Evening star., 1895-05-28
IN THE ADIRONDACkS.
The Early Spring Season at Il Place
Some Neutrality-suspicious. Summer.
Correspondence of The Evening Star.
TAYLORS-ON-SCHROON,

correspondence OF The Evening Star.
TAYLORS- RS-ON-SCHROON,
Adirondacks, N. Y, May %, 1895.
This is not the fashionable season 10
visit the Adj ondacks. but 1 have found It
easy to make months stay very enjoy
able despite the absence of the throng of
summer visitors. 1t Is true. the large
hotels are not yet open. but one can find
comfortable quarters in farm house.
where the table is supplied with plenty of
speckled brook trout, frogs legs, fresh
eggs and buckwheat cakes with pure native
maple syrup. A good. big wood fire may be
enjoyed in the cool evenings. All these
accessories and more of the same kind
have found in plenty. 1 have not gone
hungry or suffered from lack of comforts
even in the woods
When I left Washington, on the 9th of
April, the trees had begun to leaf out and
the parks-especially the White House
grounds-had already become redolent with
the perfume of spring flowers and human :
ity bad shed its winter flannels and the
spring bonnet was in full bloom on Con-
necticut avenue. When 1 reached here on
the 18th I found the mountains covered
with snow, the lake icebound from shore
to shore. and its whole expanse of ten
miles used as a convenient highway for
the heaviest of teams. In fact, it was only
at the opening of the present month that
winter relaxed its grasp and the sun began
to thaw out inanimate nature
MISREPRESENTATION has something of a
local interest to Washington. Among the
cottages in the beautiful pine grove sur
rounding the hotel proper one of them
is owned and occupied during the summer
months by Mr.. Henry V. Parsell of the
Norris Peters Comany, and another by Mr.
s. w. Woodward of Woodward e 10th
rop. Mr.. Parsells cottage is the largest
and most complete in its equipment of
any on the grounds, and is a model In its
way. 1t Is supplied with hot and cold wa
ter. and is lighted throughout by incan-
descent electric lights. Mr. Woodward's s
cottage is not far behind, and has all the
conveniences necessary to make a summers s
stay at this charming place pleasant and
comfortable. He and his family have oc-
cupied it for six or seven years consecu-
lively.
In addition to his cottage, Mr. Parsel
has added several other improvements to
the place, among which are complete
electric light plant (Which not only lights
his own cottage, but the hotel and grounds
as WELD, laboratory, fitted up with cost
ly scientific instruments of all kinds, to
which is also attached an observatory with
a powerful electric search light and astro-
nomical Instruments, machine shop filled
with power lathes and other machinery,
blacksmith ShCp, a carpenter shop and
extensive fish ponds, in which are several
hundred speckled brook trout. He also
has a beautiful boat house to accommodate
his electric boats, of which he has two,
one large and one small. Altogether he is
fixed up for the complete enjoyment of
his summer stay in the mountains. And
the best of all is that he is in nowse selfish
with his possessions
Mr.. and Mrs Parselr Ohe latter being the
only sister Of the late Norris Peters, have
established quite an extensive free library
for the use and benefit of the residents of
the neighborhood. They have also COM
pleted a church edifice, little over mile
from here the erection of which had been
begun, but stopped for the lack of sufficient
funds. They not only finished the build
Ing, but furnished it. NJ. D. H.