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THE MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL 
 Life Insurance Company 
 
 SPRIHGPIELD, ■ MASS. 
 
 INCORPORATED 1851. 
 
 Total Assets, January 1st, 1S87, ?8, 554, 065. 32 
 
 Total Liabilities, " " " 7,897,30.1.96 
 
 Surplus by Massachusetts Standard, $656,764.36 
 
 Surplusby New York Standard (about) 1,193.000.00 
 
 Number of Policies issued in 1886, 2,628, insuring .... 8,064,390.00 
 
 Number of Policies in force Dec. 31, 1886, 16,537, insuring . . 41,246,538.00 
 
 THE MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, of Spring- 
 field, is one of the oldest in the United States. It was incorporated in the 5"ear 
 1851 by the State of Massachusetts, which was the first in the Union to inaugurate an 
 *' Insurance Department," thus instituting State supervision over its companies. 
 
 It was also the fii'st in the State to legislate concerning the forfeiture of policies of 
 life insurance; its famous non-forfeituie law was passed in 1861 and amended in 1880. 
 By the recent act of 1887, life insurance legislation has reached a degree of perfection 
 heretofore unknown. 
 
 This Law requires that all policies issued by THE MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL 
 LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY shall be nonforfeitable after the payment of two 
 annual premiums, without any further stipulation or act. This makes the amount of 
 paid-up insurance to which the policy holder may be entitled, under any circumstances, 
 absolutely guaranteed. He may forget his policy, but his policy will never forget 
 him. Also, that after the payment of two annual premiums, the insured may, on any 
 subsequent anniversary of the date of issue of said policy, surrender the same, and 
 claim and recover from the company its " Surrender Value in Cash." Said Cash 
 Value is fixed by the law itself and cannot be changed. 
 
 M. V. B. EDGERLY, President. JOHN A. HALL, Secretary. 
 
 HENRY S. LEE, Vice-President. OSCAR B. IRELAND, Actuary. 
 
 JAMES L. JOHNSON, General Agent, Springfield, Mass. 
 
I5KIJ)lN(i HUOS. .^ CO., 
 
 MANUrAOTlMlKllH OW ■ 
 
 Unequaled Spool Silks. Sewings. 
 
 FINE SILK HOSIERY 
 
 AikI Silk P';il)ri 
 
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 ROCKVILLE. CONN 
 
 SAN FM \ N<-|^< o, CAL. 
 
 NORTHAMPTON. MASS. 
 MONTF^T'AL, « AN ADA. 
 
OIL STOVES 
 
 
 which linve boon in (ho inai'kct f^u' 1 I y«Mirs, 
 nro imequnleii loi* nonsting, lUuhng, Ffyino. 
 Stenmiiig, Laiindi'y work of m11 kiiuls. . 
 
 As Helen CMnipbell snys of \\\o VlA^llK^l'K 
 Stoves, "lMi(>y rol> (ho kiti-heii of linlf i(s 
 ter'j'ors." 
 
 Circiilni's nmi (^no(n(ions of prices cheer- 
 fully ffU I'll isl u'll uiioii n i>pl ient ion (i> 
 
 FLORENCE MACHINE CO., FLORENCE, MISS. 
 
Sciul fuf lllutilratcd CJirculnr 
 
 CRYSTAL EMERY WHEEL CO, 
 
 NORTHAMPTON. MASS. 
 
MOUNT HOLYOKE. 
 
 ^^ The Finest Cultivated View in l\lew Engtand. ^^^ 
 
 '^THE PROSPECT HOUSE 
 
 is situated on the most commandiiig spot on tlie 
 range, and is fitted up expressly for the Yie"yy, 
 izyith good telescopes and every appliance to get it 
 in the best form." The Beautiful viev\r, Pure Air, 
 and Clear Spring Water, make it a desirable place 
 to spend an hour, a day, or a ^yyeek. 
 
 MEALS SERVED AT ALL HOURS. 
 
 BOARD BY THE DAY OR WEEK. 
 
 Parties stopping over can he carried to and from 
 the trains by the mountain wagons at low rates. 
 Telegraph and telephone connections via Holyoke. 
 
 Aildress, 
 
 J. W. FRENCH, Mount Holyoke, 
 
 South Hadley, Mass. 
 P. O. Address, 
 
 J. W. FRENCH. Box 1046, Northampton, Mass. 
 
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JvlOd.NT HOLYOKE 
 
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 HISTORICAU AND DESCRIPTIVE 
 
 IT.LUSTRATEr 
 
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 \KUTII.\MIToN. V.VHM. : 
 
 MHLISHKI) HY (JAZKTrK IKINTINU l«»MI'ANY 
 1887. 
 

 Copyright, 1887, 
 
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 Gazette Printing Company. 
 
