Year: 1874

Mr.. EDITOR When in your city last
week was telling you something of an ex-
cursion party from this place
to New York, in which our better-half
had taken some stock, and now we give
you some Of the particulars. Stroudsburg
proper is an old settled town. three miles
up from the Delaware, and on the Broad
head creek, where the Delaware river at
some unknown period of the worlds history
has forced its way through the Blue noun
tains, where the two ends but right up to
the river, one end in New Jersey and one
in Pennsylvania, so vast and perpendicular
that it was with much difficulty that
travelled road could be made along the
river side. Afterwards, when the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
was built through there, the carriage road
was sent over the brow of the mountain.
On the road, high up, and overlooking the
Delaware, was built spacious hotel, called
the Kittatinny House, for a fashionable re-
sort. Now, far above that, there is another,
called the Mountain House, of wonderful
dimensions. To these two houses a rush
is made each season by the denizens of
New York and Philadelphia as summer
resort, it being about an equal distance from
the two cities-some eighty-seven miles
some paying as high as fifty dollars per
week for room and board The grandeur
Of the scenery is unsurpassed in the States.


From these elevated positions, where
nature has lavished her grandest and wild
est designs, the visitor has an ample op-
portunity of satisfying his romantic mind,
whether in looking down upon the rolling
Delaware, and wondering how and at what
distant period of the worlds history it
forced its way down through this everlast-
ing giants causeway, or resting his mind
upon the rock-ribbed towers on the Jersey
side, or tracing the steam cloud for twenty
miles or more far up the POcono, onl Y to
return with its long train loaded with the
glistening anthracite from the rich valleys
of the Lackawanna and Wyoming coal
fields, to say nothing of the romantic hills
and the beautiful lawns of the Delaware
valley, and such has become the contagion
for these romantic scenes that for miles
around the houses are occupied through
the summer as places of resort, people COM
ing here from New York and Philadelphia.
and also from Scranton. Stroudsburg is
an old town, three miles from tho Della
ware river, and was formerly settled by the
Moravian Quakers. When the railroad was
built through here it left the beautiful old
town one mile in the distance, and the de-
pot was a nucleus around which another
important town or borough has sprung up,
called East Stroudsburg, from which a
street car plies regularly.


Although the people here are of the Ger
man Quaker descent, and of industrious
habits, they have an eye to economizing their
well earned dollars To dothis and meet
the wants of the multitudes that flock in
here through the summer months many of
them make their purchases on the larger
scale in New York. To do this some one
charters one or more cars, as needs may
be, to New York, and back, going one fore
noon and returning the next evening. For
last weeks excursion two cars were brought
into requisition at one hundred dollars
each. The number of excursionists was
one hundred and ten, so that the fare was
only about one-third the regular rates At
New York between seventy and eighty of
the party put up at the Commercial Ho-
tel, kept on the European plan, while,
others went among their friends, or where
they chose This was the eighth semi
annual excursion, and from the pleasure
and success Of the past it promises to be
come settled and regular institution.


j. r. DURFEE.


LAWN COTTAGE, May 24, 1874.