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 Chorus — Then sing him home. 
 
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 HE ownership of a gun is an e:cpensive responsi- 
 bility — that is, of a good gun. The original invest- 
 ment is nothing compared to what follows. 
 
 You see, when a man has a nice double-barreled 
 fowling piece, breech-loading, of course, and with 
 all the essential attachments made and provided ; or a 
 Winchester rifle, with a belt full of cartridges, forty- 
 four calibre, he is very sure to think of them some hot 
 summer-day when he ought to be concentrating his mind 
 on the chances of fall trade, and just as soon as he begins 
 to think of his gun, he is certain to become reckless, and, 
 instead of withstanding evil temptation, sets himself right 
 in its way, and we may look for him and his wife and 
 youngsters upon the deck of one of the big and splendid and 
 fast steamers of the “Citizens’*' or “People’s” line, or of the “Day 
 Line,” with tickets for Saratoga and beyond ; or the next morning, or the 
 
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next after that^ he puts his family upon the Saratoga train at the Grand Central Depot, rides with 
 them al) the forenoon along the changeful scenery of the lower Hudson, reaches Saratoga, turns 
 his back upon its manifold allurements and vanities, transfers Mother and Emily and Jim and 
 Dot, the baoy, with their several and particular bundles, valises, et aL^ aboard the train of the 
 Adirondack Railway, and goes on northward to Luzerne, Warrensburg, Chestertown, Riverside, 
 Schroon Lake, North Creek, Blue Mountain Lake, Raquette Lake, Long Lake, or the vast and 
 silent wild-wood solitudes beyond. If he halts at Luzerne he is there presto ! but if to the forest- 
 environed lakes his adventurous family is swallowed up in the depths of a stage-coach, or safely 
 disposed upon its summit, or tucked upon a buckboard,” and there they stay until the wheels 
 have measured their daily task along shadowy brooks, over rugged hlils, through cool forest 
 avenues and once in awhile past spasmodic evidences of agriculture. Now and then a little rude 
 wayside hotel invites a stop and the thirsty horses are watered. The stage ride from Riverside 
 to Schroon Lake is but the matter of an hour, while the winding but excellent highway to Blue 
 Mountain Lake is thirty miles long ; few, however, tire of this well-kept woodland avenue or 
 its varied scenery. It is worth while to remember that the new and admirably equipped stage 
 line, organized in connection with the Adirondack Railway Company, is known as the Blue 
 Mountain Lake Stage and Transportation Company, the only line over which through tickets 
 are sold from the large cities direct to Blue Mountain Lake, and over which baggage is checked 
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 Each season new efforts are made increasing the attractions of the region trav- 
 ersed or “reached by the Adirondack Railway. This year 
 The Adirondack, Lake George and Saratoga Telegraph 
 Company'’ has been organized, and owns and operates 
 the various telegraph lines between Saratoga, 
 Luzerne, Schroon Lake, North Creek, Blue Mt. 
 and Long [;Lakes and points beyond in the Adir- 
 ondack Mountains, giving better service and much 
 lower rates than under the old system of num- 
 c erous independent lines. 
 
 Arrangements for a direct stage to Long Lake 
 via Blue Mt. Lake are to be accomplished facts 
 this season, money having been appropriated to 
 improve the road between Blue Mt. and Long 
 Lakes. 
 
 If our friend of the gun goes to Schroon Lake 
 he has a steamboat voyage as a final variation of his 
 journey; or if he takes the longer stage journey westward 
 " the sunset falls in mellow radiance upon the shapely flanks of Blue 
 
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Mountain and its sleeping lake purples in the dying light when he and his brood dismount 
 at the Lake House, Blue Mountain House, or the large and modern ‘^ Prospect.” 
 
 At either of these lakes he will find scores of other fellows who have also been tempted by 
 too much contemplation of their guns or fishing tackle into deserting their several customary 
 occupations and rushing off with their families or especial friends into the Adirondack woods. 
 
 The intending traveler who does not mind the hum of the mosquito and is indifferent to 
 its sting, who fails to find the bite of the ^^blackfly*' an annoyance, rather enjoys oil of tar, and 
 only hankers after fishing, such a one may penetrate into the woods as early as May ist ; 
 but the man with a family, the man caring for comfort and repose, and seeking that rest to 
 body and mind which the Adirondack life and the pure balm-laden air will surely give him, 
 should arrange his arrival and time his stay between the early part of July and the middle of 
 October, for during these months the insect pests are harmless and the course of life is joyous, 
 and the cobwebs are blown away from tired brains, and fresh vigor enters into wearied bodies. 
 
 If all these nimrods and Waltons come here to fish or blaze away at small promiscuous game 
 they may begin the slaughter almost any time. The trout are '^at home” after May ist, but the 
 
 law makes it expensive to kill a deer before August ist, or after November 15th. There are 
 
 some people who think that even if a man don’t come here to shoot a deer or catch a three- 
 
 pound brook trout, there is enough reward for coming in the simple pleasure of breathing the 
 
 pure air, voyaging in the light Adirondack boats from lake to lake, following the winding trails, 
 
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watching the sun come up from behind Blue Mountain and go down into the midst of the 
 western forest, and so everybody is satisfied, and the city man’s conscience stops troubling him 
 for neglecting his affairs, and somehow he begins to think that the investment in his gun was 
 a pretty good thing after all. When he has listened for a week or so to his guide’s fund of 
 reminiscence and imbibes something of the flavor of the simple, healthful life he finds amid 
 these upland waters he begins to wish he might stay here every month in the year — except 
 June. 
 
 When our truant goes back to his work in the city, as brown as a pirate and feels once more 
 the tyranny of the linen collar about his neck, he finds that, after all, the world has jogged along 
 about as usual, and that the fresh grip he can take upon his own affairs more than compensates 
 for the loss of a few possible bargains or turns he has missed in the market. Having learned 
 this great lesson in the practical philosophy, he not only persists in rejoicing in the fact that 
 he owns a gun or a rod, but straightway wants all his friends to get one or both. He also wants 
 to tell them all about the Adirondack Lake Region, the finest preserve ” east of the Rockies, 
 and as the memory of what happened last year is apt to become hazy, say as to the dis- 
 tances, size of the trout, plentitude of the deer, and the like, I will begin my litttle book 
 with the memoranda which is finally collected from my several pockets, while I sit by the 
 fire after a spring day’s journey, which will, I hope, help to preserve him and all travelers 
 either from the shoals of under-statement or the quagmire of exaggeration. 
 
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For more specific information the reader is referred to ‘‘Wallace’s Guide to the Adiron- 
 dacks/’ Syracuse; “Stoddard’s Adirondack’s,” Illustrated, Glens Falls; and “Stoddard’s Map 
 of the Adirondacks.” 
 
 These may be had at Saratoga Springs, and at the news stands and hotels through the 
 region of which they treat. 
 
 Each of the authors of the above works has traveled for years in these woods, and has 
 labored con amore to make the paths through the wilderness plain to the visitor. 
 
 NORTHWARD FROM SARATOGA. 
 
 The Adirondack Railway has its beginning at Saratoga, its trains leaving the same depot 
 at which passengers upon the “ Delaware and Hudson ” trains alight. It extends fifty-eight 
 miles slightly west of north to North Creek, the grading for some miles further giving promise 
 of its extension beyond, at no distant day. Leaving the shady avenues of Saratoga behind, 
 the traveler will note the fine grounds of Hilton Park upon the right. Toward the westward 
 there is a beautiful vista of cultivated lands and vine embowered homes. Saratoga Lake 
 gleams fitfully through the verdure miles away to the southward as we take a sunset course. 
 
 At the station of Jessup’s Landing a stage awaits which connects with the village of Corinth, 
 one mile distant, and Palmer’s Falls, two-and-a-half miles away. The extensive manufactory at 
 the latter place of the Hudson River Pulp and Paper Company and the immense water power 
 
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still unused justify a branch railroad which will not only facilitate the heavy freightage but 
 will enable passing tourists to view one of the most picturesque cascades in the Empire 
 State. This branch road will be completed during the present season. 
 
 Here the entire outflow of the upper Hudson pours down in a wild deltrium over the rocks, 
 giving an enormous water power which will, at no distant day, - turn the wheels of a group 
 of vast industries. 
 
 The large establishment already located here uses 10,000 horse power i*n the work now 
 operated, the product being about ten car loads per diem of wood pulp or paper, all of 
 which is consumed by leading journals. The wood used is spruce and popple, and the 
 process of reducing the solid logs to a creamy pulp and then forming the pulp into smooth 
 and crisp sheets of snowy paper ready for its daily burden of news for good and evil, is 
 very interesting. The works employ about 250 men, and the present capacity will shortly be 
 doubled. The daily product of paper alone would form a single sheet not less than two 
 hundred miles long. The officers of the company are: R. Pagenstecher, President; Hon. Warnei 
 Miller, Secretary ; A. Pagenstecher, Treasurer and Warren Curtis, Manager and Superintendent. 
 The capital stock is $240,000, and the stock is now estimated at twice par value. 
 
 Fifteen miles from Saratoga the Hudson River is met again coming down from the highlands 
 we are invading. There is a bright play of color along its banks in the glades of deciduous trees 
 still bearing their tender early greens and reds, with sombre pines and cedars for a back- 
 
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ground. Imposing groups of these noble pines are frequent along the river, and serve as' a 
 reminder of the days when this whole region was covered with these great trees, and the 
 moccasined Indian trod softly the mossy carpets that enfolded their roots. 
 
 Just before reaching Hadley, the station for Luzerne, twenty- two miles upon our way, the 
 railroad crosses on a fine bridge, ninety-six feet,, above the water, the Sacandaga, a tributary of 
 the Hudson, into which it pours a foaming, cedar-stained flood. You leave the cars at Hadley, 
 and passing on your right the pulp mill of the Hon. George West, cross the Hudson to Luzerne, 
 a half mile from the depot. Luzerne is sacred in the memory of many who tarry at Saratoga 
 because of its delicious trout dinners. There are few villages among our inland hills more 
 
 healthfully located than this little namesake of Switzerland’s famous resort. Its resident popu- 
 
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 iation forms a delightful social nucleus reinforced during the summer by many well known 
 city families. Its proximity to Saratoga enables residents to enjoy the life at our great 
 
 American Spa. Special trains will be run this season between these points at hours which 
 will enable visitors at either Luzerne or Saratoga to make rapid and frequent excursions to and 
 fro. There are many agreeable and picturesque drives in the vicinity. Opposite the village 
 the Hudson pours down over a rocky ledge forming a picturesque cascade. A tributary 
 having its source in the Palmerton range is caught above the town and forms the bright 
 and placid Lake Luzerne. The hotels — Rockwell’s and the Wayside, are filled all summer 
 with city folks, and there are many private boarding houses. Rockwell’s is in the heart 
 
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 of the village, and hardly needs an introduction to the experienced traveler. Capacity, about 150. 
 The Wayside faces pretty little Lake Luzerne and with its cottages accommodates 250. The 
 
 distance from this point to the Fort William Henry 
 Hotel, upon Lake George, is about ten miles. 
 
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Nothward from Hadley and Luzerne the railroad keeps along the upper Hudson which here 
 looks, with its log-burdened surface, very like the west branch of the Susquehanna near Lock 
 Haven, or the James, in Virginia, near Lynchburg, or a dozen other young rivers I have in 
 mind which flow fretfully down their rocky beds from wild timber countries where [the axeman 
 is busy. Potash-Kettle Mountain interposes a barrier as difficult as its name between us and 
 Lake George. 
 
 There are stages now and then waiting the certain mail-bag and probable passengers at the 
 little stations, these leading away over lateral roads to pleasant out-of-the-way corners of the 
 world which some summer travelers have found and return to enjoy. 
 
 There is one at Hadley which will take you, if you wish, up the Sacandaga Valley to Conk- 
 lingville, another at Riverside for Schroon Lake ; and lastly the roomy vehicle standing beside 
 the. platform at North Creek which is to bear us off, if we so choose, to the charms of Blue Moun- 
 tain Lake and its limpid waters; and still another to Long Lake or to Adirondack Village, upon 
 the sunset side of Mount Marcy, where the wonderful Iron Gre beds are situated, of which 
 State Geologist Prof. Emmons has written so much, and which, as soon as the Adirondack Rail- 
 way is extended towards Long Lake, will turn out hundreds of thousands of tons of ore yearly, 
 for the manufacture of steel and iron. It is near these ore mountains that the Adirondack Club 
 has its headquarters. 
 
 At present we are bound for Schroon Lake. 
 
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THE SCHROON LAKE REGION. 
 
 Seven miles by stage from Riverside brings the tourist to Pottersville, where meals en route are 
 usually taken at the hotel of the same name. A short ride beyond reveals the outlet and 
 steamer landing. The balance of the journey to the village of Schroon Lake is made upon the 
 
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 steamer “Effingham.” 
 
 At Riverside, the shady camp ground of the Methodists comes into view upon the opposite 
 
 side of the river. At this point, too, the stages for Schroon Lake meet passengers destined for 
 
 the several hotels upon that picturesque sheet. The vehicles in use are well-made and roomy 
 Concord tally-hos, and after the more conventional journey by steam, the seven miles of merry 
 wheeling over a good road to Pottersville, is a welcome diversion. The road leads ' through 
 shadowy pine groves and along the margin of Loon Lake and one or two pretty ponds in whose 
 still waters is reflected back the bright overreaching foliage of their shores. 
 
 Passengers arriving at Riverside upon the early morning sleeper, breakfast at Pottersville, 
 at the hotel of that name, and those coming later in the forenoon dine there as do parties re- 
 turning from the lake. This house is owned by Messrs. L. R. & E. D. Locke, who are also 
 
 proprietors of the Leland House and cottages at Schroon Lake village. The stage company 
 
 carries passengers, after meals, to the landing at the outlet, a short distance beyond the village. 
 Here the steamboat “ Effingham ” receives the tourists and proceeds up the lake, touching at 
 
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intermediate landings, to the village at the northern extreme, where most of the hotels are 
 located. 
 
 Schroon Lake is long, narrow and crooked. Throughout its length it is environed by 
 noble hills, and from its many rounded headlands a great variety of pleasing outlooks greet the 
 visitor’s eye. It bears a resemblance to the lovely lakes of central New York, especially Otsego, 
 while its surroundings are far more wild and imposing ; indeed, the vistas are suggestive of 
 the vaunted and much-painted Lake George, from which it is separated by twenty miles of 
 wilderness. 
 
 The excellence of the passenger service both by rail and stage has done much to tempt 
 city people of wealth and taste to come to Schroon year after year, and the pretty cottages 
 many of them have built peep out from the foliage as we speed along the smooth blue lake. 
 
 Three miles from the outlet the lake attains its greatest width, and here, upon a shapely 
 knoll, reaching out into the lake, stands the Taylor House with its group of a dozen neat cot- 
 tages, half concealed — like a matronly old hen and her chickens, among the fragrant pines and 
 
 balsams. 
 
 Although the Taylor House has been built but a few years it is a favorite with many old 
 habitues, as well as more recent visitors, both from the beauty of its location and the unfailing 
 excellence of its fare. The name of this place. Lake View Point, will suggest the far-reaching 
 panorama of water and upland which pleases the eye both up and down the lake. 
 
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The resources of a well-stocked farm of two hundred acres are drawn upon to supply the 
 table. Cool, pure spring water, brought from the mountains, bubbles up through the grounds, 
 and is carried by pipes into every structure, the elevation of hotel and cottages above the 
 lake making drainage perfect. Plenty of boats and a good livery are among the attractions of 
 the place. One of the finest drives I have seen among the lake regions of the Empire State 
 leads along the western margin of the lake to Schroon, and thence into the still wilder regions 
 to the northward. 
 
 The Taylor House maintains a telegraph and a post office, and good instrumental music for 
 dancing and promenades. Mr. G. F. Taylor enjoys the distinction of being the pioneer hotel 
 man upon the lake, and he is now prepared to care for about two hundred guests. 
 
 Just beyond Lake View Point the large and handsome summer home of Edward Harrigan, 
 the favorite comedian, is located. 
 
 Opposite, a mile and a half across the shining lake, is the village of Adirondack, nestled 
 in a dimple between the hills. Here Mill Brook pours down from the rocky fastnesses above 
 and a large tannery is located. The Wells House at this place, recently rebuilt, accommodates 
 about 50 guests, and is a most excellent house. A good road along the lake connects it with Potters- 
 ville, vehicles meeting the stage at that point. Midway up the lake to Adirondack is the Granger 
 House upon this road. The highlands opposing approach each other and through them to the 
 right we catch a first glimpse of Schroon Village, its large hotels showing brightly in front. 
 
