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 CMAMPLAIN TRANSPORTATION, AND 
 
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"Go abroad upon the paths of Nature; 
 And when all its voices whisper, and its silent things 
 Are breathing the deep beauty o£ the world, 
 Kneel at its ample altar." 
 
 )) The Adirondacks may not have been the in- 
 v^ -^ spiration of these lines, but there is no spot 
 where the voices of Nature whisper in sweeter cadence, 
 or with more enticing or bewitching harmony of tone. 
 
 Silence and solitude appeal to most of us with a voice 
 that is almost human. In it we recognize the vast domain 
 of the world of matter, the sense of infinity lays hold of 
 us, and a responsive chord goes out from our inmost soul, 
 proclaiming in indisputable emotions our kinship with 
 Nature. It is a dull soul which does not awaken to the 
 glories of a magnificent sunset, or w^hich is not stirred 
 by the majesty of tow-ering mountains, the deep solitude 
 and stillness of the forest, or the dashing of the mighty 
 waves of the sea upon the beach. Nowhere is Nature's 
 " ample altar" more beautifully raised than in the great 
 
" He may pitrh his camp on the edge of 
 some crystal lake.'' 
 
 Stretches of the North Woods. It is there 
 that one maj^ pitch his camp on the edge 
 cf some crystal lake, amid ,^ 
 
 the stately monarchs of the 
 forest, and enjoy for 
 weeks at a time unbroken 
 communion with Nature, 
 undisturbed by the 
 noise and strident calls 
 of the work-a-day 
 world. He may lay 
 aside, as absolutely 
 as if he were in 
 another sphere, the 
 cares and worries 
 of busy commerce 
 and the perplexi- 
 ties and annoy- 
 ances of business. 
 The bustle of the 
 busy marts of trade 
 may be forgotten, and he 
 may grow strong and 
 hearty, replenishing his 
 wasting vitality with 
 Nature's choicest and surest remedies. 
 He may rest nights on a comfortable 
 and sweet-scented couch made of fra- 
 grant balsam boughs, and be lulled to 
 sleep by the wind humming its wordless 
 songs through the feathery branches of 
 the pines, to awaken full of renewed 
 vigor to enjoy the luxury of a plunge in 
 the cold water of the lake. He may 
 partake of enviable meals — a tender bit 
 of venison and a pan of brook trout, sup- 
 plemented by flapjacks and maple syrup 
 — all cooked a la Adirondack by one of 
 the guides, who has a "knack," which 
 when coupled with the surroundings 
 brings out an appetite of which only a 
 camper knows the length and breadth. 
 After the morning meal is over the work 
 or play of the day may begin. 
 , If the wind and sky are right 
 he may slip off with one of 
 the guides to a neigh- 
 boring pond, where ho 
 knows of a " sly 
 
 ' Where iiiouiiluiii stroaius babbliug How." 
 
 hole" in 
 which 
 the ever 
 wary brook trout may be 
 tempted to rise for the fly, 
 or he may troll in hope 
 of getting one of the big lake trout, 
 which are so plentiful, but which after 
 the ist of July are so illusive and sly. If 
 he prefers, he may take his shotgun and 
 pick up a few pheasants among the wood- 
 ed patches which skirt the edge of every 
 lake. If the camp has been properly 
 located, he may nap or read in hammocks 
 swung under the grand old monarchs 
 of the woods and on the very edge of the 
 clear, cool pond, whose surface, so closeh' 
 protected from the winds by its bounda- 
 ries of forest, will scarcely show more than 
 a ripple on its placid bosom for days at 
 a time. All these things, and many 
 more too, may he enjoy. For if he is 
 an ardent sportsman there is the excite- 
 ment of the chase, when the deep bay- 
 ing of the hounds echoes and re-echoes 
 against the mountain-sides — when it al- 
 most dies away as the noble buck rushes 
 down into the valley over the range, 
 only to spring into life and vigor 
 again as he breaks across the nearest 
 summit with the greedy pack in full 
 cry at his heels. Evening comes 
 early in these North Woods, as the 
 mountains form a wall for the sun to 
 hide behind as it sinks in the west, 
 
 * * * "dying like a cloven king 
 In his own blood ; the while the distant moon. 
 Like a fair prophetess, whom he has wronged, 
 Leans eager forward, with most liungry eyes. 
 Watching him bleed to death, and, as he faints, 
 She brightens and dilates ; revenge comp'ete. 
 She walks in lonely triumph throuo-h the 
 night." 
 
 It is then that the camp fire with its 
 huge logs piled high will blaze with 
 
genial warmth. And where is the man 
 or woman who, having once camped in 
 the great North Woods, can efface the 
 memories of those peaceful nights. As 
 Murray says : " The memory is so truly a 
 mirror that we may see as in a glass the 
 trees and shores of lovely lakes, the 
 wooded islands around which the waves 
 run caressingly, beaches of glistening 
 sand and ranges of lofty mountains." We 
 
 ing notes of the songs whose melody 
 drifted from the circle round the fire out 
 over the tranquil and shadowy bosom of 
 the lake. Sweet memories these, and 
 the soul which does not beat responsive to 
 their awakenings is dead indeed. 
 
 Picture in your mind a vast area whose 
 surface is broken by numberless and 
 mostly nameless mountains, clothed to 
 their well-molded summits with the 
 
 may also see the cabins of bark, and 
 tents made homelike, the camp-fires that 
 crackle and blaze and send their twisting 
 tongues of flames high up toward the 
 swaying branches which shut out from 
 view the starry firmament above. We 
 may see too the forms and faces of those 
 who have been our companions in forest 
 life and wanderings. We hear again in 
 mellowed tones the happy sounds of mer- 
 riment and frolic, and listen to the echo- 
 
 the forms nml lai'cs .>t tl wh.i have been our ouiriiiaiu.^ii^ 
 
 in forest life and wanderinfrs." 
 
 towering and stately pine and spruce. 
 Imagine among these noble hills coimt- 
 less lakes of water so translucent as to be 
 almost cr3^stal, and into which the eye 
 may penetrate to almost any depth ; and 
 on whose surface are reflected, as in a 
 mirror, the darkened, graceful shadows of 
 the mountain slopes. Imagine an atmos- 
 phere fragrant with the invigorating odor 
 of the health-giving balsam, and so light 
 and pure that the lungs seem suddenly 
 
to have increased to double their power, 
 while one's vitality has taken on a re- 
 newed and strengthened life. Surround 
 all of this with a framework of romance 
 and the gentle grace of nature, and you 
 have the Adirondacks. 
 
 Any one who imagines that America is 
 lacking in that element of picturesque- 
 ness which attracts tens of thousands of 
 
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 is an atmosphere about their grassy 
 streets which reminds one of Goldsmith's 
 " Sweet Auburn;" and their architecture, 
 if not strikingly original, is of that rough 
 simplicit)' so pleasing to the eye, and only 
 the man who has travelled so much as to 
 be possessed of the spirit of e/una' can re- 
 sist the dreamy beauties of these little 
 hamlets on the hillsides. 
 
 It is scarcely more than 
 a generation ago that the 
 Adirondacks were known 
 only by name, and their 
 mountains, their lakes, and 
 beautiful valleys were 
 familiar but to the In- 
 dians, the trappers, and 
 the few more hardy sports- 
 m e n who occasionally 
 penetrated their depths. 
 In these days, however, 
 ill their attractive por- 
 tions have been brought 
 within easy access by the 
 luxurious trains of the 
 I )elaware and Hudson 
 Railroad and its connec- 
 t i o n s, the Adirondack 
 Railroad, the Chateau- 
 Railroad, 
 
 gay 
 
 and the 
 
 Americans to Europe 
 every summer, can 
 never have penetrated 
 this beautiful Adiron- 
 dack region. Here are 
 combined all the charm- 
 ing scenic effects of 
 Switzerland — a little less 
 severe, perhaps, but all 
 the more restful to the 
 eye ; here are found all 
 the attractions of the 
 lake region of Italy, for 
 Como and Maggiore are 
 no more lovely than 
 Placid and Mirror. 
 There is, to be sure, no 
 Jungfrau or Matterhorn 
 in the North Woods of 
 the Empire State, but 
 there is noble old White 
 Face and Marcy, which, amid their sur- 
 roundings, are as beautiful. There may 
 be, perhaps, an eletnent of novelty lack- 
 ing in the Adirondack villages — such 
 as pervades the hillside villages of Swit- 
 zerland — they may be commonplace, but 
 they are American, and add their quota 
 of picturesqueness to the scene. There 
 
 Wheu the guides and hunters retiii ii to tainp to vouut 
 the trophies of the chase." 
 
 Champlain Transportation Co. steamers. 
 This great region, which is now to the East 
 what the Yellowstone and Yosemite are 
 to the West, is bounded by Lake George 
 and Lake Champlain on the east, the St. 
 Lawrence on the northwest, extending 
 on the north to Canada, and on the south 
 nearly to the Mohawk River. The moun- 
 
tains rise 
 from an 
 elevated 
 plat eau 
 of 15,000 
 square 
 miles, in 
 
 " Where one may choose 
 'twixt lake and stream." 
 
 itself nearly 
 2,000 feet 
 above the 
 level of the sea. There are to be seen 
 five distinct and well-defined parallel 
 ranges running from southwest to north- 
 east, and terminating on the eastern side 
 in the rugged promontories which mark 
 the western shore of Lake Champlain. 
 The western range, called sometimes the 
 Adirondacks and sometimes the Clinton, 
 begins at the pass of Little Falls upon the 
 Mohawk River, and stretches across the 
 wilderness to the bold Trempleau 
 Point at Port Kent on Lake Cham- 
 plain. 
 
 Mount Marcy, called by the In- 
 dians Tahawus, meaning " sky 
 piercer," and the loftiest summit of 
 the Adirondack region, is 5,337 
 feet high, while ]\Iounts Seward, 
 Mclntyre, and White Face, neigh- 
 boring summits of Marcy, all ex- 
 ceed 5,000 feet. Recent surveys 
 tell t:s that there are in the entire 
 
 region over 500 distinct mountains, many 
 >f them as yet unnamed upon the maps of 
 the region, but all massive and majestic 
 in their proportions, and as a whole pre- 
 senting one of the most magnificent scenic 
 panoramas to be found in the world. 
 The Adirondack wilderness may be di- 
 vided into three 
 general divisions 
 or systems, which 
 taken collectively 
 entertain the 
 ' great bulk of visit- 
 ' ors, and are rep- 
 resentatives of the 
 whole, namely, the 
 Saranac and St. 
 Regis waters of 
 Franklin county, 
 whose natural 
 gateway is Platts- 
 burg and Port 
 Kent on Lake 
 Champlain; the 
 mountain region 
 Keene, North Elba, and 
 Lake Placid, in Essex County, 
 with entrance at Westport on 
 Lake Champlain ; and the 
 Loon, Schroon, Blue Mountain, 
 and Raquette Lakes country, 
 with entrance from Saratoga 
 over the Adirondack Railroad. 
 Of these sections, the first men- 
 tioned has become the more widely 
 celebrated as a region where fash- 
 ion and fishing are admirablj^ blended, 
 and has its patrons who are looked for as 
 regularly as the seasons. The second is 
 perhaps a little less known, but its 
 grand old mountains and winsome valleys 
 have become world-renowned through 
 the productions of great painters. The 
 .Schroon Lake region is not so wild but ex- 
 ceedingly popular. While possessing 
 something of the characteristics of the 
 others, each section has its own individ- 
 ual attraction, and while connected by 
 natural highways and waterways over 
 which the nomad often goes, they still. 
 
 L-r Die iruMil.-nts ul' ll 
 back to camp. 
 
to a considerable extent, retain their 
 individuality, and each is complete and 
 sufficient unto itself. Keene Valley is a 
 favored resort 
 with artists and > — 
 
 ideal attractions of the Adirondack moun- 
 tains as a winter health and pleasure re- 
 sort have come into prominence, although 
 with summer visit- 
 
 Jias 
 and 
 
 the 
 the 
 
 lo 
 of 
 t 
 
 Raquette Lake 
 most elaborate, 
 Upper Saranac the great- 
 est number of, private 
 camps occupied during the season. At 
 intervals throughout the entire wilder- 
 ness, all waiting with doors open to re- 
 ceive strangers, are places of entertain- 
 ment, from the well-appointed hotel on 
 the border to the rude log-house and open 
 camp of the interior, the consideration 
 being from S5 per week up to $3 to $5 
 per day. Freedom from rough and vi- 
 cious characters is a peculiarity of the 
 Adirondack region. Evil finds nothing- 
 congenial under its bright skies and in 
 its pure, bracing atmosphere. Customs 
 that obtain at other resorts are not held 
 binding here. The fact of actual presence 
 is accepted as a guaranty of the possession 
 of those mutual sympathies and quali- 
 fications which, here at least, make the 
 whole world kin, and make it possible 
 for gentlemen to wear outing shirts and 
 old hats, and ladies to travel without male 
 escort from one end of the wilderness to 
 the other. It is no uncommon thing for 
 parties of ladies to make the tour of the 
 woods accompanied only by the neces- 
 sary complement of guides to furnish 
 motive power, spending day after day in 
 their boat and at night reaching one step 
 farther in the extended system of hotels. 
 It is but quite recently that the many 
 
 ors the 
 
 po p u- 
 
 larity 
 
 of this winsome region is 
 
 widespread and supreme. 
 
 The great thoroughfare 
 over which the travel into 
 the Adirondacks goes is the Delaware 
 and Hiidson Railroad. Albany, N. Y. , is 
 its central point, and in this city are 
 located its general offices. From here 
 it stretches through a beautiful region 
 southwest to Binghamton, N. Y. , and 
 Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and north through 
 Saratoga and up past Lakes George and 
 Champlain to the northern limits of the 
 United vStates, its through trains running 
 to Montreal. At Saratoga it connects 
 with the Adirondack Railroad, which 
 reacnes a large portion of the North 
 Woods, and at Plattsburg with the Cha- 
 teaugay Railroad for many principal 
 points in the Adirondacks. At Westport 
 it connects 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 beautiful 
 steamers of the Champlain Transporta- 
 tion Company and the Lake George 
 Steamboat Company, the tickets of the 
 rail and boat lines being interchangeable. 
 The city of Albany, as has been said, 
 is the central point in this great system, 
 and is not only one of the oldest cities of 
 America in point of settlement but one of 
 the most attractive. 
 
The Hotel Kenmore, at Albany, of 
 which Mr. H. J. Rockwell is proprietor 
 and Mr. F. W. Rockwell manasjer. is a 
 
 uiTOJilr^lit 
 
 is«Jgil'**3 
 
 of these 
 f o u n d 
 atStan- 
 
 " The Kenmore is beautifully locatf d in the 1 1 nti t of AJbajiy's business 
 district, and ii veiy popular." 
 
 thoroughly modern house in all that that 
 word implies. It is beautifully located in 
 the very centie of Albany on the princi- 
 pal retail thoroughfare, and convenient 
 to the State Capitol and the new depot. 
 The Kenmore's wide popularity is due 
 in no small degree to its liberal manage- 
 ment, which has expended large sums of 
 money in equipping the hotise with all 
 appliances and luxuries which add to the 
 comfort or convenience of guests. This 
 house is one of the most thoroughly pro- 
 tected against fire in the State of New 
 York, and is the rendezvous for the politi- 
 cal as well as the fashionable and com- 
 mercial travelling public. 
 
