The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-24

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country 90 Intimately associated With
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and majesty that was theirs before the
first hotel man came along and eaw much
money In them, but trimmings multtfarlous
have been spread about them In tho way OF
o~arAvAnsaries for the multitudeel noun
! rallways., bicycle paths, bride paths,
light services, orchestras, casinos, auto
mobiles, telephones and telegraph sys-
TENS, post Offices, churches, newspapers.
A good part OF those who travel to the
White Mountains 60 there first by way OF
North Conway. Many Of them, indeed.
60 nc further than that for their summer
abiding place.
North Conway Ia really the southern gate
way to the far famed Crawford Notch,
which in It's turn leads through scenery un7
speakably wild and grand to the Presi-
dental Range itself. Grouped about North
Conway are fntervale, Kearsarge and Lower
Bartlett, tributary in a sense, though each
has distinct social life OF its own, the centre
OF which la a number OF families that have
for years a 1t their summer h~eadquar-
ters,
Mount Kearsarge; often referred to as the
sentinel Of Crawford Notch, dominates this
entire region, together with Moat Noun
tain, Just across the Saco River and the view
from Kearsarge is one that will never be Tor.
gotten by the man who has once looked,
upon 1t, not even after he has climbed still
higher and looked down from the summit OF
Mount Willard.
OF course, everybody at North Conway
sooner or later takes the twenty-eight mile
trip to Noun Washington and also visits
Artist Falls, Diana's Baths, Mount Surprise,
milk Hollow, Swift River and many another
spot, each with its own particular charm.
Only eight miles beyond North Conway
Is the mountain village Of jackson. 1t Is
biseoted by the turbulent Wildcat River,
and Is the natural haunt OF the artist and
thA aArn4rphat ortnTnn1ofiv EaakaT Tor
sylvan serenity.
Numerous hotels and attractive boarding
houses furnish such creature comforts that
the man or woman most dependent upon
the luxuries of city life will not find himself
or herself In the least i'll at ease. AS
White Mountain air. Nobody who has
breathed it needs any further description
and no description could make him who has
not taken it into his lungs really know
what it is.
Crawford Notch itself has probably been
written about by more eminent persons
than any other spot Of natural grandeur
in America. Anthony. TrolloPe was one OF
the celebrities to write down what he thought
OF it. much Of this scenery he said. is
superior to the far famed and classic lands
Of Europe
The view from Mount Willard, above the
Notch, impressed Trollope as superior to
anything that the Rhine country could
boast, while the sight to be had, both up
ward and downward from Frankenstein
Trestle, is something to be remembered.
1t ts al eight and a half mile climb to the
summit Of Mount Willard.
OF course, everybody gets to the top of
Mount Washington somehow, There are
various ways Of doing it, by carriage road,
bride or footpath, or the famous cog rail-
way, 30 that one may regulate his means
of travel according to his strength or his
IN atn From ira ton y0II NAV nnya from
tho Atlantic on the east to Lake Champlain
on the west, from Lake Memphre magog
on the north to the silver surface of Lake
Wlnnipesaukee on the south.
Then there are the pageants of the sun
rise and the sunset. The view from Mount
Washington sums up the essence of all
mountain scenery; it makes ones troubles
seem small and ones joys great.
There are, of course, other ways of reach
ing the White Mountains. One takes you
outlook, through Plymouth to Bethlehem,
and 80 upto Profile ,Franconia Notch ,Fabyan
and 80 on. Many travellers are of the opin-
ion that from Bethlehem one gets the most
comprehensive and sweeping view of the
great Presidential range itself.
Here, too, the hay fever colony annually
assemblies and breathes free, Up at Sugar
Hill, close by Bethlehem, you can play golf
on a first class course n look down into
Canada between strokes.
scenery scarcely less grand
than that afforded by the White Mountains,
and certainly not less picturesque, is to be
had much nearer New York, in the historic
Berkshire region. Here Mount Monument,
Greylock, Mount Everett, Mount Tom and
many lesser peaks rear their heads, and
below and between them noble rivers, like
the Housatonic and the Deerfield, wind
their way through peaceful towns and viii
lagos.
The beauty and serenity OF the Deerfeld
Valley are famous wherever Americans have
gone, and this entire region is full of the
charm that attaches only to places where
history has been made. Towns like Great
harrington, for example, can grow up only
with the aid Of generations of men and
women who have been identified with the
development OF the best and highest genius
Of New England.
1t was in Great Darlington that William
Cullen Bryant lived and wrote for ten years.
Here he wa married. Here he served as
town clerk, and the old records are dotted
with his autograph.
Stockbridge and Lenox and Pittsfeld
every New Yorker knows something about,
for the New York colonies there are large
and influential. while nobody goes to the
Berkshires for any length of time without
paying a visit to the beautiful college vii
1age OF Willianstown, where, in the opinion
OF many persons, is the most beautiful
college campus in the world.
To S~tockbridge in particular attaches
n aort NJ Old World charm and dirp;ty