Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-04-19
VERMONT PRESS EXCURSION.
The Editors to Visit Lake Champlain
inJuIy.-H Headquarters to Be Estao-
Hshed at Hotel Champiain, at
Bluff Point, n. Y.

tiers ana among liie lsi"At9 -
Champlain.
This is trip that the Vermont Press
Association will take the second week
in July.
The objective point of the excursion
is Hotel Champlain, at Bluff Point.
This proposed tour of this beautl-
full and historic lake will afford the
maximum of pleasure and recreation
at a minimum expense.
The preliminary arrangements LOT
the excursion have already been COM
pleted by the executive committeeman
sisting of Messrs. Lewis Z. Thayer OF
West Randolph, w. +. Hubbard OF
Brattleboro and +. {. futile OF kut-
land. =,
The details Of the proposed trip will
be announced in circular to be issued
early in May.
The general features, however, can
be briefly given at this time.
The Press party will be limited to
200 persons.
The members Of the Association and
invited guests viii rendezvous at Bur
lington.
The fine and stanch steamer Rein
deer Of the Grand Island Steamboat
company. has been chartered Tor The
excursion.
The Press headquarters will be es-
tabished at the Hotel Champaign, the
elegant and monster summer hotel re-
Gently built By the Delaware and hud-
son Railroad company at Blum Point.
The party will sojourn day At TINS
Hotel del Monte of the East.
The views from the verandas and
towers of this hotel are unsurpassed
anywhere in this Northern country for
beauty and grandeur the scenic at
fractions including bird 's-eye view
Of the waters and islands of the lake
for hundred miles and an extended
panorama of the Adirondack range
and the Green Mountains.
4 literary and musical entertain
ment will be given during the sojourn
Of the party az BLUM Point. .
Tie excursion on the Reindeer will
include the picturesque portion OF
Lake Champaign, the course marked
out embracing between 10 and l9o
miles.
This tour of the northern part OF
the lake takes the party among islands
and into bays out of the usual courst
Of travel. and reveals scenic attractions
and landscapes Of rare beauty.
Among the points Of interest 10 be
seen are Rock Point, Apple Tree Point
Colchester Reef, Rock, Hogback, Staye
Carleton, and Providence Islands
Adams Landing. the passage land iror
BRIDGE between North and Soutl
Island. North Island City; passing
Knights. Butler, Burton and Grell
cruising through the waters OF th'
great Back Bay and passing by Ma
guam Bay. Isle La Motto will proba'
bly, be visited, also other points of in
terest along the New York shore.
There j. much of historic interest u
this vicinity.
There are the ruins Of Fort st. Ann'
on Isle la Motto, built in 1866; tn
size of fort built in 1872. and tn
scenes OF the naval battle Of Platts
burgh.
The morning Of the second day,it /
; proposed TO visit Ausable chasm, ON
, Of the wonders of the world. Afte
dinner,the plan Is TO re-embark on tn
Reindeer and make a touro that por
ton of the lake between Port Ken
and Fort Cassin, near the mouth o
: Otter Creek. This trip takes the part
: past Port Douglass, Port Kendall, I'll
-Four Brothers, Willsboro Point, Spli
Rock, Thompson Point, Cedar Beac
A and Shelhune farms.
+ The Reindeer viii land the party j
i Burlington in season for the afternoo
( trains south. east and north.
n The arrangements contemplate $
: iourning one night at the Van Ne
j. House in order that the party may b
/: in readiness to take the steamer Rein
:. deer as early as 1880 o'clock NTH
;. morning. Coupon books, GOVERN
d the cost Of the trip. will be issued b
# the executive committee. All invita-
: lions 10 person, not members of Il
= Association must be made through IL
l. executive committee.