The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-01-19
THE DEPARTING GLORF or THE ADJ
ROND1CkS.
AsGcrmons complain that English tour


ROHDACks
As Germans complain that English tour
lists are running Switzerland. 80 sportsmen
moan over the invasion Of the Adirondack
wilderness by the pleasure seekers. The sum
NOR hotel Ia taking tho place Of tho hunters
cabin wen-kept wagon roads follow the lines
OF old Indian trails. and pulling steam launches
plough through the water where once glided
the nOiseess birch canoe, Into the very heart
OF the great forest have they been taken. Last
summer a steamboat was run for the first time
on Oswcgatche Lake, and another one disturbed
the rippes Of Tuppcrs Lake. In the coming
season the shores Of the two queen lakes Of the
woods-Rauuette and Long-wil also roverbe-
rate the echoes Of steam whistles. for two largo
boats are being built thereon. Now hotels and
now carriage roads form part OF the enterprise.
and what was once the widest and most mac
cessibe region OF the wilderness promises 10
become a popular place Of resort.
Things have been drifting in that direction
for some years, Tho mountains loom up
many hundred feet above tide water. Tho sum
mcr temperature is delightfully."- cool. the air
crisp and bracing. the wood breeze soft and in
MIGRATING. There too is TO be found that
indcscribable forest odor. the sweetness Of
which you ind yourself inhalng TO the full ca
pacty Of your lungs. and which gives you now
life. The crystal lakos the jumping brooks. tho
cliffs the long reaches OF woodland landscape
all attract refugees from the citys summer
heats. 1t has some advantages over the White
Mountains and the seashore. On tho east side
hotels have for many seasons had their sum
mer guests. Trout and deer have become rs
scarce ms along the shores of Lake Champain.
while bears and painters have disappeared en-
tlrcy But not until now have tho hotel and
steamboat mon cut the woods in twain by their
stage route. their launches. and their public
houses.
To the sportsman this is n sad innovation.
! Tho Adrondacks have afforded royal sport
both for rod aud gun. year after year. la tho
central archipelago OF lakes, and on the west or
| st. Lawrence side 1t Is almost IA good US ever.
Deer are wild. 10 be sure. but they are by no
means scarce and those who know how to hunt
them have little difficulty in supplying tho
needs OF the camp. 1t Is astonishing how they
! hold out for no attention is paid to the laws
protecting them; they are hunted ten months
out Of the twelve. 1t is onS i,r q short time in
carly spring that they are = pited. Early in
| May the trout fishermen flock uto the wilder
ness by hundreds. and US summer advances.
| pleasure parties become more numerous. All
must have yenson. and 1t Ia the guides busi-
! ness 10 gct II. and get it he does. With the APP
| proach Of autumn the farm hands, the guides.
the village oilers and the yagabonds 20 in from
| tho settlements with packs Of deer dogs aud
| boats The deer are run into the lake.. where
| they are easily overtaken and cubbcd 60 death.
In tho late fall and In the winter thes are hunted
in the snow. After n crust hns formed the deer
is unable To run, for his sharp hoois cut through
IT, and he founders. Men on snow shoes easily
| come up with and Kill him. In a recent article
In THE SuN Il was computed tina; thirty thou
sand deer are annually killed in tho northern
part Of the Stat. Yct thcy are SO Isenty that
| IN n recent ten days soiourn near Oswcgatehic
Lake no less than fourteen deer were seen by
ono member of party.
Much Of the western side 81 tho woods re-
mains inaccessible save 10 the hunter who f.
: willing e. meet hardships in getting there.
Many OF tho clear little hikes are not visited
once a year by any one. aud in them the trout
/ are large and greedy. and the deer niu the pond
| lily buds without fear. But tn circle is grow
ing smaller and smaller every season.
1t viii be a century before the trout can be- ex-
terminated. The chief streams and the lakes
are led by riyulcis that reach far back into tho
thirkcst u swan'rs. NJ ravnes. and through
tnngles II aldcrs into which man cannot
force himself In them the trout spawn. and
the young troubling hides himself until he at
tains sufficient size 10 erapple the realities Of
/ hfe among the larger OF his kind. These ris
/ are nurseries that cnunot be disturbed until
man clears tho ground Of is timber growth.
| Tho trodt fishing is as good on the west sile
as 1t was fl.iy years aao, savl in few streams
/ that being easy % access and wen known. are
visited 10y hunlrods OF fishermen who have
/ thiuncd out the f~h.
Nevertheless TO tho sportsman the glory Of the
Adirondacks is departing. \ pulling steam
/ bont hreaks the charm. Tho solitude the still
ness that could be- felt. are dispclied. full
/ dress hall nn Tupuer'- Lake must drive him o.
/ despair. He knows that game fees from adj
/ vaneing ci,.Azdion. and this danger now
threatens oAe OF the most famous hunting
/ ,gious Of the continent.