 The table at the Kenmore is not only 
 abundantly but almost prodigally sup- 
 plied with all the substantials and 
 delicacies of the season, and all of its 
 rooms, both for public and pri- 
 vate use, are furnished in keep- 
 ing with the high standard of the 
 house. Those who appreciate 
 the comforts of a good hotel 
 will find them exemplified in the 
 Kenmore. 
 
 Stanwix Hall, of Albany, of 
 which Mr. C. Quackenbush is pro- 
 prietor, is known the length and 
 breadth of the country. It is 
 one of the most comfortably 
 equipped hotels in the State, and 
 is conducted on both the Ameri- 
 can and European plans. It 
 is the desire of the manage- 
 
 ment in all matters to satisfy the most 
 exacting taste, and during the past two 
 years the house has been thoroughly reno- 
 vated and very many im- 
 provements have been 
 made in order to more 
 fully carry out this de- 
 sire. New plumbing has 
 been put in throughout 
 the entire house, and 
 an extensive and costly 
 system of filtering the 
 entire water-supply of 
 the house has been intro- 
 duced. Stanwix Hall is 
 the nearest of any of the 
 first-class hotels to the 
 depots and steamboat 
 landings, and enjoys 
 a very large patronage. 
 The table at Stan- 
 wix Hall is maintained 
 at the highest point of 
 excellence, and special 
 attention is paid to this 
 feature of the house. 
 There is so much of interest to see in 
 the capital of the Empire State that few 
 people pass through without spending at 
 least a short time in visiting those points 
 of interest. Tourists going from New 
 York, the West, or from any of the 
 New England points to the Adirondacks 
 pass through Albany, and a large number 
 
 will be 
 registered 
 
 ■ Stanw ix Hall at .\lbauy is one ot the i 
 
 taL)l> equipped hotels.' 
 
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 That portion 
 of the D. & H. 
 which, leaving 
 Albany, runs 
 southwest t o 
 Bingh am t o n, 
 branching a t 
 Nineveh and 
 continuing to 
 Wilkes- Barre, 
 through Car- 
 bondale, passes 
 through one of 
 the most d e- 
 lightfully pic- 
 turesque r e - 
 gions in the 
 eastern coun- 
 try. There are 
 attractive vil- 
 lages in which 
 are exemplified 
 the better 
 phases of our 
 American rural 
 life, and there 
 are many spots 
 where Nature seems 
 to have made a spe- 
 cial effort to cluster at- 
 tractive bits of scener}'. 
 Wilkes-Barre. the south- 
 western terminus of this 
 division, is the commercial centre of 
 the great anthracite coal region of 
 the Wyoming Valley. This town 
 bears the joint name of two dis- 
 tinguished Englishmen, John Wilkes and William 
 
 who prior to the war of the Revolution 
 defended in Parliament the rights of the 
 American colonists. Nearly a half hun- 
 dred extensive coal-mines are located in 
 the immediate neighborhood of Wilkes- 
 Barre, and the amount of coal tonnage 
 of the city runs into figures which are 
 very impressive in mag- 
 "] nitude. Upon this line 
 of the Delaware and 
 Hudson Railroad is also 
 u ^ I located the cities of 
 
 I'ittston and Scranton, 
 I lie former being at the 
 junction of the Susque- 
 lianna and Lackawanna 
 rivers, and, like Wilkes- 
 r.arre, devoted to coal 
 interests. 
 
 Scranton 
 has enjoyed 
 the distinc- 
 tion of hav- 
 i n g been 
 called at va- 
 rious peri- 
 ods by more 
 names than 
 any other 
 town in 
 the United 
 States. But 
 ,: n o t w i t h - 
 . „ \j.,, standing, it 
 """"" has had 
 
 many years of pros- 
 p e r o u s existence 
 and is widely and 
 justlycelebrated be- 
 cause of its enor- 
 mous iron - works, 
 rolling mills, blast 
 furnaces, and mines 
 and manufacturing 
 interests. 
 
 Barii 
 
At 
 Carbon- 
 dale are 
 located the 
 very exten- 
 . '; sive car and ma- 
 
 chine shops of the D. & H. 
 It is also the terminus of the Gravity Rail- 
 road, which belongs to the same S3'stem. 
 In describing this unique railroad the 
 author of " Wonders and Curiosities of 
 the Railway" says : " It lies among the 
 picturesque Moosic Mountains, two thou- 
 sand feet above the sea. The railroad 
 fills up a gap seventeen miles long sepa- 
 rating the mines from the mountain ter- 
 minus of the canal. The hilly nature of 
 the region determined the character ot 
 the railway. It consists of twenty in- 
 clined planes from one to four miles in 
 length. From the summit to CarbondaK- 
 there is an uninterrupted descent, down 
 which the cars rush at a speed of sixty 
 miles an hour. An enormous fan at the 
 Summit's engine-house regulates the rate 
 of descent by atmospheric pressure. In 
 1877 the first passenger cars were put on 
 the road, to the great enjoyment of visi- 
 tors and citizens. The ride is one of the 
 most peculiar and exhilarating in the 
 world. You are reminded of the magical 
 car of the subterranean Egyptian temple 
 described by Tom Moore in his 'Epicu- 
 rean.' Here \'ou are travelling for miles 
 up hill and down, through beautiful scen- 
 
 ery, and no visible agency to propel you. 
 East and south the landscape stretches 
 away for sixty miles; at the Shepherd's 
 Crook you whirl around the summit of a 
 gorge four hundred feet in depth, with a 
 series of cataracts leaping down three 
 hundred feet among the hemlocks, and 
 the valley of the Lackawanna, spotted 
 with towns and farms, stretching out far 
 and wide in the distance. There is no 
 dust, no smoke, no cinders, no whistle, 
 no intrusive official; you only feel that 
 some gigantic piece of clockwork is 
 drawing you smoothly onward, and you 
 lie back in your seat in tranquil enjoy- 
 ment, and yield yourself to the novel il- 
 lusion of magical power." A large 
 amount of money is being spent in im- 
 proving a natural park at Fairview, the 
 lii--l]c'Sl point on tlie line. 
 
 itv KailioaU is an iuspiratiyn." 
 
About ten miles to the east of Bing- 
 hamton, at Sanitaria Springs, N. Y., on 
 the D. & H., is located the new Sanitarium 
 and Hydrotherapium, one of the largest, 
 best-equipped, and complete institutions 
 of its class in the United States, if not in 
 the world. Dr. S. Andral Kilmer, M.D., 
 who is so extensively known as a suc- 
 
 vice. Taking the Sanitarium as a whole, 
 it is a model. The peculiar health-giving 
 qualities of its waters, added to its de- 
 lightful location among the Blue Hill 
 Tunnel Ranges, 2,300 feet above the sea, 
 the very competent medical attendants, 
 reinforced by the wealth of Dr. Kilmer, 
 who has spared no amount of money, have 
 
 
 rile new Sanitarium and Hydrotherapiuin at Sanitaria Sj.i 
 of its kind in America." 
 
 f tlie largest institutions 
 
 cessful physician in the treatment of 
 chronic diseases, has expended enormous 
 sums of money in the development of 
 this enterprise, and the buildings are 
 thoroughly equipped with the best sys- 
 tems of sanitation and ventilation. The 
 location of the Sanitarium is peculiarly 
 beautiful, the various structures being 
 scattered about the hillside, and each, 
 having been recently erected, is pos- 
 sessed of attractive architectural appear- 
 ance. There are at the Sanitarium 
 several mineral springs, one of which 
 is sulpho-phosphate, the only spring of 
 its kind in the world. Its medicinal prop- 
 erties are producing marvellous and bene- 
 ficial results ; and many obstinate cases 
 of diseases, which have failed to respond 
 to treatment in any other locality, have 
 been treated here, where a corps of most 
 efficient physicians are in daily contact 
 with the patients. The buildings include 
 everything which can be devised for the 
 comfort and health of the guests and 
 patients. They are equipped with elec- 
 tric lights, elevators, steam heat, and 
 electric bells. All kinds of baths, sul- 
 phur, Turkish, Russian, pine needle, 
 hemlock, balsam, electric, and Dr. Kil- 
 mer's new herbal and magnetic baths 
 are administered under competent ad- 
 
 made it known the length and breadth 
 of the land. 
 
 The Sanitaria and Hydrotherapium do 
 not depend in their treatment solely on 
 the uses, internally and externally, of 
 waters, but comprehend a careful regu- 
 lation of daily diet, prescribed recreation, 
 rest, and whatever can be safely done by 
 hygiene and medicine; nor does it limit 
 itself to any one school of practice, but 
 employs all known remedial agents, 
 preferring Nature's remedies. It is con- 
 ducted in winter and summer as a dis- 
 tinctively health hydrotJio-apiuni, alike 
 homeful to all, whether the invalid wife 
 or daughter of the millionaire or artisan. 
 
 On this division of the D. & H., and 
 about 40 miles from Albany, is the won- 
 derful Howe's Cave, the greatest in the 
 world after the Mammoth Cave of Ken- 
 tucky. It is full of weird attractions, 
 and it is possible to travel over several 
 miles of paths within it and not exhaust 
 all its attractions. 
 
 Cooperstown, on Otsego Lake ; Sharon 
 Springs, the Baden-Baden of America; 
 Unadilla, and many other charming re- 
 sorts are on the line of the D. & H. 
 between Albany and Binghamton. Full 
 information may be had of the Passenger 
 Department of the D. & H. at Albany. 
 
The scenery of the valley of the Upper 
 Hudson between Troy and Saratoga is 
 bordered easterly by the distant range 
 of the Green Mountains and a wide fore- 
 ground of undulating hills. Westerly a 
 continuity of high land limits the view 
 
 of the open country be- 
 The landscape along the 
 dispreads itself through 
 meadows, arable fields, 
 short stretches 
 of woodland. 
 As far as Me- 
 chanicville, the 
 Rensselaer and 
 Saratoga Rail- 
 
 y o n d . 
 
 Hudson 
 
 brooky 
 
 and 
 
 Round Lake, three miles in circumfer- 
 ence, is picturesquely environed by 
 gently sloping hills, woody knolls, and 
 grassy meadows. Long Lake, four miles 
 westward, disembogues by an outlet into 
 Round Lake, which discharges its water 
 through Anthony's Kill into the Hudson, 
 seven miles eastward. 
 
 The grounds of the Round Lake Asso- 
 ciation, about two hundred acres of land, 
 lying west of the lake, are in 
 , the town of 
 
 road runs between 
 the Cham plain 
 Canal and the 
 Hudson. North of the village, the road, 
 b}' a reverse curve like the letter S, 
 bends westwardly around the south side 
 of Round Lake, and passing the station 
 extends northwesterly to Ballston Spa. 
 
 • Malta, in 
 \ Saratoga 
 \ County, New 
 ) York, n i n e- 
 r t e e n miles 
 ^ from T r o 3^ 
 seven from 
 Mechanicville, 
 six from Balls- 
 ton Spa, and 
 thirteen from Sara- 
 toga Springs on the 
 Delaware and Hud- 
 son Railroad The highway on 
 iooiation the east side of the grounds runs 
 through Maltaville, a mile north- 
 east of them, and through Jonesville. 
 three miles southwestward. 
 
 The sun-fiecked depths of the cottage- 
 clustered wood are entered by broad 
 avenues diverging from the gateways at 
 
'Where tlie Hudson dispieail 
 
 itself tluoutrh brooky 
 
 meadows." 
 
 the passenger station on the east side of 
 the railroad. Narrow lawns brightly 
 bedded with flowers border these ap- 
 proaches and the paths extending from 
 them. Beyond the prettily-built sum- 
 mer homes along the west side of the 
 majestic grove appear others of varied 
 architecture, embowered by the branches 
 of the tall trees surrounding them. 
 In the central part of this sylvan 
 retreat is a large pavilion with 
 thousands of sittings for the people 
 attending the religious meetings, 
 summer schools, Sunday-school 
 assemblies, lectures, oratorios, ex- 
 hibitions, and concerts held there 
 in the summer. Conspicuously 
 fronting the north lawn is the ad- 
 mirably arranged and finely fur- 
 nished Hotel Wentworth. Farther 
 northward, in a leafy recess of 
 great oaksand fragrantevergreens, 
 is the handsomely built Griffin In- 
 stitute, which, in all its elaborate 
 features, fitly expresses the nn- 
 stinted generosity of the highly 
 esteemed president of the Round Lake 
 Association. East of the wood, on 
 a rise of ground commanding a wide 
 prospect of the suiTounding country and 
 an extended view of the lake, is 
 '^'^ x~ ,, the George 
 
 seum of Art and Archaeology, a 
 finely proportioned structure, given 
 the association by its generous treas- 
 urer. Garnsey Hall, on Whitfield 
 Avenue, and Kennedy Hall, on Peck 
 Avenue, are also attractive edifices, 
 gifts of the two benevolent women 
 whose names the well-planned build- 
 ings bear. Alumni Hall, on Whitfield 
 Avenue, is also a noticeable structure. 
 A thorough system of sewerage is 
 one of the argtiments for the healthful- 
 ness of Round Lake Grounds. Added 
 to this are the sparkling springs and 
 rills which come from the sandhills 
 on the west, furnishing the finest of 
 cool pure water. All three augur well 
 for the growing popularity of the place 
 as a quiet, safe, moral, and intellectual 
 resort. There are now planted here on 
 a permanent basis the Round Lake Acad- 
 emy, a yearly institute ; Round Lake Sum- 
 mer Musical Festival ; Round Lake Min- 
 isters' Institute; Sunday-School Assem- 
 bly; and Conference Camp-Meeting. 
 Last, but not least, was the planting here 
 
 ■ Every foot of the shore of Round Lake is attractive." 
 
 'And the buildings ha \.' Ir.r,, ivrll ;il.,i I |..i il -■- ' 
 
 of the Eastern New York Summer School 
 for Teachers, under a corps of efficient 
 directors, at the head of which is Prof. 
 A. Falconer, of Waterford, N. Y. 
 
 There are at Round Lake some four 
 hundred attractive and comfortable cot- 
 tages and houses, and several pleasant 
 hotels and boarding-houses, besides the 
 above-mentioned Hotel Wentworth, and 
 many people spend the entire summer 
 season there, as at Round Lake there are 
 found so many diversified pleasures. 
 
 Those desiring fuller or more complete 
 information regarding the attractions of 
 Round Lake and its work will receive 
 it, and also a free journal, by addressing 
 the Superintendent's Office, at Round 
 Lake, Saratoga Co., New York. 
 
Amid all the rivalry of the innumera- 
 ble places clamoring for popularity as 
 summer resorts, regardless of the ever- 
 changing fickleness of the public which 
 has by turns stamped its seal of approval, 
 now on one place and again on the other, 
 fair Saratoga has reigned supreme as 
 Queen of America's summer resorts. 
 
 All the 
 others 
 have 
 been 
 and 
 
 world. 
 
 must con- 
 tinue to be 
 compared to 
 her, and be con- 
 tent with the 
 second place. 
 She has fairly 
 won and de- 
 
 •■ None ot the .springs at Saratoga i.s mor 
 known than the Vichy." 
 
 servedly holds the title of the most popu- 
 lar and representative resort. For about 
 Saratoga are clustered historical memo- 
 ries leading up to the establishment of 
 American independence, as enduring as 
 time, and these have been supplemented 
 in more recent years by associations 
 which have marked it as a summer capi- 
 tal where one is sure to find in 
 the fullest degree a representa- 
 tion of the leading circles of 
 wealth and refinement. To- 
 day Saratoga is one of the most 
 delightful little cities on the 
 American continent, with a pop- 
 ulation all its own of alDOUt 
 12,000 and a summer population 
 of 60,000 or more. It is located 
 in the midst of the beautiful 
 upper Hudson country, and in 
 every direction run well-graded 
 boulevards. The springs are 
 among the natural curiosities 
 of the world, and there are 
 as many as twenty -eight within 
 the limits of the city of Sara- 
 toga, all easily accessible from the hotels 
 and residential districts. 
 
