New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-29
LOUNGING NORTHWARD.
THE WHITE MOUNTAINS AND CANADA.
INCIDENTS, IMPRESSIONS AND GOSSIP.


fever contingent and the warmer scenery that keeps
the artists and those of sentiments. Three profitable
houses of the first class the Profile, Glen anu Cra"
ford; large hghprlced hotels there are OF Var
able fortunes The Barrons have four houses In inc
mountains of which the wford kept by associate
partner Is the fayorte He is said to keep the most
satisfactory house with the least relative help and ex-
pense; hence Frank jones' proprietor of the wentworth
House. near Ports mouth by the sea, Is SAID 10 nave
offered the master of the Crawford $4,000 Tor nVe
years and accommodations for his family to keep the
former house. which declined. The Glen House,
monopozng the eastern slde Of Mount Washington has
a very large livery business and Is said to Keep 100
horses The Profile House In the Franconia Notch,
as General Rufus Ingalls, said to me last Sunday there,
Is the "best mountain house in the world, suppose
Its founder who died last year, left large fortune; his
widow is said to have been the creatorof the reutatonor
thehouse by her excellent cement OF details The
livery business OF this house 20 the Flume house. nVe
miles distant, which Is the property OF the Profile firm,
Is thought be worth ten to fifteen thousand dollars
year. and the Profile nets forty thousand dollars year
Its half proprietor was taken boy by the founder
and for loving services given s part OF the business
Oscar Barron will probably have Wizards Hotel Wash
ingon hereafter From the Profile House dairy and
farm Mr. Goodenow proprietor OF one Of the larger
family hotels Franconia, whose associate. Mr.
PICKETT Is the OF Brooklyn lawyer. Here saw
last week the surviving brother of the poet Longfe0w
the artists Smile and Ferguson, and several Yale and
other professors cousin OF Samuel Bowles who Is q
retired dentist part OF the Sunset Hill House near
| Goodenow's, where l the Protestant Bishop OF
Massachusetts, and Mr.. George SchermerhOrns family,
OF NewYork The Forest Hill House, the newest In the
Francona region charges for rooms irrespective of the
| number In them, and table per head. Thelarge Ma
plewOod Hotel Bethlehem which place is the Richheld
Springs of the White Mountains, Is owned by wealthy
amateur proprietor and Is the fourth fine house IN the
mountain region. Fabyans the travellers exchange
toward Mount Washington. Liteton Is the business
ma OF New
York TO Liteton is much requested particularly for
Saturdays and Sundays 1t would two business
days husbands and fathers temporarily called there
The price OF White Mountain farm is about $4,000.
although OF the recent hotel sites have cost from
800 to 5000 The narrow gauge railroad to
Bethlehem and the Profile pays 10 per cent and the
Mount Washington cog-wheel railroad more
I saw the washed out Fume last Sunday with label
on the big boulder that carried quarter OF mile
down the funnel The Flume Is not destroyed but
paged and the loot in the shape OF broken trees and
several OF enormous stones Is scattered over broad
fields created below till recently stood thick
woods that the biologists do not over
state things when they ascrbe the washing down of the
mountains 10 meeorc storms, though they may over
state the time required the world from granite
to gravel The great ralnbGrst pouring through the
narrow OF the Fume acted upon the red granite
there like hydraulic hose and nozzle on California
gravel bluff. The stones big as buggy were driven
from trcshing machine. The Flume Park people arc
now completing their galleries OF wood again but the
waterfall at the head OF the gorge Is turned sidewise
like AN eye knocked out OF mans eye-socket and
pended on the side OF his cheek.
There are seven OF u.s." said the waiter TO me at the
Profile House. These familiar words OF Wordsworth
struck queerly and for moment did not look up
II might have been the band OF robbers who robbed
the stage passengers last summer. "seven OF u.s.,
mused what chance has one among seven ! Such an
as' BIOLOGICAL number. too! You are seven" 1
finally sad turning my head slightly TO see II his weapon
was cooked "Yes" he replied, sweety, seven OF us
Harvard students-" The mystery was solved. "Do
you ever"I asked "inyountarily 'hichaec-hoc' when
Harvard professor sits to dinner !" We do, he an
swered. soy; that Is, when we-hc-have been asked
to drink-hock." The idea deIicately conveyed.
Hack - coughed, take this unfortunate trade dollar
and treat the seven. You might he employed, "a
for instance driving TallyHo coach for similar tip"
iii! hael hake! spoke the Of Harvard guar dedly
meekly resumed his position with his hands at the
small OF his back.
Lizzie was her She taught school and waited
on the table. felt like holding up my hand when
wanted beans strong had been early associations as
II TO says Teacher. may say something I" Her black
fell In the curs OF lang syne cOrkscrew the cynic
them but there, In other things, she remn-
OF thirty years when curs OF that form, long
and separate and sharing In every laugh and waving
with every form OF animation, iDstgated tho Juvenile
soul with dreams he scarcely comprehended like tho
soul IN the pollen sraylng through the air on match
making zephyrs toward the mystic bells OF mournful
petals striking in the anorous wind. How many |
urchns In those days felt the first instincts OF love- not
from the informed hoydens around him. but from the
misresss ample charmsl Lizzie" said ]. As sat at
the end and took the bill OF fare II not true that
intelligence greatly increases the productive capacity OF
labor !" 1" Forty per cent" she recited, Ike pre-
IN IN m igh AZ
that you get me three boiled eggs instead of two and
larger piece OF the beef for Lizzie they
do cut It mild"
In Boston there is a story that the steamer Pilgrim
built by John Roach and advertised to have cost
million dollars really twelve hundred thousand
dollars an yet paid the builder profit. reason Ia
given without much authority that In her estimates or
calculations there errors. The Fall River Line
pays Gig per per annuT. like tho Old Colony Rail-
road, of which 1t Is an appendage.
a. general ticket agent in New England" said Mr. f.
l.. Robbins, OF Boston, to me, has VASTLY different
work to from general ticket agent out West The
Boston and Albany Railroad brought OF the best
men of this class from Chicago, but found larger
use for him In another field. A Western railroad like
the Wabash will half dozen passenger trains II day
with stops every twenty-five miles two thousand
miles of trunk An Eastern railroad like the Old Colony
will five hundred trains aday over three or four hun
bred miles OF road, OF which is trunk bu. all
nearly all will be branches. His business Is to
profitable results in the passenger service to make the
rates to draw the public get pay the company In
summer vast excursion agent here, requir
ing considerable about resorts Two miles from
Boston as tickets for the most distant points The
life OF New-Engand railroad is It's local business
even upon richest railroad, the Boston and Albany
which derives It's best from tho way business
from Boston to Springfield" Who is at the head OF
the general ticket agents In New-Engldnd !" 1 asked.
THE president OF the National Association Is Lucius
Futile OF the Eastern Railroad, whom think to the