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Schroon Village faces almost directly toward the south, and with the cordon of lofty 
 mountains in its rear it enjoys an excellent and moderate temperature which should materially 
 prolong its “season.*’ 
 
 The pine clad Isolabella, occupied by the family of the' late Col. Clark, is upon the rights 
 Directly ahead is the handsome front of -the Leland House with its flanking cottages and 
 sloping lawn dotted with brightly costumed guests ; to the left is the well-known Lake 
 House and in the pleasant village behind them are the Windsor, Ondawa and Arlington, all 
 familiar to visitors of former seasons. 
 
 About a mile from the village upon the western shore is Bishops, a boarding house, close 
 beside which is a small but very ornate building used by guests as a club-house. 
 
 The Leland House at Schroon Lake Village is located upon the rising lake shore at a 
 point which commands a view of nearly the entire lake. Money has been lavished upon the 
 adornment of the surrounding grounds, which include a fine tennis level. The hotel and its 
 adjacent cottages can house about two hundred persons, and during the season the names of 
 many prominent citizens are inscribed upon its register. As already stated this favorite house 
 is conducted by Messrs. L. R. & E. D. Locke of Pottersville. The grounds of the Lake House 
 adjoin those of the Leland and are also upon the lake front. This house has a capacity of 
 about loo, and is well filled during the warm season. The Ondawa, capacity 'about 8o, is open 
 through the year. The Windsor, also near by, can entertain about loo. The Fowler House,, 
 
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north of the village, Leland Cottage, Russell Cottage, Hazelton Cottage and Grove Point 
 House, can each take about 30 visitors. 
 
 The important question of fishing in the lake can t^e answered to the satisfaction of 
 anglers. The lake has been abundantly stocked with the gamey lake trout of which many large 
 specimens are caught each season. Black bass and pickerel abound. In ponds, streams and 
 smaller lakes, near by, the brook trout are plentijful and lively. Mr. C. E. Benedict has a 
 successful trout hatchery at his handsome place upon the road along the lake a couple of 
 miles from Pottersville, from which streams and trout waters in the vicinity are supplied with 
 young fish. 
 
 A point which will be appreciated by summer visitors is the fact that the New York morn- 
 ing papers are taken up the lake upon the boat leaving Pottersville about 3 p.m. 
 
 There is much driving at Schroon Lake, the favorite routes being to Paradox Lake — where^ 
 as I hear, marvelously appetizing trout dinners are served — and to forest environed Pyramid 
 Lake. 
 
 There is an outlet for travel toward the north via the Elizabethtown stage, which leaves 
 upon alternate days, the distance being 32 miles. 
 
 Root’s old staging house, one of the first in the mountains, is nine miles north of Schroon 
 Lake. Throughout the Schroon region deer are plentiful, as well as partridge, quail and other 
 small game. 
 
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The wild and picturesque Champlain slope of the Adirondacks to the north and east, is pe- 
 culiarly within the realm of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad Company, the great trunk line 
 between Montreal and New York, which connects with all the highways into the eastern and 
 northern Adirondacks. 
 
 From Riverside station, where we left the railway, a stage goes to the pleasant village of 
 Chestertown, a distance of about six miles. The Chester hotel has a large summer patronage. 
 Mr. G. W. Ferris is the proprietor. The Rising House at Chestertown is well known to many 
 travellers in this region. Summer boarders are also taken at the farm house of Royal P. Mead. 
 Schroon, Brant, Friend and Loon Lakes are all within five miles of Chestertown, and are 
 reached by pleasant and winding roads. Lake Pharaoh affords the best trout in Northern 
 New York. The ponds and brooks in the vicinity are full of that most delicious fish, the 
 brook trout, and the sport will repay the angler’s skill. 
 
 An omnibus will run from the Chester House to all the lakes in the vicinity at 
 twenty-five cents a passenger where there are parties of six or more. It will remain with 
 the guests to make up a party each day if they wish. Quiet and comfortable boarding 
 houses are found at these latter places, and although there is no startling scenery, no big 
 lakes or rivers in the vicinity of Chestertown, yet those caring for solid comfort, pure air 
 and a pleasing landscape ; with pretty drives and all at moderate figures, will do vrell to re- 
 member this easily accessible neighborhood. 
 
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ACROSS THE DIVIDE. 
 
 The thirty-mile stage route from North Creek across the Divide, separating the upper 
 waters of the Hudson from the watershed of the Raquette, has befen the recipient of much at- 
 tention at the hands of several road gangs the past and present seasons. With a large outlay of 
 money, intelligently applied, it has been vastly improved by the Adirondack Railway Company^ 
 and owing to the enterprise of the owner of the Prospect House, Blue Mountain Lake, three miles 
 of the western portion has been newly located and turn-piked, 
 
 A pleasant feature of travel over this highway is found in the excellent buckboards ” used, 
 which many travelers prefer to the stage. These “ buckboards ” are really elegant carriages, 
 and, unlike those so popular at Mount Desert, they have tops and side curtains. Next to the 
 Cuban volante they are the most comfortable vehicles possible in a hilly region. They gain 
 their name from the use of the “buckboard*’ wooden spring combined with regular carriage 
 springs of steel. 
 
 This road, after leaving the terminus of the railway, keeps along the diminished Hudson as 
 far as North River, about five miles. Here is Eldridge’s, a pleasant little wayside house, which 
 can furnish a most palatable meal ; and where tourists, desiring a quiet retreat, will find pleas- 
 ant quarters at reasonable charges. 
 
 From this point the road climbs to a higher plateau, coursing through a wild and rocky 
 
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section. Be sure to ask the drivers to point out Mount Marcy, on whose slopes the Hudson 
 River takes its rise. The way leads through the settlement of Indian Lake with now and then 
 ■a more or less rude, but hospitable inn, where, beyond a doubt, a surprisingly good meal could 
 fbe speedily conjured if we but asked it. With good fortune, however, we mean to sup at Blue 
 -Mountain Lake, and with a half regret that the pleasant ride is not longer, we finally bring up 
 before our hotel and submit our travel-stained visages to the inspection of the maids and matrons 
 'there congregated. 
 
 This mountain air does give one an extraordinary power for assimilating food, and somewhat 
 ■tired with a long day on wheels we turn in early. 
 
 Now in the bright morning light let’s take a look at our stopping place, the Prospect 
 House. 
 
 The main structure of five stories and a length of 255 feet fronts upon the lake, from which 
 “it is separated by a lawn broad enough for a brigade review. Blue Mountain, which does seem 
 ^ bit more ultramarine than its sister heights, is opposite in plain view. 
 
 From this main building a wing of 150 feet projects back toward the road. A grand piazza 
 «of extraordinary width extends along the entire front and ends, with a series of detached bal- 
 conies above. Pointed turrets give relief to the centre and corners of the roof. This fine 
 ■structure contains 200 large, airy and pleasant rooms, in addition to the spacious office and 
 general room, dining hall and parlors. 
 
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This was the first hotel in the world to introduce the Edison electric lights into sleeping 
 apartments. The hotel is supplemented by a handsome cottage, with open fire-places in all 
 rooms, which is kept open throughout the winter. Running water, 
 a steam elevator and all other conveniences that fastidious travel 
 demands will be found here. 
 
 A billiard room, bowling alley and shooting range occupy a 
 separate structure. Lawn tennis grounds are provided, and an ex- 
 tensive fleet of skiffs is ready at the wharf. Telegrams may be sent 
 from the house to any part of the world. A handsome windmill, 
 set close to the new sea-wall along the lake, is a recent and prom> 
 inent addition to the property. 
 
 The Lake House, a handsome four-story building, rebuilt and 
 enlarged since the destructive fire of last November, is honored as 
 the pioneer hotel upon the lake, the date of its erection being 1874, 
 and Mr. John Holland, its proprietor, is the first landlord who made 
 a visit to the lake a pleasure to travelers by a welcome to the hos- 
 pitable log structure which was first used as a hotel upon the same site. It is the first structure 
 seen upon approaching the lake, and stands upon an elevation commanding a fine view. Ten 
 cottages are connected with the hotel, giving a capacity for entertainment of about two hundred. 
 
 Capt. Hank Bradley. 
 
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MOONLIGHT IN THE WILDERNESS. 
 
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It is well patronized, and has a capital lawn tennis ground and fine sand beach in front. The 
 Episcopal log church is near this hotel. 
 
 The Blue Mountain House stands upon a lofty site upon the slope of the mountain. A good 
 carriage road connects the house with the valley, and stages call upon regular trips. The former 
 house which was destroyed by fire six years ago was replaced by a larger and more modern 
 house, having a capacity of about sixty. The proprietor is Mr. Tyler M. Merwin. At this hotel 
 the charges are very moderate, and persons of slender means can safely patronize it. 
 
 Blue Mountain has an altitude of 3,824 feet. A good bridle path has been completed to the 
 summit, and a saddle livery will be maintained this season, for the convenience of excursionists 
 who wish to gain the superb view from the summit. 
 
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 The altitude of Blue Mountain Lake is nearly 2,000 feet. It is one of the loveliest of these 
 Adirondack Trossachs. 
 
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 Forest-clad islets and points are occupied by handsome cottages, which suggest the Thou- 
 sand Islands. Messrs. Duryea of New York, Thacher of Albany and Crane of Yonkers having 
 the most attractive on this lake. 
 
 Owing to a recent change of ownership of Blue Mountain, Eagle and Utowana Lakes and the 
 lands about and around them, it is confidently believed that persons desiring to purchase cottage 
 and camp sites will now be able to do so to a limited extent. More definite information concerning 
 this matter can readily be obtained of The Adirondack Railway Co., 20 Nassau St., New York. 
 
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GUIDES AND BOATS. 
 
 Beside the attractions of the hotel, with its spark- 
 ling kaleidoscopic summer life and the wild wood 
 beauty of its immediate environment, there are two 
 important factors to the pleasure of the visitor, and 
 these are inseparable. 
 
 They are the guide and his Adirondack boat. 
 The guide without the boat would be as a mus- 
 ician minus his instrument. While the boat, deprived 
 of the strong arms of the woodsman to pull the oar, 
 his broad back to bear it across the toilsome ‘‘carry'' 
 and his intimate acquaintance with every hidden reef, impracticable rapid or false trail, would be 
 useless indeed. There is probably no craft in the entire marine category lighter for the work it 
 has to do, than an Adirondack boat, and yet in the hands of the man who takes you through the 
 scores of lakes and leagues of little rivers it is as safe as a ship. 
 
 The Adirondack guide is nearly always a native of the woods and hills. There is a wide 
 contrast between the highlander and the lowlander whenever you find him. I know the 
 mountaineers of the Appalachians from Memphremagog to Georgia and I know of no finer, more 
 
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manly race. They are, with the unerring instinct of the forester, good judges of human nature* 
 Their independence of bearing is their best heritage. The study of the woods and waters, 
 the haunts of the stag and lurking places of the trout is their capital, and when we hire 
 our man and his boat we get far more than at first appears. As he pulls away through 
 the chosen tour he opens up to us a vast fund of woodland lore. His stories, though ever)r 
 squirrel in the Elwoods may have heard them to the echo, are new to us. He can broil a trout 
 or flirt with brown lake-side maids with equal facility. His good nature is the infallible out- 
 come of a perfect digestion, and while he finds dollars plentiful but a short portion of the year, 
 an unprejudiced outsider must find the conviction forced home upon him that here is a man 
 who is living closer to the methods and life for which nature intended human beings than 
 any of us who are tossed upon the social seas of city existence. The Adirondack boat has 
 gained a wide reputation, and it is probably the most capacious craft for its size and ‘^heft’* 
 yet devised. The average weight is 70 lbs. The bow and stern lines are exactly alike, the cut- 
 water projecting at the water line with a graceful ram-like curve. Its profile is not unlike 
 the aboriginal birch-bark. It is made of thin pine strips lap-streaked and copper-fastened. 
 The ribs are set quite closely and are sawn from carefully selected roots of the same gen- 
 eral curve. 
 
 The oarsman sits closely into the bow and his passenger equally near the stern. The 
 oars are small, light, and stroke short, with a troublesome lap to the handles that ‘‘breaks 
 
up ” an oarsman accustomed to the broad sweep of the St. Lawrence oar, but a little practice 
 soon overcomes this peculiarity. 
 
 A yoke similar to those used in the sugar-bush is strapped with buck-thongs to the thwart 
 amidship, which supports the weight of the boat upon the shoulders at a ‘"carry.” Fashion 
 (or possibly a law with due penalties, for aught I know) has decreed that all Adirondack boats 
 should be painted dark blue outside and green within. The average distance made in a tour 
 of a week of continuous travel in such a craft will be twenty-five miles per diem. 
 
 Now you are introduced to your guide and your boat, let me inform you that both await 
 you at the landing, while you are saying "" good-bye ” for the fifth or tenth time and nervously 
 overhauling your impedimenta in dread of forgetting something. You’ll wish you had forgotten 
 about half of that plunder htiovQ you get across your first "" carry ” beyond Forked Lake. 
 
 The . initiatory miles of your tour bear little evidence of the ""roughing” which you have 
 been led to expect. 
 
 The "" Toowahloondah,” a neat steam yacht, not quite so long as its name, bears you and 
 your companions, with your respective guides and boats, away swiftly and joyously down the 
 lake. 
 
 Now, let’s take a look at our excellent maps. This is Blue Mountain Lake : this little 
 spot just on the edge on the lake region. As you look along its blue and breezy expanse to its 
 distant shores you imbibe some notion of the extent of this great wild park of the Empire State. 
 
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EAGLE LAKE OUTLET. 
 
 FOREST MONARCHS. 
 
 33 
 
Out of Blue Mountain into Eagle through a narrow and winding channel we go. Eagle 
 Lake is quickly crossed, and then comes the longer pond of Utowana. But we must not 
 forget to notice, nor will our guides^ let us do so, the. hill-side log house and barns, [where 
 Col. E. Z. C. Judson, otherwise Ned Buntline, spent a portion of his life and wrote much of 
 the romantic fiction with which his name is associated. After a varied and exciting career, 
 the author and poet met his end quietly at Stamford, at the source of the Delaware, in the 
 Shandaken Catskills. These were the stirring lines which we read from Stoddard’s book, as 
 we traversed the lake the hunter, novelist and poet loved to glorify: 
 
 “ THE EAGLE’S NEST.’ 
 
 Where the silvery gleam of the rushing stream, 
 
 Is so brightly seen on the rocks dark green, 
 Where the white pink grows by the wild red rose 
 
 And the blue bird sings till the welkin rings. 
 
 se- * 
 
 Where the rolling surf leaves the emerald turf, 
 Where the trout leaps^high at the hovering fly. 
 Where the sportive fawn crops the soft green lawn, 
 And the crow’s shrill cry bodes a tempast nigh — 
 There is my home — my wildwood home. 
 
 At the western extreme of Utowana we come to the upper end of the Marion River carry. 
 If you have your rod ready, early in the season, you can probably yank a two pound trout 
 out of the little outlet rapid below the dam while the wagon is being laden with your 
 fixin’s.” This is only 'a probability, however, bear that in mind. 
 
 We trudge away over the half mile wagon road leading to the landing on Marion River. 
 
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“ After all/’ you say , this ^ carrying ’ I’ve heard about aint very bad ; pretty good road 
 wagon to ‘tote the duffel/ as they say up here.” “ Now, just you wait, mister ; that ere wagon 
 aint goin’ along with us, nor this boulevard, neither,” replies your guide, from the recesses of 
 his boat. 
 
 At Marion River we meet the steam yacht “ Killoquah,” a trifle larger than its sister we 
 have just abandoned. 
 
 The same sturdy mariner who has brought us thus far, Capt. Hank Bradley, takes the 
 wheel. He can’t talk to you now, but when he reaches big water just ask him about his trip 
 on an ice-boat on Raquette Lake. 
 
 If there’s anywhere in the Kingdom another river as completely erratic and purposeless in 
 its wanderings through a marsh as the Marion, I only know of one, and that’s the Ocklawaha 
 in Florida. We are dizzy when we reach the opening looking out across the Raquette. 
 
 While voyaging around the many headlands of this famous lake, one is at once struck with 
 its great similarity with Winnepesaukee, in New Hampshire, and Minnetonka, near Minneapolis. 
 Like those favorite resorts it is an aggregation of bays and islands. It is full of charming 
 surprises, and a very paradise for the canoeist. 
 
 The chance voyager will be tempted to halt for a day or so at a picturesque hotel seen 
 to the left soon after leaving the Marion. It is flanked by a couple of ornate log cottages. The 
 whole is called “Under the Hemlocks.” The proprietor is Edward Bennett. 
 
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AFLOAT AND ASHORE. 
 
In addition to Under the Hemlocks,” the tourist will be made welcome at Hathorn’s 
 Forest Cottages at Golden Beach, South Bay. The structures are of solid logs, with all the 
 charming woodsey air that is so attractive to all who love out-of-door life in the woods. Stod- 
 dard's excellent photographs, to be found everywhere in the mountains, will give a good idea 
 of this charming place. The proprietor is Chauncey Hathorn. 
 
