The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-18
NEW SUMMER CAPITAL
VIII Real Center Be Winsor, VT, or
Cornish, NJ. n.

uCSh dSltdtiHB luSul even since res
ident Woodrow Wilson decided to
rent Harlakenden house from Win
ston Churchill for his vacation this
summer. Windsor Is little village
on the left bank of the Connecticut.
where the first constitution Of Z. the
free state of Vermont was drawn up.
1t has a main street fringed with
staid old homes and farmhouses and
arched by ancient elms, a hotel built
in 1920, a stateprison and one of the
finest post-offices and government
buildings in the state. 1t has 1000
souls. 1t is on a through railroad
line. But it stops at the Connecti-
cuts bank Cornish, N. H.. begins
there, and not an inch of that noble
river can Windsor claim for its own.
Away back before the Revolution
they fought over this, did the good
, people of Vermont and New Hamp-
shire, and the latter state won and
got the river right up to high-water
mark on the Vermont side. 1t has
been a cause of some little feeling
ever since, feeling that Is bound to
be accentuated more or less by the
fact that the president will be in
Cornish, n. H., almost from the time
he alights from the train at the Wind
sor railroad station. But If Cornish
begins where Windsor reaches the
river, its end is not so easily delimit-
ed. 1t is up somewhere on the hills
which guard the peaceful Connecti-
cut on the New Hampshire side.
stretching away north and south as
far as the eye can see. These Nigh
ty hills are just about all there is to
Cornish, N H., besides a summer
colony of wealthy people which has
meant trade for Windsor.
But if there is no village of Cor
nish to profit by the presidents pres
ence this summer, there is no get
ting away from the fact that the
Churchill house, where he will stay.
is in the township of Cornish. and
that township. comprising several
small hamlets, is collectively prepar-
ed to claim the distinction, backed
up II necessary by the whole state of
New Hampshire. Windsor, over in
Vermont, may do the business, NAV
beckon the summer boarders and
house the government clerks and
newspaper correspondents, but the
capital. in summer at any rate, is
where the president makes his home
and that's Cornish and Cornish is in
New Hampshire.
Windsor lies at the foot of Ascut-
ney mountain, which rises to
height of 1850 feet. 1t stands prac
tically alone, save for the hills
around it, like some solitary strag-
gler left behind by the Green Noun
tains further west, and yet it is one
of the highest bits of ground in the
whole Green Mountain state. Seen
from the Harlakenden house across
the river it presents a picture of
never-ending charm. From the 9th
er side of Harlakenden the view is
one of undulating fields ever rising
until they bound the vision. Here
on some of these slopes are the
homes of the summer colony. of Ken
yon Cox. of Stephen and Maxfeld
Parish, of the late Augustus Saint
Gaudens. Charles A. Pratt and Nor
man Hapgood But save for Blow
Me-Down, built by the late Charles
{. Beaman of New York, and now
the summer home OF his widow
none OF these places has the view
possessed by Harlakenden house
nor can any of them approach 1t for
elaborateness. Perhaps no summer
capital for many decades has seemed
so remote from civilization as this.
canton. Sycamore hill and Paramat.
ia all connote the life that lies be-
tween city and country. But here a
silence falls at dusk unbroken till
the morning. Here is a land that
KNOWS no trolly and no license. Not
even windsor possesses either. 1t
is 2S miles TO the nearest drink.
With all its solitude. however the
region possesses a train service
which puts 1t far ahead of many plac.
es the president might have selected.
The valley OF the Connecticut has
been through line of travel for
more than a century, and today much
OF the travel to the White mountains
and to Canada and even the West
goes that way. But while IL has
Deen easy TO reach from Boston by
way of the Boston and Maine. il was
not until recently that il was put in
easy communication with New York.
The New York, New Haven and Hart
ford, however, has now put on two
splendid through trains CONNECTING
northern New England with New
York. These trains, the Vermonter
and the Green Mountain express.
now give you delightful daylight
ride up the Connecticut Combined
with the Trains from Boston. Wind.
sor now has six trains a day from
the two cities each way, and in the
summer. when President Wilson is
there, 1t will have almost double thai
number, due to the White mountain
travel
The old hotel at Windsor. with nil.
Jared portico and an upper gallery.
as the southerners would call il
fronts upon the street, and opposite
is the government building. secured
many years ago through the infu.
ence of Senator William NJ. Evarts.
whose wife was a Windsor girl. II
is in this building that the White
House force will set up shop when
President Wilson comes to Cornish
that is il the circuit courts spring
session does not last on until the
summer, which isn't at all likely to
happen. There are several rooms
besides the courtroom which some
OF the White House staff have pro
nounced most satisfactory for the
transaction OF the government bust
ness. Here Secretary Tumuity will
have his Office and from here will
wend It's way the pilgrimage Of the
elect to the Churchill house on the