Glass _ Book , COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT ®BTiiies6 For& LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Chap. Copyright No. Shelf. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ^«^ ^U BcU cf il)e puJsor) pigl)lar)J, RJl mh ON THE LINE OF THE PlSTUf^ESQUE WEST--SHORE =RAILROAD= LLUSTRATED U<^HH(^''~ j PASSENGER DEPARTMENT WEST SHORE RAILROAD (n. Y. C. & H. n. R. R CO., LESSEE I 5 VANDERBILT AVENUE New York ld96 COPYRIGHTED BY C. E. IvAMBERT, GENERAI. PASSENGER AGENT West Shore Railroad, NEW YORK. ^ Illustrations from copyrighted photograph:;. Courtesy of B. J FALK, NEW VOKK. S. R. STODDARD, OLENS FALLS, N. Y. J. W. RUSK, HAINES FALLS, K. Y. S. S. RUSK, HAINES FALLS, N. Y. G. R. ifiRD, NEW YORK. RUDOLPH EICKEMEYEK, JR., NEW YORK. J. LOEFFLER, TO.MPKINSVILLE, N. Y. ADOLl'H WITTEMANX, NEW YORK. R. L. DE LISSER, KINGSTON, N. Y. Fl'LTON PUBLISHING COMPANY, NEW YORK. CONTENTS. ILLUSTRATIONS, iage A Cosy Interior 357 A Day'3 Catch in Canadian Waters 234 A Day's Fishing at Coxaackie..l56 A Day's Hunt in the Catsliill Mountains J3!5 A Day on the Hudson .. 150 A Day with the West Point Cadets 31 A Fair F"isher 5) A Flying- Start 3_^ Alligator Rock, Catskills 33 A Log Cabin in the Mountains X^03 A Mountainous Farm 363 A Native 51 Anthony Nuse 1-138 A Pretty Spot at Pile Hill 50 Around Catskill Lakes 260 At Saratoga, Away fro'n the Rialto ... 318 Battle Moniiment, West Point.. 3i> Buttermilk Falls... 11 Cascade Brook — "Fernwold," Slide Mountain 2^8 Catskill Mountains from the Hudson 16 Catskill Mountain Scenery. 11 20 31 23 33 33 41 43 44 47 49 50 51 53 5i 54 .56 .58 m 60 83 303 306 314 3J3 :;33 3i'i 2« 348 2.53 2.57 3.58 2i0 263 264 3.i7 368 273 Cavalry E.xercise on the Campas, West Point 2G Clubhouse, Schoharie Mansion, near Tannersville 40 Congress Hail. Saratoga 149 Congress Spring ParB, Music Pavilion, Saratoga ... 151 Cottages in the Catskills. . 11 Country Residence of Mr. Geo. J. Gould .■ 54 Cranston's US Crosby Falls, i»lide Mountain P. O 21 Crossing at Kingston . 61 Deep Notch, Catskill Mountains. 223 Emery Bro-k on New Grand Hotel Property 53 Entrance to Pine Hill from Birch Creek, Shandaken 33 Fawn's Leap, Kaaterskill Cove. 8'J Fleischmann's, on the Ulster & DelawareR.R 233 Fort Montgomery 14 Furlough Lodge, Hardenburg.. 64 Grand Union Ho; el, Saratoga. .1.54 Haines Corners ,53 Haying in the Wallkill Valley . .lL9 Headquarters Library and Rid- ing Hall. West Point 26 Hotel Kaaterskill 264 Hudson River Scenery 14 16 26 28 3L 35 156 263 If the Tackle Holds i,5 Indians Bringing Sir William Johnson to the Springs 114 In Prospect Park, Catskill.. .. 314 In the Historic Wallkill Valley 3t-3 Interior of Drawing-Room Car on West Shore R.K 229 In the Shade of the Willows 131 Kaaterskill Falls 47 Kaaterskill Lake, Hotel Kaater- skill in the Distance 372 Lake Minnewaska 36 Lake Mohonk c9 Ledge of Rocks in Front of t atskiil Mountain House.. 2-13 Looking into Twilight Paik, Haines Corners . . 41 Looking North from West Point 278 Moonlight on the Lake 206 Near East Kingston, N. Y 35 New Grand Hotel, Wesfrn Catskills 43 53 2,58 375 Niagara Falls, Near Prospect Point at Night Ifi9 Niagara Falls Views... 160 165 IMt 187 199 310 On the Historic Hudson 2i r.\r,E On the Highlands of the Hudson. 26 On Mountain Tops ... !3 Otis Elevating Railway ,5(j Our Little Summer Girl 5 Pine Hill, N. V :o Pretty Spots i i the Catskills. '. '. . -Jyi Prospect House at Catskill .. lii Prospect Point, Niagara Falis. . ,199 Putnam's Folly . If)') Resting, Hotel Kaaterskill Porch 44 Rip's Rock 60 Rip Van Winkle 58 69 Rip Van Winkle Cottage, Sleepy Hollow . 267 Rock of Ages, Niagara Falls .187 Saratoga Scenery... 144 149 151 1.54 1.55 3*:6 Storm King 14 Sugar Loaf from Cornwall 28 Theatricals in the Catskills. . ^3 The Echo of the Hudson High- lands Frontispiece The Esopus— Near Mount Pleas- ant, Shandaken 268 The Horseshoe Falls, from Goat Island ... 