The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-06-26
HOPATCoNG LAKE NOTES.

The caprIcious weather has INDUCED
in royal high jinks throughout the
past week now and then fitful sun
ray would mellow the somber lake
scape, and then Jealous rain-cloud or
Storm-Scud would skurry along and
chase it away. So much rain has fallen
since the breaking of the drought that
the lake is up to high-water mark and
the excess is being drawn off into the
Musconetcong outlet TO prevent flood
ing of the low-lying lands in the differ
ent coves. Three weeks ago the water
was fifteen inches below the average
lake level.
Such weather conditions would nat
urally prevent any flow of city people
lakeward; but the hotel proprietors
are not really looking for full houses
prior to the Fourth, as the tide of
summer-resort travel for the past two
years has flowed toward the seashore
during the spring months, the Jersey
coast resorts from Red Bank to Cape
May affording desirable places for the
wealthy as we'll as for those of more
modest means. From July 4th to the
18th the flow inclines toward the in
land watering-places, there to rest I'M
til September Is or thereabout. Last
year Dame Fashions hegira COM
menced on Labor Day, and by the fol-
lowing evening Lake Hopatcong's
bottom had dropped out. :"
County Clerk D. S. Voorhees, and
Fish and Game Commissioner d. p.
Mcclellan, of Morristown, were regis
tered at the Lake Pavilion, Nolan's
Point, last week; also George Reilly
and Peter Youngs, of Newark.
The excursion season is opening after
a fashion. On Sunday the first of the
one-dollar-round-trip excursions from
Mauch Chunk reached Aliens picnic
grounds. The cars were not over
weighted
General Superintendent Bessler of
the New Jersey Central Railroad is
planning for an excursion to this point
from Plaintield. 1t will be Plaintield
fire department affair and the net pro-
ceeds are for the benefit of some who
were injured in the recent railroad
WI6Ch neal UIldU Guy.
Last year at this time there were
probably thirty camping parties scat
tered about the lake. This year, out
side of the boarding-camps (Six, Ex-
celsior and Alexander on the east side
and Eight at Sperry's SPRING. there is
but one-that of Reeder Battery B.
Second Regiment S. V. R., Camp 233
of Easton, Pa, under the command of
Captain John Miller and Lieutenant
Stanley NJ Parks. The company has
section of two 6-pound field-pieces
with it and owns it's battery equip
ment, valued at $500. The detail
comprises thirty-tive men and they oc-
cupy the camping site of the Phi Sig
ma Club of the same city, located
a short distance above Nolan's Point.
They came on Wednesday of last week
for a ten-days' tour and are scheduled
to return tomorrow. On Sunday they
were visited by some fifty Eastonians,
who had pleasant time, interrupted
by only one shower.
Mrs. William Baxter, wife of the ed
tor of the Hoboken Observer, and her
little niece, Marie Kaloquin, are stop
ping at the Espanong.
The first section of the Espanong
pier, running out into Chamberlain's
Cove, is in place. Thirty feet more
are to be added to it's length. The
smaller boats are able to land at pres
ent, but when the pier is completed all
the boats will stop on their daily runs.
At Mount Arlington all the hotels
are ready for business, and each has a
goodly number of rooms engaged fol
July and August.
The Lake View and Llewellyn are
now open and expect to be filed by
July /. The Americans patronage
last year was composed principally Of
well-to-do German families from New
York and Mr.. Girards expects con
tinuance of their favors. The bar anC
billiard room have been leased for the
season by Charles ..Maloney, of Brook
lyn, who has remodeled them and elm
mated the disagreeable features thai
marked the place two years ago.