Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-05

and west respectively. Maine and Vermont
seem to closely embrace their sister state.
Choosing. just now, the eye range to the
north. the tourist soon becomes aware that
New Hampshire has much in that direc-
ton to tempt his taste.
Beneath the highlands that skirt the
Canada line lie the beautiful Connecticut
lakes, sources of the grand river that dis
plays itself in so many and so varied guises
of loneliness during the $40 miles OF its
course to the sound.
Here, and at the nearby Diamond ponds,
| are far-famed haunts of fish and game. In
fact, Coos is one great game preserve of
public ownership and use, save fer such
wise restrictions as the state laws impose.
Coming south a Few miles farther we be-
hold the wonders of Dixville Notch "a cata-
clysm of nature now explorable by means
of good state road and with its fine hotel
connected with the nearest railroad sta
ton Chat at Colebrook) by an automobile
linei Nothing could illustrate more striking
ly the way in which the enterprise of man
is cooperating with the magnificence of ma
ture throughout the summer resort region
of New Hampshire.
Now we are dra wing close to the PresI-
Dental range again. Looking down from
the summit. Lancaster, Whitefield and JEFF
ferson in the west Gorham, Randolph and
Shebrune in the east seem to be, as indeed
they are, almost in the shadow of the
noun tain peaks.
many a mile. busy young Berlin, as prosper
Gus. as picturesque. cosmopolitan as
western boom town, but already solid In It's
success and well worth a visit from the
tourist who would vary a constant diet OF
scenery with the sight and sound and smell
of triumphant industry
In this Coos county section OF the state
the great majority of summer visitors
still the tourists who enjoy the comforts
conveniences and luXuries of the many fine
hotels, and the spOrtsmen who trough IT,
in measure at the hunting and fishing
camps farther north.
New Home Corners
But the new home comers." who are buy
ing New Hampshire farms for country
homes. improving them and spending more
and more of their time upon them. have
found their way even to this most remote
section of the state.
In Pittsburg, the northernmost town of
the state for instance. United States Sena-
tor j. c. Spooner of Wisconsin has bought
an estate of several hundred acres with
typical New Hampshire farm buildings upon
it. which he enjoys just as they are, and
long have been.
His nearest neighbor is Judge Edgar
Aldrich of the United States circuit court of
appeals. in a rustic cottage whose walls
If they could speak. would tell great tales
of rod and reel and the spoils thereof.
Near Lancaster is the joint summer home
OF Representative Samuel w. Mccall of
Massachusetts and George A. Fernald, the
Boston banker. George p. Rowell, the New
York advertising man. spent $50 900 on this
place. DtIOIt uiSpOSfHS OF II 10 the gentle
man named
Close by, at Jefferson. the cottage feature
Of hotel life has gained a strong hold.
some beautiful villas connected with the
Waumbek being occupied by New York
families of social note. Here too. is the
fine country home OF j. B. Carter, former
president of the Boston chamber of COM
merce, who manifests great interest in all
movements for the betterment of his chosen
summer state"
On the other side OF the mountains the
most famous colony of summer homes Is
at Shelburne. with Anne Whitney. the
sculptor. one of its pioneers. Both for
what Il possesses in scenic and other ad-
vantages and what 1t lacks-mosQuitoes.
saloons etc.-SheIburne is greatly beloved
by It's sojourners, who never tire of sound
Ing its praises.
Coos county, then. beckons summer visit
ors to her to behold her majestic noun
tains to enjoy her magnificent hotels. TO
hunt and to fish. 70 appreciate her state
roads and her state fish hatchery (at Cole
brook. to thread her miles of forests, still
spared: to admire her summer homes OF
noted men and women. and. perhaps, to fol-
low such good examples and make perma-
nent choice of country places here In the
far north country.