Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-11
'POCONOS ANDGAP
BECKON TO WEARY
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Holds Balm for Tired ~.
City DwelIers
1 NATURE LAVISH AS EVER
Hills and Valleys OF Monroe
County Sweetly Scented
With Fruit Blossoms
NATURE LAVISH AS EVER
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- Picturesoue and alluring Monroe
county beckons and invites its friends
both old and new, to a sojourn within
her pretty borders for n day. week
or a month, or the entire summer sea
son.
She has missed her friends durin
the past eight months OF cold raw win
ter and her friends have missed her ZOO
SO much so, in fact, and so eager are
they that they have started coming back
by the thousands, with the result that
: all the resort houses are open now
and practically well filed. -, ,-.
Memorial Day witnessed the largest
number of people within the BORDERS on
Monroe county for a holiday in the
history of resOrtdom of the county.
Wherever there was place for man
i.sto Law his head there was some one
who delighted in the changing scenery;
the pure air. the grand scenery good
Wholesome home raised food, and IN
fact all the things which go to make
Z this county famous both as "lhtel
and sumer resort.
Situated where every PERSONS whims
or desires, no matter what they may
be, can be fulfilled to the small =
est item. Monroe county, and es-
pecially the Delaware Water Gap and
the Poconos. has become famous
throughout the entire United States
as a banner winter and summer resort.
Refuge From Hot Winds
It is not only of the summer season
Of which Monroe boasts. but the winters
here are ideal. with just enough snow
and ice TO make winter sports of all
kinds accessible and inviting. But the
summer resort of it far exceeds the win :
fer. for it is then the people flock
here to escape the hot winds of sum :
mer in the cities and to romp in the
mountains, the long green rolling mea :
dows or to bathe in the cool waters
which have been supplied by nature
with SO lavish aNhand.
High above the sea level one finds
resort homes, from the tiny one accom- =
modating a dozen to stately mansions
rivaling in size, grandeur and accom-
modations the largest city hostelrles.
One is somewhat surprised to ma such
big hotels tucked away in the mountains
and valleys. and he is more surprised
upon entering them to find their wei
equipped parlors, ball rooms dining
rooms, grill rooms and spacious
porches.
About the first Of June Is the best
time Of the year to appreciate what
nature has done for this part of the
country, for it is now the wild flowers.
In great abundance. are out. These
include the wild mountain laurel and
rhododendron, which line we'll appointed
walks which take one along mountain
maths to the highest promOntOries either
on Mt. Minsi or Mt. Tammany in the
Water Gap or through the Pocono anC
Blue Ridge Mountains in the Pocono
section. Then. too. the orchards, with
their sweet smelling peach. apple and
cherry blossoms, are out in their fullest
glory and the entire scene is one long
to be remembered.
Has Finest Resort Houses
Monroe county boasts some of the
finest resort houses in the United States.
Modern to the highest degree. fire proof,
with private baths for every room.
spacious piazzas where one may read.
talk, knit or enjoy games. spacious ball
rooms with New York orchestras, stu
ated where one can enjoy from the piaz-
zas views of mountain and dale with the
streams and mountain Businesses on
every hand, these houses, together
with the smaller ones, in fair season
accommodate close to five hundred
tnOuSanu people, WHO not ouly colle
back every year, but bring their friends
along.
Monroe county as a summer play
GROUND has so many attractions that it
is difficult to name them without omit
ting some and that probably the most
important to some lover of outdoor life.
The first and one of the most i'm
portant of the amusements are the golf
courses. The finest. biggest and best of
these is the famous Buckwood Inn
course at Shawnee on Delaware, three
miles from the Delaware Water Gap.
This course, of eighteen holes, takes one
over some of the finest scenery in the
land and lies almost wholly along the
beautiful Delaware river. Then there
is the nine hole Caldeno course. where
patrons of the Water Gap houses may
enjoy the game and also some remark
able scenery, one of the finest scenes
being the far famed horseshoe trolley
line of the Mountain View Trolley Com
pany, which for three miles winds up
and up and up into the mountains
through series of horseshoe curves
at first dispaired of by famous engi-