310 The Red Man's Fact Jtj5 TheShawangunk Kill— A Tribu- tary of the Wallkill 194 The Wallkill River, Mont- gomery 173 The Whirlpool Rapids Below the Falls \H) The White Man's Fancy !![.1'0 Twilight Park .53 United States Hotel, Saratoga. .2(0 Views About Lake Mohonk 3.) Views Around Hotel Kaater- skill 4.5 Views at Lake Minnewaska... ;,i> Wallkill Valley Views.. . 36 39 I'O 173 194 363 Washington's Headquarters at Newburgh 16 Weehavvken Ferry Slips 13 West Haverstraw Station.. IS West Point 26 31 278 STAGE CONNECTIONS. Catskill Mountain Railway SO Stony Clove&Catskill M't'ri R.R. 91 Ulster & Delaware Railway.... 61 TOURS. Adirondacks 7] Alburgh Springs, Vt (;5 Ale.xandria Bay, N. Y 65 66 All around Muskoka Lakes, Ont. 83 Ausable e hasm, N. Y 66 Bala, Ont. 88 Baldwin, N. Y. (Lake GeorgeV 66 Bennington, Vt C6 67 Bethlehem, N. H (WhiteMts).. V.7 Blue MouiitainLake, N. Y. (Adi- rindacks) 67 Bluff Point, N. Y .;.. 67 Bolton, N. Y. (Lake George; 67 Boston, Mass 68 Bracebridge, Ont " 88 Burlington, Vt. (Lake Cham- plain) 08 Caldwell (Lake George) 69 Canastota. N. Y 69 Catskill, N. Y 69 Catskill Mountain Resorts ! !276 Charlottetown, P. E. 1 88 Chautauqua, N. Y 69 Child wood Park Station 70 Cornwall, N Y. 71 Coboure, Ont. ."." 70 Cooperstown, NY 70 Cranston's, N. Y 71 Crawford House, N. H. (V\hite Mountams) . 71 Crooked Lake, N. Y . U Drawing-Room and Sleeping- Car Rates 259 E.xcursirn Rates to Catskill Mountain Resorts 376 CONTENTS— Continued. Elizabethtown, N. Y. (Adiron- ^ dacks) "1 Fabyans, N. H. (White Moun- ^ tains) 'i^l Forked Lake Carry (Adiron- ^ dacks) .... VI Glens Falls, N. Y Tl Hadley (Luzerne), N. Y. (.Adiron- ^^ dacks). .... Vri Halifa.x, N. S y-* Hammondsport 'i^l Highland, N. Y. 73 Highgate Springs. Vt 7."J Howe's Cave, N. Y V- Hydeville, Vt p Ithaca, N. Y ■■ "^^ Jamestown, N. Y. (Chautauqua Lake) 'i'3 Jefferson. N. H. (White Mts.).73 (3 Keene Valley, N. Y. (Adiron- ^ dacks) •• 73 Keeseville N. Y. (Adirondacks). ^3 Kingston, N. Y 73 Lake George 68 Lake ^ innewaska. N. Y i3 Lake Mohonk, N. Y 73 Lake Placid, N. Y. (Adirondacks) <3 Lakewood, N. Y. ( ,hautauqua Lake) 73 Lebanon Springs, N. Y 74 Leno.x, Mass. (Berkshire Hills).. 7-4 Lexington.N. Y. (Catskiil Moun- ^ tains) 74 Loon Lake House, N. Y. ( idi- ^ rondacks) 74 Loon Lake Station 74 Mackinac Island, Mich 74 Manchester, Vt 74 Mayville, N. Y. (Chautauqua Lake) 75 Montreal",' P.' q"" 75 76 77 78 84 Montreal to New York 77 84 Newburgh, N. Y 78 New Paltz, N. Y 78 Niagara Kails, N. Y 78 79 North Adams, Mass 79 Ontario Beach, N. Y 79 Oswego, N. Y 79 Ottawa 79 8 1 Parry Sound 88 PaulSmith's.N Y (Adirondacks) 79 Plattsburg, N. Y. (Lake e ham- plain) 79 80 Point Chautauqua, N. Y 80 Port Cockburn, Ont 8-( Port Hope, Ont 70 Port Kent, N. Y (Lake Champ.) FO Profile House, N H (WhiteMts) ^0 Poughkeepsie, N. Y iO Quebec, P. p ^0 Ka'phs, N. Y (Chateaugay Lake) 80 Raquette Lake, N. Y. (Adiron- dacks) 80 Richfield Springs. N. Y 80 81 Hosseau, Ont 88 Round Island H ) Round Lake, N. Y 8L Saranac Inn Station, N. Y. vAdi- rondacks) 81 Saranac Lake- btation, N. Y. (Adirondacks) 81 Saratoga Springs, N. Y 81 83 Saugerties 83 Schro.n Lake, N. Y. (.Adiron- dacks) 83 Sharon Springs, N. Y ^ i^'^i Side Trip E.xcursions 85 87 Sodus Point 83 St. Albans, Vt 13 K3 St John, F.Q 8.( Thousand Islands, N. Y 6.t Tours, Additional 88 Trenton Falls, N. Y 83 Twin Mountain House, N. H. (Wnite Mountains). . 83 Twin Mountain House, N. H . . . . 85 Waterbury, Vt 83 Watkins. N. Y 83 84 West Point, N. V 84 lAOB AVestport, N, Y. (Lake Champ.). 84 White Mountains, 67 Vv'illiarastown, Mass. (Berkshire Hills) 84 DESCRIPTIVE. Adirondacks, N. Y 71 Alexandria Bay, N Y (Thousand Islands) t'^ Ausable Chasm ■ •_ ■ ■ Cj Catskill Mountain and Cairo Railroad -^^ Chautauqua Lake, N Y 69 Cooperstown, N. Y. (Otsego Lake) '<] General Information 8 i j Expenses, Summer Homes, Baggage, Restaurants, Ex- press Matter.Drawing-Room and Sleeping Cars, Tele- praohing. Stop-over Privi- leges, Optional Tickets, Season of Navigation, West Shore Ticket Offices. New York, Jersey City and Brook- lyn Stations Lake George, N. Y 08 Legendary^Rip Van Winkle. 