The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-24
4 popU1AR sUMmER RESORT.

Fishing and other fuh-A Nainoau That Gives Its Patrons Flowers Instead of Smoke and Cinders.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER;
 The past week has been most bril- liant one both socially and financially. Everybody who is anybody In society appears to be here or to have engaged rooms for the latter part of the season. Whatever may be true of other sum mer resorts, the Champlain cannot com plain of lack of patronage. Nearly eve- ry room is occupied and the bookings extend far into September. Of course some are leaving each day, but others come to take their places, so the house is kept pretty we'll filled all the time, Beside several hundred guests this house entertains many transiehts. Peo- pie en route to the Adirondacks, Mon treal or the Maritime Provinces, who have not yet visited the Champlain, want to stop over here to see the famed resort, and those who have been here before will certainly not fail to be 0 guest whenever they have opportunity. There are no inferior rooms in this ho- tel; so they are sure of being well taken care of at any time. All are handsome { ly furnished and have frontage on the lake or toward the Adirondacks. Millionaires and financiers have lost interest in the gold reserve and are de- voting their attention to yachting, driv- ing and the canoe races. The bishop lo ind 1erp mo nnndamnatOrV : under the influence of this benign at mosphere, are strolling about the grounds in most unconventional fash ion.
 From the vantage point of the spa < cious piazzas the author mounts his Ps- gasus and scars aloft, or makes charac- \ ter studies. The athletes and even fair \ maidens are doing more or less noun < tain climbing and a great deal of tennis \ playing. Military men are conspicuous in the ballroom, on the lake and Wher- ever gallantry leads them. No sail, < coaching party or game is comme Il { faut without at least one of the men of martial mien. To the antiquarian, the geologist, the naturalist and the histo- rian this is treasure-trove, while all de- Blight in the sandy bathing beach and the beautiful park. Here, too, is. the Hover of the gentle art of angling, turing x the shy trout and gamey bass from #their hiding places in the early morning x hours and hypnotizing his little audi { erlce when the evening shadows close ' around us into the belief that he has ,caught the largest and gamiest fish Wthat ever showed fight in these deep \ waters.
 I The woman of fashion and the woman X of the home circle are here also, ele- gantly gowned, regal in bearing, charming in manner and lovely at all times; but the New Woman has not made her appearance. We have not SC much as heard her spoken of. The z Champlain belles are distinctively fem thine creatures, with but few mannish garments and no masculine airs. They 7 may be dignifed or coquettish, but they are always refined and charming The NJ season has rarely been equalled for. the number of it's handsomely dressed and brilliant women.
 You cannot take in Lake Champlaln at a glance You may have seen it a X dozen times, but the thirteenth view will reveal a phase of it you had not 8previously considered. It. is not just a bit of picturesqueness here and there This great inland sea and it's mountain shores are combined and re-combined z into vast pictures of exquisite lowell N ness. Nothing could be finer than oul X natural environment. By what happy this superb hotel was loca- @ted on this particular spur of the Adj. @rondacks know not, but no resort 1T Fthe world is more advantageously situ Mated.
 The front of the bluff with its hand,
 some stone terrace and it's gradual de-
 scent to the beach reminds one strongly of Monte Carlo The color of Lake .yhamplain is as deep a blue as tht Maditerranean, but Monte Carlo lacks
 he Adirondack mountains and grea
 North Woods which serve to regulate
 he temperature with cool breezes ant #l.o form magnificent frame for the Hoeautiful pictures all around us.
 Then, to, this sparkling sheet of wa
 Ter is the link that connects us witt # )ur forefathers who fought so valiant El y for its possession. History has en
 iowed this entire locality with specia
 lnterest; the old, picturesque land
 marks are all along the shores. Ro
 nance with her golden shuttle ha:
 woven a, charm about it. Every crae
 md island and bay treasures up it:
 tory. The atmosphere that envelopes #st is like etherealized wine perfumet &5vith the very essence of the pine for x sts.
 My journey here was a kind of re
 ined pleasure. The Delaware & Hud
 on railroad, whose artistic stone sta
 ion Is just within the hotel park, seem Mgo be an up-to-date road. Its coaches
 Hire luxurious and comfortable, tn
 cenery along the line is enchanting
 nd what is very important in mid
 ummer, We could sit by the open win
 low without running the risk of beins
 titled by smoke or blinded with cin
 Hers. This line evidently has no de ire to make modern Pompeiians O
 It's passengers by burying them unde < he ashes of volcanic engines. Tn i. Delaware & Hudson uses anthracit
 oal only. Then there was the din
 CT served in the dining-car. Every
 hing was so good and so carefully pre-
 ared. It was as fine as a first clas E otel dinner. Another thing that i'm # ressed me favorably was its custom