The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-08-10
For the Grand Haven News,

lOhoNIo, " W., July 20, 1909.
MEssRs. BARNS & FosHA: believ,
that promised, in my first, to give yor
some clue to a reason for my writing. II
is simply this: had anothing to do" but
as those who have nothing in particular
to write, generally have nothing written
when they have completed their epistles
| thought l would not announce the fact
at first lest you should PREJUDICE my arti-
Gle by that rule, and lose all the very cal.
uoble (D things that l might chance tc
say. If | mistake not l wrote you al
some time that l expected to revisit the
White Mountains, and might find some
thing of interest there to report. In that
excursion l was defeated by the thick,
smoky atmosphere that has prevailed in
the vicinity Of the mountains for the last
ten days. made trip, however, to
Lake Memr gemagog and "Owps Head"
which yielded me far greater pleasure than
my previous visit TO the mountains, and
concerning,which | will give you some jot-
tings to day, as I again find myself de-
layed six hours at hotel with "nothing
to do"
l said the "good byes" at the old
homestead on the morning of July 2lst
with feelings mingled with less of sad
ness than when l left my friends few
years before-for then l started out into
this bustling, jostling, active world, with
the whole great Northwest before me as
n destination. Will iAi---~'-
leaving mother-and who ever had any
other friend as good as a mother?-and
many other friends, tried and true, yet l
have in my wanderings in aye Western
Lands" found stopping place, and there
too are warm hearts and noble souls. In
company with some relations l visited
that day and evening at friends, some
five miles from my old home. On the
following morning, at about seven o'clock
l started, per stage line, for Northumbor-
land station, six miles further distant
Our road lay along the eastern bank Of
the Connecticut, and is quite as sandy as
Grand Haven, although it passes through
fine farming district. We arrived Al
the station at few minutes past eight
AS | found the train not due until nooI
1 improved this opportunity to exercise
my pedestrian functions, and visited
friend, q schoolmate and playmate of my
youth, who had married and settled
about a mile and half back on th'
mountain. The three miles walk did mi
no injury l presume, and twelve o'clocl
found me waiting for the Iron Horse will
his living load to carry me TO lslan'
Pond. Soon it came, putting and stamp
ing from rail to rail, around the curve AM
up before the depot like a thing of life
A few minutes more and we were buzzin
through hills and rattling over bridges
now whirling away straight through
beautiful farm, now following along th
bank of the river until we reached Mort
Stratford, when we crossed the Connect
cut, and turning a little to the left dasl
ed off into the wilderness and followe
the trail of little mountain stream an
a line of ponds until at one o'clock v
halted at Island Pond, twenty-five mil
|, distant from Observation-Disclosures
miles from the river, sixteen miles fro
: Canada line, and thirteen from We
$ Charleston. Here the Railroad Compal
c (The Grand Trunk) have extensive sho
: and evidently do considerable busine'
d They have thirteen different tracks thl
+ their grounds and all seemed to be qui
ID well occupied. AS we halted in the Z
: pot, building sixty by two hundred a
:. :. thirty feet, with an addition some I'll
feet square, on the middle of the W,
side, we heard several voices, "Up I
p. walk for dinner--stop here one hour
e' after dinner see to your baggage and hs