News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14
hills: Here are the Green Mountain
seminary and 0. w. and NJ. J. Davis
WATERBURY is A THRIVING TOWN

WATERBURY, is A THRIVING TOWN.
J winch owes much of it's prosperity t
tne central Vermont railroad, who's
orlck station is one of the best edfice
III town notable for it's elegant an
spacious buildings. The stately brio
mansion and well-kept gardens wbic
nave Deen for generations in the fam
lily OF Gov. w. P. Dillingham;. {
course attract foremost attention
Whlle the residences of DIR. James an
Z. Z. Warren are more modern an
ornate.
Through the courtesy of Oversee
Deal WeWere shown the projections c
the
NEW INSANE ASYLUM,
which is being built from the plan G
Architects Rand & McNally, Boston
The last Legislature granted 800
600 to build second insane ASYLUM
and 500-acre farm has been pur
chased Just out of the village. TIL
south wing is to be ready for occu
pancy in June, 1891, but the Who'll
building will not be completed til
another grant is made by the Legis
lature. The south wing will accom-
modate LOO inmates; reconstructed
the wards are practically isolated, al
near fire-proof as human science cal
conceive, from one to four storie,
high, with basement under all, heated
by steam and supplied with spring
water throughout, the foundations
and basement and trimmings OF
Barre granite, walls and partitions
brick, and finished in the interior in
natural woods. We found the work
well begun and 100 workmen employ
ed
For the last days stay was re-
served the most delightful experience
| of all
THE ASCENT OF MT. MANSFIELD.
The morning was cloudy and the
mountains shrouded in fog, but we
were unswerving in believing our u.s.
ual good luck with the weather would
hold, so we started for the summit.
ten miles distant, and were rewarded
with one of the best views ever had
from the summit. For the first six
miles the road lies
ALONG WEST BRANCH.
prettily shaded, and kept by the town
IN better repair than ordinary coun-
try roads; then came the four-mile
climb up the mountain. 1t was so
cold on the mountain, Strawberries.
raspberries, lackberries and cherries
were just in bud and bloom, part
rldge-vines, wintergreens. chistonias,
DunchDerrles, many varieties of lich-
ems and most important of all, be-
cause so rare, the orchid spiranthes
ceruna.
The change in vegetation was very
marked during the ascent; especially
noteworthy was the difference be
| tween the windward and lee sides o
trees-on the latter long, strong
branches and quantities of moss. anC
on the former stubby, short or no
any branches and no moss. As w
reached the open the view whic
burst on orr vision was simply or
| trancinS- Reaching
THE SUMMIT HOUSE
at the base of the nose we welcomed
y
son and his family of five from Yer
mont and two travellers from Michi-
gan. The latter were "doing" the
mountain regions of Canada, New
England and New York in a sensible
manner. Mounted on splendid thor
oughbreds and not making schedule
time, they were really enjoying the
trip. Stowe is 720 feet above the sea
level, Mt. Mansfield 1910 feet above
Stowe and 1890 feet above the sea
level. AS we sat down to our nice,
warm dinner we were serene in the
consciousness that no one lived high
er in Vermont than we at that mo-
ment, 3S41 feet above the sea-level.
THE MoUNTAIN-ToP
is two miles in length and horses can
not travel on it, After dinner the
fog lifted and we set out to explore
it, The nose is a ragged boulder of
rocks, 500 feet above the Summit
House, approachable only from the
west; the east and north sides are
unclimable precipices the forehead is
south and 160 feet lower. From the
nose Stowe valley, Waterbury and
Duxbury are plainly seen and noun
tains from Canada to the south part
of the State, including
CAMEL's HUMP
and Mt Washington and the Presi-
Dental range 100 miles to the east.
Smugglers' Notch, at the north
east, lies between Mansfield and Ell
more mountains, and in the old days
was travelled by parties carrying
| contraband goods from over the bor-
der, which were often secreted in the
notch. Many are
THE NARROWING TALES
the oldest inhabitant can tell of the
exciting scenes of day that is past.
To the west we could see the whole
length of Lake Champlain, from the
Sorel river to Vergennes-only the
the smoke of that city. The villages
of Underhill, Jacksonville. Jericho,
Winooski and Essex, and many others
we could see, cuddled down in the
hills at our feet; the valleys of the
Missisquoi, Lamoille and Otter Greek
rivers; Burlington, it's college build
ings visible to the naked eye, the
sand-bar bridge connecting the main
land and South Hero, Pindar's Point
lighthouses, all the islands, yachts
barges and steamboats,; the bays O
Maquam, Mallett, Shelburne; tn,
town of st. Adams. At Shelburne w,
could locate Dr. w. Seward Webb.
farm. Across the lake Plattsburs
and
THE ADIRONDACKS
were as plainly visible as though bu
10, instead of 100 miles away, OLE
White Face lifting his head highe
than all
The crevasse on the east side of tn
nose was formed by the loosening, b,
heat and water, of a great boulder @
several tons weight, which fell dow
f the mountain, smashing into frag
, ments and leaving two profiles at tn
, sides of the crevasse. Passing nortI
to the lips there is a light soil, whicl
supports a few scrub spruces, whicl
f can only attain a lateral growth, tn
f wind retarding a longitudinal one
f The soil itself is often blown over tn
, precipice. Along the lips are thre
I boulders of several tons weight, whlc
o biologists claim are the remain
, of the drift period and show ic
p scratches.
From the chin Jay Peak in Nel
mont, Owls Head, Elephantus an
y Mts. Oxford in Canada are seen, til