The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-29
SEPTEMBER DAYS y
AT LAKE GEORGE
PEN PICTURES OF THE PIcTUR-
EseUE BODY OF WATER.
Vivid Description Of the Beauties Of
the Historic Surroundings Is Given
by a Special Correspondent-The
Discoverer Legend of Rogers
Rock-Numerou Summer Resorts.
Points of Interest.


Lake George, beautiful, picturesque
historic Lake George; mountain bound
and island gemmed! Nature has set
about this silvery sheet her grandest
and most sublime handiwork history
has left her landmarks all along its
bay-indented shores, and romance.
legend and tradition have touched 1t
here and there with side e-lights of thrill
ing incident and mezzotints of human
life and interest.
We left Glens Falls at a. IN. one
September morning to take trip
across this interesting lake, armed with
that modern instrument of aggression
a snapshot camera-with which the
tourist charges upon nature and wrests
from her her richest stores of scenic
treasure.
We started out with the intention
of bringing away with us, not only in
memories, but in Photographic souven-
irs, some of the charm of this gem
of inland waters The day was more
like April than September with its
wind, showers. cloud and sunshine. but
sunshine, cloud and wind united in
enhancing the beauties of the trip; the
wind tossing the water into white
capped waves that billowed and
sprayed in ceaseless motion, and the
sun, peeping from behind scurrying
clouds, touched mountain peak and
slope with pencilings of sunshine and
shadow. tinting the surface of the lake
with rich tones of blue, purple, violet
and emerald and whenever the wind
lulled, shot truant CLEANS of golden
sheen across the whipping waters.
PANORAMA OF BEAUTY.
The lake is thirty-four miles in
length The AdirondaCks, skirting It's
shores on the west, and the Green
mountains of Vermont on the east
| challenge comparison with each other
in the glores of their mountain seem
! cry, and present a continuous pano-
| rama of beauty and grandeur. Much
| Of the early history of our country
was made along the shores of this
| beautiful lake and once blood stained
landmarks along the way tell fearful
tales Of struggle and slaughter. Here,
| with tomahawli and hunting knife. the
red man fought with desperate cour-
age and fiendish cruelty for the pres
| ervation of his hunting grounds, and
here French and English pioneers
| waged a bitter warfare for supremacy.
The first European to discover this
lake was Samuel De Champlain in the
year 1909. Some years later. Father
JOgQues. a Jesuit missionary. was cap
| tured and carried across the lake a
| prisoner. He made his escape and re-
| turned year later with some friendly
| Indians. Arriving on the eve of the
| festival of the Corpus Christi, he
| named the lake Lac du Sacramento
| Lake of the Blessed SacramenD. The
Indian name being Andrea Ia roc te.
In 1175 General Johnson encamped at
its head and named it Lake George. in
honor of George II of England. Coop
| er chriftened it Lake HOriCan (silvery
| WaterD, and the steamer that carried
us across the lake is named the Hori.
| can.
Among the many points of interest
along the shore is st. Mary'S of tho
Lake the summer home of the Paulis
Fathers. Diamond Island, so named
from the fine quartz crystals fount