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 1 !•; I)iis\ world (.f to (l:»y kMi>\v> Ix-tttT 
 iIkiii ••v.t hcfoif. ili.if tin* fn'sh«*iiiii^' ••f- 
 fict of an occasional day's oiitiii); is a 
 LTicaf lnl|» in its work Vi-sl and tli*' 
 man who i> «oni]»<'ll.-d l»y tin'unistancfs 
 to stick to his desk for iwdv.* months, 
 without his annual vacation, considers 
 himself a martyr. All th.- year round 
 the va<-atioti travelers are movini: hither and thither, north 
 ami s.tiith, and i-ast and west, getting' uji on the hi^dilands or 
 descriidin^ to the valleys, sometimes de]M'ndin^ on st«'ain, 
 soiiu'tiiiu'8 on tin* lioi-se, and very ofl*>n on human musiles to 
 arcotn|»lisli their various objects. In Winter our N<»rthern 
 people m) to the Ice Carnival in Montreal, or to California and 
 Fhuitla in search of a milder climate. In Spring' they ^o to 
 Eunipe, or make some hui^' tour throuizh their sister Statt's. 
 Summer drives the Southern )ieoplefi(»m their tropi«-al homes 
 to our cooler climates, and crowds all the breezy country hill- 
 tops with the inllux fr<»m the cities and lills with thron^Mn^ 
 life tlu* seaside res«>rts, which in the colder months an- all l>ut 
 di*st»rt»*d. Many seek the woods, some to follow Fashion, 
 some in search of a ipiiet camj)in.i; nook, while others, after 
 eidivenin^ ami adventurous sport, go loaded with an abun- 
 dance of guns and rods. Pleasure ya<dits weigh their anchors, 
 set their sails, and start on long voyages, and the boys in im- 
 itation make short. T trips with their sailboats, while trim 
 
canoes, plied with tlasliin<^ paddles, are gliding down every 
 navigable stream. The cool, invigorating days of Autumn 
 find people at work. Nevertlieless, they do not neglect fre- 
 quent long drives, or brisk canters, within the circuit of twenty 
 miles of home. The mountains of the laud have always 
 attracted a large share of these searchers after rest, and health, 
 and recreation, and beauty ; and "the gem of Massachusetts 
 mountains,'" Mt. Holyoke, is one of the most favored of them. 
 Few mountains are longer remembeied or more loved than 
 this, by those who have made its ac(;[uaintance. 
 
 Those who are careful observers of human nature, know 
 that one of the deepest forces in mankind is the tendency to 
 climb. The desire to see what is around and beyond us is as 
 old as man, and Just so old, therefore, must be the climbing 
 of hills for the view. One can hardly imagine a person living 
 within accessible distance of an elevation, who does not desire 
 and plan to climb it. Undoubtedly the wandering tribes of 
 our forefathers always, when opportunity offered, examined 
 new lands, and were aided in a suitable selection by a survey 
 from a hilltop. Perhaps Mt. Holyoke served some such pur- 
 pose to the first settlers of Northampton and Hadle3^ Certain 
 it is that people visited it soon after the first settlement of 
 these places, and ever since then the resort has been a favorite 
 one, not only of the neighboring towns, but of people of re- 
 linemen t the world over. 
 
 Mentally, the tendency to climb is even more marked than 
 it is physically. The younger half of the world is building 
 continually its air-castles, as is also the older half, only expe- 
 rience teaches them to build more modestly. Eacli person 
 intends to be rich, or great, or in some way powt^rful. No 
 matter what the discouragements they meet, no matter how 
 gloom}^ or despondent they become, all hope and plan to be a 
 
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 little better oft' before the end conies. The good man hopes 
 to be better, the miser to be richer, the wise man to have more 
 wisdom. All want to mount these mental hilltops. 
 
 The most important use of our natural rock and earth moun- 
 tain heig-hts is an intellectual rather than practical one. For 
 food and clothing we must depend on the lowlands, the 
 mountains are not life sustaining ; yet their effect on mind 
 and body is of great value — the cool bracing air, the quiet 
 after being in the rush and hurly-burly of business, or for 
 months in tlie monotonous drag of housework, the release and 
 entire freedom from the conhning walls of an office, or house 
 in town, cools the heated brain and invigorates the body, and 
 all must al)sorb some of the beauty spread around and below 
 them, and be tlie better for it. 
 
 The outline of the Mt. Hol3'oke range, due to its volcanic 
 origin, is peculiarly ragged and picturesque. Ages ago some 
 convulsion projected this mass through a huge rent in the 
 earth's surface, and when cool it was of such a ffinty hard- 
 ness that it will be impossible to change it into such 
 rounded hills as are found to the westward. The mountain, 
 clothed to its top with trees, except where in places we get 
 glimpses of perpendicular shoulders of gray rock, lifts itself 
 abruptly from the midst of a fertile and highly cultivated 
 valley to the height of about l,()()Ofeet. No foot hills cluster 
 about its base to hide the view, nor is the slope so long and 
 gradual as to diminish the interest of the landscape by ren- 
 dering it too distant. The frozen peaks of the Alps have 
 more grandeur ; the stony desolateness of other mountains of 
 f:ime is more impressive by reason of the gigantic rudeness 
 of their structure ; however grand and far reaching the view, 
 the near surroundings are almost always in a way depressing. 
 Sometimes it is the deathlike stillness of the snow fields, again 
 
tin- wild l):ii It'll of rocks :i in 1 l»oiil«l«is. and a^aiii tip- d'<j> loin'- 
 liiii'ss of flu' fon'>t, that crowns tin* In-iulits. All coniicctioii 
 with iitiMiaii life is simdcifd, t»r (»iily diiiilv made ait|iaii'Mt Ity 
 sonic rude hut, or rou;;h jiathway. lluniaii l>«*iii^s an* intcr 
 eslcd in others of their kind. So close are the ties that it j»rol>- 
 al»Iv woi.ld not take loni: tit drive the ordinary individual <\:\/v 
 
