The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-07
NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES.
An Excursion Enjoyed by Sacra-
mentans and Others.

West Springfield On H.), Aug. 30, 1897.
Eds. Record Union: Have not for
gotten the home on the Pacific Coast,
for the Record Union" finds its way
over the $500 miles intervening and
reaches US daily.
We look first for the local news, then
the Klondike and State mining news.
then editorials and the daily ads come
in for their share. Then Sundays
paper with Polly divers summing up
of the weeks news, marriages, deaths
and social events is perused eagerly
We couldn't think of staying here three
months without the daily paper.
VIII inclose an item for the paper
if you wish. Respectfully,
ANN NJ. JACKMAN.
One lovely day in August party of
pleasure seekers from George Hill, En-
field, n. H., found themselves at
| Georges Mills, where the steamer We
nonah Ga staunch and elegantly ap-
pointed steamer with carrying ca
pacity Of six hundred passengers, was
| ready to take US on an excursion
around Lake Sunapee
A military band was stationed on
most excellent music during the day
which added greatly to the pleasure of
the trip. The engine, at all times I'M
der the control of the officers and en-
ployes, seemed to know just when and
where to make the various landings
and come close to the islands on which
were lovely cottages anad the summer
homes of the families of many noted
men from the crowded cities Con-
spicuous from many points on the lake
/ is the residence of Colonel John Hay,
Private Secretary and biographer Of
Abraham Lincoln, and the firm friend
! Of President Mckinley He is in Eng
land at present but the family are en-
joying the beautiful scenery of the
hills, the lovely expanse of water, and
pure ozone of the atmosphere in this
Switzerland of America
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, editor
Chas. A. Dana of the New York SUM-"
are among the stanch friends of this
summer resort. We stopped for an
hour at the famous Blodgett's Land
ing, where for eighteen years the an
nual camp meetings of the Spiritual
/ lists have held the attention of the sum-
mer boarders and attracted crowds of
visitors from all portions of the coun-
| try. The association has a grand
open-air auditorium with seating ca
| pacity for thousands, also hall for
rainy days. Cottages with romantic
names face the lake and so large has
! become the attendance that there has
been erected a second row of cottages
/ farther back on the hillside, with a
wide street, with the third row of cot
! tages facing the second. A veritable
| reaI-estate boom seems to surround the
whole lake
Two excursion trains came in over
/ the Boston and Maine Railroad one
| from Boston and Concord and the other
from ClaremOnt, and leaving the excur-
sionists at Sunapee Lake Station,
where a handsome building has been
! erected for the accommodation of the
railroad patrons. Here we found two
/ other steamers, the Armenia White-and
the Kearsarge with their officers ready
| to take a portion or even the whole if
/ they could be induced by the persuasive
words of captains. pursers, pilots or
/ sweet strains of music to enter either
! beat.
/ The majority of the excursionists
were provided with lunch boxes and
baskets though many stopped at diff
/ ferent hotels and summer boarding
houses.
/ The day was perfect, an ideal quiet
ness rested on the water which was so
clear that the fish could be seen bask-
ing in the sunlight or seeking the shad-
ow of the wharf or steamer as we
stopped for few moments
1 The hillsides We're clothed with a
great variety of deciduous and ever
/ green trees, q veritable wilderness of
pine, spruce, hemlock, fir, beech, birch,
/ oak, maple and other varieties too
numerous to mention.
With a ten mile drive over the most
romantic of roads. past deserted farm
houses and others in the finest possible
well-kept condition before starting on
| the excursion. hearing that the verita-
! bic school house where ''Mary's Little
Lamb" followed the owner to school
was still standing and visited by the
poet and artist as well as the author
of the poem, Sarah JCsepha Hale. wt,n
was born near the old school house and
meeting old-tine friends made it a
red letter day for one of the party VINO
has only pleasant recollections of the
steamer Wenonah with its courteous
( officers.
The distance around the lake bv
I steamer is thirtytwo miles and the dis