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

talk of summer hotel at Burlington.
A delightful location might be secur-
ed on the hill overlooking Lake
Champlain, and there is no apparent
reason why such an enterprise might
not be as successful as that at Bluff
Point, Just across the lake; but no
real improvement has been made to
build one.
st. Adams, with an ideal location
on the great Back Bay, has not had
hotel large enough to accommo-
date many guests since the burning
of the Weldon ten years ago. New
York capitalists have offered to build
a large hotel there if citizens of St.
Adams will take $4,000 worth of
stock, but that has not been raised
after two years of effort. With the
erection of a power dam on the Con-
necticut at Brattleboro, creating a
lake 20 miles long,, there is talk of
building hotel there, but that has
All this neglect is the more re-
markable because such hotels as have
been built for tourist business have
been successful, and the demand for
such accommodations is growing 1t
seems all the more strange, too, that
many of the leading hotel men of New
Vnr1y op1 10 houo hoo,,
Vermonters.
1t is probable that lack OF suitable
hotel accommodations as much as
anything else, accounts for the lack
of vacation visitors to the State.
The scenery of Vermont is as varied
and beautiful as anything offered in
Europe. Visitors from all parts of
the country who have travelled all
over the continent declare that in
scenic beauty Vermont compares ia
vorably with the most renowned
places. 1t has a wonderful combina-
tion of mountain, valley, lake. stream
and forest, and those who have es-
sayed the better known peaks, such
as Cancels Hump, Mansfield and Kill
lington, say there is little in New
England to surpass them.
The climate is like that in most of
New England, Grand Isle county
swept by the breezes of Lake Cham
plain, has the smallest death rate, or
disease rate, from tuberculosis of
any territory of equal area IN the
country.
Fishing is excellent. Tie small
mouth black bass, called by Doctor
Henshall the gamest fish that swims
abounds in the clear waters of Lake
Champlain, and in many of the small
sr ,Onds. For many ears tie rec
! Crd :, r the largest black bass caught
in the country was held by Dog pond
i. Woodbury.. In Lake Champlain also
are plenty of wall-eyed pike, or pike
perch, and yellow perch, which,
though not classed as game fish, are
acceptable in the frying pan. And
when, as is frequently the case, they
are caught weighing pound or more,
there is sport in taking them: An
| international agreement now pre-
/ vents SEEMING in the breeding season
in the lake, and the fishing there may
I be expected to improve.
There are many private trout pre-
serves in the State, of which Lake
Mansfield, under the shadow of Mans
field Mountain and covering so acres,
is the largest. In the mere thickiy
settled portion of the State the
streams are thoroughly fshed, but
there are plenty of places where the
in the wilds of Canada or Maine
Steel head and rainbow trout have
been used for stocking waters that
appeared to have become und asir-
able for the native fish, and these
have thrived surprisingly. handbook
ed salmon have also been introduced
into some of tie lafgec lakes, Hike
Caspian and Memphremagog. Tie
State maintains a fish hatchery 70:
trout at HosHury, and The Unit II
States has two at St. Jobnsbury ana
at Arlington II also maintains an
other at Swant)n for propagating the
wall-eyed pike. This tOothsome isl
has been introduced into many of the
smaller ponds OF the State aboun1ing
in pickerel, perch and bass.
Throughout the State are many
farm houses and boarding houses
that take summer boarders," but
the general attitude of the Vermont
farmer is one of Indifference. He
does not care to change his manner
of living or have his household upset
to accommodate people from the city
though they may be willing to pay
well for the privilege of living with
him.
Though many of the mountain
roads of the State are in poor condi-
ton, the main thoroughfares are as
good as those of any other New Eng
land State. A competent system OF
road supervision is gradually bring
ing them all to higher standard
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