White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-10-06

L OrcheStra seat Tor the SHOW pro-
duced by Nature-the eclipse,
which drew thousands of visitors
across her borders from many states.
Without the eclipse, however, New
year round. In the summer its noun
tains and lakes call vacationists from
remote parts of the country, while In
winter they are the scene of winter
sports.
About two hundred and fifty years
ago New Hampshire was separated
from Massachusetts. The new royal
province had then but four towns,
which chung precariously to the sea-
board: and if the usual rule OF COM
putting population in proportion TO
qualified voters be observed, there
were perhaps q thousand souls In the
census.
In a quarter millennium the states
population has come to number about
half a million people, and has spread
from the coast to the lakes and be-
yond the mountains to the Canadian
border. The march has been toilsome.
Subduing the forest was no easy task,
and it Is small wonder that so many
of it's acres. once cleared by the stern
process Of cutting and burning, have
been permitted to resume their forest
cover.
1t is probable that Massachusetts,
was glad to be rid of New Hampshire,
back there $50 years ago. They had
not got on we'll with the royal gov
ernors who had lived in Boston. 1t
was the first manifestation OF re-
volt against absentee landlordism
which New Hampshire has always
more or less maintained
Mills on the Merrimack.
Down in Maine they speak of "the
lordly Kennebec" but the Merrimack
stands unmatched. Its boast is that
it turns more spindles than any other
stream in the world, for upon it's
banks stand the great industrial cities
of Manchester, and Nashua; and New
Hampshire has always looked with
pride upon it's centers Of the textile
gone out all over the globe.
Time was when solid trains of cot
tons used to go from Manchester and
Nashua north and west through Can
ada to the Pacific coast, and thence
to the Orient, to clothe the heather
Chinese" But changing styles, slack
ening immigration, rayon and what
not have played havoc with New Eng
lands textiles, while the Orient has
learned to make it's own shirtings and
the South now not only grows, but
weaves, it's own cotton. The miles
of mighty mills at Manchester still
run, but not with their former volume.
The Merrimack, however, like Old
Man River, keeps rolling along; and
so do the other streams which New
Hampshire originates and which have
so greatly enriched New England. The
Kennebec alone, of all the great rivers
of this section, escapes New Hamp-
shire paternity. The Connecticut, the
Androscoggin, the Saco-these, with
the Merrimack, make the great quar-
tette to which the four states of New
Hampshire, Massa chusetts, Vermont
and Connecticut owe so much.
The story of the New Hampshire
grants is an interesting one. Many a
worthy figured in it. the redoubtable
Ethan Allen being the most conspicu-
Gus. With him was leading member
of the Dartmouth faculty, and among
them they attempted to set up a new
state. They succeeded; but when they
sought to incorporate into it some
fifty towns Of New Hampshire, that
was too much; there was federal in
PREVENTION, and both Vermont and New
Hampshire withdrew within their
present frontiers.
Switzerland of America.
Among the titles in which New
Hampshire glories is that of 1.-The
Switzerland of America In summer
the mountains and valleys are
throneed by the thousand The AID.
nala chan Mountain club visits them,
niecemeal and sporadically, though
their trails and their cabins have a
call which should be as strong in win
ter as in summer
The Dartmouth Outing club, how
ever has been by no means slow to
make use of the winter months. This
organization has it's chain of cabins.
also, which covers the territory from
Mount Cardigan to Mount Washing
ton, and it's hikes, as described IN the
college publications. remind one OF the
heroic tales which Napoleon wrote
upon the face Of the Alps.
Some New Hampshire cities, whose
latitude gives permission, have their
carnivals, too; and another fixed Oh
servance of the winter season is the
dog races, because in the eastern nils
lie the kennels from which explorers
of both the Arctic and the Antarctic
have taken their sledge teams.