. Book of the Royal blue . dy Falls and Big Yough. Mountain Lake Park is the home ofthe Mountain Chautauqua, establishedin the fall of i8<Si. Every summer it isthe scene of unwonted interest, as large .j«— I,.\KK IIKKU IARK THE ALLEGHEXY MOiNTAINS. gatherings of intelligent people hold an-nual educational and religious meetingsin the beautiful Park in buildings espe-cially provided. A large auditoriumseating twenty-five hundred people isused for religious meetings, lectures andliterary entertainments. Adjoining it isa large building consisting of lecture andschool rooms devote
. Book of the Royal blue . dy Falls and Big Yough. Mountain Lake Park is the home ofthe Mountain Chautauqua, establishedin the fall of i8<Si. Every summer it isthe scene of unwonted interest, as large .j«— I,.\KK IIKKU IARK THE ALLEGHEXY MOiNTAINS. gatherings of intelligent people hold an-nual educational and religious meetingsin the beautiful Park in buildings espe-cially provided. A large auditoriumseating twenty-five hundred people isused for religious meetings, lectures andliterary entertainments. Adjoining it isa large building consisting of lecture andschool rooms devoted to educationalfeatures. Ample provision is made for neighborhood of Oakland owned by resi-dents of distant cities, notably Cincin-nati, Baltimore and Washington. Thesecottages are occupied every summerand their owners claim the climate isthe most delightful to be found. The well laid out driveways through The Glades connect these three beau-tiful mountain retreats and a delightfulsociability is thus formed. A very im-. the accommodation of guests in thesplendid Mountain Lake Park Hoteland the Loch Lynn Heights these there are six or sevensmaller hotels and many good boardinghouses which help to take care of thesummer guests. There are also nearlytwo hundred cottages which are occu-pied throughout the entire summer. Oakland en|oys the highest altitudeof these sister resorts. It is on the verycrest of the Alleghenies at the westernend of The Glades. It also boastsof a splendid hotel with spacious groundsand most delightful accommodations forseveral hundred people. The town ofOakland has a regular population of fif-teen hundred people and is a thrivinglittle business city. It contains manybeautiful homes and is a most pictur-esque mountain city. There are innu-merable lovely private cottages in the
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