The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-08-16
BUCK BOARD EXPERIENCES.
The QuakerS at the SeaSide---AtIantc
City EtChings.
THE SEASON AT NEWPORT.
Society Notes from Rhode Islands Charming
Villa City.
THE WHITE MOUNTAINS.
rwIN MOUNTAIN House,

the tatgueS ana business VeXationS OF the
rowded cities, rambling among these hills about
5000 pleasure seekers glance the different hotel
cegisters shows that the fame of the mountains as
Summer resort is rapidly increasing for with tho ex-
cepton Of few remote Pacific States all the sovcr-
eighties represented. North South and Yves; come
to this of the Union and enjoy the beau
ties of the Eastern Alp land The case with which the
place is reached and the facilities for seeing all its
prominent features without tho fatgues TO
mountain travel have made tho White Mountains much
popular than they would be with nothing but natu
raj attractions to recommend them. Than the White
Mountains there is not, perhaps in all tho States
more central point, properly point which has
direct communication with many important centres.
From New York it can be reached by several routes
some long, short fast, some slow. The
quickest and shortest route is through New England
per the New Haven Railroad via the Connecticut River
road connecting with the Passumpsic and Vermont
Central routes
BY FAR THE MOST SATISFACTORY VIEW
all the mountains is be had from the top of Mount
Willard OF course it is not TO be compared with tho
awful magnidcence of the prospect from Mount Wash
ington but still in its way it is satisfactory Mount
Washington to be the flirting ground OF Jupiter
Pluvus for here he weeps and smiles and frowns
thousand times a day. The cloud clears and pano-
rama, sublime in its extent and beauty, breaks on
tho vision. You rush 10 the hotel to get
your glass, and when you return gray fog
is all that is to be Then the huctua-
tions of temperature the top Of Mount Washington
very violent often marking difference OF thirty
degrees in as many minutes. The view from Mount
Willard talked of much at the hotel by incoming
travellers that determined to go and contemplate it,
To this end took the 'sbuck board'' on the recon-
mendaton of Mr.. Beechcr, who day two previous,
told me my mountain experience would not be full un-
less had jaunt one Of the machines. AS it's
conveys idea to you of its purpose might explain
that 'buck board is sort of vehicle peculiar to this
section of the country. It's chief recommendations
arefrst that makes you feel sore and rheumatic;
second, that you get moro mud your clothes
while riding it than you could in any other
way, If an exception be made in favor
Of rolling in mud puddle Its third and
last recommendation is found in tho pleasant
nervous excitement II occasions, by threatening in
omnous Crcaks, to split in two and deposit you in the
road. Ones experience whio on "buck board" is
very much like what one might expect sitting the
cross-bar capper Of an immense teIegraphic machine
The continual bobbng and down Of the board makes
conversation an mpossibty, and should one attempt
TO say anything he finds his sentences fragmened into
dots and dashes like telegraphic language. The
Btruction of the ''buckboar is very simple 1t
gsts of nine foot pine board with extremtes resting
and attached 70 axle-treea In the middle of tho
board just midway between the wheels the seat is fas
tened and il the board be flexible you get seasick
and if il is stiff you can get bsters and sore Joints
AS started 70 say, left the Twin Mountain Of
these machines and rode as far as the Crawford House.
where the genial Neral provided with the Of
going TO the top of Mount Willard The road from tho
Crawford House up to the mountain summit is rough
pine and birch. The branches of the trees meet over
head and the road is dark and cool Suddenly the pant
ing horses quicken their pace, for strip OF compare
lively smooth ground has been reached, and in a mo
ment they emerge from tho forest and as the steel shoes
CHATTER the bold summit rock the Notch in all its pct
urcsqus beauty revealed 10 tho Here and there
silver snachcs OF the winding creek are caught as the
open foliage lets through the golden sunlight
moving something is for moment and then lost TO
sight again The glass brings 1t nearer and discover
q lady and gentleman In saddle canterng along
the road which follows the course Of tho creek Away at
fba md thp trh viii
through the glass the outlines Of house can DO dis
cerned Inquiry Of tho nut-brown guide is made; he
declares it to be the Wiley House, and seating himself
on the ledge rock overhangng the yawning Notch be
proceeds tell the story OF the Wiley House AS it is
true as it is interesting, I will repeat 1t
STONY or TIE WILEY HOUSE.
