Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-10-20
Beauties Of Vermont.
Green MOUNTAIN Nooks.

a IaST TUIs ITTIE
IS filling up with summer tourists, ana, as
might be expected, Brooklyn people lead
the van of rest seekers. For years THESE
cool and cleaning hills and winding, WIN
some valleys have Jain almost UNKNOWN,
while the White Mountains on one sloe
and Saratoga, Lake George ana the aui-
rondacks on the other were nlled Win
visitors who fiocked from one side to the
other with hardly pause between. IL Is
1 true that single resorts here and there IN
Vermont have existed for years, puI THESE
places usually consist OF single notei,
with one or two surrounding cottages, 10
xhich the same people have come year
after wear without bringing any apprecia,
bic increase in their train. All around
| them and between have lain places Just as
desirable. whose brooks and hillsides were
all unyexed BY the well shod foot OF the
summer boarder. Now all this is changed
and Vermont. as one big summer resort,
NAV be said to have had its first success
ful season. Last year the Central Vermont
Railroad whose lines reach every corner
of the state, issued pamphlet OF lnior-
nation, giving names, locations and prices
of board in almost every town. Inc ooc,
ument was widely circulated ana the iuil
fruits of the enterprise are not yet reaped'
On two lakes in Rutland county, Lakes ~.
Catherine and Bomoseen, the hotels TINS
season have entertained thousand guests
al whom about half come from Brooklyn.
This proportion OF Brooklynltes does not
hold good ii other parts OF the state, pc
cause Brooklyn people have been coming
10 these places for about nve years now
bringing an ever increasing number OF
friends with each return, but IL Is saie 10
say that there have been more Brooklyn
ties in Vermont this year than VISITORS
from any other single city, even from bos-
ton. The same reasons which heao many
New Englanders " hen drawn TO New ork
10 make their homes in Brooklyn are act
i've in turning brooklyn people in search
~ eummer homes toward Vermont. Inc
villages here are quiet and clean and the
prjces reasonable. The people who come
are not fashionable folk with retinues OF
servants and spending 'wads OF monty :
hnt well 10 do citizens who like to rest in
comfortable quarters and are content 10
drive a good span OF Morgan horses with
ont irving to outshine their nelghDors.
. THE hone Of the Vermont farmer is that
his state shall attract large numbers OF
. this class of people so that the cnlnk OF tn n
visitors money shall be heard in remote
: valleys and mountain sides as well as IN
the better known summer places. Ihe
7 tendency is now strongly in this direction
( The beautiful shores of Lake Champlain
| are being rapidly bought up for perma-
d nent summer homes. The scenery, even
Z along the lower Hudson, is not inner .nai
. that at the northern end OF Lake Cnam-
4 nlain. whose twelve miles OF breautn
o Stretch from the foot of the blue Adiron-
9 dacks out toward the foothllis OF tht
d Green Mountains and command every peak
. of both ranges for fifty miles, YET lake
2 front lots can still be bought IN TINS re,
]. Dion for 800 an acre and for less than tha'
further south where the lake is narrower
know one man who bought 3 acre camp
two wears ago on one of the lake lslanas
i. for $50, but such bargains have 10 %
hunted for now. Grand Isle county u
made up entirely OF islands In the iaK'
/. and more purchases have been made there
u than on the mainland 1t is considered
remarkable that a little gem OF an islane
of five acres brought q 800. These SINAI
}. islands are about all sold now. But al
through the state are deserted farms, com
handing magnificent mountain views
. which are advertised for sale at anywher'
from S701 to $500. These run from q
acres To $50, and would come up into suit
able summer places for sums which seen
laughablv small in comparison with IN
cost of city homes. The towns in whici
these cheap farms are advertised exten'
= on both sides OF the Green Mountain rang
The main Green mountain range with IL
Are peaks, Mansfield, Cancels Hump ant
Law al the north, and Killington, Plco AM
Shrewsbury toward the south Is nanke'
on either side by ranges OF parallei noun
tains whose peaks run all the way iron
o.Ob
and out between these ranges run lnnu
merable dancing, twisting and tum Dim
mountain streams. The Misslsquol, La
noble. Winooski, Otter and Passumpsi
are some OF the more placid OF tnes'
whose banks are often set in intervales
fresh and vivid green, but the slnallt
streams like the Ottaqueche. the BLACK an
the Battenklll, and many with only loci
names like Furnace brook and East cree
nave the beauty OF thickly shaded poo
and cleaning waterfalls. The hills al
heavily wooded and almost anywhere
mong the hill towns 1t IS possible 10 SUI
DIV house with running water at model
ate cost. SO that healthful drainage ma
be secured by any one who insists upo
that feature in a summer home.
In towns along the lines OF railroads u
presence OF the summer boarder Is mac
known by new houses perched upon con
handing knobs and by broad plazzi
tbroun ont upon old farm houses in sue
way as to command the picturesq'
views tn be had at almost every turl
large hotels are scarce. j. A. Barrett
LAFAYETTE avenue, has built the Ellis Pan
hotel on the west shore OF Lake bomosee
which will Accommodate nearly Two hui
dred people, and there is new hotel
Woodstock, home of the late milllonalr
Frederick Billings, a little larger. Bot
~ these and some older houses IN u
state have been well filled this season, D'
the majority of summer guests stop
farm houses and small cottages, which a
ford fair degree OF comfort without pr
tension OF style. Where there are hote
OF course there are hops and the gayetl'
which spring up wherever young Peep
meet, but these affairs are merely INFORM
and I never knew but one hotel fro
v hich accounts of the hops were sent o.
embellished with descriptions OF I'll
dresses and diamonds OF the women WI
attended. In towns where there is no h'
tel there is always driving and forest pi'
MICS and usually rowing on some ioc
tights OF Vermont. The state is the hon
Of the Morgan horse and in most section
one can hire a span and double road wat
on for weeks jaunt among the hlils Il
go. with prices for day and half day e,
cursions in proportion. The roads IN u
east part of lhe state are almost alWa.