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THE Adirondacks are a lofty measure of 
 the pride of New York, which, as a 
 token of the esteem in which they are 
 held, has given them a place in her laws, and 
 appropriated many thousands of dollars for 
 preserving the forests and securing to the 
 people the natural beauties of the mountains. 
 Both for those seeking recreation and health. 
 New York has pointed in her statutes to the 
 Adirondacks which are, at once, a vast forest 
 playground and a sanitarium. Through the 
 needles of their pines the breezes sing of hope 
 for the weak and of sport and recreation for 
 the strong. 
 
 It is the breadth of the invitation to these 
 mountains that is so alluring. If one is fas- 
 cinated by the click of a reel, trout in a hun- 
 dred clear streams bid a welcome ; if the rip- 
 pling murmur of waters under a canoe is a 
 delight to the ear, a thousand mirror-surfaced 
 lakes hold forth an enticing invitation ; if 
 mountain climbing is enjoyed, five hundred 
 green peaks offer an ascending trail. If the 
 delights of the wilderness are too robust, the 
 milder diversions of refined life are to be had 
 on the shores of Lake Champlain or Lake 
 George, which skirt the mountains at the 
 foot of their eastern slope, and at many of 
 the other excellent hotels scattered through 
 the mountains. Golf, tennis and other 
 sports, at these comfortable places of so- 
 journ, divide the time with fishing, shooting, 
 canoeing, and tramping. 
 
 That New York should take energetic 
 measures to preserve this empire of natural 
 beauties is merely a recognition of its far- 
 reaching relationship to the well-being of the 
 people. The forests that clothe the Adiron- 
 dacks are not only a summer home for town- 
 worn men and women, but they are also a 
 necessary protection for the water supply of 
 the great city far to the south. 
 
 One doesn't have to be versed in wood- 
 craft to find pleasure in such leafy company 
 as is found in the forests of countless birch, 
 beech, maple, and ash, of hemlock, spruce, 
 fir, and cedar, and of the green boughs of 
 the pine. These trees skirt rivers, encircle 
 lakes, and cover mountains. They make of 
 the Adirondacks the North Woods in truth, 
 a mighty wilderness in which the quarry is 
 not only fish and game but good health. To 
 dwell among them is to feel the thrill and 
 zest of the life of which Browning sang in 
 Saul " : 
 
 " Oh, the wild joys of living- ! the leaping from rock 
 
 to well. 
 The strong rending- of the boughs from the fir 
 
 tree, the cool silver shock 
 Of the plunge m a pool's living water." 
 
 The Adirondacks are famous for camping. 
 They seem to invite to this form of out-door 
 life. When one finds himself on the trails of 
 the Algonquins and the powerful Iroquois, 
 the feeling seems irresistible to hark back to 
 their life in the open. With rod, and gun, 
 and camp outfit, one need seek no lodge save 
 the vast wilderness itself, and in its leafy 
 solitudes wrap in a warm blanket and "lie 
 down to pleasant dreams." But camp life is 
 no longer a matter of necessity, but one of 
 choice. If preference is for the comforts of 
 a good hotel, it can be followed, or the golden 
 mean of dividing the time between camp and 
 hotel can be adopted. The latter is rather 
 the more common plan among the thousands 
 who go to the Adirondacks every season. 
 It has the merit of offering not only variety, 
 but, doubtless, greater comfort as well. The 
 hotels are the supply depots for camping 
 trips, and from them parties are continually 
 ■starting into the woods both for long sta^^s 
 and for short ones. Then, too, there arc 
 
many permanent 
 camps established in 
 various parts of the 
 mountains. These 
 
 " Where one may choose 
 between lake or stream." 
 
 really forest hotels range from the rough- 
 hewn log cabin to the commodious frame 
 house, with many of the appointments 
 and comforts of the city. From these fixed 
 camps, in turn, go out the little camping par- 
 ties to roam the woods, and pitch their tents 
 wherever it ma}' chance to suit their fancy. 
 There is a charm little short of fascination in 
 leading this free and hearty life of the open. 
 It is a sure antidote for the cares and worri.es 
 that one is pretty sure to carry away from 
 the city's stress. To drop these is easy 
 enough to do, apparently, but every one 
 knows how hard it is in reality. Bxit not so 
 w^hen one finds himself among the thousand 
 lakes of the Adirondacks. Then cares slip 
 away unconsciously. They fly in a trice like 
 dryads of the woods. The change from the 
 cramped life of the town, and, in particular, 
 from the hard and fast routine of business, 
 is so complete that wholly new conditions 
 crowd in upon one, and supjDlant those that 
 had become a galling yoke. The swish of 
 the water under the canoe takes the place of 
 the clang of the trolley car ; the calm solitude 
 of the forest's night, lulling one to sleep, is 
 the nocturne of peace to be set over against 
 the jarring rumble of the streets. So it is at 
 every turn, from sun to sun. Contrast fol- 
 lows contrast "as the night the day." No 
 wonder body and mind feel the tonic of such 
 refreshing change. Herein lies the never- 
 failing zest of an Adirondack outing. It is 
 as if these wild North Woods were Nature 
 personified, and she, kind mother of us all, 
 had gathered her tired children from the toil 
 of commerce, from the grind of schools, from 
 all the irksome care of the work-a-dav world, 
 
 and taken them in her mighty arms for a 
 sleep that gives rest, for sport that means 
 strength, and for a wholesome communing 
 with herself that freshens the spirit as well 
 as the body. 
 
 " If thou art worn and hard beset 
 With sorrows that thou wouldst forget ; 
 If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep 
 Thy heart from fainting, and thy soul from 
 sleep 
 Go to the woods and hills ! " 
 
 Nature has shown in these woods one 
 of her wise economies. She has been 
 storing up for centuries the refreshing 
 draughts against these latter days 
 - when they could quench wearj' and 
 
 parched multitudes of city folk. The 
 mountains have been beckoning with 
 their cool green toj^s, and the lakes 
 have been sparkling at their feet, dur- 
 ing all the generations that have passed since 
 Puritan, Dutch, and Cavalier came to make 
 their homes in America. While these hardy 
 pioneers andtheir descendants have reclaimed 
 a wilderness, founded States and established 
 a nation, the Adirondacks have been biding 
 their time. Indians have hunted over them, 
 and the snows of many winters have fallen 
 on them, while far to the south, in growing 
 cities, the children of Hollander, French, 
 and English have toiled unceasingly, build- 
 ing their very selves into their factories and 
 farms, their schools, and all their manifold 
 pursuits. Spent at last with the struggle, 
 they have longed earnestly for deep well- 
 springs in which the)'- could renew their 
 strength. Then it was that the great North 
 Woods bade a welcome to their hills, and 
 lakes, and rivers. From their green solitudes 
 they breathed a message of hope and good 
 cheer. Nature was ready for 
 
 the time of need. In 
 
 going " x^ to the 
 
 •Eveu tlje clrildien drli^'lit in canoeing.' 
 
Adirondacks one can ride with the iron 
 horse into the wilderness surrounded by 
 all the accessories of modern travel-com- 
 fort. The Delaware and Hudson Railroad 
 and its connections, the Adirondack Rail- 
 way, the Chateaugay Railroad, and the 
 Champlain Transportation Company steam- 
 ers, bear one quickly across a centurv or two 
 seemingly, into those daring davs when Ti- 
 conderoga on the edge of the wilderness was 
 
 stretch from near the Mohawk on the south 
 to Canada on the north, and from the St 
 Lawrence on the west to Lake Champlain 
 and Lake George on the east. Much of this 
 vast forest region is a plateau nearly two 
 thousand feet above the sea. Resting on 
 this plateau as a base five ranges of moun- 
 tains run from southwest to northeast The 
 most westerly of these five is called the Adi- 
 rondack range, and in it are the loftiest peaks 
 
 
 " There is a charm little short of fas-ination in the frei 
 open life of camp." 
 
 a scene of many battles and a place of many 
 flags, the banners of France, England, and 
 America taking turns on the ramparts as 
 signs showing how flowed the tide of war 
 Ihe wildness of the woods to the west and 
 north is nearly as great now as in those 
 Tjloody years when the fort on Champlain 
 was the coveted prize of victory. It seems the 
 greater by reason of the contrast offered to 
 the luxury that attends the journey thither. 
 1 he Adirondacks are an impressive 
 mountain empire in themselves. They 
 
 of the region. Among them is the Indians' 
 lahawus or "Sky Piercer," which now bears 
 a far less euphonious name, Mt. Marcy, called 
 after a famous statesman of New York' This 
 mountain is 5,337 feet in height, while the 
 nearby summits of ]Mts. Seward, IMcIntyre. 
 and White l="ace reach an elevation of 5 000 or 
 over. The Indian and English names which 
 the peaks bear are a reminder of inter-racial 
 struggles of which this region was the scene. 
 While there are live ranges of mountains 
 traversing the Adirondack wilderness, it is 
 
divided, as was ancient 
 Gaul, into three general 
 divisions. These are the 
 Saranac and vSt. Regis wa- 
 ters of Franklin County, 
 with Plattsburg and Port 
 Kent on Lake Champlain 
 as the natural gateways ; 
 the mountain region in 
 
 ' Those spots where tents are pitched on tlie shores of bewitching lakes.'' 
 
 Essex County about Keene, North Elba, 
 and Lake Placid, with the entrance at 
 Westport ; or via the Chateaugay Railroad 
 from Plattsburg, and the Loon, Schroon, 
 Blue Mountain, and Racquette lakes coun- 
 try, reached over the Adirondack Railway 
 from Saratoga as an entrance. 
 
 In the first of these sections there is a hap- 
 py mingling of city comforts and forest pas- 
 times ; social diversions invade the wilder- 
 ness and divide the time with 
 the strenuous sports of the 
 open. In this region are many 
 admirable hotels which are cen- 
 tres of gayety and cheer. The 
 second section is deeper in the 
 dark solitudes of the forest, but 
 it is visited each season by an 
 increasing number of people 
 who are charmed by its wild 
 life and romantic scenery. It 
 is this part of the mountains, 
 with its strong contrasts of 
 peak and valley, that artists 
 have claimed as their own, and 
 their pictures have been ac- 
 cepted as depicting the tyjiical 
 Adirondack scenery. The third 
 of these sections, that about 
 Schroon Lake, is not so wild as 
 the second, but it is one of many 
 and distinctive charms. In fact 
 each section has an individu- 
 ality and charms all its own. 
 All are alike in one important 
 particular, however, and that is 
 in the safety and freedom of 
 life, however wild the countrv. " ^ pi-^ces « 
 
 The absence of all doubtful 
 characters from the North 
 Woods is one of their attrac- 
 tions. It seems that the 
 wholesome existence people 
 lead among ' these glorious 
 mountains and lakes tones up 
 their moral as well as their 
 physical natures. In any 
 event one may roam wherever 
 fancy prompts without fear 
 of molestation. Even parties 
 of women make all sorts of 
 trips without other escorts than their guides. 
 These forest pilots are a manly and hardy 
 set of fellows versed in woodcraft, skil- 
 ful with the canoe, and often accomplished 
 chefs in the appetizing art of camp cookery. 
 It is quite common for parties to make 
 great tours of the woods, paddling through 
 the streams that join the labyrinth of 
 lakes, fishing, catching rare bits of scenery 
 with their cameras, and having hearty 
 
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 " It is a inoim-iit of supreme pride when the hunter returns to camp with trophies of the chase." 
 
 time in all manner cf ways that suggest 
 themselves when the fragrance of the woods 
 fills the air ; when night falls over the moun- 
 tains rest is found usually either in some 
 one of the many hotels that are located at 
 stated distances through the woods, or at the 
 rude log house or open camp of the interior. If 
 some place of entertainment is not reached 
 when the day ends, the night can be passed 
 comfortably under temporary shelter in the 
 woods. This experience for 
 city people is almost sure to 
 be as pleasant as it is novel. 
 