 MT. NoNoTICK AT SIN-^KT KHoM IMK KAST HANK OK TIIK (OXSKfTierT. 
 
 if coin|)elle«] to live awav fioin all fellow creatures, entirely cut 
 olT from the sound <»f a human voice. ()ii Ijolyoke w«' are l»y 
 no means s«'vere(l from the lifi> of ihcwoihl ; the hnman inter- 
 est of the valley, as si'i'H from the summit, ^^ives this view as 
 eom]>ared with others, a jteculiar charm. Lookintr from the 
 hitihest ])oint on the backbone ri«lp' of the mountain, wlun* 
 grow scatten-d. storm beaten pines and hemlocks, so near an* 
 the o]ien fields that we can »;ei' the cattle fecdinj; in the ]»a»- 
 
tnres beyond the woods, the lines of fence, the farm houses 
 half hidden by the trees, dusty ribbons of road, and the teams 
 on them moving apparently at a snail's pace. The river wind- 
 ing down from the dim north, almost enclosing the old town 
 of Hadley in one of its long loops, seems quite broad as it 
 sleepily flows past the western base of the mountain ; but 
 turning sharpl}^ around the lower end of the ridge, it narrows 
 and winds on till, dwindh^d to a silvery thread, it fades into 
 the southern liaze. Directly opposite, beyond the stream, are 
 the Nortlianipton meadows, a wide spreading level, where 
 grass flelds and ripening crops of corn and grain, in squares 
 and oblongs, form a variegated patchwork of wonderful 
 beauty. Here and there an elm lifts its spreading branches, 
 and several big, isolated barns are to be seen among the flelds. 
 The city itself is almost concealed by its thick foliaged trees, 
 and the most prominent objects are two or three big mills, the 
 church spires, the Smith College tower, and the red roof of 
 the court house cupola. On farther, the hills undulate away 
 till they fade into the dim ridges of the Green mountains; and 
 over these the faint double peak of Greylock can just be dis- 
 cerned. To the north are the two Sugar-loafs and Toby's 
 irregular ridge, and this side of it Mt. Warner's woods and 
 pastures. The eastern slope of the mountain descends less 
 steeply than the precipitous western side. It gradually falls 
 away to the level of the plain below, and then the land, di- 
 versifled now by cleared flelds, now by woods, and by hills and 
 hollows, go(>s on and on till eveiy thing is indistinguishable in 
 the distance. The pyiamid shaped mass of Monadnock looms 
 up, a gray shadow, just acioss the New Hampshire line ; and 
 the mound-like form of Wachusett, to the east, is but little 
 plainer. 
 
 Each of the several towns on the eastern plain are easily 
 
locati'd by tin- wliilf rhunh sti'<*|»l»' and littlr rlimtiT of Ikmim'S 
 wliii'li is clianul'Tistic <»f flimi. SoiiflH'iIy, on a l)roa<l liill 
 half foviMt'd with woods aii<l orchards, is South Hadh'V, witli 
 th«- rimssivt" Snniiiary hiiildititrs, just distiii^uishal»If amid th«* 
 tiri's; wliih' still hfyond air Ilolyok*'*!* tall hrick rhiimu-vs 
 ovt'ihim^' with smokf. 
 
 Tlu' Mt. n..lyok. 
 iaii^»' drojis away to 
 fh»' south to th«' riv 
 IT, and tluMi from 
 till' opposite shoif 
 risi's stt'fply and :ii 
 oiic«'. and >wi-i-j)v 
 alofii; a wavy lin«' of 
 iidi;i*s and valh'y>. 
 till lost in fin- li:i/\ 
 sonthcrn distanct 
 'I'Ih' rail;;!' start- 
 uiili W'i'st H«M- k 
 n«'ar New H a v »• n, 
 and ])nMr«'ds in ;i 
 nortiuTly din-i'tion. 
 I'lokt-n only l»\ or 
 middli' Mass.. and ^ 
 n.«fi<-nt lis. T. For the most part tin- rh-valion is small till 
 Mt Tom is n-arhed. Tin* ri(li:»* oros.sfs the strt'inn in a north- 
 «'asf (lirrrtion, ami rnrving still mun* to tin* east, finds an ••nd 
 in n«'l<h»'rtown trn mih-s <listant. Tin* gre«'nston<', (»r tn»p 
 rock, of which tin* mountain is composed, has a colnmnar for- 
 mation which is plainly t«) !>«• .s«Tn in places al<»n^ tin* sid«»8. 
 
 Thr two mountains. Tom and Holyokc, ]irohal)ly received 
 
 casional vall»*y8, till it r«achi».s 
 touches the banks of th" (.'on- 
 
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 their names five or six years after Spiingfield was settled, 
 when a company ol" the planters came northward to explore the 
 country. Eliznr Holyoke led one division on the east side of 
 the river, and Rowland Thomas that on the other bank. The 
 parties came opposite each other at the narrow place in the 
 river where the stream passes between the mountains, and the 
 heads of tlie company held a conversation across the stream 
 which resulted in each giving his name to the mountain range 
 nearest him. Dr. Holland, in his "Bay-Path," describes the 
 naming quite romantically, though as set forth in his story it 
 was very different from the actual facts. 
 
