Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-16
AT CONCORD, N. H.
l CARRIAGE RIDE THROUGH
BEAUTIFUL SURROUNDINGS.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

CONCORD, N. H, July IA, 1908.
Lake Sunapee Is now name of painful
note in American history But the highland
loch, beside whose warm waters our great
American premier breathed his last, is of
100 much charm and beauty to be omitted
from the itinerary of any New Hampshire
tourist, aside from the melancholy interest
attached to a view of the Fells
Clreumnavigating the lake on one Of Its
stanch little steamers, the visitor may land
at Sunapee harbor and arrange for a car
rage trip TO nearby attraction of unique
interest.
This Is the Blue Mountain Forest Park.
located in the towns of Grantham and
croydon, the largest and most successful
private game preserve In America Found
ed by the late Austin Corbin, 1t is now car
rled on in accordance with his plans by a
stock company, headed by his son, the
present Austin Corbin.
Here can be seen more and finer speci-
mems OF the American buffalo than any
where else in the world. Here are mag
nlficent herds Of elk and deer and great
droves of wild boar At stated times and
under proper restrictions visitors are ad
mltted TO the twenty-five square miles Of
the park and visit here is an experience
not easy to duplicate
All attraction Tor some fortuna a
ones IS a call upon Mr. z. H. Bayncs. the
naturalist, who lives upon the outskirts Of
the park, and knows its inhabitants better
IMAM most of US do our human neighbors.
Continuing his carriage ride around the
bases of Croydon and Grantham mountains
as President Roosevelt once did in Winston
Churchilis fourin-hand, the traveller soon
finds himself in the midst of a rare col
palette.
Little New York" the folks native to
the New Hampshire soil call this settle
ment, which Is now scattered all through
Cornish and in Plainfield, is growing toward
the village OF Meriden. the site of Kimball
Union Academy.
The late c. c. Beaman the famous New
York lawyer, founded Little New York"
twenty years ago, Augustus ST. Gaudens
the sculptor. as his first neighbor
A few weeks ago those now resident here
celebrated the twentieth birthday Of the
place by giving play and presenting to
Mr.. ST. Gaudens a magnificent golden bowl
Of antique design.
The piece was written by Percy Mackaye
and Louis Evan Ship.nan and staged in the
open air by John Blair. Among those in
Mrs Mackaye and Mr.. and Mrs. Shipman,
were Mr.. and Mrs. Kenyon Cox. Stephen
and Maxfield Parrish, Mr.. and Mrs Henry
B. Fuller. Mr.. and Mrs Herbert Adams,
liam Houston. Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. o. Walker Mr. and Mrs.
Leon st. Gaudens, c. A. Platt and Mrs
Winston Churchill.
No "all-star' cast of our modern Amert-
can managers ever equaled this, nor could
royalty itself command such a perform
ance.
One Of the great charms of this Cornish
Plainfield country, the Connecticut river
borders for a long distance the town of
Charlestown, farther to the south upon the
map. AS No. CharlestOWn was famous
in Indian war times when 1t was an out
post of civilization, in our day it's chief
fame has come from the summer residence
there of the late Charles II. Hoyt whose
house and grounds are now the property
Of the Lambs Club Of New York.
THE hills high and the valleys deep
and the scenery has all the ruggedness nee
essary to great beauty, while 1t remains
pastoral" wrote Mr.. Winston Churchill
description applies just as well to other
towns of this Sullivan county which are
still waiting with open arms for the new
homecomers. Such are Goshen, LangdOn,
I.empster. Unity and Washington
Springfield, which boasts the only live
beaver dam in the state, Is in the process
Of colonizng by Washington people, Col.
John Boyd acting as pioneer.
There remains of this Sullivan county,
named for the revolutionary general, only
fhe handsome, thriving towns OF combined
manufacturing and agricultural wealth
CIaremont and Newport. Some time soon
C,iaremont will give New Hampshire a
dozen cities. At present not only has Sui
Ivan county no city in Its limits. but more
than half of IT'S towns are connected with
the outer world by stage coach only.
1t is an ideal region for real rest and
rural recreation.