 But description of the 
 beauties of this "forest pri- 
 meval " and of the delights 
 of dwelling among them are 
 idle unless the way thither 
 were pointed out. Fortu- 
 nately that way is neither 
 long nor costly, conditions 
 which have been responsible 
 for bringing these moun- 
 tains of health each year 
 within reach of multitudes 
 of ])eople. 
 
 The great thoroughfare 
 over which the travel into 
 the Adirondacks goes is the 
 Delaware and Hudson Rail- 
 road. This line stretches 
 from Albany, N. Y., where 
 its general offices are loca- 
 ted, southwest through a 
 beautiful region to Bing- 
 hamton, N. Y., and Wilkes- 
 barre, Pa. , and north through 
 Saratoga, more popular than 
 ever as a gay place of sum- 
 mer stay, and up past the 
 bright waters of Lake 
 George and Lake Cham- 
 plain to the Canadian bor- 
 der. At Saratoga it con- 
 nects with the Adn-ondack 
 Railway, which reaches the 
 Racquette. Schroon. and 
 Loon lakes region of the 
 North Woods, and at Platts- 
 burg it connects with the 
 Chateaugay Railroad which 
 goes to Saranac, Lake Pla- 
 cid, and many other princi- 
 pal points of the Adiron- 
 dacks. At Westport it con- 
 nects with the excellent 
 
 system of stage lines covering the central 
 section. At Caldwell on Lake George, and 
 Fort Ticonderoga and Plattsburg on Lake 
 Champlain, it connects with the steamers 
 of the Champlain Transportation Company 
 and the Lake George Steamboat Company, 
 the tickets of the rail and boat lines being 
 interchangeable on Lake Champlain. 
 
 That line of the Delaware and Hudson 
 which runs from Albany in a southwesterly 
 
 Tlie placid lake^ w hull, like Lake Luzeine, ait. htmnitd in h\ ii. 
 
direction to Binglmmton, branches at Nine- 
 veh and thence goes on through Carbondale, 
 with its rich coal mines, to Wilkesbarre, the 
 terminus of this division. Along this line 
 are many attractive little towns and bits of 
 pretty scenery. The city of Wilkesbarre, 
 named from _ two E n - 
 
 glishmen, 'if^lSif^SSKT''''*^^^^ John 
 
 Wilkes 
 and 
 
 in the United States. It has survived its 
 changing nomenclature, however, and has 
 long been a flourishing city, famous for its 
 vast manufactures, rolling mills, machine 
 shops, mines and coal shipments. It is situ- 
 ated at the juncture of Roaring Brook and 
 the Lackawanna River. 
 
 Caibondale is at the northern end of the 
 anthracite region and near some rich mines. 
 The Delawaie and Hudson has large car and 
 niaLhme shops here. It is likewise the ter- 
 minus of the Honesdale branch, which is 
 a part of the same sj-stem, a picturesque 
 line over the Moosic Mountains, from 
 
 " Thos3 who have spent a summer in the Xoiih \\\.uils know the pleiisiires and deh"g:hts of its free and wliolesonie iife 
 
 William Barre, has a sightly location on 
 the Susquehanna River, in the valley of the 
 Wyoming. Wilkesbarre is the commercial 
 centre of the anthracite coal district of the 
 Wyoming Valley. In the vicinity of Wilkes- 
 barre there are between forty and flfty large 
 coal mines, making the amount of coal ton- 
 nage of the city very large. Two other cities 
 devoted to coal are Scranton and Pittston, 
 both on this line. Scranton is notable for 
 having been called at difi'erent periods of its 
 history by more names than any other town 
 
 which some of the finest glimpses of mountain 
 and forest scenery in Pennsylvania are to be 
 had. Lake Lodore, about midway between 
 Carbondale and Honesdale, is a beautiful ex- 
 cursion resort, to which large excursions ;ire 
 run every day during the summer and early 
 autumn. Honesdale is also a favorite resting 
 place in summer, its hotels and boarding- 
 houses furnishing satisfactory accommoda- 
 tions for those loving the quiet of a village 
 situated in a region celebrated for its beauty 
 and healthfulness. 
 
'The Hotel Ten Eyck, at Albany, is the most magriiificent hotel in the State 
 outside of New York City." 
 
 Albany, wliicli has been regarded for cen- 
 turies as the "gateway of the West, " occu- 
 pies a unique and interesting position among 
 American cities. Tlirougli all the early days 
 of colonial history it was a city of great 
 strategic import- 
 ance and was al- 
 w ays considered 
 the capital of the 
 province. It was 
 at Albany that 
 steamboat naviga- 
 tion was first prac- 
 tically demonstrat- 
 ed, and from Al- 
 bany was first 
 operated the first 
 successful railroad. 
 
 A pioneer in many 
 of the great move- 
 inents of the cen- 
 t u r y, Albany 
 stands among the 
 inost progressive of 
 A in e r i c a n com- 
 munities. Her won- 
 derful transporta- 
 tion facilities, her 
 beautiful streets 
 and parks, her edu- 
 cational institutions 
 of note, have given 
 her a fair fame 
 among American 
 cities. Albany of- 
 fers the stranger 
 within her gates 
 
 a surprise in the magnificence of her 
 modern and architecturally attractive 
 Hotel Ten Eyck. Nowhere in the 
 Empire State outside New York City 
 is there so beautiful and perfect a 
 hotel, and few American cities have 
 houses which can be properly classed 
 with the Ten Eyck. From every point 
 of consideration it is a gem. Its in- 
 terior is not only admirable from a 
 decorative and furnishing standpoint, 
 but perfect in arrangements. 
 
 Tourists to and from the Adiron- 
 dacks will find the Ten Eyck a de- 
 lightful resting place. It is run on 
 both the American and European 
 plans, and its appointments are so 
 complete that either the single trav- 
 eller or the family may have their 
 wishes in the matter of rooms perfectly 
 met. Every room is finished on a 
 decorative scheme distinct in itself 
 and the furniture is all of the most 
 modern type, the house in its entirety 
 being a gem of good taste and comfort 
 from the rathskeller in the basement 
 to the topmost floor. 
 
 One of the most notable features of 
 the Ten Eyck is that it is absolutely 
 fire-proof in construction. 
 
 The highest standard of perfection 
 is maintained at the Ten Eyck, both 
 in service and cuisine, and the wide- 
 spread repiitation of Messrs. H. J. and 
 F. W. Rockwell, the proprietors, is a guar- 
 antee that it will be maintained. A free 
 carriage runs between the stations and 
 boats and the hotel. 
 
 "Albany has a beautiful park system, diversified by lakes and 
 w ide stretches of lawu." 
 
'Round Lake is unt; of the gems of the Einpiie Stale ui beauty, whole; 
 and suiTOUinlm^s." 
 
 Round Lake, between Albany and Saratoga, 
 offers the very choicest of opiDortunities to 
 summer students, artists, singers, teachers, 
 lovers of the 
 beautiful, 
 seekers of the 
 healthful, and 
 enjoyersof the 
 moral. Good 
 hotels, fine 
 halls, commod- 
 ious cottages, 
 elegant public 
 buildings, 
 grand audito- 
 rium seating 
 near two thou- 
 sand, and an 
 organ of rich- 
 est tone and 
 largest com- 
 pass. Pure wa- 
 ter and perfect 
 sewerage. No 
 
 taint or poison- or contagion, 
 air, gravelly soil and a royal 
 choicest kinds of shade trees. 
 
 Here is given the largest 
 freedom — freedom from the 
 conventionalities of the fash- 
 ionable watering-place. There 
 is no "style "at Round Lake, 
 each does what is right in his 
 own eyes and everybody is 
 happy. There is no place equal 
 to it for purity and beaut}-. It 
 is the ii/eal summer liome ! 
 The cost of living is at the 
 minimum and the rich results 
 of health to body, brain, and 
 spirit are at the maximum. It 
 is an ideal place for the sum- 
 mer school, which has been so 
 successful. Lectures, classes, 
 classics, music, art, language, 
 oratory, the grace of Delsart- 
 ism, the very poetry of life in 
 thought, and love, and motion 
 
 'The Great Auditor 
 
 The George West jMuseum of Art anrl 
 vast collectinn of 
 
 Adirondack 
 park of the 
 
 are instinct in the air. Here is a 
 place where music, art, elocu- 
 titm, language, literature, sci- 
 ence, theology, and life blend 
 in hai5py unison I 
 
 For many years Round Lake 
 has presented a series of relig- 
 ious and educational summer 
 meetings of high standard. 
 During all this time the trus- 
 tees and friends of the Associa- 
 tion have earnestly desired to 
 increase their usefulness, be- 
 lieving that the rare facilities 
 offered at this beautiful resort 
 ought to be enjoyed by larger 
 numbers of the people. Coupled 
 with this, has been another 
 that the annual reunions here 
 held might promote a broader 
 fraternity in which members 
 of all denominations might be 
 included. With these purposes in view the 
 trustees have effected an arrangement by 
 which the American Society of Religious 
 
 Education will 
 again hold up- 
 on the grounds 
 a Biblical As- 
 sembly, simi- 
 lar to that of 
 last year. The 
 Assembly and 
 the Newman 
 Preachers' In- 
 stitute have 
 purposes so 
 similar that 
 some of the 
 sessions dur- 
 ing the term 
 will be under 
 their joint di- 
 rection. A cir- 
 cular giving 
 full details 
 the Secretary 
 
 iri-lupolopy. nt Doiind Lake, contains a 
 rare s: eciniens." 
 
 may be had bv addressin 
 
 of the Round Lake Association 
 
 at Km 11(1 Lake is admirably appointed to accommodate the vast 
 audiences which gather within it." 
 
Amid all the rivalrv of the innumerable 
 nlkcS clamoring for popularity as summer 
 resorts re.^ardless of the ever-changing hckle- 
 nes° of 'the^public which has by turns stampe 
 Tts seal of approval, now on one place and 
 aeahron the other, fair Saratoga has reigned 
 Sm-eme as Queen of America's summer re- 
 so?ts In the others have been and must con- 
 tinue to be compared to her. and be conten 
 uS the second place. She has fairly won and 
 dese "S/holds the title of the most popular 
 and representative resort, where one is sure 
 ?o find^in the fullest .degree a represena- 
 tion of the leading circles of wealth and 
 
 '"s-lra'to^a is the only resort in America 
 .vh^ch ha 'always perf^tly fulfilled the i-e- 
 qvtirements of a summering place, and which 
 
 springs as the special gift of the Great Spiri. 
 
 The first white man to visit the springs for 
 medicinal purposes was a wounded trench 
 Sficei who was brought here by an Indian. 
 
