Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-15
SIZES FIVE STATES.
Judge Parker at winnisOoK Ledge in
 the Catskills.

the CatSkills.
 BIG INDIAN, N. Y., Aug. 15.-Judge Alton B. Parker, the Democratic nom nee for president, spent last night at the Winnisook club, 2,700 feet above sea level, at the foot of Slide noun tain, which is the highest point in the Catskiils. Winnisook Lodge is nine miles from the nearest telegraph line and twelve miles from the nearest tele- phone and is reached by steep noun tain road.
 The Winnisook club was organized about twenty years ago for purposes of hunting, fishing and social recrea- ton. and Judge Parker was it's first president. Slide mountain, at the foot of which lie the lodge and cottages of the club, is so called from the great landslide which has left the bare northeasterly face of the mountain an almost clear drop of nearly 2,oO0 feet From the summit, APO feet above sea level, on a clear day one can see five states, New York, Massachusetts, Con- necticut, New Jersey and Pennsylva- mia, as well as the Hudson river, thir- ty miles to the eastward.
 D. 0. Butcher and other citizens of Big Indian were at the station with a big American flag in honor of the ar rival of the candidate, whose coming had been expected with great interest in the neighborhood for the past two days. There were more than POO peo- pie present to welcome Judge Parker and his party The trip from Kingston was without incident, the party oc- cupyipg the pRrlor car Ballston, the judge remaining in the smoking com pertinent throughout the trip. After reaching Big Indian the party started at once for WinniSook Lodge.
 Judge Parker himself drove the two seated mountain wagon up the noun tain from Big Indian to WinnisoolS, and owing to this fact many along the way missed seeing him.
 One group of boys had their cameras ready, but would not believe that the man driving the wagon was actually the Democratic candidate for president of the United States.
 Word of his coming had been passed along the road, and the people waved their hats and cheered as the party drove by.
 MT. Evans cottage, Mrs. Parker in that of MT. and Mrs. Rodie. A rule had been promulgated which, Mir. Ro- die declared, would be rigidly enforced that there was to be no mention of politics during Judge Parkers visit.
 The Winnisook club is not unused to entertaining Democratic presidential candidates Colonel William Jennings Bryan visited the club in 1896 as the guest of the late J. W. Hinckley then chairman of the New York Democratic state committee, and on that occasion the lodge and cottages were decorated with silver birch and goldenrod in or der not to recognize any distinction be. tween the two factions which tbel threatened to divide the party.
 Judge Parker is more at home on the vast reserve comprising the club grounds than any other member. The organization was conceived by Judge Parker nearly twenty years ago, and he took title to 1900 acres. After interesting a number of friends the club was formed, with the limit of membership fixed at twenty Others have Joined since that time, and at the annual meeting today it Is likely the membership limitation will be increas- ed to thirty.
 The club buildings are situated :, in the forest at the foot of Slide noun tain, each cottage having it's own small clearing.
 A feature the members of the club value highly is the complete isolation from business. Not telegraph or tele- phone wire approaches nearer than nine miles, and none is wanted. Nothing less than message of life or death could reach Winnisook,