The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-07-19
Eighteen Members of Appa-
lachian Club Visit
BrattlebOrO
LEAVE TODAY FOR
PINE GROVE SPRINGS
Theodore S. Conant as Pilot Reports De-
hghtful Outing and Abundant Hos
pitality Everywhere Brattleboro
Woman Member of Party.


pitality Everywhere Brattleboro
Woman Member of Party.
Eighteen members of the Appalach-
ian Mountain club, the headquarters of
which are in Boston, arrived at the
Brooks House late yesterday afternoon
on 100mile tramping trip in south
eastern Vermont, which will have been
stretched to 125 miles when the party
reaches Keene, \. H., tomorrow. They
attended the moving picture theatre
last evening and this morning started at
$50 O'Clock for Pine Grove Springs
hotel at Spofford lake. where thev viii
stay over night. going to Keene tomor-
row and leaving there by train in the
afternoon for Boston.
Theodore s Conant of Boston mem
| ber of the clubs committee of ID on
| field meetings and excursions. is the pi-
| lot of the party and came here some
/ time ago while laying out the trip. Thev
| came by train to Bellows Falls week
ago, starting from there on foot to Wis
| it various points of interest in the conn
| ty. including the high points of STRAIT
| ton mountain and Putnev mountain.
One of the members is Miss Edith Fs-
terbrook of Brattleboro and Boston. She
is remaining here. not finishing the trip
with the others as she has been over
| the ground before.
The trampers are dressed in outing
| costumes and are travelling in a fash
ion rather more de luxe than usual as
thew are takine along their EVERYDAY
clothing. sending it ahead from each
stopping place by motor vehicle. This
enables them to change from their trav-
cling costumes each evening. They stav
at hotels nights and the hotels put up
lunches for them to carry in their KNAPP
sacks for the mid -day meal
Mr.. Conant reports a delightful trip
with splendid scenery and the utmost
hospitality everywhere There has been
no rain on the trip except during one
night at West Wardsboro. The miles
covered on each dav's hike on the pres
emf trip are as follows: Five miles to
Saxtons River the first afternoon 10
miles TO Lowell lake. 90 miles to West
Wardsboro. 10 miles climbing StTatton
! nountain. Is miles to Newfane. IA miles
? on a Putnev mountain trip, and IA
j miles yesterday from Newfane TO Brat
9 tlehoro by way of Williamsville and
t Wickopee hill, making just 100 miles
: Members in the party are Miss Helen
: I. Buck and Miss Eta NJ Hager of
D New York, Miss Eda L. Nichols of
. Staten Island. \. Y Miss Jessie Doe of
Rollinsford. \. H, j. H. Burdett. Miss
Katherine F. Clark. Theodore S. Conant
and Miss Edith NJ. Estabrook of Bos-
ton. Miss Helen NJ Church of Melrose
Mass. Miss Minnette Newman of Mel
J rose Highlands, Mass, Charles H. Hard
wick of Quincy. Mass, Miss Helen I.
Hill of Lowell Mass, W. Frank Matt
v son and Fred L. Norton of Brookline
Mass. Miss Emma NJ. Swindt of Holy
oke, Mass, Miss Margaret W. Thacher
of Roxbury, Mass. Fred H. Tucker of
Newton, Mass, and Horace Van Everen
e of Cambridge, Mass.
I The party is holding closely to the
I following itinerary: Saturday, July 10
;. Bellows Falls to Saxtons River The
L Inn; Sunday. July 13-Saxtons River to
Lowell Lake. The Tavern; Monday
: July 14-Lowell lake to West Wards
I boro. Green Mountain House; Tuesday
e July 15-Climb Stratton Mountain
II Wednesday, July 16-West WardsborC
e to Newfane. The Inn; Thursday, July
IL "Trip to Putney mountain; Friday
!, July 1S-Newfane to Brattleboro
IL Brooks House; Saturday, July 19-
y Brattleboro to Spofford lake. Pine Grow,
Springs hotel; Sunday, July 20 Spof
q ford lake to Keene, n. FL. Leave 4.35 p
q m. by train, due in Boston at 45 p. m
Is The president of the club is PHILIP
w. Ayres of Boston and the club rooms
II are on the 10th floor of the Tremon
"a building The club has a membership
E of 2,2t4 members and owns 16 reser
+ vations ranging in size from sone Il
x 800 acres, besides number of hut
q. and camps in the White Mountains anS
elsewhere
The club was organized in January
1876, and in April, 1878, was re-organ
II lied and chartered as "a corporation b,
the state of MASSACHUSETTS By specia
act of the legislature of 1894 its char
u ter was so extended as to enable it f
hold mountain and forest lands and his
1t toric sites.
Id Its object is to bring together 70
ID cooperation all those interested in tn
1T mountains of New England and ada
n cent regions, and in so doing it aim
i'll to serve threefold purpose; first, t
combine the energies of all who ar
Id interested in efforts not only to preserv
ne the present beauty and attractivenes
V, of mountain resorts.-and in partieula
their forests,-but also to render ther
nrore attractive by building paths
n. camps, and other copveniences, cor