles OF stalac-
tites hang and form weird traoery against
the rock. Here, too, is the greatest OF those
MYSTERIOUS communal dwellings, perched
high upon the side OF a beetlinB chIt'
Houses Of stone, built by a patient people
who enjoyed, fought for and abandoned
their aerie home long years before the IN
trep,d Columbus dreamed Of his world
Transforming voyage.
There are the beautiful San Francisco
mountains, from which start the sixty-m'le
lava now. with its bed Of creamy tufa,
1,bOO feet thick. There also one may tlno
the strangest people in America the $50
lated. peaceful, fun loving, intensely reHs-
ious zuni and Hopi tribes, will their many
storied houses, perched upon the tops Oh
all but inaccessible mesas. Their ilIe -
one great religious festival and their least
8av celebrations are more intricate ana
nvatifyinK than the most complicated
ritual INDUCED in by the Hindoo mystic
All these are to be found in this wonder
fnl vacation land. Any Of them VIII repay
a tourney Of many days. and yet the great
eat. most interesting, most fascinating ana
most beautiful Of all the attractions mas
not been mentioned. 1t Is the Grand
Canyon Of Arizona, 2t7 miles long thirteen
miles wide, more than q mile deep ana
flooded with the colors Of the rainbow
Hundreds Of side canyons leading Into the
main channel are many times greater thar
ANYTHING of the kind found elsewhere.
To get to this land Of strange places
now, In easy. You can go within a STONES
throw OF the Grand Canyon Of Arizona In
a Pullman car and there find ample en-
tertainment at that splendidly appointed
hotel, Ell Tovar." Most of the other
places mentioned are easily accessible
being but a few miles from the railroad
and stop-over privileges are granted those
who wish to visit them.
Round Trip Tickets East.
For the first time the railroads have
piaoed on sale %round-trip summer tourist
tickets to New York City, Boston, New
England and Canadian points at greatly
reduced rates, with many liberal stopovers
and additional privileges. As an
the wabash II. r.. has vacation ~round-trtp
tickets Chicago to New York on sale daily
carrying a thirty days return limit from
date Of sale for SIS 80. They will route you
via Detroit, which as q summer resort ID
known as 1.-THE American Dresden where
a stopover of ten days or less is allowed.
From Detroit you have the privilege OF
using the steamer to Cleveland and Buf-
falo without extra charge except for meals
and berths. A stopoVer OF ten ohys oI iess
is allowed at Buffalo and Niagara Fails
from which points a side trip can be made
20 Toronto at very little expense. Thence
to Albany, where tickets are good on the
Hudson River Day line to New York city
down the grand old Hudson river, which Is
one Of the most picturesque trips In Amer
lea. The wabash railroad aiso offers an
other delightful trip, Chicago to Boston
and return for t25. 90. taking you via De-
troit. thence to Toronto, where = side trip
a given 70 Niagara Falls over the famous
Gorge route" thence to Montreal via rail-
To the Minnesota Lakes,
For those that enjoy an cutting close to
nature and are seeking little known but
abundant fishing ground the eauufui val
lev OF the Cannon river, gem-studded with
numerous lakes, will afford a welcome re-
lief from fashionable summer resorts bank
rupt as to fish.
The lakes at Elysian, Watervilie' Madison
lake and near the little city OF Farihaul'
are plentfully stocked with bass, piokerel
nike ana other varieties. All these points
are easily reached from Randolph on the
main line OF the Chicago Great Western
railway. Two trains each way making con
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