Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-07-21

tables were laid in very handsome style
and decorated with the national and in
ternational colors An attraction about
the dining room aud the House general
ly, are the lovely ferns and MOSES most
artistically arranged, A young lady is
employed for this work alone, and has
charge of the decorations at both the
Twin Mountain and Crawford Houses.
MT. WASHINGTON.
We now take coaches for the base of
Mt Washington. 1t is ten miles and a
pleasant ride. Social intercourse, stories.
comments, wittieisms of the Earle, and
his famous "horse race" &c, occupy
the time. We see the sheep path "
on the Mountain which we are to as
cend, but of which we have very little
idea, except the two or three who have
been there before. And now we are at
the base of Mt. Washington. Two en-
gines and two cars, each separate train,
are ready. Our party with some Others
Immediately fill the cars. But look at
the seats They are like sitting on the
edge of single board, but we move
only few rods before the declivity is
such that the seats are sufficiently level
for convenient use. Few use them how
ever, as nearly the whole party stand to
gaze upon the increasing wonders out
side. Here we may say word of this
wonderful
MT. WASHINGTON RAILWAY.
1t has two iron tracks like any rail
road, with another track in the middle
in which are cogs which fit to cog wheels
on the engine, and this is what travels
with the engine and steam for motive
power. The clicking of these cogs will
remind you of moving machine. The
most wonderful feature is the sharp de-
clivities which we ascend. 1t is like
riding up the steep roof of building.
The sharpest grade is 1880 feet to the
mile The whole distance is some three
miles and we take about an hour and
half in the ascent, and during the entire
time the scene increases in wonder and
interest. II is good place to be afraid
if you are inclined to fear or give up to
it, but the points of interest constantly
occupy your time, and we think nearly
all felt more security than on a noun
tain carriage road. We noticed one
young man, not of our party, who took
his seat and position in the lowest cor
ner and nearest to terra firma, in the
car, and from which he did not venture
till we had arrived toward the summit
where the land or rocks broadened from
the track His loss was considerable,
for the view is very grand and sublime
all the way. And so we pass up, up till
peak after peak of the innumerable
mountains in all directions are below us,
and we suppose the view must be like
that in balloon. Villages, lakes, ponds,
streams, &c, appear, but in this section
the mountains are most numerous.
THE INVENTOR.
This railroad is the first of the kind
ever built in the world, and it is the only
ono an chic op,,+;po,,+ Ono ~, tx,-o Lo,o
been built in Switzerland, the govern
ment of that country having sent over
and obtained models of this one. The
inventor is a young man named Marsh
who served in the Union army from
New Hampshire and who formerly lived
in that section, and who is now in an in
sane asylum at Concord where he has
been for some time, and whose insanity
may have been produced by his study
on this railroad. His father who still
lives near the mountain, perfected the
invention, which has resulted in the
most wonderful railway on the globe.
SNOW.
At last we are even with the peaks OF
Clay, Adams, Jefferson and Madison on
the north. Something white appears, a
small speck at first but it becomes snow
bank large enough probably to last till
snow flies there again. This was in the
broad field where the sun would strike
it till perhaps or o'clock in the after
noon. We still rise, and carriages filled
with passengers are seen coming up the
carriage road from the Glen House or
the other (east) side of the mountain
Now we pass point Of sad interest.
LIZZIE BOURNE.
1t is monument of stones on which We
read this inscription: Miss Lizzie
Bourne, daughter of Judge Bourne o.
Kennebunk, who persisted here, Sept
IA, 1855, aged 20 years" Most of oul
readers doubtless remember this sac
event. She became separated from hel
party, was struck by storm, and wa,
very likely killed by the violence will
which she was blown against the rocks
for it is not possible to stand in the higf
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