 Isaac Kenwill welcomes the voyager at the Kenwill House. This place has a capacity of 
 about forty, and is favorably located upon a charming peninsula. Mr. Kenwill, himself, has 
 long been known as an experienced woodsman, while his wife is an admirable hostess. 
 
 Blanchard’s Wigwams accommodate about twenty. Boarders are also taken at Joe Whitney’s 
 Camp on South Bay. 
 
 A new boarding cottage; and a series of rustic lodges and dining-rooms, under the general 
 title of The Antlers,” will be opened this season by Charles H. Bennett, on Sand ; or, as it is also 
 called. Constable Point ; where a delicious spring of the purest water bubbles out of the forest 
 glade, and whence a magnificent view of the lake and mountains is to be had. It is plainly in 
 view after leaving the Marion River upon the western shore of the lake. The Post Office 
 adress of all the Raquette hotels is Blue Mt. Lake, Hamilton Co., N. Y. 
 
 Happy indeed is the adventurer into these wild-wood scenes who has an invite ” to a 
 Raquette camp.” Was there ever a word so misused? 
 
 Filled with preconceived notions or rude and temporary shelters and culinary makeshifts 
 
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CAMP STOTT AND CAMP FAIRVIEW, RAQUETTE LAKE. 
 
 ^ 38 
 
encountered in other woodlands, this neophyte in Adirondack experience comes upon a shapely 
 villa of solid logs, set beneath the grand old hemlocks and pines, with accessory buildings for 
 
 cooking, dining, sleeping, the children, 
 the guides, and what not — a village in 
 rustic, touched with an elaboration of 
 interior furnishing which tell not so 
 much of wealth as of loving care and 
 exquisite taste. 
 
 It does not cost much to build a 
 bedstead of cedars with the bark pre- 
 served, but it requires taste to conceive 
 the idea. And the chimneys — the very 
 rallying points of hospitable intention — 
 wide - mouthed, massive stone affairs, 
 sheathed to the ceiling with bark and 
 buttressed with saplings; firey shrines dedicated to the gods who bring us good cheer and 
 comradeship. Camps, indeed . 
 
 Somewhere along the rocky shore, with an eye to picturesque effect, you will find the “ open 
 camp,'’ which is an institution peculiar to the Adirondacks. 
 
 2.An Interior at “The Cedars.” 
 
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•‘THE CEDARS.’ 
 
 FORKED LAKE. 
 
 CAMP PINE KNOT, RAQUETTE LAKE. 
 
It is a shed of logs and bark, lined with birch bark and heaped within, a foot or so deep 
 with fragrant cedar boughs. 
 
 This is the story-teller’s haunt o’ nights, when firey tongues creep up amid the pyre of logs 
 in front, and the shadows play fantastic tag with the red light among the silent hemlock boughs 
 d’erhead. 
 
 There are several of these “camps” upon Raquette Lake. They are owned as follows: 
 
 Echo Camp, on Long Point — A. S. Apgar, of New York ; Gamp Fair View, on Osprey 
 Island — C. W. Durant, of New York ; Camp Pine Knot, on Long Point — W. W. Durant^ of Sar- 
 atoga Springs; Gamp Stott, on Bluff Point — Frank H. Stott, of Stottville, N. Y.; Teneyck 
 Camp — James Teneyck, of Albany, N. Y.; McCarthy Cottage, on Kenwill’s Point — Mrs. Senator 
 McCarthy, of Syracuse ; Gamp Hasbrouck — Mr. Hasbrouck, of New York. 
 
 Culture and .the intention of permanency has brought with that recognition of the Supreme 
 and Beneficent Power which reigns in the forest and the city alike. This has taken shape in 
 the form of a beautiful little church and rectory set upon an islet, like a lighthouse upon this 
 remote frontier of civilization, that he who will may worship. 
 
 Regular service is conducted here throughout the summer, the attendants at the church 
 arriving and departing in boats. 
 
 The “ Killoquah ” will carry the voyager and, his retinue to the further extreme of the lake, 
 and set him down at another carry near the outlet. You make up your mind about how much 
 
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 in the leafy distance. They will come back and 
 do your “carrying,” if you want them to do so, 
 with the utmost good nature, but both economy 
 of time and self-respect urge that you should 
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of innkeepers, etc.,*' nailed to the chamber doors as the Foiked Lake House, but popularly as 
 Fletcher’s, The good tare and fragrant coffee you may get at this point upon your tour will 
 be recalled more than once before you return. 
 
 Skirting the southern margin of Forked Lake to its outlet eastward brings us to a long 
 wildwood carry,” which is a fair specimen of those we are to encounter thereafter. 
 
 ^^This is the forest primeval T How those stately lines of Longfellow’s recur to the mind as we 
 pause in the deep midst of the trail to catch our breath and rest our burdened arms. This is 
 the very home of silence and the little noises our small procession makes seem a profanation in 
 the aisles of this temple of nature, but we trudge on unheedingly, devoting our best energies to 
 the effort of keeping apace with the swift-footed guides. 
 
 There is the deep diapason of falling water ahead, and shortly we are abreast the Butter- 
 milk Falls, a snow-white cascade, below which our Adirondacks are floated, and we speed down 
 the swift little river into Long Lake, after another short but lively ‘‘carry.” 
 
 The vista of Long Lake is pleasing from the start. Mt. Seward rises in the north with 
 lesser hills in front, across which the cloud shadows drift and give them shape. Midway up the 
 lake a roomy hotel, the Sagamore, looks out toward a round and wooded island. The Sagamore 
 is the largest and newest of the several hotels upon this fine lake. A floating bridge traverses 
 the lake at this point, along which a solitary youth, suggestive of Whittier’s “ Barefoot Boy,” is 
 busy with a dozen poles set for pickerel. Some genius has, within a few years, introduced this 
 
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 voracious and destructive fish into this and its connecting 
 lakes. No self-respecting trout will occupy the same 
 territory with this fresh-water Ishmaelite, and you 
 needn’t try your fly upon Long Lake, though 
 the tributary brooks offer better luck. Long 
 Lake Village, hidden behind a ridge and 
 half a mile back from the lake, has a neat 
 little hotel, much liked by those who have 
 summered here. There are two or three 
 well-stocked stores. 
 
 A useful specialty of Long Lake 
 Village is its Indian portage baskets, 
 which are to be strapped to the shoulders 
 like a knapsack and will hold a surprising 
 quantity of duffel.” These baskets are nar- 
 
 row-mouthed and deep, and as whatever you happen to 
 want is very sure to be at the bottom, they offer a pleasant and 
 
 ' / Buttermilk Falls. frequent means of occupying the attention in transit. Here also 
 
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Just here is a point for you. A daily stage navigates between Long Lake Village and Blue 
 Mountain Lake during the season. The distance is only eight miles. Thus you can arrange to 
 have supplies or extra baggage sent over to you, or what is more likely, have some of your 
 load sent back to your anxious friends, or the friends themselves can take a little ride over to 
 meet and condole with you. Again, if your tour is limited in time, and you have already seen 
 Raquette and Forked, you can save a couple of days and take your boats at this place. 
 
 The Sagamore, the large hotel already mentioned, accommodates 150, is newly and elegantly 
 furnished, and the rates are $12.00 to $20.00 per week, or $3.00 per day. Address E. Butler. 
 
 The Lake House, Mrs. C. H. Kellogg, has a capacity of 50. Rates, $10.50 per week ; $2.00 per 
 diem. Grove House, David Helms, holds 30. Rates, $8.00 to $io.oo per week ; $2.00 per diem. Long 
 Lake House, Helms & Smith, capacity 20. Rates, $10.00 to $12.00 per week ; $2.00 per day. Austen's 
 Cottage, Henry Austen, accommodates 15. Terms, $7.00 to $10.00 per week ; $1.75 per day. 
 
 The Island House, near the foot of the lake, is managed by Wm. Kellogg, accommodates 12. 
 Rates, $10.50 per week, or $2.00 per day. 
 
 This particular portion of the world does not exactly flow with milk and honey, but there 
 is a marked exudation of maple sap and spruce gum, the latter being another active specialty. Its 
 use is widespread among the natives, as it is considered a great promoter of appetite. Now, one 
 would think that almost anything which would confine the appetite within reasonable bounds 
 would be regarded as a distinct blessing in this particular section. No hotel man can prosper 
 
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around here who depends upon a profit from his table, while the promiscuous distribution of a 
 couple of pounds of the commodity means swift and certain ruin. Its popu- 
 larity is said to be great among the young people, who relieve the embarrassment 
 of an awkward hiatus in conversation by its constant mastication. 
 
 Long Lake is more a wide and peaceful river than a lake. It is in every 
 sense of the word a beautiful sheet of water, and the summer retreats of the 
 Rev. Dr. Duryea, of Boston, and those of Senator Platt, and others, perched 
 upon its shores, speak volumes for its attractiveness. 
 
 Long Lake extends its attenuated form thirteen miles, and then we come 
 to another picturesque link in the Ra- 
 
 quette River, here reinforced by the 
 waters of Cold river draining the slope 
 of Mt. Seward. Mile after mile we go, the 
 swift current giving us double impetus, 
 and supper at Duckett’s seems assured 
 This is a surpassingly lovely water-lane. 
 Each over-reaching bough, gaunt and 
 withered cedar spine, and trailing vine 
 is mirrored in the still but shifting 
 
 Along the Raquette. 
 
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HOTEL SAGAMORE, LONG LAKE. 
 
WEST SHORE RAILROAD, 
 
 New York Central ^ Hudson River R.R. Co. Lessee^ 
 
 Superbly Built and Magnificently Equipped Double Track Steel Rail Trunk Line along the west shore of the world- 
 famed Hudson River, and through the Beautiful Mohawk Valley. 
 
 The popular route for business and pleasure travel between New York, Albany, Buffalo and Niagara Falls. 
 Forming, in connection with the famous Hoosac Tunnel Line and the popular Great Western Division of the Grand 
 Trunk Railway, the shortest route between Boston, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis. 
 
 Magnificent Sleeping Cars are run regularly between Boston and Chicago ; Boston and Detroit ; Boston and 
 St. Louis; New York and Chicago; New York, Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Detroit; New York, Utica, Syracuse and 
 Rochester. 
 
 • 
 
 Palace Drawing-Room Cars will be run during summer months between Boston and Syracuse ; New York and 
 Buffalo ; New York and Albany ; New York and Saratoga ; New York and Caldwell (Lake George) ; New York, 
 Phoenicia and Summit in Catskill Mountains ; Long Branch and Saratoga. 
 
 Direct All-Rail and ortly Drawing-Room Car Line to the Catskill Mountains. 
 
 Most Direct and Quickest Route to Lakes Mohonk and Minnewaska. 
 
 Trains on West Shore Railroad arrive at and depart from up -town station foot of West 426. St., and down-town station 
 foot of Jay St., New York, and at Jersey City station of Penn. Railroad, making direct connection for Philadelphia, 
 Baltimore, Washington, Long Branch and all New Jersey coast resorts, avoiding transfer through New York. 
 
 For information not obtainable at offices of West Shore Railroad or oflSces of connecting lines, address — 
 
 C. E. LAMBERT, General Passenger Agents 
 
 5 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York. 
 
surface. It is so like the pellucid run that drains the great Floridian SilVer spring, that one almost 
 expects to see some drowsy saurian roll off in the stream or glide away into the hammock, but 
 instead we only scare away down the river a noisy picket guard of ducks. There is a carry ” 
 at Raquette Falls and a rude hotel along here, known to fhe world as Mother Johnson's. 
 
 Presently there is a transformation. Away down the river the lumbermen a few years ago 
 built a dam to hold this bright little river in check, the waters flowed back upon the forest 
 and sapped its life. Fire sweeps away the giants of the wood, as it passes by, but it prepares 
 
 the ground for a new growth. Water makes an eternal graveyard, The balance of the way 
 
 to the Adirondack carry " is through a spectral army of drowned hemlocks. 
 
 A bunch of little lakes appear upon the maps as Stopy Ponds, but are sometimes called the 
 Spectacles, 
 
 John Duckett has divided his time for a generation between planting and harvesting a welL 
 cleared farm and running his hotel, the Hiawatha House, with a good share of attention to the 
 deer by way of variety. You may thank John Duckett and his sons, excellent guides all of 
 them, for the horns of the buck you carry back to the outer world as a trophy of your rifle, but 
 you must thank Mrs. Duckett, and her comely daughter, who bring you trout and coffee, for 
 the good cheer indoors. Mr. Duckett has a number of keen hounds, and if you really want to 
 try your hand at the deer you are commended to his services. 
 
 It is a mile carry ” to the upper Saranac. Corey’s place stands upon the hill at the end. 
 
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a long log structure of two floors and abundant piazzas. Our particular tour does not include 
 the Saranacs, but the way is straight and easy through to Paul Smith’s, and thence out by rail 
 to the line of of the Odgensburg & Lake Champlain Railroad at Moira. 
 
 The Saranacs are not yet invaded by the vicious pickerel (of, more properly, and trout 
 are therefore plenty. 
 
 Leaving Duckett’s we follow the Raquette through the cemetery of drowned trees a dozen 
 miles, and dine at the foot of Tupper Lake (Mt. Morris House). Uncle ‘‘Mart” Moody sold out 
 last year and had got the lumber together half a mile above for a new house where his friends will 
 probably find him, when they need either ’his services or his philosophy. 
 
 Tupper is as full of islands as a country belle’s face with freckles. Near its head is the 
 widely known Tupper Lake House, which is run by a former invalid city-hotel man, Mr. W. K. 
 McClure. It is only second to the great Prospect House in the surprising completeness of its 
 comforts, an oasis of luxury in the wilderness. Half a mile away Bog River plunges over a 
 ledge, like a wilful suicide, straight into the lake. We put our Adirondacks into the stream just 
 above and are away once more through glades unharmed by human touch. The chances are 
 good of catching a glimpse of a deer, especially if you don’t happen to have a gun. 
 
 It is curious how many strange and unexpected creatures a man will come upon when he 
 has left his gun at home. 
 
 Along here you may begin to brace yourself for a “Two-mile carry ” which intervenes before 
 
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we may float upon the placid bosom of 
 Little Tupper. While we are sorting out 
 the several ‘‘ traps ” which are to be lugged 
 over the snake-path ahead, our guide, while 
 tying his oars, relates a dismal tale of a 
 woodsman who blew his head off with a 
 gun right here a few years back. 
 
 An hour later we come down to the 
 gravelly shore of Round Pond, filled with 
 the same devout thankfulness that is credited to De Soto and his copper-fastened army when 
 they first looked upon the Mississippi. 
 
 An outlet leads to Little Tupper, also to a supper and bed at Pliny Robbins’ Little Tupper 
 House. 
 
 The still lake is furrowed and tossed into circling ripples by myriad speckled trout catching 
 their food. It is too late to tempt them with a worm or fly ; but our guides have landed plenty o 
 them for breakfast before we return from the realm of dreams. 
 
 No tourist who follows the round trip which these pages outline will have cause to complain 
 of monotony or want of exercise during the day’s voyage which follows his departure from Pliny 
 Robbins, and which terminates at Forked Lake. It is as varied as a woman’s whims. The 
 
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longest portage is three miles and the shortest, that between Carry Pond and Little Forked 
 Lake, the last of the series. The chain of ponds scattered like pearls along our course — Bottle, 
 Sutton, Carry^ etc.' — are all deeply set in the forest, and full of fish. Bottle Pond, pictorially 
 considered, is an , artistic success, while its name, soothingly suggestive to him who hath a proper 
 commissary, will always be attractive to the sportsman and wayfarer. 
 
 At Fletcher’s, upon Forked Lake, we have completed the loop in our tour, and may look at 
 our dishevelled,: but sun-browned selves in the glass. The inspection ought to be a. pleasing 
 surprise. 
 
 If you are tired you won’t be so in the morning. These jaunts beget unsuspected endur- 
 ance, and the guides will tell you that hundreds of ladies pass over the same route every sum- 
 mer and enjoy it, toe 
 
 WESTWARD, VIA THE FULTON CHAIN. 
 
 ; A short. distance to the south of Raquette Lake is Eighth Lake, reached by the Brown Tract 
 Inlet and a portage, which is the key to an outlet westward to Boonville upon the Eastern Divi- 
 sion of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad. 
 
 The way leads along Eighth, Seventh, Sixth, Fifth, Fourth, Third, Second and First Lakes. 
 
 These lakes are all celebrated for the plentitude of the fish, and are either connected by 
 
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inlets or short portages. These are collectively known as the Fulton 
 Chain. Wallace refers to this series in the following quotation : 
 
 Where, within the limits of the Adirondack region, can be found a brighter array of 
 glittering links than the Fulton chain ? Where a much lovelier sheet than Smith’s Lake ? 
 Headley manifested his true appreciation of this section when he wrote the fpllowing : 
 ‘‘The Eight lakes connected by streams, and form a group of surpassing beauty. 
 They vary, both in size and shape, each with a different frame-work of hills, and the 
 change is ever from beauty to beauty. 
 