 The first hotel was^ opened for visitors m 
 1774 by Tohn Arnold, and the first summer 
 iSagewas built in 1783 by General Pnihp 
 Schuvler and occupied by himself and 
 f-imilv The first chemical analysis of the 
 water was made by Dr. Valentine Seaman 
 Jn 1797 and the first large public house was 
 onened by Mr. Gideon Putnam m 1803. 
 ^laratoga is located close to the eastern 
 edge of New York State near the gateway 
 of the glorious Adirondack region, 1S2 mi es 
 almost^lue north f™n\New York 203 miles 
 west of Boston, 300 miles east of Buffalo 
 and 202 miles south of Montreal. It is the 
 
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 has held its popularity without decadence for 
 S century. It is the only place of prorn- 
 fnence to which the celebrated men of the 
 financial, political, literary and commercial 
 li?e of the^nation gather each year as then 
 predecessors did decades ago. 
 ^ ?t has all the beauty an<l charm of a New 
 England village combined with the social 
 and distinctive gayety of Baden-Baden and 
 Homburg, and is held m almost affectionate 
 regard by the thousands who make it their 
 
 ^ThTL'nTsaratoga is the modern deriva- 
 tion of the old Indian name Se-rach-ta-gue, 
 Xch meant;' The Hillside Country of the 
 
 ^?hl^lg'on was originally deeded by the 
 Indians iS 1703, the title ^emg confii^ed m 
 176S. The aborigines regarded the healing 
 
 centre of a region which has for a century 
 been renowned for its healthfulness and the 
 delicious qualities of its unusually dn air 
 wh ch s a blending of Adirondack breezes 
 with those of the nearby Green Mountains 
 of Vermont. The surrounding region is one 
 of l?™t iiatural beauty, charmingly cuvei- 
 sififdwh hills, valleys and picturesque 
 streams It has mi altitude of over 300 feet 
 a ImTt^ie sea level, and the air is character- 
 fst"c for Its buoyancy and freedom from all 
 
 "^"TrUnited States Hotel, the social centre 
 of the%itv, is located on Broadway the -am 
 thoroughfare of Saratoga in the ^ei> centre 
 of its most attractive Pf tion It has a t^ont 
 no-e on this avenue ot 237 and 675 teet on 
 Division Street. The present structure was 
 SeVtcd in 1874, supplanting the ongin-^1 
 
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 "The court of the United States Hotel is several acres in extent and its 
 velvety lawns are shaded by splendid forest ti'ees." 
 
 house which was built in 1824. The house 
 and court covers seven acres, and contains 
 ujjward of 700 guest chambers, and immense 
 salons and ballroom, attractive reading-rooms 
 and senii-p r i v a t e 
 parlors. The "cot- 
 tage row " facing 
 one side of the court 
 1^ 3ne of the features 
 of the hotel. It con- 
 tains sixty suites of 
 from three to five 
 rooms and is a part 
 of, and yet removed 
 from, the hotel pro- 
 per. Taken as a 
 whole, it is a prince- 
 ly structure, in 
 w h i c h , however, 
 immensity does not 
 overcome the air of 
 cheerfulness. 
 
 If there is any one 
 feature about the 
 United States Hotel 
 which is inore prom- 
 inent than the others 
 It is the magniticent 
 out-of-door court, 
 which is enclosed 
 by the hotel on three 
 sides. It is several 
 acres in extent and 
 its wide stretches of 
 lawn and pebbly 
 
 walks are shaded from the direct rays 
 of the sun by handsome old elms. 
 Near the centre of the court is the or- 
 namental pavilion occupied by the 
 splendid orchestra during its morning 
 and evening concerts. Nothing could 
 be more enjoyable than this court dur- 
 ing the evening Avhen the wide porches 
 of the hotel are filled with the brilliant 
 social throng enjoying the open air 
 concert. 
 
 To say that the service and cuisine 
 of the United States Hotel are un- 
 equalled is a figure of speech which 
 does not convey to the mind the abso- 
 lute perfection in these important fea- 
 tures of hotel management. 
 
 The sources of amusement at Sara- 
 toga are many and varied. A more 
 beautiful golf course is not to be found 
 anywhere than that at Saratoga, and 
 guests of the United States Hotel may 
 easily secure tickets entitling them to 
 the privileges of the links. There has 
 also been organized a Polo Club, and 
 its grounds are not only exceedingly 
 beautiful and picturesque, but admira- 
 bly adapted to this brilliant and manly 
 sjiort. 
 
 The United States Hotel opens for 
 the season of igoo on Thursday, June 
 14th, and closes October ist. It is sug- 
 gested that parties contemplating a 
 visit to the hotel, especially during 
 July and August, write or telegraph 
 Messrs. Gage and Perr}-, the projarietors, 
 in advance in reference to rooms so that 
 the management may have the opportu- 
 nity of meeting their requirements. 
 
 "The iniineiitie porches of the United States Hotel are gay with social lite 
 every day and evening." 
 
■ Congress Hotel is one of the larsrer hotels at Saratoga and has ah\ ays 
 enjoyed great popularity." 
 
 Congress Hall, one of the most famous and 
 popular of the large hotels located at Sara- 
 toga Springs, is in the very heart of the fash- 
 ionable part of Saratoga, and its great piazzas 
 along the Broadway front are gay with the 
 wealth and fashion which gives Saratoga its 
 prominence over any other resort in the United 
 States. From the Broadway frontage there are two 
 wings, 300 feet long, extending to Putnam Street, 
 and between them a charming garden plot, filled 
 with beautiful flowers and shrubbery and shade- 
 trees. Few more delightful spots could be found 
 in which to pass an hour than in this beautiful 
 park. There are, of course, to be found in Con- 
 gress Hall all of the elegant and modern appoint- 
 ments which even the most exacting may require. 
 Its attractive dining-rooms, halls, and parlors are 
 models of their kind, and its culinary department 
 is amply provided for the thousand guests which 
 Congress Hall can accommodate. The most care- 
 ful attention has been paid to the furnishing of 
 the house, and its bedchambers and public rooms 
 are models of comfort and luxury. 
 
 On Broadway, in the heart of .Saratoga, the centre 
 of the brilliant panorama of life and gayety, is the 
 American Adelphi, two hotels in one, of which 
 Mr. George A. Farnham is the proprietor. Within 
 three minutes' walk of the leading mineral springs 
 
 and the Saratoga bath-house, 
 the American Adelphi is most 
 conveniently and attractively 
 situated, and the many 
 charms of this delightful hotel 
 have given it a vogue peculiar 
 to itself. The hotel is per- 
 fectly appointed, and the 
 table and service are of the 
 highest class, every luxury 
 and delicacy of the season 
 being most plenteously pro- 
 vided. 
 
 Its dining-halls and parlors 
 are most elegantly appointed, 
 the rooms are all outside, and 
 the most careful attention has 
 been given to the furnishing 
 of the house throughout. 
 
 The spacious piazzas over- 
 looking Broadway, and de- 
 lightfully shaded by great 
 trees, are only one of the many attractions 
 of the American Adelphi which have made 
 it famous throughout the world as an abode 
 of comfort and of pleasure. 
 
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 '■ The Worden, at Saratoga, Is open all the year around." 
 
 all-the-year-round house, and is one of 
 those comfortable, delightful places 
 where one may be certain of securing 
 excellent accommodations. While the 
 fame of Saratoga rests upon its being a 
 summer resort, it is, in fact, one of the 
 most delightful places to go in the win- 
 ter season, and Worden's Hotel not 
 only has a full complement of sum- 
 mer guests, but, after the great sum- 
 mer throngs have gone, maintains its 
 popularity with those who are familiar 
 with Saratoga when it is mantled with 
 snow and when winter sports rule the 
 day. j\Ir. W. W. Worden, the propri- 
 etor, is thoroughly alert to all that is 
 modern in hotel keeping, and this ac- 
 counts in a large measure for the pop- 
 ularity of his house. 
 
 Notable among Saratoga hotels is 
 the Kensington, situated on the high 
 ground of Union Avenue overlooking 
 the famous Congress Park. Union 
 
"The Kensington at Snratoca is most ndrnirahly ]oc:it(_-d in a 
 inost (Jc'siraljie part of tlju cily ." 
 
 Avenue is the finest drive in Saratoga and 
 tlie miiia tliorouglifare leading to the Lalce, 
 tlie Race Course, and to tlie Battlefield, and 
 one of the pleasures of a residence at the 
 Kensington is to watch each day the endless 
 
 bonic acid gas. The medicinal value of the 
 Arondack Water is well known to the medi- 
 cal pi'ofession as being most efficient in 
 relieving dyspej)sia, stomach and kidney 
 troubles, insomnia, and nervousness, and is 
 an ideal table tonic and digestive agent, 
 mixing well with wines, liquors, and milk. 
 
 The Arondack Water is put up in very 
 stylish bottles, which hold full quantities, and 
 the labels are most attractive. Only new 
 bottles are used, therefore in drinking the 
 Arondack no risk is run of contamination or 
 fevers often introduced by second-hand un- 
 clean bottles. 
 
 The Arondack Water is distinctive, being 
 a high-class American water for high-class 
 Americans. It is in general use by all first- 
 class clubs, cafes, and hotels. The head- 
 quarters of the company is Saratoga, but they 
 have branches at 1362 Broadwaj' and 5 
 Astor House, opposite tlie General Post Office, 
 in New York City, where the water is 
 for sale in bulk, by the glass, bottle, and in 
 cases ; also depots in nearly all large cities. 
 
 ' The Arondack Spring at Saratoga, foimeiiy kn ywn as the Kissingen. is known from ocean to ocean 
 for the curative values of its waters." 
 
 procession of ^^-ealth and fashion as it 
 passes to and from the Lake and the Race 
 Course. A porch, 240 feet long and 20 feet 
 wide, affords a charming promenade for the 
 guests of the hotel, which under the excellent 
 management of H. A. and W. F. Bangs con- 
 tinues in popularity. 
 
 Arondack Spring, Saratoga, was for- 
 merly called the Kissingen — the name being 
 changed to Arondack to prevent confusion 
 with the Bavarian Kissingen, which is an en- 
 tirely different water. The Arondack is de- 
 servedly one of the most valuable and popu- 
 lar of the older springs in Saratoga, as its 
 water is peculiarly delightful to the taste, 
 and is full of life with its own natural car- 
 
 Amongthe springs which have made Sara- 
 toga famous, none has a wider or greater 
 reputation than the Saratoga Vichy, which is 
 a veritable geyser, the pressure of the natu- 
 ral carbonic acid gas being so strong that it 
 forces the highly charged mineral water out 
 and throws it several feet into the air. The 
 spring is in the midst of a ])ark with scenic 
 surroundings among the most attractive in 
 Saratoga. The water from this spring is not 
 saline but alkaline, and it is, therefore, ex- 
 ceedingly beneficial. The large quantity of 
 bicarbonate of soda contained in it makes it 
 of very great value in counteracting the acid- 
 ity of the stomach and the blood. Its power 
 of strengthening the digestive function and 
 
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 in eliminating the stubborn and dangerous 
 diseases of the depurative organs is very 
 great. Its value as a theraj^eutic agent 
 is very well known, and it is sold through- 
 out the civil- 
 ized world. The 
 appliances for 
 bottling the 
 water at the 
 spring, just as 
 It flows from 
 the rock, are 
 such as to pre- 
 serve all of its 
 natural carbon- 
 ic acid gas, 
 which gives it 
 the same spark- 
 ling efferves- 
 cence and de- 
 licious taste, 
 even after it 
 has been 
 bottled for long 
 periods. The 
 Saratoga Vichy 
 is a delicious 
 
 beverage, refreshing and slightly 
 stimulating, and its pojsularity is 
 exceedingly great, not only as a 
 pleasant table water, but a valuable 
 remedy. 
 
 In 1896 a new and wonderful 
 spring was discovered on the property 
 of the Lincoln Spring Company, 
 about a mile from Monument Square, 
 and was named the Lincoln. From 
 a depth of 425 feet, this water, high- 
 ly charged with natural carbonic gas, 
 forces its way to the surface. So 
 highly charged indeed is it that in 
 bottling it for export the addition of 
 gas is not required, and no matter 
 
 park, and are visited each season by thousands 
 i of t'reat value. 
 
 how long it has been bottled, it is still ef- 
 fervescent and bubbling when opened. The 
 water from this spring is exceedingly de- 
 lightful to the taste, and its healing qualities 
 have even far ex- 
 ceeded the most 
 sanguine hopes of 
 its projectors. 
 
 Physicians every- 
 where have signified 
 their appreciation of 
 its medicinal value 
 by prescribing it to 
 their patients, and 
 many acute cases of 
 rheumatism, dia- 
 betes and dyspepsia 
 have been almost 
 marvellously cured 
 
 vay, the main avenue ri Faratopa, is tho one upon which are 
 located the lai'ger hotels.*' 
 
" The trip through Lake Gsorge Is one of continued interest." 
 
 by its use. As an alterative and diuretic, it 
 is also exceedingly valuable, while as a ta- 
 ble water it is unsurpassed in delightfulness 
 of flavor and purity. The "Lincoln," while 
 new among Saratoga's famous sj^rings, has 
 achieved a wonderful j^opularity and vogue. 
 
