Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-07-31
THE UNMITIGATED vACATIoNIST
Even IF He Admits the Futy Of Telling Other People How to
Enjoy Vacation and Where to Go, Nothing Can
stop Him From Offering Advice
Nv SAMUEL HARRIS

the loon couldn't duel, the ball from the
parsons rife"
That happened at silver Lake, but people
don't 20 there to hunt or FISH They can
hunt or fish, or both. II they want to. but
it isn't obligatory. / am not going to de-
scribe the attractions. They are only to be
known by getting the Silver Lake habit, and,
moreover, the people who spend their vaca-
tions there wouldn't like the place spoiled
by advertisement Their great fear is that
the hotel property will fall eventually into
the hands of some enterprising young man
who viii make Silver Lake q summer resort
when 1 was there little while ago the
guests numbered about go and that was con-
sldered about the desirable limit The war.
by the way, had made no difference at all
with the bookings silver Lake guests 20
to bed az or 10 o'clock.
70, Ho, Ho, and Barrel Of Rum
But though advertisement of attractions ia
under the ban, there is no reason why
shouldn't tell you that the whole mountain
on which the lake lies was once sold for
barrel of rum. That was in the days OF the
pioneers, and the man who owned it then
was glad to get rid OF the obligation OF pay.
ing taxes on the land. One version of the
story tells of poker game with the tnoun-
pot, but do not know
I can give you few statistics. The hotel
at the lower and western end of the little
lake is 1900 feet above sea level. From the
southern shore rises Lookout, 500 feet above
Silver Lake and 900 feet above Lake Dune
more. These two lakes and several Others
are visible also from Mount Morse; and from
Moosalamoo a three-mile ascent from the
hotel, one can see silver Lake and Dun
more, with their striking difference of ele-
walton, and Fern Lake, and the Otter Creek,
and 20 miles away the lower end of Lake
Champlain, like white ribbon, and above
1t the whole range of the Adrondacks. The
Green Mountains piled up nearer at hand
toward the North and the South and the
East.
we climbed Moosalamoo on July 21 Ten
of us formed the party, led by Boy Scout.
Starting after breakfast, we reached the
summit in mid-foreneon At 12 the call to
descend was issued, Four of us refused to
answer It and remained half an hour longer.
Then we started down, but not toward Silver
Lake without cent In our possession we
took the trail toward Lake Dunmore and
headed for the Cascade House Though we
were strangers to the proprietor of the hotel
he took us in and gave a great and go-
rious dinner and when the clouds opened
up in the afternoon for sizzling, sozzling
old gulley washer of a rain, with no promise
of clearing-up shower. he supplied us with
raincoats and umbrellas for our climb up
the mountain road to silver Lake.
Travelling "On Your Face"
Happy life, 1 say where cash and check
books are unnecessary and where hotel
keepers do not refuse you credit and laugh
behind your back. And that was splendid
day. rain and all. for you can't get tired in
the Silver Lake region and you can't catch
cold. You can tramp up and down NOUN
tains and tramp through the rain and tramp
miles every day in that country without ever
feeling the worse for it, no matter If your
feet are covered with corns But how DIFF
ferent the minute you get back to towni
That is the trouble. Go on a vacation to
Silver Lake and when you return home 1t
takes a couple of weeks to become accli-
mated But you wouldn't have missed Silver
Lake for anything
It's splendid place for vacation. For,
take it, the real vacation is the one that gets
you entirely away from your job--if not nee
essarily from your house. The people at
Silver Lake, gathered from many cities, have
no knowledge OF one another's Jobs and pre-
fer ignorance. Nobody cares what you do"
and the way to be happy at Silver Lake is
to forget, with the rest of the crowd who
you are in your own home town.