Ghost of the glacier and other tales . n the New World to be hurled from Ameri-can guns against the hosts of Britain. Its waters feed one ofthe first of Americas artificial highways of trade and travel,an old canal along which still moves a lazy miles away is the great, throbbing city of NewYork. Directory of Hotels and Boarding Houses, giving rates and completeinformation, will be mailed on application accompanied by 2-cent stamp. HOPATCONG STATION, NEW JERSEY. Along the old feeder of the canal is- one of the favoriteways of reaching the lake from the railroad station of Ho
Ghost of the glacier and other tales . n the New World to be hurled from Ameri-can guns against the hosts of Britain. Its waters feed one ofthe first of Americas artificial highways of trade and travel,an old canal along which still moves a lazy miles away is the great, throbbing city of NewYork. Directory of Hotels and Boarding Houses, giving rates and completeinformation, will be mailed on application accompanied by 2-cent stamp. HOPATCONG STATION, NEW JERSEY. Along the old feeder of the canal is- one of the favoriteways of reaching the lake from the railroad station of Hopat-cong, probably the most unique depot in existence, for its plat-form serves the extremes of travel — the up-to-date railroadexpress and the slow-moving canal boat. Stepping from thetrain the traveler crosses this twenty-foot platform to a tinysteamer, which, after much ado, saucily pokes her nosetoward the deeper middle water of the canal. A half mile of the broadwaterway andthe diminu-tive vesselsails under atow-pathbridge into. LACKAWANNA RESORTS. the narrow feeder, an avenue of trees and flowers and fra-grance. Then comes a lock, in which the little boat isimprisoned between walls of great gray stone rising sixteenfeet on either side. The gate behind closed and all sightof the world except a tiny square of sky shut out, therecomes a great rush of tumbling water into the narrowprison and the launch rises gracefully until the low deckcommands again a view of the beauty about it. The nextfew turns of the propeller bring it into the waters of LakeHopatcong and it starts in earnest for the various summer old. oldresorts and privatehomes about thelake. If a larger boatb e w anted thetraveler, landingfrom the train,may cross abridge over thecanal to a near-bypier where a littlesteamer floatsgracefully at herdock on an armof the lake. Once fairly under way copyright, 1900, Detroit Pliotograpliic Co. this little boat will take her passenger along the narrow bay tothe broader ex
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