Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-08-21
THINGS PEOPLE DO IN THE FREE
DON OF TIE ADIRONDACKS.

| would you mind II | went OF into the
woods little way and screamed?"
Not in the least Miss -" said the
/ proprietor, cCur,eCusly. 81 think you
will find a coed place up beyond the ten
rs court"
An, thank YOU" and the young wo-
man went CT. Two minuTes a.terward
blood curdling bowls were heard from
ma, direction
IL is a first rate screaming place. "
( said tae proprietor, meditauvely. Il
! dent like 10 have them do il on the
I shore c. he lake because we have a
/ ~cuble ecno, watch makes it sound like
b-d.am lei loose"
wen, SAD one CT the bystanders,
"you 6on' reye many requests CT that
SORT, DO yOu?"
~A, 49,. 50 very many. Sill, we have
/ ;lsm. Why. yen have no idea what
/ Queer tG-ng5 people 90 when they get
! CE lcr5 II sac ueaTt Of the forest. 1t
, rs rs If ley wanted to let them
Sc.ycS sc. Now. there's that young
,-Jy. She's probably been living in
s,..c..y civilized circles in New York,
wee rc screaming isn't regarded as q
pleasing vocal exercise. She doesn't
.- -.--l, 81. c2;nIng in itself, but she
1-u.s 10 I5t OIL steam and prove 10
che. sc.i that she IS really outside the
t.-.l-os C. conventional necessity. Every
5o-y fees more or less the same way,
ana j. 5 queer thing, but the more re-
hlcj and wei bred q prison has been
il ~ outside world the more eccentric
aa1 absurd a II - will be developed as
s,-H IS rs g5,S INTO the woods.
w had Is guest, for number OF
yc3IS in succession, the president OF
prominent fire insurance company. You
couldn't guess how that man spent his
;me here. Wei. sir, ne just loved to
ST. down by the day alongside OF an old
stump and burn 1t out. He went all
over the place and into the forest, and
hung over his stump flrss in all sorts Of
weather. Il seemed 10 give him the
NEST perfect pleasure. Down there.
! pointing to the blacksned remains Of a
big stump. IS The last one he burned
cut. Ii was a cold, rainy day last fall,
and NJ. sat there in the wet all
day ever as fire. He said he would
come back this year and finish IL but
hs died in the winter.
Then we nave another man, lead
ing Chicago specialist, whose particular
delight is snagging. Don't you know
what snagging is? Why, it's going out
with an ak and cutting the logs and
dead trees out of the edge ofthelake.
, We keep a few for him, and you never
/ saw a man take more enjoyment out OF
a thing
Two Intellectual and highly educated
women who were here last summer had
/ an apparent mania for chOpping. They
/ brought a Ratchet and sailed forth day
after day. and came back with the air OF
! having destroyed mountains, and with
! appedtes." The proprietor rolled his
/ eyes feelingly at the recollection.
Two others built themselves a camp
/ of n the woods, spending days in It's
/ construction. They cut poles. put up
The framework. gathered the boughs
and carpet, cleared a great fiat stone for
T the hearth, and performed prodigies OF
strength. They used TO go up stairs one
step at a time and they counted their
! cuts and bruises up 10 an awful total but
they always said they had had lovely
time.
cot course. the usual outlet for Ad-
irondack energy is mountain climbing.
f There are few indeed who have no am
b.tion in this line. A good many people
come in here solely for that purpose.
, Some OF them come just TO make the as
3 cent of Marcy, the highest peak in the
STATE. l remember one man who came
IN for that He arrived dressed in a
b blue serge suit. gray derby hat, very high
white collar and stiff shirt, with white
cuffs and patent leather shoes. He want
"a 10 know If he could get guide here
for the ascent. and l told him he could.
! He seemed 10 think he was ready TO
start then. so I suggested to him that
| he would be more comfortable chmolng
/ IN another kind OF OUTFIT.
"'Oh. no. he replied. I always trav-
| G. IN q suit like this.
{ 1t wasn't my business, so l LET him
50. We'll. I wish YOU could have ssen
! That man when he came back! HIS
/ -~cusers were torn up the side. his derby
| hs- had a hole where a branch had stuck
/ into il: his high collar lay in a wilted rag
/ around his nsck: his cuffs, whew there
/ was a choice decoration around them OF
/ n--ch and mug: and his patent leather
| Shoes we're scratched and scuffed TIL you
cou,dn't have identified the variety OF
leather. He was the exception, how
ever. Most people prepare for climbing
as If thsy intended to scale Marcy anu
/ Mcintyre. turn and turn about every
dav throughout the summer. A gcod
many os them never get any higher than
his house. but their costume is just as
eNectivs-a good deal more someumes-
as Z they had scaled the Matterhorn.
"Bu. the man,as Of your guests? Ten
me some more about them.
"Tha- interests you. does Il? Well,
In, not surprised: but really 70 appre-
c.ate them you ought 10 see the people
themselves. There was the pale !aoY
/ Tor the pail lady. as you prefer. one
hanpened 10 come 70 the lodge al a
tims when the road was particularly
rough. and she never got tired talking
about IL. She'd go around among the
guests and she'd talk 70 the servants
in fact 10 any one she could get 10 lis
ten to her.
Nov. f every one would take a
nall she always said, and NIL II with
loose stones. and put them in the mud
holes we would soon fix the roadr
Il don't know just why she INSISTED
on a nail. but apparently nothing else
would do. Finally one Of the servants
nicknamed her the pail lady and she
/ has passed into history under that titse.
we had another couple here whose
manis was botany. used 70 take ex-
cursions into the country with the hus-
hand. and he was always chewing hor-