 Of all the springs which have made 
 Saratoga famous, none has a wider or 
 greater reputation than the Saratoga 
 Vichy, which is a veritable geyser, the 
 pressure of the natural carbonic acid gas 
 being so strong that it forces the highly 
 
 charged mineral water out and throws it 
 several feet into the air. The water 
 from this celebrated spring is not saline 
 but alkaline, and it is, therefore, exceed- 
 ingly beneficial. The large quantity of 
 bicarbonate of soda contained in it makes 
 it of very great value in counteracting 
 the acidity of the stomach and the blood. 
 Its power of strengthening the digestive 
 function and in eliminating the stubborn 
 and dangerous diseases of the depurative 
 organs is very great. Its value as a 
 therapeutic agent is very well known, 
 and it is sold throughout the civilized 
 The appliances for bottling the 
 water at the spring, just as it 
 flows from the rock, are such as 
 to preserve all of its natural car- 
 bonic acid gas, which gives it the 
 same sparkling effervescence and 
 delicious taste, even after it has 
 been bottled for long periods. 
 The Saratoga Vichy is a delicious 
 beverage, refreshing and slightly 
 stimulating, and its popularit}- is 
 exceedingl}^ great, not only as 
 a pleasant table water, but a 
 valuable remedy. 
 American House at Saratoga is 
 situated on Broadway, the main boule- 
 vard of the city, between the Grand 
 Union and United States hotels, and its 
 wide piazzas command opportunities for 
 viewing the life and gayety of this cele- 
 brated resort. It is within two minutes' 
 walk of the principal springs and Con- 
 
 «j,U-ly 
 
 The 
 
 The Anieiican at Saratoga is a thoioughiy wuU-ai.pumlud houst-.' 
 
 gress Springs Park. The American is a 
 thoroughly well-appointed house, excel- 
 lently managed, and offers to visitors 
 every attraction and comfort that can 
 be found anywhere. The present season 
 is its fifteenth, and throughout its entire 
 existence it has maintained its present 
 great popularity. 
 
•■ The United States Hotel at Saratoga Springs whicli is so far 
 
 The United States Hotel at Saratoga 
 Springs is so far-famed and so thoroughly 
 popular that it hardly seems pos- 
 sible to say anything new regard- 
 ing it. It is one of the institu- 
 tions of America. Within its 
 walls gather each year thousands 
 of the representatives of the 
 world of fashion, wealth, and 
 refinement. It is in itself a great 
 social capital, and is on a scale 
 so grand that its very magnitude 
 is impressive. Within a court 
 formed by three sides of the hotel 
 is one of the loveliest private 
 gardens in America, filled with 
 beautiful fountains, the rarest of 
 shrubs, and no more brilliant 
 scene is to be found anywhere 
 that is here presented each even- 
 ing, when the park and the sur- 
 rounding piazzas are thronged 
 with the gay concourse of guests. "Fairy iike gai 
 The finest music is rendered morning, 
 afternoon, and evening on the broad por- 
 
 ches, and even a 
 glimpse of the bril- 
 liant scenes for 
 which the United 
 States Hotel is 
 famous will long 
 linger in the mind. 
 Its very immen- 
 sity is a charm in 
 itself, for there is 
 in the great cor- 
 ridors, parlors, and 
 dining rooms a 
 sense of freedom 
 from all restraint. 
 It is like roaming 
 about a great baro- 
 nial palace, your- 
 self a prince, with 
 
 famed and popular." vistaS thrOUgh the 
 
 hallways and from the windows on the 
 one side of fairy-like gardens, with glis- 
 
 dens, with glisteunig fountains, and air fragrant with tlie verdure.' 
 
 tening fountains, and the air fragrant with 
 the verdure, and on the other, the gay 
 boulevards of the city of Saratoga, alive 
 with the handsome equipages and trap- 
 pings of fashion and wealth. The cuisine 
 of the United States is to the uninitiated a 
 marvel, and to those accustomed to all the 
 good things of life a joy and satisfaction. 
 
 The markets of New York are drawn 
 upon heavily each day for all the luxu- 
 ries and delicacies of the season, and the 
 fertile country about Saratoga for vege- 
 tables and the dairy products for which 
 this region is famous. 
 
 This hotel is one of the most perfecth' 
 appointed and beautiful in the world, and 
 the visitor who spends a day, a month, or a 
 season within its hospitable portals will 
 ever recur with pleasure to the experience. 
 
 Its spacious parlors with handsome furnishings 
 
There is no one summer resort in 
 America where the names of the promi- 
 nent hotels are more indissohtblv associ- 
 
 sun has left it in grateful shade, or the 
 reflected evening lights from the hotel 
 have added their brilliancv to the scene. 
 
 " CoiiKiess Hall is one of tlie pieat hostelries at Saratoga Springs, w liose 
 name and fame are world-wide." 
 
 ated with that of the town than in the 
 case of Saratoga, for, take it where you 
 will, whoever knows of Saratoga knows 
 of its great hostelries. Congress Hall, 
 one of the most famous and popular of 
 the large number located at Saratoga 
 Springs, was built shortly after the war, 
 and occupies almost the entire square 
 bounded by Broadway, East Congress, 
 Spring, and Putnam streets. Its location 
 is in the very heart of the fashionable 
 part of Saratoga, and its great piazzas 
 along the Broadway front are 250 feet 
 in length, 20 feet wide, and at any hour 
 of the day are gay with the wealth and 
 fashion which gives Saratoga its promi- 
 nence over any other resort in the United 
 States. From the Broadway frontage 
 there are two wings, 300 feet long, ex- 
 tending to Putnam Street, and between 
 them a beautiful garden plot, CMed with 
 beautiful flowers and shrubbery and 
 shade-trees. Wide porches surround 
 this lovely park, and every morning and 
 afternoon one of the largest bands, lo- 
 cated in a central position, renders 
 selections of the best class of music. 
 Few more delightful spots could be 
 found in which to pass an hour than in 
 this beautiful park when the afternoon 
 
 There are, of course, to be found in Con- 
 gress Hall all of the elegant and modern 
 appointments which even the most ex- 
 acting may require. Its beautiful 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 accom- 
 modate. The most careful attention has 
 been paid to the furnishing of the house, 
 and its bedchambers and public rooms 
 are models of comfort and luxurv. 
 
 Tile Floral Festival at Saratoga is its most attractive fete." 
 
Worden's Hotel at Saratoga Springs is 
 an all-the-year-round house, and is one 
 of those comfortable, delightful places 
 
 "The VVordeu ac hariitoga SiJi-iuKf is uu all-the-\ear-rouii(i 
 house." 
 
 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 winter 
 season, and Worden's Hotel not only has 
 a full complement of summer guests, but, 
 after the great summer 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. Mr. W. W. Worden, 
 the proprietor, is thoroughly alert to all 
 that is modern in hotel-keeping, and this 
 accounts in a large measure for the popu- 
 larity of his house. 
 
 The Schroon Lake region and that be- 
 yond is the most accessible of any, and 
 is as well one of the most beautiful in 
 the North Woods. Schroon Lake is itself 
 the largest lake in the Adirondacks, and 
 is long, narrow, and crooked. It is en- 
 tirely surrounded by graceful and lofty 
 mountain peaks, which give it a wild and 
 most impressive environment. Because 
 it is so easily reached by rail and 
 stage, many people of wealth and 
 taste have fringed its picturesque 
 shores with summer houses; and 
 these people, as well as many 
 others who are not so fortunate 
 as to possess their own cottages 
 or camps, come season after * 
 season to find that time does not 
 wither nor custom stale the charm 
 of its blue waters, the spicy, in- 
 vigorating fragrance of its air, or 
 its delicious restfulness. 
 
 The attractions of Schroon 
 Lake from the fisherman's point 
 of view are tempting. It has 
 been well stocked witn gamey 
 lake trout, and many beautiful specimens 
 of this delicious fish are caught each 
 season. Black bass and pickerel are also 
 
 found plentifully, while the near-by 
 ponds and streams and lesser lakes are 
 filled with brook trout. 
 
 Schroon Lake and its surrounding- 
 region is reached by the Adirondack R. R. , 
 which, starting from the same station at 
 which the Delaware and Hudson Railroad 
 leaves its passengers in Saratoga, pursues 
 a course a little west of north for sixty 
 miles, to North Creek. Tourists going 
 to Schroon Lake are met at Riverside 
 Station and conveyed by comfortable 
 stages, over winding roads through magni- 
 ficent pine groves, to Pottersville, seven 
 miles away, at which place they embark 
 on the steamer, which proceeds up the 
 lake, touching at intermediate points, to 
 Schroon Lake Village, situated at the 
 northern extremity of the lake. It is 
 here that most of the hotels are located. 
 
 The village faces directly south, and 
 is protected on the north by high moun- 
 tains. This situation gives it an un- 
 commonly moderate temperature for 
 such a latitude, and makes it a delight- 
 ful place in which to tarry after the 
 season has closed at other less favorably 
 located spots in the mountains. 
 
 There are many beautiful drives in the 
 Schroon Lake region, the favorite routes 
 being to Paradox Lake, where excellent 
 trout dinners are served, and to Pyramid 
 Lake and Brant's Lake. Among other 
 points worthy a visit is the old staging 
 house, nine miles north of Schroon Lake, 
 one of the first houses built in the moun- 
 tains, and situated on the old post road 
 from Albany to Montreal. From River- 
 side, where tourists leave the railway, 
 a stage also runs to Chestertown, a dis- 
 tance of six miles. Schroon, Brant, 
 Friend, and Loon Lakes are all within 
 
 "Sehroon Lake is the largest of (ill those in the Adirondnclc reKion." 
 
 a radius of five miles of Chestertown. 
 and are accessible by good roads through 
 an interesting region. 
 
'• The Club at Brant Lake is one of the attractive features of thi; 
 beautiful spot." 
 
 One of the most delightful spots on the 
 Adirondack Railroad, and located in the 
 very heart of the Adirondack Mountains, 
 is Brant Lake. It is reached by a stage 
 from the Riverside station. The lake is 
 six miles long, and located upon it is the 
 Brant Lake Club, of which Mr. D. G. 
 Yuengling, Jr., of New York, is president, 
 and Mr. John J. Lenehan secretary. It is 
 equipped with every convenience and is 
 within easy driving distance of Lake 
 George, Schroon Lake, Friends' Lake, 
 and all the other delightful and charming 
 resorts of this region. The scenery 
 all about is unsurpassed in beauty, grand- 
 eur and variety, and the roads, along which 
 charming drives may be had, are perfect. 
 Black bass and pickerel abound in the 
 lake, which has been thoroughly stocked, 
 and there is excellent trout fishing in the 
 moiantain streams near by. The post- 
 office address of the club is Horicon, 
 Warren County, New York. 
 
 From its source in the uttermost re- 
 cesses of nature's own domain, the mag- 
 nificent Hudson bounds into life through 
 a thousand crystal springs, and by tortu- 
 ous courses crosses Warren County, re- 
 ceiving the water of Schroon Lake, and 
 continuing first southward, receives in 
 
 its course the offerings of many smaller 
 
 streams, emerging from the wilderness; 
 
 thence it turns 
 
 to the east, 
 
 -^T^ . ^.. ~:ym^m and, after its 
 uncertain 
 course of al- 
 most loomiles, 
 reaches the 
 great cataract 
 'at the prosper- 
 ous city of 
 Glens Falls. 
 
 Glens Falls 
 is a very pros- 
 perous little 
 city of 12,000 
 i n h a bitants 
 and the centre 
 of large manu- 
 facturing in- 
 possible by the 
 water-power furnished 
 Hudson River, which at 
 this point makes a descent of 56 
 feet over rocky falls. 
 
 The most famous scenic at- 
 traction of this place is the cave 
 made memorable in Cooper's 
 novel, " The Last of the Mohi- 
 cans." There is an air of general 
 thrift about Glens Falls which 
 is noticeable even to the most casual visi- 
 tor. The city has a particularly cleanly 
 appearance, and there is through its resi- 
 dential section a wealth of broad velvety 
 lawns and noble shade-trees, among 
 which are many notably attractive and 
 beautiful homes. 
 
 Those stopping at Glens Falls will find 
 the Rockwell House, of which Mr. C. L. 
 Rockwell is proprietor, very pleasantly 
 located on the chief business thoroughfare 
 of the city in the very | 
 
 centre of the business _ [j^^^ 
 portion. The 
 Rockwell is 
 one of the best 
 
 ■■ Tliose stoppintf at Ulcus Falls will tinil the Itotkneil 
 House iileasantly situated." 
 
 conducted houses in New York, every 
 attention being paid to those travelling 
 for pleasure as well as for business. 
 
There are few American lakes invested 
 with richer historical associations than 
 Lake George, for on its calm bosom and 
 along its indented borders many san- 
 guinary battles were stubbornly fought 
 in Colonial times. Hereabouts Lords 
 Amherst and Abercrombie, Montcalm and 
 Rogers, Howe and Rigaud, Jacques and 
 Williams met in mortal combat. There 
 were long periods, before Hudson as- 
 cended the American Rhine, when on 
 Lake George the Indians 
 quietly speared the fish. 
 Then came 
 decades when 
 the rattle of 
 musketry and 
 the boom of the 
 
 cannon from ^^^^^^^^^^^/Kiaissmmm 
 thegunboatsof 
 Rogers and 
 Putnam told 
 of execution 
 
 hausted and half of their guns burst, or 
 otherwise rendered useless, surrendered 
 to the French General Montcalm, the 
 same who afterward met death so brave- 
 ly upon the Plains of Abraham while de- 
 fending Quebec against the onslaught of 
 General Wolfe. The story of the massa- 
 cre which followed the surrender has 
 been often and vividly told, and generally 
 with much exaggeration. Bloody Pond, 
 a few miles from Fort William Henry, 
 is still pointed out to the 
 tourist and to the person 
 fond of ac- 
 cepting tales 
 as told to the 
 marines. It 
 is said to be 
 the spot into 
 which were 
 incontinentl y 
 thrown the 
 bodies of 
 pretty much 
 all of the ear- 
 
 be i;j,l; ac- 
 complish- 
 ed among 
 the canoes 
 of the 
 treacher- 
 o u s sav- 
 ages. All 
 along its 
 shores 
 fie re e "'l- 
 wars 
 
 were S j. 
 
 fought by the 
 English, French, 
 and aboriginal tribes. About 
 the ruins of Forts William 
 Henr3% George, and Gage tragic 
 memories thickly cluster, and 
 the site of these historic earthworks are 
 all within a mile of the Fort William 
 Henry Hotel. 
 