 In 1821, the people of Northampton and vicinity determined 
 to put a house on the summit, and the anniversary of the bat- 
 tle of Bunker Hill was chosen for the work. This happened 
 to fall on Sunday, and they accordingly did the job on June 
 ]8th, the day following. Boards, nails, and tools they 
 bi'ought with them, but the corner posts and larger timbers 
 were hewed from trees cut that day on the mountain. Re- 
 freshments were served, speeches were made, and at evening 
 the building rude and small, but serviceable as a shelter from 
 sun and showers, was finished. The leaders of the party 
 spent the night in the building, and in the morning went down 
 to the village below and agreed to lease the place to one of 
 the natives, Willis Pease by name, if he would settle their 
 unpaid bills for nails, etc., amounting to $27. Later, the 
 party called at the Hockarium tavern, and were treated all 
 round to some kind of fiuid which had the peculiar effect of 
 making them forget their former bargain, and when they left, 
 the mountain business was in Landlord Lyman's hands. Of 
 course this piece of management stirred the ire of the first 
 man. Now the land at this point was public propert}^ wild 
 and unclaimed, tliough certain parties had a right to take it 
 
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 lip .It :iii\ liriif. I*<'as«' siirci'«'(l<Ml in hiivini: fli«' lainl, :irul 
 l)iiilt a rival shanty north of lh«' first ofii\ and for snnu* y«-ars 
 l»nth hoiisvs \v««r»* opt'ii to visitors. To show what was s«'rv«'d 
 to th«* |M'opl«« of that L'«'in*ration. uii tlif uionnfain. \v«« »|Uol«* 
 from an ohl a<lv»'rtisr!M«iif which apjM and in th«' Ilnmpshire 
 (hizt'lte of lS'i:{ : 
 
 
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 \Villit< P1MI80 rciipect fully infurms his frieiulA antl tlio )»iililic that 
 He will ho fiirni^slu'tl with Ciiokk .Iamaka Sim hits. St. 
 
 CUOIX Kl M, C'lKJSIAf HllAXDY. IIOLLAXD <JlN, CUKUUY UlM, 
 
 HuANhY, Spanish Sroaus. with other rofreshniont* generally dc- 
 
 siii'ti." 
 
 l-'or fhi'>««' llnids niiK- p«-iM'i' a ghis-- 'u-' .I.hiI.I.^ flu- prii 
 
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 the valley), was charged. Water too was a saleable article and 
 shortly before the war it was sold for a star three cent piece a 
 glass. Till the first house was bnilt, most of the mountain 
 visitors came on horseback by a wood road, which started 
 near the grist mill in Hadley and ended in " Taylor s Notch," 
 a short distance from the summit. Then Willis Pease opened 
 a path from tlie upper end of Hockanum, and soon the rival 
 house made one from the ferry road across the fields and pas- 
 tures, and through the woods, and then straight up the steep- 
 est last ridge, partly here 
 in the form of steps, A 
 gate closed the entrance | 
 to this road, where it de ^ 
 
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 parted from the highway | 
 near the ferry, and here | 
 the boys of the village '', 
 picked up a great deal \ 
 of loose change by open- \ 
 ing and closing it foi- 
 teams and riders. Both 
 men sold out in the 
 course of time, and pres- 
 ently the property passed 
 into the hands of Dr. Stebbins of Northampton, and the 
 Pease building was torn down. Each year the Doctor leased 
 the hut on the mountain top, and placed there for the use of 
 visitors a small, old, ship's glass, which, in its day, was con- 
 sidered a wonderful instrument. It is still in existence and 
 in use at the engine house on the mountain. Inside the shanty 
 were bare, unplastered walls, one or two battered benches, 
 and a rough bar with wall paper pasted on its top. 
 A new path was scratched out in 1845 by a crowd of Am- 
 
 THE STEAMERS. 
 
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 I11I-.I >t ii»Ifiit8, south of tlif itlliiT p:itli>. tii:ikiii;: (In- :i>r.iit 
 |t>s >tf.|i tlnm^li tin* dislanco was ^n-aft r. :iinl for >oiin- linn- 
 this was th«- main thortHi^Oifair. 
 
 Ill th»' Spiiii^ of 1S|I». Mr .1. W . l-'i.inh. who had htim 
 !)• (11 :iti ruthusiastic admin'i of Mt I lol vokr, and who f.-ll it 
 \\a> sm«' to l>«'roin«', .so<»in*f or hitci , a favoiit*- r«*sort, \ isit<-d 
 it with a fiifiid, iiitfiidiiii: to h-as*- the |>rfiijis«'s if his fritml 
 auroed. I'Ih' hitt»'r had in-vt-i- l>t<-ii to thf iiioiintaiti. and was 
 rat htT iinn-didoiis with if^ard to its wondfiful \ i«*w as (!••• 
 stiiht'd hy Mr. Fh-ikIi. I'hat thrif miirht he no mistake 
 ahout th«* impn'ssion it woidd niakf, Mr. Fi»Mnh hlindfohh'd 
 his companion wht-n lialf way up through lh«' woods, and h'«l 
 him th»' rest of th«' distanc**. Once th«*n\ th«' fri«*nd was vu- 
 chantt'd with th«' l>»'auty spn-ad hofon- iiim. and th^y S(kui 
 liad h*as«'d lh«' phu-f of Dr. St»d)bins and houj^ht out, for the 
 sum of $10, thf stock in trad*' of t!ie man th»*n occupying th»* 
 premises. Th<*y r»'}»aircd the liousc and improved the niad, 
 an<l many m<»re pi-oph- wen- afinicted to the mountain. 
 
