The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-14
NOTES FROM MT. LAKE.
UniontOwn People May Build Hotel
at That Popular Summer
Resort.
AN IDEAL SITE HAS BEEN SELEOED
Other Hotels and Cottages at the Park-L.
T. Yoder, of Pittsburg, the Largest In
vestor-Confuence and Oakland Rail-
road Nearly Completed.

Lake Park, and while there contrib
utes some good things to his paper
concerning the Park and this section
of the country generally. A recent
issue of his paper contained the fol-
lowing:
The popularity of Mountain Lake
Park with Uniontown people is be-
coming so great that the building of
a Uniontown hotel here is now talked
of, and those having the project in
view have already picked out the
spot which they think would be an
ideal site. 1t is on a commanding
bluff deeply shaded by towering oaks,
and only few hundred feet from the
auditorium. The plan is to organize
a stock company and build brick
hotel Of about fifty rooms. 1t would
be the first brick building in the
Park, as all the present hotels and
cottages are frame buildings. 1t is
believed no trouble would be exper-
fenced in securing stock to finance
the project, nor would there be any
difficulty in filing all of the rooms of
the hotel every summer.
The largest hotel in the Park is the
Mountain Lake Park Hotel, which ac-
commodities 140 people and has ten
acres of beautiful campus. 1t is
owned by Mr.. L. I. Yoder, the Pitts
burg real estate man, who probably
has more money invested in the Park
than any one outside the Park Asso-
citation. II was first induced to take
$4,000 worth of stock here" said Mr..
Yoder to the writer, land then to
keep from losing l had to go in deeper,
buying the hotel at sheriff's sale and
putting up electric light and water
plants until l now have about $4,000
invested at Mt. Lake"
The next largest hotel In the Park
is the Hotel Chautauqua, owned by
Mr.. Warren Choate, a real estate
dealer of Washington, D. c., who is a
second cousin of Hon. Joseph Choate,
Ambassador to England both being
relatives OF the distinguished advo-
vate of early days, Rufus Choate.
The Chautauqua is within a stones
throw of the auditorium.
The largest hotel in the vicinity is
the Loeb Lynn, situated not in the
Park but just outside the grounds
near the B. & o. station. Ithas gone
through several stages of financial ex-
perimenting, and is now owned by a
company of Fairmonters. 1t will ac-
commodate about 200 guests and is a
favorite stopping place for people
from Fairmont, Morgantown and
others West Virginia towns.
Mr.. Yoder has been trying for sew
eral years to get the B. & 0. to COM
plete their branch railroad from Con-
fluence to Oakland, and the prospects
are good for the early realization of
this scheme. Confluence, Cumber-
land and Oakland are three points of
a triangle. The two long and equal
sides are from Confluence to Cumber-
land and from Cumberland, each of
which side is SO miles long. The base
of this triangle is the short side down
the Yough river to Oakland, 40 miles.
The building of this branch would
therefore cut off 66 miles for those
who come to this place by the B. & O.
via Cumberland. The b. & O. built
the road from Confluence to Friends
vile, Is miles, then went into the
hands of receivers before the further
extension could be taken up. Re-
Gently lumber company extended
the road, until its terminus is now
within seven. miles of Oakland, and
the remaining gap will doubtless be
closed at at early day.
"When the road is finished" said
Mr.. Yoder, 1--WE Pittsburg people can
come from Pittsburg to Mountain
Lake Park in three or four hours.
Business men can run up on Satur-
day afternoon, spend Sunday with
their families and be back in the city
at their business before 10 o'clock
Monday morning"
And this would put Uniontown so
miles rom Mountain Lake by rail, in
stead of the 1870 now via Fairmont.
For sleeping purposes the nights
here are something great. One I'm
iontown business man, who wears in
his face the traces of care and too
close application to work, told the
writer that he had the best nights
sleep last night that he had had for a
year. st has been impossible" said
! he, ''for me to sleep over two and a.