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Title: Summer excursion routes and rates. Delaware, Lackawanna and western railroad company. 1893 ..
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Delaware, Lackawanna and western railroad company. (from old catalog) Johnson, William Henry, (from old catalog) comp
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Publisher: (New York, Printed by Livingston Middleditch co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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or Hopachung, as the red men called it when they settled on itsshores. When the water is ruffled by the slightest breeze, its depthappears to lessen, and at sunset, when the surface becomes mirror-like,the shadows of the mountains seem to sink fathoms into the sparklingdepths. About the middle of June, the influx of visitors commences, and fromthat time until September one round of gaiety succeeds another. Thehotels and boarding-houses are full, the lake becomes dotted here andthere with pleasure craft of all descriptions, from the frail canoe withsail and paddle to the costly steam launches. The Hotel Breslin, atMount Arlington, is the largest hostelry on the lake. It is the abode offashion and culture. The grounds surrounding it are terraced, andhandsomely laid out with blossoming shrubs and flowers. The viewfrom the long piazza over the lake comprises many pretty patches ofscenery. For camping out this place excels all others. The wooded shores SUMMER EXCURSION ROUTES AND RATES. 37
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s « 5 ^ W to 38 DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN R. R. offer the finest kind of seclusion; the bathing is good, and fishing addsmaterially to the pleasures of camp life. Not the least interesting featureof an evening on the lake is to watch the camp fires gleaming here andthere along the opposite shores, and listen to the frequent camp cries of rival parties blending with song and musical accompaniment. The little hamlet of Mount Arlington is a collection of neat cottagesbordering on the lake, and on the hill above it. One of these, thecottage of Miss Lotta Crabtree, the actress, deserves particular mention,because its interior is not only gorgeous in its appointments, but in theextent of its artistic arrangements it has been praised by every connois-seur in decorative art.

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