 Horicon, or "Silvery Water," was the In- 
 dian name which James Fennimore Cooper 
 bestowed upon the most beautiful of Amer- 
 ican lakes. The title, like the dusky tribe 
 that first bore it, long since passed from 
 its shores and waters ; and it is Lake 
 George, the namesake of an English king, 
 that we know and love to day. It is thirty- 
 three miles from the head of Lake George 
 to historic old Fort Ticonderoga, near whose 
 crumbling ruins is the outlet into Lake 
 Cham^jlain. In this seemingly peaceful re- 
 gion much of the early history of our country 
 was made, for it was the battle-ground for 
 Indian, French, and English wars for many 
 years. Many a life was gallantly lost in the 
 skirmishes, ambuscades, and bloody battles 
 on land and water. In 1757 occurred the 
 Indian massacre, which followed the demoli- 
 tion of the English fort, William Henry, by 
 the French under brave Montcalm. 
 
 In the following year, the placid lake and 
 its encircling mountains formed the setting 
 for a most picturesque scene in military opera- 
 tions. The English determined upon an at- 
 tack on Ticonderoga, and accordingly em- 
 barked on Lake George. A flotilla of more 
 than a thousand boats, with cannon mounted 
 on rafts, with flags waving and martial 
 music sounding, swept down the lake to 
 what seemed sure victory. But again did 
 the British meet defeat. Once more Mont- 
 calm won the day, the English being re- 
 pulsed with the loss of their brave general, 
 Lord Howe, and nearly two thousand men. 
 
 But enough of sanguinary annals ; they 
 serve only to add historical interest to the 
 natural charms of the region. 
 
 Legends and traditions abound concerning 
 nearly every nook, and it is a wise man who 
 can invariably discern the true from the fab- 
 ulous in these ancient tales. Cooper found 
 here rich material for his best-known tale, 
 and to this day the localities immortalized in 
 "The Last of the INIohicans " are pointed out 
 as the scenes of actual occurrences. 
 
 For natural beauties Lake George stands 
 unrivalled among the waters of America, or, 
 for that matter, of Ein-oi3e. Girdled by ma- 
 jestic mountains which stretch down to the 
 very edge of the water, the lake seems the 
 centre of a natural M-ooded ampitheatre. 
 vSheltered and as it were jealously guarded 
 by the sylvan heights towering above its 
 sapphire waters, it lies — 
 
 " With promontory, creek and bay 
 And islands that, empurpled bright. 
 Floated amid the livelier light, 
 And mountains, that like giants stand 
 To sentinel enchanted land." 
 
 Thus Scott in "The Lady of the Lake" 
 wrote of Loch Katrine, the same fair lake 
 which N. P. Willis has compared closely to 
 Lake George. His description is one of the 
 best written of our lake : " Loch Katrine, at 
 
the Trossachs, is a miniature likeness of 
 Lake George. It is the only lake in Europe 
 that has the same style or degree of beauty. 
 The small green islands with their abrupt 
 shores — the emerald depth of the water, over- 
 shadowed and tinted by the tenderest moss 
 and foliage — the lofty'mountains in the back- 
 ground — and the tranquil character of the 
 lake, over which the wind is arrested and 
 rendered powerless by the peaks of the hills 
 and the lofty island summits, are all points 
 of singular resemblance." And then speak- 
 ing of the wealth of the islands he goes on : 
 "Lake George, throughout all the mazes of 
 its three hundred and sixty-five islands, pre- 
 serves the same wild and racy character of 
 beauty. Varying in size from a mile in 
 length to the circumference of a tea-table, 
 these little islets present the most multiplied 
 changes of surface and aspect — upon some 
 only moss and flowers, upon others a minia- 
 ture forest, with its outer trees leaning over 
 to the pellucid bosom of the lake, as if drawn 
 downward by the reflection of their own 
 beaut V." 
 
 Lake George varies in width from three- 
 quarters of a mile to four miles. Completely 
 shut in by the mountains, which hang in 
 bold cliffs over the water, or stretch into it in 
 rocky promontories, the lake in its narrower 
 parts seems like some lordly river. Its hun- 
 dreds of islands, most of which are the prop- 
 erty of the State, furnish temporary homes 
 for many summer visitors, who bring their 
 tents and enjoy camp life "far from the mad- 
 ding crowd." On those of the islands which 
 are private property, such as Sanford Island, 
 the magnificent estate of Dr. D. S. Sanford, 
 attractive cottages have been built by their 
 owners. At times these islets are so close 
 together that the steamers have difficulty in 
 threading their way among them. In some 
 of the sheltered bays, formed between spurs 
 of the hills as they project into the water, the 
 tranquil surface is carpeted with acres of fra- 
 grant water lilies. 
 
 Like Lake Champlain into which it empties. 
 Lake George flows northward. Right at the 
 head of the lake is its principal town, Cald- 
 well. This pretty village affords the first 
 full view of the lake, and a most glorious one 
 it is. 
 
 The Lake George branch of the Delaware 
 and Hudson leaves the main line at Fort 
 Edward and terminates on the pier directly 
 at the side of the handsome and fast steam- 
 ers of the Champlain Transportation Com- 
 pany which make daily trips through the 
 lake. The beauty and charming delights of 
 this trip with its score of stops at the various 
 picturesque landings need not be told to 
 those who have made it. There is nothing- 
 more beautiful on the American continent, 
 and those who have made the journey 
 through lovely Lake Comoin Italy find there 
 little of advantage in scenic attractions. The 
 Lake George service is performed by three 
 handsome steamers, the Horicon, the Ticon- 
 dcyoi!;a, and the Mohican. The two former, 
 which run Ijetween Caldwell at one end of 
 
 ' From the deek of a Lake George steamer one has au ever-changing 
 panorama." 
 
"Lake GL'Crj<:-l::as bten so frequent ly stofkerl with trout. land-locked snlnion and oilier 
 that it now cfters the fif herman splendid sport." 
 
 mie iish 
 
 the Lake and Baldwin at the other, are fa.st 
 side-wheelers, admirably appointed, and kept 
 lip to the highest point of perfection. They 
 each have broad decks fully supplied with 
 comfortable arm-chairs, and hand.somely fur- 
 nished cabins. The Moliican is a propeller 
 of recent construction and 
 is used to supplement the 
 work of the large boats. 
 During the tour- 
 ist season she 
 makes the trip 
 daily from Cald- 
 well to Paradise 
 Bay and re- 
 turn. Excel- 
 lent meals are 
 served on the 
 
 than three hundred rocky and wooded isl- 
 ands, so closely crowded together in some 
 parts of the lake that a pilot's utmost skill is 
 required to guide the great white steamers 
 between them. jMany of these islands have 
 been made attractive by quaint and sightly 
 cottages, while others, be- 
 longing to the State and 
 being free to all comers, 
 have been made 
 temporary homes 
 by summer cam- 
 pers, who have 
 spread their tents 
 under the dense 
 foliage, to enjo}', 
 free from the con- 
 ventionalities of 
 hotel life, unre- 
 strained com- 
 m u n i on 
 with na- 
 ture. As 
 if jealous 
 of the ap- 
 proaches 
 
 attractive din- 
 ing-room loca- 
 t e d on the 
 main dec 
 
 The t r i p 
 down Lake 
 George from 
 Caldwell to 
 Baldwin 
 at the 
 northern 
 end chal- 
 lenge s 
 in its ev- 
 ery point of scenic 
 beauty any other trip of equal 
 length on the American Continent. 
 From time immemorial jooets and 
 writers have apostrophized Lake 
 George and laid their literary tri- 
 butes, in prose and verse, upon 
 its altar. Between the great ridges of 
 mountains which close in upon its sides 
 for its entire length there lies a lake 
 whose crystalline depths reflect so perfectly 
 the blue azure of the sky that as it sparkles 
 in the sunlight it almost reverses, and equals 
 in brilliancy, the blue dome of the heavens 
 above. Dotting its limpid surface are more 
 
 "The trip down Lake George from Caldwell to Baldwin challenges in 
 scenic beauty any water trip in America." 
 
 of the grim old mountains, the lake has, in 
 many instances, crowded itself between them, 
 and thus have been formed some of the loveli- 
 est of bays where, protected from the winds 
 and shaded by the wide-spreading trees along 
 their edges, acres of water-lilies have claimed 
 the domain as their own and spread over the 
 tranquil water a carpet of leaf and blossom 
 
of nature's own design, beautiful lieyond 
 description. It is in tlaese sequestered 
 spots that we may realize the delights 
 of the spirit of dolcejar nicnfe. 
 
 The two well-appointed steamers. 
 Horicon and Ticonderoga, or "Ti," as it 
 is familiarly called, on their journey 
 down the lake, make a score of stops, 
 and cross and re-cross the lake many 
 times At each of these landing-places 
 are hotels, all with characteristic attrac- 
 tions and tilled with summer guests. 
 On the western shore of the lake, 
 six miles below Caldwell, and almost 
 hemmed in by the mountains at its rear, 
 stands the deservedly popular Marion 
 House From its wide porches or beauti- 
 ful lawn a view of almost the entire 
 lentjth of Lake George can be seen. 
 
 The sloping lawns, with terraces and steps, 
 render' an easy descent to the lake and boat 
 landino- Walks radiate in every direction 
 under The pine trees along the shore, north 
 and south, into the forest, and up the moun- 
 tain side at the rear of the house, and there 
 are many opportunities for recreation, includ- 
 ing excellent golf links. The house has ac- 
 commodations for three hundred and fifty 
 guests. It is equipped with a hydraulic 
 llevator, steam heat, electric bells gas, and 
 electric lights. Its plumbing is of the very 
 best and of the most modern type. i he 
 
 Tl>osc vho tarry .at Lake O.org3 ^villfind the best of accommodations 
 at the Marion. 
 
 public rooms are spacious, delightfully open 
 to the air, richly furnished throughout, and 
 have open wood fires, and its sleepmg-rooms 
 laro-e and conifortal)le. Those who desire to 
 tar?v upon Lake George will find the best ac- 
 commodations at the Marion, of which 
 Mauser & Davis are proprietors. West 
 Side P. O., Lake George, N. Y 
 
 Baldwin, at the northern end of the lake, 
 is the terminus of the Fort Ticonderoga 
 branch of the D. and H. R.R. The steamers 
 make close connections there with the trains 
 of this line, and also with the steamers of 
 the Champlain Transportation Company. 
 
 '• The scenery on Lake George is part 
 
 icularly beautiful and picturesque from any point of view,' 
 
' TUe riiius of old Fort TieoiuU r. .tja .-^iiil .-lui 
 bloody past." 
 
 mute seiitiiiels ( 
 
 The little stream which runs into Lake 
 Chanij^lain at old Fort Ticonderoga from 
 Lake George falls 246 feet in the four miles, 
 almost one continuous waterfall. 
 
