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

and obliging and evidently the rigne
man in the right place for keeping
public house up in the clouds. The old
Summit house, the walls of which are
stone, is still standing and used. Near
by is the government signal station,
with wind mill for calculating the veloc-
ity of the winds. All the buildings
on the summit are bound to the rocks
by cable chains. This evening the
thermometer marked as low as 4S', and
during the afternoon it was $50 to 600.
Down in the valleys it had been go to
1862.
HARRY W. HUNTER.
In the office of the Summit House
hangs a circular printed inside of mourn
ing lines. Harry w. Hunter of Pitts
burg, Pa, our readers will remember,
started from the Wiley House, Sept. 3,
1874, on foot for Mt. Washington. He
has never been heard from since, and is
supposed to have been struck by storm
and persisted in the mountains. He was
% years of age. This circular was by
his parents for information if his re-
mains should ever be found.
THE DESCENT.
Thursday morning amid cheers for the
Summit House, we descend Mt. Wash
ington in car of some 40 passengers,
chartered an hour or so ahead of regu-
lar time, that we may make the excur-
sion through the "Notch" below the
Crawford House. This gives us another
grand view of the same series as the day
previous. Arriving at the Fabyan, the
cars are waiting and all are soon aboard
for the Notch, on the Portland & Ogdens-
burg Railroad. This proved most de-
lightful trip, You enter the Notch just
after passing the Crawford House and
right in cut between Mt. Webster and
Mt. Willard. The railroad winds round
the side Of Mt. Willard giving a most
wild and romantic scene. Arriving al
Upper Bartlett we stop an hour, and
are furnished with observation cars
being open at the sides. In these cars
we make the return trip through the
Notch, which on this occasion is more
interesting than before, made much more
SO by the kindness and courtesy of Con.
ductor Richards of Portland, who point.
ed out the various places of interest
His attentions were the subject of much
appreciative remark by the entire party.
At Upper Bartlett you get full view
of the Kearsarge Mountain, and the
house on the summit.
THE WILEY SLIDE.
On this trip we pass the Wiley House
where occurred the terrible avalanche OF
rocks and earth fifty years ago. 1t is a
deep ravine, and the Wiley House was
sort of station for stages, there being
no other dwellings for long distance
either way. Most of our readers have
of course heard of this sad affair, but
we will repeat it for the benefit of the
young people. The family were in the
house. They heard the coming ava
lanche and fed. A rock above SO di
vided the slide that the house was mo-
harmed, but all the family, Mr.. Wiley
wife and children who fled outside wer,
killed.
Passing along the conductor calls at
tention to a round hole high in the side
and up on the almost perpendicular
rocks of Mt Willard. 1t looks as if {
cannon ball had been shot into it and il
apparently still remains inside. 1t il
called Devils Den and is about 81
feet below the summit. A year or two
since a venturesome man was let dowI
TO it with rope. He entered and re
ported it about fifteen feet deep insid
and mouth of ten feet. At one poin
on this road we pass over an iron trestl
work 80 feet high and 500 feet long, tn
highest in the world and most wonder
tul chasm.
CRAWFORD HOUSE.
And now we have all passed tn
Notch and are at the Crawford House
a most delightful place of summer resort
Walks and drives plenty. Only tw
miles to the Summit of Mt. Willard
Many OF cur party made that trip ais
by carriage road. This was Friday an
a few of the party who live in North
eastern Vermont, went on to their homes
but the majority remained and we ar
sure must have felt well paid. A spler
: did as well as elegant dinner was served
Tea and breakfast were equally so. !
little lake is situated just east or front @
the Crawford House grounds near tn
: depot. Elephants Head is a rock
prominence at the foot of Mt. Webster
just as you enter the Notch below thi
house. 1t is striking piece of natura
sculpture. Both the Crawford and Twil
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