 “There they repose like a bright chain in the forest, the links connected by silver 
 bars. You row slowly through one to its outlet, and then entering a clear stream over- 
 hung with bushes, or fringed with lofty trees, seem to be suddenly absorbed by the 
 wilderness. At length, however, you emerge as from a cavern, and lo ! an untroubled 
 lake, with all its variations of coasts, timber and islands, greets the eye. 
 
 “Through this you also pass like one in a dream, wondering why such beauty is 
 wasted where the eye of man rarely beholds it.” 
 
 The Forge House is a favorite half-way hotel upon this tour. 
 
 The water tour may be abandoned either here or at Arnold’s (two 
 and a half miles beyond by the road) in favor of the buckboard which is to convey you out 
 through the ^‘John Brown Tract” to civilization at Boonville, a further journey of : twenty- five 
 miles. The entire trip from the Raquette out is about fifty-two miles. 
 
 A Half Hour’s Trouting. 
 
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As a matter of fact, by far the larger portion of travelers over this route come in at Boonville. 
 
 An effort will be made in coming seasons to popularize this route betwen the Black River 
 and headwaters of the Hudson, via Blue Mountain Lake, with tourists and summer residents 
 returning from the Thousand Islands. 
 
 Indee-ed, there seems ample reason to expect a liberal response to the energy and enterprise 
 which is now engaged in improving the trails and waterways that intervene. 
 
 This trip can be comfortably made in three days^either way between Boonville and Saratoga, 
 with good stopping places at night. 
 
 FROM NEW YORK TO THE MOUNTAINS. 
 
 . It is due to the reader to suggest the several routes by which the connection with the Adi- 
 rondack Railway at Saratoga may be reached. For special hotel information see pages follow- 
 ing the time-tables. 
 
 Leaving early in the morning by rail over either the New York Central & Hudson River 
 R. R. or the West Shore, connection is made at Albany with the north-bound train over the 
 Delaware & Hudson Canal Co.'s Railroad, the same cars going through from the metropolis to 
 Saratoga. A through sleeping car also leaves New York at 6.30 p. m. over the former route, arriving 
 at North Creek early in the morning, and Blue Mountain Lake in time for early dinner. 
 
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Many travelers will prefer the pleasant evening voyage up the Hudson upon one of the 
 uperb steamers of the People's Line to Albany or Citizen's Line to Troy, with a restful night 
 and good connectioii with the train for Saratoga in the morning. 
 
 The Day Line steamers are also very popular with the traveling public, and trains connect 
 with them as well as with the other lines for Saratoga. 
 
 TABLE OF STATIONS AND DISTANCES, ADIRONDACK R. R. 
 
 Distance. 
 
 Station. 
 
 Distance. 
 
 Station. 
 
 Distance. 
 
 Station 
 
 • • • 
 
 SARATOGA. 
 
 13 
 
 SOUTH CORINTH 
 
 30 
 
 STONY CREEK 
 
 
 DEL. & HUD. DEPOT, 
 
 17 
 
 JESSUP’S LANDING 
 
 36 
 
 THURMAN 
 
 
 JUNCTION. 
 
 
 
 
 
 • • • 
 
 SACANDAGA RIVER 
 
 44 
 
 THE GLEN 
 
 6 
 
 GREENFIELD. 
 
 22 
 
 HADLEY (Luzerne) 
 
 50 
 
 RIVERSIDE 
 
 lO 
 
 KING’S. 
 
 27i 
 
 QUARRY SWITCH 
 
 58 
 
 NORTH CREEK 
 
 For any further information apply at 
 
 Office of THE ADIRONDACK RAILWAY COMPANY, 20 Nassau Street, New York, 
 
 Or to C. E. DURKEE, Superintendent, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 
 
 Send 4C stamp for additional copies of this book to either of the above. 
 
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SMRONDSCK RfJLWSY COMPANY EXCURSIONS, 
 
 Saratoga to Jessup’s Landing and Return (good for one day only), - - - - - - $i oo 
 
 Saratoga to Hadley (Luzerne) and Return (good for one day only), - - - - - t2S 
 
 Saratoga to Schroon Lake and Return , (good for four days only), - - - - - ~5 5o 
 
 Saratoga to Blue Mountain Lake and Return (good for ten days only), - - - - - 825 
 
 Saratoga to Raquette Lake or Forked Lake carry and Return (good for ten days only), - - - 10 25 
 
 Hadley to Schroon Lake and Return (good for four days only), ----- - 4 25 
 
 Hadley to Blue Mountain Lake and Return (good for ten days only), - - - - - 725 
 
 Hadley to Saratoga and Return (good for one day only), - - - - - - - 125 
 
 LAKE LUZERNE EXCURSION. 
 
 ONE DAY EXCURSION TICKETS TO 
 
 HADLEY (station for luzerne) AND RETURN, 
 
 Are on Sale at all Ticket Offices in Saratoga, at the very low rate of $1.25. 
 
 Leave Saratoga .... 
 
 
 1. 15 a.m. 
 
 10. 10 a.m. 
 
 3.10 p.m. 
 
 Arrive Hadley (Station for Luzerne) 
 
 
 2.45 “ 
 
 11.23 “ 
 
 4. II “ 
 
 Leave Hadley , 
 
 
 7.23 a.m. 
 
 II. 15 a.m. 
 
 4.33 p.m. 
 
 Arrive Saratoga. 
 
 
 8.25 “ 
 
 12.25 “ 
 
 5.45 “ 
 
 The Game and Fish Dinners furnished at 
 
 the excellent hotels in 
 
 Luzerne are 
 
 renowned the world over. 
 
 Beautiful 
 
 drives about Luzerne, and river and mountain scenery unsurpassed. 
 
SIN SND 
 
 h 
 
 N 
 
 XCURSION. 
 
 TICKETS GOOD FOR TEN DAYS. 
 
 1® ]^0:(qu®ffe ®:^d. 
 
 A fine opportunity to tourists desirous ot visiting tliese fieautiful lakes, so 
 
 justly called tlie “GEMS OF THE ADIRONHAOKS.” 
 
 TIME TABLE AND DESCRIPTION OF ROUTE. 
 
 LEAVE SARATOGA at lo.io a.m. via Adirondack Railway Co. ; arrive North Creek i.oc p.m. ; leave North Creek (first-class four and six 
 horse Concord Coaches and easy riding covered Buckboards) at i.io p.m., dining at North River (5 miles from North Creek) and arriving at Cedar 
 River about 5 p.m., and at Blue Mountain Lake about 7 p.m. Next morning leave Blue Mountain Lake at 9 a.m., on steamer “ Towahloonda,” pass- 
 ing through Blue Mountain Lake, Eagle Lake, Utowana River and Utowana Lake, to Marion River carry, taking the steamboat “ Killoquah ” at 
 the landing on Marion River for points on the “ Queen of American Lakes,” the beautiful Raquette. Steamboats leave passengers at Bennett’s 
 at 11.40 a.m.. Kenwill’s at 11.55 a.m., and arrive Forked Lake carry at 12.45 p.m., in season for early dinner at Forked Lake Hotel 
 
 RETURNING: 
 
 LEAVE FORKED LAKE CARRY at 2.40 p.m. by same route, arriving at Blue Mountain Lake at 6.35 p.m. Next day leave Blue Mountain 
 Lake at 7 a.m., and arrive at North Creek at 2.50 p.m. ; leave North Creek at 3 00 p.m., arriving at Saratoga at 5.45 p.m. The steamboats “ Towah- 
 1 oonda ” and ” Killoquah ” were built expressly for carrying passengers on these lakes, and are roomy, comfortable and perfectly safe. The 
 “ Killoquah” will land and pick up passengers on Raquette Lake at Bennett s, Kenwill’s and Forked Lake carry. 
 
 57 
 
SCHROON LAKE EXCURSION TICKETS 
 
 To Schroon Lake and return, good for four days, can be purchased at all ticket offices in Saratoga at the low rate of $5*5^* 
 Holders of tickets can stop over, if they choose, at Lake Luzerne, and at any other point on the route, provided they 
 use their tickets through to destination within four days from date of sale. Visitors should not leave Saratoga without 
 making a trip to these beautiful lakes. 
 
 TIME-TABLE BETWEEN SARATOGA AND SCHROON LAKE. 
 
 
 SLEEPING 
 
 CAR. 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 
 
 Leave Saratoga (Adirondack R’y) 
 
 Arrive Riverside 
 
 Leave “ (stages) 
 
 Arrive Pottersville (dine) 
 
 I. IS a.m. 
 4-35 “ 
 
 10. 10 a.m. 
 12.40 p.m. 
 12.SS “ 
 2.10 “ 
 
 3.14 p.m. 
 
 ..... “ 
 5-50 
 
 6.00 “ 
 
 7.10 “ 
 
 i 
 
 Leave Pottersville (steamboat) 
 
 Arrive Adirondack 
 
 “ Lake View Point 
 
 “ Schroon Lake Village. 
 
 3.00 p.m. 
 
 3.2s 
 
 3-40 , 
 
 4.1S 
 
 7.30 p m. 
 7.40 “ 
 
 7. so “ 
 8.3s “ 
 
 Saratoga to Hadley (Luzerne) 
 
 “ Riverside 
 
 “ North Creek 
 
 Luzerne to Lake George 
 
 Riverside to Chestertown 
 
 “ Pottersville 
 
 Pottersville to Lake View . 
 
 “ Adirondack 
 
 “ Schroon Lake Village . . . 
 
 North Creek to Olmsteadville 
 
 Aiden Lair 
 
 “ Newcomb 
 
 “ Tahawus 
 
 “ Adirondack Iron Works. . . 
 
 “ Long Lake 
 
 “ North River 
 
 “ Thirteenth Pond 
 
 Indian River 
 
 “ Indian Lake 
 
 “ Cedar River 
 
 TABLE OF DISTANCES. 
 
 MILES 
 22 
 50 
 • 58 
 
 10 
 
 . 6 
 7 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 22 
 
 27 
 
 37 
 
 44 
 
 4 
 
 8 
 
 15 
 
 16 
 20 
 
 MILE S 
 
 North Creek to Lewey Lake 
 
 “ Chain Lakes 
 
 “ Blue Mountain Lake 
 
 Blue Mountain Lake to Eagle Lake 
 
 “ “ “ Utowana Lake 
 
 “ “ “ Marion River Carry 
 
 “ “ ‘‘ Raquette Lake, Bennett’s 
 
 “ “ “ “ Kenwills ... 
 
 “ “ “ “ “ Hathorns 
 
 “ Forked Lake Carry .. 
 
 ‘‘ “ Forked Lake 
 
 “ “ “ Little Forked Lake . ... 
 
 “ “ “ Brown’s Tract Pond 
 
 “ ‘‘ “ Eighth Lake, Fulton Chain 
 
 “ “ “ Long Lake Village, via Raquette and 
 
 Forked Lake 
 
 “ Long Lake Village, via Highway 
 
 “ “ “ Brandreth Lake . 
 
 22 
 
 22 ’’ 
 
 7 
 
 1.3 
 
 15 
 
 IS 
 
 21 
 
 21 ^ 
 
 23 ^ 
 
 17 
 
 17 
 
 17 
 
 31 
 
 10 
 
 19 
 
 58 
 
TABLE OF DISTANCES. 
 
 Excursions Blue Mountain Lake to Saranac Lake and to Tupper’s Lake and Return. 
 
 Distance from 
 Blue Mountain Lake. 
 
 Distance from 
 Blue Mountain Lake, 
 
 Blue Mountain Lake, through Eagle and Utowana Lake to 
 
 Marion River carry 
 
 Over carry 
 
 Through Raquette Lake to Forked Lake carry 
 
 Over carry 
 
 Through Forked Lake to carry on Raquette River 
 
 O ver carry ... 
 
 Raquette River to Butler, with Falls carry 
 
 Carry around Falls 
 
 Raquette River to carry .. . 
 
 Over carry to Long Lake 
 
 Through Long Lake to Kellogg’s 
 
 Kellogg’s, through Long Lake to Mother Johnson’s carry. . . 
 
 Around carry 
 
 Through Raquette River to Indian carry (Duckett’s) 
 
 Across Indian carry to Saranac Lake (Cory’s) 
 
 Via Lake to Bartlett’s 
 
 Bartlett’s, via Lake to Martin’s 
 
 Bartlett’s, via Lake to Prospect House 
 
 MILES, 
 
 
 6 V 3 
 
 12 
 
 18K 
 
 K 
 
 18^ 
 
 4 
 
 22% 
 
 
 24^ 
 
 Ks 
 
 25^ 
 
 
 265^ 
 
 K 
 
 27 
 
 4 
 
 . 31 
 
 17 
 
 48 ^ 
 
 
 49 % 
 
 10 
 
 59 % 
 
 I 
 
 6oV2 
 
 2 
 
 62V2 
 
 12 
 
 74 % 
 
 8 
 
 70% 
 
 19 
 
 loK 
 
 10 
 
 57 
 
 Prospect House (Saranac Lake) to Bloomingdale 
 
 “ “ to Paul Smith’s by water 
 
 Bloomingdale “ “ road 
 
 Paul Smith’s to Malone on O. & L. C. R.R 
 
 Blue Mtn. Lake to Mother Johnson’s carry 
 
 From Mother Johnson’s carry, through Raquette River to 
 
 Moody’s, Big Tupper Lake 18 
 
 Through Big Tupper Lake to Tupper Lake House 7 
 
 “ streams and carrys to Round Pond 
 
 “ Round Pond ; 
 
 Over carry to Little Tupper Lake i 
 
 Through Little Tupper Lake 6 
 
 Over carry to Rock Pond 2 
 
 “ “ Bottle Pond 3 
 
 To Cary Pond 2 
 
 Carry to Little Forked Lake i 
 
 Little Forked Lake to Steamboat Landing 6 
 
 U 
 
 Blue Mountain Lake . 
 
 MILES. 
 
 81 
 
 905^ 
 
 136 
 48 
 
 66 
 , 73 
 
 4n 77H 
 80^ 
 
 81K 
 87H 
 
 92 K 
 94 ^ 
 
 95X 
 
 101% 
 18% 120 
 
 Depot Saratoga Springs 
 
 Hadlejr (Luzerne) 
 
 Riverside 
 
 North Creek 
 
 North River 
 
 Rock River Dam 
 
 Blue Mountain Lake 
 
 Raquette Lake 
 
 Forked Lake 
 
 Eighth Lake 
 
 Beach’s Lake 
 
 TABLE OF ELEVATIONS. 
 
 FEET ABOVE TIDE WATER. 
 
 306 
 
 615 
 
 875 
 
 990 
 
 1,041 
 
 1,760 
 
 1,800 
 
 1,774 
 
 1,753 
 
 1,803 
 
 1,861 
 
 Upper Saranac Lake 
 Lower “ “ 
 
 Tapper’s Lake 
 
 Indian Lake 
 
 Long “ 
 
 Saranac Lake 
 
 Schroon Lake 
 
 Thirteenth Pond 
 
 Tupper Lake, Big 
 
 “ Little.. 
 
 
 FEET ABOVE TIDE WATER. 
 
 •• 1,567 
 
 • 1,527 
 
 . 1,500 
 
 • 1,705 
 
 1,614 
 
 • 1,539 
 
 . 830 
 
 1,953 
 
 • 1,554 
 
 . 1,728 
 
 59 
 
(subject to change.) 
 
 New York 
 
 to 
 
 Hadley (Luzerne) 
 
 via 
 
 
 
 44 4 4 
 
 4w 
 
 4 4 
 
 
 4 4 4 4 
 
 4 4 
 
 (4 
 
 
 4 4 4 4 
 
 4 4 
 
 4 4 
 
 44 
 
 Schroon Lake 
 
 44 
 
 44 
 
 4 4 
 
 4 4 4 
 
 4( 
 
 44 
 
 4 4 
 
 44 4 4 
 
 44 
 
 44 
 
 4 4 
 
 4 4 4 4 
 
 4 4 
 
 44 
 
 44 
 
 Blue Mtn. Lake 
 
 4 4 
 
 N. y. C. & H. R. R. R., or 
 
 West Shore R.R $515 
 
 Day Line Steamers 4.20 
 
 People’s Line Steamers.... 3.70 
 
 Citizens’ “ “ 3.50 
 
 N. Y. C. «& H R. R. R., or 
 
 West Shore R. R 7.90 
 
 Day Line Steamers 6.95 
 
 People’s Line Steamers. . - 6.45 
 
 Citizens’ “ ... 6.25 
 
 N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R., or 
 West Shore R. R 9.45 
 
 New York to Blue Mtn. Lake via Day Line Steamers 
 
 “ ‘‘ “ People’s Line Steamers 
 
 “ Raquette Lake “ N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R., or 
 
 West Shore R. R 
 
 “ “ “ “ “ Day Line Steamers 
 
 , “ “ “ “ “ People’s Line Steamers .. 
 
