The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-09-06

OF Homeric laughter in the evening over the per-
Torrance Of Boston professional named Barnabee,
par,or, would convince anybody OF how he adds
practice 70 precept.
This has grown TO be pretty long parenthesis
In the story OF journey from the Twin Noun tain
House to this elevated locality. BY the by, NAV
say that only one OF the Twins. the North Ia boy,
believe Is visible from the house. Until an OLD in
habitant had soiemnly assured me or the TACT that
the sister Twin was beyond and out OF sight, had
picked out haii dozen pair OF Twins In the noun
tains around. When nrst introduced into this mar
rative was bowling along beside the stage driver
through the narrow, leafy valley OF the AmmOnoo-
sue. ! cannot refer to this name too often, Tor
although there are fifty such
LoNG-wINDED, CACOPHONOUS
names in this vicinity 1t Is the only one that can
toucn OH .'trippnglyn-that is, without tripping
the road to faOyans Is a pretty one, disclosing
many pretty views In It's windngs with tpe trend
year. is q fine building, enjoying beautiful site
where the valley opens into a spread OF bright
green meadow .S You can look from its piazza
along the White Mountains, with Mount Washing
ton towering up majestlcally in the foreground;
and more to the right Is Francona Notch, where
the two mountain ranges meet almost at right
angles. In the Notch is the Crawford House,
owned by the proprietor OF the Twin. Turning
away from Fabyan's and facing the great noun
wilder to the eye ana more uneasy TO the seated
stage passenger There are many
KINDS OF JOLTS
such as the jolt over the rock-strewn bed OF
Utah canyon, or the jolt over the Serras, whereon
u
tree stump or fallen pine tree than your Broad
way expressman does OF driving over citizen.
The White Mountain jolt Is not SO astonishing TO
the unaccustOmed passenger. out 1t has charms Of
Its own, among which the rafting over loose plank
bridges Ii a chief delight. As we near the foot OF
several acres which exhibits more tree stumps to
the square yard than anything remember seeing
satlrically, no doubt. At last the station IAN,
m0nOOsuc AGAIN. IS reached, and
THE PECULIAR RAILROAD
n in q
straight line until lost in the distance or the
clouds, as the case may be, gives one an unplea-
their boilers and smokestacks leaning forward as
II about 10 fall over are examined by the intending
The centre tracS with It's r1ngs or ratchets, which
form the slender ladder on which the train with
It's toothed wheels u TO painfully and groaningly
ascend, looked at critically Then the compressed
air-brakes and all the Otner appliances Tor hang
ing on by the eyebrows, as 1t were. in case Of &C.
cident are scrutnzed
MIR. BEECHER TELLS A STORY.
lady at the Twin house the otaer day on pro
had the following story told her by Plymouth's
rusticating PASTOR
as there really any danger ''' said the lady:
sThat reminds me-" said Dir. Beecher, ''of an
old lady VINO asked the conductor where the train
would 90 II the engine broke down. On the track,
you see that ratchet, mum9 That ID hold US on
till the day after doomsday. But. continued the
t. break DOWN. That, num- replied the con- n,
ductor, sOlemnly, would depend mum, on wnat
sort q lie YOU mad been leaQIDg.,n
AS we are waiting to take places, after
having paid 81 each Tor the trip OF three mites and
return, we receive a convincing example OF the
rate mt which the return trip could be made II the
ratchet and the air brakes were dispensed with.
Far up the hill, say about mile away, something
is seen coming down the centre track
AT TERRIFIC SPEED.
You can make nothing out oil It, 1t spins along
and downward with such fearful velocity. AS it
came over the last steep incline there was q
general cry, ats manl' and people held their
breath as II some fearful calamity were about to
happen. On he came, down toward the train, and
to the surprise OF ali began to slack up as II he
were sprte of the mountains coming home from
some Walpurgis revel. He came close down by
where the passengers stood, stopped completely,
and with quiet grin or an Hioernlan face, arose
from his seated posture, took the board or sled on
which he mad been dong this
''COAsTING" EXTRAORDINARY,
and left it on the platform. 1t was simple plank,
P sSs
iron iitting to the centre rail, and was furnished
with pair OF curved handles, which worked as
brakes, pressing upward against the projecting
fiange OF the rail on either sloe. They are used ~
the workmen, and the descent from the summit
last mile down has recently been slid In ifty-twO
seconds. Not any, thank you. After full inspec-
aoSsy to eacs other Is as
walking up the street; to this they make several
mental reservations IN the souls undertone. Then
we start with a pulfing tbrobbing pusatinR and
rafting. 1t seems slow work. but the painting Of
the stout little engine tells that 1t is toiing very
hard indeed. Surely and cautiously we crawl
along. You could get out and walk faster, you
imagine.
1t goes very Wen for ten or twenty yards. but
you soon perceive what labor you have under
taken to keep up with the slaw moving Train,
at q time. You begin to feel the force Of the wind
sweeping down the mountain; you open your
such Strengthening mouthful that, unless You
are born mOunraineer, you are tain to trust
CINE, whose boiler and smokestack are now per-
pendicular, as they shoud be, while the tram is
tilted up skyward al al appalling angle. The
OPEN AS YOU RISE
are grand, superb; presently, when you are mile
nearer the summit, they will possess all the ele-
ments of the scenically sublime. You see down
long sweeps of valley till the mountains aIar Off
end the view abruptly. The neighbOring noun
tains tower above you, yet you seem In mid air,
with the immense above and around, and the
beautiful below. You stu ascend anu the hills
that lrowned above you commence to dwarf and
dwlndle downward, and you look across them to
the valleys beyond. as II they had bowed their
woods OF pine and birch on the Mills below look
like dark grass and the boulders, that stood out,
look like piles OF pebbles. Rivers along the
valleys and lakes in the lovely hearts OF tue hills
gsten like silver ribbons and sheets of pearl amid
the dark green OF the trees. ExclamaOns OF delight
and woader are heard on every side in the tram,
and here and there silent man bears on his lea
lures q reflex OF the unspeakable awe which ne
feels. At every step fresh grandeurs break upon
the vision, until at last, after an hour and three
quarters ride,
beside the Summit Hotel, hungry, chilly and i'm
pressed. The prosaic Is likely at once TO prevail
over the poetlcal and you are glad to hurry into
| the hotel, where around red not stove may be
seen dozen so OF the guests taxing their ease.
The Their without IL at forty seven degrees
and the wind is blowing ninety-nve miles an nour.
90 that the stove Is rather welcome friend to
meet alter all. Dinner Is devOured, rooms assigned.
warm wraps put On and then everybody sailies out
to see. 1t would be impossible to describe the
savage
GLORIEs OF THAT PANORAMA.
recital OF the mere points that be recognized
| by the experienced would convey no idea to those
| unacquainted with the teeth-sharpening nOmen-
cature of New Hampshire aud Maine. But there
they lie IN q circle OF 200 miles diameter, monnt
and valley river and lake, glade and clearing. The
Glen House on one side OF the hill, the Fabyan on
the other, look no bigger than cigar boxes but yet
standing out distinctly, 30 clear Is the air. man
at your side says this is the AndrOscOggn, that is
! the Socco; acre Is the Kearsage Mountain; round
| there you can see the Mcosilauk and Lake Win
| nipiseogee; but you take feeble or purely
courteous interest In these details while the brain
| Is filed with the transcript OF scene SO wide
spread and SO mighty in all Its features. have
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