The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-09-03

| ViabiuR bne inorehhinB pOpulhhioy VI
Lake Champlain, and consequently of
| territory surrounding it, as summer
pleasure ground. The Burlington Free
Press discusses this phase of the mat
ter and it's comments are reprinted
here:
The announcement of the determin-
alton of the Champlain Transportation
Go. to build another, new steamboat,
following so soon upon the compile
ton of the new and palatial Vermont
| on Lake Champlain and the Sycamore
on Lake George, has bl oader signi-
ficance than might at first sight ap-
pear. This enterprise is promise as
we'll as an evidence. 1t not only
shows that the management is antici-
pating an enormous increase in tourist
travel through Lakes Champlain and
George, but it also betokens a deter
mination on the part of the manage.
ment to be prepared to accommodate
tourists as we'll as to leave no legiti-
mate means unused to make this
beautiful inland sea Mecca for sum-
mer travellers from all parts of the
world. That the expectation of large
ly increased travel through these lakes
Is justified, provided proper efforts
are put forth to direct public atten-
tion more and more to the wonderful
combination of lake and mountain
scenery possessed by this region, is
indicated by the results realized this
year. The season has been peculiarly
unfavorable for summer tourists, so
much so that the hotels in the noun
tains in different directions are COM
nj oiY Of ~
the steamers of the Ohamplain Trans.
portation Co. on Lake George and
Lake Ohamplain have done the largest
business in the history of the corpora.
ton. This means that the judicious
advertising done by the company
itself as we'll as by the railroad COM
panies on both sides of the lake, has
begun to bear fruit, the railroads also
having enjoyed large patronage as u
result of generous advertising.
The transportation companies will
not reap the greatest possible harvest,
however, until united effort is made
to direct the attention of the tourist
world to the profitable as we'll as en-
joyable manner in which the summer
season may be spent in this region.
Let it be shown how with Burlington
or some other spot in the Champlain
valley as headquarters the finest list
of side trips in the country can be ar
ranged. Thus located a family could
easily and economically arrange visits
to Lake George and the old fortifica-
lions on Lake Champlain; to Ausable
Ohasm to the Adirondacks; to the
Thousand islands; to the rapids of
the st. Lawrence river; to Montreal
to the Saguenay and Quebec; to the
White Mountains to Mount Mans
field; to the granite quarries of GEN.
tIal Vermont; to Cancels Hump; to
the marble quarIies in Rutland cOun-
ty 1t can be seen that these side trips
would radiate from Burlington or the
other central point selected like the
spokes of wheel from the hub, and
a very effective advertising design
could be thus arranged If any finer
combination of trips for pleasure and
profitable study for the same distance
and expense involved. can be contrived
for the summer tourist, or the resi-
dent of the larger center of popula-
tion who desires to spend the summer
with his family in region of bracing
air and healthful surroundings, it has
yet to be announced. When these
facts are placed before the travelling
public, as the merits OF this locality
deserve, then our transportation COM
pauy will have to build, not one more
boat, but a fleet, and our railroads
will need larger and more numerous
trains to accommodate the rush of
summer travel to and through the
Champlain valley.