 “ “ “ “ “ Citizens’ “■ “ 
 
 Boston to Hadley (Luzerne) 
 
 “ “ Schroon Lake . . 
 
 ‘‘ “ Blue Mountain Lake 
 
 “ “ Raquette Lake 
 
 $8.45 
 
 7-95 
 
 7.75 
 
 10.9s 
 
 9-95 
 
 9.70 
 
 9*25 
 
 6.15 
 
 8.9a 
 
 10,40 
 
 11.65 
 
 Via Pennsylvania or Philadelphia & Reading^ R. R. from PHILADELPHIA AND POINTS SOUTH to New York, N. Y. C. & H. R. 
 R. R. ; or West Shore R. R. to Troy; or Albany, D. & H. C. Co. to Saratoga, Adirondack Railway, Stages and Steamboats to 
 destination. 
 
 FROM TO LUZERNE. TO SCHROON LAKE. TO BLUE MTN. LAKE. TO RAQUETTE LAKE. 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa $7-65 $10.40 $11.90 $13 40 
 
 Baltimore, Md 10.45 13-20 14-70 16.20 
 
 Washington, D.C 11.65 14.40 iS*9‘^ i7-4o 
 
 Via Day Line Steamers New York to Albany. 
 
 from to LUZERNE. TO SCHROON LAKE. TO BLUE MTN. LAKE. TO RAQUETTE LAKE.. 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa 
 
 $6.70 
 
 $9.45 
 
 $10.95 
 
 $12.45 
 
 Baltimore, Md 
 
 • • . . 9*5^ 
 
 12,25 
 
 13-75 
 
 15-25 
 
 Washington, D.C 
 
 10.70 
 
 13-45 
 
 Via People’s Line Steamers’ 
 
 14.9 
 
 New York to Albany. 
 
 16.45 
 
 FROM 
 
 TO LUZERNE. 
 
 TO SCHROON LAKE. 
 
 TO BLUE MTN. LAKE, 
 
 TO RAQUETTE LAKE 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa 
 
 . . $6.20 
 
 $8.95 
 
 $10.45 
 
 $11.95 
 
 Baltimore, Md 
 
 9.00 
 
 11-75 
 
 13.25 
 
 14-75 
 
 Washington, D.C 
 
 . . . 10.20 
 
 12.95 
 
 Via Citizen’s Line Steamers 
 
 14-45 
 
 New York to Troy, 
 
 15-95 
 
 FROM 
 
 TO LUZERNE. 
 
 TO SCHROON LAKE. 
 
 TO BLUE MTN. LAKE. 
 
 TO RAQUETTE LAKE, 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa 
 
 $6,00 
 
 $8.75 
 
 $10.25 
 
 $11.75 
 
 Baltimore, Md 
 
 . . . . 8.80 
 
 11-55 
 
 13-05 
 
 14-55 
 
 Washington, D.C 
 
 lO.OO 
 
 12.75 
 
 14.25 
 
 15-75 
 
 60 
 
EXCURSION RATES FROM NEW YORK. 
 
 (subject to change.) 
 
 Via N. Y. C. & H. R. iv. R. 
 or West Shore R. R. 
 
 Via N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. 
 or West Shore R. R. 
 
 Via N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. 
 or West Shore R. R. 
 
 D. & H. C. Co’s. R. R. 
 
 Via N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. 
 or West Shore R. R. 
 
 D. & H. C. Cj’s. R. R. 
 
 Via N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. 
 D. & H. C. Co’s. R. R. 
 Adirondack Railway. 
 
 To Lake Luzerne, N. Y. 
 
 to Troy. Del. & Hudson Canal Co. R. R. - to Saratoga. 
 
 “ Albany. Adirondack Railway Co. - “ Hadley. 
 
 Returning by same route, $9.50, 
 
 To Riverside, N. Y. 
 
 to Troy. D. & H. C. Co’s. R. R. - - - - to Saratoga. 
 
 “ Albany. Adirondack Railway - - - - “ Riverside. 
 
 Returning by same route, $11.50. 
 
 To Schroon Lake, N. Y. 
 
 to Troy. 
 
 “ Albany. 
 Saratoga. 
 
 Ad irondackJRail way 
 
 Stages 
 
 Steamers 
 
 Returning by same route, $15.00. 
 
 to Riverside. 
 
 “ Pottersville. 
 
 “ Schroon Lake. 
 
 To Blue Mountain Lake, N. Y. 
 
 to Ttoy. Adirondack Railway - - - - to North Creek. 
 
 “ Albany. Blue Mtn. Lake Stage & Transportation Co. (stages) “ Blue Mtn.Lake. 
 
 “ Saratoga. 
 
 Returning by same route, $16.25. 
 
 To Forked Lake Carry, N. Y. 
 
 to Troy. Blue Mtn, Lake Stage & Transportation Co. 
 
 “ Saratoga. Blue Mtn. Lake Steamboat Co. 
 
 “ North Creek. 
 
 Returning by same route, $18.75. 
 
 6r 
 
 to Blue Mtn. Lake. 
 “ Forked Lake 
 
 Carry 
 
SUMMER EXCURSION RATES. 
 
 (SUBJ'ECT TO CHANGE.) 
 
 Via N. Y. 
 
 Philadelphia & Reading or Pennsylvania R. R. 
 N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. - - - - 
 
 West Shore R. R. - _ _ - _ 
 
 Baltimore, Md . 
 Philadelphia, Pa 
 
 To Luzerne, N. Y. 
 
 C. & H. R. R, R.) or West Shore R. R., in both directions. 
 
 - to New York. Delaware & Hudson R. R. 
 
 ‘‘ Troy. Adirondack Railway - - - 
 
 “ Albany. 
 
 Returning by same route. 
 
 •X'23:S2.0TJ<3-23: ZES-.A.'TBS- 
 
 $19.10 
 
 13-50 
 
 Richmond, Va 
 
 Washington, D. C 
 
 Baltimore, Md . . 
 Philadelphia, Pa 
 
 Via same 
 Stages, 7 miles to 
 
 To Schroon Lake, N. Y. 
 
 route to Saratoga and Adirondack Railway to Riverside. 
 Pottersville. _ - - - Steamers, 9 miles to Schroon Lake. 
 
 Returning by same route. 
 
 Timeo'cro-iEa: 
 
 $24.60 I Richmond, Va. .. 
 
 1900 I Washington, D.C 
 
 to Saratoga. 
 
 “ Hadley, (Luz.) 
 
 $28.50 
 
 21.50 
 
 . $34.00 
 . 27.00 
 
 Via N. Y- C. & H. R. R. R., 
 
 Pennsylvania R. R. 
 
 N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. 
 
 West Shore R. R. - - - 
 
 To Blue Mountain Lake, N. Y. 
 
 or West Shore R. R. in both directions ; or Philadelphia & Reading R.R. 
 
 to New York. 
 “ Troy. 
 
 “ Albany. 
 
 Delaware & Hudson R. R. 
 Adirondack i^ilway 
 Stages, 30 miles - 
 
 to 
 
 ik 
 
 Saratoga. 
 
 North Creek. 
 
 Blue Mtn, Lake 
 
 Return iner bv same route. 
 
 
 Baltimore, Md 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa 
 
 Via New York and People’s Line Steamers in 
 “ Citizen’s Line Steamers, 
 
 “ Day Line Steamers, 
 
 Richmond, Va.. . 
 
 Washington, D.C 
 
 both directions, returning by same route, $2.60 less than above rates. 
 
 $25.85 
 
 20.25 
 
 $35-25 
 
 28.25 
 
 62 
 
Lve. Washington 11.15 a.m. 
 
 “ Baltimore 12.18 p.m. 
 
 “ Philadelphia -^.oo “ 
 
 Lve. Boston 3 00 p.m. 
 
 “ “ viaB.‘& A. orFitch.R.R 
 
 4.15 p.m. 11.20 p.m. 
 
 5.15 “ 12.35 a.m. 
 
 7.00 p.m 
 KX30 “ 
 
 6.30 p.m. II. 15 p.m. 
 
 _ .0 “ 
 
 g.oo a.m. 
 
 12.55 
 
 10. IQ 
 
 2.38 a.m. 11.05 
 8.25 “ 1. 15 
 
 8.25 “ 
 
 9*50 “ 
 
 1. 15 p.m. 
 1.25 “ 
 2-45 “ 
 
 6.50 a m. 
 
 7.^5 “ 
 
 I 50 p.m. 
 
 2.40 
 
 3.10 p.m. 
 3.58 ;; 
 
 4.11 
 
 5-30 “ 
 
 5*52 “ 
 
 8.40 
 
 Lve. New Yorl^ 6.30 p.m. 
 
 “ Peekskill 7.48 “ 
 
 “ Garrisons 8.06 “ 
 
 ‘‘ Poughkeepsie g.05 
 
 “ Albany ii 40 “ 
 
 “ Troy 11.50 “ 
 
 Arr. Saratoga 1.05 a.m. 
 
 Lve. Schenectady . 
 
 Arr. Saratoga 
 
 Lve. Saratoga. • . • i.i 5 a.m. 10. 10 a.m. 
 
 “ Jessups Landing 2.20 ii.oo “ 
 
 “ Hadley (Luzerne) 2.40 “ 11.19 “ 
 
 “ Riverside 4.20 “ 12.37 
 
 “ North Creek 4.45 “ i.oo “ 
 
 “ Schroon Lake 925 “ 4.15 “ 
 
 “ Blue Mountain Lake 1.15 pm. 7.15 “ 
 
 Connections from New York l>y Night Boats on Hudson Biver. 
 
 PEOPLE’S LINE. — From Pier 41, North River, daily, except Sun- 
 day, at 6.00 p.m., arriving at Albany at 6.00 a.m. Immediate fast 
 steamboat train to Saratoga and Lake George. 
 
 CITIZEN’S LINE. — From Pier 44 , North River, daily, except 
 Saturday, at 6.00 p.m., arriving at Troy at 6.30 a.m. 
 
 o 
 
 connections from new YORK. 
 
 THE HUDSON RIVER BY DAYLIGHT. 
 Steamers “ALBANY” and “CHAUNCEY YIBBABD.” 
 Leave New York daily, ’except Sunday, as follows : 
 
 From Pier 39, North River, foot of Vestry Street 8 40 a.m. 
 
 From Pier foot of 22d St., North River .... 9 00 “ 
 
 Arrive Albany 6 10 p.m. 
 
 Lve. Blue Mtn. Lake .. 
 
 “ Schroon Lake 6.45 a. 
 
 North Creek 6.00 a.m. 
 
 “ Riverside 6.20 “ 9.55 ' 
 
 “ Hadley (Luzerne) 7.30 “ 11.15 ' 
 
 “ Jessups Landing 7.43 “ 11.31 ' 
 
 Arr. Saratoga 8.3 0 “ 12.20 p 
 
 Lve. Saratoga 8 40 a.m. 12.50 p 
 
 Arr. Troy 9.40 “ 2.05 ‘ 
 
 “ Albany 9.50 “ 2.15 ' 
 
 Lve. Troy via H. R. R. R 9.45 a.m. 
 
 “ Albany “ “ 9.50 “■ 
 
 “ Poughkeepsie via H. R. R. R. . . . 12.00 m, 
 Arr. New York 2.12 p.m. 
 
 Lve. Saratoga 8.55 a.m. 
 
 Arr. Scheneccady — q.40 “ 
 
 “ New York via West Shore R. R.. 3.05 p.m. 
 
 Lve. New York via Penn. R. R 3.40 p m. 
 
 Arr. Philadelphia 5.55 “ 
 
 “ Baltimore... 8.55 “ 
 
 “ Washington to. 10 “ 
 
 n 
 
 2.25 p 
 2.40 ' 
 
 4 50 ' 
 
 7.00 ' 
 
 12 35 p 
 
 1.20 ‘ 
 
 7-25 ‘ 
 
 9 00 p 
 12.10 ' 
 3-50 ' 
 
 5-35 ' 
 
 7 30 a.m. 
 m. 11.45 “ 
 
 3.00 p.m. 
 
 ‘ 3-25 “ 
 
 4.33 “ 
 
 ‘ 5 -o 6 ^ “ 
 
 m. 5-45 “ 
 
 6.15 p.m. 6 25 p.m 
 7.28 “ 
 
 2.30 a.m. 
 3.10 
 5.20 
 8.00 “ 
 
 m. 10.00 p.m. 
 ‘ 10.45 “ 
 
 m 10 00 a.m. 
 ‘ 12.25 p.m. 
 
 2.57 
 
 4.00 
 
 SPECIAL NOTICE.— The time-table of the New Stage Line from North Creek 
 to Blue Mountain Lake, is so arranged that passengers arrive at Blue Mountain 
 Lake before dark. Passengers taking special buckboards from North Creek for 
 Blue Mountain Lake can remain in sleeper till 9 a.m. For special buckboards 
 apply to Supt. Stage Line, North Creek, N. T. Passengers for Schroon Lake may 
 remain in sleeping car and go through to North Creek and return on 6 a.m. train 
 to Riverside. Baggage checked through to Blue Mountain Lake from New York 
 and Philadelphia ; also to Schroon Lake, Luzerne, and other points on line of 
 Adirondack Railway Co. 
 
 IBOSTOI^T -\ria. 
 
 Lve. Saratoga I 8.40 a.m.112.50 p.m, I 6.23 p.m. 
 
 “ Albany 10.00 “ 
 
 Arr. Springfield 1.35 p.m. 
 
 “ Boston... 4.^5 “ 
 
 8.40 “ 
 
 12 40 a.m. 
 6.25 ‘‘ 
 
 EOSlTOniT 
 Lve. Saratoga 10.00 a.m. 
 
 63 
 
 ■vi®. 
 
 . . . Arr. Boston 6.35 p.m. 
 
Time-Table —The Adirondack Railway Company. 
 
 SEASON OF 18874 Subject to chang'es that may be made in D. & H. C. Co.’s Time-Trble. 
 
 TRAINS GOING NORTH. 
 
 TRAINS GOING SOUTH. 
 
 STiVnONS. 
 
 1 
 
 Mail and 
 Express. 
 
 8 
 
 EXPRESS. 
 
 ? 
 
 Blue Mountain 
 Lake Special. 
 
 STATIONS. 
 
 id 
 
 Hew York 
 Special. 
 
 — 
 
 4 * 
 
 EXPRESS. 
 
 6 
 
 Mail and 
 Express. 
 
 Saratoga 
 
 Greenfield 
 
 Kings 
 
 South Corinth 
 
 Jessup’s Landing 
 
 Hadley (Luzerne) 
 
 Stony Creek 
 
 Thurman 
 
 The Glen 
 
 Riverside 
 
 North Creek 
 
 10. 10 a.m. 
 10 33 ‘‘ 
 10.43 
 
 10 53 ‘‘ 
 
 11.03 * 
 
 II. 2 -:? 
 
 11 46 “ 
 
 12.03 p.m. 
 
 12.23 “ 
 
 12.40 ‘ 
 
 1. 00 “ 
 
 3.14 p.m. 
 
 3- 38 
 
 3.48 “ 
 
 3.58 ;; 
 
 4.09 
 
 4 - .35 
 
 4.58 “ 
 
 5- I 3 “ 
 5-33 “ 
 5.50 “ 
 
 6.10 “ 
 
 I. IS a.m. 
 
 1.45 “ 
 
 1 58 “ 
 
 2.10 “ 
 
 2.25 “ 
 
 245 ;; 
 
 3 ^5 
 3 37 
 
 4.10 
 
 4 - 35 ‘‘ 
 
 5 - 00 ‘ 
 
 North Creek 
 
 Riverside 
 
 The Glen 
 
 Thurman 
 
 Stony Creek 
 
 Hadley (Luzerne) 
 
 Jessup’s Landing 
 
 South Corinth 
 
 Kings 
 
 Greenfield 
 
 Saratoga 
 
 6.00 a.m. 
 
 6 17 “ 
 
 6.30 “ 
 6.48 “ 
 
 7.02 “ 
 
 7-23 “ 
 7-37 y 
 7-45 ‘ 
 
 7 53 
 
 8.03 “ 
 
 8.25 “ 
 
 9.40 a.m. 
 10.00 “ 
 10.16 “ 
 10.36 “ 
 
 10 52 “ 
 
 II. 15 “ 
 
 11-34 “ 
 
 11.44 
 
 11-53 
 
 12.03 p m. 
 12.25 “ 
 
 3.00 p.m. 
 