58 ;.9 Manners and Doings of Rip Van Winkle 337 370 Mountain Attractions 40 49 Montreal. PQ 75 Niagara Falls N. Y. <8 Old and New Saratoga . - 144 ]5o Otis Elevating Railway f7 Picnic and Excursion Parties. 63 64 Rates to Catskill M't'n Resorts. 3.6 Retrospective. ''l Richfield Springs, N Y 80 Rip's Rock. .. to Saratoga Springs, N. Y 81 Sharon Springs, N. Y. 83 Trenton Falls 83 Ulster & Delaware Railroad 40 Wagner Palace Car Co. Rates.. 259 Wallkill Valley o7 West Shore Route 6 West Shore of the Hudson 17 West Shore Terminal Stations.. 13 White Mountains. N. H 67 MAPS. Colored Map of the Catskill Mountains, with Index, show- ing We-.t Shore R R. and con- nections 16 Colored Map, New England and Middle States, showing West Shore R.R and connections... 3 HOTELS AND BOARDING HOUSES. On or near West Shore R. R. 93 101 On or near Wallkill Valley R. R.... 103 104 On or near Ulster & Dela- ware R. R 105 111 On or near Stony Clove & Catskill Mountain R. R. . .111 113 On or near Kaaterskill R. R 113 114 On or near Catskill Moun- tain Railway 115 118 On or near Delaware & Hudson R. R 119 130 SUPPLEMENTARY LIST. On or near West Shore R. R 123 139 On or near Wallkill Valley R.R 120 131 On or near Ulster & Dela- ware R. R 132 135 On or near Stonjr Clove & Catskill Mountain R. R...135 137 On or near Kaaterskill R. R. ..137 On or near Catskill Moun- tain Railway 138 1ij9 On or near Delaware & Hudson R. R. 1-10 143 FOR INDEX TO a:)Vertisements see b.ack of book. ^Drummonc V. -JRichiooud ItOTTAWA Cornwall ^^^^^ / d ^ Tjloocrs Jv.}ri%X , ''De Kalb ^^g^/S" S?ble/, rMorri/stown Saranac Jc/Kf??- ," t ; fa ,' .\ iiaAD/lRONDACW-'f Dix JTO'^ Sheldon P'^t'='''"0 4 ^Sutton Newport\ fSUcldou "•oi,, ^ \&« CN^'5^ Remse^S Wi!-^ Jiirid Cre'ek^ [bans jCambridge' ^^ \ ' St.JohuKburf^ ^/Ifo'^ Burlin^^tg n Q MONTPELIEn Vergennea Wells Riv.\ -."White Tliv^ Winds&r- HkdleyA\r^*y . iwa/rd' BcUowt Ealls ^.SwaiuV \K" E Olean\ ElmTra^-- Larabees Port Allegheny E I m I ra^-— ^ / \ Tow'anda i Binghampto wegro Sayre ^ i . -► i Susquehanna ^J MonticellOf- > Bcaningtoa Hobart Stamford o,„cK,MA»ilB^"*-J^ ,.-._- . w„„>^„„,„,.__., ''^rtCfiatlia 1/ /BlrhfleU B|,; iEARLVIlLE cobie.kiiK Siane?3 \ / VFall BrJ Antrim O o-'V/ Emporium .«t,^ood •9^ Itenovo sarfield r 5k Havei^ LewisburgX^ 'S^'' \ ^ ^O Smibury); N /N Sl^Yz-L BarclayX Bemice <^ WllliamspoTt ^Hancock J " ^?- sbokaS MNGSl MiiDtglomery '. ^^j^ campbelAl /^ / Broad Top Scranton »,-j^\^ 'pitW Middl) rsVilkesBarro ^<> N<^wtont ^ ^V-loo/Wgg>,, ■JSaston J^ oundJBrE iRNWJAfn \^./ JjMauch Chi ^entowuP Dharrisburg, fH/U^ IV /-To- JrHO/BRANCH iiytork- Chambersburg^°^''f Mercersburg ^° O^ i^r, '^^/^ 74f>, agcrstoy/J£~ \ .'Chan^towa^ / /Straab grg Aleiandriajijj. ANNAPOLIS -•^ / -/af^n^^^ali^sp' /if '^'S;^ -^ iiCeiitreville ^^/-^A^, /y \&r ^>r Mx^m^ V ^ ^ c Qup liittlc ©urr)ir)cr (^irl. WEST SHORE'RAIL ROAD THE ^A^EST SHORE ROUTE. V V IIILE many suppose that both sides of the Hudson River present equal attractions — \tnd it would be hard to decide which is the more beautiful — it is a curious fact that all, or nearly all, the noted summer resorts, for which the country adjacent is famous, are located on its western bank. Thus, starting from New York and following up the West Shore Route, we find the Palisades, Tappan, Rockland Lake, Stony Point, Cranston's, West Point, Cornwall, Lakes Mohonk and Minnewaska, the Catskills, Saratoga, Mount McGregor and the Adirondacks (in which the great river rises), all on the same side, and all easily accessible by the West Shore Railroad. In addition to these, this route conveys the traveler to Lake George, Lake Champlain and