 Nothing but ill luck betided the Eng- 
 lish in this section of the country. In 
 1757 the French and their Indian allies 
 attacked Fort William Henry, at the head 
 of the lake, which was held by a small 
 garrison of English troops under Colonel 
 Munro, who, after gallantly defending 
 the post until their ammunition was ex- 
 
 peacefully rest the waters of Lake George between 
 the lamparts of its lulls." 
 
 by Colonel Munro, several hundred in all, 
 while as a matter of historical fact not 
 more than thirty were killed in the fight. 
 Speaking of the lake and of the events 
 preceding the bloody scenes enacted at 
 its head nearly a hundred and forty years 
 ago, George Bancroft, the historian, has 
 said : " How peacefully rest the waters of 
 Lake George between their ramparts of 
 hills; in their pellucid depths the cliffs 
 and the hills and the trees trace their 
 
images and the beautiful region speaks to 
 the heart, teaching affection for nature. 
 As yet not a hamlet rose on its margin, 
 not a straggler had thatched a log hut in 
 its neighborhood; only at its head, near 
 the centre of a wider opening between 
 the mountains, Fort William Henry stood 
 on its banks, almost on a level with the 
 
 lake. Lofty hills overhung and com- 
 manded the quiet scene, for the heavy 
 artillery had not as yet accompanied war 
 parties into this wilderness." And to- 
 day just as " peacefully rest the waters 
 of Lake George between their ramparts 
 of hills," and just so to-day " in their pel- 
 lucid depths the cliffs and the hills and 
 the trees trace their images, and the beau- 
 tiful region speaks to the heart, teaching 
 affection for nature." Naught has been 
 changed in that respect since those earlj^ 
 days of which the venerable historian 
 wrote, but in other ways the changes 
 have been marvellous. Where " not a 
 hamlet rose" or a " straggler had thatched 
 a log hut," in the days of long ago, have 
 been erected stately ho- 
 tels, lovely summer homes 
 and prosperous villages. 
 There are many beautiful 
 inland sheets of water, 
 both in this country and 
 in the old world, but never 
 one that was fairer or 
 whose natural surround- 
 ings were more pictur- 
 esque than this one lying 
 so close to our homes. 
 To see it for the first time 
 is a revelation, to glide 
 over its waters and to wind in and out 
 among its hundreds of rocky islands is ex- 
 
 quisite pleasure, to breathe the invigor- 
 ating atmosphere of the adjacent moun- 
 tains is health-giving and health-restor- 
 ing, to even exist here during the summer 
 season is unalloyed joy. 
 
 The human interest in the lake and its 
 vicinity affords one of the chief charms. 
 Every corner has its historic legend or 
 incident. These 
 a hundred years 
 have very often 
 changed s o m e - 
 what from the 
 original versions 
 and thrown into 
 mellow perspec- 
 tive. The student 
 I if folk-lore might 
 gather here many 
 interesting tales 
 and ballads from 
 the old residents, 
 handed down by 
 nouth from colo- 
 lial days when 
 liey were current 
 and the heroes 
 they celebrated 
 were living men. 
 Dunham Bay is thought by Dr. Eggleston 
 to be the place where General Montcalm 
 secreted his army of French and Indians 
 with a view to surprising Fort William 
 Henry, before the final attack. Parkman, 
 in his Life of Montcalm, has given a 
 graphic series of pictures of the lake in 
 that struggle, and Cooper, in his story of 
 the Mohicans, has immortalized the local- 
 ity. On the lake just above the bay is 
 the spot where Leatherstocking, Chin- 
 gachgook, and Uncas were pursued in ca- 
 noes and fought the Indians after the 
 massacre of Fort W'illiam Henry. The 
 cave where they took refuge with the 
 daughters of Colonel 
 Monro is still shown 
 
 " With dainty islands crowded close tofiether." 
 
 at Glens Fallsas if ^^^ 
 the incident were a 
 
" Looking: off across the lake toward tlie graceful outlines 
 of Black Mountain." 
 
 reality, and the name of Horicon, which 
 Cooper soucfht to bestow on the lake, 
 ling-ers affectionately among its associa- 
 tions. Had Cooper wished to make a 
 more exact historical 
 novel he would have had 
 abundant material in the 
 daring feats and escapes 
 of the intrepid Rogers, 
 the captain of the lake 
 riflemen during the 
 French and Indian war. 
 Rogers was one of the 
 characters of that war, 
 as he was one of the 
 first of the great native 
 Indian fighters of this 
 country. He has left his 
 name on many a story 
 of Lake George, but he 
 lost the opportunity of 
 enrolling it among" the 
 Revolutionary patriots when he became 
 a rabid Tory. 
 
 Lake George is located in the St. Law- 
 rence water-shed and empties into Lake 
 Champlain, which also flows northward. 
 It has as its chief town Caldwell, which 
 is located directly at the head of the lake. 
 Here the steamers connect with the trains 
 of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, 
 which, leaving the main line at Fort Ed- 
 ward, run to Caldwell, the line terminat- 
 ing upon the large pier, and the trains 
 stopping directly at the side of the 
 steamers. 
 
 People who are thoroughly informed 
 as to the various beauties and attractions 
 of Lake George appreciate the fact that 
 the picturesque village of Caldwell, is 
 
 one of the most convenient 
 and most delightful spots 
 on the lake. Its location 
 from a scenic point of view 
 is as near ideal as can be, 
 and the Horicon Improve- 
 ment Company has done and 
 is doing a great deal to add. 
 to the many advantages of 
 the place. This enterprising 
 company, in addition to 
 owning and operating the 
 old and ever-popular Lake 
 House, which looks down 
 through a lovely grove over 
 wide-stretching lawns to the 
 lake on one side, and faces 
 the village street of Cald- 
 well on the other, oper- 
 ates the Prospect Moun- 
 tain House. This house 
 has been built on the very 
 summit of the majestic mountain of 
 that name, which rises directly back of 
 the village, and from which a most 
 magnificent view embracing Lake George 
 
 Where tlie pretty summer homes and settlemeius grace 
 the wooded shores." 
 
 and the Hudson Valley may be had. 
 Northward may be seen every prominent 
 Adirondack peak, and down at the foot of 
 the mountain, nestling amid a mvriad of 
 
 ' Tlie Canoeing Association mak 
 
" From the porches of the Ljike House at Caldwell a lovely vista 
 of the lake is had through the trees." 
 
 trees, is the quiet, peaceful little village 
 of Caldwell, hugging close to the western 
 shore of the lake. A cable road longer 
 in point of altitude and higher than either 
 that at the Catskills, on Lookout IVIo^in- 
 tain in Tennessee, or at Pasadena, Cali- 
 fornia, has been built up the side of the 
 mountain, extending from the lake shore 
 to the very summit. This road has been 
 constructed by the Otis Engineering and 
 Construction Company, and the cars are 
 operated between the Lake House and 
 Caldwell and the Prospect Mountain 
 House, far above 
 it on the top of 
 the mountain, at 
 short intervals. 
 The Lake 
 House has, dur- 
 ing the past sea- 
 son, been en- 
 tirely remod- 
 elled, and in its 
 equipment is as 
 absolutely mod- 
 ern and metro- 
 politan as it is 
 possible to make 
 a summer hotel. 
 In its natural lo- 
 cation there are 
 few houses that 
 excel it. Its 
 grounds reach 
 to the pebbly 
 shores of the 
 lake, and a num- 
 ber of handsome 
 cottages sur- 
 round the hotel proper, giving it a de- 
 lightful colony effect. The drives about 
 Caldwell are far-famed, especially those 
 
 over the magnificent graded 
 boulevard to Warrensburg and 
 up the western shore. 
 
 The Prospect Mountain House 
 at the upper end of the long 
 cable, which has fairly scorned 
 in its construction the rugged 
 sides of the mountain, is under 
 the same management as the 
 Lake House, and guests at one 
 house may have the privileges 
 of the other. It possesses all 
 the agreeable features of club 
 life, with private dining-rooms, 
 and also a large restaurant open 
 to the air on either side, or glass- 
 enclosed, as the condition of the 
 weather may make desirable : 
 this is conducted on the Euro- 
 pean plan. 
 The other terminus of the steamer's 
 trip is Baldwin, at the foot of the lake. 
 This is the terminus of the Fort Ticon- 
 deroga branch of the Delaware and Hud- 
 son Railroad, and passengers going 
 down Lake George by steamer make 
 close connections there with the beauti- 
 ful trains of this line for Lake Champlain 
 resorts, Ausable Chasm, the Adirondacks, 
 Montreal, and all Canadian points. 
 
 The trip down Lake George from Cald- 
 well to Baldwin challenges in its every 
 point of scenic beauty any other trip of 
 
 The cable road runs from the village of (.uklwcll [ 
 
 equal length on the American continent. 
 From time almost immemorial, poets and 
 writers have apostrophized Lake George 
 
and laid their literary tributes, in prose 
 and verse, upon its altar. Between the 
 great ridges of mountains which close in 
 upon its sides for its entire length 
 
 re infoniit'iJ consider Calthvt.'ll oue of the most 
 delightful places." 
 
 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 than three hun dred rocky and wooded 
 islands, 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. Many of 
 these islands have been made attractive 
 by quaint and slightly cottages, while 
 others, belonging to the State 
 and being free to all comers, 
 have been made tem- 
 porary homes by sum- 
 iner campers, who have 
 spread their tents 
 under the dense foli- 
 age, to enjoy, free 
 from the conven- 
 tionalities of hotel 
 life, unrestrained 
 communion with 
 nature. 
 
 As if jealous of 
 the approaches of 
 the grim old moun- 
 tains, the lake has, 
 in many instances, 
 crowded itself be- 
 tween them, and thus ~ 
 have been formed some 
 of the loveliest 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 
 
 own design, beautiful beyond description. 
 It is in these sequestered, lovely spots 
 that we may find the very acme of human 
 rest. Here we may realize the delights 
 of the spirit of dolce far niente, and may 
 rest for hours beyond the reach 
 of human voice under the shade 
 of friendly boughs to dream or 
 read, unmindful of the world, 
 forgetful of care, forgetful of all 
 except the beauty of nature's 
 inner labyrinths. 
 
 The two well-appointed steam- 
 ers, 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 of greater or less im- 
 portance, all with characteristic attrac- 
 tions and filled with summer guests. 
 The very stopping at these landings is 
 a source of diversified pleasure to the 
 tourists, as at each wharf is found a gay 
 group of summer campers who rally 
 there at boat-time, as the villagers were 
 wont to do around the countrj- store when 
 the daily stage arrived. 
 
 On the western shore of the the lake, 
 six miles below Caldwell, and almost 
 hemmed in by the mountains at its rear, 
 
 stands the de- 
 serv- 
 edly 
 
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 a carpet of leaf and blossom of nature's 
 
 pop- 
 ular 
 Marion 
 "se House. 
 
 From its wide 
 porches or beautiful lawn a view of al- 
 most the entire length of Lake George 
 
may be had. The steamers stop directly 
 in front of the house, and there is for the 
 use of the guests a large fleet of row- 
 boats and two beautiful steam j-achts, the 
 Rachel and JSlarion. The table is supplied 
 with the purest and freshest of farm prod- 
 ucts, and butter, milk and cream are sup- 
 plied by the drove of Jersey cows which 
 is one of the famous features of the place. 
 Fine roads lead from the hotel, and good 
 saddle-horses and stjdish turn-outs are 
 supplied to guests, who may also charter 
 for special excursions the tally-ho coach, 
 Marion. Almost every room in the house 
 furnishes a lake view, although the moun- 
 tain view from the western windows is 
 quite as beautiful. The hotise is sup- 
 plied with electric bells and lighted with 
 gas and electricity. There are elevators, 
 and the drinking water is brought from a 
 large spring far up the mountainside. 
 
 In the heart of that portion of Lake 
 George where the mountains are the 
 wildest and the most rugged, and but six 
 miles from Fort Ticonderoga, with its his- 
 toric associations, is the Rogers Rock Ho- 
 tel. It occupies a bold promontory just 
 to the north of the famous Rogers Slide, 
 where tradition has it that the general of 
 that name slid down its smooth and pre- 
 cipitous face onto the ice of the lake to 
 escape the Indians. On the summit of 
 the mountain above the hotel the Rev. 
 
 fishing grounds on the lake are in the 
 neighborhood of the Rogers Rock Hotel, 
 which has all of the requisites of an ideal 
 summer home. The draining and sani- 
 tary arrangements are modern and per- 
 fect, and the table is in every feature ex- 
 cellent. The steamers on the lake all stop 
 at the wharf of the hotel, and it is thus 
 easy of access. Mr. T. J. Treadway is 
 the manager, and Mr. W. D. Treadway 
 proprietor, the post office address being 
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 " In the heart of that portion of Lake Ueorgre where the mountajus are tlie wildest 
 is the Rogers Kock Hotel." 
 
 Joseph Cook has erected an observatory 
 and a summer home, surrounded by a 
 large and beautiful natural park. A 
 well-made path leads to it directly from 
 the hotel, thus making this observatory 
 one of the popular places of resort, as the 
 views from it take in the wildest range 
 of lake and mountain scenery. The best 
 
 pleasant place to taiTy. 
 
 Bolton has long been known as one of 
 the chief resorts of Lake George, and it 
 has won distinction because of its beau- 
 tiful — in fact, ideal— location on Parodi 
 Point. Upon a wooded headland, and 
 within one hundred feet of the pebbly 
 edge of the lake, stands the Lake View 
 House, of which 
 Mr. R. J. Brown 
 has been the pro- 
 prietor ever since 
 the house was 
 o])ened in 1875. 
 There is found in 
 the Lake View 
 ' me of the most 
 comfortable and 
 home-like sum- 
 mer hotels, a 
 jilace where it is 
 a pleasure to stay, 
 and where within 
 the easiest reach 
 nay be enjoyed 
 all the various at- 
 tractions of Lake 
 George. This ho- 
 tel accommodates 
 about one hundred and fifty people, and 
 the house is exceedingly well built and 
 delightfully furnished. It is in the cen- 
 tre of the famous fishing district, and all 
 about it are delightful opportunities for 
 either sport or pleasure. A steam ferry- 
 boat plies between the hotel and the 
 Bolton landing. 
 
smiles are found 
 
 Lake Champlain, which runs „..— — . — .« 
 
 within elongated and mostly nar- ^ pastoral hills to 
 row confines for one hundred and i^ winds, too, are ai 
 
 ' ' The steamers make daily trips upon the lake. 
 
 twenty -six 
 miles, almost 
 north and 
 south, divides 
 for this distance the States of New York 
 and Vermont. South of Fort Ticonde- 
 roga, which is its southern terminus in a 
 commercial sense, it is contracted be- 
 tween low and swampy shores, appearing 
 to the eye more like a river than a lake, 
 and at some points being scarcely 500 
 feet across. To the northward of Fort 
 Ticonderoga, however, it broadens into 
 a wide lake, reaching out at Burlington 
 to a width of 10 miles, and, beyond this, 
 to 15 miles, but with many intervening 
 islands. In character Lake Champlain is 
 vastly different from the smaller but no 
 less beautiful Lake George. One is a 
 picture and the other a miniature, both 
 perfect in their way. If 
 Champlain 
 were human, 
 one might say 
 
 pany, 
 
 in the wide-stretching and 
 the eastward. The north 
 pt to work it into an angry 
 mood, and while it is never 
 treacherous, it is far more apt 
 to be rough and inhospitable 
 than its more gentle compan- 
 ion. Lake George. Like the 
 latter, it is rich in islands and 
 there are no more beautiful trips 
 upon inland seas than may be 
 enjoyed upon the commodious 
 and modern steamboats Vef- 
 inout and Chateaugay, of the 
 Champlain Transportation Com- 
 which make the round trip of 
 the lake daily, touching at all points. 
 
