Scenic gems of the White Mountains . seclusion and rest as outdoor life and exhilarating sports. The verandas are wide and spacious,with a total length of four hundred and fifty feet making a long and pleisant promenade entirely under cover. The colonnade at the south endof the building is two stories in height, semi-circular in plan, with an area of 1,450 square feet. It overlooks the group of lawn tennis courts, thebowling alleys and incidentally, we might say, the golf course, only that no gallery would remain so far from the scene of active operationsduring a golfing tourney. When such a n
Scenic gems of the White Mountains . seclusion and rest as outdoor life and exhilarating sports. The verandas are wide and spacious,with a total length of four hundred and fifty feet making a long and pleisant promenade entirely under cover. The colonnade at the south endof the building is two stories in height, semi-circular in plan, with an area of 1,450 square feet. It overlooks the group of lawn tennis courts, thebowling alleys and incidentally, we might say, the golf course, only that no gallery would remain so far from the scene of active operationsduring a golfing tourney. When such a notable event takes place as the visit of a noted golfer (see Taylors interested audience above) then dothe guests follow every movement, trailing, like a summer-attired nebule in the wake of the star. The great game of golf, on the testimony ofthat unimpeachable authority, the landlord, has lengthened the Mountain season by at least three weeks. It has also filled a long-felt want andfurnished a never-waning interest to the GOLF AT THE MT. PLEASANT HOUSE, WHITE MOUNTAINS OF NEW are many golfing courses among the White Mountains, each hotel of pretentions deeming it necessary to maintain its links. Eachwill, with good reason, boast of its own superiority, but none we venture to say, can excel the course at the Mt. Pleasant House with its mag-nificent setting among the mountains and within close touch with the grand, hospitable hotel. The links shown above, where championVardon is playing the first hole, he having driven from the tee in front of the hotel shown on the preceding page, consist of a nine hole course of2,200 yards ; very sporty and with fine level putting greens. The turf is delightful and one will marvel on being told that previous to the golfinginterest, which is of not so great an age, this Ammoonoosuc Valley was a waste of rocks, briars, yea, even worse, unpicturesque stumps, all ofwhich have been carefully removed. Several of the tees ar
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