Montreal on the north ; Sharon Springs, Cooperstown, Richfield Springs, Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Chautauqua Lake, and makes close connections for all the White Mountain and Eastern resorts, for the Thousand Islands, and the lake region of Central New York. It is thus emphatically the tourist route of the north, and realizing this fact, its ma.nagers are doing everything in their power to render it attractive to this constantly increasing and most fastidious class of travelers. While traversing the most picturesque portions of a State noted for its scenery, this railway is complete in all details of construction and equipment. It is a double-track steel rail line, with an unusually wide space between tracks, running north from New York along the west shore of the Hudson to Albany, and thence through the fertile valley of the Mohawk and across Central New York, touching at Utica, Syracuse and Rochester, to Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Its grades are easy, its curves are light, and its steel rails are among the heaviest known in railway construction. The passenger engines burn anthracite coal, and are designed to haul heavy trains at a high rate of speed. They are provided with special arrangements in the fire and smoke boxes and smoke stacks to consume all gases, and to prevent the escape of smoke or cinders. The entire passenger equipment of the road was especially designed and built by the Pullman Palace Car Company, and is the most complete in all details pertaining to elegance of finish, comfort and safety, in the world. The smoking cars, finished in figured oak, and provided with revolving chairs uphol- stered in leather, are perfect specimens of the car-builder's art. The exterior — SUMMER- EXCURSIONS — 7 of the car-! making up West Shore passenger trains is painted in a rich dark olive and gold, which produce a most pleasing effect. All the drawing-room cars, passenger coaches, baggage, mail, express and postal cars in service on the West Shore Railroad have been equipped with Sewall Safety Oar-Heating Company's system of steam-heating. Live steam is taken directly from the boiler of the locomotive. No fires for heating purposes in any of the coaches are permitted. The station houses erected along the entire route from New York to Buffalo and Niagara Falls are architectural gems, harmonious in color and design with the beautiful and picturesque scenery through which the road passes. The New York terminus of this great railway is at Weehawken, opposite the heart of the great city, and close to the ground on which Alexander Ham- ilton fell before the pistol of Aaron Burr. It extends for more than a mile along the river front, and, with its numerous docks and piers, presents nearly six miles of working space, in which vessels of every description may receive freights. The illustration on page 1 2 gives a very fair idea of the Weehawken terminal and handsome railroad station. From here commodious and elegantly appointed ferry-boats run to the handsome up-town passenger station at the foot of West Forty-second Street, and to and from the down-town station of the West Shore Route at the foot of Franklin Street, North River. As some of the trains of the West Shore Route are also despatched from the depot of the Penn- sylvania Railroad in Jersey City, they are accessible by Annex Boats from the foot of Fulton Street, Brooklyn. This connection in the Jersey City station of the Pennsylvania Railroad is of special advantage to the people of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the South en route to or from the attractive health and pleasure resorts of New York State, New England and Canada. Passengers are advised to consult official time-tables in the Company's publications, or in the leading newspapers, to ascertain just what trains leave from and arrive at