Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-07
AmoNe THE CLOUDS.

AMONG THE CLOUDS.
 the white mounsa1ns-A Vefy Poor
 season and Had weabher-A Late
 Season Expected if Good Weather
 Comes.
 BETHLEHEM, N. H., Sept. 3.-This pleas ant little village, consisting of three church es, twenty hotels and twice that number of small boarding houses, is situated right in the heart of the White Meuntasns and is 1,450 feet above the sea, being the highest village east of the Rocky Mountains, and a famous resort for New Haven people and hay fever patients from all parts of the United States. It looks out to the north and west for many leagues, viewing the mountains of Lancaster, the Percy Peaks, the Pilot Noun tains and the great Presidential range, whose rnagestic summits are finely seen, while on g clear day the hotel on the top of Mt. Wash ington is strikingly visible. It is also the coolest place in the mountains, and the av- craze rate of the thermometer for August was below sixty degrees. The season in the mountains this year has, however, been a very short enc, and one of the leading hotel proprietors told the COURIER correspondent that for twenty nine years there had not been a season like it, there being only two pleas ant days in August when the mountains were not hidden from view by the clouds,
 
 storm On Monday night last terrible hail and wind storm, accompanied by vivid lightning visited the top of Mt. Washington terrifying the guests at the Summit House and cutting off all communication with the latter place until Thursday. The constant bad weather is very great disappointment to visitors at the mountains, who came for the express purpose of visiting the various points of interest, as, if clear in the early morning, it is sure to cloud over before noon, and shut out the fine and varied views to be obtained on 8 clear day, and the tired and angry exeursionist who has made long drive to see fine view and then been dis appointed returns to his hotel to depart to the city the next day by first train, voWing that never again will he come to the mountains. Outside of these disappointments, however, the visitors en- joy themselves and make things lively with candy pulls, whist parties, private thsatri- of the week at Bethlehem have been ooach- ing parties, the annual meeting of the United States Hay Fever association, which held it's sessions at the Methodist church, at which about five hundred attended, and related ex- perienees and read letters relative to hay fe- yer and it's subjects; and tho full dress hops of Thursday evening at the Naplewood and Saturday evening at the Sinclair Among the New Haven people present were MT. No ble Hoggson, Miss Alice Hoggson, and Miss Florence Graham, tho form CT young lady being the acknowledged belle of the evening. In regard to the White Mountains az whole, little is known rsgard- ing them before the year 1842, when Darby Field of Portsmouth, N. H., made the first ascent of Mount Washington and it was not until 1852 that the old Summit House was built on the top of this high peak, at which time deer were ss plentiful in Bethleham as cattle now are. Since that time, however, xf- | -1 IL mountain district there are accommodated during the season no less than 50, GOO guests. The most prominent among New Hayeners here is the Hon. James Gallagher, who rushes from one place to another greeting old friends but refusing to talk politics, although there is no doubt in his mind ga to who will be the next President of the United States. MT. Galla- gher is stopping at the Bellevue House in Bethlehem, with Miss Bessie Gallagher and J. W. Gallagher, while other, New Haven guests at this house are: Mrs. McMsster, Gil bert MeMaster, MT. Noble F. Hoggson, Miss Alice Hoggson, Miss Florence Graham, Miss Annie Pardee, Mrs. E. w. Blake, Miss E. E. Bassstt and Miss Louise Gallagher. Other New Haveners at present in Bethlehem are:
 Broadview-Mr, s. G. Todd.
 HiIlside-Attorney George w. Robinson.
 Howard-Miss E. F. Weld. Miss M. E. Weld. MT. L. H. Tourtelotte.
 MapIewood-Hon. 0. L. English and wife; Mise J. A. English, Mir. A. s. Holt and wife. k
 Mt. Agassiz-Mr. s. J. Merwin and wife, MT. D. s. Nerwin.
 Sinolair-Mr. W. B. Pardse, Miss Pardse.
 The UpIands-Mr. John Fl. North, Mrs. O. B. North.
 AIpine-Mrs. John E. Bassett, Miss Belle Bassett, Mir. George J. Bassett.
 At the various other places where New Haveners are staying and who they are Is as follows At the Crawford House-Mr. E. G. Stoddard and family, Mrs. Mary J. Bar bour.
 At Sugar HiIl-Mrs. 0. A. Brooks, MT. F. T. Brooks, Mir. J. Lewis Parks and wife, MT. A. Fl. Kimberly and family, Mrs. J. B. Rum- merrill.
 At Hofderness-Mr. Thomas B. Osborne and family, Professor s. w. Johnson and wife, Mrs. Charulie, Miss Faith Collins, MT. Eli Whitney and wife, MT. Abbott Foster and wife, Miss Whitney, Mr. D. O. Gardiner, Hon. 0. E. Graves and wife. Miss Tuxbury.
 At Jefferson-Professor George T. Ladd and wife, Lenis Ladd, Miss Elizabeth Ladd, Mrs. J. K. Colby, Miss L. J. Colby, Mrs. W. E. Downs, MT. John J. H. Downs, Niss Les sey, Mr. H. L. Hotchkiss azd family.
 At Lancaeter are: Mrs. A. E. Arnold, Miss Arnold.
 At Fabyan's, the great train center of the mountains, are: MT. B. Shoninger and wife, Misses s. and 0. Shoninger, Mir. M Sonnen- berg and wife, Misses Terrie and Hattie Son. nsnberg, Mir. s. H. Rosenberg, Mr. F. H. Harris.
 At Watervills are: Prof. A. T. Hadley, Nrs. J. Hsdley.
 At Franconia are: MT. LII. Benedict, Miss s. M. Benedict, MT. Lester Bradner, MT. Ohas. c. Camp.
 At the Summit House, on the top of Mt. Washington, New Haveners have not visited, owing to tho bad weather, and nons of New HAyen's residents are stopping there at pres ent. The hotel proprietors, however, are hopeful for good September, and people seem to be coming as fast as they go, many taking advantage of the reduced rates and England to visit this delightful country, where at in the morning the thermometer registers forty degrees and by noon seventy five degrees on day when the sun shines.
 G. W. R.