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Show I VACATIONS ON THE HALF SHELL-Some Unsung ffi8 ,fcr,,r,h,,,,'' jl it's "' New York, Saturday. r& ' SrMi HE stay-at'10mes haTe il ! t35 soreJ -kc vacAtlon prob !fl !ct T lem' In5lca, oi mP'ns Kj JW ffwj because they cannot go to m j B'fKiS-3 the seashore or the mpun- ' I of money, they smile optl- j tobtically and tako their vacations "ou ! the half Bbclll." The trips they take might I fc followed with pro6t by persons visiting I I New 1'ork. T Within the borders of Manhattan alone, ! it appreciated because unsought, the fl j, itaj-at-horaos are finding the beauties of EI the South of France and rural England,, B ij the romance of the Riviera and the screu-j ij ity of a Swibu valley, each in capsularj I fon and waiting to be t, ken at the rate' I of one per day. : k A cane or umbrellr. becomes an alpen- r, tock, a pjnk or green transfer a letter o ' credit, the motorman an unerring guide,1 ) Uie cannot possibly lose the trail! !, -a- five cent fare, either by the Broad- ; Way surface car or the subway brings you to Dyckman street. Hero you Jake fiie open highway. You may be inclined to loitev under tho shadow of the tower- - to oaks and elm o Inwood, and to I'pread your picnic lunch on tho huge !s bowlders along the way. not knowing the i. beauties further on. But wait! A short felock ixax Broadi?? to Fit v- I nue there is an abrupt turn, and you enter en-ter plcturefjque Boltoa road. It Bounds like a bit of rural England, and looks i. too, with a dash of the Isle of Wight, the Hirer Thames and the Embankments Em-bankments thrown in. This illueion commenws as soon as you enter the, honeysuckle Bctnted road. It is a ralher steep, serpentine ascent; past decorous stone walln overgrown 'with Virginia creeper, dripping bohtyeuckle and pj-ringa pj-ringa blooms; past quaint oW cottages, rominisccnt of early Knickerbocker days, the trellised Terandas and even f1- trunks uf the trees ablaze with crinisou rambler roaes. Still another curro in the upland road and the brow of the hill is reached. From j this point there in a marTelloun view of the Palieadt-fl and the Hudson. Ncxtl come the forbidding walls of the clrcnm-. spect Magdalen Home on the rlrr oide.; To the right Is a deserted mansion com-' ImaDding a splendid view of the Pali-des Pali-des and the river. Further on Is a typical English country seat. It would cover many city blocks and extends tojb Bolton roaa down to the Hudson. The Hnioothly Bhvren lawn, the well cared for garden, the lr.vitlng house, would Indlr . cate that everything is in readinen for the return of the master at a moment's notice, and bo it is, but he never comes. - Save the caretaker and his family, who i occupy tho lodge, no one has stopped on . the place In a number of years. Across from tfcla "Houee o' Dreamt" is another deserted manMon that would be a joy to any city dweller, as it standa under tho upreading brnnches of fceveral century-old trees. Adjoining It on the corner is iie old Kcppler mansion. A .picturesque little lodge house on the cor-' ncr reminds one of the Acropolis or the! Parthenon in miiuciurc It, too, is de-nertod. de-nertod. The corner r'gnpout is more I promising, however, and points the wayj 'to Wyckoff Hall. Could anything bo' moro EngHsh? j A little further on is thn old Isidor 8trans country plactS tho last house on Manhattan Island, From every point at' this end of the inland arts extended Ticwa' of the Hudson and llarleni riter, Ford-ham Ford-ham Heights, the Hall of Fame, Bronx Park and the uplands of Long Igland, while directly opposite are the Englewood !Hffa. I A few paces beyond is a Btrange formation of rock which Ib the Mecca, of manr a geological class. It is the product1 of nome pre-gl.icial ncriod. j I The return trip may be taken by the 'roadway close to the river, past the Mc- 'Creery and numerous other old Knickerbocker Knicker-bocker mansions that soon will have 'passed when the city tak6 over this sec-! jrlon as a park. One of these old homes 'now furnishes the background for a well1 j known moving pictire concern, whuro' "Vlld West" picture by the ucore aroj 'produced with no other nountain scenery available than the Pii!isadc5. Tli river road, though lt ecluded than Bolto s road, it nevertheless qnaint and plctur-eaque, plctur-eaque, and more like bit of Normandy than cosmopolitan New l'ork. St. .Michael's Villa, which stnnda high on the opposite cliffs, makes the illneion complete. j Having made a