New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-07-10
THE MOUNTAINS or ULSTER.
THE PEOPLE WHO co TO THEM-THE MIsTs
THAT VAIL THEM.

THE PEOPLE WHO co TO THEM-TiIE MISTS
THAT VAIL THEM
IPRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT oP THE TRIBUNE |
OVERLOOK MOUNTAIN HOUSE, July 1.-Tele-
grams from the lower world inform us that its Their
mometer is 90 in the shade. Well we pity you, but
sympathy is all able to give. We would, If we
could send you down breath of this delightful noun
tain breeze tour thermometer is only 77) but mountain
breezes are mountain possessions and consequently not
transferable 50 you must either up after them
go without,
The regular mountain season has just about be-
gun at least would judge, from the rapid manner
in which the hotel is filing up. week ago there were
scarcely dozen people here, and they were OF the
"early and often Order-men and women who have no
regular Summer abiding place, but who fit round from
one another testing each and every one with
that disagreeabe wand of experience which, through
having touched much has really little or no apprec
alton OF anything OF all Summer trbulatons, the man
or woman-with travelling hobby Is the worst; and
these are not by any means to be cassed with those
who having the world, learn the great
lessons of the world and profit by Them These last
travellers: the first are a sort OF mild monomaniac,
whose mldn is quite offensive is7her mania.
They look a view which you have been especially
enthusiastic in irritating silence, and finally drlW out
in superior sort OF style, Yes. this is all very WELL
but" these people all hOnored representatives OF
the if and but" rlbe) sit does MT commence with 30
something without reservation. The sunset which you
deem so wondrOus, they consider Tor pretend toy most
commonplace or If II is not commonplace 1t has dash
too much little OF scarlet, the bne line Isn't
distinct enough for the green, ORWELL IL IS useless
detailing further; but they 10 have geometricai
ideal Of sunset proper. with which they compare sur
sets real much atter's disadvantage The noun
tans are subjected to the unhappy test. Their
wonderful drapery of haze is never quite the correct
shade The blue Is intense, not intense enough;
the violet is altogether wrong, and the purple is
never exactly right. At such a pace, at
such a time, they have seen IL when suited
them, but never since have they found any
thing to compare with it. The mountains them
selves do not escape these sefconsttuted crfics-one
peak is too sharp another isn't sharp enough is too
PERCEPTIONS. while another the ascent is too gradual
Altogether these Travelled folk make very evident that
If they mad had the planning Of the universe. IL would
have been gotten up In much better STYLE fortunately
for itself Overlook Mountain is troubled with very few
tors Of this sort. They don't meet with sufficient en-
couragement to warrant them in making ether pro-
tracted OF repeated stays. They kind If social
leech who draw their life from social Ignorance and
truth to tel-there very little of this to be bund
the top of an eighmile mountain. Fools have great
fon1ness for nature and would die OF ennu ner within
a hours Men and OF whom the world has heard
great and good thingsartiss, sculptors, philosophers
and the hke-here most do congregate. yoing man
with draWl mustacne ana PAIR OF yeglaSes, WIN
a diamond shirt-stud inch in circumference, and
soul 10 match has place here. He don't liketo climb
and even II he did is afraid OF "snakes and bihs and
aw-caterpahs, and all such howwd things He likes
10 ride horseback in Central Park-but has an original
dread of the well-traned mountain ponies, which do
such good service in the wild mountain bridephs and
thinks that "eyen If they were safe, fellih-aw-
wouldn't look yewwy gwaceful D0DDing over tie Wocks
He would like gentle Irritation with that .pwety
girl" who sat opposite nm AT bweakIass put
strangely enough the pretty girl prefers morning on
inert exquisite and the result is that Afophns sleks his
cane in solitary state fCr few hours, then axes the
as deuced bOres Nor do bis sisters OF the butterfly
world fare any better They may firt If theywant TO-
with the Overlook couds-may talk silly nothKs TO the
Overlook Winds but for human c0mpanionsIip they
might as well be in the Desert OF Sahara. And yet We
have everything that these most delight in We have
dancing every evening, 10 music from the Wagners
themselves but the dancers have heads as weas heels
and this the butterfly exotcs are not accut9med TO-
We have bard-rooms, but the players can make men
tai runs well runs OF other descriptions ana TINS
renders them rather difficult TO keep With n fact we
offer the butterfly world every inducement but that
OF congenial cOmpanonshp, and that lack alone uOr
which may the Faes be prasedD ia sufficient 70 Keep
them at distance During the past spring ana winter
Overlook Hotel has been almost doubled In we. Last
Summer dts first season. the demand for rooms was very
much greater than the supply. This yea the pro
pretors have endeavored TO insure accommodations for
all desiring them; but, even with the mmenf additlon
il Is feared the amount of room viii be insufficient All
of the old % hotel reGngaged last year bylast years
guests, aud very little OF the new now rmains Tor
Wouldbe visitors The weather is simply Aperb-n0t
monotonously clear, many might Judge nut varied
The mist effects are unusually fine. For TIVE mornings
past II the mist has lain the valley In geat white
unbroken pillows. Those who know whereof they
speak" say that IL is the exact counterpart OF the
ocean, only with surface OF clouds instead OF
water. Gradually, the rises 1t lifts
up to itself this snowy sheen. But the trans
mutations which Old Sol effects before he succeeds IN en-
trely appropratng 10 himself the valleys aCOrnnents
are wonderful they are beautiful FIRST BE- nmn-
ates the whole mass, and % the courageous eyes
which dare admire IL long The gold and silver cOrusc
tons the white plain dazzling unto blindness, and
one might better attempt 10 stare the himself out OF
couneuance. Then he begins 20 gather up the bright
coverd. and after little premontOry cOudralsing one
secs away of III the east tiny scarlet thread, when
little by little sobers down into modest hues aud
finally recognized the Hudson suppose there Is
some sound scientific reason why the river Is nnyaled
before the valley but 20 the unscienhe II would almost
seem that the exercises artists taste In MS
morning duties and knows wei do we the marvel
Gus effects he produces. Soon he goes 10 work on the
valley Little by little patch OF forest shows Itself
down In the great smooth white sea; then bit OF meadow
peeps out Soon the tops OF two three farm houses
are visible and after that the work OF transformation
goes swiftly on, and long green country lies re
veaed dotted here and there by dainty castles OF mist
which after while float lightly up 10 the blue sky.
Verify we have Visible Castles In tho air" Who daros
deny the factt