Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-11
IN THE MOUNTAINS
BEAUTIES OF THE SCENERY AND
cHARM OF THE LIFE.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

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| CONCORD, N H., June TO- 1905.
| The White mountain tourist who began
his explorations with the Presidential
| peaks has to make choice between rival
beauties when he deems it time for farther
| journeying.
/ If his feet turn westward he will find
before him the Franconia range, headed by
| peerless Lafayette, the white cross peak
He may make his headquarters on the
| famed plateau of Bethlehem or look across
/ the pleasant valley of the Gale river from
| the hotel-crowned heights of Sugar hill
In either case he is sure to be completely
| charmed and deeply impressed by the love-
illness and the grandeur of the landscape
| Or he may choose a domicile under the
very eyes of the Old Man of the Mountain,
that marvel of the ages; may enjoy the
! trip through the Franconia notch viewing
| the wonders of the F1ume en- route, and
then tarry awhile in North Woodstock at
| the head of the Pemigewasset valley
From this point it would be natural to
| take trip across country to Mount
| Moosilauke. detached peak, from whose
summit and sides the views are of peculiar
| beauty.
The village of Littleton, metropolis of
| the mountains. is natural center for Wis
itors to the Franconia range. Departing
| from it the tourist may follow the Connec-
| ticut river and its series of scenic surprises
| as far south as he will.
| Let US advise him. however to stop off
at Hanover and visit Dartmouth College
with Its fine buildings and historic asso-
Citations. Thence a pleasant drive will take
| him to MaSeoma lake, at Enfield with a
Shaker community and other attractions.
| But the tourist may have left the Con-
| necticut river at Haverhl, crossed the
! height of land at Warren and descended to
| Plymouth, the common gateway of the lake
/ and mountain region. Here he is likely to
meet friends from whom he parted at North
/ Woodstock, and who have come down the
| Pemigewasset through the Camptens with
| a glimpse perhaps, of those who dwell in
| happiness in the isolated glen of Watervilie
| Plymouth. aside from it's attractions. is
near neighbor to two of New Hampshire's
| finest lakes-Asquam and Newfound-whose
| railroad stations, however are Ashland and
Bristol, respectively.
Asquam, which is in reality two lakes,
| Big Squam and Little SQuam, has a
| unique forest bordered beauty that is all its
| own, and which proves of irresistible fas-
4 cinatfon to cultivated tastes 1t is hard to
| find a land of such secluded summer homes
| that is at the same time within easy reach
of the main arteries of life.
| Newfound lake in the past has been
| known abroad chiefly fishing ground,
but its popularity in other directions is now
| steadily increasing as 1t well deserves to
do. An additional scenic feature in its
| vicinity is picturesque Mount Cardigan.
| All these scenes of beauty that have been
| mentioned, ana many DINERS tflat must go
| unnoted at this time are within the limits of
Grafton county, next to the largest of the
states ten counties, and covering as may
be judged, territory of wide and varied
attractions
Many of these attractions have been well
| known for years, and great men and women
| have told their praises in prose and verse
| and depicted their charms canvas.
| Whittier loved to traverse this section by
| carriage. Hawthorne died at Plymouth
| his way to the mountains for rest and
healing. The names of William c. Prime,
| Annie Trumball slosson and Bradford Tor
| rey irseparably connected with Fran
coma and John Kendrick Bangs is a Profile
House fixture
Theodore Thomas dwelt at Bethlehem in
| vacation time. and the story of his summer
| home has been most charmingly told by
Mrs Thomas in Our Mountain Garden"
| Will Carlton, too is counted among the
| regulars at this resort.
John G. Nicolay, biographer of Lincoln,
| and Gen. Samuel c. Armstrong, the father
| OF the famous Hampton school, were pio-
| neers of Lake Asquam. Schuyler Mat
| thews, the naturalist. has beautiful sum
mer home. Ell Fruides, at Campton.
| Other show places among country resi-
| dences in this county are the two fine
| farms of w. l. Lincoln-Adams of New
York at Littleton; the Macbeth and Gless-
ner villas at Bethlehem; the Westinghouse
| cottage at Lisbon, and the Webster estate,
| among others. at Asquam.
| Then there quiet communities, of
| which Canaan Street and oxford are shin
| ing samples where the summer residents
| are for the most part professional men
| clergymen. jurists, doctors, lawyers, au-
| thors Here there is little formality and
| display; transient visitors few news |
| paper men find copy scarce. But the
| tone of life while easy and restful, is re-
| fined and elevating.
| The summer school and school camp
| branches of modern education find excel |
| lent exemplars in this section of New
| Hampshire. Dartmouth College and the |
| state normal school at Plymouth utilize |
| their valuable plants for summer school |
! purposes and Harvard College maintains
| at Lake Asuuam summer schools of engineer
| ing and of history. the value of whose work
| President Eliot indorses in strong terms.
| School camps for boys of all ages and for
| girls are located in considerable numbers
| at Asquam. Newfound and Mascoma lakes |
| and others are projected
Grafton county is one in which the in |
| flowing tide of summer residents is to
reach a high mark in the near future. This
/ is because her lake shores offer many
delightful sites for water-Side cottages
while upon her myriad hill tops and to a
| less extent along the smiling valleys of her
rivers farm properties can be purchased to
good advantage.
The rural free delivery of mail traverses
| the county in every direction and even, on
Lake Asquam covers many miles of water
route daily. The trolley cars has not yet
reached SO far to the north, but the steam
roads give splendid service, and bring Bos-
] ton and New York within easy reach of
every town. N. j. BACHELDER-