The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-09-27
w THEN you do the seemingly
M commonplace thing of buy
" " ing ticket for sail up
tho Hudson Won are en-


" " ing n ticket for a sail up
the Hudson, you are en-
barking on no commonplace thing Ht
NIL. For rest assured of this: You are
about to travel the most beautiful wa
terway in all the civilized world Zoe
Beckley writes in the New York Mall.
There are mighty rivers in Africa,
they say, that take the breath away
for sheer solitary grandeur. And the
Amazon, with vast and sinister forests.
And Florida streams, mystic and
weird. Virginians point with pride to
the broad Potomac with its fine es-
tates and quiet reaches.
Come with me, will you. for little
voyage from Desbrosses street to AL
bany? And from the economical want
age point Of a So, nine-hour trip. let us
see some of the things that make this
Empire" river so lordly-and so hui
man.
At the left hand, as we start north,
are the Hoboken docks, not pretty per-
haps, but touched with interest be-
cause of the huge interned German
ships that had almost taken root at
their piers.
The sweet green prOmOntory of
Stevens Point, where the institute Is,
sticks out detiantly from between ter
minals and warehouses that try to
choke it. Yet the Castlelike home
stead of the Stevens family manages
to keep It's look of ariStroCratic Sereni-
ty, despite the Crowdings of CONNER
cialism.
At Weehawken, where trolley cars
now zigzag so nimbly up the heights
is the Spot-then a picturesque and
grassy ledge; now merely Opposite
West FOrty-second street'-where
Hamilton and Burr met on the field
of honor" in 1904.
The boat goes so fast that in q
minute it seems we are passing River
side drive, which some day will be
conceded the lovellest street in the
world.
Now we pass the district of cliff
dwellerS-thOusands of tall houses riS
ing out of the trees, as 1t seems, from
the river To me these apartment
houses, each one homing more fami
lies than some small villages, are {
feature of thrills and beauty.
Cliffs Little Changed.
The real, unspolled loveliness Of tn,
river begins here, where the still rura
looking Fort Washington point reache
out toward the magnificent rise Of tn
Palisades at Fort Lee.
Barring the few homes that nov
peep out through the trees ut the to-
such Il precious lot of difference be
tween how they look today and hoy
they looked when George WaShingto
and his staff watched from them tn
destruction of Fort Washington on tn
eastern heights nearly century an
half ago and lined out a retrea
through the heart of Jersey.
The appeal Of the Palisades
iESSAlCl ttlOll AllllN SOu ''AAa P'ASI SAi>Ai
AS the steamer purrs along, you nee
only narrow your eyes a little to shu
out things close at hand, and preten
it is 1909, and that you see Indians !,
ing prone upon the fiat rocks hig
above the river, watching Hendric
Hudson beating northward in his tin
caravel.
Since the Palisades have becOn
part of the state park, New Yorker
are getting better acquainted wit
them. But until lately hardly one pc
son in a thousand knew the wOod'
wonders of this 16-mile strip, Its pl
meval ravines, its streams and forest
It's wildfowers and the fair fields tn
sweep back from the little old hamle
Mt the top.