 For a hundred and twenty-six miles Lake 
 Champlain is the boundary between the 
 States of New York and Vermont. Like 
 Lake George it is long and narrow in form, 
 being a trifle over twelve miles in width 
 at its broadest portion. At Ticonderoga it 
 broadens into a beautiful inland sea which 
 reaches its greatest breadth between Burling- 
 ton and Port Kent. As often happens in 
 members of the same family, 
 the sister lakes are widely 
 differing in outward aspect 
 and in disposition. About 
 Lake Champlain the moun- 
 tains are less bold ; they re- 
 treat in successive ranges 
 from the water, often leav- 
 ing broad acres of farm 
 country between themselves 
 and the lake. The vistas 
 are longer and the views 
 more comprehensive, though 
 no less enchanting than 
 those of Lake George. The 
 mountain scenery is varied 
 by stretches of rich table 
 land, by prosperous farms, 
 and pretty villages. The 
 lake has a most irregular 
 coast line, being rich in 
 beautiful ba^'s and inlets, 
 and has on its surface about 
 h alf a hundred islands. Less 
 
 sheltered and confined than Lake 
 George, it is more capricious, onl}' a 
 ver}' few minutes sufticing to change 
 its smiling surface from a placid mir- 
 ror to a white-cajiped sea. Its chang- 
 ing moods lend pleasing variety to its 
 aspect. After receiving sundry names, 
 that of Champlain, the explorer who 
 entered ujjon its waters eleven years 
 before the Pilgrims touched Plymouth 
 Rock, has become a permanent and 
 suitable designation. 
 
 One of the most delightful of water 
 trips on the American continent is the 
 one on the handsome steamboats 
 I'eruiont and Chateatigay, of the 
 Champlain Transportation Company. 
 They touch at all principal points, 
 and make the round trip of the lake 
 everyday. In this connection it is in- 
 teresting to note that Lake Champlain 
 was the first inland water on the Am- 
 erican continent navigated by civilized 
 man. 
 
 Tourists on the Delaware and Hud- 
 son Railroad have their choice of mak- 
 ing the trip either way between Fort 
 Ticonderoga to Plattsburg or Hotel 
 Champlain by rail or by steam, the 
 tickets being interchangeable. 
 
 Steam navigation upon Lake Cham- 
 plain was practically contemporaneous 
 with the inauguration of a steamboat 
 service on the Hudson by the C/ertnont, 
 in 1S07. The very next spring, that of 
 1S08, witnessed the building of the second 
 steamboat in the world, at Burlington, 
 which was launched into Lake Cham- 
 plain, at the foot of King Street, near 
 the present dock of the Champlain Trans- 
 portation Company. It was named the Vi'r- 
 inont, and was 120 feet long. Her decks 
 were clear, having no pilot house, being 
 steered by a tiller. The Vermont was 
 equipped with an engine of 20-horse power. 
 vShe began her regular trips between White- 
 
 bores of Lake rhamplain from its northern to its southern 
 extremity are attractive." 
 
hall, New York, and St. Johns, Canada, in 
 June, 1809 ; making a speed of some four 
 miles an hour. The I'eri/iont was "Queen 
 of the Lake "' for six years, but in October. 
 1815, she was sunk a wreck near Isle Aux 
 Noix. During this period the boat had no 
 competitors except sailing vessels, which, in 
 a good breeze, frequently passed her. 
 
 The success attending the operation of 
 the first steamboat on Lake Champlain 
 resulted in the organization, in 1S13, of 
 the "Lake Champlain Steamboat Com- 
 pany," with a capital of $100,000. This 
 was the first steamboat company formed ' , 
 in America, and its subsequent consoli- 
 dation with the Champlain Transpor- 
 tation Company makes the latter the 
 oldest organized steamboat comj^any in 
 the world, and it is recognized every- 
 where as being one of the best equipped 
 and best managed of our inland water 
 transportation companies. The present 
 fleet consists of the Ve?'7no7tt, the Chateau- 
 gay, and the Maquain. 
 
 During the season of navigation the fV;-- 
 moiit plies every week day between Platts- 
 burg, Burlington, and Ticonderoga, making 
 the round trip by daylight. The CJtatea2igay 
 runs from Westport to Burlington, Platts- 
 burg, and North Hero, and return. Both 
 steamers touch at numerous intermediate 
 points between these terminal points. 
 
 The Vermont is the largest of the fleet, a 
 magnificent side- wheel boat, 271 feet long, 
 65 feet wide over all, wy^ feet hold; is ele- 
 gantly equijjped and has 56 staterooms. 
 
 She has an excellent steward's depart- 
 ment, and is famed 
 
 among travellers for fine : "^' 
 
 meals. ( 
 
 The steamer Chateau- ' 
 gay is a fine side-wheel 
 boat, with hull of steel, 
 built in iSSS, is 205 feet 
 in length, has two boilers, 
 patent feathering 
 wheels, is heated b}- 
 steam in the cool months', 
 has a dining-room on the 
 
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 The Station of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad at Flattsburg, X. Y. 
 
 ' The steamers of the Champlain Transnortition Company are 
 splendid types of marine architecture." 
 
 main deck, and is handsomely furnished in 
 every detail. 
 
 The southern port on Lake Champlain and 
 the terminus of the steamship line has been 
 Fort Ticonderoga, from the first of our na- 
 tional history the scene of stirring events. 
 The old fortress, whose venerable ruins still 
 stand on the summit of the promontory, had a 
 natural location for purposes of defence, be- 
 ing skirted on three sides by water, and on the 
 fourth by a swamp, and standing almost one 
 hundred feet above the lake. The first de- 
 iences were built here as early as 1690, about 
 a year before Major Schuyler brought to- 
 gether the ]\Iohawk and white forces that 
 were here de- 
 feated. The old 
 fort was built by 
 the French in 1756, 
 I and named Fort 
 j Karilton; soon 
 afterward occurred 
 the attack and re- 
 pulse of General 
 Abercrombie, with 
 great loss of life. 
 
 In 1759 Lord 
 Amherst was more 
 successful, and the 
 French, finding 
 that they could not 
 hold the works, 
 dismantled them 
 and withdrew, 
 leaving the En- 
 glish in possession of the stronghold. They 
 greatly enlarged and fortified it, and the 
 fortress with its field works covered an 
 area of several miles. But not for long 
 did they continue to hold it unmolested, 
 for in the early days of the Revolution, 
 Fort Ticonderoga was one of the first 
 fortresses to fall into the hands of the pa- 
 triots. Gallant Ethan Allen, with his hand- 
 ful of Green Mountain boys, surprised the 
 garrison and demanded the surrender of the 
 fort "in the name of the great Jehovah and 
 the Continental Congress," and it was 
 
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 promptly surrendered. In 
 1777 Burgoyne, coming down 
 from Canada, placed his bat- 
 tery on Mt. Defiance, a com- 
 manding eminence opposite. 
 Training his guns on the old 
 fort, he reduced it, and forced 
 .a surrender. A few weeks 
 afterward Colonel Brown and 
 the New England soldiers 
 recaptured the fortress, and 
 freed the one hundred Ameri- 
 can jDrisoners. From that 
 time on the fort was allowed 
 to fall into decay, with the ex- 
 ception of a brief occupation 
 
 by General Haldemand in 17S0. Its extensive ruins 
 remain to speak eloquently of its past prominence 
 as tlie stronghold of three great nations successively, 
 and the scene where each suffered defeat and en- 
 joyed victory. 
 
 Crown Point, eight miles farther down the lake, is 
 the site of another old fort, situated on a long pe- 
 ninsula stretching out into the lake. At the extremity 
 •of the promontory there is a fine stone lighthouse. 
 The ruins of the very large fortifications are well 
 preserved, the ramparts being a full half mile around, 
 twenty-five feet high and of like thickness. 
 
 Like Crown Point, Port Henry, a town 
 eighteen miles from Ticonderoga, is the 
 •centre of extensive iron mines. Several 
 ^reat blast furnaces have been built near the 
 steamer's landing. Just beyond Port Henry 
 the scenery is particularly fine, including 
 views of Mt. Mansfield and Camel's Hump, 
 peaks of the Green Mountains, on one side 
 •of the lake, and the blue Adirondacks on the 
 other. 
 
 Eleven miles farther is the pleasant village 
 ■of Westport, situated on WestjDort Bay. 
 This locality is famous from Gen. Benedict 
 Arnold's fight with the Congress on the 
 13th of October, 1776. The English forces 
 nnder Captain Pringel proved too much for 
 Arnold, and running the Congress galley 
 and four gondolas into a bay opposite West- 
 port, he burned them to the water's edge. 
 Pieces of the old ship and some of the can- 
 non have been recovered from the lake. By 
 reason of its natural advantages Westport 
 is a summer resort of itself, besides being 
 one of the principal entrances to the great 
 Adirondack country. A curiosity of nature 
 in this vicinity is Split Rock, originally 
 known as "The Cloven Rock," a cliff thirty 
 feet in height, and comprising about half 
 an acre of tree covered earth and stone, 
 ■cut off from the mountain by a clean fissure 
 some twelve feet wide, and turned into an 
 island, projecting about fifty yards into 
 Lake Champlain. This rock once separated 
 the lands of the Algonquins and the Mo- 
 hawks, whose territories were occupied by 
 the French and English respectively. In 
 1 7 10 it was acknowledged by the Treaty of 
 Utrecht as the limit of British dominion, and 
 fifty years later it was officially designated 
 as the boundary between New York and 
 Canada. But subsequently the Americans 
 
 "The voyage on historic Lalce Champiain i.< 
 full of interest." 
 
 won the district for seventy-seven miles to 
 the north of it. The continually increas'ng 
 contingent of visitors to Westport find there 
 beautiful scenerj', a delightful climate, and, 
 last but not least, a comfortable hotel, the 
 Westport Inn, which is most modern and at- 
 tractive in all its appointments, and the air 
 of comfort and genial hospitality which per- 
 vades it is proved by the devotion with which 
 its guests return year after year, accom- 
 panied by friends to whom the story of ^^'est- 
 port beauty has been told and retold. Charm- 
 ing cottages which cluster about the Inn, and 
 which are really a part of the hotel itself, add 
 much to the charm of life at the Inn. 
 
 The cuisine and service have always been 
 among the Inn's most attractive features, 
 and the cream, milk, and vegetables are ob- 
 tained fresh daily from the Inn's own farm. 
 An exceptionally well laid out golf links ad- 
 joins the Inn, and few resorts offer greater 
 inducements to the golf enthusiast. 
 
 •A glimpse M Lake Chaiiiplaiii tliruugh luaiy bowers." 
 
Elizabethtown has been called, and very 
 properly, the inner gateway of the Adiron- 
 dacks ; and this charmingly situated little 
 town, with its environs of green hills and its 
 background of graceful mountain peaks, is a 
 fitting introduction to the wild grandeur of 
 the country beyond, the land of shimmering 
 lakes and solitude. 
 
 Tally-ho stages meet trains at AVestport 
 to convey passengers to Elizabethtown, an 
 enjoyable ride of eight miles through Raven 
 Pass, whence stage lines run daily to Keene 
 Valley. It is probable that unless the trav- 
 eller's time is limited he will yield to the 
 temptation to tarry a few days at Elizabeth- 
 town before exploring the wonders beyond, 
 and he will be wise to do so. 
 
 
 " Playing for the Cobble Hill Golt Club Cup at Elizabethtown." 
 
 Here he may study and enjoy the moun- 
 tains which have as many moods as the sea ; 
 he ma}' see their long dense shadows in the 
 early morn, outlined with greater intensity 
 in the deep gorges and ravines which the 
 convulsions of nature have left as scars on 
 the mountain sides. 
 
