New-York tribune., 1908-06-07

Whitney the holdings of the Adirondack League
Club, that of William Rockefeller. and other
large tracts. to Saranac Inn station and Lake
Clear Junction. where the main line of the Adiron
dack division is left for trip to either Lake
Placid, Paul Smiths the ST. Regis chain of
lakes
These main avenues Of travel not. however,
the only means of reaching the Adirondacks from
the south. The enthusiastic automobists who
have of late years found in the mountains fresh
field for their endeaVors up from Albany
through Fort Edward and Glens Falls. and pass
ing the southwest OF the lower end of Lake
George, follow along the western shore of Schroon
Lake and on up into the more mountainous
try until Buba Mills Is reached There, swinging
to the northeast. they follow along the beautiful
Pleasant Valley of the Little Bouquet River, over
the route of the newly apportioned state road for
Essex County. until ElizabethtOwn is reached,
where they ace Of finding real Adirondack
hospitality awaiting them at either the Windsor
Hotel Deer's Head Inn. They then i'll the
actual Adirondack country. and as they proceed on
10 keene Centre their troubles begin. From that
point there two roads into Lake Placid one by
way Of the Cascade Lakes. which the automobilists
do not like. and the other by way of Upper Jay.
along the branch Of the Ausable River and
through picturesque Wilmington Notch This lat
Ter popular route. and is now being put
better condition for the of motorists this
! season. From Upper Jay the Essex County ap-
| portfonment Of state road viii continue TO Au
bic Forks and Keesevile. and thence on up past
Ch3SIn.
| Clinton County. paralleing the shore of Lake
| Champlain to the Hotel Champain, at Bluff Point.
! and Plattsburg.
| Long ago the lovers OF water trips discovered
several ways Of their Of getting into the
! Adirondacks. in addition taking the steamer
| trips through beautiful Lake George and Lake
| Champlain. Those with whom power boat trips are
| popular found that they could proceed UP the Hud
son 10 Albany and there the Erie Canal, pass
ing from that into the Champlan Canal near Troy.
a71 rha AToQ9 9Zyk al
/! through the old Saratoga battlefield country to
| Schuylervle, then across the Hudson 10 the con-
! tinuation Of the canal and TO Fort Edward
| and Fort Ann. thence down picturesque Wolf
Creek and again into the canal proper to White
hall and out into Lake Champlain for the trip
| 20 Plattsburg, where those going over into the
Adirondacks have their craft taken from the water
| and shipped ahead for use in the beautiful noun
| tain lakes about Lake Placid and its vicinity.
| picturesque water route into the heart of the
| Adirondacks which is broken by numerous carries
/ and may be taken only by canoe or mountain
| guide boat is that on which starts from Old
Forge and proceeds mp the Fulton Chain of eight
lakes with their carries. and then by carry
| into Raquette Lake and Forked Lake. along the
| Raquette River into Long Lake, through that
| waterway and along another short stretch of the
| Raquette River 10 Raquette Falls. Passing around
the falls one may continue the river into
| Stony Creek Pond, through that, and by the short
Indian carry get into the Upper Saranac Lake,
| the Wavbeek Hotel Crossing Bartletts carry one
|
| along the Saransc River, across one end OF the
! Lower Saranac Lake. Again entering the river
| further may proceed into Miller's Pond and
Pay Brook Pond and on to within few miles
| of Lake Placid. Between the Forked Lake and the
Upper Saranac Lake there is another popular route
| hy which one passes from Forked Lake into Rock
| Pond, up Rock Pond stream. thence into Little
Tupper Lake. through the Slang Round Pond.
thence by carry Big Tupper Lake, up that lake
and over the Sweeney carry to the Upper Saranac.
Both routes are very picturesque and they do not
vary more than ten miles in distance covered
! all parts OF the Adirondacks there are
| organizations either Of guides or of summer camp
| ers who make IL point to see to IT that the
| principal trails are kept in good condition. These
are now being gone and much road work is
being in the different villages and townships
In the village Lake Placid alone something like
$50 900 has been appropriated and is now being ex-
pended in the improvements OF the principal
road and the construction of new and larger
! bridge the outlet to Lake Placid. This
place and Elizabethtown have become in the last
| few seasons important automobile centres. and
the demand for better roads is not be
sisted Various plans to construct Ii series of
electric trolley lines through the Adrondacks
have been projected from time 10 time. One
Of these is a plan to connect Lake Placid and
EIizabethtown by such line, and to continue II
from Elizabethtown Westport Lake Cham
plain This has been in the making for some time.
but its projectors ind ii slow work getting ahead
for trolley lines in the Adlrondacks not
been entering the woods in such large numbers
such transit projects have lost what little favor
was originally accorded them
Horseback riding and trampins afoot through the
tdirondacks are healthful methods of getting in
close touch with the country which gaining in
popularity and carriage driving by easy stages
through the woods is another way Of seeing the
Adirondscks which has found favor Last summer
= gentleman with his little granddaughter drove
frorn Montreal down through the woods visiting III
the principal points, and arranged his schedule 50
that he stopped each night at one of the good
hotels which are so numeraus in the Adirondacks.