the Jersey City station. All trains leave from and arrive at the West Shore stations— up-town station foot of West Forty-second Street, and down-town foot of Franklin Street, North River — while a number of trains have connections to and from Hoboken and Jersey City. In the following pages one may obtain partial glimpses of some of the innumerable delightful summer resorts to which this highway for business and pleasure travel v/ill guide him, and a few hints of the many pleasures in store for his summer holiday ; and in this connection it may not be amiss to assert that, of the many lines leading from New York, none offers to the tourist and pleasure-seeker a greater variety of tours and routes from which to make a selection than the West Shore Railroad. WEST SHORE ROUTE. GKNERAL INFORMATION. »N object of this hand-book is to supply those seeking summer homes, or a delightful tour, with information regarding the natural features of the countrjr, and to aid them in deriving instruction and pleasure on the way, as well as to present a wide field from which to select a summer home in the most delightful region in the vicinity of the great cities of the East. The modest boarding houses- — which gen- erally afford good accommodations at moderate charge — as well as the large j^alatial hotels, appear in the lists published herein ; although there are a great number of respectable farm and village residences along the west shore of the Hudson, in the Catskills, and throughout New York State, at which families will be accommodated at rea- sonable charges, that do not appear in the list. The omissions are probably due to the fact that the invitations for the particulars desired escaped the at- tention of many to whom they were addressed. The "West Shore Railroad Company will appreciate any suggestions or corrections for future editions that may be addressed to C. E. Lambert, General Passenger Agent, New York City. Living and Traveling Expenses. — The cost of a summer's residence or tour necessarily depends on one's habits and resources. There is no region in the vicinity of New York where the rich and the poor alike can secure so much for their money as along the west shore of the Hudson, in the Catskills, or among the attractive resorts of New York State. People of affluence have abundant opportunities for displaying their preference for the large hotels, while those of small incomes have it in their power to grade their "outing" expenses down to the narrowest limits. Particular information regarding terms may be found in the Hotel and Boarding House Lists following the descriptive matter in this book. Season for Summer Homes. — It is, of course, the better plan to become comfortably settled before, and return to city homes after, the heat of summer has attained its height. Accommodations can be secured as early as May and until autumn merges into winter. The beautiful foliage of autumn adds im- measurably to the pleasures of a prolonged stay in the country. The houses -=> SUMMER-EXCURSIONS «=■■ 9 along the Hudson and in the Catskills, occupying high elevations, are coming into favorable notice as winter resorts for those afflicted with pulmonary affec- tions, and many of the large houses are now prepared to entertain guests the greater part of the year. Facts about tour Baggage.