The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-05-05
look FOR A RECORD YEAR
Hotel Men Think White Mountain
Season Will Be Its Best.
New England Cooking Again to Be
Enjoyed on the Breezy, Cloud
clndSumnit OF Mt. Washington.

business outlook, the hotel proprie-
tors in the White Mountain region are
! preparing for what they confidently
look forward to as the most prosper
GUS summer in good many years.
While the snow still lies deep In
the ravines and notches and the ma
pie sap is still trickling into the sugar
buckets, the hotel men are actively
preparing for the opening of their
houses, big, little and medium sized,
around the last of June. During the
winter months rooms have been re-
| furnished, additions built on, orches-
tras, riding masters, gold managers
and "help" re-engaged and confer
ences with the railroad companies
with reference to next summers train
schedules held, and just as soon as
the ground is in fit condition the an
nual work Of improving highways and
laying out new mountain trails and
bride paths will commence.
New Hampshire, which monopo-
Lies the largest and most popular of
New England's mountain areas, is
looking right after its highways, and,
| as result of wise legislation and lib
eral appropriations, 1t expects to have
in the near future one of the smooth
est and finest systems of State roads
In the country, comparable with those
that have helped to make Switzerland
and other European countries so ia
nous as tourist centres.
Already the majority of highways
in the White Mountains section are in
admirable condition, and they have
their fitting corollary in the splendid
liveries with which all the first class
mountain hotels are equipped. Both
driving and riding are constantly on
the increase In the mountains.
Breton Woods will, as usual, be
the chief social centre of the mount
aims this season, as far as the elite
are concerned, and the managers of
the big palace hotel which has been
instrumental in making it such are al
ready wondering how they are going
to properly accommodate all the null
ti-millionaires, captains of industry,
diplomats, beautiful heiresses and
rich dowagers who even this early
have signified their intention of
spending a part of the summer here.
In a social sense the Breton Woods
season of 1909 bids fair to eclipse In
brilliancy all of its predecessors. 1t
seems, somehow, to be taken for
granted that President Taft and FAM
lily, who are to spend the entire sum-
mer at the picturesque north shore of
Massachusetts, will make at least a
flying visit to the mountains. There
is, of course, no official authority for
this belief, but 1t does seem reason
able to suppose that the President,
being so near to this fascinating coun-
try of high altitude, would be tempted
to run up for at least few days, es-
pecially in view of the fact that Bret
ton Woods has golf course that is
second to none in New England.
There have been few important
changes among the leading mountain
hotels, the most important being the
transfer of the we'll known Maple
wood Hotel to new ownership. Regu-
lar patrons of the house will be glad
to know, however, that It will con-
tinue under the management Of Mr..
Leon H. Cilley, who for q number of
years has so successfully filled that
position.
At Bethlehem and elsewhere there
will be some additions to the cottage
colony, a feature of mountain sum-
mer life that is carried to- such per-
fection at Profile House. The cot
tage, camp and bungalow are becom-
ing q most important summer vaca-
tion institution throughout all OF New
England.
Professor ]. Rayner Edmands, the
well known White Mountain enthu.
siast, will undoubtedly again lend his
expert services to the improvements
of the trails on and around Mt. Wash.
ington. In past seasons he has done
valuable work along this line that
every visiting "tramper" has good
reason to be grateful to him for.
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the travelling public will be interested
to learn that the same arrangements
with respect to meals which so much
pleased the visitors to the Summit
last season will again be in effect this
year. The historic old Tip-Tor
House, which has served as a substi.
tute for the Summit House, destroyed
by fire last spring, will again do serv.
ice as dining hall, refractory and shell.
ter
Tourists who partook of its plain
but abundant fare last summer were
delighted with the novelty of the idea
and some of them have not yet ceased
recounting to<their friends how they
relished their lunch of Boston baked
beans, doughnuts, sandwiches, pump.
kin pie and coffee away up there
among the clouds, more than 5000
feet above the level of the distant
ocean.
Train passengers and trampers
alike will be accommodated in a cul.
mary way at this unique altitudinous
cafe, and it will be not uncommon