Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-08-27
the WHITE MOUNTAINS.
Experience Of q Party from Tsnnss'
see in New Hampshire.
At the Summer Hotels-SchoOl
Girls as Walters.
Nashville American Correspondence.

excursion to the w mte MOUNTAINS OF
| New Hampshire. lie was one Of q
party of eight, consisting of himself
and family, his son Benjamin b. Allen
and wife, Mr.. Furman and Mrs. Jen-
nings. The party proceeded from
Barton to the little village of Bethle>
hem, New Hampshire, situated at the
foot Of Mt. Agassiz, on the edge OF
the beautiful aud picturesque White
Mountain country. After remaining
here awhile the pleasure seekers WIS.,
tied the Profile House, so called on
account of the striking similarity OF =
neighboring cliff called
THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN"
to the profile of MAJ. One of the
most pleasurable events of the trip
was the visit to Mount Washington,
the highest peak Of which is $3.50
feet above the sea level. The sum-
nit is reached by railroad. The
party took quarters at the Fabyan
House, at the foot of the mountain.
The weather was little rigorous even
at the foot of the mountain, a slight
snow falling on the 18th Of July.
Fires we're agreeable throughout the
trip.
Mr.. Allen says that the hotel ac-
commodations were simply elegant,
and in them is to be found the chief
secret Of the popularity Of the White
Mountain region as summer resort.
The Profile House owns much of the
land in the neighborhood, and large
farm about the hotel upon which they
raise their own fruits and vegetables
for use in the hotel. There is also a
large dollhouse where grapes and trop.
ical fruits are raised for the hotel
table. These hotel companies also
raise their own beeves and have the
finest of mich COWS on their farms.
No article of food which belongs to
any cline can be called for that is not
on the bill Of fare, and everything on
the bill Of fare is ready TO be served.
The freshest and finest of Georgia and
Florida watermelons were served as
desert whenever called for. The bills
Of fare themselves were perfect tri-
umphs Of the printers art and were
preserved by many visitors as souve-
Mrs of the trip. The hotel buildings
are palatial structures. One hotel at
Bethlehem, Mr.. Allen says, is four
times as large as the Maxwell House.
Its parlor measures 100 by IS feet and
is an elegant room. Each OF the hotels
has a fine band engaged for the
season, s:and the guests enjoy: the
sweetest music during meals, and
in the parlors at night where
those who care can "trip the hight
fantastic" The hotels will accom>
modate from $50 to 500 guests each,
some of them being FIVE stories
high. They are full nearly all the
time. The arrivals at the Fabyan
House daily number about 200 per-
sons. From one to five excursion
trains up the mountain are run from
this hotel daily, each one being
freighted with from 90 to 200 persons.
The same is true Of the trains which
run from the Fabyan House through
Crawford Notch, one of the sttrac
tons Of the mountains. The number
of persons who summer in the White
Mountains, Mr.. Allen says, is won
derful, and he ascribes it chiefly to
the splendid hotel accommodations.
He was impressed with the fact that
the natural beauties of the Cumber-
land Mountains Of Tennessee and the
French Broad Of North Carolina were
fully equal to those Of the White
Mountains, and that the climate was
much more healthful, especially tC
Southern people. The latter were
numerous among the summer visitors
to the White Mountains, which dis.
iproved what has been sometimes
urged as an excuse for the lack Of
handsome and luxurious hotels il
Southern watering places-that South
ern people are not willing to pay the
high prices necessary to maintain such
establishments. They paid in the
White Mountains from 50 80 to IS pei
day for hotel accommodations, and
did not grumble, because they fell
that they got their money'swortb, /
such edi6ces with such management
were erected in the mountains o
Tennessee and North Carolina they
would be equally we'll patronized.
| The Southern party we're particu
larly impressed with one fact. At tn
Fsbyau House the tables are waite,
upon by Vermont school girls. VIII
in this way support themselves baud
somely during their vacation. The
are modest, intelligent and attentive
At the Glen House the walters ar
college students, some of them iron
Cambridge, who cam in this manne
enough money to pay their tuition i
the fall aud winter.
The principal hotels visited by tn
party were the Twin Mountain House
the White Mountain House, the Ia
byan House, the Mt. Pleasant House
, the Crawford House, the Glen
House, the Flume House, the ProfI
House, Forrest Hill House, Sinclai
House, and Summit House on Noun
2 Washington. All of these were COZ
! Quoted in the same elegant and MAJ
( ni6cent style.
: Besides enjoying the maguifcer
I scenery some Of the Nashville part
engaged in the fascinating delight
e angling for brook trout. For tn
! purpose the trip was extended
? Uoldbrook, where tho party fshed
i Diamond pond, a beautiful spot (
water. two miles long and half as wild
) one hundred feet deer, and clear
\ crystal. Mr.. Ben B. Allen was th
u most enthusiastic aud successful AM
y Ter Of the party.
All the party were much bene6tC
by the trip,
Rev. w. B. Smith, Grafton, Mas
s. saws: 81 have derived benefit from usiI