The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-06-07
Natering-Place Notes,

BANDS of music are in such demand
for the watering places this year that
prices have advanced, and are higher
than they have Eeen for several sea
sons.
The Fort William Henry Hotel,
Lake George, has secured for the
season band of % excellent musi-
clans.
GIN. FRANK p. BLAIR, IT., has writ
ten a private letter from RIchfiel,i,
Springs (Otsego county, to the effect
that he has gained ID pounds since his
solourn there He thinks it a rich field
for health.
A SAVANNAH editor predicts that in a
few years the mountainous regions of
Georgia Will be tavorite summer re
sorts. Probable enough for Georgia
abounds III fine scenery and extremely
salubrious localities.
The lake trip, as it is called, up the
Huron to the Superior region, includ-
ing the upper Mississippi, and back
East by way Of Chicago, has many adj
vocates, and Will find many patrons
during July and August.
GEMS. BEAUREGARD AMI IOngstrect,
and other prominent ex-Rebel officers.
will spend the Summer, it is said, at
the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs;
where there will be a very large repre-
sentation of the best Southern families.
The owner Of the Mammoth Cave in
Kentucky talk Of advancing the prices
charged for going through the long
and short routes from 81 to 81 per
head, but they hesitate for fear of
diminishing their receipts. The rates
are quite high enough now.
STocKBRiDGE, Mass, is one of the
most desirable of all the inland New
England towns TO spend the Summer
IN. It's situation on the Housatonic
River and among the Berkshire Hills
is remarkably pleasant, and the
climate during the warm months de
lightful.
MANY families that have been in the
habit of spending the Summer at the
watering-places are going abroad this
year and many families that have
heretofore gone to Europe will this
season seek the spriugs, seaside or
mountains. SO the social equilibrium
Will be preserved.
AVON Springs, in Livingston County,
have ceased to be fashionable. but are
still attractive to invalids. Many per
sons consider the waters of Avon the
best in the country for Indigestion.
The patronage of the place huctuates
very little from year 10 year; The three
or four hotels there being usually full
from July to the 18th of September.
CALIFORNIA is ono of the most
pleasant aud is becoming one of the
most popular regions for Summer
travel. The chief objection to it for
persons of small means is its expen-
siveness. Nobody can visit the Pacific
coast, including the Yosemite, of
course, for less than so to SIS, gold,
per day-the former the minimum
rate.
An attempt is making III Kentucky
to revive the Harrodsburg and Blue
Lick Springs, in thai state. They
were very literally patronized before
the war, but have been much neglected
since. Harrodsburg IS said to be the
oldest town in Kentucky, the first
cabin having been built there iii IVA
by Capt. James Harrod, from which
the place takes its name.
THERE are not less than seven White
Sulphur Springs in the Union, all of
them in the Southern States. The
best-known, of course, are in Green.
brier county, West Virginia, Then
there are those i'll Merriweather county,
Georgia in Limestone county. Ala
bama; in Lauderdale county, Missis-
sippi; In Catahoula county, Louisiana ::
In Bath county, Kentucky, and still
another in Union county in the same
state.
ONE of the favorite long trips this
Summer will be to Niagara; down the
Niagara River TO Lewiston, across
Lake Ontario and down the St. Law
renee to Montreal and Quebec, up the
Saguenay; thence to tie sea-shore.
through the WI tie Mountains, and so
home again. This journey combines
almost every variety of scenery
cataract, lake, river, rapids, city,
wilderness, ocean and mountains. aud
can hardly be excelled for muItiform
plcturesqueness.