Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-13
TWO STATES VIE
FOR HONOR Of
SUMMER CAPITAL
Cornish, N, H., Is Where Presi-
dent Wilson's Home Is to Be,
but P. 0. Is in Vermont.

| HALFWAY on THE TOLL
/ BRIDGE BETWEEN CORNISH. y.
H., AND WINDSOR. VT. April r.
| And SO dated because the American
/ desires to take no part in the Cou-
/ troversy which is about To break out
| between the sister States of Vermont
and New Hampshire concerning the
| exact location of the Nations SUM
mer capita
| Unless New Hampshire's state
/ Board Of Trade gets busy at once,
/ backed up i'm its efforts by Senator
| Hollis and Congressman Ray Ste
yens and Gene Reed-goOd Demo-
Gratis, one and President Wilson's
summer home will be In New Hamp-
| shire, but Of Vermont.
H8rlakendeu House, the Winston
[ Churchill place four miles up the
east bank of the river is in the
Township Of Cornish and I'm the
state of New Hampshire, but.
The Cornish railroad station is
Windsor, Vermont.
The Cornish telephones are
| hooked up with the Windsor (Ver-
mouD exchange.
The Cornish trading center is
| Windsor, Vermont, and
/ The Cornish express office is
/ Windsor, Vermont.
/ Everybody who hikes off to The
/ Summer Capital this year will buy
/ a railroad ticket TO Windsor, Yer
mont. The average run Of men among
4 the newspaper correspondents will
/ If they are prompt and !ucky-put
/ up at the Windsor House, and n
/ consequence New Hampshire
people are sprv-all the news Of the
President and his doings, all the gOs-
sip Of his important visitors ami
what they have TO say. is likely TO
go forth 70 the great world carrying
the Windsor, Vermont" date-llus
and thereby robbing New Hampshire
of the Nations Summer play
ground" Colonel Churchill calls his
beloved State-of a great part OF her
glory
And after an interesting day Of II,
in and out of the highways and by
ways and up and down the hills 81
| beautiful Cornish. there are other
things that may well be Called-ani
called early-to the serious attention
of all who have in mind summer
journey to the summer home Of the
new President Of the United States.
/. Nobody hereabOuts can tell
one the location of the nearest
Presbyterian Church.
. New York is 24i miles away
by way Of Springfield.
g. Boston is 40 miles distant, by
way Of Concord and Ciaremont
Junction
g. The only hotel accommodations
within the town of Cornish are Of
fered by the Cornish Inn, at Cornish
Flat. about six miles from HarlakeH-
den House. Here YOU can read the
morning newspapers, in the after
noon and sit out on the front porch
20 keep tabs on the stage coach TO
and from Newport. Windsor and Leh-
anon.
And. while the fact may be Of in
teres, TO not more than one reader
out OF twenty thousand, II may Doe
well TO report-uewspap ers beins
printed for all-that Newport Now
Hampshire. is'the only place for fifty
miles around where 'likker' may bee
had openly. legally and without mys-
tic signs.
No Wilson's Thereabouts.
And not only viii the President ns
cut off from the Presbyterian Church
for the summer but he will also BE-
far removed from relatives.
There will be none IN Newport
Cornish TO call the President 'Cous-
in or even distant relative for there
isn't "a human being in the town az
the name Of wilson.
Windsor IS q town Of about 1000
people. happy, industrious thriving.
II has no skyscrapers. no trolley
lines. no summer parks. II has many
cottages. an excellent high school,
a good library. a brass band, base
ball nine. and the oldest DcWSpa PEE
IN the state. the Vermont Journal
Also. Windsor is blessed with pub
c-spirited citizens Perhaps the
best known of these is Maxwe
Eyarts livc-wire son of that dis
tinguiShed William NJ Eyarts, who
defended Andrew johnson in enc
celebrated impeachment trial. was
Attorney Genera, under Johnson, SEE
rotary Of State under Rutherford b.
Hayes. and a member Of the United
States Senate from New York urg i
ne was seventy three years old. along
about 1891.
Rordo-he's sixty-five. is Peter. AMI
he runs the livery at the Windsor
House-was appealed TO about the
pronunciation Of Harlakenden House.
How should one pronounce il.
Peter. 'H-a-r-l-a-k-e -n-d-e-n2'
What you want is the prouunCia-
tiou here in Windsor"
That's the idea"
How We say IT, here
Exactly"
well" said Mr. Peter Bordo, Il
pronounce be- 'ChuTclilIs
There are less than HOO people iu
the town OF Cornish. ON the y
Hampshire side. and they live I'm four
widely separated villages and On
farms in between miles and miles
apart, .-----.--