Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-11
NEED OF PROTECTION
Steps Taken to Preserve the
New Hampshire Forests.
APPEAL MADE TO CONGRESS
Subject Will Be Taken Up Again at
the Next Session.
SCIENTIFIC TIMBER CLEARING
Demonstration of How Trees May Be
Cut Without Reducing the Amount
of the Annual Output.
BY WILLIAM f. CURTIS.

BY WILLIAM f. CURTIS.
Special Correspondence of The Star and the Chicago
Record Herald.
PROFILE HOUSE, n H.. August G, 1907
Although nearly 100000 people come to
the White mountains every summer, that is
comparatively small number, Ander the
| circumstances. and 1 am told that nearly
| 30 per cent, if. not more, are regulars, that
| is. habitual visitors, who spend portion of
| the season here every year to find relief
| from hay fever and to secure the rest and
| change of scene which their health and
| happiness require. Only an insignificant
percentage of the inha bitants of the United
States has ever crossed the borders of the
state of New Hampshire. More Americans
have visited Europe than have ever seen
Mount Washington. Switzerland is familiar
to more Americans than the Presidential
range, the Franconia range or the other
peaks. People travel for several motives:
To escape the summer heat in southern
and city homes. in search of health rest,
change of scene recreation and pleasure;
to crafty their curiosity and to add to
their store of knowledge; to crafty their
love of excitement and craving for novelty;
to make new friends and acquaintance, to
get away from relatives and neighbors they
are tired of: to learn what other people are
doing, and Ito see the world" All these
the White mountains-all but the sporting
class and the frivolous butterflies who want
TO dance all night and fiirt all day and
show the latest fashions.
| saw a sensible editorial the other day
in the Chicago Recorder entitled
Seeing Your Own Country" 1t expressed
qualification that SO many people are find
ing pleasure and educational value in
travelling through the United States de-
spite the attractions of Europe. and pre-
dicted that the number of American tour
lists in the United States would be in
creased by the experience of their neigh
bors There is more of interest in our
cities than most of our fellow countrymen
imagine. If visitors to New York Chicago,
New Orleans and other familiar places were
to look for objects of interest as earnestly
| as they do in London and Paris, they
would ind many; not so much that is old
and historical, but more that is new and
equally profitable to the student as well
| as to those who are prompted only by ordi-
nary curiosity. Strangers go to Washing
| ton and San Francisco to see things, but
comparatively few ever visit most interest.
| ing places in New York, Chicago and other
large cities.
| There is no place more attractive to
| lovers of nature. and none more satisfying
| TO those who seek for health and rest, than
| the White mountains. The regulars who
| come year after year for generations to re-
new their youth and gather strength for
| the never-ending struggle, will testify that
| this is an ideal region for tired men and
women.
Col. Greenleaf, proprietor of the Profile
| House, which is one of the Oldest and to
me the most beautiful architectural exam
| pie among the hotels of the White noun
| talns. tells me that he takes care of about
| 1000 visitors during the summer months
| and that nearly half of them come here
every year. Some of them have been COM
| ing for lifetime. He says that fifteen
| families among his regular patrons have
| been here annually for forty years in sue
cesson; forty families have been here for
| thirty years in succession, and fifty or
! sixty have been coming here for twenty
! years or more. Most of the Profile House
patrons are from New York, Philadelphia
and Boston: the new Mount Washington
| Hotel is usually filled with New Workers,
| and Wentworth Hall is the favorite resort
| of western peop,e-from Chicago St Louis
| Cincinnati and the Mississippi valley gen
| orally.
| Adjoining the Profile House and con-
| nected with it by covered passages are
| twenty cottages owned by families who oc-
| cupy them regularly every year Fifteen
| belong to New Workers, three to Bostonians
| and the other two to business men in Co
I lumbus. Ohio, and New Haven. Conn One
| of them IS miniature replica OF Mount
Vernon and Is beautifully furnished in CO.
| lonial style.