Scenic gems of the White Mountains (1900) (14760419486)

Identifier: scenicgemsofwhit00port (find matches)
Title: Scenic gems of the White Mountains
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors:
Subjects:
Publisher: Portland, Me. : G.W. Morris
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library



Text Appearing Before Image:
General M. C. Wentworth, to whose great personal magnetismand success as a landlord the hotels under his proprietorship, as well as the village of Jackson itself owe much of their popularity. The Generalsestablishment at Jackson is unsurpassed in elegance, comfort and convenience by any of like class in the White Mountain region, and yearlyreceives its full quota of guests from among the elite of the land. General Wentworth is a native of Jackson to which village he was wont torepair daily for schooling; a barefoot farmers boy from some three miles up the glen. A veteran of the civil war he returned to his native villageto marry the daughter of a pioneer hotelkeeper of Jackson and to begin here his long and eventful career, perhaps the most remarkable in pointof success and popularity ever enjoyed by an hotel-man. He has met with unqualified favor in every quarter of the continent, and has beencalled to preside over sunmier and winter resort hotels from the St. Lawrence to California.
Text Appearing After Image:
THE SACO RIVER AT BEMIS, NEW HAMPSHIRE.At Bemis one enters the Crawford Glen where stands the many-gabled mansion shown above where dwelt Dr. Eemis, who retired here inhis later years from a professional life in Boston to the shelter of this grand valley. The tracks of the railroad which passes through the Craw-lord Notch lie directly in front of the gothic mansion and here begins that wonderful journey where steam overcomes the steepest grades to befound on any standard American railroad in the assault of the tremendous gorge ahead. Here at Bemis the railroad occupies nearly the samelevel as the Saco, whose clear racing waters appear from time to time now hidden amid giant boulders and again running smoothly over a broad,pebbled bed. The Saco is one of the most distinctive of White Mountain streams having its source in the lake which fronts the Crawford Houseand racing down through the Crawford Notch, receiving in its passage the waters of many mountain streams which leap and flow in