?=^. ^ ^f& ^i& .A OH a: Gallauclet Coliogo, Ly HIS LAKE, located at an altitude of 1,245 ^^^'t, near the summit of Sky Top (1,550 feet), one of the higher of the Shawangunk Mountains, in Ulster County, New York, is about fifteen miles west of Poughkeepsie on the Hudson, and six miles west from New Paltz, a station on the Wallkill Valley Railroad, a branch of the West Shore, and eighty-eight miles from New York. Hpproacbes ON THE West Shore Railroad there are three trains daily, to and from New York, morning, mid-day and evening ; on the New York, Ontario & Western and on the Erie Railroads a morning and after- noon train leaves New York for Mohonk, and there are also returning trains, morning and evening. All of these trains are met at New Paltz, The Hudson River day boats, to and from Albany and New York, and the Hudson River trains are met at Poughkeepsie ; West Shore trains at Highland ; and trains on the Poughkeepsie Bridge Route at Loyd (Centerville), by special stage, on notice being given in advance. There is also a trolley road be- tween Poughkeepsie, Highland, Loyd and New Paltz. During the summer season a condensed time-table of routes, revised to date, will be sent on application. Parties desiring to inspect rooms in May will be met at the train upon proper notice being given, and when wishing to remain over night can be comfortably ac- commodated. ■^ite= L^E iteieMK tldust II N THE management of the house at Mohonk Lake it is the i.AL, ^;jMk '^''"n ^'^ provide the comforts of a good home, at iH|||HRHK# reasonable rates, for tlie refined and moral mSHS^^nter. classes, where they can enjoy the splen- did scenery of the lalce without molesta- tion from the fast and rougher elements of society. The house was first opened in 1870, and has been built in many different parts at many different times to meet the constantly increasing requirements. It represents a steady growth of twenty- eight years, and now has a frontage of about seven hundred feet. There are, in length, over four hundred feet of very wide piazzas for public use, while nearly all the lodging rooms have private bal- conies of good size with fine views of the lake and Sky Top and flower garden, or a broad outlook over the Rondout Valley to the Cats- kill Mountains. The house is equipped with an Otis hydraulic elevator, furnace and steam heat, electric bells and electric lights, hi the newer parts of the house the lodging rooms all have open Franklin fireplaces, burning wood. All the public rooms also have open wood fires. Since last season several suites of rooms have been fitted with pri- vate baths, and electric lights have been put in all the sleeping rooms. For fire protection, besides other appliances, there is a system of water-works of sufficient capacity for a good sized village, with twelve stand-pipes and seventy hose-valves, each having hose attached, scat- tered through the house. Water is supplied through an eight inch pipe from two reservoirs on Sky Top, holding over a million gallons, and at an elevation of two hundred feet. The laundry is equipped with improved machinery driven by steam power and is fitted to turn out work of the very best quality. Boilers, engines and pumps have been placed outside of the house and far enough away to avoid any annoyance. The golf links opened last year have been greatly improved and are now in excellent condition. Three tennis courts are always open to guests, while on the lake is a fleet of forty-five St. Lawrence River skiffs. The bath-houses are but a short distance beyond the hotel and swimming is much enjoyed. A bowling alley is also provided. There are on the estate many miles of drives suitable for wheeling and those having bicycles enjoy the well-kept roads. Saddle horses may be had at reasonable rates. 9 .4^'% ^^' A Telegraph Office is open in the house during the season. The Western Union Telegraph Company has a direct wire to New York, and connections in all directions. Telegrams should be addressed to Lake Mohonk House, Mohonk Lake, N. Y., from May 28th to October i8th. At other times send to New Paltz, N. Y. A Post Office is located in the house and letters should be addressed to Albert K. Smiley, Mohonk Lake, Ulster County, N. Y. There are four mails each way daily except Sunday. New York morning papers are received at 9:30 A. M. Reading Rooms are in each end of the house, which contain all the leading English and American monthly and quarterly periodicals, and weekly and daily papei's and a very complete list of books of reference. There is a circulating library of two thousand volumes in the office, also a valuable collection of books on art and another on botany, horticulture and gardening, free to guests. The Fourth Annual