The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-11

and New Hampshire people; only
quarter of a column by the Vermont
advertisers. There is a lack of init
iative and exploitation on the part of
the people of the State themselves.
All that is needed is to get the fact
before the public get the homes open
to the families that would like the
advantages these homes have to offer
and build lot of good, comfortable
high class hotels.
Some other things that must be
provided are equipments for amuse-
ment of the summer visitor. They
want golf links and tennis courts, and
they want good roads. The Vermont
roads are not bad. But there are
many of them that are not now in
good order for the automobile. The
farmers of the State have outlived
the terror and the hatred which the
first appearance of the machines in
spired 1t is next in order to put
the roads in trim for them.
Local enterprise must do these
things largely. Outside capital is
willing to come in but investors in
sist that local parties shall share the
expense of improvements.
The other needful things Vermont
has in plenty. Scenery, shooting,
fishing, historical associations, boat
ing, climbing, food products from
farm and dairy that will satisfy the
most fastidious.
Just to suggest the possibilities in
this State unknown by the mass of
summer travellers take the claims of
Lake Dunmore. 1t is five miles long
ed on all sides by heavily wooded
hills, from Rattlesnake point on the
side of Mount Moo-sala-moo a mag
nifcent view is had to the west of the
Adirondacks and Lake Champlain.
Llama cascade tumbles over the rocks
at the foot of the mountain. Over
shoulder sea level is Silver Lake,
small round sheet of spring water maxi
ing what with the neighboring hills
President McCosh, of Princeton, once
called the most beautiful landscape
picture in America" The cave of the
Green Mountain Boys is a short dis
lance away ON a slope of Moo-sa-la
moo.
Lake Dunmore gets it's name from
the Lord Dunmore, who was Governor
of Virginia when the Revolution be-
gan. The earl waded into the waters
and poured the contents of bottle
of wine into the lake, pronouncing the
words of christening Some Indians
with him took the bottle and inserted
it in a cleft in the branches of a
tree, where it was found scores of
years later by chopper whose axe it
dulled.
In every direction from Dunmore
there are drives that delight the eye.
There are few cottages on the lake
shore and it is a favorite resort for
the people of the neighboring vii
lagos, but it is comparatively un-
known by the people of the cities.
This is one of the Vermont lakes.
There are many others Bomoseen,
Catherine, Hortonia, and the rest
each with its particular charm and
it's legend. There is the gorge at
Cavendish, the Lamoille valley and
the valley of the Winooski and host
of attractive places about Montpe.
| lier.
Such impressions as these will be
! formed by any casual visitor who
| gives little time to the Green Noun.
tain State when it is at it's best in
summer. Talk with the people Of
the State themselves and these i'm.
pressions will be confirmed There is
to, feeling on the part of the lead
ers of the State that before long Yer.
mont must arrive"
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Prouty, Secretary of State G. w. Bal
ley, State Treasurer Z. H. Deavitt
Superintendent of Education Mason
S. Stone, Maxwell Evarts, president
of the State Fair Association and the
Vermont Fish and Game League; r.
l.. Davis, State cattle commissioner
and other prominent citizens, Official
and lay, show a general agreement
of opinion as to why Vermont is moi
known as the vacation State. The
main reason is that no real effort
has been made, privately or officially
to induce summer boarders to come
to the State.
There is ample transportation. One
railroad line runs along the Connec
ticut river. All places of Importance
on the east side of the State can bt
reached by the Boston & Maine
Grand Trunk, Central Vermont ant
Montpelier and Wells River lines
The New England States Limited, or
the Central Vermont, is, or was wher
it was first put on, the finest trair
running out of Boston. Passengers
coming through New Hampshire csl
take at Fabyans a White Mountain
train that runs through to Burlington
without change connecting Their,