New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-21
CATSKILL RESORTS.
PREPARATIONS FOR A GREAT SEASON.

,v.n,SG HOTELS AND PRICEs-MAN' "o
an CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
KINGSTON, June 2O.-Last year ~ 10
go ,ha, over 900 persons visited the Ca.sAs' "
~. n.r we're included representatives OF every CIV,
,, Na,,o, An average OF $40 expended ny eaon
20, aems ANAL In view OF the fact that one sonNo
ma, maid 81 $50 per week for his party Oh io"
tho most OF the season just for rooms anu oo go ono
thai conservative estimate would leave over
omonr the landlords and other entertainers io 'D0 -
space OF ninety days or less fe' in""s " ", 1900
cav that they lost money in the business ias' sso
a, arc over thousand hotels and hoardmg-houses
.ea,ered over the range and and In the inc shuo" "
neaks Not all hope TO run ~ d.
The cost OF short sojourn in the range oi e'o =
,veeks there is not great necessarily. very "o"
sum will now enable one to visit all the icaois
ra s,ena few days in comfort. NO increase III V'i0o
".,' a, rorted this season. and the old rates are
,,,.,v IN nreyail Plenty of good wholesome oou wei
coosed and I'm fair variety, with clean linen anu eo
beds may be had for from 50 to - per "eeh'
unon locality and rooms. Hotel life WILL OF cou
much more as a rue-from 81 to 20 per uay anu i0 "
GOO ,o aek exclusive of many "extras, according 10
th Grade Of the house. size and aspect OF the ROOM uc
:, oason and length Of stay. As rule the ices ior
t,, servces are not so numerous or extoruohate III
the Catsks as at most other summer resorts uousn
annot learn that any OF the walters or porters were
ever forbidden to accept coin for dong "na' 'ne ''
ployers are supposed to pay them TO perform III.
The largest hotel in the range is the haa'efs '''
In 1880 About 800 guests now be well careu ton
there The annex and Opera House are nonni p
features new last year. William rage charge ear The
croupds and mountain park have Dech IMP mp nTmhsr
beaaliea aaa si0 already booked including many
notable people. General Grant Is suita Of rooms
used by President Arthur last season g.. ..cora
The new Grand Hotel Summit Mountain Is sec1 on
IN, cir and
any 10 @ Of benS the only resort the mountain that
is reached by rail direct without % Walk
mn The stems from the station Captain 1e.t - @ u
me Osisss Sromsed The books Of the
house already include many prominent "'''o'' anu "
Ts old Catsk Mountain House at Pine Orchard
opened juno its sixty-rst season II Is SUI, ue
orn Of Mr. Charles L. Beach poner hotel man Of
the Casks is likely to oe seen ao9oo S now to take
a aef ,''G part n0uS in the details the hOnss
The view from the tableroek juttng out in %1T
respects uneqGaed by anything in the entire rdp pS
This about one mile oysr rambis is on
top of the crag nearly the whole way tov.red .not
o., Inc r and refrigeration The house is large and
practically new and guests are well entertainer Nv i"o
The Tremper House at Phrnica already open for Its
eighth season. Though down Id inc valley niS hUu
has always w, se Seen Ysr peerer than
any of the other large hotels ,., a., .,,u In cling
in the smiles OF Manager HASKELL who enter!alns nis
guests at an altitude about 800 feet ngher sa any
other In ,he range His view Is the most EXTENDED anu
his air is the coolest of them ALL But to reach that sum
NIT long stage ride must be endured. Mead nan way
M is n very popular place, with never an
empty room His house was al taken md IN beIoWarc
is the diverging point these houses In adatoh
the large hotels named many hundreds more mis6t De
spoken Of some being equally as large-as ie ui" nv
House and Prospect Park. at Catskin village potn %
which are large and elegant Then mere Is no Gnu %
Tsnuersyille Hainess Falls, Windham, caro-; 1IuS
ton and other Greene County points ana az fi1o III
phnnica Moupt Pleasant, Shandaken Grimm corners
MorgansyilIe and stamford. on the Ulster ana DeIa
,xers Most of them report earlier applications, larger
rnnbers and for longer stays than In previous years
They saw fears of cholera in New York are already
inc thousands 10 seek refuge in the mountains ana inc
prospect Indicates the most brilliant ana success
ful season ever known in the Catsklls