 In lS.*»n, ;i sin^h' horse cariird m|i on its hack all the ne<'es 
 saries, hy the path, to thesummil. Water was conveyed in 
 tive^allon, India luhlii-r sai k-> in c;invas panniers fastened 
 acioss the Imrse's hody. 
 
 Mr. Frem-h linisluid a wa^(Ui riKul the following: year and 
 built a n»'w house a neat, stjuare, two-story building, just 
 north of the old lirsl house, and improve»l the grounds about 
 it. To net the tind)ers for this building to the summit was no 
 ea.sy matter, and at times two ])air of oxen and a pair of 
 lu)rses were used on a single load. What with drivinir. steer- 
 ing all this ])rocession safely around the corners, and blocking 
 the wheels to rest the animals, it was a great uiub-rlaking. 
 In 18.")4, a single track railroad was built up the lai<t st«*ep 
 ridge of the mountain. haviiiLr a rise of :{(*..') feet and a length 
 
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 of 600 feet. Between tlie lines of rails was a staircase. The 
 whole structure was laid very near the ground, and followed 
 its irregularities, which made the ascent gentle in some places 
 and very steep in others. The car in use was known as the 
 "Old Sleigh," fi-om the fact that the bodies of two sleighs 
 were fitted together to form its main part. This was propped 
 up in a horizontal position, at an angle to the car truck which 
 ran parallel with the rails. A single rope was attached to the 
 up])er end and a horse beneath the house on top furnished 
 the motive ])ower. Probably there was at that time nothing 
 of the kind in the world, and people fiom far and near came 
 to gaze on the wonderful contrivance. Everybody who rode 
 considered it a very serious matter, and the outcome extreme- 
 ly doubtful ; but for a person with steady nerves, the expe- 
 rience was a delightful one. Slowly trundled along the rails 
 the whole valley was spread before the eyes — there was the 
 level sweep of meadow land with its scattered foliage, hidden 
 towns, cut in twain by the winding river, and melting into the 
 hills which roll away to the horizon ; while near by, close to 
 the car on either side were the quiet woods. The sensation 
 was singularly impressive. The climax came when the car 
 rolled up the steep ledge not far from the summit. In a mo- 
 ment the height seemed almost dizzy, and the view was im- 
 mensely broadened, and if not too much frightened at the 
 thought of what would happen if the rope broke, this mo- 
 ment was a wonderfully exhilirating one. The car and its 
 occupants cauie np through an opening in the base of the 
 mouutain house, and sto])p<'d just when the body of the 
 " Old Sleigh " was even with the floor. The trips at this time 
 were very slow, and to begin with the car was only intended 
 for invalids and luggage. In fact, it was constructed in the 
 tirst place for the express purpose of bringing up water from 
 
iIk' s|»iiriL^ at its lowi-r rnd, wliiili liitlnito Ii.mI tn In- lii«>Ui:lit 
 li\ liaiid ni (III Imi xltatU. |*.i.|i|.- walkirii; up at tin- smio 
 liiiii- tin' car \va> in iii'ition. wcic puividtMl wiili littlf jilat 
 
 IN TIIK l.«»«»KMrT KoiiM 
 
 foiiiis at tin- M(l«- of tlu« tnirk to ri'st on, wliiN- thr rm |.a«-«.i d. 
 'I'wn yt'ars affrr, a small strain «'ii;;iii<' took tin- jdacf of flu- 
 liorsr on till' summit, and ISHo saw a d<>ul)l<- fiaik laid and 
 tin* wholf strurtun* stiaiLrliti-iifd ; and in isr.7 it was <'(ivtr«'d 
 as it is now. In ISiil, tin- |»n's«'nf lionsr was ••ii'tti'd, and 
 four v«'ars laf«i tin* mad uliirli wimls tlii-nu::li ijn- wnnds 
 straight u]) tin* nmunlain from tin* lii;;liwav was laid out .\ 
 
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 rival liouse was built in 1869, a short distance below the 
 Prospect House, but never was finished. F'or a dozen years 
 its railroad track lay rotting in the woods, and the house it- 
 self became brown, and weatherwoi-n, and shabby. Light- 
 
 ning struck it, the 
 the windows were 
 within a few years 
 to pieces. 
 