— The Westcott Express Company will call , for and check baggage from hotels or residences in New York, Brooklyn or Jersey City to destination. Orders may also be left at any ticket office of the West Shore Kailroad. No employe of the Company at stations or on trains will be permitted to handle baggage roughly. Agents of the Westcott Express Co. will meet all trains in ample time to arrange for the transfer of passengers and baggage from trains to residences, hotels, depots, or steamer docks in New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City or Hoboken. One hundred and fifty pounds of baggage will be checked free on each full-rate summer excursion ticket, and seventy-five pounds on each half-rate (child's) ticket. In selling tickets and checking baggage over other lines this Company acts only as agent, and assumes no responsibility in connection with tickets or baggage beyond the terminus of its own road. To ensure the forwarding of baggage on same trains by which passage is taken, passengers should be at the station at least fifteen minutes before adver- tised time for departure of trains, as it is necessary to present your passage ticket to station baggage-master when baggage is checked. In having baggage checked to New York by West Shore Koute, notify checkman at what station in New York, delivery is desired. Baggage will be checked to the West Shore depot, foot of West 42d Street, and to the down- town depot, foot of Franklin St. , to suit the convenience of passengers. All &aggage checked simply to New York will be delivered at the West 42d Street station. Passengers for Brooklyn via West Shore Route should take particular care to have baggage checked to Brooklyn. If properly marked, baggage for Brooklyn will be conveyed from Jersey City to the foot of Fulton Street, Brookl3rQ, by Annex Boats connecting with trains, so that it can be claimed upon arrival. This arrangement has already proved a great convenience to the people of Brooklyn, who are thus relieved of vexatious delays in the delivery 0/ baggage. Travelers to or from New Jersey coast resorts, Philadelphia, Baltimore,. Washington and the South, holding tickets by the West Shore Route, have their baggage checked through and transferred to connecting trains in the Jersey City station, thus ensuring prompt delivery and lessening the chances of having baggage damaged or lost. Restaurants. — The restaurants along the West Shore Route at Wee- hawken, Kingston, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo, are among the finest and best managed railway restaurants in the East. Moderate charges only are authorized, and price-lists are posted for the information of the public. Express Matter. — The National Express Company is in charge of the express facilities of the West Shore Route. Parcels or shipments of any kind requiring despatch wiU receive prompt attention if forwarded by the Nationa' jO — WEST SHORErRAIL ROAD ■=- Express. The Company's assents are at all stations of the West Shore Railroad, and its principal offices in New York City are : General Office, 145 Broadway; Branch Offices, 946 Broadway, 136 Franklin Street, 302 Canal Street, 399 Madison Avenue, West Shore Depots at Franklin and West Forty-second Streets, etc.; also, at 109 Hudson Street, Jersey City. They also have a number of offices in Brooklyn and its suburbs, furnishing a quick and economical service for the forwarding and deliver- ing of trunks, valises and all classes of express business. (See advertise- ment in back of book). Drawing-Room and Sleeping Car Accommodations. — The Wagner ralace Car Company operate the Drawing-Room and Sleeping Cars on the West Shore Railroad. The new cars introduced by this progressive Company, in elegance of finish, luxurious appointments for the comfort of passengers, and in general attractiveness, have never been surpassed. Drawing-Room and Sleeping Cars — handsome and comfortable— will be run between New York and the Catskill Mountains, Albany, Saratoga, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Toronto, Chicago, and intermediate points. Drawing-Room and Sleeping Car accommodations may be obtained at the Company's principal passenger office, No. 363 Broadway, corner Franklin Street, New York City, 338 Fulton Street, or Annex Office, foot of Fulton Street, Brooklyn, or at any ticket office of the Company in New York, Brooklyn, Hoboken, or Jersey City. These offices are