THEIR PILGRIMAGE
By Charles Dudley Warner
CONTENTS
I. FORTRESS MONROE
II. CAPE MAY, ATLANTIC CITY
III. THE CATSKILLS
IV. NEWPORT
V. NARRAGANSETT PIER AND NEWPORT AGAIN;
MARTHA'S VINEYARD AND PLYMOUTH
VI. MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA, ISLES OF SHOALS
VII. BAR HARBOR
VIII. NATURAL BRIDGE, WHITE SULFUR
IX. OLD SWEET AND WHITE SULFUR
X. LONG BRANCH, OCEAN GROVE
XI. SARATOGA
XII. LAKE GEORGE, AND SARATOGA AGAIN
XIII. RICHFIELD SPRINGS, COOPERSTOWN
XIV. NIAGARA
XV. THE THOUSAND ISLES
XVI. WHITE MOUNTAINS, LENNOX
I. FORTRESS MONROE
When Irene looked out of her stateroom window early in the morning of the twentieth of March, there was a softness and luminous quality in the horizon clouds that prophesied spring. The steamboat, which had left Baltimore and an arctic temperature the night before, was drawing near the wharf at Fortress Monroe, and the passengers, most of whom were seeking a mild climate, were crowding the guards, eagerly scanning the long facade of the Hygeia Hotel.
“It looks more like a conservatory than a hotel,” said Irene to her father, as she joined him.
“I expect that's about what it is. All those long corridors above and below enclosed in glass are to protect the hothouse plants of New York and Boston, who call it a Winter Resort, and I guess there's considerable winter in it.”
“But how charming it is—the soft sea air, the low capes yonder, the sails in the opening shining in the haze, and the peaceful old fort! I think it's just enchanting.”
“I suppose it is. Get a thousand people crowded into one hotel under glass, and let 'em buzz around—that seems to be the present no