The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-06-29
MIDSUMMER RESORTS.
The Green Mountains.

MIDDLEr0wN SPRINGS, VT, June 81, 1870.
This has grown to be popular watering resort
counting Its visitors annually By hundreds, and each
season bringing more than the last. Not one OF
those places where the votaries OF pleasure do
congregate-where fashion exats herself on her top
most pinnacle and where folly stalks about upon
stilts-but delightful, quiet and heathfu retreat.
where people gather IRON far and near to test the
remedial properties OF its remarkable mineral
waters, and where the green hills and grand old
mountain heights and rural prospects all around In
vite to such recreation contribute alike to phys.
cal comfort and mental exhilaration-in word,
where health Is the allimportant consideration and
its earnest pursuit the principal occupation OF the
multaudes sojourning here. Incidence holds no
court here We are not invaded with her listless
and yawning subjects, sick with ennui, as Is too
often the case at certain more fashionable summer
resorts
All is animation and life about us: that life which
pervades place but recently startled into sense
OF Its prospective Importance by the development or
an unexpected element OF wealth In It's midst; the
lie which capital anu enterprise bring with them,
and whose substantial fruits are made manifest In a
large ana splendid new hotel, last approaching CON-
plelon, and other buildings and improvements be.
t0kenlng an era OF genuine prosperity life In the
activity OF The wi age homes overcrOwded with sum
mer boarders lie IN the busy work OF boutling and
shipping great quantities. OF the mineral water TO all
parts OF the country and life In the continuous pill
grimage OF the sick ana cOnvaescent and well to
the fountains OF health that fow free to all who
come and drink.
Indeed, for little village scarcely known beyond
Its own mountain limits not more than two years
ago. this IL about the "livest' place In the Green
Mountain State. And yet for rest and recreation
and The quiet which conduces TO heathfu rcstora-
ton Its advantages are unquest0nabe, and are
beng duly appreciated by the invalid public In
peasant company rambles over the mountains, fish
ing . hui, hunting, driving and every !. coneeiv.
among these green hills. With the first iiasnings
OF the golden sunbeams over the hlltops crowds
begin to collect In the little willow grove around the
springs to quar- the salubrlous waers, fresh and
sparkling from natures own laboratory. Most
springs for the interchange OF morning sautations
the correction OF plans for the days sport and
world OF gossip Tor the good old danes who have
little business or their own but mucn OF others TO
attend 10. Then, too, are the rcassemblings after
the heat OF the day is over the promenades in cool
things are discussed from the anairs OF Stale, han.
died by the wisdom o. years to the merest nothings,
clothed In honeyed words and whispered in The
creuuous ears OF youth and neXpericncc.
The new hotel has been leased by Coleman, late
Of the Astor House, and viii be opened on the day
august 1S) OF the grand centennial celebration OF
The reputed nineteen million heiress of Fort Ed.
ward, N. Y, who ceated such a str IN the news.
papers some months ago, Is native OF this village
and well known hereabouis. There are simple peo-
pie here VINO believe that remittance OF $4,000 900
was really made from England and has been ''gob
bled upn by the British Consul, to whom it was
sent Others, in their unsophsticated ideas OF S,ls
ness, as conducted beyond these mountains bel eve
that the woman holds drafts for the millions In ques-
ii n bat that an nsufciency OF funds in the banks
OF this country prevents her casliing them. Many
doubt not mat the fortune Is coming sooner or later
and pay their court 10 the Imagined heiress accord.
mgy.
Whether this female is the dune OF some idle story
or, with charact risc Yankee ingenuity, has abri-
Gated the whoe thing IN her fertile brain for purposes
| known to herself, We shall not pretend 10 say. She
seems determined, at all events, to make something
out OF her prospective fortune Having found some
one crazy enough TO advance upon her expectations
she Is here buying lots with the intention OF bu dug
near the new hotel possible without encroach.
ing on the company's grounds. She Is stalking OF u
To- now Immediately in front OF the hotel and pro-
poses ID build at once, perhaps with the idea that
the Company will look upon her advent nuisance
and pay handsomely for her departure. AS hnan-
cer on small scale perhaps VIII succeed better
| than as fortune hunter ON large one.