detour of the upper por-( por-( (ion of the island, the foot of Dyckman ( afreet is reached. Here the motor ferry pnsy he taken to the Palisades side, but 'that is really another day's jaunt. In fact, there ia a vacation for every day in the year on the Palisades alone. Downtown or Brooklyn toy at homt'B may take the ferry at the foot of Franklin Frank-lin or West Forty-second street to Wee-hawken, Wee-hawken, connecting at this point with a trolley to Coytesville. Another attractive route Is by way of the 130th street ferry (reached by aubway to Mnnhattan street or the upper Broadway surface carj, crowing to Edgewatsr and thence by the footpath from the ferry northward along the river road, 6uc mile to the Stale boundary. From the latter point the entire length of the Palisades reservation may be explored. A beautiful footpath, the wlidnesB aud diversity of which will reward any nature lover, runs practically the entiro length of the Pnlisudes. Instead of a flat faced, monotonous wall as the majority of us believe, tho Palisades consist of a series of bold headlands head-lands separated by valle)s and silvery cascades extending for thirty miles. And every inch of the seven hundred acre i of tho great natural pork has been set apart for preservation nml public enjoy- ' mcnL At Coytcflvllle, for ernmple, it few i moments' tramp leads oilo to a forest ( where tho wild ferns grow ho tall and rank that they nearly hido the pedeatrian. 1 Almost every step of the way ia renil- 1 nisceut of Revolutionary days. As thej txplorer descend the old highway Uutji ' zig-zags down precipitous cliffs he can , easily Imagine himself in a Swiss moun-i moun-i tain fastness. It Is not :o difficult to . picture wigwams nestling on the self same sites, now occupied by summer campers, nearly five thousand of whom have availed thetnb-elves of permits this season. Beyond St. .Michael's villa is the old Englewood pier, long sinco abandoned. To the north Englewood Creek winds its way to the base of the Palisadca. Still further north are the vine covered ruinh of the Palisudes Mountain House. Fulb a mile from the old Englewood pier is the Undcrcllff settlement, a picturesque old Dutch fishing village, with scarcely n half dozen houses nestling under the rocks. It was originally called "Unter der Stcine." Here for gcneratiouK dating dat-ing back to pre-Revolutionnry days huvc members of the Yuu Wagoner family lived and died. Two ancient houses with a small cottage cot-tage almost hidden behind the trees mark Huylcr's Landing. Next conies Alpine, the point at which Lord Cornwallis, and later General Grey, landed their forces, i The old Cornwall! headquarters, which Bre more than one hundred and fifty years ' old, are being preserved by tbc Historical Landmarks Society. Tho house was built of Palisade stone and timber rough hewn from the nearby Palisades forest. I Here, too, Is the boglnning of the old s military road, the renutfus of which my t n be traced, over which th British force! J ! I i- marched. 1 1 ) 0 Sneden's Landing, named from its in II 1 c trepid ferry mistres,?, Molly Snetlen, lie fi, I ;, five miles further north, opposite Dobbi I It I e Ferry. Even the Landing is rich in hla- jj J . torical associations. It was just beyond I j i at Tappan that Major Andre, tho British t j ) . spy, was executed. "The Big nouse," I 'I a which stands in the little hamlet of Pali- II 1 sades on the brow of the hill west of 'a Sneden's Landing, is ono of the oldest II d. i structures in America, antedating by a II r s century the Revolutionary period, I r" : There is no hnlf holiday or week end ".' l trip around Xow York that is more de- ! ? llightful than one spent on the Croton l d aqueduct. 1 17? Take the Broadway subway to Vaa I t- : Cortlandt Park, then a trolley for Getty j '" , square, i'onkers; transfer to Warburton JI jjj j avenue, and twenty minutes later, after a II fi hrec-'o- ride nloug the Hudson River road, lj i H you will come to Glen wood avenue. Walk jj j 3 up that block to the aqueduct and pro- nfi ceed to tramp as far as you like, straight jj j25 B up tho thirty-five mile path through Yonk- Jj ''1 rrs, Hastings, Tarry town, to Crotou. The jj ' road lies through the Untermyer, Evln?, ;jg Cockeran, Gould and other splendid :j , B estate. ? H There arc many uooks along tho Croton jj H path where you will be tempted to loaf JJ 6ft H all day, .ind you may be aure that yea J H will uot be disturbed. . zi I H ' II ' I II fl II H J rm II 'f Ami |