New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-05
TIE IDIRONDACHS.
IMPROVED RAILROAD FACILITIES-A HINT
TO HOTEL-KEEPERS

10 HOlEL-kEf1EhS
(FRosf An OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
ELIZABErnTOwN, n. Y, Sept. 3.-As the sea-
son In THIS glorious don draws rapidly to 1t Is
interesting to note some OF the many improvements
which have been successfully carried through within
the past five months, will be undertaken next year
No one who follows the Improvement in methods of
travel and accommodation throughout the Adirondack
can doubt that 1t Is the coming Northern resort.
Saratoga and Lake George for years ali-puwerfu at
fractions TO the wanderer. and no less
are old stories Beyond lies the Adirondack wilderness
which though actually surrounded by railroads and mold
ing cities IN is foothills is almost as much wilderness
s when Cbampain padded down the great lake its
eastern border Popular curiosity Is aroused by these
facts and each year finds the tide ~ travel larger.
From Saratoga the Adirondack Railroad. under the
careful management OF President W. W. Durant and
Superintendent Durkoe has carried greatly Increased
numbers over their lines Blue Mountain Lake and
beyond. This found a thorough reform in the
transportation facilities OF that region The Adirondack
Railroad Company doubled the train service OF their
road and aided daily sleeper direct from NewYork 10
the terminus North Creek On the thirty mile highway
between that place and Blue Mountain Lake they have
spent thousands OF dollars. so that the trip can
no enjoyed instead OF dreaded The feet OF dminu
tive steamboats, which ply on Blue Mountain and
Plymouth Lakes, also belonging To the railroad Will
next season be increased that the traveller instead
OF gong only FOrked Lake and there looking off, as II
into the PROMISED land OF lakes, can be comfort
ably transported with occasional carry far the
Upper saranac. thus starting in the Southern Adj
roDdacks finding himself in the Northern Lake
goD.
At the North innovation has been even m,re
marked. A railroad has been built from
Nora, the Ogiensburg and Lake Cham
7. ain Railroad, southwark to Paul Smiths station
and travellers who prefer the Injuries OF sleeping car
to a stage ride by rail within easy driving
distance TO PauIs Lake. Early in October the
NJ he I shurQ
will be completed to within four miles OF Loon Lake
The completion OF the new stevens House at Lake
Placid ma. greatly improved the character and
Of accommodation at that place. and at Keene Valley
the Beede House has enjoyed prosperous season
having been thoroughly repaired and enlarged.
With the opening OF new railroads OF course stage
nes have been In somewhat uncertain condition, AM
ne W have been started TO make connections.
The present finds connected for tho
first time with Paul smiths, Loon Lake and the two
he railroads. The sudden advent OF railroads in
that region makes every hung as yet rather unsettled
Rail has been astonishingly large people seeming
prefer 100 miles further by rail TO thirysI miles
The Increase In travel through the Adrondacks has
led most Of the hotels through the region TO advance
their prices from - 50 per day to 49, sleeping
| ing are such Injuries In the Adirondack that the
average traveller 10 willing TO pay 80 day for good
food and Only hotel Ia this region the
Adirondack Lodge. has had tine temsrity charge 81
day. The hotels will do we'll to retain the scale OF
charges which mas been ono OF the sttraotons OF tho
region. One suggestion to tho hotel propnetors tho
order. With the advent OF moro fash
IouaDlo visitors Of them make tho mistake tan
pensivo ohe) OF trying to provide city Tho
tired NEWCOMER CONES to these hills for and he
acarcey thrilled with JOY 10 hnd himself confronted at
diuner with dried-up banana or grange which left
NewYork before lie did and joted over the weary
stage route. And at tho same mos 10 sometmes
veIed TO mud instead Of tho nsh which these
| brooks and Iskes afford that he 10 served with q
square OF soft and much travelled habut blue-
few hotel proprotors have the keenness to see
| that while vonison, cream, trout and the wonderful
mountain berries old stories to people who live
here, yet they delicious and eversatsfyinx novel
tics vsitors and those places havegs for the
hungry resping their reward. Tho suggestion "