The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-05-22

OF LuZerne, Wayne, Carbon, Monroe and Pike
counties IN TINS state, are this year assuming
alarming proportions, and in every township Of
these districts tonight squads OF muscular young
men Will be organized TO go out ana ngnt tne IRE,
drink cider and appleJacS and be entertained BY
the farmers whose homesteads are now in serious
peril.
THE DANGER.
The residents or the counties bordering on the
Delaware might have learned q good oeal OF
wholesome VISION within the last three weeks,
as wen as studied 4 wholesome lesson from the
majestic spectacle arorded oy the great fires In
New Jersey. which extended distance or about
twenty-five mics ana devastated hunting region
IRON hall mile 70 i've miles bread. A shower
last week saved many 4 homestead.
II Is THIRTEEN YEARS
since serious forest nre occurred in these
regions, and up a. now the underbruSn, always
thicK on the PENNSYLVANIA mountains, as hunters
81 runed gtouse only know too WELL was last year
almost lmpenetrable, ana ola hunters las; fan pre-
dIcted awful re ,ults should large IRE get a good
start. Their predictions are being verified. Ex
tending through the counties named Tor distance
OF about tnlrty-nve miles are TWO ranges OF noun
tains, thickiy grown over win underbrusn, dead
ferns and leaves, dry ~ under They are also
sparselY covered with scrub OAKS and pines, Oh
which there more dead branches tnaa live
ones. The season. too, T. IztA-neary every
forest presents wintry aspect, and n Isony 10
warm gens ard sheltered hooks that the country
presents q verDal appearance.
THE WESTERN RANGE
~ the TWO mountains spoken OF extends from
salem, in Lnzeruc county, almost to Manchester,
wayne county, and the other from sugar Loaf
Mountain, also in LuzerRe county, 20 Lscka-
waKen. In PIKE county. smaller range o. noun
tains known - the ShawsngunE Mountains
in Nos
with few breaks extend 70 the Delaware
Water Gap. For ten days past westerly Winds
amounting al times 70 hurricanes, have prevailed,
anu an urchn's bon1re, hunters pipe or a spark
rom locomotive have suficed to start are that
with racehorse speed.has darsed over she noun
tains, sweeping underbrush, dead wood, ricks
homesteaus and fences before Il, ana from de-
spatches received here this evening about twenty
large and oser 100 small fires are raging In every
direction. ana unless rsinfalls promise 20
pEyAsTArE rms MOUNTAINS
between toe susquenanna and the Delaware. The
prospect Of rainfall tonight IL very doubtful.
aud people Ia me state 81 Pennsylvania SIRE in
eredulou- when told mat on Wednesday last
generous showers tel IN View York Iast night
;ne scene rom one of the emincnces around
Lackavsyen wss awiullv grand and Impressive
MIles away in me heech woods near here
0rsst arc Waxei Hereby. ana slternstcr
throwing glare over hundreds ~ square miles
~ iorest country. lighting M nc Delaware until
Il saone lac silver thread, and anon, a. Il pans
ing lar another snrug, i settled sulsily oown
aud allowed the fres ia wayne. PIKE. Monroe aud
Lazerne counties = chance 10 display themsel
some we're aicKerng On ne horizon like sput-
terlng candle, others standing out In bold relief
on bluffs anu vlsibiy eating their way eastward.
THE Air - FILLED
with iight, diapnanous, irritating smoke east Of
the susquehanna TO Paterson, \. }. In holows
where 1t settles objects are with di1icuity dis
cerned a nnndrsd yards %, and on the tops OF the
mountains TO the ieeward Of the Ores II IL intensely
acrld and breathing - " no means easy. In fact
3 pail OF smoke extends from The Susquehauna
clear TO Tue Passalc, and from the Erie Railway
to the borders OF Schuylkill Lehigh aud North
amp:on counties, PENNSYLVANIA, and Hunterdon,
somerset and Middlessx counties, New gsrseI.