Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-06-13
HONEYMOON IN A TREE.
California Couple Passed Weeks of
Happiness in Redwood.

| A story full of romance and ex
citement, having features novel and
| interesting in the extreme, has just
come to light in Mill Valley, says
the San Francisco Call. No better
place could young couple find in
which to pass their honeymoon than
amidst the great redwood trees in the
thickly wooded canyon through
which runs the strange mountain
road that winds its way to the lofty
summit Of old Tamalpais. Here it
was in dwelling Of strange and pc
culiar construction, having no stairs,
nor way to reach it's entrance save by
rope ladder, that newly married
couple passed weeks of happiness un-
til forced to leave their strange abode
or be molested by the intrusion of
the multitudes.
c. w. Jennings, a young writer,
whose work graced the pages of vari-
GUS eastern publications, sought new
fields to conquer, and with longing
eyes towards the west, he left his
eastern home and crossed the plains
of the metropolis on the Pacific coast.
Here among his wanderings he came
across a pretty face that he vowed
he loved and would some day call his
own. Difficulties confronted him.
That his love was reciprocated there
was no doubt. Still, there were
reasons why the couple could not be
married, and to Offset these they plan
ned a sort Of elopement. After all
the arrangements were completed,
they quietly slipped away and were
welded. Then followed the honey
moon in Mill Valley, and about which
the people of that section are daily
discussing.
On the property Of George T. Marsh,
on Corte MADEIRA avenue, in Mill VAL
ley, which is laid out on the plan of
Japanese village, there is house
built high up in one Of the tall red
wood trees, and the only means Of
effecting an entrance is by climbing
up rope ladder. The house is built
around the trunk Of the tree, which
passes directly through the center of
the strange abode. The roof is formed
on the branches of the redwood tree
bent downward, and the interior of
the structure is nicely furnished.
There are kitchen, pantry and large
living room, and veranda, where.
far above the earth, one can sit and
enjoy natures beauties without in
corruption.
Here it was between earth and sky,
that Mr.. and Mrs. Jennings passed
their honeymoon. They would climb
up the rope ladder a distance of 20
feet and reach their abode; then they
would draw the ladder up and thus
cut off communication.
When the ladder is up it is i'm
possible to reach the entrance, and
one must stand below and shout until
he is hoarse for the "steps" to be let
down.
From the veranda the scene spread
before one is typical of Japan. The
Japanese gardens of I'M. Marsh's resi-
dence spread to right and left with
their strange little streamlets and
houses fashioned by the skillful
hands of Oriental workers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jennings occupied
their strange and romantic abode
until the day after the Fourth. On
that day garden party for the
benefit of the firemen killed in the
recent ccnfagration that destroyed
the Standard cracker factory in San
Francisco was given in the Marsh
grounds, and the young couple, rather
than be discovered by the visiting
hundreds that gathered, vacated the
house in the tree and left for San
Francisco.