Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-07-06
THE PRESS ASSOCIAT ION
MEETING.

The summer meeting and outing of
the Vermont Press Association was
held in Barton and at Lake Viliough-.
by last week the party rendezvousihg
at Hotel Barton on the evening
of July I. Representatives from
most of the papers in this section of
the State with some from elsewhere
were present. The first evening was
spent in greetings and social gather
ing. TIE hotel people had their new
house in fine order and their tables
were such as to elicit much praise
from all present. The village band,
appearing for the first time in their
new uniforms, kindly assented to APP
pear and enliven the occasion with
several selections, which were re-
ceived with much pleasure and many
compliments. Several of the party
took strolls about town, visited Col.
Cutters residence where they obtain
ed fine view of the village and sur
roundings and enjoyed boat ride on
Crystal Lake, the owners of several
small steamers volunteering a trip
around the lake. The party started
in carriages and coaches for Wiliough
by at 10 a. M, Thursday, Mr.. Pattee,
one of the managers of the hotel,
skillful reinsman, was out with two
spans of blacks, one of which is
considered worth S4OO, a new set of
harnesses and a new coach, the
whole worth at least $500. The ride
and half, many expressing much
pleasure in the fine views afforded as
the high lands and wide prospects
spread out before them. At the Lake
Capt. Averill was found in waiting
with his new boat at Lyons wharf,
and such as preferred the boat took
the trip to the south end of the lake
on the water; the others went by
carriage road alongside the lake,
passing the group of cottages at Ly-
on's and Fosters groves, to the Gil
man tavern, where they stopped for
the best water in the State and view
of the noted old inn. All along the
road in this section were numerous
bling for their summer outing, with
large number of very pretty houses
in the process of erection.
The route leads along past several
farm houses and far enough above
the water to give a fine view of the
lake, the green hills of the farming
country beyond and the abrupt
shores on the north base of Mt. Horn,
with that mountain rising in preeipi-
tous and lofty height toward the
south. The roadway passes into the
forest where the north slope of Pisgah
crowds down to the shore and where
the deep shades of poplar and white
birch make a most delightfully."-
shaded roadway. Here the rocks,
which has tumbled down from pre-
cipitous sides of the mountain, have
been rolled down to the water or
blasted away, barely making room
for the road, which ordinarily is kept
in good order. At other points places
out through projections which were
like railroad ledge cuttings, the over
hanging rocks threatening to fall into
the roadway or tumble into the deep
water below. Along this part Of the
route several mountain streams come
dashing down over the high preci-
pices in miniature cascades, the
waters of which are refreshingly cooI
and pure. AS the advance is made,
glimpses among the trees reveal the
precipitous side of Mt. Pisgah where
the rocks stand for several hundred
feet in height as a perpendicular wall.
Away up toward the summit green
bushes with here and there a courage
Gus tree have fastened roots among
the rocks and Withstand the winds of
summer, the storms of winter, and
dare the danger of fall to the
depths below.
Gradually the road creeps along the
lakeside, where strong ratings pro-
tect from plunging off the side of the
road into the water, until the old
growth forest appears, where the
campers and picnickers have built ta-
bles, rude camps and places where
they come to spend a day or a week,
as they have opportunity. The as
cent from the lake to the site of Will
loughby Lake House, a half mile be-
yond, is quite steep, but runs thro'
a pleasant route, among trees and
fields to the house. The hotel is well
known to every one in tots section
and to hundreds in all parts of the
country, who have some time or 9TH