XXXIII. 



IN AND OUT OF ITHACA. 



How to get into Ithaca, and how to get out again, 

 are questions often asked, and not always easily an- 

 swered. The town is peculiarly situated as regards its 

 connections with the outside world. No great trunk 

 line strikes it, and no less than four small railroads do. 

 The steamboat line makes a fifth means of ingress and 

 egress. 



Ithaca can be reached by the New York Central, the 

 Erie, the Delaware & Lackawanna, and the Lehigh 

 Valley railroads. The traveler on the New York Cen- 

 tral, will leave the train at Canastota, and take the El- 

 mira, Cortland & Northern [E.C.&N.] road, if coming 

 from the east ; if coming from the west, he should leave 

 the Central at Lyons, and take the Geneva, Ithaca & 

 Sayre [G.I.&S.] road, the latter being now controlled 

 by the Lehigh Valley. The trains of the Cayuga Lake 

 road connect with the old branch of the Central at 

 Cayuga Bridge, making still another route. The trav- 

 eler on the Erie, if from the east, will leave it at 

 Owego, to take the Cayuga branch of the D. L. & W. 

 If from the west, he may take the E. C. & N. at 

 Elmira. The directions for one traveling by the D. L. 

 and W. , are similar to those for an Erie traveler. Trav- 

 elers by the Lehigh Valley, change at Sayre to the G. 

 I. &S., in the day ; at night a through sleeper leaves Jer- 