 The tourists on the Delaware and Hud- 
 son Railroad may, if they prefer, make the 
 journey either way between Fort Ticon- 
 deroga to Plattsburg or Hotel Cham- 
 plain by steamer instead of rail, as the 
 tickets are good either way. Fort Ticon- 
 deroga, from which point the steamers 
 leave, is as indissolubly associated with 
 early American history as any other 
 point on the continent. Upon the sum- 
 mit of Mt. Defiance, which stands di- 
 rectly to the west side of the railroad, 
 Burgoyne, in July, 1777, planted his 
 heavy battery and began the bombard- 
 ment of the fort whose pic- 
 turesque ruins 
 still crown the 
 summit of the 
 
 that it was petulant 
 and smiling by 
 turns, for upon one 
 shore its precipitous | 
 and rocky promon-,' 
 tories give it its 
 frowns, while its 
 
 " Fort Ticonderoga is indissolubly connected with 
 America's history." 
 
 rocky peninsula north 
 of the steamer's pier. 
 This was a natural 
 ^jl^l location for such a 
 NhBi] stronghold, being 
 bounded upon three 
 sides by water, and 
 
on the fourth by a swamp. A little to 
 the southeast, upon a high point, are the 
 remains of the Grenadiers' Battery, still 
 well preserved. The first defensive 
 works on this point were built in 1690; 
 and in the year following Major Schuyler 
 here brought together the Christian and 
 Mohawk forces which met their defeat at 
 La Prairie. Almost three-quarters of a 
 century after this. Baron Dieskau took 
 possession of the fortification, and in the 
 year following Montcalm with a large 
 French army occupied it and gave the 
 name of Fort Karillon to the extensive 
 works which he built. Three years later, 
 General Abercrombie, in command of 
 16,000 troops, made a vigorous attack 
 upon the fort, but after a bloody fight 
 was repulsed, the French losing 380 men 
 and the Anglo- American army 1,942, the 
 gallant Lord Howe being among those 
 killed in this action. In 1758 Lord Am- 
 herst, with 11,000 men and 54 cannon, 
 drove the French from the place, after 
 they had burned the barracks and ex- 
 ploded the powder-magazine. From that 
 time until the loth of May. 1775, quiet 
 reigned ; but upon that day, Ethan Allen 
 and Benedict Arnold, commanding their 
 85 New England men, surprised and cap- 
 tured the fort. In 1777 General St. Clair, 
 with 3,446 men, held the fort, but Bur- 
 goyne, having advanced from Canada, 
 succeeded through the bombardment 
 from Fort Defiance in rendering the fort 
 untenable. Ten weekslater the outworks 
 of Fort Ticonderoga, with 200 l>atteai/x,ox 
 war-vessels, and their cannon, and nearly 
 300 prisoners were captured by 1,000 
 New England troops which Colonel 
 Brown led against the fort- 
 ress, and the 100 American 
 prisoners were liberated. A 
 few weeks later the fort was 
 dismantled, but in 1780 was 
 reoccupied for a short period 
 by General Haldemand, but 
 since that time has been de- 
 serted. Eight miles above 
 Fort Ticonderoga at Crown 
 Point, which is in these mod- 
 ern days quite an iron manu- 
 facturing centre, the ruins of 
 an old fortress may be seen 
 upon a promontory between 
 Lake Champlain and Bul- 
 wagga Bay. A fine stone 
 lighthouse marks the point, 
 but otherwise it is abandoned 
 to its ancient ruin, the ram- 
 parts of which are fully half 
 a mile around, twenty-five 
 
 feet high and with the same thickness, 
 being faced with stone. This fort, which 
 was originally erected upon Pitt's orders 
 
 " Where placid bays indent tlie shores." 
 
 by Lord Amherst, is said to have cost the 
 British ten millions of dollars. 
 
 In 1775 Warren's Green Mountain Boys 
 captured the fort with its 14 guns; and 
 in 1777 Burgoyne made the fort his chief 
 depot of supplies in his advance on Al- 
 bany. The old ramparts are overgrown 
 with dense thickets and many blood-red 
 thorn-apple trees. These are to be found 
 nowhere else in the State, and are said to 
 have been brought from France. 
 
 Fort Henry, a prosperous town located 
 upon the shore of the lake at Bulwagga 
 Port, eighteen miles above Ticonderoga, 
 is the centre of the extensive iron mines 
 thereabouts, and several great blast fur- 
 naces have been erected near the steam- 
 er's landing. 
 
 Along 
 
 the rocky shores of Ijike Champlain with their weather 
 and wave-battered faces." 
 
Westport, eleven miles beyond, is 
 charmingly situated on Westport Bay 
 (called " Bale du Roche Fendu" on the 
 
 wide — which is adjacent to the town, was 
 the boundary between the territory of 
 the Mohawks and the Algonquins, whose 
 
 " Westport overlooks the fairest portion of Lake Champlain." 
 
 old maps), overlooking the fairest por- 
 tion of Lake Champlain. This was the 
 scene of Gen. Benedict Arnold's famous 
 fight with the Co/igress on October 13, 
 1776, on which he succumbed to the su- 
 perior force of Captain Pringle and the 
 British ships, and running the Congress 
 galley and four gondolas into a small 
 bay directly opposite Westport, burned 
 them to the water's edge. Some of the 
 cannon and many pieces of the famous 
 ship have been taken from the lake. 
 
 This prosperous little town is in itself 
 an important summer resort, but is 
 known chiefly because of its superb situ- 
 ation as one of the principal gateways 
 
 "Here also is the Westpoit Inn. Miiiouudecl hj 
 many charms." 
 
 to the Adirondack region. It, too, has 
 many historical associations, as Split 
 Rock — a remarkable cliff, separated from 
 the mountain by a deep cleft twelve feet 
 
 territories were occupied by the English 
 and French respectively. In 17 10 it was 
 acknowledged by the Treaty of Utrecht 
 as the limit of the English dominions, and 
 in 1760 it was officially designated as the 
 boundary between New York and Cana- 
 da; but years subsequently the Ameri- 
 cans passed it under arms and won the 
 territory for yj miles to the north. 
 
 The constantly increasing number of 
 visitors to Westport^ — attracted thither 
 by its historical associations, no less 
 than by its beautiful location and an 
 equable climate — find there a most com- 
 fortable hotel, "The Westport Inn," to 
 which summer visitors return year after 
 year, accompanied by friends to whom 
 the story of Westport beauty has been 
 told and retold. 
 
 Elizabethtown has been called, and 
 very properly, the inner gateway of the 
 Adirondacks; and this charmingly situ- 
 ated little town, with its environs of 
 green hills and its background of grace- 
 ful mountain peaks, is a fitting introduc- 
 tion to the wild grandeur of the country 
 beyond, the land of shimmering lakes 
 and solitude. 
 
 From Westport, which may be termed 
 the outer gateway of the North Woods, the 
 di-ive of eight miles to Elizabethtown 
 through the Raven Pass on the comfort- 
 able tally-ho stages is one long to be 
 recalled in pleasant memory. 
 
 There are few travellers who can resist 
 the temptation to tarry for a few days at 
 Elizabethtown, exploring the wonders of 
 the region beyond. 
 
Here he may 
 study and enjoy 
 the mountains 
 which have as 
 many moods as 
 the sea; he may 
 see their 1 o n g 
 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 
 mountainsides. 
 
 At Elizabeth- 
 town 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, politics, and fashion. 
 Elizabethtown is the tourist centre of the 
 beautiful and unequalled Keene Valley, 
 and the Windsor Hotel is the social cen- 
 tre of Elizabethtown. The Windsor 
 coaches meet all trains and boats at 
 Westport, and connect with stages to 
 Keene Valley, Cascade Lakes, North Elba 
 and Lake Placid. Private teams will be 
 provided 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 Adiron- 
 dacks. 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 perfectly appointed and 
 unexceptionably managed. It has every 
 convenience which may add to the com- 
 
 witlistaiid till' tfiiiptation to spenU 
 ; at F^lizabfthtown. ' 
 
 fort and pleasure of existence. A hand- 
 some four-in-hand brake makes two trips 
 daily from the Windsor through the stir- 
 roimding mountains, and the livery 
 attached to the house is abundantly 
 supplied with saddle and driving 
 horses. The table at the Windsor 
 is not excelled anywhere, as the 
 proprietor is the owner of one of 
 the largest and best-appointed 
 farms in northern New York, from 
 which the table is supplied with 
 fresh butter, cream, eggs and veg- 
 etables. Professor Mason, the an- 
 alytical chemist, has pronounced 
 the drinking water at Elizabeth- 
 town one of the purest waters he 
 has ever analyzed. 
 
 Mr. Kellogg has had twenty-five 
 years' experience in the hotel bus- 
 iness at Elizabethtown, and it is 
 doubtful if any man in America is 
 better qualified to meet the requirements 
 of summer guests. He is also proprietor 
 of the Mansion House, Elizabethtown, 
 of which his son- in-law 
 
 Mr. C. A. Ferris, ^atgSHKdttijMb is the 
 manager. The ^^H^^^nSn driv e 
 from Elizabeth- "^l^^^^^l^^ t own 
 to Lake Placid is 
 
 John Browu's boib lits iiiouliki ing m the grave 
 
one of about 
 thirty miles; ev- 
 ery rod of the dis- 
 tance, every new 
 view opened up 
 at each turn in 
 the road, is full 
 of beauty. At 
 Keene Post-oftice 
 the east branch 
 of the Ausable 
 River is crossed, 
 and then begins 
 the climb along 
 the steep sides 
 of Pitchoff Moun- 
 tain to the series 
 of narrow ponds 
 known as the Cas- 
 cade Lakes. A 
 few rods across 
 
 them the side of Long Pond Mountain 
 rises directly over the water, and as the 
 turn is made around the western end of 
 Pitchoff Mountain, the Giant of the Valley 
 springs into full view. Then there come 
 in rapid succession views of Wolf's Jaws, 
 Saddleback, Haystack, March, Golden, 
 Mclntyre, and Wallface. 
 
 Descending into the valley of the west 
 branch of the Ausable, the road passes 
 the fields which John Brown cleared for 
 the use of the negroes before he made 
 his celebrated raid upon Harper's Ferry 
 which resulted in his death. One may 
 
 \;illrj li.iN no Lyual iu AimiRU, if iu the world, fur j)ifturesciUL' 
 loveliness and romanlic beauty." 
 
 also see the old shingled cottage in the 
 distance, and the veteran's remains are 
 buried close by it. The village of North 
 Elba is in view five miles before it is 
 reached, and Lake Placid, perhaps three 
 miles beyond. At North Elba the west 
 branch of the Ausable is crossed and the 
 ascent made to Lake Placid Post-office, 
 which is really upon Mirror Lake. 
 
 Whiteface, which watches over Lake 
 Placid with majestic presence, is among 
 the highest of the Adirondacks. A won- 
 derful view of Lake Ghamplain is had 
 from the summit, although it is forty 
 miles away. Un- 
 der favorable 
 weather condi- 
 tionsMontreal and 
 the St. Lawrence 
 River can be seen 
 with a glass. Sev- 
 enty lakes, scat- 
 tered in all direc- 
 tions, may be seen 
 without a glass. 
 Lake Placid, 
 which is the most 
 beautiful of them 
 all, is the strategic 
 point of the whole 
 Adirondack re- 
 gion. As he looks 
 from Placid to the 
 soiithward, Sew- 
 ard, Wallface, Mc- 
 lntyre, Golden, 
 Marcy, Saw-teeth, 
 Gothic, and Am- 
 persand moun- 
 tains range them- 
 selves from west 
 
 loimtaius are rueged and bold, and clothed to their 
 very summits with primeval forests." 
 
" In thn midst of the most sublime of the 
 Adiroudat^k scenery." 
 
 to east while off at the extreme right the 
 Giant peeps out from the rear of Pitchoff 
 andindicatesthe location of Keene V^alley. 
 
 In the heart of beautiful Keene Valley 
 
 stands St. Hubert's Inn, in f 
 
 the midst of the highest moun- ■ 
 tains and the most sublime of 
 the Adirondack scenery. Keene 
 Heights, upon which the Inn 
 stands, is a broad plateau en- ■' 
 tirely surrounded by mountains 
 clothed to their suinmits with 
 primeval forests, and is in it- 
 self so elevated that it does 
 not have the impression of be- 
 ing shut in. 
 
 The Adirondack Mountain 
 Reserve, covering forty square 
 miles of territory, immediately 
 adjoins that of the hotel. With- 
 in this Reserve are the two beauti- 
 ful Ausable Lakes and many trout 
 streams. The guests of St. Hubert's are 
 
 given permits to fish within its 
 limits, and its many beauties are 
 free to the guests of the Inn. 
 
 Dr. E. G. Janeway, of New 
 York, a well-known expert, pro- 
 nounces the air at Keene Heights 
 particularly beneficial to those 
 suffering from hay fever or 
 asthma, while Stoddard, whose 
 guide book of the Adirondacks 
 is a classic in its way, says that 
 " the scenery about St. Hubert's 
 Inn, down the Keene Valley and 
 up from the Adirondack Moun- 
 tain Reserve, including the fam- 
 ous Ausable Lakes, is grand be- 
 yond description and Swiss-like 
 in its beauty." No less an au- 
 thority than Charles Dudley Warner 
 has said of these lakes that " In the 
 sweep of their wooded shores and 
 lovL-lv contour of the loftv mountains that 
 
 lin- view iivm St. Hubert s liiu is la»ciualiiiK 
 
 ; Lakes, the most cliainiii];-' 
 any in America." 
 
 guard them, they are 
 
 probably the most charming 
 in America." 
 
 St. Hubert's Inn is 
 new, fresh, and attrac- 
 tive, modern in construction 
 and thoroughly complete in ev- 
 ery particular. There are sur- 
 rounding it eighteen cottages, 
 and thus is formed a complete 
 colony with a social life as char- 
 acteristic as it is charming. 
 All of the vegetables, milk, 
 cream and eggs come from Or- 
 lando Beede's farm in the valley. 
 Attached to St. Hubert's Inn 
 is a casino for various enter- 
 tainments, and a well-equipped 
 livery stable attached to the Inn. 
 Messrs. Beede and Houghton 
 are the proprietors. The post- 
 office is named Beede's, and is 
 located in the house. 
 
The Stevens House, which is the great 
 social centre of the Lake Placid region, 
 is picturesquely located, on an elevation 
 commandinir one of the most magnificent 
 
 seaumont,the new hotel at Lake Placid. It 
 overlooks both Mirror Lake and Lake 
 Placid, and offers from its piazzas and 
 windows some of the fairest and most 
 
 ' From one side of the Stevens House may be seen Mirror Lake, and fium the other. 
 the ever beautiful Lake Placid. " 
 
 of the many views which are afforded in 
 this region. Its main floor is 2,063 ^^et 
 above tide-water, and from one side of 
 the hotel may be seen Lake Placid, and 
 on the other Mirror Lake. 
 There is no hotel in the Adi- 
 rondacks which commands 
 grander or lovelier views. 
 The four highest mountains 
 in the State stand out in full 
 view from the porches of the 
 hotel. The Stevens House 
 is finished throughout in hard 
 wood and handsomely fur- 
 nished. Its ideal location 
 makes every room a front 
 room, and, unlike many of 
 the summer hotels, its bed- 
 chambers are all large and 
 each has two windows. 
 Messrs. J. A. and G. A. Ste- 
 vens are the owners and managers, and 
 what Lake Placid is to the Adirondacks, 
 the Stevens House is to Lake Placid. 
 
