Year: 1875

THE D. L. & w. RAILROAD FOR A SUMMER


RESORT


An extensive tract of land, consiting of
some four hundred acres, has Just been
purchased in the vicinity of the Forks
station on the line of the Delaware, Lack
awanna and Western railroad, and in a
commanding site of the Pocono mountain
range, by party of gentlemen from Tern
ton n. j., who intend to convert it into a
popular summer resort. The location of
this purchase is about thirty miles from
Scranton, commanding a magnificent dis
tant view of the Blue Ridge with its historic
Delaware Water Gap, together with the
vast sweep of intervening scenery stretch
ing north and south, bounded only by the
horizon, and forming one of the most
romantic landscape pitures in Pennsylvania.


The view from the Forks station has
long been the delight Of the summer tour
ist over this road Situated almost on the
crest of the mountains, and overlooking
vast ampitheatre which embraces in its vast
area an extended stretch of country, it
presents one Of the most sublime scenes that
| can charm the sense of sight.


1t is therefore eminetly fitted for a
summer resort, where families who live in
the over-crowded cities may seek brief
respite from the heat and the dust of the
surging mart, where the busy brain may
rest and the mental and bodily faculties
gather vigor amid the bracing mountain
atmosphere, without danger of encountering
the fashionable fallies that find their way to
the sea side resorts.


The company who have made the pur-
chase, We are assured will spare no cost in
making the place as attractive and as pleas
ant as possible A first class hotel will be
built, the grounds will be reclaimed and
beautifcd, and fountains and pleasant arbors
will supplant the wayward extrayagant
growth of the wilderness.


1t is intended to commence building the
hotel just as soon as the state of the weather
will admit of such an undertaking, and once
commenced it will be pushed rapidly to a
completion.


The scene was visited on Saturday by
| two members of the firm 8Ir Stokes and
Mr.. Hooker in company with Superintcn-
dent Hallstead of the D. l.. & W. road,
and several Scranton gentlemen, and the
project of converting the scene into a
Summer retreat as soon as the condition of
the weather would permit was fully dis
cussed. At short distance from the point
Of interest is situated the little station of
Paradise, which is likely to be lost in the
new Paradise of Pocono, which the Tren-
ton firm intend to create. The new resort
will doubtless bestow many advantages on
Scranton as well as derive numerous bene-
fits from this city Its proximity will at
tract Scrantonians to its pleasant shades
during the summer time, as well as being
the means of bringing many visitors to
Scranton. The tourist from the great
centres ofpopulation who visits the Paradise
Of P6cono cannot afford to miss the Oppor-
tunity which it affords of taking a trip to
Scranton, when it is to be hoped our in
dustries shall have awakened from their
present lethargy, and be invested with an
added interest.


Nor can the summer tourist who visits
Scranton be said to have availed him of al
its attractions without he enjoys a ride on
the Moosic Highlands, which are passing
so rapidly into popularity. The creation
of summer resort with ample accommo
dations on the Pocono and in the location
already indicated will be a great incentive
to invite summer travel into this portion
of the state. 1t will supply want long
felt. and moreover carry out an idea which
we learn has been favorably entertained by
the d. l.. & W. company for the past two
years.


Each recurring season oyercrowds the
hotels at the Delaware Water Gap, and
shows how great is the desire among city
folks to pass a part Of the heated term
amid the life-giving scenes of the noun
tains The projected resort is therefore
likely to receive liberal patronage, and
consequently command commensurate
share of success.


THE EDDYS RUMBUG EXPOSED.