The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-07-29
SUMMER- RESORT NOTES.

Boston Transcript
A pleasant way of spending tho sum-
mer has been devised by q rue moer
of the Harvard faculty at Canobie lake. ne
has a convenient cottige. built on q floating ratt
consisting of ffty-three empty oil casks. Inc
dwelling is towed about the lake wherever Jus
owner desires TO 60.
The Hotel Kaaterskill, among the CafsklD
mountains, New YORK. issues a pretty weekly
publication from its Office full of mountain notes
and tourist personals. The kaaterskilic claims to
be & sort Of Saratoga on q mountain TOP. lis
park includes the far-famed Kaatersknl rails
aud Sunset Rock, and the drives are unsur-
passed.
A Massachusetts man has bought ninety acres
of land at Islesoorough, near Turtle Head, ana
is founding a new summer resort, when ae eals
Naples, which overlooks a distincfively New
England harbor. bearing the name OF bay OF
Naples" The site happens to be q good one, AND
the blocks and streets have already been LAID OUT
by an expert civil engineer.
The season at the various White mountain re-
sorts has opened slowly. The number OF ar
rivals is comparatively small. and prooaoiy q
week will yet elapse before q dozen of the
mountain hotels are crowded. In numoer OF
advance engagements for August. however, II
sufficiently encouraging to justify janoioros In
predicting q prosperous season.
The view from Carter Dome, writes a tourist
in Among the Clouds, is one of the finest In the
White mountains. 1t is the only summit thatis
round like the top OF a symmetrical head. IL Is
covered with fr scrub, and the only LOOKOUT Is
from q tripod which the woodman's ak has erect
ed for that purpose. 1t is not a place wnere you
could easily spend the night, because there 10 no
water to be had. but for a id-day outlook the
view is incomparably beautiful.
Newport's ummer residents are much Hut out
by the way their interests are served by she To-
cal authorities. The streets are not properly
watered, they complain, and the roadways are
not In as good shape as they should be to suit
the feet of their expensive horse-fesh. and thea
the traCesmen gouge them on every opportunity.
The local business men Will suffer, as the cottag-
ers swear that they will order all the goods they
can from their winter homes rather than pur-
chase them in a place where they feel that their
coming is not appreciated.
The cottage at Long Branch which was made
so famous by the death of a President within its
walls has not been changed in the least since his
death. | has not even received a new coat or
paint, and the dull wood color and red trimmings
are becoming duller every day. The cottage is
at present occupied by c. e. Sands. Of New
York, and his family. The lawn surrounding it
is well kept, and the old road. on which hundreds
of willing hands labored with all their might In
putting down the ties and rails over which the
wounded Presidents car ives rolled, is in excel
lent condition.
q disappointment. They are good, round family
mountains from q distance. but the forests are
not grand anywhere. and tho treatment of the
trees in 'bsrkine," which leaves them scorched
and dead, gives them a chastity aspect. and along
the base of the mountains the serried ranks or
pines and frs struggling upward for light betray
skeletons below most unlovely. The wiidness
is gone. the ~clearines up the slopes present a spec
tacle of stumps. trunks aud huge roots like the
bones Of saurians. They are not picturesque.
save in spots.
The Missisquoi spring at Sheldon. VT. which
was called the Baden Baden of America"
twenty years ago, has been bought by q New
York syndicate with Alexander r. Shepherd the
head. The property will be impro we'd at once;
cottages viii be built in the vicinity OF the
spring, and the water. which has been known
for its healing effects for over one hundred
years, will be restored to the market The sur
rounding country was once filled with well.pa-
tronizsd hotels, and the shipments from the
spring to all parts of the world amounted to
$50. 900 q year. The resort was broken up by
bitter lawsuits and disaereements, and every
thing has been allowed to 60 to ruin.