Mohonk Arbitration Conference w'\\\ be held June ist, 2nd and 3rd. The sessions are held in the public parlor and are open to guests. The Sixteenth Annual Mohonk Indian Conference will be held October 1 2th, 13th and 14th. The ses- sions are held in the public parlor and are open to the cruests. .m ■Vf A Livery Stable is connected with the house, where those bringing; their horses can have them boarded, and light excursion wagons, carriages and buci\b()ards can be hired. The stables have stalls for one hundred and twenty horses. They are light, dry, well ventilated, well drained and in charge of an experienced and responsible man, so that guests bringing their own horses and carriages can be sure of having them well cared for, and will find a wonderfullv pictur- esque region, thoroughly opened up by drives which it is hardly possi- ble can be surpassed in the extent or fineness of outlook" by any mountain resort in the country. A complete list of drives with the charges for livery and saddle horses can be had on ap- plication. 15 Rates of Board BEFORE July ist and after September 15th, single rooms, occupied by one person, $15 to $25 per week; and double rooms, occupied by two persons, ^30 to $40. Day rate, $3. From July ist to Sep- tember 15th, single rooms, ;^i8 to ^30 per week; and double rooms, $36 to $50. Day rate, $4. The house will continue to be kept as a strictly Temperance House. Visitors are not expected to arrive or depart on the Sabbath. No dogs allowed. In 1898 the house opens May 28th and closes October i8th. 17 Scenery at )VIohonk Lake TYLL who visit tlie lake are impressed with the wonderful and '* greatly varied character of the scenery: A beautiful lake ; massix'e rocks, each of them thousands of tons in weight ; towering cliffs ; and far-extending views in all directions, embracing large portions of six states, and covering thousands of square miles, hideed, it is the gen- eral opinion of widely-traveled people who visit it, that in respect to the remark'able C(.)mbination and great and mountain views, di^ed, it has a ri\'al, board. The air is and bracing, the r a r e I y rising degrees Fahr- estate which with the hotel three thousand the mountain top length. A part neai of precipitous mountain ests; a thousand acres of farm variety of imposing lake it has no superior, if, in- on the Atlantic sea- delightfully cool thermometer above eightv enheit. The is connected contains over acres, including for five miles in the house consists pes, rock's and for- and suppl\- the house with a great variety of fresh vegetables and fruits ; there are also numerous apple and peach orchards, grapes, currants, black'berries, raspberries, strawberries, and other small fruits; the pasture land feeds a herd of more than a hundred cows, selected and carefullv bred, especialh' with a view to their excellence for the dairy, which supply fresh milk' and cream in abundance; the breezy tops and shadv sides of the nKJuntain are traversed by private roads and paths in every direction. The flower gardens cover more than eight acres. 19 -^^ar- rtsaHBto .«MKk^-« A large number of rustic seats and summer houses are scattered through the gardens and along the walks and drives. Since last year a new carriage road and bicycle track, nearly level, very smooth and wide, and over two miles in length, has been built between the house and Mountain Rest, and much labor expended in repairs, regrading and covering with a good layer of slate-rock some of the older drives. There are now nearly forty miles of good private road, with easy grades, and presenting a remarkable variety and extent of magnificent views — winding as they do along the cool top, or high on the side of the moun- tain at an elevation of from one thou- sand feet to fifteen hundred feet, now plunging into prim- itive forests, and again breaking out into cultivated fields, now curving along a green slope of pastured hills, or passing under beet- ling cliffs among masses of broken rock heaped in end- less confusion. '-^H^k^^ ittk "*' -^ jVIountain Rest I HIS HOUSE is situated two miles from the hike on Huguenot b SJ --^ drive, and lias accommodations for eightv guests. It has 'm^ii^J^& a commanding situation, overlooking tlie Wallkill and Ron- d(jut valleys and across them to the foothills of the Hudson and the Catskill Mountains. Thirty new rooms were opened last season, all of good size and well ventilated. Bath-rooms are supplied with hot and cold water and the most improved sanitary fixtures. Rates of board: ^2.50 per day; weekly, $ 1 1 to ^16. Mr. J. Irving Goddard will again be in charge and all communications should be addressed to him at Mohonk Lake, Ulster County, N. Y. 23 LIBRftRY OF CONGRESS af^ g 014 108 048 9<