Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-13
VERMONT IS WAKING Up,

VERMONT IS WAKING Up.
We directed attention few days
ago to an editorial about Burlington
and Vermont az we'll as our general
attractions for tourists. published in
the New York Post as result OF the
Burlington Commercial Club campaign
Of publicity instituted :his sur.Ger.
Another splendid editorial on our
states attractions and possibilities,
Under the heading, vermont Waking
Up" is printed by the New York sun,
as q result of the publicity crusade
started under the auspices of the Green
Mountain Club through the direct in
strumentality of DR. Louis j. Paris of
Burlington. The sun says:
The most ambitious project of the
Green Mountain club, which was or
gained last year by Mr.. James p
Taylor of Saxons River, is trail over
and through the mountains from the
Massachusetts to the Canadian line. If
the Green MoVntain trail could be
laid in an air line its length would
be 15S miles. but to take in the most
notable hills Of the range and wind
through valleys whose beauties ought
not to be missed, the distance tray
ersed would be nearly 900 miles A be-
ginning on the interior part of the
chain has already been made. and by
the end of the summer there will be
thirty miles of trail in the rugged
Camel's Hump and Mount Mansfield
country from Johnson to Bolton
Mountain. This part of the path will
pass through SmuRgler's Notch, be.
tween Mount Mansfield and Sterling
Mountain, which for wild scenery Is
perhaps excelled in New England onl~
by the Dixfeld Notch.
THE trail work of the Green Mountain
Club Will be done by sections formed
UP and down the range. 1t is esti-
mated that the cost will he only five
dollars a mile. To bring it within such
thrifty bounds will be largely a labor
OF love, but the newborn enthusiasm in
Vermont for opening tho Green Noun
tains and making their recesses known
10 nature lovers is no passing fancy.
Sections to explore the hills and cut
out trails are springing up in many
. localities, and the reproach that Yer
monters do not know their own high
lands except in the literature of the
Revolutionary period will soon be OF
the past Without doubt the Right
Hon. James Bryce, the British Ambas-
sador, had a share in the Inspiration
OF the movement that is to bring the
Green Mountains to tho attention of
the guild OF walkers and climbers. for
speaking OF the New England noun
taiEs and the Champlain Valley at the
tsrcentenary celebration at Burlington
on July ., 1909, he said:
ITO spare the woods whenever they
are an element Of beauty, to prevent
some exquisite prospect, to keep open
tho mountains and allow no one to
debar pedestrians from climbing TO
their tops and wandering along their
slopes, as men are most unfortunately
debarrod, for the sake of what Is cal
led sport, in somo part7 of Europe,
these arc some Of the means by which
this noble pleasure ground, the most
delightful region of eastern America,
con be preserved FOR the enjoyment OF
your nation, retaining some Of that 70.
mantle charm and wild simplicity
which II had when Champlains canoe
first Glove the silent waters of your
lake
'As Mr.. Louis j. Paris says in an
article in the Vermonter the Green
Mountains havc not had their praise
sung by any descriptive writer. There
is quite n White Mountain photography
OF which the fine book by Thomas
Starr King is tho classic. 1t Is true
that the White Hills in their number
and conformation are grander than the
Green Mountains; nevertheless, the la t.
ter have their imposing peaks and rough
tile White Mountains, in the opinion OF
the discriminating, more comprehensive
varied and finer than the view from tht
crags Of Mount Mansfield in northern
Vermont. For the neglect OF the Greer
Mountains and Vcrmonters themselves
near the summit OF Killington Is {
melancholy reminder of failure to
interest them IN their own encha ntcG
land. What Is even worse. the carriage