 At Elizabethtown is the ever popular 
 Windsor Hotel, with Mr. Orlando Kellogg 
 as proprietor. Upon the pages of its register 
 have been subscribed the names of thousands 
 of people known to the world of letters, poli- 
 tics, and fashion. Elizabethtown is the tourist 
 centre of the beautiful and iinecpialled Keene 
 Valley, and the Windsor Hotel is the social 
 centre of Elizabethtown. The Windsor 
 coaches meet all trains and boats at West- 
 port, and connect with stages to Keene Val- 
 ley, Cascade Lakes, North Elba and Lake 
 Placid. Private teams will be j^rovided when 
 requested. A delightful place at which to 
 spend a longer or a shorter period, as it is 
 within easy reach, by the best drives, of many 
 of the most attractive spots in the Adi- 
 rondacks. Elizabethtown is in itself a most 
 charming village, and is within eight hours 
 of New York, four hours from Albany and 
 three from Saratoga. The hotel itself is per- 
 fectly appointed and unexceptionably man- 
 aged. It has every convenience which may 
 
 "The Windsor Hotel at Elizabethtown is one o£ the best 
 known Adirondack hotels." 
 
 add to the comfort and pleasure of existence, 
 A handsome four-in-hand brake makes twO' 
 trips daily from the Windsor througli the sur- 
 rounding mountains, and the livery attached 
 to the house is. 
 abundantly sup- 
 plied with saddle 
 and driving horses. 
 The table at the 
 Windsor is not ex- 
 celled anywhere, 
 as the table is sup- 
 plied with fresh 
 butter, cream, eggs- 
 and vegetables 
 from the proj^rie- 
 tor's farm. Pro- 
 fessor jMason, the 
 analytical chemi.st, 
 has pronounced 
 the drinking water 
 at Elizabethtown 
 one of the purest 
 waters he has ever 
 analyzed. Mr. 
 Kellogg has had 
 twenty-five years' 
 experience in the hotel business at Eliza- 
 bethtown, and it is doubtful if anv man in 
 America is better qualified to meet the re- 
 quirements of summer guests. 
 
 The Deer's Head Inn, at Elizabethtown, 
 has long been a delightful home for the sum- 
 mer tourist, and is recognized as one of the 
 most comfortable and homelike houses in the 
 Adirondacks. 
 
 Its location is most attractive, commanding- 
 magnificent views of the mountains, while 
 the freedom from all restraints and the genial 
 hospitality of the house itself have 
 made it in every way a delightful 
 sojourning place. 
 
 I 
 
 "The Deer's Head Inn at Elizabethtown is a delightful 
 summer home." 
 
Good drives radiate £i oni Eliz 
 abethtown in all directions. 
 Easy trails lead to the summits 
 of Mount Hurricane and the 
 Giant of the Valley. The vil- 
 lage itself is one of unusual 
 beauty and salubrity. The 
 Keene Valley, which is entered 
 from Elizabethtown, is famous 
 the world over for its magnifi- 
 cent natural beauty and at- 
 tractiveness. It is dotted with 
 summer homes and hotels. 
 
 In the heart of beautiful 
 Keene Valley, t w e n t y - f o u r 
 miles by stage from Vv estport, 
 stands »St. Hubert's Inn, in the 
 midst of the highest mountains 
 and the most sublime of the 
 Adirondack scenery. Keene 
 Heights, upon which the Inn 
 stands, is a broad plateau en- "S' 
 
 tirely surrounded by moun- 
 tains clothed to their summits with primeval 
 forests, and is in itself so elevated that it does 
 not have the impression of being shut in. 
 
 The Adirondack Mountain Reserve, cover- 
 ing forty square miles of territory, immedi- 
 ately adjoins that of the hotel. Within this 
 Reserve are the two beautiful Au Sable Lakes 
 and many trout streams. The guests of St. 
 Hubert's are given permit's to fish within its 
 limits, and its many beauties are free to the 
 guests of the Inn. 
 
 St. Hubert's Inn is new, fresh, and attrac- 
 tive, modern in construction and thoroughly 
 complete in every particular. There are sur- 
 rounding it eighteen cottages, and thus is 
 formed a complete colony with asocial life as 
 characteristic as it is charming. It has ac- 
 commodations for three hundred guests. 
 All of the vegetables, milk, cream and eggs 
 come from the Beede farm in the valley. 
 
 Hubert's Inn is located on Keene Heights, in the beautiful 
 valley o£ the same name." 
 
 There is a casino for various entertain- 
 ments and splendid golf links. Orlando 
 Beede is proprietor, and the post office, located 
 in the house, is named Beede 's. 
 
 At Port Kent, 54 miles from Ticonderoga, 
 connection may be made by tourists with 
 the new railroad to the famous Au Sable 
 Chasm, three miles distant. This master- 
 piece of nature, Baedecker pronounced the 
 greatest natural wonder in America, next 
 after Niagara Falls. Its grandeur and 
 beauty is impressivebeyond the most graphic 
 description. 
 
 From far up in the mountain fastnesses the 
 two forks of the Au Sable River have come by 
 tortuous and uncertain courses through in- 
 viting valleys until they meet just below the 
 picturesque Memington Pass. Then uniting 
 they join in a mad rush for Lake Champlain, 
 making almost at the very start a magniti- 
 
 ' No tourist should pass the wonderful Au Sable Chasm, and he will tind there a splendid hotel 
 with all appointments for luxury and comfort." 
 
' No one who lias ever made the trip through Au Sable Chasm will soon forget this most wonderful of all wild gorges." 
 
 cent plunge over Alice Falls, the most beauti- 
 ful in the Adirondacks. 
 
 This splendid cataract falls about forty 
 feet, much of it being an almost sheer fall 
 over ledges of rock with magnificent foaming 
 watery stairways bordering it with their 
 delicate lacework on either hand. The 
 water, of which there is a large volume, 
 
 tumbles down into an immense amphi- 
 theatre, which has been rounded by the 
 torrent out of the adjacent enclosing rocks 
 during past ages, and emerging flows sharply 
 to the right, over some rapids, and then 
 over a prosaic milldam, which is built across 
 just above the cliasm. Suddenly, as if to 
 try its powers, the river leaps over a short 
 
P'^'S 
 
 " The country along the eastern shores of Lake Champlain is one of rare beauty and picturesqueness, healthful 
 and wholesome in every respect." 
 
 fall, and then with a force and majesty 
 which is overpowering dashes seventy feet 
 into the deep abyss below. Clouds of spray 
 are flung far and near by the plunge, and 
 float upward, to be tinted with all the colors 
 of the rainbow by the summer's sun. 
 
 The trip through the chasm is one of con- 
 stant surprises. Nature has disported her- 
 self here in her wildest mood. Sheer preci- 
 pices, nearly 150 feet high, terminate in 
 deep, dark pools where the water rests after 
 its tumultuous passage through the more 
 narrow gorges. There are many interesting 
 and wonderful spots to be passed as the visi- 
 tor follows the narrow pathway cleft in the 
 sides of the dripping walls. They bear all 
 kinds of fantastic names, as best betit their 
 own local surroundings. The most impres- 
 sive sensation of the trip is reserved for the 
 end. The visitor, seated in a long boat and 
 guided by a boatman who handles the pad- 
 dle, shoots the rapids at the foot of the cliffs 
 200 feet high, passing through one point 
 where the river is but 13 feet wide. Looking 
 back one seems to be plunging down-hill. 
 The boat darts through a flume about a 
 quarter of a mile long and emerges into a 
 broad placid basin which marks the exit from 
 the chasm, from which the widened river 
 flows through a flat open country until it 
 empties into Lake Champlain. 
 
 The Hotel Au Sable Chasm is under the 
 same management as the Chasm itself, and 
 adds greatly to the comfort^of tourists who 
 are drawn by the thousands to this wonder- 
 ful spot every summer. 
 
 The Hotel is delightfully situated over five 
 hundred feet above Lake Champlain and 
 overlooking its great expanse of water. The 
 view from the Hotel is one of extreme beauty 
 — on the one side, the Lake with the Green 
 ^Mountains in the distance — on the other, the 
 Adirondacks, rising tier on tier, majestic in 
 their sublimity. From the piazzas over 50 
 mountains may be seen. Its grounds, which 
 include the Chasm, consist of 400 acres of 
 beautiful lawns, fields and woodland, the 
 entrance to the Chasm being only 500 feet 
 from the door. The air is delightful here, 
 and is extremely dry and bracing, while good 
 roads, pictui'esque scenery, and countless 
 walks and drives of rare interest and beauty, 
 combine to make the place a most attractive 
 and desirable summer resort. The Hotel is 
 modern in construction and management. 
 Its rooms are large and airy, and it is lighted 
 throughout with electricity. There are 
 no flies or mosquitos at Au Sable Chasm, 
 and the absence of malaria and hay fever 
 renders it most attractive to the tourist. The 
 cuisine is of the highest excellence in every 
 respect. 
 
 The table is supplied with the purest and 
 richest of farm products, and the butter, 
 milk, cream, and vegetables are features of 
 the place. The drinking water is brought 
 from a spring famous for its purity far up 
 on the mountain side. 
 
 The great popularity of the Hotel is due in 
 no small degree to its liberal management 
 and to its genial air of comfort and hospital- 
 ity. New golf links adjoin the Hotel, which 
 
are accounted among the finest in the conn- 
 try. Mr. Charles \\. Bickford is manager. 
 
 On the eastern side of Lake Champlain is 
 the i^retty city of Burlington, with its 20,000 
 inhabitants, its college, its scores of magnifi- 
 cent residences, its extensive manufactories, 
 and its many historical associations. Here 
 the lake is at its widest, and one may look 
 westward across its lovely surface and see 
 the Adirondack Mountains, a sea of stern aiul 
 rugged j^eaks, silhouetted against the sky, 
 while to the east rise the rounded slopes of 
 the Green Mountains. 
 
 Vermont is territorially one of the smaller 
 States of the Union, 3'et verifying in her in- 
 tellectual and moral greatness the old saying 
 that "the best things are put up in the 
 
 Mountains. No one can spend the summer 
 in this region without coming to appreciate 
 something of the strong attachment which 
 binds every true Vermonter to his nativeState. 
 It is a love that never fades away ; go 
 where he may on the face of the earth, the 
 child of Vermont ever turns in memory a 
 loving gaze on her beautiful green hills and 
 waters. The stirring, active, ambitious busi- 
 ness man evidently thinks its peaceful life 
 not suited to his tastes and struggles, but 
 to one who loves Nature in her quiet and 
 sweetest moods, there is little more attractive 
 than the (ireen Mountain State. The State 
 is high and dry ; every bucketful of the air 
 is crisp and pure. The homes of Vermont 
 are those of a thoughtful, forceful, wide- 
 
 " You may travel the world over aijrl see no picture of STich rich or quiet charm as that 
 whicu ihe Champlain Valley offers." 
 
 smallest parcels. " The Green Mountains run 
 north and south through her borders as a 
 sort of a spinal column from which ridges, as 
 ribs, extend east and west toward the river 
 and the lake. Over these ridges and in the 
 valleys between is poured the rich soil, like 
 the abundant flesh of the well-formed man. 
 while brooks and streams course as veins and 
 arteries in every direction. ]\It. Mansfield 
 and Camel's Hump toward the north lift up 
 their profile of a human face. From hilltops 
 and these mountain summits stretch visions 
 of beauty in every direction. You may travel 
 the wide world over and see no picture of 
 such rich and quiet charm as that which the 
 Winooski or Champlain Valley gives to one 
 Standing on the western slopes of the Green 
 
 awake, educated population that read the 
 daily papers, take the magazines, and buy 
 the best books of the day. The people are 
 forehanded and independent. The butter, 
 milk, and cream, also its maple sugar, are 
 unequalled. The country is richly produc- 
 tive, and the summ.er fare of fruit, vegeta- 
 bles, eggs, and poultry is unrivalled. 
 
 Vermont bass fishi-'g is the best in the 
 Union, and there is other sport with the rod, 
 and still other with the gun. Vermont re- 
 sorts are near and easily reached. Board at 
 family homes $4 per week and upward. All 
 railroads sell low round-trip tickets, espe- 
 cially via White River Junction. Vestibuled 
 passenger coaches, jiarlor and sleeping cars 
 are on all through trains. 
 
i- 
 
 'The Hotel Chaiiiplain, at Blutt Pi. int. has fm- several yeai3 been the summer home 
 ot I'resident JIcKuiley." 
 