 Of all the Adi- rondack hotels none 
 have a ./^. more 
 
 extensive views. It is a modernly 
 equipped hotel in every respect and 
 tmder the management of Mr. T. Ed- 
 mund Krumbholz has become a favorite 
 
 niountniiis are reflected in Mirror Lake witli 
 vivid distinctness." 
 
 ideal lo- 
 th an the 
 
 cation 
 Ruis- 
 
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 " Tlie JJuisseaumont has become a favorite stopping-jjlace.' 
 
 stopping-place with the large number of 
 Adirondack vistors who return to the 
 Ruisseaumont after a tour through the 
 mountains with the feeling that no other 
 hotel can quite take its place. Although 
 luxurious in its furnishings and with 
 every convenience for the comfort and 
 well-being of its guests, it yet retains 
 - that homelike character so often lacking 
 at the great resort hotels of the country. 
 The Ruisseaumont opens about the first 
 of June, when the countrj^ is the most 
 beautiful, and remains open until late in 
 the fall. It has ample accommodation for 
 two hundred guests. Further informa- 
 tion will be furnished on application to 
 the manager at Lake Placid. 
 
The Grand View Hotel at Lake Placid, 
 of which an illustration appears on this 
 page, is one of the newest and most mod- 
 
 season on the 22d of June, and rates may 
 be had by addressing The Grand View 
 Hotel Company, Lake Placid, New York. 
 
 ' The Grand View Hotel on Lake Placid is new and occupies a comnuuiiliii(j 
 Lake Placid and its surrounding mountains." 
 
 ern hotises in the Adirondacks. It was 
 built about two seasons ago and comfort- 
 ably accommodates two hundred and fifty 
 people. The house is built upon a com- 
 manding situation furnishing a combined 
 view of mountain and lake. The office 
 of the house is the largest in the Adiron- 
 dacks, is handsomely furnished, and is 
 very much used as a social-room by the 
 ladies and gentlemen. The ball-room is 
 forty by fifty feet, the same as the office; 
 and the parlor is a separate room by 
 itself and opens on three sides with broad 
 verandas. The music of the house is 
 under the direction of Professor Dubois, 
 of Brooklyn, and three concerts are given 
 each day. There is every facility at the 
 Grand View for enjoying to the fullest 
 extent life in the Adirondacks — out of 
 
 I 
 
 "The Algonqiiin on lower Saranac 
 Lake." 
 
 doors there are tennis and base-ball 
 grounds, and indoors there are billiards 
 and pool. The Grand View opens this 
 
 Good roads through one of the most 
 beautiful sections of the Adirondacks, 
 from Lake Placid to Saranac Lake, pre- 
 sent an opportunity for an ideal stage 
 ride, but for tourists who desire to travel 
 in a more comfortable and rapid manner 
 a well-equipped railway has recently 
 been constructed. This line, The Sara- 
 nac & Lake Placid Railway, makes direct 
 connection at Saranac Lake with all the 
 trains of the Chateaugay line and brings 
 the entire Lake Placid and Mirror Lake 
 section within easy reaching distance of 
 all points on the D. & H. system via 
 Plattsburgh. At Saranac Lake, the ter- 
 minus of the Chateaugay line, are located 
 a number of the largest and most famous 
 of the Adirondack hotels, prominent 
 among them being the Algonquin. 
 
 No illustration can convey to the 
 reader the beauty of the location of this 
 hotel, situated as it is on the lower Sara- 
 nac 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 delightful 
 natural surroundings such a com- 
 fortable and luxurious hotel. Noth- 
 ing is lacking 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., X. Y. 
 
Some man with a keen sense of humor 
 has said that the Chateaugay Railroad, 
 which, having its beginning at Platts- 
 burg, penetrates the most delightful por- 
 tion of the Adirondacks, should be called 
 the " Bee Line," because its course is so 
 like that of the busy bee, flitting from 
 flower to flower. 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 
 val- 
 levs 
 
 hundreds from gratifying their desire to 
 visit them, but most of the choicer places 
 are now easily reached by the Chateau- 
 gay Railroad via Plattsburg. The lakes 
 along this line include such gems as 
 Upper and Lower Chateaugay, Chazy, 
 Loon, Rainbow and the Upper 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 Adirondack 
 boats with a strong-armed 
 guide at the oars, one may 
 ^ start at the 
 
 ""' Algonquin 
 
 andskirtthe 
 lily-padded 
 and wooded 
 shore of the 
 entire Low- 
 er Saranac, 
 and by mak- 
 ing a short 
 " carry, ' ' he 
 may launch 
 his craft 
 in the Up- 
 perSaranac. 
 From here 
 he may by 
 turns cross 
 the placid 
 bosom of 
 
 It IS a paradise tor the 
 rod and gun.' 
 
 open uut, disclosing 
 vistas of lovely lakes, 
 skirted to the very 
 edges with dense for- 
 ests 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 neces- 
 sary to reach distant points prevented 
 
 lover of the 
 
 Fish Creek, Big Square' 
 Floodwood, Rollins and 
 Whey ponds, all lovely 
 bodies of water edged with forest-cov- 
 ered mountains. It is one of the most 
 beautiful trips imaginable, and to the 
 lover of nature an ideal way to spend a 
 half week. In fact no one can fully ap- 
 preciate the most fascinating phases and 
 hidden beauties of Adirondack life until 
 he has taken this most romantic of trips 
 by boat, for Nature hides her choicest 
 gems in the deepest recesses of the 
 mountains, apart from the beaten paths 
 of man. 
 

 to the railroad 
 that the New York 
 markets aredrawn 
 upon very liber- 
 ally for the table 
 supplies, and the 
 surrounding- 
 country furnishes 
 an abt:ndance of 
 fresh vegetables, 
 fruit and milk. 
 There are in the 
 Wawbeek all the 
 
 conveniences 
 
 j which the most 
 
 ^ exacting guests 
 
 " The Wawbeek is the center of gayety and social life of Upper Saranao Lake." maV reO uire and 
 
 There are manyspots on the route where it is in the very centre of the best 
 the forests descend to the water's edge fishing and shooting districts of the North 
 and the eye cannot penetrate the tangled 
 growth. Their mysterious perfume em- 
 bodies the deepest, sweetest, most de- 
 lightful secrets of nature; the odor is 
 subtle, fragrant beyond description, and 
 heavy with aromatic airs. 
 
 The Adirondack " guides," in the Sar- 
 anac, and other sections of the woods, 
 are as fine a set of men as can be found 
 the world over. As a rule they are 
 thoroughly sober, trustworthy, willing 
 and companionable, and can shoot, cook, 
 and tell yarns with a skill truly remark- 
 able. They know the great trackless 
 wilderness thoroughly, and the writer 
 has never in his experience seen, and 
 then but for a moment, one puzzled over 
 his location but once, and that was when 
 making a " carry" from one pond to an- 
 
 ^l^^t^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 "The carry between the Saianac L.-iki s i- .i short one.' 
 
 other on a dark night through an almost 
 impenetrable forest. 
 
 On the shores of the upper Saranac 
 Lake stands the Hotel Wawbeek with its 
 cottages. The Wawbeek is not a sani- 
 tarium, but is intended to be, and is, a 
 delightfully situated, beautifully run and 
 thoroughly ideal summer home. Mr. 
 Harlow H. Chandler has been its mana- 
 ger for three seasons, and has impressed 
 not only his popularity, but that of the 
 house, effectually upon all his guests. 
 The Wawbeek is so conveniently located 
 
 •' .\n incident of the chase." 
 
 Woods. The largest trout catch of the 
 
 past season was made in this lake a short 
 distance from the Hotel Wt.w- 
 beek shore. A post-oflice and 
 telegraph-office are in the house, 
 andvarious delightful trips may 
 be made from this point, by 
 either land or water. Send to the 
 
 manager, " 
 
 Wawbeek 
 N.Y., for 
 pamphlet 
 regarding 
 
 the attractions of 
 
 this ideal region. 
 
 Kew return empty-handed.' 
 
Chateaugay Lake has for many years 
 been the favorite rendezvous of those who 
 wish to combine fishing and hunting with 
 the many other attractive 
 featur-es of the 
 North Woods. No- 
 where are there 
 greater or better op- '{jj 
 
 port unities for 
 sport. The entire 
 region about Cha- 
 teaugay and Chazy 
 
 . '^^ '^"^ii'l 
 
 " Good health and wholesome pleasure go hand ux hand 
 at Ralph's." 
 
 Lakes, and in fact along the line of the 
 Chateaugay railroad, is a natural game 
 and fish preserve where excellent sport is 
 sure to be had. 
 
 One of the famous resorts whose name 
 is almost indissolubly associated with the 
 Adirondacks is Ralph's, on the eastern 
 shore of the Chateaugay Lake, about 
 three and one-half miles over a good 
 road from the railroad station at Lyon 
 Mountain on the Chateaugay Railroad. 
 It is in the heart of the delightfully wild 
 region, where the throbbings of the great 
 wilderness are most distinct. Ralph's is 
 one of those fascinating, home-like spots. 
 
 " The Chateaugay Hotel stands on the north shore 
 of the Lake." 
 
 where, if one goes for a week, he is 
 tempted to linger for a month. Good 
 health and wholesome pleasure here go 
 
 hand in hand, and each season finds at 
 Ralph's many old and familiar faces who 
 have found in Chateaugay Lake and 
 at this famous 
 hotel the ideal 
 of contentment 
 and comfort. 
 There wall be 
 lound at Ralph's 
 all of the ac- 
 companying con- 
 veniences and 
 excellent fish- 
 ing, with game 
 in abundance. 
 As for boating, 
 there is no more 
 inviting lake in 
 the North Woods than the Chateau- 
 gay, which for quiet beauty of scen- 
 ery has been made famous through 
 its many reproductions on canvas. 
 Mr. J. W. Hutton is the proprietor 
 of Ralph's, the post-office address 
 being Lyon Mountain, New York. 
 It is easily reached by the Dela- 
 ware and Hudson Railroad to Plattr- 
 burg, and the Chateaugay Rail- 
 road from there to Lyon Mountain. 
 The Chateaugay Hotel, which stands on 
 the north shore of the beauti- 
 ful lake from which it takes 
 its name, commands a most 
 attractive view, east, south, and 
 west. Mr. Charles W. Back- 
 us, the proprietor, purchased 
 it in 1893, and has spared 
 neither money, pains, norlabor, 
 to make it as attractive and 
 comfortable a hostelry as can 
 be found in the Adirondacks. 
 
 On the eastern side of Lake 
 Champlain is the pretty city of 
 Burlington, with its 20,000 inhabitants, its 
 college, its scores of magnificent resi- 
 dences, 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 and rugged peaks, silhouetted 
 against the sky, while to the east rise the 
 rounded slopes of the Green Mountains. 
 Burlington has been apth' called " the 
 Naples of the midland sea" by one of the 
 many poets who have sung its charms, 
 while another writer has said that it has 
 the mountain scenery of Scotland, the 
 sky and sunsets of Italy, the vallefj's and 
 verdure of P'rance, the lake views of 
 Switzerland, with the park-like surround- 
 ings of an English landscape. 
 
At Port Kent, 54 miles from Ticonde- 
 roga, connection may be made by tourists 
 with the new railroad to the famous 
 Ausable Chasm, three miles beyond. 
 
 This masterpiece of nature, which 
 Baedecker pronounced the greatest nat- 
 ural wonder in America, after Niagara 
 Falls, is impressive beyond description, 
 and the pictures which are presented tell 
 of its grandeur 
 and beauty more 
 graphically than 
 would be possi- 
 ble in words. 
 
 From far up in 
 the mountain 
 fastnesses the 
 two forks of the 
 Ausable River 
 have come by tor- 
 tuous and uncer- 
 tain courses 
 through inviting 
 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 
 magnificent 
 plunge over 
 Alice Falls, the 
 most beautiful in 
 the Adirondacks. 
 
 This splendid 
 cataract falls 
 about forty feet, 
 much of it being 
 an almost sheer 
 fall over ledges 
 of rock with mag- 
 nificent foaming 
 watery stair- 
 ways bordering 
 it with their deli- 
 cate lace work on 
 either hand. The 
 water, of which 
 there is a large 
 volume, tumbles down into an im- 
 mense amphitheatre, which has been 
 rounded by the torrent out of the adja- 
 cent enclosing rocks during past ages, and 
 emerging flows sharply to the right, 
 over some rapids, and then over a prosaic 
 mill-dam, which is built across just above 
 the chasm. Suddenly, as if to try its 
 powers, the river leaps over a short fall, 
 
 " Baedecker proTumnces tliis chasm to be the greatest imtiiial 
 in America next to the Niagara Falls." 
 
 and then with a force and majesty which 
 is overpowering plunges seventy feet 
 into the deep abyss below. Clouds of 
 spray float upward to be tinted with 
 all the colors of the rainbow" by the sum- 
 mer's sun. 
 
 The trip through the chasm is one of 
 constant surprises. Nature has disported 
 herself here in her wildest mood. Sheer 
 precipices, near- 
 ly 150 feet high,- 
 terminate in 
 deep, dark pools- 
 where the water 
 rests after its tu- 
 multous passage 
 through the more 
 narrow gorges. 
 There are many 
 interesting and 
 wonderful spots 
 to be passed as 
 the visitor fol- 
 lows the narrow 
 pathway cleft in 
 the sides of the 
 dripping walls. 
 They bear all 
 kinds of fantastic 
 names as best be- 
 fit their own local 
 surroundin gs. 
 The mostimpres- 
 s i V e sensation 
 of the trip is re- 
 served for the 
 end. The visitor, 
 seated in a long 
 boat and guided 
 by a boatman 
 who handles the 
 paddle, 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 abroad plac- 
 id 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 Lake View House at the Chasm 
 and the Chasm itself are under the 
 management of Mr. W. H. Tracy. 
 
From Port Kent the stately steamer 
 Vermont follows on its trip the western 
 shore of the lake, passing the picturesque 
 Ausable Point, and between Valcour 
 Island and the bluffs, touches at Bluff 
 Point, the landing-place of the great 
 Hotel Champlain, which fittingly crowns 
 a noble promontory overlook- 
 ing the lake and the mountains 
 far beyond. This house is typ- 
 ical in the highest 
 sense of 
 the per- 
 fection ^ ' 
 to which 
 Am eri- 
 can ar- 
 chitects 
 and cap- 
 ital ists 
 have 
 brought 
 the sum- 
 mer ho- 
 tel. It 
 is sur- 
 rounded 
 
 
 ful, it being simply a choice as between 
 lake and mountain. The purest of moun- 
 tain 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 decliv- 
 ity, a bit of the clean sandy 
 beach, showing at the 
 - li^ .1 1 foot of an open swath cut 
 
 \k u-Cr— *-\ \ through the firs. To the 
 northward is Cumberland 
 Bay, and across Cumber- 
 land Head the further 
 waters of the lake near 
 its foot. A mile away, 
 intermediate, is Crab 
 Island and to the right 
 Valcour Island, check- 
 ered with farms and 
 belted with forest area. 
 
 by a 
 beau- 
 tiful 
 
 natural park of 450 
 acres of woodland and 
 meadow, and more 
 than §50,000 has been 
 spent in constructing 
 under a well-devised plan perfect road- 
 ways, lawns, and walks along the 
 lake shore, cliffs, and forests, the house 
 itself being built upon a foundation of 
 solid rock. Each one of its nearly half- 
 thousand rooms commands a view of sur- 
 passing loveliness. 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 beauti- 
 
 •• riie sricnt ITotel Champlain fittingly crowns a noble 
 promontory overlooking the lake." 
 
