Identifier: routesratesforsu01rome (find matches)
Title: Routes and rates for summer tours
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg railroad company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (New York, Press of the American bank note co.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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million candle power, and one of the most powerful lights in the world. First-class mealsare served on these boats ; price, fifty cents. The steamers of the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company also ari-ive at and depart fromthe R., W. & O. R.R. dock, bound to and from Montreal, Quebec, and the River Saguenay. EMPIRE STATE. ROME, WATERTOWN AND OGDENSBURG RAILROAD. 71 Famous Fishing Grounds of the River St. Lawrence. Located in the Immediate Vicinity of Cape Vincent, Clayton and Alexandria Bay. THE fishermans sport is thus graphically described by Mr. Howard Pyle, himself an adeptwith the rod as well as the pen : One of the great features of enjoyment to the casual visitor to the Thousand Islandsconsists in occasional picnic dinners ; not the ordinary picnic dinner where a table-cloth is spreadupon the ground, and cold meats and sundries upon the table-cloth, where long-legged spidersor centipedes career across the viands or drop into ones cup of luke-warm coffee, but dinners
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CATCHING MUSKALLONGK. as luxurious in their bill of fare asany of the hotels can aiTord, combinedwith all the unfettered gaiety incidentto such an al fresco meal. A daysfishing is nominally the back-bone ofthe expedition, around which thedays pleasure is actually built. Wewill suppose that the party of a dozen ladies and gentlemen is formed, and the day plannedfor the expedition arrived—a clear, sunny one, with not a ripple stirring the glassy surface of thestream. Six boats are hired, a gentleman and lady going in each under the superintendence ofa fisherman. Perhaps, if the fishing-ground be distant, a steam yacht is engaged, the boats,stretching in a long line, are taken in tow, and off the jolly party starts, with flags flying merrily.At length the desired spot is reached, and the sport begins, each party fishing as if theirlives depended upon it, and all internally praying that if a monster pickerel or muskallonge iscaught, they may be the particular ones selected by Fortune as

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