New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-03

MANY OF THEM SUMMER HOMES OF PERSONS FROM
OTHER STATES.
CBy Nahum J. BacheIder. Governor.)

in the rich river valleys OF producing ma gnincent
crops. The reputation of her orchards. her dairfes
and her creamertes is national Her comparative
nearness to large centres and the demands for
subsistence OF her hundreds Of thousands OF annu-
ally returning guests make market garden
ing easily and Immediately profitable business
Farming. conducted business upon business
principles be made TO pay upon almost any OF
the past and present abandoned farms IN New
Hampshire To be sure. the same amount Of en-
ergy. mental and physical, expended in other
pursuit might bring richer returns in cash. but
not in the wealth Of robust health and true happi-
ness
BY far the larger number. however. OF the pur-
chasers of -Haupshires abandoned farms have
been summer residents. vacation visitors. perma-
nently domiciled for from two to eight months OF
the year among our hills a canvass OF such resi-
dents. now being conducted by the State Board of
Agriculture and not completed at the time OF writ
ing. has given thus far the names OF twenty-one
hundred owners Of summer homes in State.
most of the said homes having been created from
what were once abandoned farms.
These summer citizens include representatives OF
the States Of Maine New-Hampshire. Vermont.
Massachusetts. Rhode Island. Connecticut. New
York. New-Jersey, Pennsylvania. Maryland. the
District of Columbia. Virginia, South Carolina.
Florida Ohio. Illinois, Minnesota. Missouri. Louis
lana. Colorado and California well as foreign
countries.
1t is estimeted that these adopted sons OF the
State by themselves. their families. their guests
and their employees, add to the population OF New
Hanps hire every summer at least twenty thousand
people. Their holdings Of real estate represent a
permanent investments Of s. 000010 and their annual
expenditures for all purposes within the State at
least half much.
Their holiday homes range in character from the
typical farm buildings OF Senator 5Cooner, Of Wis
consn in Ptttsburg the Canada line 10 the
MAGNIFICENT colonial mansion OF Secretary Hitch
cock az Dublin in the south. Some. like the
Rev Louis A Banks, OF New-York, in Grafton
County and the late Austin Corbin, in Sullivan
County buy thousands Of acres OF land for their
summer estates. Others gather In fashionable
colonies" like the one at Cornish
Most perhaps Of these summer residents have
adopted their own especial abandoned farms for
the reason given by former Governor Black OF
Nev-York who says: Il located in Freedom De-
cause the farm I bought was. thought, the most
beautiful place had ever seen" One OF the rea-
sons why they remain loyal in their alleglance Is
stated by Anne Whitney. the sculptor. as follows;
II owe YOUR State great debt for Its ministration5
~ ma and mine in the way of beauty and health
NJ his summer home at Newbury, Secretary Hay
savs Il WA greatly pleased with the air the water
and the scenery I have nowhere found a more
beautiful spot"
Ney-Hampshirs abounds IN tust such oeautrul
spots And 1t may we'll be that in welcoming the
world TO this God given loneliness OF mountain and
lake stream and sea- the Granite State will ind IN
The future It's chief function in the national he