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 plastering fell in great pieces, 
 half of them bioken, and 
 the building has been juilled 
 About 1850, a cuiious in- 
 dividual known as "Old 
 Herrick," came to the moun- 
 tain, and with his wife, who 
 
 ON THK PIAZZA. 
 
 was an even more peculiar character than he, put up a little 
 shanty in the woods. They were a strange couple and many 
 are the stories told of their doings. Mrs. Ilerrick sold ciys- 
 tals, gathered by her husband, to visitois. Mr. Herrick was 
 an old man over three score, and for a long time his wife, who 
 
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 u:is iiiiirli yoiihi;.'!. irfnsi-d to N't him liv»'\vif|i Ini. arid Umii- 
 full' In* Imilf for liimsflf. otT iit tin- woods, a litrli- r«'iil sliaprd 
 Init of sjilit l<>;^s, soddrd up oiitsidf, and clo.srd at tin* fnmi 
 wiili stoiu' in wliirli was a fin*|)lar«', and Urrr livi'd, doin^' odd 
 
 jobs for tlic fannris of 
 (jH ; , ^1 j; 1^ tin* villap'. an<l rli<.|. 
 
 pinj; in flu* woods. 
 .Iii>r afhi tin- war. 
 
 Mr. Fn* ii c li li ad a 
 sirafn<»r built to ply ha«'k and f<»rtli on tli«> rivt-raml connrri 
 with lli«' niilroad at tin- Mount 'INun station. 'I'liis stcaint'i- 
 was a sijuan* I'udi'd side-wlinlci- of niodrnit<' si/r, and was 
 calU'd tlif " Wawliillowa." a nann- fornirrly Itorrn* by an 
 Indian cliiff of rlif vicinity, and till IS7«'>. durinu' llw summer 
 season, tlif boat niad«- its si-vcu trips a day. Two yrjirs laler 
 till- ** Ml. Ilolyokc," a trim stfin wliiM-ItT with a pointed bow. 
 took its placf. but brraiiM' usijfss in iSS'i on arcount of a in-w 
 lo^ law tlit'ii pasx'd. wITn-li viilually uavi- iIh- control of tin- 
 riv«T into the hands of the hnnber companies. 
 
 As Tresf. Hitchcock says in his "Slate (»eo|(»^'y. " "The 
 rrospeci House is undoid)tedly on ihe most ciunmandin^ 
 spot of the raiiire. tlnui^h sevend distin<'l sunwnits that have 
 as yet rereived no uniform name afford delij^htful jirosjtects." 
 Kver siiio' Mr. French has had control of the place, imjuove 
 iM<nts hav«' been constant, ;ind uevei- h.ive the accommoda 
 lions beoii bett«M". or ways of access easier than now. The 
 hous(> is n<>at, comfortable, .and commo<lious. A nund)ei of 
 j)owerful leh's«'opt»s aid the ey<' in examinin;; distant objects, 
 ami one can set his watch by ihr clock <m the Sprin^rlii'ld 
 Arsenal, ami <ui cleai days see the uihb <1 cloine «»f the Capitol 
 ai llartfoKl. and e\fn caich a ^.jlimpse of the new monument 
 on Ivisi Kock neai New Haven. It may be inlerestin^ to not(> 
 
18 
 
 tluit the barrel of tlie largest telescope was made from one of 
 the maliogany pillars of the old Edwards church pillpit. 
 This telescope is mounted on a swinging beam in the centre of 
 
 
 Oxbow 
 
 %;rfi:!^t 
 
 the outlook 
 room, b u t 
 can be trans- 
 f e r r e d to 
 another sup- 
 p o r t for 
 
 night use in studying the moon and stars. 
 The second in size is mounted on a tiuck 
 which can be wheeled to any pait of the wide })iazza, wliicii 
 encircles the l)uil(liiig. A snug little cot has bei^n elected at 
 eac^h corner of the jtiazza, wlieie three oi' four persons can just 
 manage to seat themselves to chat, and enjoy the cool freslmess 
 of the air, while watching the cloud shadows and the ever fol- 
 lowing sunlight creep over the level below, and seeming to 
 weave out of their intangible light and shade that beautiful 
 hollowing plain called the Connecticut valley. A dark, heavy, 
 (convex glass, known as the "Claude Lorraiuf^," (it being in- 
 vented by that painter) set in a solid frame of wood with 
 leather liandles at the ends, is much used by visitors to mir- 
 ]oi' the landscape, and the ii('h cfTects obtnined delight every 
 
oiH*. Two small ishiiids lufiik tin- nnn-iir of tlif rivt-r to tin* 
 iinrt li. ami n-st likt-tUMiaMs in f I m* silver si-ttin^ »»f tin* stifaiii. 
 Tlif iii<Mnirai!i lias always licrii a favorite r»-s(»rt of artists, 
 aihl (lisiin;4uisln'(l |MTs<»ris in fvi'iy walk of lifr liavf inadr 
 |tili;riniai;t's to this spot. Ni-aily all tin* i:o\»'i-noi> of Mass., 
 hi'irinniiiL: wiili tin- ^rrat war^<»v«'rnor. .lolin A. .\n(lr<'\\, liav** 
 biM-n Inir. ami >urli nirn as E C Sti'flnian. .1. (»'. Holland. 
 