connected by telephone or telegraph with the Company's principal city ticket office at No. 363 Broadway, New York, where all diagrams are held to within one hour of the departure of trains. (See loca- tion of ticket offices on page 12). Stop-Over Privileges. — The rules in effect on the various transportation lines over which summer excursion tickets are sold, with regard to the stop- over privileges allowed the holders of such tickets, are not uniform. As a general rule, holders of summer excursion tickets are privileged to stop off at pleasure within the time limit of tickets; but to avoid any misunder- standing, passengers desiring to stop off should give notice to the ticket agent at the time tickets are purchased, and always to the conductor of train or purser of steamer, in order that they may make proper endorsements or issue stop-over checks. Optional Excursion Tickets. — Through coupon tickets reading via West Shore Railroad between Albany and New York will be available via People's Line or Day Line Steamers in either direction. Passengers from points west of Albany desiring to go via steamer should make application to conductor on West Shore Railroad for exchange ticket, and have baggage re-checked before arrival of train at Yoorheesville. North-bound j^assengers via Day Line will be required to have their rail tickets exchanged by Purser on steamer. North-bound passengers via People's Line will be required to have their tickets exchanged at Company's office, Pier 41 North River. Tickets reading via People's Line or Day Line Steamers, Albany to New York, or vice versa, will be accepted on West Shore Railroad trains upon payment to conductor of $1.60, if via People's Line, and $1.10, if via Day Line Steamers. Tickets reading- via People's Line or Albany Day Line Steamers, Albany to New York or vice versa, will be accepted on Citizen's Line Steamers, New York to Troy or vice versa. SUMMER -EXCURSIONS 11 Tickets reading via Rotterdam Junction to points on Fitchburg Railroad^ Boston, or east thereof, are good via Saratoga, at option of passengers, 3omnienciug June 1st and until October 31st. Tickets via Sound Line Steamers between New York and Boston entitle dolders to a berth. Meals and berths are extra on the steamers of the Detroit & Cleveland Steam JSTavigation Company between Cleveland or Detroit and Mackinac Island. ^T^.ASON OF Navigation.— Chautauqua Steamboat Co., June 1st to October 1st. Citizens' Line steamers (Troy night boats) commence with opening of navi- gation on Hudson River, and stop about December 1st. Cayuga Lake steamers from May 14th until close of navigation. Day Line Hudson River Steamers, from May 29th to October 15th. Fall River Line, all the year. Lakes George and Champlain steamers, from May 27th to October 5th. People's Line Hudson River steamers (Albany night boats) commence with opening of navigation and stop about Dec. 1st. Providence Line, June to Oct. Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company's steamers, from June 5th to September 14th. Seneca Lake steamers, all the year. Steamer from Cape Vincent to Clayton and Alexandria Bay, Ju'ae 1st to October 1st. Steamer from Clayton to Alexandria Bay, June 1st to October Ist. Steamer Mary Powell, May 21st to about October 20th. Stonington Line, all the year. Trains on Kaatersk'U Railroad and Catskill Mountain Railroad stop run- ning about October 1st. Old Dominion Steamship Company have on sale at Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va , excursion ticket? to Saratoga, Lake George and other Northern Summer Resorts COTTAGES IN THE CATSKILLS. 