The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-10-31
THE RUINED GLEN HOUSE.
A Famous Resort in the Whit
Mountains Going to Decay.

a FnmOus Resort in the White
Mountains Going to Decay.
To those who knew the White
Mountain Glen house in the days of it's
fame and prosperity, the desolation
and abandonment of the plateu hat II
crowned are pathetic enough. One
may still journey thither from Gorham
ana Jefferson Highlands, from jack
SOL ana North Conway, and the many
VisltorS to the neighboring water
scenery along the Ellis river are still
driven to the site of the house. to
eaten a glimpse of the superb prospect
1t affords and to gain from tehir driy-
er a hint of its story, as one might
near the tale of a deserted y%illaye.
Naught OF the house remains except
the base of a brick chimney, the
empty cellar. and-a bit queerly-a
wooden landing platform upon one
SIDE OF the e~mbankment upon which
the hotel stood. In contrast, the big
Staples and a cottage for servants
were spared by the fire, and stand.
nearly empty, but intact, while in
sharper contrast still, the little arbors
and rustic pavilions in sight of the
house, yet far enough removed to es-
cape the flames, seem, as the wayfarer
approaches, to betoken the existence
OF a hidden hotel, with it's usual COM
pany of guests. They somehow, in
spite or winter storms, have hung to-
getner, with few signs of impending
nllapldatlon; but elsewhere, at a great
er distance from the whilom house.
the eager underground is filling the
carefully-cut paths that lead to the
water scenery and to favorite points
or view In the neighborhood; plank
walks and wooden steps are rottinp.
n g~uidebOards are oftener found on
the ground than fastened to their
posts.
In particular, the steps that descend
the cllH to the foot of Glen Ellis Falls.
+ a menace to limb if not to life it.
self. Perhaps this sheer descent of
the Ellis river under the bold, steep
SIDE OF Mount Wildcat, in the chart of
q forest thai has thus far escaped the
!unDerman's AK, is the most impress.
I've Dlt or water scenery in the whole
Whlte Mountain country. Certainly
there is no fall to compare in swift
ness free, exuberant strength with
lis sharp leap or the young river,
struggling against it's narrow. rock
pound bed, sheer down a cliff fulIv
htNt ihSh, W DOuHu Cne Ie0yGS
underneath with the force of it's wa
tiers, and veil them in it's sprav. IF is
II of the chief show places on fine
southeasterly side of the mountains.
In the long summer hundreds of trav-
'elers go thither from North Conway
jackson. and tens from the little
notels OF Jefferson Highlands and Ran
dolph. while the hotelkeepers profit at
least by their carriage hire.
None the less, since the burning of
the Glen house, the long, steep flight
OF steps doWn:the cliff has Deer left to
TOT away. In some places the boards
nave fallen away altogether, leaving
ong gaps in the descent; in others
they are loose and t~reacherous. Near
~ everywhere the railing will now
break if one leaned heavily upon if.
AS the steps are at pres sent. it is near
ly impossible for q woman, unless she
mas some aptitude for climbing, to de-
scehd without much difficulty and
some FISK to the foot of the falls, and
tnere are men who prefer to harvard
tne slippery rock to the lettering
stairs. BY another summer, at the
present pace of decay, there may be
no practicable steps at all, and then.
perchance, the laggard ~hotelkeepers
VIII pestlr themselves to rebuild them.
but what is everybody's business is
NOBODY s-until some accident befalIs.
the carriage road from
the Glen to the summit OF Mount
washington is in the control of a cor
poration that still keeps it open and
carefully mended; but with no hotel
at its foot even the small prestige that
the vulgar little railway in the Fay-
yam side had left it declining. One
may walk now the whole eight miles
from base: to summit on a clear day
ana ~encOunter only the solitary man
VINO k toll at the Halfway House
ana MS three comrades and the two
Dig Day horses that work upon the
road, ana then descend again with on
~ Il DuckDoard and two passepgerS
Tor company. Meanwhile, on the 9TH
er l of the mountain the queer
crowd that finds it's way % the sum
init, in part because it is the correct
thing to do, is filling the little cars,
and the noisy engines go hustline
up their stupid way along the prosaic
western slope.
but the dusty wayfarer who works
MS passage, so to say, up the endless
ascent of the zig-zags of the disdained
carriage o a knows, as he smokes his
Ppe at the leuSeS, or cape Horn" or
the seventh mile post. that he and not
the engine is climbing Mount Wash
lngton. The crowd in the cars has
only paltry submits and relatively
smooth slopes for companions, while
over against the occupant are Adams
and Jefferson and Madison-the three
highest and boldest and most massive
peaks of the range, with only the
broad, deep and sweeping ravine Of
the great gulf to separate him from
them. Or when, again, at>the fifth
mile post, he looks out upon the crags
at the head Of H~untingtpn's %ravine.
perhaps the most commanding and the
strongest. most scanned and storm-torn
cllf in Eastern America. he NAV re-
jolce that h carriage road shares not.
at least in accessibility, the decay of
all things else about the whilom Glen
House.-BostOn transcript.
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