 TMK oXIIitW rN i»<r 
 
 and I»i. Il.)lnii-s. and tin- iiofi-il >inLri'r .li-nny Lind. Iiavr |nit 
 I lii'ir nanit's oil tin* niristrr. (ifoiut' W. I'arlftoii. a |»roini- 
 n<nl N»'w N'ork ])ul>lishrr, who has n'r«'?»tly ^oin' out of luisi- 
 nt'ss. has hff somh- v<My rh'V«'r dniwin^s in tin* Ixioks. and on 
 thrin his famous "Hird of I'aiadis**" inaik whirli hr was in 
 
20 
 
 the habit of putting- in the corner of all his sketches. In Dr. 
 Holland's poem '• Kathrina," still a much read 
 work, whose heroine lived in the village below, 
 and whose hero was a native of Northampton, 
 are many lines showing his love for the valley 
 BIRDS OF PARADISE, aiid lils dellglit lu Its beauty. Part First 
 
 starts with — 
 
 "Thou lovely vale of sweetest stream that flows, 
 Winding and willow fringed Connecticut I " 
 
 Again looking from the mountain top he says : — 
 
 " At my feet, 
 The ferry boat, diminished to a toy, 
 With automatic diligence conveyed 
 Its puppet passengers between the shores 
 That hemmed its enterprise; and one low barge 
 With white, square sail, bore northward languidly 
 The slow and scanty commerce of the stream." 
 
 This was more than half a century ago, before the shrill 
 whistle of the steam en- 
 gine and the rumble of the 
 iron rails, had broken the 
 cpuet of the valley, when , 
 still the clumsy Hat bot- '^ " 
 tomed barges brought all 
 outside supplies up the 
 river, and when the stream ^^ 
 still flowed around the { 
 great curve known as the {, 
 "Ox-Bow/' going three i'.y/' 
 and one-half miles to gain '"'"'■ 
 thirty rods. In the Fall 
 
 ^'V/;/y^i4*^'.V^vN^ 
 
 V\\\\ N^^^"~ 
 
 AN INTEUKSTING TREE. 
 
 of 1839, one of the village farmers ploughed a strip of land 
 which ran "across the neck, and on the 24th of the following 
 February a jam of ice in the bow set'the^water back so that it 
 
•Jl 
 
 rail across iIh* |i|tiiiu;liitl lidd. In a fi-\v Imnis it lia*l rut a 
 iM'vv rliaiiiK'l. This raiistMl ^n-nl rrjoiriii^ in tin- towns alKivr, 
 and in N<>rtlia!n)tt(>n the bi-lls wm- nin^, fni th<*y wi-n* thn-** 
 inih's n«'aifr lidt- wati-r. Sln»rtly aftfi, thf railroad was put 
 
 '^f^'^^m^' 
 
 TIIK PATH THKortill THK WOODS. 
 
 thn>iii:h, and thf oM "fall hoafs" disa|)|»«'an'd. Nowalai^jr 
 sawmill has Immmi l)iiilt on tin* island, and thcold IhmI is iitili/cd 
 for stowing many million fn-t of sprncr lo^s, tloatfd down 
 during the Sprin^j and Summer m«»nliis from Jh** h»*ad walern 
 of th«' rivt'r. A sliort walk to th»' north of tin- I*ros|M-<-i 
 
22 
 
 House is the "grove," a broad shelf of rock, scattered with 
 trees, breaking off into a steep precipice, and affording a 
 cliarming picnic place. An interesting tree stands near by. 
 It is a good sized hemlock growing on a bare rock, which, to 
 obtain nourishment has to send out its roots ten or fifteen feet 
 over the unyielding surface before it reaches earth. Here on 
 the mountain toj), few sounds reach the ears save the occa- 
 sional hoarse caw of a crow or the bright clutter of a sc[uirrel. 
 Sometimes we catch a glimpse of the chickadee's brown coat 
 and hear its cheerful chirp, but few birds show themselves 
 
 during the day. However wlien the tii'st faint streaks of 
 dawn paint the east, the woods seem full of them, and the 
 whole air vibrates with their songs. It is a mystery where 
 
n 
 
 they iriana<i;e to liide themselves later. As the year progresses 
 the crickets and grasshoppers are more oi- less iininerous and 
 in the Fall the evening air is tilled witli the dis])ntii)g voices 
 
 HALF-WAY STATION, RAILWAY, AND MOUNTAIN HOUSE. 
 
 of the katydids. At times a hawk is seen wheeling through 
 the air on outspread pinions, and not infrequently an eagle 
 goes sailing past high above the valley, wliile near at liand 
 
24 
 
 perchance a buttertly is wandering on careless wings of gay 
 or dusky hue. 
 
 A narrow path leads down 
 the mountain at a model ate 
 incline through the twilight of 
 the woods, or one may make 
 a straight descent by the stair- 
 way, or easier still, we can tiy ^^ 
 
 ^^fe. 
 