 Five miles across is Grand Isle, and 
 beyond to the eastward and southeast 
 the shore of Vermont, purple in the 
 evening shadows long before the sun 
 fades from the flanks of the Green Moun- 
 tains. To the right the view of the lake 
 is clear for twenty miles; away down 
 below Burlington to 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 
 express trains, themselves unseen and 
 unheard, speed along the rocky 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 prosce- > 
 
 nium watching * 
 
 a sunrise is a 
 poein ; 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 exte- iJ 
 rior so set off by i| 
 the long spa- | j 
 cious porches i; 
 overlooking the i 
 lake. Mr. O. D. -i 
 Seavey, whose ' 
 name is so very i 
 long associ- j 
 ated with the -j 
 Ponce de Leon .. ' 
 at Saint Augus- Ig 
 tine, is, and has ^*l 
 been since its 4 
 opening, the 
 manager of this ■ w 
 
 hotel." This in 
 itself is an assurance that nothing which 
 can tend to increase the pleasure or com- 
 fort of the guests will be overlooked. 
 
 Life at the Hotel Champlain involves 
 a most extraordinar}' variety of diver- 
 sions. Equestrian expeditions are possi- 
 ble in various directions, and pedestrian 
 wanderings are exceedingly popular. 
 Frequent steamboats upon the lake and 
 local trains upon the railroad offer a long 
 list of single-day excursions, each enjoy- 
 able in its turn. Much of the best fishing 
 
 I.. |..,.:.. i. l.idf along the westfiu 
 
 .\l>rit>.s iraiiis .^pcud along the rocky I'eaclies 
 
 and hunting territory of the Adirondack 
 region may be reached in time to enjo)' 
 a good day's sport and return at night- 
 fall. Lake Placid, the most widelj- 
 known resort in the Adirondack Moun- 
 tains, is easily accessible from Bluff 
 Point. The abundant provision for thor- 
 oughly 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 gunning period. Billiard 
 . tables and a se- 
 ries of bowling 
 alleys (in a 
 separate struc- 
 ture) offer a 
 remedy for 
 ennui in inclem- 
 ent weather. 
 
 The largest 
 military post in 
 the East is close 
 by, and adds 
 greatly to the 
 social attrac- 
 tions of the 
 place, with its 
 drills, guard 
 mounts, and 
 dress parades. 
 The music is 
 furnished by 
 Brooks' Band 
 and Orchestra, 
 and the ball- 
 room is nightly 
 a scene of gay- 
 ety and pleas- 
 ure. Fort Mont- 
 gomery, Fort 
 Ethan Allen, 
 and the histori- 
 cal ruins of the 
 forts at Crown 
 Point and Ti- 
 conderoga are 
 near by. All 
 the steamers of 
 the Champlain 
 Transportation Company and all the 
 trains of the D. & H. stop at the Hotel 
 Champlain, the pier being at the foot of 
 the bluff and the station in the park just 
 west of the hotel. The Hotel Champlain 
 is thus easy of access, in either drawing- 
 room or sleeping-car from New York, 
 Albany, or Saratoga. It is a natural 
 and convenient stopping-point for tour- 
 ists making the trip to or from Montreal, 
 the Adirondacks, the White Mountains, 
 or Lake Champlain points. 
 
Bluff Point is also the station for the 
 Catholic Summer School of America, 
 an institution whose usefulness is con- 
 ceded and whose success is assured. The 
 press, Catholic and non-Catholic, has 
 been lavish in its praise. It has been 
 duly incorporated by a charter from the 
 Regents of the University of New York, 
 
 " A ciisiiio, orailministratiuu building, Immediately adjoins the delightful parlc." 
 
 and is regularly and officially classified 
 within the system of public instruction 
 devoted to university extension. 
 
 The Catholic Summer School aims to 
 increase the facilities for busy people as 
 well as for those of leisure to pursue 
 lines of stud}' in various departments of 
 knowledge by providing opportunities of 
 getting instruction from eminent special- 
 ists. It is not intended to have the scope 
 of the work limited to any class, but 
 rather to establish an intellectual centre 
 where any one with serious purpose, in 
 the leisure of a summer vaca- 
 tion, without great expense, may 
 come and find new incentives to 
 efforts for self-improvement. All 
 branches of human learning, his- 
 tor^^ literature, natural and theo- 
 logical science, are to be con- 
 sidered in the light of Christian 
 truth, according to Cardinal New- 
 man's declaration : " Truth is the 
 object of knowledge of whatever 
 kind ; and truth means facts and 
 their relations. Religious truth 
 IS not only a portion, but a con- 
 dition of knowledge. To blot it out is 
 nothing short of unravelling the web of 
 university teaching." 
 
 Through the liberality of the Delaware 
 and Hudson Railroad corporation, the 
 Catholic Summer School owns a magnifi- 
 cent estate of tour hundred and fifty 
 acres, situated on the west shore of 
 Lake Champlain. The Catholic Summer 
 School Building and Improvement Com- 
 
 pany, whose officers are such well-known 
 financiers as John Byrne, John D. Crim- 
 mins, Daniel O'Day, Thomas F. Ryan, 
 Adrian Iselin, Jr., of New York, and 
 ]\Iartin Maloney, of Philadelphia, is en- 
 gaged in developing this property. A 
 comprehensive topographical survey and 
 complete plan have been made by the 
 eminent engineer 
 and sanitary ex- 
 pert. Col. George 
 E. Waring, Jr. It 
 is in contempla- 
 tion to provide 
 for about one 
 thousand sum- 
 mer cottages. 
 
 A perfect sys- 
 tem of sewage, 
 water supply, 
 and lighting has 
 been planned. 
 The grounds have 
 been s\'stematic- 
 allylaidout in the 
 most attractive 
 manner by means of winding roads, and 
 the preservation of the stately forest 
 groves, natural elevations, and particu- 
 larly pleasing trees. A deep and pictur- 
 esque ravine, traversinga bout one-third 
 of the property, running almost west and 
 east, and carrying a crystal brook in its 
 bed, affords a delightful landscape effect; 
 while the thickly wooded bluff, with its 
 delightful glades and sheltered nooks, 
 overlooking the waters of the majestic 
 Champlain, and the tree-covered border 
 of the lake itself, with meandering" syl- 
 
 idiug views of the most niiignillcent expanse ol the lake «uii lU 
 lieauliful islands.'* 
 
 van paths, affording charming surprises 
 and many varying views of the shimmer- 
 ing water and distant mountains, form 
 two natural rambles over half a mile in 
 length, calculated to delight the tourist's 
 eve and lure him into their leafy shades. 
 R'ustic chairs and tables, and pretty sum- 
 mer houses perched on rugged bluff or 
 on grassy knoll, increase the comfort of 
 visitors. 
 
There has been erected a handsome John Lafarge, LL.D., Rev. J. A. Zahm, 
 
 Assembly and Administration Building, 
 which serves as a club house for the 
 Board of Trustees and the honorary 
 
 Ph.D., C. S. C, Notre Dame University, 
 Henry Austin Adams, A.M., Rev. Hermann 
 Heuser, St. Charles' Seminary, Rev. 
 W. H. O'Connell, Brother Bald- 
 win, Rev. J. A. Doonan.S. J., Rev. 
 Henrv G. Ganss, Lawrence D. 
 Flick^M.D., Rev. D. J. O'Sullivan. 
 
 " Wlieie the scenery is rugged and the cliffs severe." 
 
 members of the Association, and will 
 give luncheon accommodations to cot- 
 tagers and visitors. 
 
 The Summer School affords an ideal 
 place for a summer vacation. Its loca- 
 tion is superb. It is easily accessible 
 from New York and from the principal 
 large cities. It affords every oppor- 
 tunity for rest and healthful recrea- 
 tion of all kinds — boating, fishing, bath- 
 ing, walking, riding, driving, mountain 
 climbing. Besides thus enabling one to 
 pass a vacation in otio cum dig. , it will keep 
 his imagination and mind pleasantly oc- 
 cupied. The Rev. Thos. J. Conaty, D.D., 
 of Worcester, Mass., is President, the 
 Rev. F. P. Siegfried, of Philadelphia, 
 Chairman of the Board of Studies, and 
 the Chairman of the Executive Com- 
 mittee is the Hon. John B. Rilev, Platts- 
 burg, N. Y. 
 
 The session of 1895 will open with Pon- 
 tifical Mass, on July 7, Archbishop SatoUi 
 celebrant, and the sermon delivered by 
 Archbishop Corrigan. The courses will 
 include ecclesias- 
 tical history, lit- 
 erature, science 
 and art. The lec- 
 turers are Very 
 Rev. John. B.Ho- 
 gan, S.S., D.D., 
 Rev. J. F. Lough- 
 lin, D.D., George 
 Parsons Lathrop, 
 LL.D., Rev. T. J. 
 A. Freeman, S. J., 
 Conde B. Fallen, 
 Ph.D., Richard 
 Malcolm John- 
 ston, L L . D., 
 
 Besides Archbishop Corrigan the other 
 preachers of the session will be Most 
 Rev. P. J. Ryan, D.D., Archbishop of 
 Philadelphia, Rt. Rev. Thomas D. Bea- 
 ven, D.D., Bishop of Springfield, Mass., 
 Rt. Rev. T. S. Byrne, D.D., Bishop of 
 Nashville, Tenn., Rev. P. J. Garrigan, 
 D.D., Vice-Rector Catholic L^niversity 
 of America, Rev. Thomas J. Conaty, 
 D.D., Rev. Clarence E. Woodman, Ph.D., 
 C.S.P., Rev. J. Coyle, Rev. J. M. Whe- 
 lan,Very Rev. J. F. Mooney. D.D., V.G., 
 New York., Rev. 
 J. L. Belford. 
 More detailed 
 information may 
 be obtained by 
 addressing War- 
 ren E. M o s H- 
 E R , Secretary, 
 123 E. 50th St., 
 New York City. 
 
 Wide stretches o£ pebbly beuch, where the. waves lap caressingly. 
 
'im 
 
 ■•■■li 
 
 Plattsburg, three miles beyond Bluff Point, is the 
 terminal point of the steamers which run from Fort 
 Ticonderoga. It is a beautiful little city of eight or 
 ten thousand inhabitants, a county-seat, and is attrac- 
 tively located on the shore of Lake Champlain just 
 where the Saranao River empties into it. The views 
 which are given convey some impiession of the at- 
 tractive features of Plattsburg. Among its fine 
 buildings are the United States Custom House and 
 I^ost Office, St. Peter's Church, and a quaint old 
 
 French nunnery. South of 
 the town a mile is the United 
 States Barracks. 
 
 Plattsburg is con- 
 nected with the early 
 history of the country 
 as being the place 
 where Macdonough and 
 Macomb defeated the 
 British naval and land 
 
 forces under Commodore 
 Downie and Sir George 
 Provost. The American 
 navy on Lake Champlain 
 consisted at that time of 
 the men - of - war Sara- 
 toga, Eagle, Ticonderoga, 
 and Preble, carrying from 
 7 to 26 guns, and a dozen 
 smaller gunboats. The Brit- 
 ish fleet consisted of the Confiance, carrying 
 38 guns, the Linnet, Chub, and Finch, and 1 2 
 smaller gunboats. As the first gun was fired 
 from the British fleet. Gen. Provost with 
 14,000 troops assaulted the town of Platts- 
 burg, which was garrisoned by 3,000 men 
 under Gen. Macomb. The fight was a stub- 
 born one on land and lake, and the Britisli 
 were finally repulsed with a loss of abou; 
 
2, 500 men and an immense amount of bag- 
 gage and ammunition, while the Ameri- 
 can force lost less than 150. The British 
 Commodore Downie was killed early in 
 the fight, and the American Commodore 
 Macdonough was crushed to the deck of 
 his vessel by a falling boom which had 
 been cut off by a cannon-ball. A number 
 of the infantry killed in this battle are 
 buried in the Plattsburg Cemetery, while 
 the men of the fleets who were killed are 
 buried on Crab Island. 
 
 "The Wituerill House is delightfully eiiihowcrtU iii trees." 
 
 The tourist stopping at Plattsburg will 
 find in the Witherill Hotel an exception- 
 ally comfortable and well - appointed 
 house, excellently kept and attractively 
 furnished. It is centrally located in the 
 most delightftil part of Plattsburg, and is 
 a popular rendezvous for tourists going 
 in or out of the Adirondacks. 
 
 Rouse's Point, the next important place 
 ■on the lake above Plattsburg, marks the 
 Canadian territory. It is a brisk little 
 village of 1,500 inhabitants at the mouth 
 of the Richelieu River — through which 
 the explorer, Champlain, came in his ca- 
 noe when he first gazed upon the lake 
 which has ever since borne his name and 
 which to-day alone perpetuates it. Fort 
 Montgomery, one mile north of the place, 
 commands the Richelieu River with 164 
 guns. 
 
 An unfortunate mistake was made 
 in the location of this fort, and after a 
 large amount of money was spent it was 
 found to be built on British territory 
 and was abandoned; it was given the 
 ironical name of Fort Blunder. Subse- 
 quently, however, a change in the boun- 
 dary line gave the land to the United 
 States, and the fort was completed at the 
 expense of over half a million of dollars. 
 
 If the tourist seeks the best grounds for 
 fishing he will find them among the 
 islands in the northern end of the lake. 
 Here bass and pickerel abound, and here 
 are the sites of many camping parties. 
 From these islands delightful views are 
 obtained of the Green Mountains, from 
 Jay Peak at the north to the dim outlines 
 of Mount Mansfield on the south. St. 
 Albans appears on the distant hillside. 
 All about are islands too rocky for camp- 
 ing purposes — having such titles as Dia- 
 dama, Hen, Old Woman, and Pop Squash 
 — while a little farther up the shore we 
 are soothed with Balm of Gilead Point. 
 Close by, and strung along the shore, is 
 " the city" — the only cluster of buildings 
 on all of the fifty or more islands in the 
 lake — and looking very like " the Hud- 
 dle" at Lake George. 
 
 The passage through the Gut is only a 
 mile or so in length, but everj^ rod of it 
 shows new phases of island beauty. 
 Bow-Arrow Point, at the southern end of 
 North Hero, well bears out its title. 
 Outside the passage, and between The 
 Sisters and South Hero, a glorious view 
 of the Adirondacks bursts upon one in all 
 the majesty of its unequalled gi'andeur. 
 
 The Champlain Transportation Com- 
 pany, which operates the beautiful 
 steamers on Lake Champlain, is one of 
 the best-equipped steamship companies 
 in America. The Vermont and the 
 Chateaiigay make daily round trips in 
 connection with the trains of the Dela- 
 ware and Hudson Railroad. These 
 steamers are large, modern, and of suffi- 
 ciently heavy burden to accommodate 
 one thousand people. It is beyond ques- 
 tion that upon no inland lake in the world 
 
 i t 
 
 •■ Here liass and pickerel abound and alford rare sport." 
 
 is the passenger service more promptly 
 attended to or the tourists more satis- 
 factorily cared for than upon the steam- 
 ers of this line. 
 
