New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-24

IN THE NETWORK HIGHLANDS.


POPULAR RESORTS ALONG THE ERIE SHORT CUT
THE SUMMIT LAKE HOUSE-NEW-YORK AND
BROOKLYN BOARDERs.
NEwBURG, n. Y, July 23.-Thc picturesque
valley through which the Newburg and New-YOrk
railroad, Familiarity known the Eric Short Cut"
ana the stretch of mountains between and the Hudson
River are fast becoming popular resorts for summer
hoarders The trains of the New-York Lake Erie and
Western Railroad, which leave Jersey City every after
hoon are well hlled with New who live in this
valley and on the mountain tops during te summer and
go anu come nearly every day Summer hotels aud
boarding-houses are numbered by the At every
station on the line of the Short Cut" Woodbury., Cen
tai Valley, Highland Mills, Cornwall etc. may be
on the arrival of the evening trains of vehicles Of
various sizes ana patterns awaiting the arrival OF those
who make their homes there during the summer.
one OF tn" largest and most popular resorts in this
section Is Elisha Stockbrdges Summit Lake House two
miles up the mountain from the Central Valley Station.
lhe house bears the OF the lake. which is about
nall nile distant, and which is eighteen hundred
feet above hde-Nater. Tho proprietor began twenty
years ago ON small scale NJ story goes that he took
one family for week. but they liked il well they pre-
vailed npon him to keep them longer Week after week
passed. but the family salty months passed
before they took Their departure. Mr. Stockbridge began
To enlarge MS house. and two years later erected u
line Gothic structure able to accommodate twenty Ave
persons comfortably. Regardless. however, of this fact
forty or nifty would insist stopping at house
n; them benI compelled lodge ia the barn and ont
ntidinES Five Years ago persons who had every year
patronilcd the summit Lake House prevailed upon the
proprietor tc enlarge again that others might enjoy the
pcauu scenery the cool climate and the iuvgorating
rural HE afforded at this place MI Stockbridge com
Piled with their wishes and to-day has summer hotel Of
10 mean proportions, with ali the appointments
Sary to the comfort of the guests Suites Of
engaged one ahead and past three months
applications for accommodations have been received
and declined To the number OF thirty per week. The
lister ol the summit Lake House shows the following
guests:
From New York-pr. y. " Davidson and family. MRS.
H. H. Harbr ana family pr II. f. QackcnboS and son,
noinc" : Taylor ANA wife, Mics Meter. Miss \. T..
SudlcN, nv George Campbell Cooper, Miss II. Cooper.
ana Miss ooptr. Edgar Davidson, G.. G. Finch, Mrs. II.
g. iiUI Nh and Mrs. Hutchinson. Edward Bus~cll aud
iHnlN j. = Davidson and family Miss Manlcy, Jesse ".
Powers aud family Jom a. Uavcncyer, the Rev. W. ".
,!trhury and W. II. Todd and wife.
from Hroobyu- Edward g. Bunker. NJ. H.. wife and
duShtcr Miss lloochcr Miss l.. NJ. Phelps, Miss T.. j.
Lee, : g. Lee and two sons Charles V. Nlp.~ lnd two
sons, Charles L. Brown, j. f. Mcrru wife, George
". hubh1rd ans wife, T. y. GluhWn and family, = G..
t"rcr VIE and two sons. ". \ White and family. Ed
ward IL. Brown, wife and da glitter. -. H. HOphu~on.
ray aud cuAl j. \. Tucker, wife and daughters. g.
II. Downing and ,yifc +. n. Wittcr. wifc and two
daughicr- j. v. Marshall. vito and children j. {.
HunllS, George {. knapI,Jr a. X sloan ami family,
ot Len 'SpIc' Mr. Amanda BALDWIN ana family, IL.
y tlW"rcr, Arthur ii. scott, l.. o. Morris wife and two
Cl"r'h, Wis crtruIc Ca,, Of Downing ST., and VI. \
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