Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-08-17

aud raspberry pie and nsince-pie, ct eetera,
for breakfast, dinner and supper at the Tip
top" We're not visible. having probably re-
tired to some secluded nook Of the stone house
to uttrivate and adorn their persons for the en-
snarement OF the coming Crawford guides ana
"Tip-top" omnibus drivers; the hostlers at the
Summit stable had gone into the straw for a
snooze. and in short, the representative of the
Star was monarch of all he surveyed. The
squirrels-red, striped and gray--that, singu-
larly enough, choose to burrow amongst the
loose stones strswn so thiekly on this barren
mountain top, come out in numbers, and were
the only living objects to be seen in that i'm
mense sweep Of landscape. 1t was an unique
Sunday morning experience for the subscri-
Der; but at noon the whole appearance of
things had changed. A party of twenty from
Crawford's, and about The same time the
Glen and Alpine House omnibuses come
up with their loads by the carriageway
At O'clock the Crawford House guides
started on the return trip, and 1 accom-
panied them, as did also party who came
mp from the other side per omnibus. For
the benefit of unsophistieated tourists, warn
them not to trust to the romancing stories of
the writers of the guide. books as to the ineyi-
table sure footedness of the mountain horses.
Two of our party were pitched over their
horses heads through the stumbling OF the an
imals, though from the slow pace 1t which
they creep no great harm was done; and il
must be said in praise of the beasts thatscurvy
and spiritless as they look, they show consid-
erable intelligence in avoiding stepping on a
PROSTATE rider. The ascent from Crawford's
is put down al eight miles, but the traveller
will place it at nearer twelve. IL is probably
about ten miles. The first mile OF the descent is
about as rugged piece of rocky perpendicular
as wa. ever travelled. After that the path passes
over the crests OF some Of the lesser fiat-:opped
mountains, Monroe, Clinton, &c, and at inter-
walls is sufficiently level TO beguile the travel.
er into the belief that the worst is over but the
last five miles of broken corduroy and stones,
slippery with moisture from the springy
ground, serves to dispel the pleasing Illusion
And then the black flies OF Mount Clinton and
the Saco valley. II is conceded TO be a task
requiring some patience TO carry half dozen
stemless pumpkins and a roll Of ole.leather
any distance with peas in your shoes, ard a
baker with his arms up to the elbows in dough
and fiea in the leg of his pantaloons is un.
doubtcdly in a bad fix, but IT is a worse dilem-
ma, yet, TO 60 down a White Mountain preci.
pice with both hands occupied holding s.aut"
q stumbling pony, and with a swarm of fero.
cious black flies pegging away at every blood
pore, and half dozen, particularly enter
prising fellows tickling your nostrils beyond
endurance. The view by this route, trayers-
ing several mountain tops, is said to be finer
in some respect, and more diversified than by
the carriage road from the other side, but really
one is so much occupied with looking to the
safety OF his neck and slapping away at the
black flies, or at least making faces at them
that there is precious little time or disposition
left for enjoying the view.
Arriving at the Crawford House muddy, Gy-
bitten and sore in every bone, it is one of the
compensations of nman life after a refresh
ing wash, to sit down TO a Crawford House
supper, with its brook trout, white honey in
the comb, sublime White Mountain rolls, cap
ital mountain mutton, &c, &c. The Crawford
House is, perhaps, the best kept of the noun
tain houses, buo the guest has to paw for il
plumply when the bill comes in The nominal
price is 81 per day, profile House s45O,l but
there is a set OF extras in the shape of ..frac.
tions" Of days, in addition 10 ..halyes', and
"quarters''-a new invention in the way OF
hotel gougng, that bothers the traveller en-
tirely, and sets him al once upon the mental
calculation how long his pocket-book will
stand the STRAIN OF mountain travel. The re-
suit OF this hotel sharp practice is that a con-
resort to tarR houses, where. for 81 day they
can live quite comfortably, if not as fashiona.
bly, as at the hotels, and avoid all the big ex-
tras. The hotel people say, with considerable
truth, that the mountain season is but short
one, and thar they must make hay while the
sun shines. The question is, however, whether
they would not make more money by doing a
larger business at smaller profits, than by the
present prices, which compel the visitor TO
make his visit q dying one.
1t is noticeable that the visitors a. the noun
tam houses this year stop but few hours a.
each house. Not one of the hotels have prob.
ably been half full at the busiest time of the
season. Now, by putting the price al mod
crate one, and cutting of the gouging extras,
these hotels could PROBABLY keep their rooms
filled with permanent guests for the season;
and q full season could be made from the Ist
of June to the 10th Of September. The bleed
ing process carried on by the stage lines he.
tween the mountain houses Is also very much
to the disadTantage OF the hotels. Charging
81 for carrying a child six miles, 81 for carry
ing a carpet bag 20 miles, ard 81 for carving
a passenger the same distance, is among the
swindles ty the stage folks that serve TO dis.
gust the tourist and make him ready 20 for
swear mountain travel forever more.
The Crawford House occupies n nosi,io,
serving to make it in many respects the most
attractive OF the mountain resorts, standing
centrally between the White Mountains and
Franconia Mountains, and at the gateway OF
the Notch. and but a short distance from the
Wiley House and slide
When we rose this morning somewhat stin
and sore from our perpendicular experiences
of yesterday coming down from the Summit.
we found the morning party for Mount Wash.
ington, via the Crawford bride path, gathering q
at the outlet of that path in front of the Craw.
ford House, TO the number OF about twenty
ladies and cavaliers, noun nted upon the sleepy.
fagged-out looking animals used for that pu r.
p1se. They were summoned to the start bv
the inspiriting strains Of a band, and As the CAV
party set out, gushingiy cheerful, and struck
into the shades Of their fragrant dewy forest
path, everything looked lovely: bat I'll bet
they got the romance taken out of 'em prettv
efeciually about the third mile OF corduroy
anu oiacK'hies. C.SN
NATIONAL CONVENTION OF TAILoRs.-Tbe
Tailors National Union consisting of dele.
gates from the larger cities of the United States
mas been In session in. New York this week
There are delegates from the tailors' societies
OF New York city, Philadelphia, Boston,
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