" The Rhine, the St. Lawrence, and 
 the Hudson," said Bayard Taylor, "are 
 the three most beautiful rivers of the 
 
 ■ la olden days tht- rapKl 
 
 t 111 Ijouts, now in stately steamers 
 
 world," and while each has its individual 
 charms, the St. Lawrence in man)' ways 
 is entitled to the place of honor. The 
 Richelieu and Ontario 
 Navigation Company 
 has made it possible, 
 by placing in service a 
 fleet of palatial steam- 
 boats, for the tourist to 
 enjoy every portion of 
 it, and in addition he 
 ma^' go far up its chief 
 tributary, the world-re- 
 nowned Saguenay, the 
 natural grandeur of 
 whose scenery no pen 
 has yet adequately por- 
 trayed. The route of 
 the steamers from 
 their western ter- 
 minus takes one 
 through the Thou- 
 sand Islands, af- 
 fording panoramic 
 views of this nat- 
 ural paradise of 
 water and verdure, 
 as the steamer 
 threads its way 
 amid the laby- 
 rinth of islands, 
 more than 1,700 in 
 number. After the 
 noble river has ex- 
 tricted itself from 
 the islands, it be- 
 gins to increase its 
 current, and final- 
 ly with turbulent 
 
 lashing plunges down the famous Lach- 
 ine rapids. The trip through these ra- 
 pids is an exhilarating experience never 
 to be forgotten. While there 
 is the maximum of excite- 
 ment, there is the minimum 
 of danger, though the experi- 
 ence is often trying to the 
 iK-rves, especially when the 
 steamboat makes a lurch in 
 ■ ic chaotic waters and a vol- 
 ume of spray is dashed in the 
 I aces of the thrilled voyagers. 
 To the eastward of Montreal 
 and Quebec, both of which 
 cities are reached by the boats 
 n\ the Richelieu and Ontario, 
 the journey by river is none 
 lie less interesting. The 
 steamers touch at Riviere du 
 Loup, near the famous water- 
 ing-place Cacouna, and then 
 crossing the river, which is 
 here about twenty miles wide, stop at 
 Tadousac before beginning the ascent 
 of the Saguenay. 
 
 • The Grand Discharge on Lake St. John is fascinating to all who see it.' 
 
The commercial metropolis of Canada, 
 Montreal, occupies a magnificent posi- 
 tion, facing the broad St. Lawrence on 
 the one side and receding 
 toward the beautiful Mt. 
 Royal on the other, upon 
 the summit and sides of 
 which is the lovely Moun- 
 tain Park, which has added 
 much to Montreal's fair 
 fame. Tlie view from the 
 summit of this mountain, 
 which is reached bv broad 
 
 " Montreal with its tree embowered squares and 
 evidences of prosperity." 
 
 roads over easy grades, is one of the most 
 sublime of any of this continent. 
 
 Far below and spreading out upon all 
 sides, in grand and solid proportions, 
 with broad -paved avenues, maple- 
 adorned streets, brilliant squares, open 
 parks, hundreds of spires, cupolas, and 
 domes, and high above all, rising con- 
 spicuously, the huge tow- 
 ers of Notre Dame and the 
 colossal form of St. Peter's, 
 one may behold the Mon- 
 treal of to-day. Montreal 
 with its wealth and its 
 poverty, its grandeur and 
 its beauty, its wonderful 
 paintings, its museums, 
 galleries, and libraries; its 
 vast warehouses, its rush 
 and noise ; yet not a sound 
 ascending from its life- 
 filled streets. A\vay to 
 the right is to be seen 
 the famed canal and the 
 world -renowned rapids. 
 Lower down, stretched 
 across the i)road St. Law- 
 rence, the Victoria Bridge 
 flings its huge proportions, 
 its diminishing tail touch- 
 ing the shore at St. Lam- 
 bert and its monster head swallowing up 
 a train that rushes from St. Cunegonde 
 into its iron jaws. 
 
 The city of Montreal has a full comple- 
 ment of hotels ; but the Balmoral on Notre 
 Dame Street, one block from Victoria 
 
 Square and five 
 miniates' walk 
 from the steam- 
 boat and rail- 
 way stations, 
 will be found 
 a t h o r o u g h- 
 1 }• enjoyable 
 hotel home. 
 .Messrs. E. 
 H. Dtmham & 
 Company, the 
 p r opr i etors, 
 are well known 
 as thoroughly 
 alert and alive 
 to the require- 
 ments oi the better class of the travelling 
 public. S75,ooo has recently been spent 
 on the Balmoral, and it is now as com- 
 plete, well-furnished and cheerful a house 
 as there is in Canada. The extensive 
 corridors and drawing-rooms of the Bal- 
 moral make the house especially desir- 
 able for ladies and children, and its 
 location makes it peculiarly well adapted 
 for visitors who desire to view the many 
 and delightful points of interest in Mon- 
 treal. Electric cars of every line in 
 Montreal pass the hotel door, and for 
 this very reason it is a convenient house 
 at which to make headquarters. Tourist 
 parties may secure accommodations in 
 
 
 ! Balmoral Hotel at .Montreal makes a specialty of 
 pleasing tourists." 
 
 advance by telegraph, and will receive 
 every consideration. The Balmoral is 
 conducted on the American plan. 
 
In quaint, delightful, and moss-covered old 
 Quebec, so rich in historical associations and 
 fascinating traditions of dead and gone heroes, 
 English, French, and aborig- 
 inal, there is so much of 
 interest to see and hear that 
 if the tourist's sojourn within 
 its gates — in this case the 
 gates are actual — is to be of 
 short duration, he must be up 
 and doing, or going, earh' and 
 late, for there is 
 a wealth of histor- 
 ical and legendary 
 facts and fancies 
 from which to 
 glean. Quebec is 
 unique, first, in 
 that it has been 
 the scene of more 
 war and strife than 
 any other city on 
 the western conti- 
 nent, and again 
 because of its im- 
 pressive location. Here have 
 transpired a long succession 
 of events in which the vital interests of 
 great nations were involved, supremacy 
 being attained onh' by fierce and terrible 
 battle. The natural splendor of the city's 
 surroundings could scarcely be excelled. 
 It is truly a " city set upon a hill," standing 
 guard over the entrance to the great in- 
 land waters of the continent ; 
 the fortress-crowned rock 
 with its grim armament 
 which overlooks the 
 river and the Lower 
 
 Town has earned 
 for it the title of 
 the American Gib- 
 raltar. 
 
 On the banks of 
 the St. Lawrence, 
 
 "In quaint. diliK'iIful. and moss-covered yuiljee 
 there is much to see.'" 
 
 where Quebec now sits in her beauty and 
 majesty, there stood three hundred and 
 fifty-nine years ago a small Indian vil- 
 lage. Here it was that Cartier anchored 
 his fleet about 1536, and claimed it, and 
 whatever else there may have 
 been thereabouts, as the pos- 
 session of the King of 
 France. He did nothing, 
 however, toward building 
 up a settlement, and it 
 was not until 1608, when 
 Champlain arrived and es- 
 tablished French owner- 
 ship, that it began to grow 
 to make history. For some 
 time thereafter Cham- 
 plain practically reigned 
 as King of the St. Law- 
 rence and exercised an 
 absolute sovereignty 
 over the territory from 
 the Gulf of Mexico to 
 Canada. 
 
 The Plains of Abra- 
 ham, a table-land on the 
 -nmmit of the heights 
 < n\ the north bank of the 
 St. Lawrence, were 
 thought to have been 
 too precipitous to be 
 reached by an enemy. 
 But historv tells us how 
 
" The city gates of Quebec are not fanciful but real." 
 
 the plain was reached and was the scene 
 of the desperate and terrific battle which 
 decided the possession of Canada. It 
 was on that fateful day that Wolfe died at 
 the very moment of his victory, and 
 Montcalm received mortal wounds. A 
 monument to Wolfe's valiant leadership 
 has been erected here, and in the Gov- 
 ernor's Garden is a dual-faced monu- 
 ment, raised in 1827 to the joint honor of 
 these two heroes, and bearing the in- 
 scription " Valor gave a common death, 
 history a common fame, and posterity a 
 common monument." On the plains, 
 reached by a picturesque old stairway 
 from the Lower Town, are three towers, 
 erected in 18 12 for the citv's defence. 
 
 The Cita- 
 del has 
 the most 
 command- 
 ing p o s i- 
 tion in the 
 li city, being 
 
 303 feet above the water, and is said 
 to contain arms sufficient to equip 
 20,000 inen. 
 
 The gates of the city are three in 
 niimber and stand at its western 
 approach. St. John's gate is, how- 
 ever, the only one of the three that 
 is at all ancient. The foundation- 
 stone of the Kent gate was laid by 
 the Princess Louise while residing- 
 in Canada when her husband, the 
 Marquis of Lome, was Governor- 
 General. The gate is named in 
 honor of the father of Queen Vic- 
 toria, who at one time was in com- 
 mand of the British forces in Can- 
 ada. The third gate, the St. Louis, 
 is near the Government buildings. 
 
 One of the most delightful places 
 at Ouebec for the tourist to make his 
 
 '\ 
 
 "Due of tlie delightful places for the tourist to stop 
 at is the Florence." 
 
 home for a longer or shorter period is 
 the Hotel Florence, a picture of which is 
 presented on this page. The location of 
 the Florence is one of the most attractive, 
 from a natural standpoint, in the quaint 
 old city in which it is so prominent and 
 popular. There is to be had from its 
 balcony a wide-stretching and beautiful 
 panoi'amic view of the St. Lawrence 
 River and the city. This view, w-hich 
 includes not only the beautiful Falls of 
 Montmorency, the Laurentian Range of 
 mountains, and the lovely valley of the 
 St. Charles, is not surpassed even from 
 the renowned Dufiferin Terrace. The lo- 
 cation of the Florence is very convenient 
 to all the prominent places of interest, 
 and street-cars reaching every portion of 
 the city pass the door every five minutes. 
 The interior finishings and furnishings 
 of the Florence are new and elegant, 
 and thoroughly in keeping with the gen- 
 eral excellence and reputation of the 
 house. The markets of Quebec are 
 famous for the great variety of sea-foods 
 and vegetables, and the table of the 
 
 i-in ) plunges 250 feet into the 
 chasm below." 
 
Florence offers a most excellent oppor- 
 tunity to test the high reputation of these 
 delicacies, as the cuisine \<. up to the high- 
 est standard. The house is lighted with 
 electricity, every room being supplied, 
 and there are on each floor iron balconies 
 and iron doors, thus insuring perfect 
 safety. Mr. Benjamin Trudel presides 
 over the Florence 
 as both proprietor 
 and manager, and 
 also over the new 
 and modern Vic- 
 toria, one of the 
 finest hotels in 
 Canada. The 
 tourist stopping 
 at either of these 
 delightful houses 
 will be well 
 pleased. 
 
 The tourist froni 
 the United States 
 who visits Quebec without taking the 
 trip up the wonderful Saguenay River is 
 turning away from, at its very threshold, 
 the most magnificent scenery — the Yel- 
 lowstone and Yosemite of Canada com- 
 bined. Who can paint in words or on 
 canvass the glories of the Saguenay ! 
 What pen has ever conveyed anything 
 but faintest impression of the yawning 
 and awful majesty of Cape Eternity, that 
 tremendous cliff i , 500 feet in height, or its 
 neighbor. Cape Trinity, showing its three 
 distinct heads both vertical and lateral! 
 The entire trip of the Saguenay River, 
 from Tadousac, where it joins the St. 
 Lawrence, to Chicoutiini, fascinates and 
 overawes one. Mr. W. H. H. Murray, in 
 describing it, says: "It is a monstrous 
 cleft opened by earthquake violence for 
 sixty miles through a landscape of moun- 
 tains formed of primeval rocks. In old 
 time a shock which shook the world 
 burst the Laurentian range asunder at 
 its St. Lawrence line, where Tadousac 
 now is, and opened up a chasm, two 
 
 1- a I Kiibervalon LakeSt. John a hamlsoine hotel. 
 
 •il di.' f.uritrsl iiiiprrhsi..ii ..r tin- 
 lid Kteriiity on the Saguenay Hiveri 
 
 miles across, two thousand feet in depth, 
 and sixty miles in length, straight north- 
 ward. Thus was the Saguenay born." 
 The beautiful steamers of the Richelieu 
 and Ontario Navigation Company are 
 modern and commodious, and the comforts 
 and luxuries of travel are provided upon 
 them. There are along the route several 
 interesting little towns, and ever}^ portion 
 of the distance has its peculiar charms. 
 At Chicoutimi connection is made with 
 the Quebec and Lake St. John Railroad 
 for Roberval on Lake St. John, which is 
 the source of the Saguenay, and one of the 
 most delightful lakes to visit on the 
 American Continent. It has become in 
 recent years the Mecca of the tourist, 
 sportsman, and woodsman. The main 
 line of the Quebec and Lake St. John 
 Railroad is between Quebec and Lake St. 
 John and the distance is but one hundred 
 and ninety miles, and through an interest- 
 ing region of mountain fastnesses, yawn- 
 ing chasms, and natural parks. 
 
 Some appreciation of the great beauty 
 and magnitude of this region may be 
 n in the statement that there are 
 in the confines of the Triton Fishing 
 Gun Club reservation more than 200 
 lakes of a mile, or o^-er, long, with 
 a myriad connecting streams, all 
 abounding in trout, salmon, and 
 ouananiche, the great fighter of the 
 north. Tourists are enabled to make 
 the round trip from Quebec, going 
 to Lake St. John by water, over the 
 , St. Lawrence and Saguenay rivers, 
 V and returning by rail, or vice versa. 
 At Lake St. John, one is sur- 
 
prised to find, in the Roberval, situated 
 on the western shore of the lake, a splen- 
 did modern hotel large enough to accom- 
 modate three hundred guests, equipped 
 with everything that the most fastidious 
 could desire for physical com- 
 fort and well-being. The interior ; 
 furnishings are new, and very 
 great taste has been exercised in 
 their selection. The house has 
 all such modernisms as electric 
 lights and bells, and is supplied 
 with every facility for indoor 
 amusement, such as billiards, 
 bowling, dancing, etc. The 
 grounds surrounding it are bril- 
 liantly lighted by electricity at 
 night, and, in addition to the 
 splendid boating, fishing and 
 driving, there are beautiful 
 tennis courts. The views af- 
 forded of Lake St. John from 
 the windows of this house are 
 exceedingly beautiful. The 
 earliest ouananiche fishing is 
 to be had immediately in front 
 of the Roberval, usually about 
 the first week in June, whije the 
 most exciting sport with this 
 gamiest of fresh-water fish is to 
 be had between the first week in 
 July and the middle of Septem- 
 ber. The Island House, under 
 the same management, situated 
 on an island of the Grand Dis- 
 charge, and reached in about tw > 
 hours by steamer from the Rob- 
 erval, is a most comfortable hotel 
 and much sought by those who 
 wish to fish from canoes. Here 
 the ouananiche is to be found 
 in shoals, waiting to spring on 
 his favorite fly as soon as it 
 is afloat, and the Canadian zvn- 
 ageiirs will paddle one about 
 very skilfully amid the danger- 
 ous rocks and whirling eddies. 
 
 The proprietors of the Roberval and 
 Island House have the exclusive fishing 
 rights of Lake St. John and its tribu- 
 taries. These waters, however, are free 
 to the Q-uests at these hotels. 
 
 ^ *]flr.^' 
 
 ' The hurrying watei's of thu laglitniiif; ]{iv 
 
 " The iiiaguiiictiit upectacle of Ouiatohouan FalKs, hijfher by a 
 hundred feet than Niagara." 
 
 The pleasures of camping in this region need 
 no recommendation to those who have once tried 
 them. There are from fifteen to twenty rotites 
 mapped out, which were unknown to white 
 men up to three or four years ago. The in- 
 land streams and lakes northward that 
 form such enjoyable links in the chain of 
 these tours abound with trout, their 
 waters having scarcely ever been invaded 
 by civilized fishermen. Large game of 
 ail kinds is plentiful. 
 
 This territory forms the northernmost 
 limits of " A Summer Paradise." 
 
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