The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-12-09

themselves partly by fishing and partly
/ by making baskets, papoose cradles,
| bows and arrows and other trinkets,
which they sell to visitors. Their bas-
kets are usually handsome in shape
and colorngs and ingenious in work.
manship. They still make arrowheads
/ of obsdian, a sort of volcanic glass,
| just as their fathers did before them
! for untold generations.
Lake Tahoe is the source of the
Truckee river which flows north
! through a narrow but beautiful valley
| to Truckee and thence easterly furnish
! ing power, ice houses and logging faci-
| lities for many miles, and finally Civ
| ing up it's waters for the irrigation of
/ the Nevada desert in the beginning of
a system of irrigation planned by the
/ federal government, which it is eX-
! pected will redeem thousands of acres
of sage brush land.
But this is getting away from Lake
| Tahoe instead of to it, The way to it
! is a pleasant one and leads through no
| deserts. The Southern Pacific takes
you from San Francisco up the valley
of the Sacramento river, and then
climbs up into the Sierras through lux
uriant orchards and vineyards, over
the Divide; then through forest cover
ed mountains over a track protected by
the wonderful snow Sheds past Don
ner Lake to which such mournful his
tory attaches i'm the sufferings and
privatiOns of the Bonner party of pio-
neers who wintered near this spot on
to Truckee. From there the way lies
by a narrow gauge road up the Truckee
t,iNy
try, a fitting preparation for Tahoe.
Ones introduction to Tahoe is
through Tahoe Tavern. Nor could there
be more CHEEKY, agreeable Introduction.
1t stands at the gateway to this won;
derland, with a hospitality as gracious
and generous as the marvellous envi-
ronment bespeaks, and an invitation to
tarry that carries restfulness with it.
Tahoe Tavern is ideally situated. 1t
is ideally designed. 1t is ideally con-
Quoted. At the foot of the lake, hun
dred yards or so from where the True
kee river begins it's course. it COM
mands the whole sweep of Tahoe lake
and region. The pure air from the
, snow-crested peaks of the high Sierras
comes to it laden WITH the balm of the
pine forests which here come down to
the waters edge and give an atmOs-
phere of wholesome restfulness that
yet has its invigorating quality
At the foot of the lake, the whole
region opens out from here, making it
at once the center and the starting
point for an infinitude of rambles and
excursions for which every facility of
guide of mount, or of conveyance is
obtainable.
Seldom have design and surroundings
been more tremendously blended than
in Tahoe Tavern There is breadth
and amplitude in the dimensions of
everypart that subtly suggests frame
work and beams from the forests that
surround it, and Il restfu harmony
with the out-Of-doors to which it is the
portal. The entire architectural effect
conforms to this idea, whether rOoftree
or fascade or i'm interior decoration.
Branching antlers of the Elk are made
into electroliers, and these with the
wide fire-places, give the air of re-
moteness from city and artificiality
that so exquisitely harmonic with the
surrounding mountain. lake and forest.
Yet there is nothing primitive about
the Tavern. Every aid to wholesome
and comfortable living which advance
ment in arts and science has given, is
at service and command. In going to
Tahoe Tavern you go to Nature but not
a step toward savagery, nor even to-
ward those primitive appliances, which,
because they were earlier, are some
times confused with Nature when we
return to her. One lives at Tahoe Ia
vern with the loss of no comfort or ele-
gance that the artificiality of modern
life can supply, except the stress of it,
and with every charm of Nature UNI
| spoiled by any of the primitiveness that
is so often a concomitant.
And the spirit of the place is as
wholesomely restful as it's surround
ings and as harmonizing as its archi-
lecture and material features. The
machinery, the infinite planning and
directing, are never disclosed. Only re-
suits are seen. And these results are
manifest to each guest i'm care for his
/ comfort, in an atmosphere in which
there is no suggestion of friction, in a
| home-like and at-ease feeling that per-
vades the place Mr.. and Mrs. F. w.
Richardson are the good genii who
work this miracle and make Tahoe
! Tavern so ideal.
CHARLES L. RHODES.