Telegram-herald., 1891-09-06

notes that the latter resorts are crowd
cd while Lake George is neglected, one
Is moved to doubt the taste and sagacity
of the seeker for pleasure and health.
There is no shut In or suffocating SEN
that sense of expansion which comes
with vista Of out-strstching waters and
rows on rows of lofty hills. One exper-
fences tho same feeling at Bar Harbor
one can breathe there or here. Com
pare Lake George or Bar Harbor night
with Richfield or Saratoga night and
you will readily understand the differ
ence.
Sit here upon this balcony hanging
over the noble portico of the Fort VIII
liam Henry. Look up at the black
mountains frowning over US On the left.
You know how the cold. pure breezes
sweep the heights up there. 1t soothes
and rests you to think of them. Look
out upon the silver lake almost at your
feet. The soft breeze comes stealing
up, bringing with it music from a
steamer gay with many colored lights
floating to and fro. Look down on the
dark clusters of foliage and the softly
FLASHING fountains, weird in the pale
glow of the electric lights. Why, this
is scene of enchantment-a midsum-
mer nights dream.
The drives about the country are
something delightful. That to Warrsns-
burgh, six miles from Caldwell, is over
firm. hard road. kept in perfect order
by a corporation. You pay your mite
towards its care in the shape of thirty
six cents toll at typical old-time toll
gate, presided over by keeper of pre-
ternatural dignity. But you don't mind
your toll. not bit. When you wind
through those deep forests. past foam
ing cascades and twinkling brooks.
where speckled trout lurk to dead GER
tainty, and bosky thickets from which
the drum of the partridge is heard. And
when you leave the forest road and go
down into the valley which lies smiling
before you, while around and above
tower the everlasting hills, and far in
the distance the turquoise Adirondacks
lift their heads, you will readily con-
cede that thirty-six cents admission to
such an amphitheater is cheap.
Then there Is the drive to Glen's
Falls over the old plank road. This
drive is rcplete with historic associa-
tions. Two miles from Caldwell one
passes Bloody pond" the scene of the
fearful slaughter in 1858 of the French.
1t is stagnant, gloomy pool, covered
with pink and white pond lilies. Two
miles further, one sees the monument
erected to Col. Ephraim Williams, the
founder of Williams college. who lost
his life In this memorable encounter.
Near Glen's Falls is long cave called
"Cooper's cave" from the fact that the
novelist Cooper laid one of the most
thrilling scenes in "The Last Of the
Mohicans" here. Then there is the
drive around French mountain and
another to Prospect mountain, from
which the view is magnificent.
Sailing and steam yachting are both
very popular at Lake George. A fad
just now il to spread scarlet sails in
stead of white wings to the breeze, and
very picturesque they are against the
sapphire of the water and the grays and
greens of the mountains. There are
very many handsome and luxuriously
appointed steam yachts here, and often
at evening they are decorated with
Roman candles and colored lights, and
pass In grand review before the various
landings. The effect b very pretty.
Here is typical Steam yscht party out
for days frolic.
There IL . gun club 1t Lake George
whose members arc Just becoming
crack shots. Among the ladies who arc
experts b Misc Maria q Beckett of New
York. On her first sttempt the young