Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-08-16
ELI UP ON THE CATSKILLS.
How Lawyer Built Hotel-Hand-
some Girls and How They Dress--
The yoIuptuous Era.
Tor OF THE CATsKILLs


4 good many hotels in this country
have been built for fun and run for
fun. One day Mr.. Liddy, A. T. Stew
arts old partner, went overto Prince
ton College to see his son. Mr.. Libby
was compelled to stop at an ordinary
New Jersey hotel. He had a dingy
room with college hash for breakfast,
and pillow with only one feather in
it. When Mr.. Libby got back to New
York he found something in his ear.
1t bothered him a good deal Finally
he went to an ear doctor, who examn
ed his ear very carefully Then he
put in pair of pincers and, TO his
great surprise pulled out Princeton
pillow. 1t made the millionaire very
mad, and he resolved to have revenge.
So he said to DIR. McCosh:
II will build a fine hotel in Prince
ton. | will kill all those two-cent
hotels with their e-feather pillows
And Mr.. Libby did it. His splen-
did hotel is the pride of Princeton. 1t
don't pay cent. Mr. Libby don't
care for that. When he goes there
now to see his son he has a good bed
to sleep in and big pillow. That is
enough for him.
HOW MR.. HARDING BUILT A BIG HOTEL.
Four years ago Mr. Harding, the
distinguished Philadelphia lawyer
and brother of the editor of the Phila-
delphia Inquirer, was stopping at a
little hotel up here among the clouds
on the top of the Catskills. One day
he wanted boiled chicken, and asked
Mr.. Beach, the proprietor, why chick
ems were so healthy on the top of the
Catskills-why he never saw dead
ones.
"If you want broiled chicken, said
Mr. Beach, Indignantly, you'd bet
ter build a hetel and have them cook
ed.
Very well: I'll do it, said Mr..
Harding. I'm have spring chickens
if have to build hotel and run it
myself.
The next day the rich Philadelphia
lawyer picked out at site ON the tip-top
of the Catskill Mountain, where he
could see sixty miles of the Hudson
River with Berkshire Hills beyond.
Then he got hold of some other rich
men, formed a company, and built
the great hotel Kaaterskill, the largest
mountain hotel in the world. 1t has
a thousand rooms, and is in the mid
die of a four thousand acre park. The
hotel was a success from the first, and
it is safe to say Mr., Reachs little
healthy chicken now pays Mr.. Hard
;,,o. N bo,,t cor 000 a yaar
might go ON and tell how A. /.
stewart bought the old Union Hotel
in Saratoga through freak and ran
I ii for fun, but haven't time.
OTHER CATsKILL HOTELS.
There are now three great hotels i'll
the Catskills, the Overlook Mountain
House. quite near Rondout; the Cats
/ kill Mountain House, near the Hotel
Laaterskill, and the Hotel Kaaterskill.
\ The West Shore road now runs parlor
cars to each-time about six hours
I from New York. Besides these theirs
are q, 600 little hotels and boarding
houses hidden away among the Hills.
/ About 5000 New Workers are up here,
/ loaflng, flirting and lying. The
! living is mostl done by the fishermen.
/ / have known men here to go out and
fish all day with three bottles OF
whiskey, box of cigars and no fish
/ line, and then come home and talk
about the strings and strings of fish
4 they caught. Fishing is fatal to
veracity. | wouldn't believe a minis
ter of the gospel if he were addicted to
/ fishing.
THE HANDSOME GIRLS UP HAER
AS the people grow richer, some
how or other, beauty decreases. There
is now and then a fresh, handsome
face to be seen among the young lad
les. Now and then a face suggesting
peaches and cream, but the majority
of rich girls have a Burgundy look.
They are black-and- tanned and scrag-
". as if they were colored by brink
ing claret in the place of pure water.
Wealth is a great killer OF beauty, be
cause wealth changes pure water for
champagne. 1t takes away the diet OF
healthful bread and milk from our
girls and fills them up with oversee
soned game and the death-dealing
salade. The girls up here manage to
dress as sensuously as they can. With
tight-fitting Jersey they look like vol
uptuous statues simply dressed in
nuns yelling. They seem to array
themselves in one thickness of cloth
which hugs the skin, and then say.
Here am What do you think OF
my form Men go around among
them as they go around among the
marble Venuses at the gallery. When
/ asked lady how she got dress
maker to fit her figure so perfectly she
said:
ooh, we have metallic forms made
now. These tin forms are made exact
in every measurements exact as
plaster bust. The dressmakef fit
these forms. ! didn't go to dress
maker at all this year. simply sent
my form down, and told her to make
me six dresses from different patterns
for it. They were all made over the
same form, and you see, she said
standing up proudly and showing a
beautiful arm, shoulder and bust.
that they fit me like glove. ELY
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