 « ..... “ 
 3.22 
 
 3 - 38 ;; 
 
 4.00 
 
 4- 15 “ 
 
 4-39 “ 
 
 4 - 55 “ 
 
 5.05 “ 
 
 5- 14 “ 
 
 5 24 “ 
 
 5-45 “ 
 
 Passengers arriving North Creek in sleeping car at 5 a.m. can remain in car till g a.m. All trains start from and stop at Delaware & Hudson 
 Canal Co.’s Depot at Saratoga. Trains 7, 9, 8 and 10 will run only during July and August. 
 
 STAGE CONNECTIONS.— At Jessup’s Landing for Corinth (Palmer’s Fall’s); at Hadley for Conklingville and the Sacandaga Valley ; at 
 Stoney Creek for Creek Centre ; at Thurman for Warrensburgh ; at Riverside for Weavertown, Johnsburgh, Chester, Pottersville and Schroon Lake ; 
 at North Creek for North River. Indian River, Cedar River, Blue Mountain Lake and Long Lake. 
 
 IvUZERNE, SCHROON AND BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKES. 
 
 THROUGH CAR SERVICE BETWEEN 
 
 NEW YORK and NORTH CREEK, via H. R. R.R. 
 
 A Wagner Sleeping Car will leave New York 6.30 p.m. dally (except Sunday), running through to North Creek without change, arriving at 
 North Creek about 5 o’clock next morning. Passengers will be allowed to remain in cars till 9 a.m. 
 
 LOCAL DRAWING ROOM CAR SERVICE BETWEEN SARATOGA AND NORTH CREEK- 
 Wagner Drawing Room Car on train leaving Saratoga lo.io a.m. Returning, leave North Creek 3.15 p.m. 
 
 64 
 
^lae A(ii2^©Hela@k Rail way ©©mpam^ 
 
 SPECIAL NOTICE. 
 
 New Arrangement of South Bound Trains. 
 
 The New York Special will leave North Creek at 7 p. m., daily, on arrival 
 of Stages from Blue Mountain Lake, instead of 6 a. m., as published in Time 
 , Table. A through Sleeping Car will be attached to this train at Noi’th Creek, 
 arriving New York 7 a. si. next morning. Passengers can leave Eaquette 
 Lake in the morning, and Blue Mountain Lake after lunch, and connect witli 
 this train. 
 
 C. E. DURKEE, Superintendent. 
 
Blue Mountain and Raquette Lake Steamboat Line. 
 
 Steamers KILLOQUAH/’ “ UTOWANA/’ “ TO WAHLOONDA ’’ and IROCOSIA/^ 
 
 WILL RUN AS FOLLOWS, UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. 
 
 In Effect July 1 st, 1887 . 
 
 STEAMERS OR BLUE MOURTAIR LAKE. 
 
 STEAMERS OR RAQUETTE LAKE. 
 
 Lve, Holland’s Hotel 
 
 Prospect House 
 
 8.45 a.m. 
 9.00 “ 
 
 10.00 “ 
 
 10.40 “ 
 
 11.40 “ 
 
 11-45 “ 
 
 11-55 “ 
 
 12.00 m. 
 12.45 P- nt- 
 
 2.45 p.m. 
 
 3.00 “ 
 
 4 00 “ 
 
 4 - 55 ‘‘ 
 
 5 - 55 ‘‘ 
 
 6.00 “ 
 
 6.10 “ 
 
 6.15 ‘• 
 
 7.00 “ 
 
 Lve. Forked Lake Carry. 
 
 Arr Kenwill’s 
 
 8.30 a.m. 
 
 9-15 “ 
 
 9.20 ‘ 
 
 9 30 “ 
 
 10 - 35 “ 
 
 10.35 ‘‘ 
 
 11- 15 
 
 12.15 ‘ 
 
 12.30 “ 
 
 ! 
 
 2.40 p rn. 
 3-25 
 3 30 “ 
 3-40 ‘ 
 
 3 - 45 
 
 4 - 45 ’ 
 
 5.20 “ 
 
 6.20 “ 
 
 6.55 ‘ 
 
 Arr. Marion River Carry 
 
 STEAMERS. 
 
 Lve. Marion River Carry 
 
 Arr. Bennett’s Dock, ^ 
 
 Lve. Bennett’s Dock 
 
 Arr. Kenwill’s 
 
 Lve. Kenwill’s 
 
 Arr. Forked Lake Carry 
 
 Lve. Kenwill’s 
 
 Arr. Bennett’s Dock, *11 
 
 Lve. Bennett’s Dock. 
 
 Arr. Marion River Carry 
 
 STEAMERS. 
 
 Lve. Marion River Carry 
 
 Arr. Blue Mountain Lake, Prospect House.. 
 “ “ “ “ Holland’s Hotel. . 
 
 Passengers for Hathorn’s and south part of Raquette Lake, land at Bennett’s Dock. 
 
 2^“Tickets can be had at Steamboat Office, Blue Mountain Lake. 
 
 HE^NRY BRAIDIvRY, StJ.perintend.ent, 
 
 BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE, HAMILTON COUNTY, N. Y. 
 
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FROM BOSTON AND EASTERN POINTS. 
 
 The direct route from Boston, Providence and Worcester to Saratoga, and only route connecting with Adirondack R.R. 
 in same station at Saratoga, is the old and well-known BOSTON & ALBANY R.R. 
 
 Drawing Room Cars from Boston to Saratoga during the season. 
 
 IMPORTANT TO TOURISTS. 
 
 ICKETS for Blue Mountain Lake may be procured at principal ticket offices in New York 
 and 'Philadelphia, and baggage will be checked through. Passengers in Sleeping Car, arriv- 
 ing at North Creek at 5.00 a.m., may remain in car until 9 a.m. 
 
 Special Covered Spring Buckboards, North Creek to Blue Mountain Lake, seating three or 
 four persons, can be had by telegraphing the Superintendent, Blue Mountain Lake Stage and 
 Transportation Company, North Creek, N. Y. 
 
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ADIRONDACK LAKES and MOUNTAINS 
 
 
 
 BLUE IVIOUIsnrAINI LAKE: STDAGB AND TTFeAKSFORTTATIQISI CO. 
 
 SE^so±T OIF leaT- 
 
 This entirely Ne"W Line, organized to meet the demands as to safety, speed and comfort of travelers between the 
 North Creek terminus of the Adirondack Railway and Blue Mountain Lake and Long Lake, desires to call the Special 
 attention of visitors to the mountains to the following facilities now offered to the public : 
 
 Through Tickets between New York and principal cities and Blue Mountain Lake are sold via 
 Adirondack Railway over and ONLY over this Stage. Line, and baggage is now checked through from the large 
 cities to the Blue Mountain Lake direct and only over the same. No delay, no re-checking. Special covered 
 Spring Buckboards, seating three or five persons, at a small additional charge, can be had by applying to the 
 Superintendent of the Company at North Creek, Warren County, N. Y. 
 
 Clean Stages and Buckboards, civil drivers and speedy conveyance of passengers, prompt delivery of 
 baggage, and traveling done by daylight. 
 
 NEW ARRANGEMENT FOR 1887. 
 
 Bluie rvlotanta-irr Lakze Stage and. Transportation Company, 
 
 Nortti Creek:, Warren Cotjinty, IS[, Y. 
 
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HOTELS AND BOARDING HOUSES. 
 
 JESSUP’S LANDING. — Corinth, Saratoga Co., N.Y., 17 77iiles from Saratoga Springs. — This village of about 600 in- 
 habitants is on the west bank of the Hudson, about a mile east of the railroad station. It contains the extensive manufactory, 
 Hudson River Pulp and Paper Company, for making pulp from wood for the manufacture of paper. 
 
 At Jessup’s Landing is a magnificent waterfall in the Hudson, which here plunges over perpendicular rocks 70 feet in 
 height. The falls, with the rapids extending half a mile above, afford a scene of remarkable grandeur and sublimity. At 
 this point the traveller reaches the edge of the wild and mountainous Adirondack region. 
 
 CORINTH, POST OFFICE CORINTH, N. Y. (Jessup’s Landing Station.) 
 
 Y. P. Flagler, Hotel ; i mile Jessup’s Landing Station ; conveyance stage, or private if desired ; accommodate, 50 : sleeping rooms, 24 ; rates, adults, 
 $8.00 to $12.00 ; children, $4.00 to $6.00 ; transient, ^2.00 per day ; discount to season guests. 3 stories high ; back and front piazza ; pleasant 
 rooms ; newly fitted up ; first-class livery ; boating and fishing, Hudson River, Effnor’s Lake and Hunt’s Lake. 
 
 HADLEY, P. O. HADLEY, N. Y. (Hadley Station.) 
 
 John Ilalloran, Proprietor ; Railroad House ; accommodates 40 ; rates, $ 3 . 00 to $12.00 per week, $2.00 per day. 
 
 LUZERNE. — Luzerne, Wai'ren Co., N. Y., is on the east hank of the Hudsojt, a half 7nile from Hadley Station on the 
 Adirondack Railway. — This delightful little village is charmingly situated amidst some of the finest scenery to be found in 
 Northern New York. The mountains on either side rise about 600 feet, and the boisterous Hudson plunges through a deep 
 and rocky gorge, forming the most beautiful rapids and delightful prospects. 4 churches : Episcopal, Presbyterian, 
 Methodist and Catholic. 
 
 LUZERNE, P. O.^LUZERNE, WARREN CO., N. Y. (Hadley Station.) 
 
 H.J. Rockwell, Manager; Wayside Hotel and cottages situated on an elevation above the village, and overlooking the lake ; extensive grounds ; shady 
 walks ; one mile from station ; bus to all trains ; accommodation for 200 guests ; terms, $15.00 to $21,00 per week ; telegraph office in the house. 
 
 < 7 . T Rockwell Son, Rockwell’s Hotel ; mile (Hadley Station); transportation free ; bus to all trains ; accommodate, 150 ; rates, adults, $10.50 to 
 $14.00 ; children, $7.00 to $10.50 ; transient, $3.00 per day ; abundance of splendid drives and walks ; good hunting and fishing ; milk, butter, 
 and vegetables fresh daily from Rockwell Hotel Valley Farm ; convenient to post and telegraph offices ; references on application. 
 
 E. E Riddell, Hotel ; free carriage ; accommodate 100 ; sleeping rooms, 45 ; terms, transient, $2.25 ; adults, $10.50 to $14.00 ; children, $5.00 to $7.00 ; 
 discount to season guests ; pleasant grounds ; extensive lawn for tennis and croquet, centrally located ; references, Dr.J.C. Hutchinson, 130 Hicks 
 Street, Brooklyn ; P. H. Williams, 442 Madison Avenue, N. Y. City. 
 
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HOTELS AND BOARDING HOUSES— 
 
 H. McMaster^ Private Boarding', centrally located in village, about ^ mile from station ; large and airy rooms ; cool and broad piazzas ; accommoda- 
 tion for 25 ; rates, $8.00 to $12.00 per week. 
 
 Mrs, D. A. Private Boarding House; mile from station ; free carriage ; accommodate 20 ; 12 rooms ; adults, $8.00 to $10. co per week ; 
 
 children half price t transient, $1.50 per day ; house centrally and finely located ; shady grounds ; easy of access to all points of interest ; refer- 
 ences, 17 East 14th Street, N. Y. City ; 420 Gates Avenue, Brooklyn. 
 
 Mrs. M, 0 . Butler. P x\s!2lX^ Boarding; % mile from station; free carriage; 20 rooms; accommodates 20; rates, adults, $8.00 to $10.00 per week ; 
 children, according to age ; discount for season June to September. 
 
 Miss M. J. Fisher,, Private Boarding House ; ^ mile from station ; accommodate 25 ; rates, $7.00 to $8.00 per week ; children, $3.00 to $6.00 ; large 
 pine grove fronting house ; about 5 minutes’ walk to the lake or river, ’ 
 
 H. Beach., Farm House ; 2j^ miles from station and village, on road to Lake George ; can accommodate 10 or 15 ; rates, $8.00 to $10.00 ; discount for 
 the season. This cottage is pleasantly situated near cool and inviting pine groves, and is supplied with pure soft cold spring water. 
 
 CONKLINGVILLE, P. O. CONKLINGVILLE, SARATOGA CD., N. Y. 
 
 Thomas Salmon., Proprietor; Cottage Hotel ; located in the Sacandaga Valley, 6 miles from Hadley station; house situated about 200 feet from the 
 bank of the river, and 700 feet above tidewater; can be reached by stage or private conveyance. Stages run on Tuesdays, Thursdays and 
 Saturdays, fare 75 cents. House has accommodation for 30 ; rates, $7,00 per week ; transient, $1.50 per day. Good fishing in river and lakes near 
 by ; kind of fish : front, bass, pickerel ; also good gunning, game, patridge, woodcock and duck. 
 
 WARRENSBURGH, N. Y., P. O. WARRENSBURGH, WARREN CO., N. Y. (Thurman Station.) 
 
 C. H. Dickinson., Private House ; Three miles from Thurman Station ; daily stage ; accommodate[]six ; rooms 4 ; rates, $8.00 to $10.00 ; children, $3.00 
 to $5.00 per week. 
 
 Mrs. M. R. Farm House ; 3)^ miles from Thurman Station ; pleasantly situated on a plain several feet above and overlooking the village, sur- 
 
 rounded by pretty groves ; commands a view of both the Hudson and Schroon rivers ; daily stage from all trains; accommodate 20; 12 sleeping 
 rooms ; terms, $8.00 per week ; children, $3.00, upward ; discount for season. 
 
 John Heffron., Hotel ; accommodate 50 ; rates, $14.00 per week ; children, $7.00 ; transient, $2.00 per day. 
 
 CHESTERTOWN, N. Y., POST OFFICE CHESTERTOWN, N. Y.— Chestertown is a thriving little village of 
 about 600 inhabitants, containing four churches — Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian and Catholic. It has quite an elevation 
 above the sea, and the surrounding country is picturesque, with its many little lakes, valleys, and rolling hills that at places 
 rise into quite respectable mountains. It is six miles south of Pottersville ; the same east of Riverside, and eighteen north 
 of Lake George. 
 
 G. W. Ferris., Chester House, Hotel; 6 miles from Riverside Station ; 1,500 feet above tide ; reached by daily stage ; accommodation for 125 ; rates, 
 for one week or Jess, $3.00 per day ; over one week, $2.00 per day ; children under 12 years, $7.00 per week ; liberal discount to families ’for the 
 season. There is a fine grove near the house, also fine lawn tennis and croquet grounds. Table supplied with milk and vegetables fresh from 
 the Hotel farm. 
 
 F. W. Rising., Rising House, Hotel ; accommodates 100 guests ; terms, $2.00 per day : $ro.oo per week. 
 
 Royal P. Mead., Y2a:m.Piou^^ \ 7 miles from Riverside Station ; accommodate 15 ; rooms 9 ; adults, $6.00 ; children under 10 years, $4.00 ; transient,. 
 $1.00 ; transportation by stage. 
 
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HOTELS AND BOARDING HOXJSES-^Con^muecf. 
 
 SCHROON LAKE, POST OFFICE SCHROON LAKE, ESSEX CO., N. 
 
 L. R. £, D. Loche^ Leland House ; has first-class accommodations for 200 guests ; has grounds 5 acres in extent, tastefully laid out ; commands r 
 view of the lake, and the beautiful scenery of Schroon Valley. For terms, etc., see advertisement on another page. 
 
 /. M. Lelandy Leland Cottage ; is pleasantly located on high dry ground, west side of village in Schroon Lake ; large yard in front ; both house and 
 yard are beautifully shaded with maple trees ; can accommodate from 20 to 25 boarders ; price, from $6.00 to $9.00 per week ; for particulars 
 address, J. M. Leland, Schroon Lake, Essex Co., N. Y. — J. M. Leland, drug and variety store on South Avenue, near Leland House. 
 Doctor’s office over drug store. « 
 
 C. F. Taylor y Taylor House and cottages, twelve in number ; capacity 150 ; located at Lake View Point, in a pine grove, 4 miles from outlet oi 
 Schroon Lake ; commands a view of almost entire lake north and south. The Lake View farm supplies the usual vegetables of the season. The 
 steamer touches at the dock on all regular trips. For rates, etc., see advertisement on another page. P. O. South Schroon, N. Y. 
 
 W, A. McKenzioyJr.y Grove Point House ; pleasantly situated in a shady grove on the west shore of the lake % a mile from the village ; rooms larr o 
 and well furnished ; terms, |8.oo to $12.00 per week, $2.00 per day. 
 
 Windsor Hotel, The Windsor is a first-class summer hotel ; broad piazzas extend the entire length of the house; beautiful shaded lawn for lawi’ 
 tennis and croquet ; large airy rooms with commanding view of mountains and lake ; accommodate 100 ; rates, $2.00 to $2.50 per day 
 $10.00 to $15.00 per week. 
 
 C. C. Whitney y the Arlington Cottage ; % mile north steamboat landing ; extensive views of lake and mountain scenery ; accommodate 15 ; $8.oc 
 $12.00 per week. 
 
