New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-31
THE TRIBUNE IN THE COUNTRY.
ALL THROUGH THE ADIRoNDACKs.
Pony EXPRESSES CONTEND WITH ROUGH ROADS
BUT REACH THEIR DESTINATIONS.

PONY EXPRESSES CONTEND WITH ROUGH ROADS
BUT REACH THEIR DESTINATIONS.
IBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE
LAKE PLACID, N. Y, Aug. Bottle Delaware anu
Hudson Canal Company's great engine No. III was
again on duty this morning to carry The SUNDAY
TRIBUNE to the Adirondack Good time was made
to Westport.
The way that THE TRIBUNE is looked for and pur-
chased through this region Is simply astonishing Peo-
pie who spend days of tedom staging to reach their
ayorte and secluded resorts view with greatest sur
prise THE TRIBuSE's special pony express hurryins
through the mountains and deliver papers az
speed about double that at which they arrived
Such enterprise furnishes an inexhaustible topic OF
conversation to tourists through the mountains Inc
yexaton expressed when any one experiences lnaoiy
to get copy of The SUNDAY TRIBUNE Is tas,ane
acknowledgement of the papers earnest efforts ana an
EVIL ence that the paper has already become necessary
10 the Adirondack sojourners. ,
O. Kellogg of Elisabethtown transferred to that
place from Westport the bundles for through noun.
tain delivery. The morning was dark and rainy and
1t difficult to make good time, especially between
Elizabeth town and Lake Placid ere the road Winds
up end down the mountains and elong preciptous
rocks Mr. A. O. Leach had charge Of this part OF me
Journey and considering the terrible weather gooa
tune was made. Lake Placid was reached az ~
o'clock. Then j. q. Thompson caught up the oundies
bound further on and hurried them through to the
Lower saranao Paul Smiths. and Loon Lake.
Some distance beyond Saranac Lake village anotner
Prospect House. President Cevelands abiding place,
which resort was reached at 8 o'clock p m: fani
Smiths reached at 3 10 p m. and Loon Lake az
80 p m.. after rough trip storm scared roads
Few people leaving the mountains yet WIN ia,r
weather 1t looks II the season would last nearly all
of September
Burlington, VT. was supplied to-day by iRIB
UNI bundles thrown off at Port Kent Tor dehVery
across tie lake by special steamer.
BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE N. Y, Aug. Bottle Tab
UsEs special train from NewYork was twenty minutes
late at Saratoga to-day Immediately on It's arrival
special ongnc on tho Adirondack Railroad received
consignment Of SUNDAY TRIBUSEs only llast regular
city edition. northward to North Creek, hftysix
miles, rapidly possible. distributing The SUNDAY
TRIBUNE, with tho did OF pony expresses all
through the Southern Adirondack region Lake George
Lake Lake LuEerne aud other points were sup
piled. As soon as the train reached North Creek a
wagon left Immediately for Blue Mountain
Lake, arriving there at AGO p m. Along the
routo are Edrdgos Indian River st. Marie's and Cedar
River Hotels. all OF which places were supplied WIN
SUNDAY TRrBUSEs At Blue Mountain Lake are tue
Prospect House. holding about ak hundred people the
Holland, holding about two hundred, and me bi I
Mountain House. THE TRInUNE was In demand nc al
hotels and the newsdsAlers sold out completely No
other NowYok paper received In all this region To-
day,