 From Port Kent the stately steamer Ver- 
 inont follows on its trip the western shore of 
 the lake, passing the picturesque Au Sable 
 Point, and between Valcour Island and the 
 bluffs, touches at Blulf Point, the landing- 
 place of the great Hotel Champlain, which 
 fittingly crowns a noble promontory over- 
 looking the lake and the mountains far be- 
 yond. This house is typical in the highest 
 sense of the perfection to which American 
 architects and capitalists have brought the 
 summer hotel. It is surrounded by a beau- 
 tiful natural park of 
 450 acres of wood- 
 land and meadow, 
 and more than $50,- 
 000 has been spent 
 in constructing un- 
 der a well-devised 
 plan jjerfect road- 
 ways, lawns, and 
 walks along the lake 
 shore, cliffs, and for- 
 ests, the house itself 
 being built upon a 
 foundation of solid 
 rock. Each one of 
 its nearly half-thou- 
 sand rooms com- 
 mands a view of 
 surpassing loveli- 
 ness. There are no 
 back rooms in this 
 house, because there 
 is a frontage to each 
 point of the compass, and 
 the outlooks afforded are all 
 beautiful, it being simply a 
 choice as between lake and 
 mountain. The purest of 
 mountain spring water is 
 brought from the far-away 
 reservoirs of nature, and the 
 winds which are wafted from 
 the recesses of the mountains 
 are laden with the very purity 
 of heaven. 
 
 Immediately below the hotel is an abrupt, 
 wooded declivity, a bit of the clean sandy 
 beach sliowing at the foot of an open swath. 
 cut thi-ough the firs. To the northward is 
 Cumberland Bay, and across Cumberland 
 Head the further waters of the lake near it'' 
 foot. A mile away, intermediate, is Crao 
 Island, and to the right Valcour Island, 
 checkered with farms and belted with forest 
 area. Five miles across is Grand Isle, and 
 beyond to the eastward and southeast the 
 shore of Vermont, purple in the evening 
 
 s h a d o w s 
 long be- 
 f o r e the 
 sun fades 
 from the 
 flanks of 
 the Green 
 Moun- 
 tains. To 
 the right 
 the view of 
 the lake is 
 clear for 
 twenty 
 miles ; a- 
 way down 
 below Bur- 
 linofton to 
 
 ■ of Lake Champlain from the hotel is 
 magnificent." 
 
the narrow reach of the southern extreme 
 there are scores of distant islands, which 
 now and then gloom in passing cloud- 
 shadows and again are lost in the dim 
 shore line behind. 
 
 White smoke-plumes sway and rise and 
 fade along the western shore, where ex- 
 press trains, themselves unseen and un- 
 heard, speed along the roclcy reaches 
 around the headlands miles away upon 
 the "D. &H." Swift steamboats break 
 the still surface, and loitering sail-craft 
 wait for the evening breeze. Over the 
 lake the eye continuously 
 travels upward to the 
 base of the rugged steeps 
 of Mt. Mansfield and all 
 of its group of lesser 
 peaks. To sit here in 
 this broad proscenium 
 v/atching a sunrise is a 
 poem ; to look at it in 
 eventide is an epic. 
 
 The interior finishing 
 and furnishing of the 
 house are luxurious and 
 bear out the fair promise 
 of the tasteful white and 
 gray exterior so set off by 
 the long spacious porches 
 overlooking the lake. 
 Mr. O. D. Seavey, whose 
 name is so very long as- 
 sociated with the Ponce 
 de Leon at St. Augustine, 
 
 is, and has been since its opening, the man- 
 ager of this hotel. This in itself is an 
 assurance that nothing which can tend to 
 increase the pleasure or comfort of the 
 guests will be overlooked. 
 
 Life at the Hotel Champlain involves a 
 most extraordinary variety of diversions. 
 The golf links are as fine as any in the State 
 and most picturesquely laid out. Equestrian 
 expeditions are possible in various directions, 
 and pedestrian wanderings are exceedingly 
 popular. Frequent steamboats tipon the lake 
 
 ' The Delaware & 
 
 Hndi-on li-acks skirt the Lake for 
 many miles."* 
 
 and local 
 trains upon 
 the railroad 
 offer a long 
 list of single- 
 day e x c u r - 
 sions,each en- 
 joj'able in its 
 turn. Much of 
 the best fish- 
 ing and hunt- 
 ing territory 
 of the Adiron- 
 dack region 
 mav be reach- 
 
 " Golf at the il 
 
 liular recreation; 
 
 ed in time to enjoy a good day's sport and 
 return at nightfall. The abundant provision 
 for thoroughlv heating the house in the late 
 season makes' the Hotel Champlain a most 
 desirable point for gentlemen sportsmen to 
 locate their families during the autumn gun- 
 ning period. Billiard tables and a series of 
 bowling alleys (in a separate structure) offer 
 a remedy for eniuti in inclement weather. 
 
 The largest military post in the East is 
 close bv, and adds greatly to the social at- 
 tractions of the place, v.-ith its drills, grard 
 mounts, and dress parades. The 
 music is furnished by Brooks' 
 Band and Orchestra, and the ball- 
 room is nightly a scene of gayety 
 and pleasure. " Fort Montgomery, 
 Fort Ethan Allen, and the histori- 
 cal ruins of the forts at Crown 
 Point and Ticonderoga are near 
 bv. All the steamers of the Cham- 
 plain Transportation Company 
 and all the trains of the D & H. 
 stop at the Hotel Champlain, the 
 pier being at the foot of the blufT 
 and the station in the park just 
 west of the hotel. The Hotel 
 Champlain is thus easy of access, 
 in either drawing-room or sleep- 
 ing car, from New York, Albany, 
 or Saratoga. It is a convenient 
 stopping-point for tourists to or 
 from Montreal, the Adirondacks, 
 the White jMountains, or Lake 
 Champlain points. 
 
' There Is no better hunting anywhere in the North Woods than along the line of the Chateaugay Railroad, which runs 
 
 through an ideal region for sport." 
 
 Plattsbiirg, three miles beyond Bluff Point, 
 is a beautiful little city of eight or ten thou- 
 sand inhabitants, a county-seat, and is at- 
 tractively located on the shore of Lake Cham- 
 plain just where the Saranac River empties 
 into it. The views which are given convey 
 some impression of the attractive features of 
 Plattsburg. Among its fine buildings are the 
 United States Custom House and Post Office, 
 St. Peter's Church, and a quaint old French 
 nunnery. South of the town a mile is the 
 United States barracks. From Plattsburg 
 the handsome steamers of the Champlain 
 Transportation Co. proceed to Maquam, the 
 northern terminus. 
 
 Plattsbttrg is connected with the early his- 
 tory of the corintry as being the place where 
 Macdonough and Macomb defeated the Brit- 
 ish naval and land forces 
 iinder Commodore Downie. 
 
 The tourist stopping at 
 Plattsburg will find the Fou- 
 cjuet an exceptionally com- 
 fortable and well-appointed 
 house, excellently kept and 
 attractively furnished. It is 
 situated directly opposite the 
 railway station, on a high 
 blufE overlooking the wide 
 expanse of Lake Champlain. 
 and is the popular rendezvous 
 for tourists going in and out 
 of the Adirondacks. It is un- 
 der the direct management 
 of Mr. James Haney, who i:; 
 thoroughly alive to the com 
 fort of his guests, and un- 
 der his regime the Fouquet 
 has earned a well-deserved 
 popularity. 
 
 From Plattsburg the Cha- 
 teaugay Railroad, after run- 
 ning for a while along the shore of Lake Champlain. 
 turns into the mountains and penetrates the most 
 beautiful portion of the Adirondack region. 
 
 There is a wonderful degree of freshness and 
 variety in the scenery along this picturesque line. 
 Towering mountains hem in the horizon on each 
 
 side, while here and there the valleys open 
 out, disclosing vistas of lovely lakes, skirted 
 to the very edges with dense forests of 
 pine tree and balsam. There is not a mile 
 of the Chateaugay Railroad which is not full 
 of interest to even the casual tourist, and it 
 reaches hotels of all grades, from elegant, 
 thoroughly equipped houses where the 
 wealthy and fashionable may enjoy every 
 luxury, to the more modest but comfortable 
 resort where people of the most moderate 
 means find delightful summer homes. In 
 the earlier days of the Adirondack Mountains 
 as a summer resort the long, tedious stage 
 road necessary to reach distant points pre- 
 vented hundreds from gratifying their desire 
 to visit them, but most of the choicer places 
 are now easily reached by the Chateaugay 
 
 ' The lakes along the line of the Chateaugay Railroad axe 
 favorites with those who love nature." 
 
Railroad, via Plattsburg. The lakes along 
 this line include such gems as Upper and 
 Lower Chateaugay, Chazy Loon, Rainbow 
 and the LTpper and Lower Saranac. On the 
 two latter the finest trip by water of any in 
 the whole North Woods is to be enjoyed. 
 Comfortably seated in one of the light Adiron- 
 dack boats with a strong-armed guide at the 
 oars, one may start at the Algonquin and 
 skirt the lily-padded and wooded shore of the 
 entire Lower Saranac, and by making a short 
 "carry," he may launch his craft in the Up- 
 per Saranac. From here he may by turns 
 cross the placid bosom of Fish Creek, Big 
 Square, Floodwood, Rollins and Whey ponds, 
 all lovely bodies of water edged with forest- 
 covered mountains. It is one of the most 
 beautiful trips imaginable, and to the lover 
 
 of nature an ideal way 
 a half week. In fact, 
 can fully appreciate 
 fascinating phases 
 den beauties of Adi 
 life until he has taken 
 romantic of trijjs by 
 Nature hides her 
 gems in the 
 deepest re 
 
 to spend 
 no one 
 the most 
 and hid- 
 rondack 
 this most 
 l-Xjat, for 
 choicest 
 
 the favorite rendezvous of those who wish to- 
 combine hshing and hunting with the many 
 other attractive features of the North Woods. 
 Nowhere are there greater or better opportu- 
 nities for sport. The entire region about 
 Chateaugay and Chazy Lakes, and, in fact, 
 along the line of the Chateaugay Railroad, is 
 a natural game and fish preserve where excel- 
 lent sport is sure to be had. 
 
 The Algonquin Hotel Company's property 
 embraces seventy acres of land in one piece on 
 the easterly shore of the lake, and two miles 
 from the village of Saranac Lake. The hotel 
 is situated not more than two hundred yards 
 from the shore of the lake, the ground in front 
 sloping gradually to the water's edge. From 
 the piazzas delightful views of lake, wood- 
 land and mountain scenery are afforded. Its 
 elevation above the water allows the breeze, 
 from whatever direction, to sweep the piazzas, 
 while its complete remoteness from swamps 
 or dead water renders the hotel free from the 
 fly pests, usually a nuisance at resorts dur- 
 ing the early months of summer. The sleep- 
 ing apartments are large, airy and well 
 lighted ; and the house is most modern in all 
 its appointments. The dining room over- 
 looks the lake, and is one of the attrac- 
 tive features of the hotel. 
 
 No illustration can convey to the reader 
 
 The Algonquin Hotel upon Saranac Lake overlooks a wide sweep of lake and forest, and is one 
 of the niobt popular houses of the Adirondack region." 
 
 cesses of the mountains, apart from the 
 beaten paths of man. 
 
 There are many s^Dots on the route where 
 the forests descend to the water's edge and 
 the eye cannot penetrate the tangled growth. 
 Their mysterious perfume embodies the deep- 
 est, sweetest, most delightful secrets of na- 
 ture ; the odor is subtle, fragrant beyond de- 
 scription, and heavy with aromatic airs. 
 
 The Adirondack "guides " are as fine a set 
 of men as can be found the world over. As 
 a rule they are thoroughly sober, trustworthy, 
 v\-illing and companionable, and can shoot, 
 cook, and tell yarns with a skill truly remark- 
 able. They know the great trackless wilder- 
 ness thoroughly, and the writer has never in 
 his experience seen, and then but for a mo- 
 ment, one puzzled over his location but once, 
 and that was when making a "carrv" from 
 one pond to another on a dark night through 
 an almost impenetrable forest. 
 
