New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-04-01

, -, Adirondack scenery can be obtained from
wcTntvre than from Marcy owing to the former
mountain occupying more lsoi"'eu P
yvbueface also occupies solitary POSITION "i'.e
seems separated from the reihalhuer "a '"N
irondack chain . =, Au. from,
- lie I'M Whiteface. which. being over fv'
Goo, b,ch and standing apart. as stated from "'
remainder of the Adirondack cnalh' coi"'ld' 90
,,rooualled view in the Adirondacks' almost '"e IN
Two length OF Lake Champain being visible ii0',
g., sun,rnit as well as the St Lawrence RIVER anu
hundreds OF Adirondack lakes Charles T. Nia',t"'
49,. onrie,or Of the Mirror Lake House, with Mr'
r,,rner Of Albany, are the men who are pushing
,his railway enterprise. and VINO have pousn' "e
light Of way up Whitefacc and a large po'.'on Va
.ha mountain Mr.. Martin states that ne i no"
,n,os,igating the construction Of the famous raii-
uovs I'D the Right and up Mount fha'us j" o"'
zerland. and up Mount Washington anu IN
Dar, and that the Whteface railway VIII nave
the benefit OF all the experience gained III pu'u"s
the mountain railways mentioned
o,o r,ust think that John Brown must have had
n love Of grandeur in nature thus to nave hau MS
crave placed in the centre OF TINS inash''o',''
.1,rordack valley lie came to North klba IN
,o,a go, Springfield Mass, where he had just
ma in business as n coal merchant what at
tracted him 10 the place was the fact that uefrl'
Smith the Aboltionist, had established AZ "or'h
1.lha n colony for colored people r"scueu IroII
e,avery The place was then an extremely iso'h',i
o,a .rhera was no railway within $50 miles OF H.
r. sco-es Of miles In every direction there eN-
.ordad an unbroken Adirondack forest Ihe ohiy
.ood q, fn,nortance. and that was poor one cile
,brougb the woods from Lake Champlain' thirty
nyo miles distant John Brown made Clearing
ond erected a wooden house. which sun STANDS
80, tho nlare where II was erected me mouse -
on urnained one OF stories In height; the steep
80, boyc,er IS built TO shed Adirondack SHOWS
1o,,g greatly the size 81 the rooms upon the sec
a ooor Of the house II originally without
or,, ver,nda but has been added OF recent
,ar, rh,c runs around the eastern and the SOUTH
or, face of the dwelling and keeps the glarns sun
~ midsummer out Of the rooms upon the lower
eoor The main part OF the house Is square IN
ebana but n wing In which there is a Kitchen runs
% the northward and there IS a woodshed at right
angles to this wing.
The house and farm are the property OF nate
Field Sinclair Tousey the sons or "hha'" lazy -
Garrison and several other admirers OF Johh
provn They bought the farm ana put a neat
,yooden fence about the grave Their ann WdS ~
&c, the grave from desecration and the farm
from unworthy uses. They have placed IL In chare"
-, a farmer named Reuben Lawrence who guards
en-. eravestone OF John Brown from mutilation by
rolIc hunters and keens the little graveyard IN
order 49,, ..,,, ,.,,
q.h.r. was a big bowlder, weighing many tons
roa,ire on the ground about thirty feet from Johh
,,a,,,,', bonse when John Brown was on the
narn, ~ starring for Harper's Ferry for the pnr-
nose of invading Virginia and liberatng the saves
ia Mr. Lawrence "he told Alonzo Washburne'
sexton Of the town OF North Eiba. II he should
die shortly. to bury him (5rowm with his ieei