Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-07-19
Correspondence of the Spy.
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WHITE MOUNTAINS, July is. 1856.
Messrs Editors: 1 arrived here (Glen House)
on the 18th, and found, as is usual at this season
Of the year. constantly changing fashionable
travelling community. 1t really reminds one of
good old staging times, thirty to fifty ar
rving and departing daily. which, with the out
fitting of cavalcade of from fifteen to twenty
ladies' and gentlemen, nearly every day for the
top of Mt Washington, renders this place where
the is little or no other population, one of va
red and pleasant interest. l had heard con-
siderable of the road, that is being built up the
mountain. but did not until reaC hrd here gain
any satisfactory or defnite information how far =
1t had progressed But after conversing with our
good landlord, deter mined that would, with
my three female companions, explore the road
by actually riding over il with horses and wagon.
Alter getting permit of the contractor, Mr.
Myers, (who, by the way, is very much of a
mountain gentleman we, on the morning of the
IA rs started, and rode over a good road where it
was finished ard all the way for four and half
miles quite passable, making nearly gradual as.
cent of about one foot in five. This was the first
carriage that has been driven over the road to
carry up visitors to Mt Washing;o on, with the
| autumn. las+
| This ride brought us within two and halfmiles
| OF the top, and my wife, although unaccustomed
| TO walking determined to take plenty of time
| ana with the rest of US, to look up and go ahead
and, at the expiration of about four hours to our
| ",
| prlse) we found ourselves in The Summit House
mere we had convincing proof that the friends
OF FTenls't were not only to be found in the val.
leys, but On the highest mountain TONS for there
was vote taken at the summit House as the
| cavalcade was about departing and it stood Tins.
| " Tor Fremont; | for Buchanan and Fillmore,
and one not voting; and eight of the Fremont
| votes were from Pennsylvania.
! We bad very indifferent mountain view this
day, and staid over night with hope of
| having pleasant sunrise. We did not get it.
SO we stayed in a severe rain storm, until about
| four O'Clock 7 NJ, when, to our great surprise
there was party OF four from the Gibbs House
and one Of seventeen from the Glen House, who
had lett hne warm weather at the foot of the
mountains, on either side. while we had the rain
and cold. We had, all day, as much FIRE as we
should want at home in November About eight
| O'Clock the clouds, for some fifteen minutes dis
| persed as bv magic, so that the party who had
JUST mounted their horses to depart, shouted with
| JOY, (but not so loud as to disturb our nearest
neighbors,) after which all but two descended,
leaving us for another night
| In the course of the evening we had several
splendid peeps az the nearly full moon, who, like
us, seemed to be bound to see old Mount Wash
| ington, in spite OF the clouds and tempestuous
winds. BY about o'clock, A. M the howlinp
and blowing Of the winds bad apparently dspos-
ed OF all the fog and clouds that Law acest of
Mount w, so that it could no longer be cloudy.
Yet for all this it blowed so hideousy that it
| Rocks rock. ~
At about past O'Clock there were strong
| indications--of WHAT Another storm Mo-
But OF one of the finest suay1Ses that ever mortal
oeheld, and, at II minutes past four, which is
| 20 minutes earlier than it appears off the moun-
tain it appeared as beautifully as the most {. nit.
iul imagination could portray. At we break.
tasted, and about we started and encountered
such blowing as would frighten the natives
away down IN Massachusetts. Yet. our at
traction had changed and perseverance, became
as earnest for roads and carriages, and absence
from the never eeasing wind, we found ourselves.
in about hours, riding down the mountain
carriage road, Zone Of the wonders of The age.)
and reached our home, the Glen House, at IL
o'clock, NJ. with a change of temperature Of
some As degrees.