 W. S, Fowler y Fowler House ; accommodations for 50 ; board $7.00 to $12.00. 
 
 C. W. Burwelly Ondawa House ; capacity 100 ; rates, $10.00 to $12.00 per week, $2.00 per day. 
 
 Martin Smithy Paradox House, on south side of Paradox Lake ; 6 miles from Schroon Lake ; will accommodate 20 ; board $12.00 per week ; $2.00 ]. 
 day ; specialty game and fish dinners at all hours. 
 
 Orrin Harr is y Pyramid Lake House. Post Office Paradox, Essex Co., N, Y. Accommodation for 30 ; board $7.00 to $10.00 per week ; $2.00 per da\ 
 Pyramid Lake abounds in trout and bass, and is held exclusively for use of guests ; the best deer, partridge and small game hunting grouna 
 in the Adirondacks. 
 
 Mrs. A. R. Russelly Russell Cottage ; Private Boarding ; can accommodate 30 ; terms, $8.00 to 12*00 per week ; full particulars on application. 
 
 NORTH RIVER, P. O. WARREN CO., N. Y. (North Creek Station.) 
 
 Harrison Roblecy formerly Eldridge’s, North River Hotel; 43^ miles from North Creek Station ; accommodate 40; rates, $10.00 to $12.00 per week ; 
 $2.00 per day. 
 
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HOTELS AND BOARDING HO\]^¥.S— -Continued, 
 
 INDIAN LAKE, P. O. HAMILTON CO., N. Y. (North Creek Station.) 
 
 Frank Moody ^ Indian River Hotel ; i6 miles from North Creek Station, on road to Blue Mountain Lake ; accommodate 35 ; rates, $10.00 to $i2.o« 
 per week ; $2.00 per day. 
 
 P. Ordavayy Ordway House ; 18 miles from North Creek Station, on road to Blue Mountain Lake ; accommodate 60 ; rates, $10.00 to $12.00 per week ; 
 $2.00 per day. 
 
 John St. Maricy Boarding House ; 18 miles from North Creek Station, on road to Blue Mountain Lake ; accommodate 20 ; rates, $8.00 to $10.00 per 
 week ; $1.75 per day. 
 
 Alonzo ColCy Cedar River House ; 20 miles from North Creek Station, on road to Blue Mountain Lake ; accommodate 35 ; rates, $10.00 to $12.00 per 
 week ; $2.00 per day. 
 
 MINERVA, P. O. ESSEX CO., N. Y. (North Creek Station.) 
 
 William L. Vanderwarker House on banks Vanderwarker Creek, one of the best trout streams in Adirondacks ; 20 miles from North Creek 
 
 Station ; accomipodate 10 ; rates, $10.00 to $12.00 per week ; $2.00 per day. 
 
 James Doherty y Aiden Lair Lodge ; 16 miles from North Creek Station ; accommodate 15 ; rates, $8.00 to $10.00 per week ; $2.00 per day. 
 
 Orson Kelloggy Minerva ; 8 miles from North Creek Station ; accommodate 20 ; rates, $8.00 to $10.00 per week ; $1.75 per day. 
 
 OLMSTEADVILLE, P. O. ESSEX CO., N. Y. (North Creek Station.) 
 
 Patrick SullivaHy Alpine Hotel ; 6 miles from North Creek Station ; daily mail ; accommodate 35 rates, $10.00 to $12.00 per week ; $2.00 per day. 
 
 NEWCOMB, P. O. NEWCOMB, ESSEX CO., N. Y. (29 miles from North Creek Station.) 
 
 Harnson H, WilliamSy Newcomb Hotel ; accommodate 35 ; rates, $8.00 to $10.00 per week ; $1.75 per day. 
 
 James Hally Half-Way House ; accommodate 15; rates, $7.00 to $8.00 per week ; $1.25 per day. 
 
 Washington Chase ; accommodate 10 ; rates, $7.00 per week ; $1.25 per day. 
 
 /■. O. Bradley y Central House ; accommodate 15 ; rates, $7.00 to $8.00 per week ; $1.25 per day. 
 
 LONG LAKE, P. O. LONG LAKE, HAMILTON CO., N. Y. (39 miles from North Creek Station.) 
 
 E, Butler y The Sagamore ; new, elegantly furnished ; 3 miles from head of Long Lake ; 9 miles from Blue Mountain Lake by road ; accommodate 130 ; 
 rates, $12.00 to $20.00 per week ; $3.00 per day. 
 
 Mrs, C. H. Kelloggy Lake House ; accommodate 50 ; rates, $10.50 per week ; $2.00 per day. 
 
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HOTELS AND BOARDING Continued. 
 
 LONG LAKE, P. O. LONG LAKE, HAMILTON CO., N. Y. (39 miles from North Creek Station.) — Continued. 
 
 David Helms., Grove House ; accommodate 20 ; rates, $8.00 to $10.00 per week ; $2.00 per day. 
 
 Helms Smith., Long Lake House ; accommodate 20 ; rates, $10.00 to $12.00 per week ; $2.00 per day. 
 
 Henry Austin^ Austin’s Cottage : accommodate 15 ; rates, $7.00 to $10.00 per week ; $1.75 per day. 
 
 William Kellogg., Island House ; accommodate 15 ; rates, $10.50 per week ; $2.00 per day. 
 
 BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE, P. O. BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE, HAMILTON CO., N. Y. (North Creek Station.) 
 
 G. W. Tunnicliffy Manager, Prospect House ; hotel 30 miles from North Creek ; by stage daily (except Sunday) ; accommodate 500 ; terms $20.00 per 
 week and upward ; $3.50 per day. Blue Mountain and Raquette Lake steamer start from dock at foot of lawn daily except Sunday. 
 
 John Holland. Blue Mountain Lake House ; hotel, this new house, rebuilt 1887, and cottages connected with it, accommodate 250 ; rates, $15.00 to 
 $20.00 per week ; $2.00 per day. Blue Mountain and Raquette Lake steamer start from dock at foot of lawn daily except Sunday. 
 
 Tyler M. Merwin., Blue Mountain House ; 200 feet above Blue Mountain Lake, and affords one of the finest views in the Adirondacks ; stages daily 
 to and from North Creek; capacity 50 ; rates, $10.00 to $15.00 per week ; $2.50 per day. 
 
 Edward Bennett. Under the Hemlocks, Raquette Lake ; P. O. Blue Mountain Lake. Under the Hemlocks is the suggestive title of Bennett’s Hotel 
 at Long Point. In connection with cottages, has accommodation for 90 ; rates, $10.00 to $20.00 per week. 
 
 Isaac Kenwill. Raquette Lake House, on Raquette Lake ; capacity 60 ; $12.00 per week ; $2.50 per day. 
 
 C. W. Blanchard. Blanchard’s Wigwams on Raquette Lake ; capacity 20 ; rates, $10.50 per week ; $2.00 per day. 
 
 Chauncey Hathorns.Yoro.st Cottages and Camps on Raquette Lake ; fine hunting and fishing in the immediate vicinity ; terms, $10.50 per week; 
 $1.50 per day. 
 
 Charles H. Bennett. The Antlers ; Raquette Lake ; an elegantly fitted new cottage and a number of rustic lodges, and dining and kitchen accom- 
 modation for 75 persons. 
 
 Joseph Whitney. Whitney’s Camp ; accommodate 10 ; rates, $10.50 per week ; $1.50 per day. 
 
 Miron Fletcher. Forked Lake House, on Forked Lake ; accommodate 40 ; rates, $10.00 to $12.00 per week ; $2.00 per day. 
 
 Charles J. Griffin. E igle Nest Cottage, located on north shore bf Eagle Lake, formerly home of “Ned Buntline;” accommodate 12; rates, $2.00 
 per day. 
 
 Samuel Davis. Forest Blouse ; 25 miles from North Creek Station, on road to Blue Mountain Lake ; accommodate 10 ; rates, $7,00 to $10,00 per week ; 
 $1.75 per day. 
 
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FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN, 
 
 FOE, MOTHERS, INVALIDS, DYSPEPTICS AND AGED PEOPLE. 
 
 THE ONLY FOOD that digests as easily as human milk, and agrees with all infants 
 and children. 
 
 THE ONLY FOOD that thoroughly nourishes the child without the addition of cow's milk. 
 
 THE ONLY FOOD that removes from infancy all necessity, danger and annoyance 
 of a wet nurse. 
 
 IF TAKEN BY MOTHERS once or twice a day, the quantity of milk will be increased, 
 and quality at once improved. ’ 
 
 IF' THE CHILD IS RESTLESS, a change from nursing to Soluble Food, is better 
 than quieting mixtures. 
 
 Dr. Stutzer, food analyst for Rhenish Prussia, says : '' Carnrick’s Soluble Food is the 
 best of all the foods I have ever examined.” 
 
 Send for ^^Our Babfs First and Second Years," by MARtON H ARLAN D, Book of 64 pages, giving careful instruc- 
 tions for bringing up the little ones. Sent free by 
 
 REED & CARNRIOK, 2, 4 & 6 Harrison St., New York. 
 
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REACHED BY THE jaDIRONDACK RIAILWAY Y^IA 
 
 SARATOGA, A HD JSTORTH CREEK. 
 
 Forty Miles by Lake and Stream ! 
 
 One-day Excursion on elegant steam launches of Blue Mountain and Raquette Lake 
 
 Steamboat Line, through Blue Mountain Lake, Eagle Lake, 
 
 Utowana Lake, Marion River and Raquette Lake 
 to Forked Lake Carry and return. 
 
 . Four Lakes, Three Inlets, and the Marion River. 
 
 LOW EXCURSION RATES ON REGULAR DAILY BOATS. 
 
 ALSO 
 
 Specia.1 Steam. YaclKits for Ctiarter. 
 
 Apply to HENRY BRADLEY, Supt., Blue Mountain Lake, Hamilton Co., N. Y. 
 
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THE DELAWARE & HUDSON R.R . 
 
 “THE FAVOR.ITE TOURIST ROUTE” TO THE GREAT 
 
 Adirondack: Mountains, 
 
 Lake George, Lake Champlain, Ausable Chasm, Cooperstoin, Sharon Springs and the Grarily Railroad. 
 
 EXCURSION TICKETS to the above-named points are on sale at the Albany and Saratoga Offices of the Company 
 
 at low rates of fare. 
 
 The shortest and most comfortable route between NEW YORK and MONTREAL. 
 
 The “ D & H ” is the only line running Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars between Albany and Chicago. Passengers to 
 and from the West by this route, in connection with the New York, Lake Erie & Western R. R. via Binghamton, pass 
 through some of the most charming scenery in the country. 
 
 TRACK, EQUIPMENT AND SERVICE UNSURPASSED. 
 
 For maps, time-tables and descriptive guide, address, 
 
 J. W. BURDICK, General Passenger Agent, 
 
 H, G, Young, Pres, and GenU Manager. Delaware & Hudson Canal Co.’s Railroad, Albany, N, Y, 
 
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1 = E O I_, E ’ S I-jX 1 :TE s. 
 
 DREW and DEAN RICHJV[OND< 
 
 The first-class Evening Line on 
 
 ^THE HUDSON RIVER«^ 
 
 nil e -V i an. gr Xj E 3ST "2T for 2jT E “ST O E ZEX 
 
 (Every Week Day, 8 p.m.) 
 
 Xjea.'xrian.g' HiTETT^ *X"0X2,E; for -A-X4B_A.XT“2r 
 
 (Every Week Day, 6 p.m.) 
 
 For all points North and West, Saratoga, Lake Champlain, Lake George, Ausable Chasm and the 
 Adirondacks. Tickets can be purchased and baggage checked via this line throughout the North, South 
 West and East. W. W. Everett, Pres’t ; J. H. Allaire, G. T. A.; M. B. Waters, G. P. A. 
 
 “Z* O EE 
 
 I?, A. IXjraOAD irOTTSE, 
 
 JOHN HALLORAN, Prop. 
 
 HADLEY {Luzerne'), N. Y. 
 
 RAPACITY, 40 Guests. Convenient to Depot and Telegraph office. 
 
 Terms, $8.00 to $12.00 per week ; Transient, $2.00 per day. 
 Good livery attached. 
 
 OXXjS, EXC, 
 
 S. W. FULLER, 
 
 THE PRACTICAL PAINTER AND DEALER IN 
 
 XjE-A-X), ZIOiTC, O-XjJ^SS, EXC-, 
 
 44 PUTNAM STREET, - - _ SHOP in the rear. 
 
 SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y. 
 
 RAQUETTE LAKE HOUSE. 
 
 (Isaac Kenwill, Proprietor .) 
 
 :j;o$ 
 
 POST OFFICE ; BLUE MOUNTAIN UAEB, 
 
 This Hotel is situated on a point about one mile north 
 of mouth of Marion Hiver, All steamers land here. Large 
 rooms and excellent fare. Guides and Boats furnished. 
 Good fishing and hunting. 
 
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meo'sr so-^t s— o zarizEiiTS’ 
 
 FAVORITE HUDSON RIVER ROUTE BETWEEN 
 
 NEW YORK, TROY, SARATOGA, LAKES GEORGE and CHAMPLAIN, SCHROON and BLUE 
 
 MOUNTAIN LAKES, and all RESORTS in the ADIRONDACKS. 
 
 STEAMERS SARATOGA and CITY OF TROY 
 
 Leave NEW YORK daily, except Saturday, 6 p.m., foot Christopher St., N. R., connecting with morning trains 
 for all points north. 
 
 Leave TROY daily, except Saturday, about 7.45 p.m., on arrival evening train from the north. Sunday at 6 p.m. 
 
 Popular route to and from resorts described in this book. Through Tickets, checks for baggage and state-rooms secured in NEW YORK at offices 
 on the pier, at 207, 3 Astor House, 261, 271, 397, 457, 944, 1,323 Broadway. Brooklyn, 4 Court, 838, 860 Fulton Streets. 
 
 Tickets to New York can be had at all railroad offices north. 
 
 ZLlO"WEZ^ ^-2“ -A.l:T“2r 
 
 G. M. LEWIS, G. T. Agent, Foot Christopher St., New York. _ _ _ GEO. W. GIBSON, G. P. Agent, Troy, New York. 
 
 F]im}iuizy 
 
 400 BROADWAY, - Saratoga Springs. 
 
 From-pt attention to Physicians. Prescrip- 
 tions andj family orders by mail or 
 
 telephone. 
 
 T. H. SANDS PENNINGTON, Pharmacist. 
 
 FREDERICK A. THORN, 
 
 FANCY GROCER. TEAS AND COFFEES 
 
 A SPECIALTY. 
 
 Special attention given to filling orders for Camp supplies. 
 WEST SIDE 461 BROADWAY, SARATOGA. 
 
 COLLINS BROTHERS, 
 
 MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN 
 
 Furniture, Upholstery, Bedding, Etc. 
 
 SARATOGA, 426 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 
 
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IN THE WORLD. 
 
 ALBANY. 
 
 (BUILT 1880.) 
 
 Day Dine Steamers on the Hudson River. 
 
 MUSIC ON EACH STEAMER. _ RESTAURANTS ON MAIN DECK. 
 
 Kemember to ask for tickets via tlie DAY JjINE ” for your trip to tke Adirondack Region. 
 
 THE TWO FASTEST STEAMBOATS 
 
 NEW YORK 
 
 (BUILT 1887.) 
 
 ISTo-w co2aapr5.se tOae 
 
 rriEi'w <3 -ocxd© 
 
 ABEL BOGLE’S BOAT LIVERY, 
 
 PEYSER Sl BRO., 
 
 D ealers in Dry and Fancy Goods, Notions, Ladies’ and Gents’ 
 Furnishing Goods, Jewelry and Ready-Made Clothing. 
 
 sc:!S3:e^oorT 3sr, ~z'. 
 
 SOieiESOOUST - - - _ 
 
 I OCATED 
 
 '!/• c 7/ 
 
 North and Adjoining Steamboat Dock. A full fleet of 
 First-Class Boats, with Boatmen if Desired. Terms reasonable. 
 
 J. H. PITKIN & BRO., 
 
 « 
 
 D ealers in DFV goods, notions, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes 
 a 7 id Clothi7ig, Provisions, Canned Goods, Teas, Coffees and Spices. 
 
 soEEiE^oorT rr. -3T. 
 
 GROVE POIRT HOUSE, ’ SIHROOH LAKE, M.Y. 
 
 pLEASANTLV situated m a shady Grove on the West Shore of the 
 Lake, mile from the village. Steamer Effingham will land you 
 at the house. House enlarged since last season, and rooms well furnish- 
 ed. Terms, $8 00 to $12 00 per week. 
 
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 The Best in the Market. 
 Capacity from 2 to IS Dozen* 
 
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 MANUFACTURED BY 
 
 Appleton & Litchfield 
 
 IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN 
 
 Fine Fishing Tackle. 
 