In 1890 Mr.. Hill built house on the site of the pres
emit Wiley House and lived IN IT for four years AT the
time it was the only human habitaiion between Rose
brook and the old Crawford House. distance OF about
forty miles In 1924 Hill left the house, and the next
year Mr. Wiley, his wife and i've children moved in,
and tho winter passed in comparative
comfort During the winter slight land slide
occurred and Mr. WILEY anticipating another,
built sort Of barricade short distance from
the house. that in The event Of another slide he would
have refuge HIS precaution proved 70 be his doom,
for IN August 1926 himself and all his family were
killed while trying TO reach the refuge. On the night
of August 26 1926, astor such as was never Selorc
known, ragged in the Notch The rain poured down in
torrents tho wind blew hurricane and the flashing
lightning lighted up the dreary darkness around. Tho
Wieys, unable 70 sleep, and fearful that their little
house would be swept away, were congregacd on the
ground floor, when they must have been startled by the
crashing of loosened rocks rolling down the mountain
side Knowing the stray rocks we're the lOcrunners Of
slide the frightened family started for the barrcade,
hut before they reached it they were overakon and
buried under tons of earth and rock. Strange say,
the house not injured IN the slightest tho Slide
was divided into two W an immense rock which stood
behind It,
attention to small white spot To the len of the house.
where IL is supposed the bodies o! the unfortunate
family are buried Tho spct ia sandy and since the
melancholy catastrophe no vegetation Of eay kind has
grown upon it, while tho track and Other deposit OF the
slide is hid in green
Just as the guide directing my attention to the
left where Mount Webster towers up 20 the sky, no.
ticed solitary lady on horseback emerge from the
forest She dismounted and walked short way down
the left slope of tho summit where she began pick
something from the ground. on closer observation
noticed she making bouquet OF small blue flowers
the like of which had not noticed any place else on
tho mountains Later, IN conversation with tho lady,
learned that
THE FLOWERS WERE HAHEBELLs
and, Mount willard excepted they TO be found only
on the Alps Tho sun was now setting and the Notch
gradually becoming gray and iudistncL Lest
should lose the sight the guide hurried OF the left
of the summit the Flume and the Silver Cascade
the magnificent distance these two celebrated
falls looked like silver threads sreakng the brawny side
Of Mount Webster A twilight stiffness had settled on
nature, and rush and roar OF the distant waterfalls stole
up through the distance soft murmur The BodCn hucs
of lighted up the higher peaks around, and tho
chilling breath of night began to blow. When We reached
the summit again, where our horses wero tied, II was
almost dark and started on The journey bone Be-
fore the base reached the moon was BRIGHT and
through the chinks ia the foliage il throw its silver bars
Whom arrived at the Crawford House the first man |
met was Colonel Charles Spencer who was dispayn ing
10 the admrng gaze oil the guests handsome mess OF
trout which he had taken out Of a bog hole in the
Notch. Although tho Colonel don't generally fish in
bog hoes u only just 10 The bog hole and the Colonel
70 state where the fish taken In previous letter
stated that the Colonel had tho best fishing record,
and at the time such the case bu. last advices
Will Beecher has won the palm.
the GUESTS
At the Crawford are H. H. Macy, wife and daughters Of
New York city; Charles Spencer and wife, Miss Hall,
A. d
Barron John McKcsson, oil Now York; w H. Barron,
George W. Weber, Of New York. and Thomas L.
Eckcrt President of tho Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph
Company. II is notable fact spoken Of by all the
hotel keepers In tho mountains that very few New
Workers travelling this year. Another cause OF
complaint the scarcity Of young The hotels
full OF pretty girls, but they have companions 10
waltz with Neral s thinking OF Offering Young men
81 week and board free TO to hotel just TO
dnnce with The girls He had bother not do n for In