The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-26
WOODLAND BEAUTY
OF THIS REGION
Revealed 10 an Entertaining Way by
Prof. W. e. Plumley.
HOLDINGS or WATER COMPANIES
Cover 10000 Acres of Land and
Water, or Twenty-Five Square Miles
of Forest Dedicated to Hoarding
n LimitIess Water supply for Ages.
What Would Not New York or
Chicago Give to Possess It--Fire
Precautions and Tree Paintings.

The beauties of the walks and drives
about Scranton, while lost to many
residents, find q keen exponent in Pro-
fessor w. f.. Plumley. He has taken a
wide survey of nature in this region
and viii reveal It in an entertaining
way in the approaching issue of Young
Men, the official publication of the
Scranton Young Mems Christian asso-
citation.
The Tribune has been favored with
advance sheets of the magazine which
contains Professor Plumley's article on
Pure Water Forest Reservation" II
teens with many facts and much in
formation OF the picturesqueness of
Lackawanna's mountain region and
the article is partly reproduced in the
belief that it will be read with unusu-
al interest. Professor Plumley writes:
ITO fall in love with the mountains
and the woods is to love them always.
TO live within sight of them and feel
their presence as we work is a privi-
lege that, in Scranton, will always be
ours. l believe that the indifference
TO the preservation of the forests from
fire and the wanton use OF the axe is
only a passing phase of our life as a
community, and that, as years go by.
we shall all become true lovers of
Gods trees.
UNDERESTIMATE ATTRACTIONS
I'm opening up the Meadow Brook
valley by fine carriage road, w. w.
Scranton has prepared a genuine sur
prise for us ALL Thousands who live
in this city have hardly dreamed that
W ho iGi. 40 Of
tain scenery lying just beyond Nay
Aug and the boulevard to the south.
We have begun to realize that our city
has attractions that have not been
taken at their worth.
IF we were to take ore of the old
lumber roads leading out of Meadow
Brook valley, toward the south, above
Brar Brook, we should find ourselves
climbing o long slope quite as high as
our West mountains, commanding a
view Of the city and e. glimpse of the
country through the Notch, with Elk
mountain gradually lifting its twin
peaks on the far horizon to the north.
There is some subtle association, due,
perhaps, tc a night l spent under the
stars on Elk mountain many years
ago, that makes the picture from one of
plete until it's blue pinnacles rise to the
view. Old Elk has u way of sticking
up it's horns unexpectedly that is de-
lightful to those who love it's charm
ing outlines. No one who hes looked
from its summit upon the prospect of
fields and woods, orchards and lakes,
bounded by the mountains that rise
beyond the Susquehanna and our own
range, can catch d glimpse of Elk
mountain without thinking of the del
ectable country over which it presides
like calm goddess of the past.
But l must let this alluring noun
tain alone or / shall neglect what is
nearer home. Our road will diminish
almost to a path long before we see
the, narrow cleft through the hills
where Green Run makes it's way to
Spring Brook, a mile below. The run
is q fine stream in the spring, but ow-
ing to the destruction of the forests it
dwindcs in summer. one of these days
we shall doubtless have a good carriage
road following the course l have de-
scribed, connecting Meadow Brook with
the Spring Brook valley. By that time,
perhaps, some of our boys will be opu-
lent enough to open tally-ho route
from the Hotel Jermyn to Moosic and
return. 1t will take a good whip to
tool a coach over these hills and a
staunch drag with sound brakes but
the thing will be done, and there will
be some glory in the doing of 1t. May
/ be there to see the start, or to watch
the team as it canters along the boule-
ward, or to listen to the echoes of the
horn as they sound farther and farth-
or down the winding valley of the
SIring Brook.
eLEIGH AND SNOW-SHOE.
What will be the delights of q
sleigh ride over these heights crowned
with snoW-laden hemlock, down into
the glen whore the broad foliage of the
rhododendron and deep green of the
spruce are almost brilliant through
snowy Vistas? What of the fun of
snow shoeing Cthe snow lies deep in
these woods and will be deeper still
as the forests are reuewed) through
solitudes rarely invaded in the sum-
mer's heat?
The Spring Brook valley from the
great steel viaduct of the Wilkes Barre