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Brooklyn Life from Brooklyn, New York • Page 8

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Brooklyn Lifei
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BROOKLYN LIFE. 8 Bermuda New YorkYHoliday Suburb. Going to Europe? Sending Honey Abroad? Contemplate Baking Trips and Tours? Among those to whom the more expensive travel routes are barred by lack of either time or money, Bermuda is still regarded as a Mecca by thousands in fact, the popularity of this Island Para- dise Land of the Lily and of the Rose-is increasing yearly. Those who know it will hardly wonder at its great and growing vogue, for it has probably the most truly temperate climate in the world. This cluster of islands is too far north for the torrid heat of the tropics, yet far enough south to escape the stinging lash of wintrv winds.

Here, Nature is always clothed in the glad raiment of an everlasting spring a garb of surpassing beauty, for it comprises the natural scenery and vegetation of the temperate iU. t.nn!. dent PnQP and spring anu iuc uuuv lilies, palm trees and orchids gently undulating hills and verdure-draped val-leys combine with a climate that is pleasingly warm in comparison to our winter and delightfully cool as compared with J. LEHRENKRAUSS SONS 379 FULTON STREET Opp Borough Hall and Subway Station, Brooklyn, N. Y.

(After March 15, 1910, at 359 Fulton Street, new fire-proof "Lehrenkrauss the equatorial latitudes to yieia an suy-sian country that well deserves every rhapsody of praise that has ever been sung of it. Its delights are marine as well as terrestrial. Within the natural fortifications of its encircling coral reefs are waters whose translucent azure lays before the eye all the kaleidoscopic wonders of submarine life, both piscatorial and 32 years' Practical Experience Travel Department Tickets by all Important Lines. Direct Connections. Everything for Travelers to Travel with.

Head Office Rates Banking Department Drafts and Letters of Credit. Money Orders. Cable Payments. Foreign Money. Bond and Mortgage Investments.

Travelers' Checks, etc. Legacies and Claims Collected. 48 Transatlantic coastwise on Lines. No extras. No Delays, fee-cured immediately while you wait.

U. S. Passports, etc. For Thomas Look Interesting Tours floral. For the visitor, ennut is an impos-.

If he is not content with the mere lazy appeciation of his surroundings, there are fishing, yachting, bathing, tennis, cricket, baseball, riding and driving to be had, and, with the presence of a naval and military station of considerable importance, there is a remarkable brilliance and charm about its social life. In addition to the Q.S.S. Bermudian and the S.S. Oceana chartered by the Quebec Steamship Company for the season, the travel to Bermuda this year has the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's S.S. Orotava, a six thousand ton Australian liner, a vessel which has been very favorably commended on the grounds of her superior service and table and particularly her comfort and stability.

Son, who have been officially appointed Passenger Agents of the Committee of the Passion Play, have arranged a complete series of Tours, both Tours de Luxe, and shorter Vacation Tours, extending over the season, and covering the entire Continent in various combinations. In addition to the Passion Play there are several Expositions this year being held in Europe, among them those at Brussels and Berlin and the Anglo-Japanese Exhibition at London. The demand for accommodation is so heavy that the very earliest opportunity should be taken to secure both steamer berths and accommodation of all kinds in Europe. Cook's 140 offices abroad enable them to do this with exceptional ad The year 1910 will be memorable in travel annals for the remarkable increase in passenger traffic across the Atlantic. The season in Egypt the world's premier winter resort which is now "on, is an exceptionally busy and brilliant one.

The Nile steamers running from Cairo to many resorts of Upper Egypt operated by Thomas Cook Son have carried full passenger lists, and the escorted tours from the United States to Egypt and the Holy Land have few vacancies. Spring tours to Japan, China, other fascinating 'lands of the Far East and for the New Way" around the world via the Trans-Siberian Railway, are also filling up well. The feature of the year, however, will be the tourist movement to Europe, stimulated by the great Passion Play at She draws so much water that it is impossible for her to go alongside the pier at Hamilton. Passengers are therefore taken by fast steam-tender from the Naval anchorage at Grassy Bay. Special Tours.

lias hperi made before in this vantage to their patrons publication regarding the excellent booklets which the firm of Raymond Whit- comb issue tor tne Denent oi Two more have been published. One is entitled "European Tours During 1910," the other "Around the worm ooum-bound." The former contains 142 pages, covers an immense amount oi grounu um describes a large number of tours to Europe, some one of which win sureiy suit any tourist. A quarter of a century ago this company inaugurated the per- sonally conducted metnou oi uvw mv now it is firmly established in the favor of the public. The Raymond Whit-comb tours are marked by a liberality and attention to details whicn nave mauc them favorites. The best facilities are anri rnmnrehensive tours iaia out which may be enjoyed under most favorable conditions.

Long experience enables the company to select routes and hotels in all countries which give the most possible in the time covered by any particular tour. The "Around the World Southbound" tour is unique. It covers the Canary Islands, Cape Town, Johan1- The Ideal Resort lor Rest and Recuperation Should Combine Ease of Access, Equable Climate, InvjsoratinB Air, Interwt-inKSurroundinKS. Correct Sanitation, Pure Food and above all PERFECT HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS. A me combination, indeed, tnd to be found in but one place in America HOTEL CHAMBERLIN at owvcmcaaaa These are described in detail in a beautifully illustrated booklet, which can be obtained at the offices of aU Transportation Line and Tourists' Bureaus, or by addressing CEO.

F. ADAMS, Fortress Monroe, or the New York Office, No. 1122 Broadway The Medicinal Baths and Sea Pool at the Chamberlin Are the Finest in America These Baths are recommended by the most eminent physicians everywhere. Special Booklet on "Baths and Bathinf" sent on request nesburg, Pretoria, lumDeney, tne jvhuuc-sia Railway, Victoria Falls and Hobart Between six and seven weeKs win De uc-voted to New Zealand and Tasmania, whence the party will proceed to Aus-thmr the tour continues to the Philippines, China, Japan and Hawaii.

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