The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-05
ACKNOWLEDGES FILLING UP.
MORE PEOPLE THAN nv FIR GOING
TO THE NORTH WOODS.
The Famous Resorts There We're Never
Mere Picturesque and Never so M'rh
Appreciat I'd Advent 0r the W0oHs
woman, VINO Holds Her Own with Men.

woman, who Holds Her Own WIN Nen'
SARANAc LAKE. n. Y, July Here in
this pleasure ground of lake, mountain and
deep forest the summer is approaching It's
height and the hotels and camps are filling
up to their full capacity. Nearly all the
folks who were here last year are here
again for few weeks more OF woodland
life. and with them are a host OF recruits
who will come again next year, and then
the wear after. The Adirondacks fever.
once in the blood, is pleasurable ailmen'
hard TO eradicate.
II is the wilderness no longer, this huge
preserve of the State. Once it was a toll
some Journey to reach even the borders,
task of q week or more to penetrate into
its heart, to where the woods were thickest
and the fish and game most plentiful. But
all that has been changed.
The people here now came up at their
ease For them ii was only step to the
railroad station, "A days lounge III COM
Portable car seat, or snooze in Pullman
sleeper, then a brief trip in a comfortable
vehicle over roads smooth in comparison
with those over which the Adirondack
pioneers toiled twenty years ago, AND
then they were established in luxurious
hotel, with all the modern convenlences,
but amid very different surroundings 10
those Of the ordinary inn, or perhaps IN a
comfortable summer cottage, or, as some
think best of all, in camp under canvas
or bark, by the side of a stream which the
next morning they would he trying for
the speckled beauties which fill the Adiron-
dack waters,
Neither drought nor fire has harmed
the choice spots in the upstate WOODS.
Their beauty is as fresh a. ever. and the
only difference in their charms Is that they
are more accessible and benefit hundreds
where scores formerly enjoyed them
People from every part of the country are
represented in the hotel lists and IN the
lakeside camps. The Adirondacks belong
no longer to New York alone.
More people than ever have sought the
picturesque Fulton Chain this year, Big
Moose Lake Raquette Lake, Blue Noun
tain Lake have more visitors than ever
in their history and here on the Saranac
the arrivals have been more numerous
than the early part of the season has seen
in IA long time. The huge Hotel Champlain
on the edge of the woods, amid that won
derful panorama of water and mountain
scenery, has been open nearly week, and
al Lake Placid, where the Adirondacks are
viewed in their most peaceful beauty, in
the keene Valley among majestic noun
tain peaks and in the resorts around Eliza
BEETHOVEN and Westport, there are more
people than are often seen in August.
At Paul Smiths and CasCadeville a record
season is confidently predicted.
Deer hunting will not begin for almost
two months yet, so the fishing and the
small game alone must be looked to for
sport But nobody is lonely or needs
an occupation in the woods. There is a
different pastime for every day, and the
bracing air gives the appetite for en- joy
ment From early July to October the
life of the woods is delightful, and the soft
beauty of the scenery combined with the
restful quiet Of forest and lake. makes those
who have once experienced II eager to
repeat the pleasure.
To enter the woods Is to leave care and
| thought of business behind 1t is a new
world 10 the city dweller. The guides are
! a new race, worth studying. They are
| ever patient with the newcomer, never
| firing aud never at the end Of their resources
| for supplying knowledge Of woodcraft or
more material things. For 50 a day the
visitor not only obtains the services of a
| skilful man. but gains know ledge of things
! worth knowing and an example III simple
living that is worth while.
One of the notable features of this sum
mcr's influx of visitors to the woods is the
increasing number of women who really
want to trough il" like the men. There
are women in camps, and the women in
| the hotels, failing camp Of their own,
| spend every available minute i'll canoes
and by the trout streams They are not
weaklings, either. They are catching their
| trout with the best of the men and are en-
| Toying the life even more. They dress for
| the part sensibly. too, and the real woods
| woman seems to have come to stay
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