Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-10-28
HORIZON AND ITS BEAUTIES
splendid Tribute TO ChampInin
scenery ms Well ms to Lake George.


From a hurried flight through these
| enchanting waters years ago, we have
come to rest amid them It is, indeed, a,
| sabbath on a holy lake" Memory Is
vivid, yet this new vision of unrivaled
| beauty creates for us world-combining
| history and experience The remember
ed and the realized. the ideal and the
| actual We live here that larger life,
OF which the higher sensations and SEN
| timents from the wool and texture
| How impossible TO describe that which
| breaks upon you with the enhancing
splendors fancy. memory and reality
all Joined In one! The poetic "Horicon."
the historic Lake George" the realm
of romance and a region Of fierce strug-
gle and fne achievement becomes an OBJ
session. This basin followed out OF the
hills. high above the level OF Champaign,
Drumming with crystalline waters where
islands float and shadows fall. well fits
the needs OF fiction. But 1t has the
great fascination Of fact, for here have
been tho wild war camps. and here now
are the gentle homes OF refined people.
Here Cooper say his Last of the Mohi-
cans" and here Champain and his 1.-THE
Algonquins were In touch with the
tougher 1roquois Here Tnglishmen met
the Frenchmen were vanquished and
finally conquered the victors. Here the
colonists helped England to win the
waterways to Canada, and then turned
her ont OF them for Independence and
future security You come Zip into THIS
sanctuary Of the novelist and historian
past the renovated ruins Of old Ticon-
deroga, and YOU leave 1t by the site OF
vanished William Henry. The laurels
of Montcan In victory down yonder
slorifed In defeat at Quebec. burn red
up here on the Curry" where the trag-
edy OF "Historic Bloody Pond" is called
to memory. SO one thinks the waters of
. this lake remain unsullied, while the
admxture Of evil with the beautiful In
r human conduct is left to the land. If
purity is holiness. then is Horizon still
the true holy lake"
On the school atlas our only help to
history sixty years and more ago the
States were vivid colors Vermont green.
e New York yellow, ard Horizon was q
a dot of blue To-day railroad folder is
better guido TO the voyager. Yet a
lifetime is tInctured by the associations
Of states with color. one feels sympa-
thy for the childs disappointment at not
finding a State really red" We
left the old red New Hampshire and
4 crost the green Vermont TO Burlington
sailed up Champain and transferred tc
, Horizon, not IN ono color truly but II
the multicoors OF autumn, with The
grandeur. Of mountain and the gorie!
OF lake and stream. IT was tracing his
tory and also ira cking the family mgna
y ton from Massachusetts 10 the Crane
Isle. For the FIRST time We saw Montpe
| liar io nd nj
! up the river to Barre, the granite center
t breaking through a range OF denude'
hills after leaving the Connecticut anc
reaching Champlain by cutting through
e the Green Mountains between Camel
Hump and Mount Mansfield This wa
e new territory, beautiful to behold of
0 the main lines, vet rich in itself and II
history. After thirty years we foun'
II Burlington a town enlarged. a city bean
e tiful. Is anyone ready to dispute TIL
t word OF our kindly guide to the cam
o pue at tho head OF College street. tina
4 it Is the finest in the country" w
e have seen many here and abroad. W
L do not find the words of Professor Dan
n iels extravagant. His own house. fac
4 ing the East, commands "Mansfeld' OF
9 the front and has the university campus
q on the right. With such outlook on
I. can speak confidently. having an eve 70
r architecture, and en- ear for music, ar
e mind matheD,a tically exact added t.
v thirty years distinguished service +
d the University o. Vermont The impair
tial observer confirms the fond prefer
= ence Of a resident teacher. Passin
= down this line of buildings built and re
$ built within thirty years we recall a let
: ter OF great Uncle James nearly
hundred years old. being written abou
n 1919 which speaks lovingly and proud
, Of "our college" Now we find the name
. Of Howard. and Billings. and Convers
a on these edihces, to which splendl
~ line of graduates point with satisfaction
o and around which their fellowship 10y
q ally clusters In front of the centra
building, recreated by John c. Howard
+, stand two works Of art; the one a per
= feet sphere OF rich polished and finci
+, fashioned hundreds say, q dozen of fec
q underground the other a mastery repro
- duction of Lafayette in the almost speak
= ing and quite perfect statue by the lat
J. 9. A. Ward. Vermonters have muc
-, to praise. many objects for. the loya
- love of which the venerable Senator Ed
munds was an example. We are sur
;. that their pride IN the city Of Burling
ton and its great and growing uniyersit
o. Is well grounded and most excellent
" displayed Exeter, ST. Paul. partmout
glorify New Hampshire, Vermont. tn
o younger. is in the way OF outpacing he
l. early rival. Our Massachusetts, am
Ohio connections are enriched by rela
tons to both these trim States Of north
IL ern New England.
- Sailing out OF Burlington IS confront
q Ing the tides OF ancient history and q
n and the long ranges of Adirondack sum
n m!ts make a symphony of various tone
It and times. The very landings are drum
ia boats OF war or heartbeats OF peace, IL
t. the veteran T!oonderoga blends drum
h and cymbal with the bells Of leaping fall
q Ing over the heights where fiorico
o hides in bewitchins beauty. We com
d over the edge Of a new world when "
l. touch the strand OF the holy lake II
i gate way Of escape to lower region
our doorway to the sanctuary of IN
hills All the world is shut out. TIL
y mountain bordercd mirror LES In saere
sec!usion, with face open only to hea'
~ en-. one does not easily behold II an
- doubt its claim to a certain scparatenes
from the ordinary waterways OF tn
wonderful region. Back of the easterl
- mountains passes on Champlaln I
80 Whitehall. Thence up Wood Creek wa
: the short portage to the Hudson a
. Fort Edward, Horizon lies up in tn
~ bosom OF the Kills, a thing apart an
~ holy, itself an emblem OF the holy thing