The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-07-03

Our Erar esnia MsaDt.ins Correspondence.
PLUME HoUss, GRAFTON Co., N. H.,
n8 June Is, 1853.
zks FrsMcoNsa Mow~taims and Thar Cxr'os't'es-
How 10 Get IHre-1h< F unse and Profls" Ho
tSs-Cosveyo~ees for Wis ters-A Chapel in tn
As&~tasms- Description of the FlSms, Pool and
Bassw.
This is one Of the fashionable "caravansaries for
pilgrims to the mountains OF New Hampshire du
ring the3ummer season. II is hotel located in q
small rural township called Lincoln, near the head
waters Of the Pemigewasset one of the largest
branshes of the Merrimack and at the southern en-.
trance to the pass through the Notch of the Franco
mia Mountains That through the White Mountains
distinct affair and is situated about thirty miles
northeast Of here. Travellers from New York can
leave there by of the evening boats the Sound
via Norwich, Worcester, Nashua. Concord and Lake
WinMpisseogee, and reach here for an early supper
the following evening. They breakfast at Worcester
at about six O'Clock, pass Concord at halfpast ten
the Weirs steamboat landing on the Lake at twelve
and reach Plymouth, eighteen miles beyond) at one
r n. All this portion OF the route IS accomplished
by railroad and steamboat from New f)rk. FROM
Plymouth il is twenty four miles by stage, to this
place up the beautiful valley of the Pemigew asset.
Except in yery dry and warm weather such as l ex
porienceS on my late trip tue ride with good car
riase, is delightful But can say no such thing
about it with the thermometer at ninety-two, the
su6ocating clouds of dust and fourmile-an-hour
team, such as kept me company on my way hither,
before the road had been stocked with the usual
travelling equipages for the summer travel. The
above is the quickest route. The trip from
New York may be made for from Sc to $40, the
expense varying with the steamboat fares on the
Sound and the arrangements for tcketing through
It is half days stage ride hence to tho White
Mountain Notch, passing up through the Franconia
Notch. five miles above here, by the hasin profile,
Old Man of the Mountain, all near together, thence
down into Franconia vil4s the coolest place in
the world and also just st present as hot as any this
side Of tho ancient Nicholas domnions-over the
hills in Bethlehem, from which superb views Of the
whole mountain region are obtained. Every mile Of
tho ride u interesting. If made in train of cars
the trip would be entirely ruined. About the middle
Of July the White Mountains Railroad will be
opened to Lttleton, twenty miles from the White
and twelve from the Francona Mountain Notches.
The approach to Franconia by this railroad route is
made from the northwest size of the Franconia
range-instead Of the south, by which have come
up the Montreal Railroad from Concord or the Con-
nee6out valley roads to Wells river, VT; thence
twenty miles over the w. NJ. Railroad to Little
ton, up the delightful valley Of the lower Ammoo-
suck river, branch Of the Connecticut rising among
the mountains No railroad should ever DO con-
sruoted farther into these mountains than Littleton
There ere two public stopping places in the Fran
conia Mountains. The Flume House, whence write,
is located their southern side the celebrated
fume and pool. These are situated about three
fourths Of mile east of the hotel by different forest
paths The basin is close by the stage road you pass
up (north) towards the Notch, Old Man of the
Mountain, or Profile. These are i've miles distant
from here, and there is an immense hotel called the
!" Probe House." nearly completed there. Both
houses, together with all the land between the two,
are owned by Messrs. Taft 4 Company. They are
6rsClaSs summer resort, aud, when not crowded, as
comfortable a. the best New York or New England
country hotels. The Fluine House contains about
me hundred apartments, including public saloon |
md dining hall on magnificent scale. The house |
three stories high, and two hundred and slxty-two
eek long, with two tiers Of piaxzas on the eastern
nd southern sides They command view down |
he picturesque valley OF the Pemgewasset forty |
miles in extent Over 40 travellers patronzed the
FMme Hoase last summer IN seventy days. Inc
greatest crush" of visers occurred between the 18th
and I'D Of August. The profile House Is larger
and more thoroughly construc ed ediice, containing
one hundred and seventyfve room, which, with its
furniture, will cost about s35 OOO-a very Respectable
SUM for an "inn' up here in these FrsnconiA iron
diggings, which nobody knew OF cared much about
q dozen or fifteen years ago. On my nrst visit. Id
1896 there were only mean, cut throat looking
tavern at the Profile and old, dilapldated house
here the tables boasting few trout badly cooked,
a pork -steek the sight OF which would MAKE Gin
onat6 butcher forswear his trade for ever aud trn
jew, few poor potatoes and some aneataoie meaa.
NV psrty at that time down from Littleton ID
the morning and returned at night, not having the
temerity to risk valuable persons by attempting
to geep here as there plenty OF INDICATIONS that
we should have to turn In with more than TWO IN
bed.
Connected with the Flume and Profile Houses,
MesHs. Taf b Company will employ thus summer
an elegant new open carriage, capable or seating
twenty and drawn by half q dozen elegant cream
colored horses 1t will be used for excursions to the
Flume, ito which they have constructed q roadD
and other drives in the neiphborhood- Fhey also
have two stage teams, OF four horses eacn, aaa lofty
saddle horses for ascending Mount Lafayette,
Mount Pleasant, &C. Opposite the FluIne House
they have recently erected neat little white chapel
City feet square, tastefuiy ornamented with spires,
baiustrsde &C., designed after an improved aakee
Gothic order Of architecture This chapel Is to be
used for the appropriate worship OF God on the
Sabbath here, among the grandest OF his works,
also for social gatherings at other times
The Flume, three fourtbs Of u mile distant can Do
visited either on foot horseback, or by carriages
To be properly appreciated by lazy man he should
made desperate effort Gas did, rise before the
sun. and put "Shank's mare IN reqaislton. no
matter if be il alone-that glorious little forest bird
II forget its name)-about tie SIZE OF canary, WIN
eep him company, and furnish p,ccola solo with
nimitably clear whistle. All! Jenny Lind, dld
ou ever walk to the Fume al early tourF tlume =
he name comes from its resemblance to the fume
rraoeway of mill. Here branch OF the Penn
pevasset comes down through rocky insure or
left in the mountain. 1t is deep chlsn, having
aural precpices of granite standing IN some places
erpeudiculary on each side TO the height OF seven
" feet. while the mountain torrent rnshes through
its midst, falling preciptous crags and loose
masses OF rocks Of various Sizes, In midsummer
there Is but little water in the Flume AMI the Dot
tom Of the ravine may be passed with the AID OF an
occasional plank, without wetting the feet when
the SHOWS are melting the mountains above, Ia the
spring, or after q heavy rain the torrent rushes
through IL with terrific force, and IN great depth.
Its length Is some two hundred yards, its ave.
rare width about twenty feet Its sides are
smooth, and excavuted with singular evenness Dr.
c. T. jackson, who visited it IN 1913, in his capacity
Of State Geologist says that: The direction OF tie
-. L. ed dc.r Z, and il annelr3 to