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 '"'^'C^ 
 
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 -5=?^^ 
 
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 fe 
 
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 f£ff' 
 
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 ly^ 
 
 I.— VIEW FROM THE ROAD. 
 
 oneof those curious, little, i-ed, two seated cars on theiailway. 
 When seated in the car, signals are exchanged between the 
 mountain house and the engineer below ; th^ bell above our 
 heads rings sharply twice, and slowly at first, then faster and 
 
25 
 
 faster we slip down the- incline. Half way down, the mate to 
 our car glides past going up. In two minutes we have made 
 the ])assage through the long wooden tunnel, and are at the 
 station below. Here is a powerful looking engine, and out- 
 side clustered about the station 
 are several buildings and sheds, 
 tlie feeding stable, and the cottage ^ 
 
 "fi^r^^P^-^" 
 
 II.— VIKW FKOM THE llOAD. 
 
 where Mr. French spends his winters, and about them quite a 
 l)lot of grass land enclosed on every side by the forest. At 
 
26 
 
 this point some people make a detour into the woods to the 
 south to see an enormous, isolated boulder, which must have 
 rolled down from above long ago, and is now known as the 
 
 A GLIMPSE OF THE VILLAGE. 
 
 "Devil's Football." Several fine glimpses of river and valley 
 are obtained on the road down, though for the most part the 
 view is narrow, hidden by a thick growth of chestnuts. 
 
 "At Holyoke's verdant base 
 
 Like a slim hound stretched at his master's feet, 
 Lay the long, lazy hamlet Hockanum." 
 
 So spoke Dr. Holland, looking from the opposite side of 
 the river, in " Kathrina," and the village is the same now. 
 Here are half a score of farm houses behind their great maple 
 trees, surrounded by orchards, and sunny fields of corn, and 
 grass, and waving grain. The hotel has a look of old fashioned 
 roominess which is very attractive. Half a mile below the 
 feriy, by passing up through the pastures and climbing an 
 
obscure path — if one is lucky cnougli to find it — over a mul- 
 titude of splintered stones, Titan's Piazza is reached. Just 
 above our heads is a great oveihanging precipice, with numer- 
 ous cone shaped projections from its lower surface, and we 
 li^an against the solid wall of the mountain made of massive, 
 
 TITAN'S PIER. 
 
 many sided rock pillars. This formation— both the pillars 
 and the cones — is found all along tlie ridge here. Below^ is 
 the steep ascent, a mass of loose stones, with quite a growth 
 of trees among them, birch and butternut, and at the foot 
 of tlie slope, chestnut, pine and hemlock. 
 
 Another noted place is Titan's pier, at the extreme end of 
 
28 
 
 the mountain, where the river ripples and eddies at the foot 
 of high perpendicular cliils, and sets back in a beautiful lound- 
 ing little cove, forming as picturesque a spot a-s there is in all 
 
 - y 
 
 ROCKS AT TITAN'S PIER. 
 
 New England. The village burying ground is close by on 
 a steep hillside, overlooking the river and all the gentle 
 sweep of valley to the north and west, while nearer are the 
 strong mountain masses of Tom and Holyoke. Here among 
 
29 
 
 this little cluster of gray, old stones, and newer marble slabs, 
 is as peaceful a ])lace for the long, last rest as is to be found 
 the world over. Where the road passes over the ridge to the 
 east, a narrow passage has been blasted through the mountain 
 wall, leaving a high ro(;k ledge on one side, and a good sized 
 cliff on the other. This has 
 now been named "Tlie Pass '-^'^Ov '^ IS^^ 
 
 
 IN THE VILLAGE BURYING GROUND. 
 
 The shortest way out of the village is by the ferry, a long 
 flat bottomed craft, with wheels attached to posts on the up- 
 stream side, over which runs the wire strung across the river 
 
30 
 
 >.t^ 
 
31 
 
 the famous old elm which fell a. few years ago, thirty-one feet 
 in circumference, of which Dr. Holmes spenks in his " Auto- 
 crat of the Breakfast Table ;" or. the still stnnding " PMwnids 
 
 THE PASS OF THERMOPYLAE. 
 
 Elm " on King street, which, though scarred and aged, is still a 
 magnificent tree. Round Plill, the most elevated ]iart of the 
 town, has long been famous for its view and it is from here 
 that Stedman, in his fine poem, "Holyoke Valley," desciibes 
 
 Again he says 
 
 "Those i)urple heights. 
 
 That guard the pathway to the sea." 
 
 '"I see for miles bej'ond the town 
 That sunlit stream divide the plain. 
 
 There still the giant warders stand 
 
 And watch the current's downward flow. 
 
 And northward still, with threatening hand, 
 The river bends his ancient bow. 
 
 I see the hazy lowlands meet 
 
 The sky, and count each shining spire." 
 
32 
 
 All about him is unaltering peace and beauty ; he feels 
 change in himself alone — on body and spirit the hand of time 
 had rested heavily : life in the venerable town seems flowing 
 on just as he had known it when a j^oiith years before ; and 
 nature smiles with the same old sweetness. 
 
 One after another the years slip silently away into the 
 dimness of the past, each leaving its impress on the earth and 
 its inhabitants. Amid the turmoil of life men come and men 
 go; for a moment they stir the little world about them and 
 then are lost from sight. The resistless current sweeps all on 
 alike, and all disappear. They are soon forgotten ; the stones 
 in the graveyard become moss grown and the graven names 
 wear away. The world's face is turned ever forward. Still 
 the flinty rocks of Holyoke seem to withstand the assaults of 
 Summer's rain and Winter's frost, and seem ever destined to 
 look down with unchanging face on our valley with its purple 
 encirclino- hills. 
 
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