 Chateaugay Lake has for many years been 
 
 the beauty of the location of this hotel, situa- 
 ted as it is on the lower Saranac Lake, one of 
 the most beautiful of the Adirondack gems. 
 There are few, if any, locations in the North 
 Woods where one may find amid such de- 
 lightful natural surroundings such a comfort- 
 able and luxurious hotel. Nothing is lack- 
 ing that will increase the comfort of its guests. 
 
 There is most excellent sport to be had in 
 the neighborhood of the Algonquin, and the 
 fishing in the Saranac is too famous to need 
 particular mention here. 
 
 Further information regarding this region 
 may be had of Mr. John Harding, Algonquin 
 P. O., Franklin Co., N. Y. 
 
 The Riverside, one of the popular all-the- 
 year-round resorts at Saranac Lake, is located 
 on high ground upon the edge of the village, 
 overlooking the quiet waters of beautiful 
 Lake Flower. The hotel is new and large 
 and most comfortabh- equipped. It has 
 every modern convenience and the rooms are 
 
large and attractive. As a winter, as well 
 as a summer resort, the Riverside is most 
 delightful, and it has done j much to add 
 to the comfort of a wint ^ er's sojourn 
 in that beau j.T t i f u 1 
 
 spot, w h i c h ,^^^^ m M^^ ^ ^ ^^' 
 tractive dur ^^MJ^^^^^^H^. ingev- 
 ery sea /^■IBI^HI^^^Hm son of 
 
 the year. 
 
 side, one of tlie impiiliir all-tlie-year-round 
 resorts at Saranac Lake." 
 
 Messrs. Pine & Corbett, the proprietors, are 
 
 thoroughly alert to all that is modern in 
 
 hotel keeping, and 
 
 the air of comfort 
 
 and hospitality 
 
 which impresses ev- 
 ery guest c o n t r i - 
 
 butes to its c o n - 
 
 stant and deserved 
 
 success. 
 
 Lake Placid and 
 
 Mirror Lake, long 
 
 renowned for their 
 
 picturesqueness 
 
 beauty, are sejaara- 
 
 ted by a n a r r o w 
 
 strip of land but a 
 
 few yards in width. 
 
 Scattered a r o u n d 
 
 these two exquisite- 
 ly lovely lakes are 
 
 the fine hotels that 
 
 during the summer 
 
 months are filled 
 
 with the happy, 
 
 light-hearted crowds 
 
 that frequent this 
 
 section. The noble * 
 
 peaks of an entire range of mountains, in- 
 cluding Mt. Marcy, the highest in the State, 
 
 bound the 
 southern hori- 
 zon. In the 
 northeast, 
 ^^' h i t e f a c e 
 IMountain, i n 
 stately sweep, 
 extends down 
 
 cent of the mountain is easily made. L'ponits 
 bare, storm-beaten summit some enthusiastic 
 lover of the grand in nature has cut with 
 reverent chisel, deep and clear into its ever- 
 lasting rock, these words : 
 
 " Thanks be to God for the Mountains." 
 
 The scene presented to the eye of the be- 
 holder from this point is one of the most 
 striking and sublime in the Avhole domain of 
 nature. There is nothing to obscure the view 
 in any direction. Eastward, the bosom of 
 Lake Champlain is beheld heaving in the 
 sunlight and flashing back its brilliancy. 
 Tahawas, the Giant of the Valley, Hurricane 
 ]Moiintain, Dix's Peak, Nipple Top, Saddle 
 Back, Sewaid, Mclntyre, and the Gothics 
 are before us to the south, vast and wild. 
 
 The Stevens House, at Lake Placid, is pic- 
 turesquely located on an elevation command- 
 ing one of the most magnificent of the many 
 views which are afforded in this region. Its 
 main floor is 2,063 feet above tide-water, and 
 
 The Steveli> [I. 
 
 ke I'l.icid h i-. .ihvavs enjoved t'reat popularity. It is -s ery centrally 
 >n\ it> port Iks a iiiasrnirii ent view is to be had." 
 
 from one side of the hotel may be seen Lake 
 Placid, and on the other Mirror Lake. There 
 is no hotel in the Adirondacks which com- 
 mands grander views. The four highest 
 mountains in the State stand in full view 
 from the porches of the hotel. The Stevens 
 House is finished throughout in hard wood 
 and handsomely furnished. Its ideal location 
 makes every room a front room, and, unlike 
 
 -. _. . many summerhotels,itsbed- 
 
 chambers are all large and 
 each has two windows. The 
 golf links at Lake Placid, 
 which are considered among 
 the best in this country, are 
 but a short distance from 
 the hotel. Messrs. J. A. 
 and G. A. Stevens are the 
 owners and managers, and 
 what Lake Placid is to the 
 Adirondacks, the Stevens 
 House is to Lake Placid. 
 
"No hotel in the entire Adirondack regrion enjoys neater popularity than the Ruisseaumont at Lake Placid. 
 It overlooks one of the most sublimely beautiful views in America." 
 
 Of all the Adirondack hotels none has a 
 more ideal location than the Ruisseaumont. 
 upon beautiful Lake Placid. It overlooks 
 both ilirror Lake 
 andLake Placid, and 
 offers from its piaz- 
 zas and w i n d o w s 
 some of the fairest 
 and most extensive 
 views. Its appoint- 
 ments are in every 
 
 ■ Lake PliiCid and Lake Mirror are known as the twin beauties 
 of the Adirondacks." 
 
 respect of the most modern order, and under 
 the management of ^Iv. T. Edmund Krumb- 
 holz is a favorite stopping-place with the 
 
 large number of 
 Adirondack visi- 
 tors who return 
 to the Ruisseau- 
 mont after a tour 
 through the 
 mountains with 
 the feeling that 
 no other hotel can 
 quite take its 
 place. There are 
 a number of 
 beautiful rustic 
 cottages near the 
 hotel which are 
 ideal for summer 
 lesidence. Al- 
 though luxurious 
 in its furnishings 
 and with every convenience for 
 the comfort and well being of its 
 guests, the Ruisseaumont re- 
 tains that homelike character so 
 often lacking at the great resort 
 hotels of the country. The Ruis- 
 seaumont is one of the first of 
 Adirondack hotels to open, and 
 its guests always tarry until late 
 in the fall. It has ample ac- 
 commodation for two hundred 
 guests. There are excellent golf 
 links maintained close at hand 
 for the use of the guests and a 
 large fleet of rov\-ing and motor 
 boats are ahvaj-s at their service. 
 
AUG 141901 
 
 Given an illimitable tangle of forest and 
 stream— woods alive with game both large 
 and small, and lakes and streams teeming 
 with fish ; a land whose wondrous natural 
 beauty is yet undefiled b)^ the commonplaces 
 of civilization, and yet is not remote from its 
 conveniences and comforts, and whose free, 
 fresh atmosphere is balmy and invigorating 
 and healthgiving — -what more could that 
 vast and yearly increasing brotherhood of 
 pleasure-seekers who delight i a out-door life 
 desire? 
 
 There is such a region near at hand in the 
 Canadian Province of Quebec — an undis- 
 turbed wilderness of rare beauty. It is in 
 this virgin region that Americans in con- 
 stantly increasing numbers are making their 
 summer homes, and pleasant experiences 
 lead to their return every recurring season 
 with augmented contingents of congenial 
 friends, for here exist those ideal conditions 
 which appeal to the camper, the sportsman, 
 the canoer ; and for those, be they men or 
 women, who 
 care not for 
 popular sea- 
 sides or fash- 
 ionablesprings. 
 it is a peaceful 
 haven w h i c h 
 grants a perfect 
 and restful holi- 
 day. 
 
 From M o n - 
 treal.that inter- 
 esting city on 
 the St. Law- 
 rence, the Cana- 
 dian Pacific 
 leads directly to 
 this great Sum- 
 mer Land, en- 
 abling the trav- 
 eller to almost 
 step from his 
 comfortable car 
 into the great green woods through which 
 flow incomparable watercourses to all points 
 of the compass. From Quebec City in the 
 east to Temagami in the famed Temis- 
 kaming country on the west, one can easily 
 find his way by these marvellous inland 
 waters, and the tours may be short or long 
 as inclination wills, or time at one's disposal 
 permits. 
 
 Immediately north of Montreal, and pene- 
 trated for eighty miles by the railway, are 
 the Laurentians, a charming region of hill 
 and valley and lake and stream, where lie 
 the greatest trout-fishing waters of America. 
 The northern terminus of the railway is at 
 Labelle, one hundred miles from Montreal, 
 the gateway to the Nomimingue lake region, 
 which surpasses all that has been seen before 
 in the size and beauty of its lakes, the abun- 
 dance of fish, and large game that swarm 
 the country. In this district are waters that 
 are yet uncounted, in some of which few 
 lines have ever been cast. To the dweller in 
 a busy city it is a new world, of which a 
 
 'Quebec is rich in exiiuisite lakes, ;uid au ideal coi 
 recreation or sport." 
 
 mere glimpse does not sufllice, and the im- 
 pulse comes to explore its wilds. Guides and 
 boats are procurable to exploit its solitudes, 
 and by driving to Rapide L' Original, canoe 
 can be taken down the Lievreto Buckingham 
 on the Ottawa River, from which Montreal 
 is reached by train. It is a magnificent out- 
 ing, occupying five days from Montreal, but 
 is so capable of exjjansion by diverting 
 routes, that a week or longer can be enjoy- 
 ably spent in making it. 
 
 Another interesting trip is that which in- 
 cludes the celebrated Mastigouche and St. 
 Maurice districts. The trains for Quebec 
 that leave the Place Viger — a magnificent 
 combined hotel and passenger station in 
 Montreal — carry the tourist down the banks 
 of the St. Lawrence to Joliette, where a 
 branch railway leads north to St. Gabriel de 
 Brandon. From here it is easy voyaging 
 through lakes and down rivers to the Mat- 
 tawin, by which the St. Maurice is reached. 
 A region is traversed where moose, caribou, 
 
 (leer, as well as 
 small and feath- 
 ered game, are 
 plentiful, and 
 opportunities 
 exist for well- 
 filled creels. 
 Part of the jour- 
 ney can be 
 made by steam- 
 er, w hich brings 
 one to Grand 
 Piles, and from 
 there a branch 
 railway con- 
 nects with the 
 line between 
 the cities of 
 Montreal and 
 Quebec. 
 
 These are 
 but a few of the 
 numerous ou t- 
 ings that could be outlined in this new Cana- 
 dian wonderland, but they are among the 
 easiest of access, with facilities for procuring 
 reliable guides when necessary, and supplies 
 of all kinds. To the more adventurous there 
 are many places that yet await a new Colum- 
 bus to discover them. 
 
 But whatever the visitor's choice of route 
 of travel, his tour would be incomplete with- 
 out spending a day or two in the quaint city 
 of Quebec, a queer old spot, which to sur- 
 prised American eyes looks as if it had been 
 transplanted from the Old World, and had 
 lost none of its antiquity or quaintness in the 
 transplanting. It is a city of fortresses and 
 famous battlefields, and many strange re- 
 minders of a by-gone age. In the midst of 
 this medicBvalism, in settings that are re- 
 mindful of Old France, is a modern hotel, 
 the Chateau Frontenac, whose site for gran- 
 deur and picturesqueness has no rival. 
 Of historic interest Quebec is full, and to visit 
 it is to enjoy a novel and delightful expe- 
 rience, which long lingers in memory. 
 
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 Frank Presbeey Co. 
 
 COMPLIMENTS OF THE 
 
 & HUDSON R. R., 
 CHAMPLAIN TRANSPORTATION, AND 
 
 LAKE GEORGE STEAMBOAT C0.8. 
 

 
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