New-York tribune., 1908-06-07

ply time wasted: nothing actual visual evidence
can depict to the mind that picturesque North
Woods country as II is Always beautiful. always
slluring. New York States great play ground seems
this season even more so than il has ever been
A winter not too severe. Yet with SHOWS deep
enough 20 protect against the biting frosts. and
enough warm spring rains 10 eneendar life anew
In every tree ana shrub have left the mountain
SIDES clothed in beautiful OF forest foliage,
which seems Of just a trihe brighter and fresTer
green than that of any previous season, and the
lakes and waterways filed to the brin with that
sparkling product Of the mountain streams which
may never toe confused with even the carefully
bottled. profusely Labelled brands dispensed in the
cities. Ia fact. The first Jhine which mpresses ii
self sIpon The numbers OF people arriving from
The cities is the wonderful iEVigorating freshness
Of things here in fhe mountains. 1t is ia evidence
all sides; not alone in The beautiful vary ing
shades OF green clothing the mountain sides not
only in the charming lakes, rivers and brooks. but
in The very atmosphere one smell it, fairly taste
il The great mountain peaks, too. seem bigger,
srander and closer than Here In Lake Placid
the scar on old Whiteface seems 10 glisten
dazzling white in the bright OF the sun,
of in the distance Marcy. The highest peak in
the Adi-ondaCks. called by the Indians Tahawus
CThe clonI piercer. his bulk 5,34 feet in air,
seemingly in grsnder proportions and bolder relief
Than 1t is small wonder that this evidence
Of Natures every side, Of the first COM
ments Of each newly arriving visitor from the
live everything is this season. 1 never the
mountains looking so fine before
That prince Of tricksters. the Adirondack trout.
seems this season either have lost all his noted
caution or 10 determined cast all craftness
20 the winds, and at last to do the square thing
by the city fisherman, whose patience he has 50
sorey tried IN seasons past. for from every noun
tain lake where trout known. and that means
every lake the Adrondacks comes word that
the trout biting more freely than in any pre-
zious season. Trout fishing records going tc
smash daily. and incidentally fishing
rods being smashed with them. for if these
trout Of the mountain streams and lakes have los
any Of their willy -aution they have lost none o
their noted fighting strength, and with hungry
tfrout strike tussle every time.
From all Of the principal lakes and streams the
early arriving sportsmen have been bringing in
big strings OF trout daily. Here in Lake Placid
u here the greedy fish biting anything that
offers not a day passes that several strings, each
averaging twenty-five thirty pounds in weight
are brought in. and single catches under fou1
pounds considered worth talking about
Another effect Of this fine fishing in the Adron-
idacks has been to force the fiction artists among
THE devotees Of Walton to work overtime of even
ings. Their DAYS fully occupied on the lakes, their
evenings given UP TO explaining TO a select
company Of admirers gathered before some com
Portable log blaze in hotel cottage each minute
detail Of that ancient and narrowing tale entitled
How II Happened; or. The Escape Of the Trout
] Should Have Caught and Didn't Catch
IN these days Of efficient railroad service little.
perhaps. need be said in the way OF directions for
reaching the Adircndacks. That sort Of thing
harks back to the days when the country wa
young, before thousands OF careworn. anxiety
broken business had awakened q realiza-
= fon Of the fact that they need not go abroad TO
regain their health and strength. but that here in
the North Woods perfect rest and absolute freedom
from al care awaited them That when the
trip To the woods meant days OF tiresome travel
over stage routes, physically painful as they
were picturesque. Now all that is changed. 10 the
great advantage Of the traveller and without SER
so1s loss 10 the physical aspects Of the country
Two well equipped railroads. the Delaware & Hud-
son and the New York Central. make il possi-
be 10 practically every point of interest in
these mountains in overnight trip from New
York and among the who sell the tickets
the names of such places as Lake Placid, Eliza
bethtown, westport, Saranac Inn, Paul Smiths S.
wawbeek and scores Of other points in the noun
tain country have become, with the constantly in
creasing demand for conveyance thither, as ia
rniliar as the names Of any OF the big cities
Perhaps the Adirondacks have suffered most at
the hands Of their friends the makers Of the guide
books. For reason the makers Of these books
like 10 keep alive the fiction that the Adirondack
country is a bowling wilderness in which one is
in constant danger OF becoming lost: that II IS q
country filled with to life and limb. These
by means facts. Although IL is true that IN
q large proportion or the Adirondack country one
should not venture without competent guides, com
mon prudence makes plain 10 most people that
the same thing IS in e way tru. Of most OF the
big cities. There portions or each OF them
through which the stranger should not attempt
10 find his way without the company Of well
Informed person or without al least fun and
s1lete instructions 20 how 10 proceed But, just
q. in tbs cities there are certain central
along which may easily find his way and
which u.ed p basis. may guide TO
the whole city, in the Adirondacks there
esr4ain beaten tracks from which even blind
man would end II dircUt 70 20 astrsy. In other
words the Adirondack wilderness Of the past is
tc-<sv wilderness in name only. II has bern rem
esy.d easily accessible, not for e chosen few but