The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-07

with the saltricd uttnciic:; Of once,
store ana factory.
These are. scattered IN hotel. man
sion cottage. bungalow. farm house
and camp. throughout Il wide cxpansc
of nlluring country. mainly in New
hampshire. Massachusetts. Maine and
Vermont with Il fair representation
In Connecticut and Little shody. Some
Of them pay ~ dollar a day for their
board" others u dollar n minute. Just
which or the two classes gets the
most for their money is a question that
probably never :iii be settled
il is estimated that the thousands o.
summer boarders" Ito group all Of
these transients under their convenient
ilesignhtionl. who annually come To
ticw England for their weeks or sea
sons outing. contribute 10 the run
ming cxpcnres nf tho permanent popu-
lation something like sG0.00D.0Jo OF
$4,000. coo year. This may look on
piper like q large SUM. Int large AS
II Is !, Is wcrth ali OF that. Tor this
hoSt Of summer sojournrrs from TX.
moro tropical parts Of our common
country 10 have the incStimabic priv
iiegc Of spending their vacation here In
aainbrious Ncw England.
ii Is t.iie that The beautiful New
i:ngland country divides itself up. for
ihc delectation ~ its guests from
lbroad AMI these como from--wcll.
everywhere, even Europe Every
state ana Territory OF the Union,
every province in Canada and Mexico.
and many % tho Central and South
American countries are represented!
among is cosmopolitan collection Of
summer visitors. rake the 1910 cen
sus OF - carload Of passcngcrs ascend
ing Mount Washington next June. and
you are likely to find thai each one
OF them Except, OF course, the mar
ricd couplesl. is from u different State
or country.
Ii would requrc 81 page Of This
newspaper merely To cnuinerstc the
different Now ENGLAND vacation re-
sorts and another page 70 list The
"notablcs" who summer hero. The list
OF leading summer hotels alone is II
formidable one See how they loom
Tho IulaJial Mount Washing ton and the
Mount Pleasant. l'abyan and Crawford
nj BRETON Woods; tho Profile House, in
franccnia Notch; tho Maplewood. AT
Bethlehem. H.. W;iun s, at Jefferson
the Balsams, at pixvilIc Notch: the
Sunset li!il House. al Sugar Till; the
Poland Spring House. al South Poland:
the samorsct. at iItockland Brcakwatcr;
the Mount Iiiuco House. u, Moose :
head Lake. the Wentworth, at New
/, Castle, and tho many fine hostelries
ut Bar iiarbqr. and along the south
crn coast OF Maine Massachusetts.
speak OF many more in Central New
Hampshire and Massachusetts. and NJ
rn tie beautiful Berksiiires
Many OF these splendid hotels arc
themselves Tho resorts" as II Is ad
vertis.d III lie time tables. and in
some Of them one will lind the luNul-ie:,
icf the Ponce dc Leon the Royal
Poinclann or The Dol Monte
ANA the White Mountains certainly
are becoming popular. There were
times last August when something
like 500 guests slept beneath the ample
vonf OF the Mount Washington. and
when all the other big houses IN the
region had no room. for the tradi-
tional "onc more.
In order TO give Il little touch OF
Colorado ami California TO the noun
.tnin--perliaps the only thing they real
~ ncct---onc or TWO of the enterprisinS
hotel manaScnents have added a num-
her OF Western burros TO their liverics
largely, for the pleasure OF the chill
dren and now one may 20 noun
, tainenring q Ia Canyon and Yosemite.
When II is remembered that some OF
these White Mountain resorts are sit
uated nearly 1000 feet above the level
Of Tho SCH, and That there are nearly
a dozen mountains whose submits
reach an altitude OF 5000 feet. with
! one tMount Washington towering g.
| 900 feet and more, IL viii be seen that