The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-23
M'KINLEY,S OUTING.
He Will Spend it in Northern New
York After Congress Has Adjourn ed

ne w III 0D6no III IN OELn0rn IN CIV
York After Congress Has Adjourn ed
Washington, July 23.-President Nc
kinley will not be able to fix upon the
date of his summer outing until con-
gress shall have adjourned. He has,
however, fully determined upon the
place where he will seek rest from the
persistent office seeker and the schem-
ing politician. He will spend a portion
| of the summer in company with Vice
President Hobart on the shores of
Lake Champlain in New York The
party will include President and Mrs.
Mckinley, Vice President Hobart and
his family, General Alger, secretary of
war, and his family, and John Addison
Porter, secretary to the president, and
his family. Secretary Gage was at
Bluff Point last season, at the same
time as Mr.. Hobart, and he too may
be here later on. The president will
bring his stenographers and other as
sistants, and for while will be de facto
the seat of national government 1t is
likely that President Mckinley and the
members of his party will stay about
six weeks. Vice President Hobart has
been there more than one summer, and
1t is the confident expectation that the
president will be as well pleased with
his surroundings and with the life as
Mr. Hobart has been.
The hotel at which rooms have been
engaged faces the west, structure,
outline. with a certain effect of airi-
ness and lightness, yet in construction
solid like the everlasting rock upon
which 1t is builded. The main building
for there is also a large annex built
subsequently and connected with the
principal structure, to which it con-
forms INTELLECTUALLY, by a long carpet
ed passageway fnclosed in glass, the
total length of the whole series being
about 800 feet-is five stories in height
from the ground up, with a tower on
each end and higher tower in the CEN
ter, from the platform of the topmost
floor of which are visible in all direc-
lions pictures of exceeding beauty.
Scarcely less fine is the view from the
room windows, both from the rear, and
from the deep piaZzaS running length
wise of the house on the east and west
sides, respectively. Within the hotel
fully meets the expectations raised by
the appearance of the exterior and
grounds. The big office hall in the CEN
ter, the parlors, the writing rooms and
the sleeping rooms are furnished ele-
gantly and even 1uxuriously.
The big hotel stands in it's own
park of 450 acres of forest and clearing
hill and dale and plain. In front of the
structure is a great oval lawn of close
clipped clover, girdled by a broad drive
way of the smOOthest of smooth ma
cadam, hard and firm, which to the
left branches into two roads, one lead
ing past the five hotel cottages by an
easy descent a third of mile or so
down to the handsome little station. al
which every train on the Delaware and
Hudson road makes a stop, the other
roadway winding down the bluff in the
opposite direction to the long pier at the
end of which the steamers always make
landing. Beyond the cleared space in
front of the hotel the ground slopes off
in little hill, so that even from the
elevation of the piazza there is a beau
tifu1 view of the broad and fertile val
ley and of the Adirondacks in the west
ern distance.
VermonterS will make the most of
President McKin1ey's visit. Not only
has he been invited to attend the an
nual encampment of the Vermont Ma
tional guard, which begins at Chester
August 9, but there is possibility that
he may also be present at the annual
meeting and banquet of the Vermont
Fish and Game league, to be held at
the residence of Lieutenant Governor
Nelson ]. Fisk, at Isle La Motte an
island town in Lake Champlain.