 304 WASHIiSTG-TOlSr ST., 
 Boston, Mass., - - U. S. A. 
 
 
 In Morocco Covers. 
 
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 Walter Jennery, 
 
 dealer in 
 
 Fancy Groceries and Fruits. 
 
 special Prices given to Hotels and Boarding Houses. 
 
 428 BROADWAY, 
 
 You can procure in Saratoga at 
 
 SEAVEY & GARDNER'S 
 
 Opposite the “Worden,” - Saratoga. 
 
 Fishing Tackle, Rods, Baskets, Flies, Lines and Hooks, 
 
 IN ENDLESS VARIETY. 
 
 Ammunition, Shells and Cartridges. Everything in general 
 Hardware and House Furnishing Croods. Eine 
 Cutlery and Silver Plated Ware. 
 
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 “ WAYSIDE”*--s3. 
 
 LAKE LUZERNE, N. Y. 
 
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 WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH IN THE HOUSE. 
 
 One Hour’s ride from Saratog'a. At the confluence of the Sacandaga and Hudson Rivers. 
 
 Ten (lO) Furnished Cottages on the Grounds. Fine Lawns, Shade and Walks. 
 
 H. J. ROCKWELL, Manager. 
 
 Mks. a. E. Eussell, Proprietor. 
 
 "THE EFFINGHAM (Captain "W. A. Mackenzie), makes three regular trips 
 ‘ daily between Schroon Lake village and Pottersville (9 miles), con- 
 necting with stages to and from Adirondack Eailway trains. 
 
 “THE GYPSIE, a new and fast running Cahin Steam Launch, can he char- 
 tered by the day or hour, on application to Mrs.Eussell, the Proprieter. 
 
 2D. d/l.jd., 
 
 P HYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Schroon Lake^ N. Y. Office over J. 
 M. Leland’s Drug Store. Office open night and day. 
 
 J. M. LELAND, 
 
 nDisTja- sa:o:E^E, 
 
 SCHROON LAKE, N. Y 
 
 ROCKWELL’S HOTEL, Lake of Luzerne, N. Y. 
 
 A favorite resort for Summer Tourists and Families. 22 miles from Sara- 
 toga, on the line of the Adirondack Eailway, 4 trains daily, each way. 
 during July and August. Accommodations for 150. Terms, $10.50 per week 
 for months June and September; $10.50 to $14.00 per week for July and 
 August; $7.00 for Children and Servants. Game and Trout dinners in their 
 season a specialty. Eeferences on application. 
 
 G. T. ROCKWELL & SON, Proprietors. 
 
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 nEALEE in all kinds of DBUGS. Competent Prescription Clerk in 
 ^ attendance. LUZERNE, N. Y. 
 
 Z3ZOTJSE, 
 
 SCHROON LAKE, N. Y. 
 
 “THIS favorite house, fronting on the Lake ana surrounded by a beautiful 
 ‘ Park, will he under the management of C. W. Buewell, the coming 
 season. Accommodates 100. Terms, $2.00 per day, $10.00 & $12.00 per week. 
 
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GEORGE W. FERRIS, 
 
 PROPRIETOR. 
 
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 Board $10.50 to $12.00 
 per week ; $2.00 per day. 
 Accommodations for 150 
 guests. Open all the year. 
 High, dry land ; pure air; 
 pure water from moun- 
 tain spring ; sanitary con- 
 ditions perfect. Near to 
 the best of fishing and 
 hunting for birds and 
 small game. ’Bus to 
 Friend’s Lake, 2 miles; 
 Loon Lake, 2 miles ; Brant 
 Lake, 5 miles, or to 
 Schroon Lake, for fishing 
 parties, at 25 cents each. 
 Livery connected with 
 hotel. 
 
 THIS Hotel is located 
 * among the many 
 spurs of the lower Adir- 
 ondacks, being fifteen 
 hundred feet above sea 
 level, and within short 
 drives of all the princi- 
 pal lakes, mountains and 
 brooks, for which this re- 
 gion is so famous. Fine 
 tennis and croquet 
 grounds are in close prox- 
 imity to the house. A 
 daily mail frorn each di- 
 rection is received. Di- 
 rect telegraphic communi- 
 cations and two trains in 
 each direction daily ,which 
 makes it very convenient 
 for business men wishing 
 to leave the city on Satur- 
 day and spend Sunday 
 with their families in the 
 country. All New York 
 papers received at 2 p.m. 
 Address ; 
 
 GEO. W. FERRIS, 
 
 Chestertown, N.Y. 
 
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 FISHING and BOATING. 
 
 CJla-estertowri, - OKCES'X'ET^ HOTTSE, - "STorls. 
 
 Paper Hangings, New Goods, Elegant Styles, Prices Low* 
 
 STOCK LARGER THAN EVER AT 
 
 R I C K AR D’S 
 
 WALL PAPER DEPOT AND ART STORE. 
 
 SAHATOGA SP'GS, - 468 BROADWAY, - YORK. 
 
 ALSO, a full stock of WINDOW SHADES AND TRIMMINGS, 
 ^ Curtain Poles, PICTURES and FRAMES, Artists’ Materials, 
 Wood Mantels, Low’s Art Tiles, &c., &c. Call and see goods and get 
 prices before buying elsewhere. Established 1868. Special attention 
 given to Fine Work. 
 
 ADIRONDACK EXPRESS CO., 
 
 SARATOGA SPRINGS, ----- NEW YORK. 
 
 Express Forwarders for all points in the United States. 
 
 Connects with recognized responsible Express Companies for all parts 
 
 of the world. 
 
 Freight, Packages, Money, Jewelry and valuables shipped with 
 
 care, safety and dispatch. 
 
 Henry W. Livingston, President. - Henry Smith, Superintendent. 
 
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 MB 12 COTTAGES 
 
 IN CONNECTION. 
 
 CAPACITY FOR 125 GUESTS. 
 
 IvO-l^e VievvT P^oint. 
 
 P. O. SOUTH SCHROON, ESSEX CO., N.Y. 
 
 OPEN JUNE 1st, 1887. 
 
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 ^2.50 to $3.00 per day, $12.00 to 
 $15.00 per week. 
 
 Special arrangements made for families 
 and a prolonged stay. 
 
 For particulars address 
 
 C. F. TAYLOR k SON, 
 
 Pro;prieto'f^. 
 
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 See description on another page. 
 
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 W. J. MERRALL, of the firm of Acker, Merrall & Condit, 130 and 132 Chambers St., N. Y. City ; C. H. WILSON, Troy, N. Y. : S. B. ROBY, 
 Rochester. N. Y. ; JOHN T. NOBLE, 109 Warren St., Chicago ; W. D. CLEVELAND, Houston, Texas; Rev. WM. M. SMART, Albany, N. Y. • 
 RICHARD V. LEWIS, of Lewis & Conger, 601 Sixth Ave., N. Y. City ; C. E. LONGLEY, Providence, R. I. ; Hon. JOHN M. FRANCIS (of the 
 Troy Tzmes), Troy, N.Y.; Dr. JAMES HAYES, Plainfield, N. J.; JOHN J. R. CRAVEN, 431 Chestnut St., Phila.; D. S. CRAVEN, Phila. Nat. Bank 
 Phila.; GEO. C. BUELL (of the firm of Geo. C. Buell & Co.), 37 Exchange St., Rochester, N. Y.; J. F. ROMIG (of the firm of J. S. Nugent & 
 Co.), 538 and 540 Pearl St., near Broadway, N. Y.; VERNON L. TENNEY, 23 Pearl St., N. Y. City ; T. F. YOUNG (of the firm of Young & Hart), 
 171 Front St., N.Y. City; S. A. GINNA, Plainfield, N. J.; J. P. BRINTON, 1933 Spruce St., Phila., or office of the Richmond, Fred’g & Potomac 
 R. R., Richmond, Va. 
 
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Leland House and Cottages, Schroon Lake, Essex Co.,N.Y. 
 
 L. R. & E. D. LOCKE. 
 
 :ESa.tes, $12.50 to $21.00, I'ra.aa.sieaa.t, $3.00 to $3.5p per 2De3r- 
 
 For the Season of 1887. — The 
 Leland House will be open for the 
 reception of guests from June loth 
 to October ist, under the proprietor- 
 ship of L. R. & E. D. Locke, both 
 well-known hotel men. 
 
 A new reading-room and bath- 
 rooms have been added since last 
 season, and important improve- 
 ments made in the office and parlors 
 that will add greatly to the comfort 
 and convenience of guests. 
 
 The Leland House is situated on 
 a point at the head of Schroon 
 Lake, and commands a view of the 
 lake from three sides, the neighbor- 
 ing mountains, and the beautiful 
 scenery of the Schroon Valley. It 
 has a frontage of 162 feet facing 
 south, across which and the eastern 
 end of the building extends a grand 
 piazza 22 feet high, 13 feet wide, and 
 256 feet long. The observatory, 107 
 feet above the lake, affords a pros- 
 pect equalled by few in the Adiron- 
 dacks. The grounds, about five 
 acres in extent, are tastefully laid 
 out, and extend to the lake on the 
 south and east. This house was es- 
 tablished in 1872, and at once took 
 front rank as a summer hotel. 
 
 The sanitary provisions are very 
 complete. The main office contains 
 telegraph and news stand. Capa- 
 city of house and cottages about 200. 
 
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PLAN OF PAKLOR FLOOR, 
 
 Prospect House, 
 
 BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE, 
 
 Hamilton Co., N. Y. 
 
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 The largest and best hotel in the Adirondacks, 2,000 
 feet above the sea level, and said to be the most com- 
 plete mountain house in the United States. The build- 
 ing is plain and unostentatious while massive and 
 substantial. The entire house is illurrinated with the 
 
 Edison incandescent light. A hydraulic elevator ren- 
 
 ders all of its upper floors equally accessible. 
 
 Prospect House can accommodate 500 guests and is open 
 throughout the year. The house is heated by steam, 
 and has large, open fire-places. Mails arrive and de- 
 part daily. Telegraph office in building. 
 
 Terms -$3.00 per day and upwards. Special rates 
 for the Season. Children under Ten years of age tak- 
 ing their meals in the nurses’ dining room — half price. 
 
 On application, a correct diagram of the floors, giving, 
 the location and number of each room, will be fur- 
 nished. All communications regarding accommoda- 
 tions may be addressed to 
 
 GEO. W. TUNNICLIFF, Manager, 
 
 Prospect House, 
 
 Blue Mountain Lake, Hamilton Co., N. Y.. 
 Address until July xst.^ 305 Fifth Avenue. 
 
PLAN OF 
 
 Prospect House, 
 
 BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE, 
 
 Hamilton Co., N. Y. 
 
 Rooms on Parlor Floor alphabetically ar- 
 ranged as shown. 
 
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 Rooms on First Floor numerically arranged 
 from loi to 168. 
 
 Rooms on Second Floor numerically ar- 
 ranged from 201 to 268. 
 
 Rooms on Third Floor numerically arranged 
 from 301 to 368. 
 
TPhe Murray Hill Hotel 
 
 PARK AVENUE, 40th 41st Sts., 
 
 Is the most convenient of any hotel in Mew York City for travelers or 
 tourists, being only ONE MINUTE’S walk from Grand Central Depot. 
 
 i3:±xaE, 
 
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 As we transfer it to and from Grand Central Depot free. 
 
 It is the only FIRST-GLASS hotel in Mew York City. On both American 
 and European plans. 
 
 HUNTING & HAMMOND. 
 
THE OLDEST PAINT HOUSE IN THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 (Established 1770.) 
 
 C. T. RAYNOLDS & CO., 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN 
 
 Coach. Colors, F^lire Varnishes, Hard Oil Hlnish, 
 
 Artists’ Nlaterials, Brushes, &c., &c. 
 
 Ne-w York: 
 
 106 Sl 108 FULTON STREET. 
 
 Chicago, 111.: 
 
 21 LAKE STREET 
 
 Cor. Broadway and 29th Street. 
 
 New York City, 
 
 
 
 ■UROPEAN PLAN. - LOCATION UNSURPASSEE--e 
 
 
 J. H. BRESLIN & BRO., Proprietors. 
 
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W. D. GARRISON, Manager. ^ 
 
 600 handsomely furnished rooms at $1.00 per day and upwards. European plan. 
 
 First-class Restaurant, Dining Rooms, Cafe and Lunch Counter, a la carte^ at moderate prices, 
 rr^ , . . . ^ Chests’ Baggage to and from Grand Central Depot free. 
 
 iraveiers arriving Grand Central Depot save Carriage-hire and Baggage Express by stopping at the Grand Uixi( 
 1 raveiers can live well at the Grand Union for less money than at any other first-class hotel in New York. 
 
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 Manufacturer of Tents of all kinds, sizes and shapes, 
 
 at low figures. 
 
 A Tent or Common Tent, with rope ridge, used to 
 camp out with, made any size and of hest 
 goods. Prices from $6 to S12. 
 
 
 Canopy for Croquet Grounds, Sea Shore, Gardens or Lawn Tennis, 
 made in the hest manner and of hest goods. 
 
 Flags and Burgees of all 
 kinds made to order. 
 
 Sportsmen's Tents, Yacht 
 and Boat Sails, Flags 
 and Awnings, &c. 
 
 SPECIALTIES : 
 
 Canoe Sails of all 
 
 KINDS. 
 
 Canoe Sail Fittings. 
 Canoe Sails rigged 
 complete with 
 Mast, Spars, &c. 
 Yacht Sails and 
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 Steam Launch Awn- 
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 Cushions of all 
 
 KINDS. 
 
 Cork Fenders 
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 Life Preservers. 
 Cotton Duck all 
 
 WIDTHS AND NUM- 
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 Awning Goods and 
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 Bunting all colors. 
 
 Window & Store Awnings. 
 
 All these goods made in the best manner and very lowest figures. All warranted mildew and wafer-proof at a cost of 
 
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 NEW CODE 
 WEATHER SIGNALS. 
 
 This system of signals 
 has been adopted for 
 general use by the Sig- 
 nal Service on and 
 after March 1st, 1887. 
 It is not complicated 
 and the flags can be had 
 at $8 to $10 per set. 
 $6 per set without Cold 
 wave. 
 
 Send for Circular and 
 Price List. 
 
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 Wes'ern House: 519 LOCUST STREET, St. Louis, Mo. 
 
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 ACME BUTTON-HOLE ATTACHMENT, 
 
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 that will make a button-hole superior in finish and durability to the best hand-made button-hole. Price, $5.00. 
 
 For descriptive circulars and samples of work address 
 
 Acme Button-Hole Attachment Co. ^LIMITED), 
 
 MAIN OFFICE AND SALESROOM: 
 
 74 Fifth Avenue, near 14th Street, New York. 
 
HAMILTON VOCALION ORGANS. 
 
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 “ Most remarkable is the close approach in sound to the Pipe Organs, many of them not being your equal in quality 
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CHARLES DALY-THREE BARREL GUN 
 
 is the best weapon yet produced for large and small game. 
 
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 CHARLES DALY-HAMMERLESS GUN, PIEPER GUNS, MANHATTAN GUNS, BALLARD RIFLES. 
 
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 84 & 86 CHAMBERS ST., - Agents: SCHOVERLING, DALY & GALES, - HEW YORK. 
 
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SOLE AGENT IN UNITED STATES FOR 
 
 Duminy & Co., 
 
 Champagnes. 
 
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 Brandenburg Freres, 
 
 Clarets, Olive Oil and Cognac. 
 
 C. Lauteren Sohn, 
 
 Rhine and Moselle Wines. 
 
 R. Bruninghaus, 
 
 Burgundies. 
 
 Wisdom & Warter, 
 
 Sherries. 
 
 Warter & May, 
 
 Ports. 
 
 Hulstkamp & Zn. & Mn. 
 
 • • • • 
 
 Cordials and Orange Bitters. 
 
 ^^Fortuna” Gin. 
 
 Champag-ne, with a minimum of alcohol, is by far the wholesomes" 
 and possesses, remarkable exhilarating power. 
 
 THOMAS KING CHAMBERS, M.D., F R.C.P., 
 
 Honorary Physician to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 
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 Having occasion to investigate the question of wholesome beverages, 
 I have made chemical analysis of the most prominent brands of 
 Champagne. 
 
 I find G. H. Mumm & Co.’s Extra Dry to contain in a marked degree 
 less alcohol than the others. 1 therefore most cordially commend it 
 not only for its purity but as the most wholesome of the Champagnes. 
 
 R. OGDEN DOREMUS, M.D., LLD, 
 
 Prof. Chemistry,, Bellevue Hospital Med. Col.,, N.Y 
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 THE ONLY WINE TO BE USED IN 
 DIABETES MELLITUS. 
 
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 Messrs. G. H. Mumm dP Co. use only the choicest grapes 
 of the best Districts and the cream of the Pressing for their 
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