A Flight in Spring: In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898Knowles, J. Harris (John Harris)
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A Flight in Spring: In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898
Knowles, J. Harris (John Harris)
Railroad travel -- United States; United States -- Description and travel
"The following is the _personnel_ of the party: Dr. and Mrs.
Frederick Humphreys, the Misses Hayden, Mr. J. F. Hanson, Rev.
Dr. D. Parker Morgan, of the Church of the Heavenly Rest, New
York, and Mrs. Morgan; Canon J. Harris Knowles, of St.
Chrysostom's, one of the Chapels of Trinity Church, New York;
the Misses Harding, of New York; Mr. Frank P. Payson and Miss
Sanford, of Brooklyn; and Miss Jayta Humphreys and Mr.
Frederick Humphreys, of New York, the latter two being
grandchildren of Dr. and Mrs. Humphreys.
"All the party, except Dr. and Mrs. Humphreys, the Misses
Hayden, and Mr. Hanson, arrived here on Thursday, in the
private car 'Lucania,' a palace on wheels, in which the tour
will be made.
"Dr. Humphreys spent yesterday in showing his guests some of
the attractive drives and scenery in and around the town. And
they could not have had the guidance of one more familiar with
this charming winter resort, or one more competent to tell of
its many attractions. The good doctor has been a great friend
of Thomasville, and all our people will cordially join us in
the wish that he may spend many more happy winter months at his
pretty home on Dawson Street. He has done much for the place,
and it is duly appreciated by all classes of our citizens.
"The party will leave in the 'Lucania' this afternoon at 2.35.
The itinerary will embrace the following principal points: New
Orleans, San Antonio, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa
Barbara, San Francisco, Monterey, San Jose, Ogden, Salt Lake
City, Glenwood Springs, Colorado Springs, Denver, Kansas City,
and St. Louis. Stops of more or less length will be made at all
these points. New York will be reached on the 25th of May.
"It will be a most delightful, interesting, and instructive
outing. We trust it may be made without a single mishap, and
that the party may all reach their Northern homes in safety,
and that when memory calls up its scenes and incidents,
Thomasville, clothed in its fresh garments of spring, with its
countless flowers, its balmy air and blue skies, will have a
place in the picture."
We can hear the cheery voice of our editorial friend, Captain Triplett,
in all these lines, full of kindness and good feeling.
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Departure from Thomasville.--Pet Superstitions.--Montgomery, Alabama.--
The Capitol.--The Public Fountain.--Montgomery to New Orleans.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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