Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-18
CORRESPONDENCE.
A Visit to Several Summer Resorts. SHARON STRINGS, N. Y.,
 Aug. 14, 1880.

Aug 14, 1880.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 The number of boarders here is beginning to diminish slightly, and yet there are more here now than at the same time last year. The hotels have been well filled all summer, the Rockville Hotel being particularly fa- voted in this respect. There does not seem to be so large proportion of invalids among the visitors as usual, and consequently there is much more gaiety in the way of hops, pie nics, excursions and hirtations than there has been in some years. A large number of those who are here enjoying perfect health are those who one year ago were great sufferers from rheumatism, and having been cured by the wonderful power of the sulphur baths, have come back here, in preference to any other watering place, to enjoy to the fullest extent the pleasures which their state of health would not permit last season.
 Previous to coming here spent about two weeks tat Lakeville and Sharon, Conn. At the former place the beautiful Wononscopo- noe lake is the chief attraction It is three miles in circumference, surrounded by hills, and the water is so clear that in places where it is thirty feet deep the smooth, sandy bot tom can be distinctly seen. A small steam boat takes visitors around the lake every pleasant day, and there are large number of saiIboats and rowboats for the use of fishing parties. The Wonosco House is the best hotel in the place, and has been well patronized this season. Six miles distant lies the town of Sharon, where there are more visitors this summer than ever before. Aloud midway between Sharon and Lake vile, on Town hill, is an old stone house, famous because it was the dwelling place of General Montgomery's family at the time he was killed at the battle of Quebec. It is sixty feet square, three stories high and has thirteen enormous fire-places. Among the visitors at L ofN Vor Young Jerome, who got into such an uncom- fortable scrape in New York this summer, has spent considerable time here, apparently enjoying himself as though nothing had oc- cured of which he ought to be ashamed. Eight of us drove one day to the famous falls at Bash -Bish, which is fifteen miles from Lakeville, and on the line between Massa- chusetts and New York. A hotel has just been built at the foot of the falls, and good many people have already gone there to stay till fall. At South Egremont, Mass, IS miles from Lakeville, where I spent two days, there are a large number of visitors from New York and Boston. At the Mt. Everett House Robert Carter, the publisher from New York, is spending the season with family of thirty. The Dalzell Axle works, at this place, have never been so busy, and are turning out about two hundred sets of axles per week, beside having more orders for fine carriages than they can fill.
 Having heard so much about the attractions at Rockaway Beach this summer, I made a flying trip there last week, taking in that place as well as Long Island in one day. confess was much disappointed with Rockaway. The work on the great hotel is progressing very slowly, owing to some diff culty in raising money. The workmen only get their board for their work, and must trust to luck and take their chances of ever getting any more cash payments. The flying horses, A1len's museum, gaudy banners, etc, at Rockaway do well enough to amuse children; but for solid comfort, electric and calcium lights, the best music and everything that man has devised to please the eyes and ears of old and young, rich and poor, Coney Island is thus far long way ahead of any other place have ever visited. J. P. c.