12 WEST SHORE-RAIL ROAD TICKET OFFICES OF WEST SHORE t^fllliROAD. (C fY^ ICKETS, time-tables, maps, ac- commodations in drawing-room and sleeping cars, and general information may be obtained at the following offices of tlie West Shore Rail- road: Jersey City. — Pennsylvania Railroad Station. HoBOKEN. — Paterson Avenue, near First Street. . Brooklyn. — Annex Office, foot of Fulton Street; No. 726 Fulton Street, Westcott's Express Office; No. 339 Fulton Street, and Principal Brooklyn Office, 338 Fulton Street. WiLLrAMSBURG. — Westcott's Express Office, 106 Broadway. New York City. — No. 363 Broadway, corner Franklin Street; No 671 Broadway; No. 942 Broadway, near Madison Square, Westcott's Express Office; No. 113 Broadway, Boreel Building; No. 235 Columbus Avenue (cor- ner Seventy-first Street), Westcott's Express Office; No. 61 West One Hun- dred and Twenty-fifth Street (Harlem), Westcott's Express Office; West Shore Stations, uptown foot of West Forty-second Street, and downtown foot of Franklin Street The principal Ticket Office of the West Shore is at No. 363 Broadway, corner Franklin Street, New York. Albany. — Maiden Lane Station, and New York Central Station, and No. 23 Maiden Lane, corner Broadway. Troy. — New Y^ork Central Station. Saratoga. — D. & H. C. Co's Station; No. 369 Broadway (Adelphi Hotel). Utica. — No. 1 Bagg's Hotel; West Shore Station and New Y'ork Central Station. Syracuse. — West Shore Station and No. 127 East Washington Street (Larned Block). — SUMMER'EXCURSIONS — 13 Rochester, N. Y. — Power's Block; ii East Main Street; West Shore and New York Central Station. Buffalo. — No. 1 Exchange Street; 377 Main Street, and West Shore and New York Central Station. Niagara Falls. — No. 3 International Hotel Block, and West Shore and New York Central Station. Boston. — Nos. 300 and 250 Washington Street, and at Fitchburg Rail- road Station. Through tickets via West Shore may also be obtained at the principal offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad, New York & Long Branch Railroad, Delaware and Hudson Railroad, Grand Trunk Railway, and all other con- necting lines. NEW YORK STATIONS. The Up-town Station in New York of the West Shore Railroad is at the foot of West Forty-second Street, and is accessible by any of the Elevated Railroads to the Forty-second Street stations, and thence by cross-town street cars direct to the West Shore station. The Green Line street cars also run -direct to West Shore Station. The Down-town Station of the West Shore is at the foot of Franklin .Street, and is accessible by the Sixth Avenue Elevated Railroad to Chambers Street; by the Ninth Avenue Elevated Railroad to Franklin Street, and by street cars on West Street. The street cars on West Street connect the Franklin Street station with the New York terminal stations of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Delaware, Lacka- wanna & Western, the New York, Lake Erie & Western, and the New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroads ; and also with the Sound and Ocean steamship docks. BROOKLYN STATION. Passengers, with their Baggage, are conveyed to and from the Brook- lyn Annex station at the foot of Fulton Street, Brooklyn, connecting in the Jersey City station with trains on the West Shore Railroad. This connec- tion is of special benefit to the thousands of families of Brooklyn seeking health and pleasure at the numerous resorts reached by the West Shore Railroad. ___^ JERSEY CITY STATION. A number of Trains on the West Shore Railroad run to and from the Jersey City station of the Pennsylvania Railroad, thus giving the citizens of Jersey City, Hoboken, and of New Jersey generally, improved facilities for reaching the attractive points all along the Hudson, in the Catskills, and in Central and Northern New York. Direct connection is also made in this station with trains of the Lehigh Valley Railroad for all points reached by that road and connections in Northern New Jersey and Eastern Pennsyl- vania. \/lCv^^ jvom fcn-l' ]T\or\tQor?^ er 0, SCENES ON AMERICA'S MOST BEAUTIFUL RIVER. mOEX TO MAP. 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