The Portland daily press., 1877-08-16
Summer Leisure.
At the Glen-Distingufshe ArrivaIs-
Summit Gossip-Among the Clouds.

the Glen is the one which fingers longest In
the memory of the visitor, the one to which
his thoughts always turn when the season of
summer leisure comes again. Those ars most
attached to the Glen who have been there
oftenest and longest. Like the Egyptian
queen custom does not stale It's infinite variety
Year by year its fame extends as the increas.
ing number of visitors spread enthusiastic
praises IF its beauties. The secret of its
charm is not far to seek. Indisputably 1t has
greater natural advantages than any other
place of resort among the hills, and these ad-
vantages have been improved to the utmost by
art. The Glen is an opening at the upper end
of the Pinkham Notch, in the valley of the
Peabody, walled in on the one side by the
heavily wooded Carter hills and on the other
by the great presidential range itself. and
commanding view of Washington, Adams,
Jefferson and Madison from crown to base.
From no other point do the great peaks SO i'm
press the observer. He is at their very feet,
and, like Thor before the walls of the Jotuns,
has to bend his head quite back to see their
tops. Like all things which possess genuine
greatness their quality increases by long con-
temptation. AT first they may disappoint the
newcomer; but the longer he watches them
the grander and more beautiful they grow,
and at last fill his eyes and soul to the exclu-
sion of all lesser things.
The Glen possesses another inestmable ad-
vantage. From it leads the only route with
the exception of the rarely-used bridle-path
from Crawford's) the experienced tourist cares
to take to the summit of Mt Washington.
Fnr firx,aa Ffar kha ..,4ta II
way on the west side travel over the carriage
road up the mountain fell of, people being led
astray by the novelty of an ascent by rail.
But brief experience changed all that Trav-
ellers soon found how little could be seen from
the railway, and remembered with longing
the succession of Incompatible views offered
by the carriage way. There is no need to
describe that wonderful ride. The story Of 1t
has been told again and again. The expert
ence it affords can never be forgotten by the
thousands who have taken it. Still another
advantage possessed by the Glen is the facili-
ty it affords for the finest excursions in the hill
country. Glen Ellis, the most beautiful water
fall in the Mountains, is but three miles away,
while the Emerald and the Garnet Pools. the
Crystal Cascade, and Tuckerman's Ravine are
Wltulu ouOEt WdAhS HUH luo uOuo0. Au ci&ut
mile ride along the base of the mountains
brings one to Gorham and its attractive seem
cry, and twice the distance through the long
Pinkham Notch carrys the traveller past Jack
son and the Glen Station to North Conway and
puts him on the road to the famous Crawford
Notch. Skirting the range TO the northwest he
finds himself at Jefferson in full view of the
western side of the mountains. The place is
just far enough removed from the noise and
hustle of the railway while being within easy
distance of the cars and those who feel that
they must 60 up the mountain by rail find am
pie compensation for the disappointments Of
that trip in the descent by the carriage road.
The Glen is rendered attractive by the situ-
alton there of the largest best-sppointed and
best-kept hotel in the mountains. The Glen
House is known far and wide, its cuisine Is Of
famous repute with good livers, and its host
favorite with every visitor wio has stepped
within its doors. Its broad piazza, from which
the Summit House, the carriage road up the
mountain, the Halfway House. Tuckerman's
Ravine, and the attendant peaks, Madison,
Adams, and Jefferson, are plaiI le, is
crowded with people during the long summer
days, watching the play Of clouds about the
head of Washington. the. long shadows that
fall afternoons down the mountain fianks, and
the gigantic shapes that lcom up through the
l evening dusk.
This season as in all years of late the Glen
has been thronged with visitors. Last week
the number of guests averaged about three
hundred a day. On Wednesday its stages
brought ninety passengers from the Summit.
One driver, Ellenwood, made three trips up
| and back, the first time that three trips wore
| ever made over the carriage road in one day by
the same driver. Among the arrivals wednes-
day were j. W. Simonton Of the New York
Associated Press, President Foss of Mid
dletown University, N. P. Clark, Postmaster
of Aubarn, N. Y, the Rev. Almon Gunnison
pastor of All Souls church, Brooklyn, Signora
Cappiania, the celebrated singer Of Milan, Italy
and party of thirty from Michigan under the
| charge of W. A. Brearley of the Detroit Even
ing News. The Michigan party made
about the shortest stop on the Sum-
nit on record, fifteen minutes. The same day
party consisting of DR.. Mason, and wife of
Boston, Mr.. Day of New York, and Messrs.
Tuckerman and Endicott of Salem, assembled
the Summit from the Glen, and under the
charge OF Mr.. Ben Osgood, the Glen guide, made
a trip next day over the SUBMITS of Clay, JEFF
ferson, Adams and Madison. Tuesday saw
| number of distinguished arrivals at the Sum-
NIT, Lawrence Barrett, the tragedian,-with
party consisting of his two daughters, Misses
Mamie and Gerte Barrett, Dot Bouoicault son
of Dion Boucicault, Miss Lily Thorne and Miss
Alicia Robson Horatio King, George B.
Prescott the distinguished electrician, and Gov.
B. F. Prescott of New Hampshire. Thursday
brought delegation from the Flowery King
dom, six young Chinese who are pursuing their
education at Northampton, Massachusetts.
That day there were seventy arrivals at the
Glen. The. Glen Eouse has done good thing
this year in establishing Mr.. e. Sands at the
Summit, who receives the visitors, points out
to them the best views, and sees to their safe